Text and research material for a manuscript on the history of train robberies in the United States. The research material is arranged by event.
Text, "U.S. Train Robberies, 1870-1933"
Robbery of Southern Pacific train No. 20, the Pantano Express, 1887
Robberies of Southern Pacific train No. 5, February 1894; 1895
Robbery of Southern Pacific train No. 15, the Oregon Express, 1904
Robbery of Southern Pacific train No. 10, 1910
Robbery of Southern Pacific train No. 23, 1913
Robbery of Southern Pacific train No. 5, 1913
Additional material on U.S. train robberies, and on the derailment of the City of San Francisco
Robbery of Southern Pacific train No. 9, 1913
Robbery of Southern Pacific train No. 7, 1914
Robbery of Southern Pacific train No. 21, 1914
Robbery of Southern Pacific train No. 25, 1915
Robbery of El Paso and Southwestern train No. 31, 1922
Robbery of the Golden State Limited, 1922
Attempt to derail Southern Pacific train No. 78, 1922
Career of the DeAutremont brothers
Robbery of Southern Pacific train No. 36, 1930
Robbery of Southern Pacific train No. 76, 1932
Report and photographs of the derailment of the City of San Francisco, 1939
Police training procedures manual, 1977
Miscellaneous Southern Pacific police material
FBI Law Enforcement Bulletin, 1940
Railroad Police Progress, 1964
Robbery of Canadian Pacific train No. 63, 1920
Material on a murder on Southern Pacific train No. 15, 1938
Material on train robber Bill Miner
Miscellaneous wanted circulars
Miscellaneous illustrations from newspapers
Unidentified photographs of a dynamited safe
Miscellaneous "mug shots"
Miscellaneous photographs of individuals
Miscellaneous unidentified train photographs
General information on train robberies
Material on the "Lower 13" murder aboard Southern Pacific train No. 15, 1943
Robert E. Lee Folkes trial transcripts
Correspondence regarding the investigation, arrest, and trial of Folkes
General printed material on the trial of Folkes
Police investigative reports
Clippings
Photographs
Material on the "Lower 13" murder case
Police reports on Robert Folkes
Medical Examiner's reports
Statement of Robert Folkes
Statements of Robert Folkes and witnesses
Statements of Southern Pacific and Pullman Company employees
Statements of passengers in Car D and others
Statement of Ralph Conner
Statement of John Funches
Statement of Ben Holt
Clippings relating to train robberies, including:
Sontag and Evans, 1893
Brown and Dunbar, 1910
F. Martinez, 1912
Ralph Fariss, 1913
Jean LeBanta, 1914
James Hogue, 1914
E. Collins and F. Ryan
Contains clippings on general criminal activity, not railroad related, during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
Contains miscellaneous drawings and newspaper artwork from the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.