The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1878-06-04
IN LIMBO.
Capture of the Men who Rob
bed the Passengers on the
Union Pacific Train
Near Percy.
One of the Party owns up. and Conducts
the captors to q Place Where the
Stolen Property is Secreted.

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All Honor to the Promptness Of The Union
Pacific Authorities and the Ra~Iins
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The party of eleven men who went
out from Raylins in search of the train
robbers, returned Sunday night with
the four d-esperadoes in charge. They
overhauled them on Friday night about
forty-ive miles north of st. Mary's sta
ton. They offered but little resist
ance, as their only arms were revolt
vers, and the pursuing party was armed
with -long-range rifles. Only three
shots were fired. They denied at first
that they were the robbers, but by
threats and a little rope persuasion, one
Of them finally owned up and piloted
their captors to where the watches and
money were concealed in the rocks.
This one has since turned states evil
dence, and says that he and one other
hail from Cheyenne, and that the other
two are from Kansas. in which State
they committed a bank robbery a few
months ago. A Rawlins dispatch says
they are altogether a hard looking
crowd, and say il they had had rifles
they would not have been taken SO
easily.
J. II. ADAMS STATEMENT.
The following reliable account of the
capture is furnished geographically by
Mr.. J. b. Adams, county clerk Of Car
bon county, who was the leader of the
captors:
Rawlins, June 3.-Thinking that an
account Of the pursuit and capture OF
the parties who robbed the sleeping a
neal Percy on Wednesday night, might
be Of considerable interest, 1 will give
you a brief history of the entire trans
action, combining myself, however. to
the organization and operations of the
party that captured the robbers.
On the night Of the robbery, at II
o'clock, Superintendent E. Dickinson,
of the Laramie Division, arrived here
the train which had been robbed.
and directed me to raise a party of
picked men to go in pursuit of the rob-
beers, and to provide them with the best
horses that could possibly he had. When
A arrived everything was in readi-
ness, the horses were loaded In a stock
IA and coupled on to the rear end of
the train, while the men scattered
themselves around through the coaches.
On arriving at Percy the horses were
fed, and we all took breakfast at the
Percy House, and at 8 O'Clock we were
ready to start. Mr.. Dickinson had ar
ranged for five soldiers to accompany
us. Our provisions were packed on a
mule and put in charge of three Of the
soldiers. When everything was in
readiness Mr.. Dickinson said to me:
1.-The company will pay a reward of
one thousand dollars each for the cap
ture Of the robbers dead or alive. There
is the trail; now don't come back with
out evidence that you found the rob
In the meantime, Deputy
Sheriff Robert Widdow6eld and Jens
Hanson, Of Carbon, joined III party.
After assuring Mr.. Dickinson that he
would hear a favorable report before
many days, we started on the trail,
travelling in a northwestern direction
over mountains, through valleys, ra-
vines and creeks. We still kept the
trail, l.. Calvert, VIM. Aylesworth and
Thomas Jones being among u best
trailers. About ten miles out from
Percy we lost all sight of u pack out
fit, but supposing that Of course they
would follow our trail and overtake us
at camp, we kept on. The robbers
were apparently making for what is
called the High Mountain, and while it
was impossible to lind their trail in
many places where they passed over
rocks, still by the direction they were
travelling, we a but little difficulty in
hnding the trail as soon as we would
strike terra firma. AS we neared the
Medicine BOW river the trail became
more distinct, and we felt confident