San Andreas independent., 1857-02-28
EXPRESS ROBBERY! !!
States Evidence.

1.-THE following is the Evidence of David Wal
din, taken before Justice Lake, who turned
States Evidence against the Express robbers
Dauid Waldin, sworn,-for the Peopte.-I have
resided about ten months at the Forks of the
road am a miner; last Tuesday, February
18th, morning; was out when the stage was
robbed,-l think it was about two or three
o'clock in the morning; we went from Brown
ings to my own cabin, at the Forks of the road
when we left there, Brown and Browning went
with us-I mean the two prisoners at the barr
Mr.. Brown came to our cabin about eight or
nine o'clock, near as | can tell he stopped
there until we left Browning was not in bed
was in bed when Brown came: | was not
sound asleep when Brown came in,-I heard
him,-I had been in bed about one-half an
hour, when Brown came in. We had an un-
derstanding about meeting there, that night
this robbery, was talked about, three Sundays
ago-and put off until the next; next Sundays
stage, not coming, it was put off until Tuesday
| think Brown first proposed the robbery, three
Sundays ago it was agreed we should meet
between Bald Hill and Cherokee Flat, which we
did, and completed the arrangements; had been
| there, on the road, from ten minutes to one-half
an hour, when the stage come; all three of us
left the cabin together; the three of us were at
the designated place when the stage came up :
we walked up to the stage and then told the
driver to hold his horses do not remember of
any one speaking, but Browning caught the
head horses of the stage; Browning and myself
each had pistol; Browning asked if they had
any passengers aboard The driver said ssone u
He then told the driver to pass out the Express
boxes the driver said 'here they are' Brown
ing said ''pass them out?" the driver said
''there was nothing in one of them; = Browning
replied, sit made no difference" but to '.pass
them out?" which the driver did, we said
nothing to the passenger in the stage; one of
the boxes think was under the drivers seat !;
the other one was in the stage; after the boxes
were passed out, the driver was told to 90 on :
myself nor Browning did not follow the driver :
Browning told him to get up and drive on; /
did not see Brown after the boxes were passed
out-until the next morning; when | last saw
Brown he had hold of the lead horses of the
stage; we all had black silk handkerchicfs over
our faces; Brown and myself had on grey shirts
over our coats; Browning had on kind of a
reddish shirt; had on old pants we all had
our own hats; 1T was not very dark the morning
we was there; the sky was overcast took one
ofthe boxes to the place where it was found
Harry Browning took the other-then took an
axe and broke open the box we had no other
implements, as | reccolect, to break the box
open with; we commenced to break open the
boxes immediately after the stage left Brown
was not there, when we was opening the boxes,
that saw; I took one sack out of the box and
Harry Browning took the balance; | started
up the hill, the road we intended to come home,
before Harry left-until he came up and COM
menced to bury the bags; we broke open but
one box; do not know whether all the gold
was taken out or not we carried the gold on
our arms had pretty good load, going mp
the hiIf,-and gave Harry Browning sack
| After we had buried the gold, we started for
home; we were both together; when we were
going home dropt handkerchief where we
buried the gold do not recognize the hand
kerchief produced in Court as the one lost
we had one tied over our heads and one over
our faces; it was not light when we got to our cab
| in; after going to our cabin we went to bed and
slept until the sun was up when we got up went
over to cabin near Cherokee Flat Ito 10 Da-
Wis cabn) there being one at home, we went
to Gold Hill, to the claim they are working, and
Harry dropped pistol into one of the holes of
water we then went to the Hotel at the Forks
of the road the parties that were out looking
for us, came to the Forks of the road and ar.
rested us the pistol that was dropped in the
hole was one Brown brought there we had
two pistols, one was Colts six-shooter and the
other was Colts hve-shooter think: Ihad nm