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The Citizen
Chicago, Cook County, Illinois
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In Carlinville, Illinois, on May 6, Ben Myers, Jack Frost, and 18-year-old Ed Bryant were arrested for murdering Engineer Holmes during a train robbery attempt. Bryant confessed that Myers led the plot and forced participation, detailing the fatal confrontation in the engineer's cab.
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The Murderers of Engineer Holmes Arrested and in Jail.
CARLINVILLE, Ills., May 6.--The men who so foully murdered Engineer Holmes in attempting to hold up his train, have been arrested and jailed. They are Ben Myers, a stonecutter of this place, and Jack Frost and Ed Bryant, of Burnside, Ky. Bryant is a boy of 18, and he has confessed. He says Myers was the ringleader and their purpose was to rob the passengers. Myers, he says, forced him and Frost to hold up the engineer.
On reaching the engineer's cab Bryant says Frost entered first, and flourishing his revolver, ordered the engineer to hold up his hands. The engineer resisted from the first. The engineer struck at Bryant with a coal pick and he fired at him three times. As soon as they discovered that the engineer was killed they jumped from the train and fled. Bryant said that Myers and Frost did the planning of the robbery and said that Myers told them frequently that if they did not do as he told them he would kill them.
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Carlinville, Ills.
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May 6
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Ben Myers led Jack Frost and Ed Bryant in a train robbery attempt to rob passengers, forcing Frost and Bryant to confront Engineer Holmes. Frost ordered Holmes to raise hands, but Holmes resisted, striking Bryant with a coal pick. Bryant fired three times, killing Holmes. The robbers fled upon realizing the death and were later arrested in Carlinville.