Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1890-10-27
ON THE TRAIN.
A ssRecord-Union" Man Interviews the
Officers and Prisoners.

A "Record-Union" Man Interviews the
officers and Prisoners.
A telegram was received by the RECORD.
UNION from Captain Fish, announcing that
they were nearing home and would reach
Sacramento at $50 Sunday morning.
In consequence a reporter was on hand
at the depot when the train rolled in.
The party occupied the for8ard section
of the Pullman sleeper Shoshone, and upon
boarding the car it was found that De.
tective Hume was the only one of them
astir, the others remaining in their cur
tanned hunks, the idea being TO attract a.
little attention as possible.
Warden Aull was at the depot in wait
ing, and during the twenty minutes that
the train waited there, held consultation
with Mr.. Hume.
1t was not until after the train had
passed Davisyille, on the way to the bay
that the prisoners were taken from the
hunks, and the reporter informed that they
were at his service.
Both men were in good spirits anC
greeted the newspaper man pleasantly. Sc
did Captains Fish and Reddy.
DETECTIVE HUME TALKS.
Mr.. Hume consented to be interviewed
first, and he and the reporter retired to an
other part of the car. There is not much
to be said in addition to what your paper
has already published" began the grea
criminal hunter. 1.-THE facts of the crime:
committed by both men, are pretty thor
oughly known to your readers, as well as
the particulars of their daring escape from
San Quentin three years age"
But you can give me the particulars o.
hew you managed to capture them ?"
"Oh, yes, ] can to certain extent. D
course there are some things that l con
slider best kept quiet-matters that were
given to me with that understandings and
/ would be in duty bound not to diyulgt
them. The capture was made very quietly,
and owe much to Billy Pinkerton for tn;
assistance he rendered me. But, if you are
determined TO get all you can out OF me,
may as we'll go back few years, and give
you a rough history of how became con-
nected with the case, and, after their es-
cape, how / eventually ran them to earth
again.
"Let me see now" he continued, after 6
pause, during which he did considerable
hard thinking.
when l learned OF the robbery of the
Moore's Flat stage and the murder o
banker Cummings, went immedisteiy tC
the scene. and remained there eight or ter
DAYS, during which time l made very
thorough investigation. Il was on the eve
of an election in Nevada county, and th'
crime did not receive the attention from
the Sheriffs and other officers that IL woulC
had they not been taken up in what the
deemed something more important. Up
on concluding my iabors was satisfied
morally certain, in fsci-that G. H. Thorn
or Charles Dorsey, as he was then known
WAS ONE OF THE SHAREHOLDERS,
And was the one who murdered poor Cum
mings. came to San Francisco and tolt
Charley AulI of what / had learned, ant
told him what my convictions were
Charley gave his knee slap, and SAID
We'll, jim, if you are satisfied that Dorsey
is one of the men, know who the othe
is?' He named Patterson, and suosequen
DEVELOPMENTS proved that he was right, a
YOU well know. / had photographs o
both men struck of, and circulars sent L
ali the large cities containing descrip
tion of them and also OF the prop
erty they took from the stage. We did no
hear ANYTHING more about, and, as TIM
passed on, the matter died out.
"One day, though, 1 received lette