The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1892-09-28
Unknown Man With a Sorrel
Horse Arrested at Kent.
HIS ACTIONS VERY SUSPICIOUS.
Posses Following Footsteps Of Five
Men in the Gle Elum Hills.
Three Heading Toward Snoqualmie Pass
and Two Hurrying TO the Okanogan
Couutry-The Trails All Guarded and
Whole Gang LikeIysto Be Captured.

TACOMA, Sept. q. .-[Spscial.- after
noon q jaded horseman answering the de-
scription of one of five 5ighwaymen who
robbed the Roslyn bank % broad daylight.
appeared at Kent. just across the Pierce
county line, in King cesinty. He had a
fine sorrel horse which she was very ahx-
ious to sell. He also see.med anxious and
nervous. The village constable at once
suspected that he wss one of the
Roslyn robbers, ana wired Seat
tie officials for instructions regarding
him. In the meantime Che stranger was
never lost sight of for alnoment. Those
who were watching him secame confident
that he was one of the hank robbers and
proceeded to place him uuder arrest. This
was done because it was tnought he would
leave town and because iI4s was so exceed
ipgiy anxious to sell his Ene horse for $50.
less than half its value. although taika-
tive before being arrested. the stranger at
once became reticent whesa in charge of the
constable. He refused togive his name or
any information wbatever This only led
the authorities to feel stal more sure he
was one of the highw&ymen. In the
meantime two officers aere dispatched
from Seattle to arrest ths highwayman,
and he was subsequently turned over to
the King county authornies. The town
OF Kent is reported 70 have been consider
ably excited over thu capt5re.
NJ. C. Sullivan, sof Iiiiei's detective
agency, Portland, n{w thJ,ks three of the
highwaymen are in King county, three of
them having, according to his story,
crossed the Cascade mountains Sunday
through the Snoqlialmie.pass. Sullivan
arrived here this evening from Seattle and
expressed hope that the : robbers would
all be captured. He could advance moth
ing new regarding the case except the
opinion that two or three 4of the robbers
were old hands at the busieess.
Reports of the capture ofone of the rob-
bers at Kent were received.at the Tacoma
bureau of the Posr-INrELLfaENcER shortly
after O'Clock, and at once1in9uiry became
general regarding the facts. Several per-
sons were anxious to pay 500 for the rob-
ber's sorrel horse, which fl.. had tried so
hard to sell at Kent for hat5 that amount.
Ii was thought quite dise.nction to own
one of the horses used by tse daring high
waymen.
RosLYN, Sept. 2Z.-fSpecisi. THE search
for the Roslyn bank rohbees continues as
diligently as on the evei,ing and night
succeeding the afternoon when the crime
was committed. Half dozen sheriff's
posses. aided by severas of Detect
i've Sullivan's men, are " in the field,
and their number is sufficient to
invest almost the whole country
between the upper Kittltas valley and
Mount Stuart. A courier arrived from the
Peshastin this morning an9 reported that
the trail of two of the robbers had been
struck IN the Niger creek region, making
toward the Fraser river. A prospector
whom the fugitives passed stated that the
men were pushing rapidly ahead, that
they looked tagged and worn out, while
their horses were jaded. a posse of six
took up the trail with fresh horses pro-
cured in the Peshastin mining camp, and
their prospects for overtakisg the robbers
are good.
A prospector who arrived from the upper
Cle-Eium country this morls3ng stated that
early Monday morning three men, dressed
as cowboys, wells armesl and afoot,
crossed the valley near ga,e upper end
of Fish lake, thirty mi5es northwest
Of Roslyn, and maze inquiries
about the lay of the cousatry and the
nearest route to SnoqualIsie pass. The
prospector is stranger here, but he ap
parently told straigla story, in
which the local authorsiies are in
clined to place some 5;redence. A
telegram was received hers this evening
announcing the sudden deash of a daugh.
ter of Marshal McGrath. 81 Ellensburg
who is leading one OF tEe posses. A
courier was dispatched tozhunt him ut
and inform him of the sad circumstances
The looted bank opened its doors fol
business again this morning