The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1892-10-22
STORIES OF HoLD-UPs
Tho Victims Seldom Act as They Fro
viously Fancled They Would.

Tho Victims Seldom Act as They Fro
viously Fancled They Would.
A group OF men were lollinG in th'
loungers' corner OF San \Erancisct
hotel says the Examiner. Each wa
reading morning paper. Each hat
his paper open ut the page describing
q robbery that startled the country.
Il can not help having an admiration
for such bold thieves" said q very
respectable looking member OF the
gathering. Not" no added 'Toi
that approve stealing in any form.
but IL one is bound to loot strong
box it Is more manly to do it at the
| point OF a pistol than to sneak into
the victims confidence and then DO.
tray it."
One by one the readers threw their
papers aside. and without difficulty
disposed OF bandits and plumber In
the remarkably short order that al
ways prevails on such occasions,
Then they grew reminiscent
1.-The pluckiest robber l ever heard
Of" said Denverite. was the oce
who made Dan Moffat give up &24 :
900 about three years ago. The story
became familiar enough. but the Sc
quel has been generally squelched. A
young fellow walked into Moffats prl
vate Office at the First National
bank. covering Moffat with a pistol.
displaying bottle of harness oil that
he said was nitro. glycerine made
Moffat fill out check and then get it
cashed and hand him the money. He
specified just what he wanted. de-
mandIng 81. 900 in gold. q ten-thous-
and dollar bill. and smaller bills.
When Moffat went to the paying
teller the visitor was just behind him
with tho revolver close to his ribs.
but hidden by an overcoat Having
secured the money the robber backed
out the door and disappeared.
Ibid they ever catch him9 Well
now that Is hard TO state. There Is
some mystery about it. Some people
did not think that Moffat wanted him
caught But big row was made
about it and rewards offered. In per-
haps yeaT. after numerous arrests
and releases it was announced that q
prisoner in jail in Clay county. Mo-.
charged with horse stealing had con-
tossed to being Motfars robber The
bank teller went there and identified
him. The Denver chief OF police told
me- however that the prisoner was q
pretcnder and that he did not believe
he had ever been in the state OF Col
orado Then the chap went crazy.
You can't try lunatic for robbery.
and the public does not keep track OF
the crazy prisoners of Clay county.
Mo. So the matter rests"
The Denver man had the floor.
You remember don't you. the way
Senator. Tabor's gold bricks from the
Vulture mine in Arizona were stolen?
He got the property along in tho
eighties The output in the form OF
a brick left the mine every two weeks.
One OF these bricks was worth about
%. 900. The foreman thought he
could carry the treasure himself but
a lone highwayman fooled him. got
away with the game too He was
afterward caught in the City of
Mexico and the brick recovered.
The foreman took some assistants
with him next time and on the trip
ran into an ambush. One assistant
was killed and the other wounded.
Ono OF the robbers vas hurt and
caught later nursing his wound in q
nut The other robber was picked up
in lonely canon. dead. bullet through
his head. revolver in his hand. and
the brick on his breast Must have
been grimly sarcastic cusa
Il notice you are having good
many stage robberies out here. Used
to have them in Colorado. Abolished
the robberies first and then the
stage. But speaking OF robberies re-
minds me OF one highwayman who
could give your Black Bart points.
He had held up stage after stage In
Southern Colorado; taken everything
In sight He always gave orders as
though he had a whole posse In his
gang. When he was captured it was
found that he was a cripple. weighing
about 10C pounds and never had any
except dummies armed
with broomsticks He s In the govern
ment pen at Detroit now"