The morning call., 1892-06-12
4 DARING ROBBERY.
Exploit Of Two AudaciOus
HighWaymen.
SIXTEEN THOUSAND DOLLARS STOLEN
Two Sacks Of Coin Captured on a
Berkeley Train.
4 HOLD Up At A WAY NiTIGX.
Secretary ellison Of The JudSOn Iron RorkS
and His Assistant the Victims.
Flight Of The Robbers.
SIXTEEN THOUSAND DOLLARS STOLEN
4 HOLD up At A WAY TiTIOY.

Two men wearing sheet-ir5n corses
pointed reyolvers at the head of Paymaster
John ellison of the Judson Iron Works and
robbed him of $4,000 on the Berkeley train
at II 30 o'clock Yesterday morning.
The coin was in two sack. One contained
$4,000 in gold, the other $1,000 in silver
The bighwaymen escaped with the money.
The police force of Oakland and San Fran
cisco, though instantly warned by telegraph
of the daring robbery, worked all day In
a vain pursuit OF The audacious thieves.
The robbery was skillfuliy planned and
executed with consummate coOlness. The
scene was at the B-street station, within
800 Yards Of the JudsOn Iron Works at
Emeryville, to which point Mr. ellison was
then proceeding The money had been
drawn from the Bank OF British Columbia
in this city and was to meet the payroll
which bore the names OF over 800 employees
Mr. GilSOD, who is secretary OF the COM
panv. was accompanied by Henry MOrten-
son, young man employed at the works,
They left this city on the II o'clock boat,
which was the Piedmont. They entered
the second car, took the seventh seat on the
left hand side and threw the heavy sacks on
the seat in front, turning over the back.
Women and children and few meE bound
for the Chosen Friends picnic at Shell
Mound Park tr0Oped into the ear and filed
up the other seats. ellison and MOrtens0n
sat down uneOncernediy. ellison opened
his Morning CALL and began to deVour
with avldity Harry TOd's thrilling recital
of the dOings at the MINNEAPOLIS cOnven-
ton. He was reading the paper when the
train stopped at the B-street station
He heard a cOmmotion behind him and
turned his face back IBqulTingly. As he did
so the blood left his brain aud his pulse
stopped beating A cleaning revolver was
at his temple The barrel Of another
pointed across his face at MS companion
next the window.
Throw up your hands"
It was a tall man In a straw-colored linen
dusteT, and be spoke to him in most de-
termined way.
ellison looked at him with palIid lips and
was daZed.
stranger firmly, adding we want those
lie newspaper fell to the floor and up
went the hands II the secretary and his as
sistaut.
The picnic women screamed and several
Of them made a rush for the rear door.
The two robbers lost not q second. Their
hands were on the sacks. The man who had
spoken, he with the dusteT seized the first
sack and walked huTriedly forward, paint
ing his revolver ahead OF him. The second
man. NuDS6 lace WAS Sil6aItH Will ldAlp-
black. and WHO wore a blue Jean Jumper
and blue oyeralls, grabbed the second sack
and walked ont backward, leveling his re-
v0lveT at ellison and MOTtens0n. The rob
bers as they passed out at the front plat
form, kept their backs To each other, thus
guarding themselves front and rear They
stepped leisuTely and with great delibeTa-
ti0n. The platform reached they spTaDg OF
and made for a horse ald buggy bitched to
an electric-light pole not 40 feet away.
Recovering his senses Gi son jumped up
and whipping out his revolver followed tn g
robbers as far as the platform, When he
reached il the two were staggering with the
weight of the sacked coin. and about 20 feet
away ellison from the platform opened fire
on the two. He fred four shots at them in
quick succession and wildly. The man in
the duSteT Jumped into the buggy first. Us
companion with the backened face heaved
his sack into the buggy, ran 10 the horses
head and unsnapped the hitchin g-strap.
The man in the duster stood up, holding
the reins while his mate climbed ia, GIlson
meanN lille, with bianched face. kept Up his
harmless fusillade his bullets going over
their heads. As he fred his last shot the
train pulled out, and the last lie and every
body saw Of the highwayme they were
leisurely driving away across the bridge up
3 street toward Oakland
In another minute the train stopped again
at Emerys, directly opposite the Office of
the JudsOn Iron Works. The excited vie
tim Of the robbery told as best he could the
story Of the attack, and the news was at
once telegraphed to police headquarters in
Oakland aa5 San Francisco.
The Judson Iron Works people without
moments delay dispatched several Of their
employees on a hunt after the thieves. Nor
tens0n, in company with an officer, returned
on the next train to the Oakland mole to
identify and, if possible, TO intercept the
thieves should they attempt TO cross over TO
this side. ellison piled the telephone with
great YigoT, and described as closely as he
could to the Oakland police the appearance
OF the robbers
1t was soon ascertained that the robbers
maintained leisuTely pace up B street and
then turned down Hannard street. Their
subsequent course was uniraced. About
O'Clock their buggy was found hitched to
post at the corner of Filbsrt aud Tenth
streets. In the vehicle was found remark
able assortment of fel0niOus equipments.
The collection included half a dozen loose
38-caliber cartridges. pair of OYeralls, a
pair of trousers, half q lemon, two sheet
iron cOrsets and two rubber belts.
The overals and trousers had been cut
open the entire length of the inside seams
and the half lemon was daubed with black.
These were the proofs Of the skin with
which the robbers had removed their dis
gulse. While driving on the road they had
relieved themselves of these neither gar
ments. The acid Of the lemon had been
used TO remove the blackening on the face
Of the man in blue jeans
The cUriOsitleS, however, were the coTsets