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Rube Burrow, Jim Burrow, W.L. Brock, Leonard Brock, Henderson Brumley, and Nep Thornton Rube and the men robbed a Denver & Fort Worth Express train in Bellevue, Texas . The gang boarded the train and held everyone at gun point, the men got about $300 from the passengers and Sgt. Chase Conner of the 24th Infantry Regiment , nearly shot the men ...
Other robbers held the railroad companies in contempt, particularly those from the Midwest and West. [12] The first post-Civil War robberies occurred in Indiana; Wells Fargo and American Express Company cars carrying money and other expensive materials were common targets. [13]
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Led Pennsylvania's Supreme Court to formulate a rule that when a railroad accepts money from passengers, an implied contract of care upon the part of the company arises; thus negligence is presumed on the part of the railroad if a passenger is injured [20] 1878 Tariffville train crash, Tariffville, Connecticut; 13 killed plus 70+ injured.
Henry (Lorenz) Loftus (born 1915) and Harry (Dwyer) Donaldson (born 1910) were two young men who made national headlines for their unsuccessful attempt to rob the Southern Pacific Railroad's Apache Limited in 1937. The last major train robbery in the United States, the two have been referred to as "the last of America's classic train robbers".
Postal carriers have more worries than snow, rain or the gloom of night keeping them from their appointed rounds. Robberies of postal carriers have exploded, surging 78% to nearly 500 in 2022 ...
The number of reported robberies is 139 this year, down from the 191 reported through Oct. 24 last year. Vehicle thefts have dropped to 455 this year after 545 were reported in that time last year.
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