Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1866-02-09
A HoRRIRLE

Cruel Robbery Of n Widow u
Flights Three Men Hail A k.Ssr
-Four Hundred and Eighteen .
lars atolea.
We have the painful duty this morning
Of recording one Of the most horrible and
fendish and by far the meanest transac-
ton known in the annals of crime. Il &C.
CURED early last Friday morning, in the
house of Mrs. Saxton, a widow woman
sixty years of age, living from three to four
miles from the center of Lagrange, Lorain
county. The intelligence was communi-
Gated to Marshal Schmitt on the following
day, but not in time to dispatch q man to
the place the same day. Officer Lawrence
took the freight train on Sunday morning,
went to the lady's house. and gives US the
following thrilling facts In the case:
Mrs. Saxton lives on a country road,
ZONE quarter or half a mile from the near
est neighbor, having no companion except
her boy thirteen or fourteen years Of age.
About half-past 2 o'clock Friday morning
she was awakened by voices Of men at the
door. She demanded their business, and
received the reply that their vehicle had
broken down in the road, and they wanted
a lantern that they might see to repair the
damage. She hesitated a long time, but
finally one of them assured her that she
need have no fears. She arose, dressed.
struck a light and indiscreetly unlocked
the door, when two Of them entered and
said. in q defiant, "chivalric" tone, 1t is
not a lantern we want. but your money,
and Immediately commanded her to pro-
duce it. She told them that her money
was in the Oberlin Bank. They gave her
the lie, and one said, "iou have $1,000
in the house; we were told so to-day"
The other interrupted him by saying,
mo, it is only FIVE hundred, and we are
bound to have it." drawing their revolvers
and presenting them to her breast and
head, and threatening to kill her instantly
If she did not comply. She seized the
poker and put herself in the attitude Of
self-defense. plucky woman When they
saw what spirit animated the woman, the
men called to q third party out Of
doors. "Captain, what shall we do with
her ," "Cut her id throat" was
the heroic reply. and he came in and
brandished q knife, declaring he would cut
her throat if she did not tell where the
money was. Still refusing, he cut q sur
face cash three inches long in her neck
but she still fought them as best she could.
Another clip Of the knife blade under the
ear, and still another on the cheek, caus-
ing her to bleed frightfully. but she held
out r~esolutely, and called for her boy 10
run to the neighbors. They told her the
boy was in the next with his throat
cut, as hers would SCOT be. She had
every reason to believe their story, and
sank, exhausted, to the floor, after q half
hours conflict. and to nd herself OF the
villains who evidently meant to kill her il
she refused to discover the money. told
them where to find it. Eighteen dollars
IN none were in her wallet in q pocket
Of a dress lying on the bed. and four hun
dred dollars in 7-30 bonds were rolled up
in a mass Of rags in a cupboard near the
bed. We give the number Of the bonds
as an advertisement to bankers and police
Of the robbery. There were four one
hundred bonds bearing, respectively, the
numbers, 74.75S, 74,759, 7+,750, 29S,241'
After making sure Of the coveted trea-
sure the tends again turned to the de-
fenseless woman and inflicted still further
injuries upon her, and then left. The
little boy came in terrified, but it was toe
late to rouse the neighbors, and pursuit a,
that hour would have been fruitless. The
men were dressed in soldiers clothes, one
wearing the regular blue overcoat with
cape, another an overcoat and cape dyed
black, and the third. a blouse with the &C.
customed belt. Their faces were smeared
with some black preparation, and there
were other tokens of a disguise having
been assumed.
Conductor Tyler, of the Toledo Road,
informs Marshal Schmitt that this party
came down as far as Monroeville, from
Toledo on his train, last Thursday, and
there lef. for Crestline. A burglars jim
my had fallen out Of one Of their pockets,
which was left on the seat as q witness to
the character and avocation Of the men,
There is no doubt as to the identity Of the
two gangs, and the Marshal is confident
that they hail from Milwaukee. -Caerelana
70, Leader,