Arizona weekly citizen., 1883-12-29
THE TRAIN ROBBERS.
some Facts Showing Beyond Doubt
 ihat the Bisbee Robbers
Are Not the Parties Who Robbed the
 Train and Express at Gage Station.

The dispatches received at this place aEd San Francisco from correspondents at points iu southeastern Arizona and New Mexico, while in the main correct have created the impression that the parties who robbed the train at Gage Station, were the same parties who com mitied the robberies at Bisbee. This is an error. J. B. Hume, special detective of Wells, Fargo < Co.'S Express, called at the CITIZEN office this morning and made the following state meDt, which clearly shows that the Bisbee robbers did not participate in the Gage robbery. The statement made in tho Clifton Clar- ion as to the early movements of the Bisbee robbers, Mir. Hume informs us, is substantially correct, except as co the date. which should have been Friday, the Ed, instead of Thursday, the 22d. The Clarion's statement is as follows:
 Thursday, November 22d should be Friday, November 23d at about 2 o'clock the coach that arrived from Solo, monville brought a large number of ! passengers returning to Clifton from attendance at court. As each passenger | stepped from the coach be was clcse.y scrutinized by s gang of outlaws, well known III Clifton. It was the gen | erally expressed opinion Of the passeng CTS that the gang were looking for some l persons who had made themselves Ob- noXlous to them, but not discovering | their intended victim or victims they mounted their horses and rode of In a south a-ly direction toward Duncan. The meu who comprised this gang were five ID number, and their names as follows: Dan Dowd alias Big Dan," Q. w. Sample alias Red John c. Kelly alias "Yorkie,' Wills alias "Tex," and John Heath It IS known by the officers m Ci'tou that this crowd was joined by at least two others a short distance from Sheldon, and that ". E. Delaney was one of them.
 They then proceeded to Whitlocks Cienega, about 35 miles north of San Simon station. They left this place Saturday morning November 24th, reachn- San Simon station at 3:30 p. u. oi the same day. They spent the night there taking supper and break fast; and on the morning of he 25th took their departure m the direction of | Galeyville. San Simon station is IS uIlea from the scene of the Gage rob btry, which occurred at 4:3O p. ID. on the 2Ith, hence it will be seen that it was impossible for them to have parti- cipatei in the Gage robbery.
 The statement has beea made tha
 these men knew of the robbery, before | the agent at San Simon had been ap- ! prised of it's occurrence. This Is also, a his aEe. On the morning of the 25th. The party sAddled up their horses, and were about leaving when they met the section boss of the Southern Pacific railroad at San Simon station, who told them about the robbery. They then went p to the station, and inquired of the agent, whether Iuch robbery had | t .ken place, and whht rewards were offered for the arrest of the robbers, and il joking way said to the agent "We want you to bear witness that We had no hand in this robbery" and made the remark that ''if the rewards were sui ficient they might take a hand in cap turing the robbers, as they were
 well fixed for tha. kind Of business. 9 They went from here direct to Galley vile, lrriving there Sunday, be 25th, and got some provisions from MT. Rob- erts, who has charge of a camp at that place. They then went over into the Cnirici ihua mountains, where they stopped at Q wood choppers camp eight consecutive days. Heath, however, left the camp on the 27th ult., and went to
 Bi5bee, where he bought a saloon, and which, as has already been shown in our ! dispatches. was run as 0 guy.
 Tht story of their traIl after making their descent on Bisbee was published in the CITIZEN of yesterday. When Tex and Red were arrested and brought over to Lordsbnrg, Messrs. Hume and Harrls, the detectives for the railroad and express company, took the section boss and wiper, who had seen and talked to the party at San Simon station, up to Lorisburg, and they at once positive ly Identified Red" and Tex" as two of the parties who spent the nIglt of the 2lth al the station and whom they saw and talked with on the morning of the 25th
 Messrs. Hume and Harris have been fully satisfied ever since the 29th ultimo that the party who visited San Simon station were not the men who robbed the train at Gage station, having posi- tive evidence which warranted them in arriving at thus conclusion.
 The train robbers are still at large and the rewards offered by the railroad company and the express company still stand and hold good, and the amounts offer will 5e paid to any party or parties who may capture the robbers.