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Reward for Arrest of the Train Robbers! Reward poster (230 x 201 mm) offering a $1000 reward for a train robbery occuring early in the morning on Tuesday, July 24th, 1895 of train No. 37 of the Lake Shore & Michigan Southern Railway Co., at Reece Siding, between Archibald and Stryker Ohio. Of the robbery, the Akron Beacon reports: "A Lake Shore Train Held Up in Western Ohio - Dynamite Used Intentionally on a Safe - A Way Safe Yields Small Treasure[the robbers] got nearly $1,000" (though the poster reports the robbers got away with $150) (Vol. XXVI, No. 195, Wednesday Evening, July 24, 1895).