The engineer backed up to the train, and…
source date: 1888
availability: public-domain

and mail car from the train and ran ahead some distance. Coming to a second stop the party went to the express car, persuaded the messenger to come out and thus secured $1000, it is said. The messenger said that he could not afford to fight robbers for $75 per month. The mail was not disturbed. The engineer backed up to the train, and ran back to the station and notified Superinten- dent Noble of what had happened. The train was in charge of Conductor McClellan, and the engineer was Colonel Harper who had a similar experience in the big robbery near Pantano last April. A special train with officers and Papago trailers was sent out from Tucson that night.