The Train Robbery Engineer
By Editor
REMARKING on the late train robbery on the Southern Pacific Railroad, the San Francisco Chronicle says the robbers were successful "mainly, it would seem, because of the lack of resistance on the part of the engineer." Now as the Chronicle's own report in the same paper says that the robbers had turned the switch which threw the engine off the track, turned it over, and threw the engineer and firemen down an embankment fifty feet, we are rather inclined to think the engineers "lack of resistance" to the robbers was justifiable, and that the Chronicle is extravagant in its demands. If the editor of the Chronicle was in charge of an engine which should be upset by robbers and he thrown fifty feet down a bank, we have an idea that just at that particular moment even his resistance to the attacking robbers would not be particularly vigorous nor exceptionally gallant. "It would seem" so at least. The Chronicle went a long way to find something to find fault with.