Brack Cornett

[1] However, on 18 May, they robbed the Missouri-Pacific train while it was stopped at McNeill Junction, thirteen miles outside of San Antonio, getting away with about $4,000.

[1][2] The next month they robbed the east bound train from San Antonio near Flatonia, in Fayette County, getting away with over $7,000.

On June 18, 1888, Cornett, using the alias "Captain Dick" led the band that robbed the Southern Pacific near Schulenburg, Texas.

[4] Later that same year Cornett and the gang planned to rob a Southern Pacific train out of Harwood, Texas, on September 22.

Marshal John Rankin somehow received advance notice of the robbers' plans and hid himself, Deputy Duval West, and a number of Texas Rangers on board the train.