Bedlam on the West Virginia Rails: the Last Train Bandit Tells His True Tale by Wilson Casey

Author:Wilson Casey
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing Inc.
Published: 2015-01-15T00:00:00+00:00

Courtesy of the author.

When Lu and Duke went in, their only intention was to get some keys to steal a quick getaway vehicle. They had no intention of shooting anyone, but the folks inside did not know that. Lu and Duke needed a way to flee from the area, to get as far away from the train as possible. They wanted some car keys right away. Lu and Duke had no plans to rob these folks the way they had robbed passengers on the train. The bandits exercised extreme caution, as they thought that some of the bar patrons might be armed themselves.

After Lu fired those shots into the floor, everyone froze in fear. Lu bellowed out, “I need keys, car keys. Car keys!” No one spoke up. No response from the bar’s customers. They were too scared, too dazed and too shocked to speak. Some were in the bathrooms not knowing what was happening.

Lu got really upset that no one spoke up to volunteer a set of keys. Lu yelled in a louder, sterner voice, “Everyone hit the floor! Facedown! And now!…Facedown! Everybody hit the floor! Everybody down!” He fired another shot, this time into the bar’s ceiling. Particles and plaster pieces twinkled down from above Lu’s head. He started waving the gun back and forth across the crowd. Women were screaming. Men were breathless.

This time, everyone did drop to the floor lying facedown, but there was more concern from Lu. He was thinking that the owner behind the bar probably had a weapon of some sort, maybe a double-barreled shotgun. “Duke, quick, check out behind the bar! There may be a shotgun!” Duke did but found no weapon. Duke was also thinking that the folks in the bathrooms might have been armed and motioned to Lu while saying, “The toilet… Yea, Duke, get anybody out of there and out here.” Duke quickly herded the four or five who were in both bathrooms out into the middle of the bar. Lu and Duke now had full, terrorized control of the honky-tonk. They had everyone’s undivided attention. Lu was near the door at the front of the bar. Duke was about halfway in the middle against a wall covering his back. Both bandits were flagrantly brandishing their weapons. They were ready to fire if anyone tried anything suspicious.

With fifty or so people on the floor facedown, and with Lu and Duke walking around and stepping over them, Lu yelled, “We’re now gonna come around and start searching pockets. The first set of keys we find, that person will get a bullet in his ear!”

Duke also yelled, “You heard him, a bullet in your ear! Who’s first? I’m ready to shoot!”

The bandits needed keys. They didn’t really want to hurt anyone in the bar. By now, Duke was separating and moving himself farther from Lu to cover more patrons. “Hey, Lu, want a drink?” as he went toward the bar counter waving his .45 in the barkeep’s face. “A couple straight-up whiskeys, please, and a bottle for the road.

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