The Placer herald., 1860-06-09
Fifty Thousand Dollars to the Railroad.

Fifty Thousand Dollars to the Railroad.
At the election in Auburn on Monday
last to authorize the Town Trustees to sub
scribe $4,000 to the stock of the Sacra,
mento Placer Il Nevada Railroad, as prov-
ded by an Act Of the Legislature, the vote
was unanimous in favor of the proposition
100 votes eyes" BY reason of there being
no opposition quite number of the vo-
ters in the corporation did not 60 TO the
polls. Well done, for Auburn.
DARING RoBBERy.-TnE store of Mr.. II.
Brown, in Mountain Springs, in this county,
was robbed on Monday evening last, between
the hours of 8 and 10 O'clock, under the fol-
lowing circumstances, for the details of which
we are indebted to Mr.. G. Johnston. Deputy
Sheriff: The proprietor and clerk were alone
in the store at the time,-the former reading
newspa er, the latter otherwise engaged
when four men entered the store, who were
not particularly noticed at first, las they
were supposed to be neighbors,) until they
had their pistols at the heads of the inmates
and demanded the keys of the safe. There
being no other alternative the key was de-
livered to them, when they opened the
safe and extracted therefrom about $1,000
in money and gold dust. Having secured
this, they proceeded very leisurly to other
depredations. They first asked Mr. Brown
for his pistol, and being told that it was
loaned, they demonstrated against the i'm
propriety cf letting his weapons out in that
way. Upon demanding rope, and being told
that it was kept in the second story, they
declined going after it, but contented them
selves with cutting twine from bundles of
shoves with which they bound the proprie-
tor and clerk and then gagged and "bucked''
them. The latter operation is performed
by pushing the tied hands down over the
knees, and then running a stick through un-
der the legs and over the arms, this render
ing the victim perfectly helpless Having
executed this part of the business they Sc
ected some new clothing, several pairs of
CATERS, and other articles, and regaled them
selves on eatables, etc, and then after in
duIging in some double shufhes, and cutting
a pigeon wing or two, departed, but not be-
fore looking to the gags of their prisoners
and not being satisfied with the one they
had placed in the month of the clerk, thev
substituted for it razor strop, which proved
an awkward and painful instrument oftorture.
After they left, Mr.. Brown succeeded in
about half an hour in freeing himself from his
gag (Which was the handle of a tin dipper,)
and giving the alarm. Measures were imme
datelv adopted for pursuit word being sent
to Dutch Flat and other points, 1t was af
terward discovered that the robbers were
mounted, and that they crossed Bear river,
into Nevada county, in the direction of Red
Dog.
The robbers disguised their faces by
slouching their hats over their eyes, and ty-
inc handkerchief over the lower part OF
tn ir faces.
man named "Curley Smith" has been
brought from Nevada county, suspected of
being one of the guilty paates, and placed
in Jail.
Mr. Brown has offered $500 reward for
the recovery Of the treasure, and $4O0 for
the arrest and conviction of the robbers.
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