The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1876-06-02
STAND AND DELIVER.


From me Dallas fTexag Herald. May 49, y
The brief telegram from Font Wvrth
In reference 70 the wholesale highway
robberies Of the United States mail
(El Paso liue) coach and several pri-
waite vehicles and hacks. yesterday, be-
tween here and FJrI Worth, wasithe
great .cric last night, and the Herald is
enabled 70 lay the full particulars Of
this daring affair before is readers this
morning.
Mr.. Frank Sinnimon, driver Of Work s
hack, who arrived here about 9 o'clock,
makes the following statement: u
This morning about IL O'Clock,
/ six miles this side OF Johnson's Sta
ton, as was driving along the road
one OF Captain Works hacks with two
passengers, "A Mr. Belcner and his
friend, ranchmen from Corpus Christi,
about eight hundred yards in the rear
of a four-hOrse hack-private, think,
as have not seen il before on the road
the first thing | saw was three men
riding at a run toward this hack RI ht
down the main road. One of them was
ona gray horse, one on sorrel horse,
and one on dark bay or brown They
dashed mp to- the hack.
and stuck their six-shooters right
ia the hack. Wesa in four hack ex-
claimed, They are robbersi' One gen
tleman, Mr. Belcher's friend, said,
Let US get away while they are robbipg
that other hack by the move thatthe
robbers made we supposed that they
had disarmed, but not as yet robbed
the hack in front. When they saw US
turn, they left one man 10 guard the
captured hack, and the man on the sor-
rel horse and the one on the gray fol-
lowed Us, we having turned around and
driven rapidly back down the road. We
had driven about fifty yards when they
drove up about sixty yards, and the man
on the gray horse ordered US to halt,
and fired his pistol in front of the horses
One of them was in his shirt sleeves and
had on "a pair of brown overalls. We
stopped. Belcher and his friend backed
out of the hack, pistols in hand, and
walked 70 the rear If the hack, when
the man on the sorrel horse ordered
them To drop their PISTOLS which they
didn't do. The man on the sorrel horse
then fired. Then. the robber ON the
gray horse fired and hit one Of the
horses in the shoulder. The horses got
so unruly 1 couldn't manage them.
Belcher and his friend got in the hack
and put whip to the horses When
we started To run they fired pistol
shot or two after US, striking the
hack twice. The robber on the sOr-
rel horse deliberately got down. and
taking rest, fired with rifle at
Belcher's friend, the ball passing
through the rear gate over him. He
threw himself in the bottom of the hack
after watching the robber a moment.
The ball passed through the end of
my trousers, just above my heel, and
out the front of the hack. We, kept on
a full run, the wounded horse bleeding
badly The robbers then turned and
started back, and in a few minutes
turned and came for us again, followed
us.a little way, and then stopped and
went back TO the captured hack, in
which was the United States Marshal,
TO whom he remarked, IN reference to
Belcher's friend, Il had to kill the
UnIteu States Marshal I'M tlsat other
hack; he would not give up There
was lady in the captured hack, whom
the robbers told she need not be alarm
ed, and gave herwatch and money back
We went back tUtwo stores two miles
and half this side of Johnson's Sta
tion, and tried to raise a crowd to pur-
sue the robbers, but didno succeed. Il
met the six horse mail-coach with one
passenger Ga gentleman and turned it
round about four miles this side of
j ohnson's Station. | laid over there
until half-past 3, and dispatch was
sent from 'there to Fort Worth for "A
mail guard. a party of seven or eight
men started in pursuit of the robbers,
who went northward, and when they
went into the bottom they were about 20 |
minutes behind them. 4
before all this had occurred the rob- |
bers had robbed two hacks that were !
going west and the IL Paso mail-coach, I
which left Eagle Ford Yesterday morn I
ing, in which were Nc. Fairfax. lsro- I
prietor of the Transcontinental Hotel.
al Fort Worth, and his little son
Frank, aged about six, years, anc' five 1
other. passengers. The robbers were |.
in the hollow when the ,msil-coach came
over the brow of the Hill, waiting for /
it, and pulled down on the driver with /
their six shooters and ordered him to !
halt. They then demanded the money
OF the passengers and told the driver to
stand still and he wouldn't be hun
They took $3.50 and a gold watch from
MIR Fairfax Anu 50 from little Frank. !
and $3.50 and watch from another
gentleman, and small sums from others,
all they had. There was poor man
who was a cripple whom they did NOT
disturb. They ordered the driver to
throw out the mail. They remarked
that they didn't want TO rob the mail,
that the robbers who have been robbing
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