Me thinks you are writing a book, correct? It all depends on the location of the robbery, a train robbery in Kansas would be different from one in say Arizona, Colorado where there were mountains. In places where the stage had to go through mountain roads, typically, a robbery would occur at the end of a long rise in the road. The horses would be exhausted from pulling the stage up the rise and would not have much energy to pull off outrunning the highwaymen. Most robbers would not kill unless they had too as killing would add murder to the robbery charges, and with murder of the driver...there would be witnesses to it and the law would pursue you much harder. Also-it depends on the stage you robbed and what you took. Wells Fargo packages were insured so if their items were taken, Wells Fargo would pay people to hunt down those who robbed those stages.