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Havre, Mont.,
Aug. 30. – It has been learned here that an attempt was made
Friday night to hold up the west-bound flier of the Great Northern,
near Malta. The effort was frustrated by Detectives riding on the
engine.
Three suspicious
looking characters, believed to be members of the gang of Harvey
Logan, alias “Kid” Curry, boarded the train, and two of them
started to climb over the tender, when they were discovered by the
officers, who covered them with guns and ordered them off. They
promptly slid off the side of the tender, disappearing into the
darkness.
For three days
the train crews, mall crews, and express agents on passenger trains
between Glasgow and Havre have been heavily armed, and a score of
detectives have been riding up and down the line.
Several days ago
the company received what they considered reliable information that
Harvey Logan was back in Montana and would attempt a hold-up.
Logan escaped
from the county jail at Knoxville, Tenn., June 27 last, while
awaiting removal to the Columbus, Ohio Penitentiary. |
