San Andreas independent., 1857-02-21

drive: again, and told him to
- on.
Wells, Fargo & Co.'s box was then bro
ken open with hammer, and from it they
took about s27 900, leaving $1,000 scat
tered on the ground, and leaving the box
OF the Pacific Express Co. unopened,
which contained about $4,000. They
carried their booty about two hundred
yards and buried it under the leaves. and
proceeded by devious ways to their rendez-
vous. When the driver was liberated he
proceeded with all speed to the next sta
ton at Forman's, and having aroused the
slumbering citizens, he took horse and
came back to the office here, and arousine
Judge Lake, the Agent of Wells, Fargo
& Co., it was but short time till citizens
and officers were all out with a will after
the robbers and treasure A messenger
was sent to Vallecito and Murphy's, and in
a short time those camps had their best
detective police, their merchants and Off
GERS at the scene of the robbery The
tracks of the robbers were found and meas
ured; they were on foot, consequently, they
were in the neighborhood- money was
heavy load, and it must be near, for it
could not be carried far by sthree men,
which was the number who attacked the
stage. Thus reasoning, the tracks were
followed over the soft ground, and so long
as they were deep and heavy made, they
knew the treasure was before them. But
when they became light, the party sepa-
rated, some to find the money, (for the rob-
bers had, part of the way, taken to the
creek and followed its watery coursc) and
others to trail them over the hills and
through the woods till they were lodged in
cabin near the g forks of the road"
where most naturally, the self-same boots
were found as made some of the tracks,
and the man David Waldin who had them
on, was arrested Being taken out and
promised and threatened by officers Shroe-
bel and Robedee, he finally made clean
breast Of it, and told the names of the
other two, and started to 90 and show
where the money was buried. But before
he got there, it was found by the other
party hunting for it.
Upon his information the officers pro-
ceeded to arrest a most base and desperate
character who has been hanging round this
Camp for several months, known as Big
Brown. They also arrested another noted
parsonage by the name of Harry Browning,
for whom it has been predicted for years
by those who have known him, that he
never would die natural DEATH The
citizens arrested man whose name have
not learned correctly-but think it was
Langly-with whose hammer the box was
broken open. He was mining near the
place and the robbers had got the hammer
from his sluices. But when the constables
saw him they detained him for the COM
mission of robbery in Campo Seco and
in Jenny Lind.
The officers from all parts of the county,
were present in an incredible short time, and
were active and vigilant in their duties.
The person who turned States evidence
and the one detained for robbery at Campo
Seco, were taken by the Deputy Sheriff
out of town towards Mokelumne Hill, but
the other two are here in irons. There
was great excitement at one time, and
had not the money been recovered there
would probably have been some lynching
But as it is now, all are rejoiced at the sue
cess in finding the treasure and the arrest
of the base characters, and no such result
need be anticipated, although they are
watched by men who number from one to
more than one hundred
One passenger was in the stage who had
81 200 about his person, but the robbers
told him that they did not want the money
of a poor man-only the Express money.
1t seems that they had been planning it
about three weeks, and everything was