The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1888-06-30
4 BOLD ROBBERY.
The Blackfoot Stage Held Up" on the
Morning Of the Esd inst.

The Blackfoot and Challis outgoing
stage was .sheld up" on the morning OF
the 23d inst. about eight o'clock, by two
masked men, and the treasure box robbed
uf one bar of Dickens Custer bullion val
ued at about $1,000. The robbery oc-
CURED at the mouth Of the canyon below
"Lone Pine" and about eleven miles
from Challis. The robbers covered the
driver, johnny Schuyler, with their revoi.
vers, at the same time demanding hin to
"Hold up!" and "Throw out the treasure
box!" The driver complied with the de-
mand at once. After the box was thrown
out, one of the robbers stepped to one
side and got Ratchet, with which he
knocked the staple out of the box ana
removed the contents, which, after care
full examination, he returned to the box
and the box to the wagon, remarklng'
somewhat facetiously, to the driver, 1--WE
have no use for the box" He was then
addressed by the one who stood at the
horses heads with: "Hurry up! and
"Carry it awayw AS soon as his com
panion had shouldered the bullion and
started for the creek, he stepped out OF
the road and said to the driver, "Go on!'
Miss Wilson was the only passenger.
She was much frightened. The robbers
noticing it said: "Don't be alarmed; we
will not modest YOU"
The robbers went about $50 yards in a
northwesterly direction across the creek,
where they left their masks--burlap sacks
which they had over their shoulders, and
seamless sacks, with holes for eyes and
mouth, which they had over their heads
and started on direct line for Montana,
They were seen by Hicks Cochran on
the afternoon of the same day on the east
side of Pah Simari on Morgan creek.
Sheriff Trapp and Division Agent 4. e.
Watson started in pursuit. The former
gentleman returned last evening and the
latter has gone TO Montana. He was on
their trail from Pah Simari but about
twenty -four hours behind.
There seems to be no question as to
the identity of the two men. They called
themselves W. H. Baxter and q. A. Ash.
lev, and were quite unassuming. They
came from Montana at least they said SO,
about one week ago, and were in Challis,
around the valley and over to Bayhorse,
where they sold horse. On the night
of the 22d they crossed the Coivin bridge,
on the road to "Lone Pine" at II o'clock,
and were seen by John Barr, who is burn
ing lime kiln and was on night shift.
They knocked the treasure box open with
new Ratchet they had purchased at
Hull & Co.'S, Chal!is, the evening before.
Besides the above, it has since been
learned that they proposed to William
Thurston, a young mau lately from Mon
tana, to 60 in with them-rob the Black
foot stage, go over to Lemhi and rob the
Salmon stage and then rob the jewelry
store in Salmon City.
A reward of $500 has been offered by
r. G. Watson, Division Agent, for their
arrest and return Of the bullion. The
following is a moderately good descrip-
ton OF the men: They look enough alike
to be brothers, but claim to be cousins.
They wore white, broad trimmed hats;
long, black coats and blue overalls; me
dium size, hight about 5 feet inches
each; aged about % and 25 years, respec-
lively. One rode a dark bay and the
othor buckskin horse.-Messenger.