Arizona citizen. [volume] (Tucson, Pima County, A.T. [i.e. Ariz.]) 1870-1880, 1876-06-17
THE CITIZEN.
y4TURDAY, JUNE II, 1876
Highwaymen I'm Texas.

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The following account is given by
one of the passengers, of a stage coach
robbery which occurred last month
near San Antonio
We left San Antonio early on Tues
iday last for Suling, the present termi
nus of the Peirle Railroad Of Sunset
Route. The stage was full of pas
Isengers. When about twenty-five miles
lout. while the stage was slowly ascend
ing a long hill in the prairie, man on
a fine gray horse rode up to the stage
from the front and asked the driver il
he had seen horse on the road drag
ging a rope. The driver told him he
had not. | noticed that the man looked
into the coach closely while talking to
the driver. He was a tall, powerful
man. with light beard and hair, rosy
and healthy looking, and was about
'thirty-five years of age, | should think.
He Immediately rode off rapidly, as il
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
mounted on sOrrel horse and the
lother on foot. As the stage approached,
the man on the gray horse rode Off into
the mesquite chapparal, which was
here very dense. When within a few
wards of them the man on foot stepped
/ in front Of the stage and, pointing a
double barrelled shotgun, both barrels
locked and his finger on the trigger
at the driver, ordered him to halt
The driver, in amaZement, Obeyed.
The other man on horseback rode I'M
mediately up to the coach and present
( ed a siXshoOter, cooked, almost in the
faces of the passengers, and said,
" Raise al arm, if you dare" or some
thing of that sort. The man on the
gray horse came up at this moment
and also stuck his siX-shOoter at the
passengers. All three of these men
wore masks on their faces at this time
simply a handkerchief tied around
their faces, with holes for their eyes.
They ordered us to get out of the stage
| We all Obeyed. One of them proceed
ed TO search our pockets and other
portions of the clothing, while the
other two stood over Us with the cock
ed weapons. Miss Ogden, a handsome
young lady, stoutly refused to be
searched. She told them she had no
money and that she would die before
they should touch her One of the
scoundrels threatened to take her into
the brush, but she still refused and they
finally let her alone After getting
through with the passengers they made
the negro, George billiard, rip open
the mail bags. One of them opened
every letter and package, and l saw
that they got good deal of money
out of them. Mr. Moore, of Califor-
mia, had $500 in gold on his person
and some $40 or $50 in greenbackS.
all of which they took The negro,
George Hilliard, had $104, which they
got, too. The other passengers, except
Miss Ogden, had but small amounts of
money with them, but the highway
men got all they had. | think in all
they got about $1,000 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.
DIR. Chace had fine gold watch, which
they took. He appeared to feel this
loss very much, as he seemed to prize
the watch for something outside of its
money value Some of the other pas
sengers also had watches, which wereI
taken from them. As for myself. Il
came out easy, having only IS or $10I
about me at the time. There were two
splendid rifles in the company, and
also one or two pistols; but the thing
occurred so quickly and suddenly there
was no chance to draw them. If we
had made fight the highwaymen would
certainly have fired upon us, and some
Of the ladies would no doubt have
been killed. But to resist under the
was out of the question