Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1876-05-23

On the Sbu tust. the OHlteu otateS ual COACH
or stage, trom San Antonio to Luug was cap
tured and robbed by three gentlemen Of the
road, who also deprived the passengers Of what
ever valuables they had about their persouS.
This is the second instance within few weeks
10 this State of the capture of mail coaches by
highwaymen and the robbery of the passengers,
the first occurring near the t0Wu OF San Marco I,
about twenty miles west of Austin, the State
capital. | met to-day passenger on the stage
last robbed, and | give the particulars as tur
nished by him "We left San Antoolo early
Tuesday for Luling, the present TERMINUS OF
the Peirle Railroad OF Sunset Roue. The
stage was ulI OF passengers. They were DIR.
Herman, |. X. Eckrane aud w. II. Harris OF
San Antonio; G. {. Mckinney, Of Atascosa
county; Geo. Hilliard, colored man OF luda-
noa; Y. T. Moore, of California; Dr. A. 2.
Chase of Illinois; d. K. Singleuan, of St.
Louis; Miss Ogden, of San Antonio; Miss Nc
Kinney. of AtaScosa, and some others whose
names | do not remember. Whcu about
twenty-five miles from San Antonio, while the
stage was slowly ascending long hill 10 the
prairie, man on fue gray horse rode up
10 the stage from the front and asked the
driver if he had seen horse on the road
dragging rope. The driver told him he had
not. noticed that this man look ID into the
coach closely while talking to the driver. He
was a tall, powerful mau, with light beard and
hair, rosy and healthy locking, aud was about
thirty five years of age, should think. Tic
immediately rode off rapidly, as 1t IN pursuit
OF the horse dragging the rope. As the stage
moved on. few minutes later, this same man
was seen at the top Of the hill with two other
men on the roadside, one OF them mouoled on
sorrel horse and the other on foot. As the
I'd bo bp
rode off into the mosquito chapparal, which
was here very dense. v hen within few yards
of theu the man on foot stepped IN troot OF the
stage and. pointing double-harrelled shotgun,
both barrels cooked and his finger on the trg-
ger, at the driver, ordered him TO balt The
driver 10 amazemcnt, obeyed. The other man
on horseback rode immediately up to the coach
aud presented Il six shooter, oocktd, almost IN
the faces of the passengers, and said, "R.lse
au arm. if you dare j. or something OF that
sort The man on the gray horse came up at
this moment and also stuck his SIX shooter al
the passengers. All three OF these men wore
masks on their faces at this time-simply
handkerchief tied around their faces, with Eoles
for their eyes They ordered us to get out OF
the stage. We all obeyed. One Of thom pro.
oeeded to search our pockets and other portions
of the clothing, while the other two stood over
Us with the cooked weapons.
Miss Ogden, handsome young lady, stout
" refused TO be searched. She told them she
had no money and that she would die before
they should touch her. Que OF the s6ouudrels
threatened to take her into tho brush, but she
still retus d, and they finally let her alone At:
ter getting through with the passengers they
made the uepr,, George Hilllard, rip open the
mail bags. "Ooe Of them opened every letter
and package, aud | saw that they got good
deal of money out OF them. Mr.. Moore, OF Call
fornia, had $42O in gold on his person and some
$40 or $50 10 grecnbacks, all OF which they
took. The negro, George billiard, had SlO4
which they got. too. The other passengers,
except Miss Ogden, had but small amounts o.!
money with them. but the highwaymen got all
they had. | think in all they got about a thou
sand dollars. Miss Ogden had over $500 on
her, and she is the only one of the passengers
who came out of the affair with a single cent.
DR.. Chase had foe gold watch, which they
took. He appeared to feel bis loss very much,
as he seemed to prize the watch tor something
outside of its money value, Some of the other
passengers also had watches, which were taken
from them. As for myself | came out easy,
having only IS or $40 about me at the time.
Correspondent-Dii none of you have arm>!
Passcnger-There were two splendid rifles III
the company, and also one or two pistols; but
the thing occurred SO quickly and sudd .nIy
there was 20 chance to draw th"m. Ii We had
made fight the highwaymru would certainly
have fired upon us. and some OF the ladies'
would no doubt have been killed. But to re
sIst under the circumstances was out OF the
question
Correspondence they handle you roughly?
PasseDger-No; they were rather polite. so
were We all, except NJ iss Ogden, who showed
them DO complaisance. Had we been other
wise suppose they would have handled US
pretty roughly. The whole job was over 10
twenty minutes or less The robbers then
rode off and disappeared in the chapparal We
proceeded on our journey aod reached Suguln
10 an hour.
CorreSpoudeut-Did 90 one pass on the road
while this Was going on
Plssenger-No one. There were no houses
anywhere pear aud the poiut was q splendid
one for the robbers to make this attempt
From the top of the hill they could see any one
approaching at a long distance.
This occurred week ago. and none OF these
robbers have yet been captured, nor can learn
that any IF ,rt at all has been made to ferret
theul out. The State government is lmbecle
aud does nothing There is, therefore, little
probability that the highwaymen will be caught
Those VIII" robbed the stage near San Marcos
went SCOT free, DOT even a detective having
been placed on their track Encouraged by
impunity, they will no doub, soon attack other
stages in other parts of the State He who
travels 10 these convcyances 10 Texas should
take little money with him. aud should go prc
pared to defend himself at momcnt's notice
The highwaymen have not yet begun to attack
travellers on horseback, tut it something is moi
done to supp ress these frcebooters they will nc
doubt make Texas most uncomfortable place
10 the wwtarer. in whatever style he may go.
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