The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1881-10-11
TELEGRAPAIC
DIVIDING TnE SPOILs.
Tne CnPIOrs Of graiD Robbers
Divide The spOiis


Little Rock, Ark, S.-A new and SEN
sAtlonal phase was made public to-day in
the case OF the train robbers. Il will be
remem bered that q passenger train on
the Iron Mountain wss robbed By three
oeardless robbers on the night of the I'd
OF September. They were purlued and
captured on the 18th, enc in Texas and
two In the Indian nation. They were
brought to Washington for tlial ut tie
special term of court held Yesterday,
when the robbers plead d guilty To feu =
teen Indictments each, making The term
OF punishment seventy years. The pur-
suing party that captured Stephens ami
Delsney consisted Of four men, named
HuddlestOne, Blevins, Moore and Dunn
he'd. When arrested the robbers had
about SO 600. After counting the mo. ey
Hu ldlestone proposed 10 the capturs l.,
divide 1t among themselves Bievins OBJ
Jected, claiming tuat the money ought 10
be d9nver0d to the railroad Company. 1t
was fully agreed that The money snculd
be equally divided among the four IN the
presence of Stephens ADd Delaney. LII
consideration OF the later Keeping the
matter secret each of the four swure al
oath that be would annually pay to the
families Of the train robbers 500, and
leave no means untried 10 secure their re-
Lease from the penitentiary after convic-
tiOr. The reason for not re-
leasing them at once was be-
Cause reward OF 81 ,UU0 awaited their
delivery at Hope. On the route
BelVIn continued To manifest dIssaLisfsc
ton At the transaction. Reaching The
village Of Mineral Springs the party
took quarters al the hotel Ter the night
During the night Huddlestone ASKED
belvln where he had his money. The
latter replied under tie pillow. Huddle-
stone said We may be robbed, nile ID be-
Tween the mattresses. He advised Blev-
ms TO place his there, and he did go.
When 6ucdlestone asked him 10 gS down
town to ct some cigars he replied 1t was
too late. When Huddlestone insisted and
belVln turned to leave the house, mud
dleston's pistol was discharged. Turning
back Belvln inquired the cause of the
shot. Auddlestone replied that the pistol
went of accidentally and nothing fur
Their passed during the night. In the
morning the party continued their Jour-
ney to Hope. Passing along the road Hud-
diestone's pistol was again dischs rged =,
"hASsliuS past O0IfluS Aod1.
Quickly turning and drawing his revolt
Yer Belvin remarked: Accidentally
discharged pistols are getting monoten-
GUS" He replied that be would return
the compliment. At the next village
6elvln deposited his money with friend,
fearing he would be killed if he retained
1t. The party fnally reached Hope,
turned over the prisoners to the auth0ri-
lies, came to this city and received 81. 900
reward offered for their capture All the
capt0rs appeared at the trial at Washing
Toe, yesterday, when Belvin dlvulged the
matter to Superintendent Buchanan, of
the Iron Mountain road. Huddlestone.
Mooney and Dallshed were examined
separately, and each made an affidavit
That they knew nothing Of the wherea-
bouts OF any money. Subsequently they
approached Buchanan and stated that
the money could be secured. Train rob-
oers Stephens and Delaney, were inter-
viewed, and testified to the facts given
above. They declared that they would
rot have divulged the affair if the parties
themselves had not given il away. Hud-
iesto .. Stephens and Delaney con-
o"ted with the evidence, gave away and
lAde g clean breast of the whole thing.
I'd promised immediate restitution If
'eroiltted to go for the money, having
-creted it along the road. It is not
'nOwn whether they will be prosecuted
riot 1t Is supposed they will be.