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Express Agent Robbed at Woodward
Submitted by: Mollie Stehno
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The Hennessey Clipper
March 16, 1894


Two robbers supposed to be Bill Dalton and Bill Doolin took Station Agent Rourke from his hotel at Woodward, O. T., last Monday night and compelled him to go with them to the depot and open the safe and deliver its contents consisting of about $7,000 to them, $6,500 had been sent from Leavenworth to the paymaster at Fort Supply with which to pay the soldiers there. Six others afterward joined the robbers. A posse of deputy sheriffs reinforced by a detachment of cavalry and Indian scouts under the leadership of Amos Chapman, chief, went in pursuit the next day.


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