According the experts there should not be less than five men to pull a successful train robbery. One to hold the horses and one on each side of the train to fire at any would-be hero passenger who might interfere. And two men to go into the express car scare the daylights out of the messenger. Near Canyon Diablo in along the Atlantic & Pacific Railroad in northern Arizona a would be bank robber decided to go it alone. A story is told about an outlaw who robbed the payroll intended for the


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