Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1879-04-30
"H A N D s U P!"
The Turpin Family Discounted.

Stnge Passengers Robbed-Raneil-
men, stable Boys and Visitors
Ordered on Dress Parade
while Their Horses Are Being
Ridden Away.
About 1890 last evening two borsemen
went tearing down Main street at a fright
full rate of speed. Tie moonlight showed
them to be mounted on a grey and a
chestnut %sorrel, and as the grey had only
a rope about his neck, and other trappings
looked loose about the flyers they occa-
stoned considerable comment, and J. L..
Walker, special policeman for the upper
end Of town, remarked to a SENTINEL re-
porter that if he had been a few steps
nearer the center of Main street he would
have checked such reckless riding. This
was remarked as they were well past. In
less than ten minutes after the departure
Of the two horsemen before mentioned.
down came w. II. Thompson, an employe
about John Stewards livery stable, at the
uDlJtI VI "a 'ht VI "a etiCCts
Thompson was hastily mounted also, and
rode direct to the Sheriff's Office. Very
shortly thereafter a posse. consisting of
Deputy Sheriff Simpson, W. b. Mckee,
Jim Allen and Billy -, were well
mounted and started Off in the direction
taken by the two horsemen.
Upon visiting Stewards stable the re-
porter met Mr.. John Hoard, who in the
absence Of Mr.. Stewart, now over at Ham
ilton. has charge of the livery business,
and this gentleman talked in this wise:
MY friend here, Mr.. r. E. Ross, Of
Mineral Station, and myself came to the
stable to sleep shortly after the mail was
distributed. l had told Thompson to
leave the Office door ajar so that we could
get in, but it was locked, and / took out
my knife to loosen a clasp upon another
door, when the office door was thrown open
and a man With a lantern reiterated into
the stable. Ross and | walked in to find a
pair OF revolyers thrust into our faces by
one party, while another man was standing
guard over two gentlemen, whom we had
left sleeping in the stable an hour or SO
before, and Thompson, all three Of whom
were standing in line at the back end Of
stable with their hands tied behind them.
Ross and myself were tied and ordered TO
right dress Jim Aliens chestnut sorrel
horse WAS already saddled and br;dled,
while Stewards grey horse, a recent pnv-
chase, was scantily equipped-no bride
and but half cinched up. Two good-sized,
llealthy-looking yonng men of about
twenty-five years of age each, were
doing all of the sable business; one
with a steady eye and cooked re-
volver was attending strictly to his pris-
Dt,arx hut tha afhar uaG pa.vntra md ay-
cited. When they were about ready to
mount, | succeeded in loosening my hands
and lodged out of the rear Of the stable,
and gave some kind of a yelp Of alarm,
and the next instant they dashed down the
street."
The three who were at the stable aud
asleep at the time Of the entry of the
horse thieves were aroused one at a time
to submit to the tying process, while gaz-
ing into the muzzle of u cooked revolver.
Thompson says the same two men were in
the stable Monday evening, and walked
down to the rear end and back, looking at
and remarhing about the horses. He
SAYS that one had a small, l~ight-colored
moustache, iand one was a barkeeper az the
Richmond Hotel, for a few days, not
long since.
In the midst Of all this talk and excite
AAtitf pal tA@' VA ia taiiiO ibNi
to find the Sheriff. Mr.. Browns hack,
which runs regularly between Eureka and
Ruby Hill, was being driven past Cariboo
Hill, about thirty steps east of the second
railroad crossing. Three men jumped the
track, hauited the team and Will raised re-
volyers made the i've male occupants OF the
stage dismount. One lady, sitting in the
back, was o molested, bnt the strappiug
six -footer who did the pocket picking took
from the hoy (driverl $50, or a trifle over;
John Dunstan was relieved of Sl25 in
gold coin and some silver: Barney
who used to mix cocktails for Joe Mendes,
upstairs, babe adieu to a watch, chain and
a little silver. Thomas Jcnkin, q butcher
on Ruby Hill, is ont his loose change, and
a stranger mourns the loss of his pocket
money which he was intending to spend
with Trofatter last evening. The stage
was allowed to maye on toward Ruby Hill,
and the three robbers disappeared in the
direction of the Richmond furnaces.
The general suppositiun is that one OF
these three men had an animal, or this
morning some one else will find himself
out q riding horse, and that the two who
rugged themselves ont at Stewards stable,
had their plans laid. That the robbers and
the horse thieves are one and the same
party, there is no doubt.
The rider OF the sorrel horse had a little
difficulty in mounting it and dropped a
Colts army revolver, which he did
not stop to recover bat the gray
horse carried a more consilerate chap.
for at the lower cad of town it seems the
man drew up alongside of a hay wagon
and helped himself to a good bride. Good
men, well mounted, are hot on their trail,
and we may expect to hear something
of them before tonight.