Volume 17 , Issue 33

(1891) Train Robbery

It was in The Oskaloosa Independent, in Oskaloosa, Kansas, Saturday, 16 May 1891, page one that we found this news article concerning a "Train Robbery," of a Santa Fe Train held up and robbed in Oklahoma. The Notorious Dalton Gang were the robbers. Officers were in hot pursuit.

Found on Newspapers.com

Guthrie, Ok., May 12 (1891) -- The south bound passenger train on the Santa Fe road was held up Saturday night at about 11:3p o'clock by five masked men, supposed to have been the notorious Dalton boys, who had been seen in the neighborhood recently.

The men boarded the train at Wharton and detached the engine and express car and then proceeded towels south and robbed the express car of all the money in it.

The passengers were not molested but a more frightened lot could not be imagined. The boys informed them when they proceeded with the engine and car that they were to remain with the coaches in order to secure themselves. They obeyed.

Guthrie, Ok., May 12 (1891) -- A large posse of well armed men left this city early the morning before in pursuit of the Dalton gang, who held up the Santa Fe passenger train's express car.

There was no doubt as to the personnel of the desperadoes. The marshals were in hot pursuit and it was believed they would be run down.

The robbers succeeded in getting only $500 Saturday night, and this was brought about by the shrewdness of the express messenger who secreted a large sum in the stove and fooled the thieves by pointing to a pouch and telling them that it contained a large sum of government money, when in fact it contained some papers of no value to them.
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