The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1891-08-20
HELD UP.
A Daring and Successful Robbery Be-
tween Here and Bake Oven.

A Daring and Successful Robbery Be-
tween Here and Bake Oven.
daring and successful robbery was
committed yesterday afternoon about
8 o'clock on the daily stage that runs
between this city and Bake Oven. AS
the driver, Charley Adams, neared the
top of the hill on the other side of Shear
ar's Bridge, at no great distance from
the spring on the left hand side of the
road, a masked man jumped out of a
clump of brush and presenting rifle at
the driver ordered him to throw out the
mail sacks. The driver was alone and
without any weapons, and, as most men
would have done under the circum-
stances, readily complied. Just at this
moment the sound of wagon wheels were
heard lower down the hill and the rob-
asked, "what is that noise?' The driver
informed the robber that it was freight
team; when the robber responded,
"Then you drive on" which he accord
ingly did. The robber got away with
three mail sacks, one containing the
through Antelope mail, one the through
Prineville mail and the third, what
is known as the way sack. When the
driver had got short distance further
up the hill he was met by Lem Burgess,
to whom he related the circumstance of
the robbery. Mr.1 Burgess fastened
down the hill and when near the scene
of the robbery he met the team already
referred to, which proved to be that of
Mr.. II. W. Wells. The driver of the
team was asked if he had seen any sign
of the robber and answered, "No, but
he must be in the clump of brush below
for the noise of some person in the
brush, as passed, nearly frightened my
team into runaway" Mr.. Burgess has
tened down the hill but found no signs
of the robber and as he too was unarmed
he hastened to the bridge only to find
that they had several guns but no anu
milton. Mr.. Fairchild, who is keeping
the bridge in the absence of Mr.. Sherar
found two Indians who had rifles and
sent them up the hill to the scene of the
robbery. When they arrived there, of
course the robber was gone but they
found a mask, made out of piece of
unbleached muslin, and Messrs. Phil
Brogan and John Grant arriving about
the same time found another mask and
two of the mail sacks, both rlfied of their
contents except couple of parcels of
store goods and two or three newspapers.
Mr.. Fairchild is of the opinion that the
Prineville sack may have contained con-
siderable money as there were some ap-
parently valuable letters in the sack ad-
dressed to the Baldwin Land and Live
Stock company of Hay Greek, Crook
county. It is somewhere in the neigh
borhood of twenty years since the news
papers of this county had to record a
stage robbery committed within its bor-
ders. About that time the mail stage
coming this way, was held up by masked
robbers near the head of the Antelope
canyon and robbed of the mail. Ad
Edgar was the driver and four men were
afterwards arrested and sent to states
prison, for the ofense. 1t this last case
only one man was seen, but from the fact
that two masks were found he may have
had an accomplice. Who the robber ol
robbers was or were. is at this moment
unknown, It is probable they were from
; the other side the Deschutes and may
have had secret information OF the ar
rival of some valuable mail matter.