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He and an accomplice pulled off two holdups at the same spot. Northbound Southern Pacific No. 20 had just left Burbank station on December 23, 1893, and as it approached Roscoe switch a little after 11 p.m., an armed and masked bandit dropped from the tender into the locomotive cab and ordered engineer Bill Stewart …
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