The morning call., 1892-06-12

the depot Her evidence is clear proof that
the man in a linen duster joined his eooted-
crate al the SiXteenth-Street station IN Tine
to inform him that the buggy was ready at
the next station, and to play his part in the
bold plot. Mrs. Nelson saw the two men
afterwaTd driving leisurely up street, and
several children on that thoroughfare saw
them turn down Hannard street, when they
seemed to quicken the pace OF thelr morse.
III. G. Olsen. longshoreman, residing IN
a cottage al 23S Eta street. was a passenger
on the train when the robbery occurred, but
was not in the same car. lie stepped on at
the B-Street station and his attention was
first attracted to the robbery by the lively
crack of GilsOn's revolver. lie then saw
the tall man who wore the duster standing
up ia the buggy and the smaller man
whose face WAS smearcd nearly doubled
upas he shuffled along to the buggy. Neither
Of The robbers, he said, paid the slightest
attention 10 Gilson'S rafting fire, and they
did not fTe back. Their sole purpose seemed
to be to get away.
The horse and buggy were hired at 1918
O'Clock from the livery stable Kept by Z.
II. Nor Oh Seventh street, near Peralta.
Mr. NOTs description OF the man who ell
gagged it corresponds accurately with that Of
the tall man in the linen dusteT. lie in
formed the liyerYman that he desired
buggy until l O'clock to take his wife out
on ride 10 pick cherries. lie had large
picnic basket on his arm and paid - % IOr
the use of the buggy. Chief OF Police IOmp-
kiuS had early aScertalned these facts, ana,
having fixed upon this man his suspicious,
sent out several officers in search Of the
buggy. One OF MT. N0r's hOstleTs, however,
was the first 10 find the vehicle. boy
told the hOstleT that he saw two weIl-dTesSed
men get out Of the buggy two hours before,
" Whlch would make the time about Clock
whel the robbers abandoned the vehicle.
The bOy stated that one of the men WOr6.a
high silk hat No further trace OF them
was found after this lime, and 1t IS believed
that after hiding the stolen money SOme-
where between Twenty-eighth and Tenth
streets, the robbers stopped at the corner Of
Filbert street. where they left the buggy
and Joined the crowd in Oakland, where
they were easily lost to sight.
Mr.. Gibson describes the first man as about
3 feet 10 Inches in height, of light complex
ion and blue eyes. His mustache was of
dark brown color. His long st-aw-e0lOred
dusteT was somewhat SOiled, and he wore
black d erby hat with square crown. HIS
weight lie estimated to be about lG0 pounds.
The second man was about feet inches
ia height He, too, had only a muStache,
but il was a stubby one Of a EriZzled hue.
His face was thoroughly daubed with some
black stuff, but his throat and hands were
white. lie wore a l0w-cTOwned soft black
hat An that Nj ellison noticed about his
clothing was his new blue jumper and over
allS. lie believes his weight 10 be about l45
pounds. Mr.. GiSOn. IN describing The
general appearance Of these two men,
remarked that his attention was forced SO
unceTemoni0usly upon the cleaning pistol
barrels that he felt unable TO enter into
other details as 10 their personal appear
anCe. He could not tell from the language
Of tie taller man anything about his ma
tiOnality, but he thought ne was II anything
d Dane. The blue jeans rObber never ut
tered q word. MT. ellison, however, has
suspicion that be was former employe Of
,a Iron Wnrl-e and the
only personal cleW upon which the police
are at work. The man whom he suspects
called at the Office Of the Juds0n Iron
Works IN this city yesterday.
The second Saturday in each mouth is
nav day at the JudsOn Iron Works, and it
is evident that the robbers knew this and
prepared their plans accordingly. The
Dlue-l4ans rObOeT, there Is ample reason TO
believe, kept watch at the Oakland pier
for tie arrival from San Francisco of Gill
son and MOTtensOn and got on the train
with them. He had the necessary coucoc-
tlon on hand 20 blarken his features at the
right moment, which he could easily do by
lowering bis face behind his seat Nobody
could tell where the men came from the
moment before they approached their vic
tins MI. GIlS0n says they came up be-
hind him. This is true Of the tall man, but
bright little girl who occupied a seat some
distance behind AYERS very positively that
the man in Dlue jumped up from the seat on
the other side Of tie aisle from ellison, and
this is very probably the truth.
+. Graves, the conductor Of the train,
gives his version of the robbery in these
words: " hen l first passed through the
train on the way down from the pier l
noticed man in the rear car who had evil
dently blaCkened his face and as l saw that
his hands were not cOl0Ted l knew some
thing vas up, but l didn't attach any im-
por;ance t. it. / came on through the train
and | saw GiIsOn IN the second car from the
front in the seventh seat on the left-haud
side. Opposite him was man dressed IN a
duster, but IdiGn't pay any attention to him
at the time Gibson had two bags Of money
on the seat OF the car by his side. Just be-
! fore We reached B-stTeet station l noticed
| the man with the backened face coming
through the train, and be met the man
with the duster The two then pulled out
pistols and put them to GilsOn's head, at the
same time taking the money"
ellison was too dumf0uuded at that tina
TO offer any resistance. l was standing at
the rear IF the car when the pistols were
drawn. and the passengers screamed aud
ran out. There were about % IN the car at
the time. Before any one had time 10 do
anything the two men jumped OF the train
and got into their buggy, driving OH al once.
| ellison stepped out to the platform and fired
| his pistol five or six times at tie men and
| one OF them shot back. None Of the shots
/ took effect, however. Nobody followed the
men. 20 we went on to Berkeley.
Il remember that both Of the men got in
| together at the pier. The man with duster
/ had a ticket from San Francisco aud evil
/ dently came over ou the i O'clock boat,
1 while the man with the black on his face
| had a ticket TO West Berkeley"
| The brakeman on tie train was standing
/ on the platform when the men presented
/ the pistols and he says:
! " The two men simultaneously whipped
/ out their pistols and at once the women in
/ he IF xub bou US trgipcr N r1ia
| mic al Shell Mound Park, screamed and
/ rushed from their seats out on the platform
aud into another car. i then saw man
come on the platform with a heavy bag IN
| one hand and pistol in the other. L did
| lot pay much attention to him, being oCeu-
! pied with the crowd Of women | supposed
! he was going to shoot at something on the
| marsh, aud thought the women were scared
/ at seeing the pistol. Before | knew what
/ was the matter the other man had come out
/ with another bag ana pistol and they both
/ jun ped into buggy which was ned at an
! elecTlc-lght pole. Then, when ellison be-
/ gan to shoot, l knew what was up, but 1t all
! happened so quickly that l didn't have time
/ to do anything had | wanted to-"
Secretary GilsOn tells the following story
| Of his sensational experience:
''It has been my custom to draw the money
1 from the bank on Saturdays In order to pay
! tie employees OF the works. / was accom-
/ panied by clerk, Harry Mortenson, who
assisted me 10 carrying the money.
After we leave t1e boat we 90 on the
| Berkeley train, taking seats about one-third
| the way of the car from the front door.
sat on the side nearest the aisle and the
! clerk sat near the window. The seat in
! front Of US was turned over so that the Two
! bags OF money were placed directly In front
| Of MS where we could see them all the time.
in one bag was $4,000 in gold and in
! the second bag was nearly $1,000 in silver.
| The bag Of gold was nearest the window
| and the silver close to It.
Nothing attracted our attention unit
| the train stopped at B station. ! heard a
/ commotiOn In the car, and in an instant l
| saw a pistol showed into my face. At tue
same time saw pistol pointed at the clerk.
| .In an instant the command came Throw