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Marti Graham


The Daily Oklahoman
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
October 6, 1912 p 1

$80,000 Reported As Loss In Fast Express Robbery
Railroad and Express Company Officals Refuse To Confirm
To Trace Of Bandits
Posse Scours Hill All Day; Few Registered Letters Missing

Ft. Smith, Ark., Oct 5 (Special) ...bandits who held up northbound Kansas City Southern train No. 4, on Tarby Prairie, three miles northeast of Poteau, Okla., Friday evening... All day long posses searched the Kavanaugh mountains which are close to the scene of the robbery... 

William West, the boy who discovered the bandits boarded the train and whose cries of warning were unheeded by the passengers...J. M. Murray and Arthur Deshiort, two farmers, [said] the bandits rode away on the train...

On October 5 & 6, 192 the Oklahoman's front page headline looked like this:

And Here's The Story (which I've cut and pasted shown below)

I found another story the following day

Information posted as courtesy to researchers.

 

You found this information at http://www.rootsweb.com /~okleflor/newspapers/1912-train-robbery.htm

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Marti Graham, County Coordinator

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