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FREIGHT TRAIN HELD BY TRAMPS; Fifty in the Gang -- Did Not Pillage, but Terrorized and Obtained Free Rides -- Some Arrested and Punished.

FREIGHT TRAIN HELD BY TRAMPS; Fifty in the Gang -- Did Not Pillage, but Terrorized and Obtained Free Rides -- Some Arrested and Punished.
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WILMINGTON, Del., March 9. -- The Philadelphia, Wilmington and Baltimore fast freight train which left Baltimore last night at 8 o'clock for Philadelphia was boarded by a gang of fifty armed tramps at Bay View Junction. For more than two hours the marauders held possession of the train, and Conductor Riley and his crew of trainmen were powerless. View Full Article in Timesmachine »

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