Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1876-10-15
sequel to IN Idaho stage Rob
berry Of 1865.

We published a few days ago al ac-
count of the arrest Of the supposed per-
petrators OF the famous Idaho stage rob-
berry of 1868, with the circumstances
which placed the detectives upon their
track, and yesterday we received by
telegraph from San Francisco the fol-
lowing subsequent developments made
by the officers in working up the case:
In working up matters preliminary
to the arrest of the men Thompson.
Wilson and Langley, supposed to have
been connected with the Idaho stage
robbery of 1868, the detectives have
discovered hat for several years past
the gang of which these men are evil
IDENTIFY members has been engaged in
a series of bullion robberies involving
many of the mines on the Comstock.
The method of operation has not as yet
teen developed, but will be as soon as
some of the operators now in Gust ody
have a chance to ex plain in the courts.
The gang, which is the perpetrators Of
the famous Ingraham organization,
first commenced business in the stage
robbing line, but as bars of bullion
took the place of coin and gold dust,
the robbers found it exceedingly diff
cult to carry off and divide their spoils.
Besides being very heavy and cum
bersome to carry off, the bars were all
ways stamped with the brand of the
mine, and they would tell the whole
story at sight. To prevent this the
bars were chopped up and at the first
favorable opportunity melted and run
into bars or blocks, but the mere fact
of bullion being without a stamp was
suspicious, and with the stamp of
some particular mine the tact of this
would be very easily followed, so
that the disposal Of a second lot would
be next to impossible without the risk
of being taken. In following up
Thompson, who professed to know
all about the Idaho Plant, both
Baily and Robertson the detective run
across in the vicinity of Reno and
Truckee several places where bars of
bullion had been chopped up and
melted down into different shape. The
work had evidently been very clum-
silly done and the places selected were
generally some old mill or wood
choppers shanty in the mountains.
This bullion as a rule was stolen from
the mines and its loss generally attrib-
utth tho hlSiibiiSStN WI "a VI hiiC
employees. The Consolidated Virginia
is said to have been plundered to the
amount of over $50, 900 one time and an
other. The robbers had two or three
confederates in the work. and in trans
porting bars from n point to another,
n of them would he slipped off and
secreted. 1t is said that Robertson has
got on the track of some OF this Con-
solidated Virginia bullion and has made
a contract with Flood IL O'Brien,
whereby he receives one.balf OF the
amount recovered. The method of
getting rid of the bullion has been to
work il up in small bars and send it to
the Carson Mint for coinage in the
shape of the product of small and I'M
important mines. Robertson started
yesterday morning with warrants for
the arrest of several individuals known
to be connected with this wholesale
system of plumber. The gang is said
to be a very extensive and well organ
lied one, with confederates in nearly
every n of the large mining town.