The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1877-09-20
THE TRAIN THIEvrs.
FraERsass ~ News csneernmg. thu
Daring Deed Of Tuesday Night.
indians, Cavalry and voiuntesn on the
z. { Trail Of the Rohben-A Sheriff.
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incidents, and our people receive very
startling information with GOODNESS and
talk over the details in q quiet manner
as . generai thing, but stole Cheyenne
was thrilled to the core by the story of
the daring deeds Of the desperate thir-
teenswho robbed the east bound Union
Pacific express last Tuesday night.
Throughout the following day groups
Of men were seer throughout the city,
eagerly coming the story as told ex-
clusively by The LEADER, and COM
menting upon the boldness Of the deed
and the enterprise Of this pioneer
steam journal. There was nm unap-
peasable hunger for fresh details and
tidings from the pursuers Of the rob
bers. We regret being compelled to
wait for ''more news" but will give
what we have learned.
Large posters offering ten thousand
| dollars reward for the capture of the
robbers and return of the money were
| stricken off by thousands on our light
ming steam press within IA few hours
| after the commission Of the deed and
are now being distributed along rail
and stage lines. The telegraph has been
freely used, and pursuing parties are
securing the country between the rail-
road and the Black Hills. Gen. Brad
ley, commanding Camp Robinson, has
sent out several hundred cavalry and
Indian soldiers, well mounted and
armed. The civil authorities from
Sidney to North Platte are out with
large parties of horsemen, while squads
of armed herders are riding yer the
plains in search of the thieves. That
they cannot long escape capture is our
belief, and the people join us in the
hope that the Indians may overtake,
kill and scalp every INT of them before
they can be controlled.
So far as a be learned the only man
injured while the train was being plum
dered was Miller, the express messen-
ger. The robbers insisted on his open
ing the through safe, ian utter impossi-
bility, as the combination is known
only at Ogden, Cheyenne and Omaha),
and when he told them this they Tanned
\ their revolvers into his face and mouth,
bruising him severely, and loosening
his teeth.
Conductor Patterson was forced to
give up his watch, but the thieves,
frightened by the whistle of the ap-
preaching freight train, in hastily
throwing the plumber taken from the
passengers into a sack, dropped Patter-
sons watch, and he obtained it.
.s,- ON THE Raj
The following special telegram, re-
ceived at 10 O'Clock this morning,
gives the latest information we can
obtain: H...
"BIG SPRINGS, Sept. 20.
One of the pursuing parties found
the telegraph instrument taken from
this Office last night, a short distance
from here. 1t was badly twisted but
not Sheriff Bradley, of North
Platte, with his party, struck the trail
of the robbers and found, ten miles
from here, u box that had contained
$4,000 in coin; half of an old handker-
chief, the missing half Of which had
been used as u mask, an old pocket
book and q tobacco box"
The robbers probably made ten miles,
and divided the booty, and scattered
either singiy or in pairs, striking for a