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St. Louis, Nov.
13. – Charles H. Smith and William O’Neill, express messenger
and fireman, respectively, of the Great Northern flyer that was held
up last July near Wagner, Mon., arrived here this afternoon and
identified the suspect under arrest as Harry Longbaugh, the man who
held up the train and took the lead in intimidating the train crew
and blowing open the express company’s safe, from which nearly
$100,000 in unsigned bills of the National Bank of Helena were
stolen.
O’Neill
says that Longbaugh is the man who climbed over the tender and held
up Engineer Jones and himself, and then superintended the blowing up
of the safe. His recollection of the episode was so vivid that he
could describe the two revolvers that the robbers used. The police
say they are the weapons found on the prisoner when he was arrested. |
