The Sunday herald. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1866-1887, 1880-06-13
Minister Carl Adams sud the Mai,
Robbers

While special agent Of the Postal De.
| rattmcn, Gen. ADAMS, called uton Ia detect
aud pursue band " fellows who repeatedly robbed
| Tue treasure cn1ch This u seems, Is vehicle
mcta-liued, IN which two passengers are taken ~ st
on The treasure boy aud assist guard them. There
was young ScOtchmnn named ,amp,ell AT bead
wood very socitlous TO gel one of The seats I'm ,b,
vehicle. aud through to some friends on the route
There was very little time TO I've lost In town, and my
husband had his posse who going IN hunt down
these tohers; but he heard that there was man In
Jail who formerly belonged to the hand who willing
toconfcss. lie went MI about town 10 nnd the sheriff.
WHO was IN the place, hut couldn't be seen; the fact
was, he was gambling somewhere privately. This
young man ftamphcih kept sending friends 20 my
husband TO ask 70 he permitted to take hs place " h.
did not go out that day. Finally, unable ~ get IN
the lal, and IN some provldeniai way feeling that he
ought to see the criminal before going further, he
told the young man to take the seat. Perfectly over
loyed the Young man went on til they tame to the
htst station Ou the road.
"1he station cousisis " nothing hut stable Tor
change u horses, aud little hui adjacent lot the
station master I" sleep IN As they tode w 10 tho
posing that now there would he ~ danger whatever
the rohhrr baud. stationed right THERE aud suppusuc
his buly IN an instant.
"fhc other passengers who were not knleti hut
gagged say They came up aud Kicked him, diving, IN
his face, aud swore that was The dun they nc,nt ,n
give every agent 81 the rost once department that
came To captnre them.
Now - continued Mrs. Adams, at seems that
nll thiS while confederate IT the robbers was w INV
husbands party. When he mustered his posse 10
begin the expedition nuo " the men recommended t
him was this man. There was No reason to susu.rt
any cron Ike that. Hut u really this individual
who advised the robbers that on certain stage ten
Adams would arrive ut that station aud they were
lying thetc To murder hlm-kiiiing IN his place the
young scoiehman have mentioned They ana not
take any OF the effects from tamphell's body aud
watch was found on blm set with diamonds, aud In
sctlhcd TO Duncan Campbell from iotne. lie
probably was kinsman at the ArgyIls.
Gen. adams, lying over Tor thai purpose only 60,
~ ne lail At last atieI ths stage had gone, anfsie
told THIS other robher, who was fellow aboui twenty
years oh moro willing 10 go 10 the pcnlteniary than
To go back TO tho camp, that u he would tell him the
exact tnih he would cndeayor 10 save him. 'Uen-
crai exclaimed the robbet one 81 our cunfeleraies
Is In your party now. II his business to stay hack
and fnd ont the operations of the Government and
the people who are hunting us;' aud he named this
at flashed across my husband mind AZ once tina,
unless he caught that stage young tampbcl wouid he
MURDERED III Ills place The confcSslng rohhcr said 10
himi They VIII wait for you At of the stations
nnl shoot you down Ia make example Of You.
moun, any on,"n, ,hu,,, saea i"r ~, men 70
iobpcrs. No, said my husband. You can't go: u
Is you VINO have been Informing me- lie started
WIN his posse ut the top Of his sIcc hut they rese he'd
the station after tho work had been dnuo There Law
the young man shot To pIecea, snd Tho s,ailo men
arver, passengers and Others all gagged aud hidden
''rho people OF that country, who have been rob.
Deu enough made short work u the spy They put
'e pouy ~ thc dead man, Campbell, out before his
eyes and made him look al It, and while he was look
lug they hc'sied hlm by the nee. intoa tree. The
Whole band were caught aud Identified by the states
Witness aud two of them the citizens hanged fuith-
with, while two others Were handed over 10 the Cow
cinneht 'hu tflcu AMI sentenced,
Now, " said MIS- ANans, 'iit Is on that Kind II
service my huslngd has been Engaged ever since the
war on' q which he came shot through aud through
lie Is an educated man, and speaks four languages
beside Inc English aud has been DESTROYS for years To-
20 back to Germany and have holiday for reading
anu repose. There was offered him nj Washington
one or Two better positions, but his Imagination |
was excited by the war betweeu Peru iollvia and
Shili, and he thought occupation there would give
nm more experience aud make him more useful. so |
We are on, NJ me brink OF summer TO run down to
the equator and suppose TO step out Of the frying
pan INTO the hre. '-h'eruie,o ,oith Mrs, adams IL
On. Enluirer. ~