The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1866-1891, 1874-02-19


they only took one gold watch. Several of
the passengers had fine watches, but the
thieves passed them over. There were
three ladies in the ladies coach, and two
in the sleeper. One of the latter, Mrs
Scott, of Pennsylvania, bound from st.
Louis to Hot Springs, with her son. was
robbed of s4OO, leaving her only ten cents.
One other lady was relieved of three pock-
ct handkerchiefs, but that was all. She
had a magnificent gold watch and heavy
chain, but they didn't take it. The one
they took belonged to man who would
not give his name"
"Do you know the names ofthose who
were robbed. and the amounts taken from
them?" s,.
"They got one thousand dollars in mon
ey from the express car-Adams Express.
Seven dollars from Cyrus Terry, one hun
dred and fifty.four dollars from CD. Hen
ry, thirty dollars from G.. L. Dart, two
hundred dollars from Mr.. Lincoln, two
hundred dollars from Mr.. Moran;;, twenty
dollars from o. G.. Newall, sleeping car
conductor, fifteen dollars in money, ring
valued at thirty dollars and a pin valued
at one hundred dollars from W. l.: Nc
Lannan, two dollars from James johnson,
porter of the sleeping car, forty, dollars
from the train boy, and fifty dollars from
me. They took my watch, but the bag
gage man said: for Gods sake, don't take
his watch, it was present to him and
the captain ordered them to give it back.
They seemed to be under the control of
the captain and gave the watch back to
me-"
"Did they get anything from any ofthe
citizens of Gadshill ?"
"They took eight hundred dollars and
rife from one man, but / did not hear of
any other. We had q member of the leg
islature on the train, whose son vas wait
ing for him at Gadshill He was under
guard, and / don't know whether they were
robbed or not" .
Did they touch any baggage ?"
"No, they didn't stop for that. Mr..
Morely, the chief engineer was on the
train, and he expostulated with them, but
they told him to sit down, and shut his
head and mind his business
"That was his business, wasn't it 2"
II think so, and so did he, but they
didn't seem to agree with him. He asked
them to restore the property they had ia
ken, but they showed a pistol under his
nose, and ordered him to keep quiet
When they took the money from the ex-
press car. one of them asked the agent for
his receipt book. He gave it up, and the
robbcr wrote in it: Robbed at Gadshill.'
lie thcpsad: Il think | have had the
honor of writing in this book before The
agent has been robbed five times, and he
thinks this fellow has had something to
do with it. shouldn't wonder if he has
had. | think they were all old hands at
the business. When I thought they had
got about through, asked them if could
90. They said yes, and sent man to
shut the northern switch, and went myself
to shut the southern. They had bent the
rod so that I had to get board and
straiehtcn it. This took US some time,
and in the mean while they made OIL
They went in westerly direction TO the
place where their horses stood, aud made
off as fast as they possibly coad. Before
they went they shook hands with the en-
ginoer, and told him always to stop when
he saw red flag. He told them he al
ways did. The engineers name is Will
lam Wetton, and the freman's name is
Campbell f.; don't know his first name.
"One thing l forgot. Before their de-
parture they wrote out telegram for the
St. Louis Dispatch, and gave it to a pass
enger to send through. They said that
paper had misrepresented them on one
occasion, and they wanted to put it in full
possession Of all the facts. | tclegraphed
the dispatch to the railroad Office, in St
Louis, and an operator took it off the
wires and sent it to the Republican as a
special"
"How long had they been there waiting
for you p"
"About two hours 1t took them forty
minutes to go through us, and in that
time they MAZE about two thousand three
hundred dollars, besides tho money packa-
gcs and the eight hundred dollars which
they took from the Gadshill man.
II have heard that Vaudeville had ten