Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1879-11-22
THROW UP YoUR HANDS,.
How Ex-Governor Army Obeyea-
Pooling with ke0bbers-An Incl
dent of Western Travel.

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How Ex-Goyernor Army Obeyea-
Pooling with Kobbers-An Incl.
dent of Western Travel.
Accounts OF the robbery OF Ex-Governor Army
OF New Mexico, while on his way East In Sep
TENDER, were published, but none so accurate,
detained and amusing as that given by the ven
cradle frontiersnan himself before his departure
for Europe.
AZ was on my way East" said he, ain four
horse stage-the mail stage that runs between
Santa Fe and Las Vegas, the terminus OF the
Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe railroad. MY
only fellow passenger was Mr.; J. F. StFahan, a
getting dusk, when suddenly coach stopped.
whats the matter ?" called out
'Get out here and you'll see what's the mat
ter" the driver answered.
II did get out. and was met by ma asked man
with doubled-barrelled shotgun. He ordered
not do it. Then he ordered me to go to the
side OF the road and sit down. tod him that In
tended to stand up and see what was 5oll on.
He swore some, and ordered one Of the other
men there were three OF them to search that
old feller.' They did, and found my greenbacks.
How much? Well, a right smart bunch; some
that had got together to go to England with.
They didn't get my watch or my silver that
time.
al Don't point that gun at mel said. Il
kill me, and tell you If you kill me you'll get
yourself in trouble. I've got lots of friends
around here, and they'll make it warm for you.
u
get hung If he did He'd only get sent up
twenty years 1 told him that If had a pisto
I'd send him up In about twenty seconds. You
know never carry pistol-I don't believe in it.
and am nOn-reSiStant on principle. My people
were Quakers. Well, after we had this CONVEX
sation the leader and his men were rummaginy
around We'll, guess you'd better search the
antediluvtan again. The men looked me over
again, and pulled my gold watch out of my
pocket.
"' Now don't take that said, its got my
name on it, and it will lead to your detection
'''Damn his watch said the leader.
SO they left it, and turning to Strahan took
his watch and chain and $500 In money. Ali
this time the leader was covering me with the
shotgun. / saw one OF the men beginning to
overhaul the mail bags, and 1 stepped for
ward.
"stop!' said the leader.
81 told him wanted to see what the man was
doing.
..Stay where you are he said.
But wanted TO see, and so | walked along
as talked, and stood by the mail bags. Then
advised the man not to cut the bag, but to cut
out the letters, and he did that. He began to
tear the letters to pieces
.'Now STOP, said l; tear Off the ends care
FULLY. You won't get anything there. This is
Mondays mail, and no one sends money in
Mondays mail. Most all them letters are love
letters letters. Our boys out here have girls in the
states, and hate to have their love torn up
And 50 the fellow did tear off the ends care
fully. He didn't find any money. in the first
bag, and that was all he opened. I told him the
mails, and he believed me. l had basket Of
lunch in the stage and said to the leader:
There's some lunch in there. We might all
ta Ike a bite.
'.'0b, you shut up said he and he laughed,
and then he said:
az guess you'd better go through that rever-
end Old gentleman again, and they did, and got
a bag of silver had. While the man was search
ing me he turned his side to me, and saw the
butt OF a pistol In his belt made grab at it,
and he jerked around. AS he did so the cloth he
mad over his race was pushed aside and
his face. l afterwards identified that man.
Wen, by talking and joking / kept those fellows
theIe an hour and quarter by my watch.
men at work on the railroad, and hoped some
would come. AT last eight men did come along
Mexicans, with hay. When one of them saw us
he picked up two stones and ran toward us.
The leader threw up his gun.
.lf any OF you can speak Spanish, he said,
tell that fellow II he comes here shall shoot
him. Some one did tell the man. and he and the
rest ran away. Then the robbers ordered the
driver to take the harness Off the horses, and,
throwing our blankets and overcoats on them,
blanket there, that am going to take to Eng
land with me, and give to Queen Victoria. Two
days later the blankets were found along the
railroad. and the shotgun broken l drew eigh-
teen buckshot from one barrel. From these
blankets the men were tracked to dance house
and found dancing. Ehese trousers were covered
with hair from the horses. On the next Sat
urday four other men hired horse in Las Vegas,
drove out four miles, stopped and robbed the
coach, and two OF them afterward drove back
with the horse They We're all arrested, and the
seven lodged in Santa Fe jail When came
East went to General Davies and represented
to him the condition Of the jail. 1t was a regu-
lar shell. He said he could do nothing; he had
no money. One OF the robbers has alre ldy got
away, and the Others will, probably, before Feb
ruary, when the court sits. Since was robbed
the robbers have stopped railroad train. The
Government don't sustain the prosecutors, and
so the rascals go unpunished'-N. Y. Sun.