Blackfoot news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1891-1902, 1892-09-03
ioLD UP YOUR HANDS.
STAGE TAKEN IN BY CALI
FoRNIA BANDITS.
o~ it Feels 60 Have Robbers LevSl
Their Guns a. Your Head-Tales
Tod by tina Driver and the
Solitary Passenger.

The story Of how the Wsaverville
age was robbed near Roddlng Cal.
lunds like q chapter from a dime
ovsl as reported by the correspond.
ut Of the New York Press. Tbs ex-
'ress messenger who guarded the
-easure boxes was killed. tho driver
ras badly shot and the robber filled
sith buckshot
The driver John Boyca snys;
On tbs night OF the robbery there
we're three persons on the stage one
passenger named Suhr. the express
Messenger Montgomery aud myself
We arrived AZ the scene OF the rob.
cry about 5;l5 o'clock just az We
'arlsd down the grade OF the CUT the
i.ghwayman l-ee r. Howell) stepped
ht from behind clump OF low oak
rush and said. Stop Stop in
antly pulled the horses up and
brought tho stage 70 "a standstilL
lie next said Passenger throw
ap your handsi' 10 most pleasant
manner and tone OF voice He then
commanded me 20 throw o1t those
Boxes
IAN this time ho had his brlstling
,hoigun with both hammers cooked.
eTslcd directly al myself and the
passenger Suhr He seemed to DO
As pleasant and atfable as French
lanrlng master just as the second
5oE struck the ground there came two
shotS one from an unseen robber aud
one from the messenger Tho robber
irod arsL Tho messengers shot
dropped the man who was in sight
Coulda't toll whether tbs messenger
had been hit or not
(" Notwithstanding the robbers
wOuad no held the gun on mo after
no had dropped on his knees His
le'i hand gave out In an instant and
Ihan no held IL with his right alone
a second later no raised on opo
knee cato ono foot and shot at me
Ito sonl fiiteen buekshot into my right
eg insl above tho knee and three
into my loil log.
''Thon tho team started on a mad
run down tho grAla | Was pretty
weak and asked tho passenger 10
take the reinA II said he couldn't
drive four horsc& so put him on The
brake and kaoeling down on the boot.
drove myse,t ! stopped the team
after wo had gone about 500 yards
Montgomery tho messenger yelled
10 me and asked the II was killed.
I replied No nnd asked him Il he
was shot lie replied. My God.
yca Iio wanted 10 know Il he had
killed The robbor. told him no bat
that DO had dropped him
Then wO met some people who
i drove tho stage down 10 Middle creek
hotel where We wcro helped IRON The
stage Montgomery liyod about two
hours and half after he received tho
lalai wound. His vito and children
uuro with him when he died.
None % VS. on tho stage ever saw
the man who Hrod from the left side
into the stage at Montgomery. Tho
robbcr who shot me stood on bank
about eve feet high. aud, as near rs /
can judge about forty feet ahead and
on t.e right side Of the road
They wore masks made out Of rcd
cotton handkcrchiels had long linen
busters and their legs wrapped with
dirty -four sacks Neither " tho rob
burs uttered word NJ any time after
tho frat shot was fred.
Il think | will recover from my
wounds all right and have rs good a
leg to work brake with rs eveE"
The woundod robber was captured
and .ailcd Ito was badly hurt but
will recover No ono knows who bis
accomplish was Ho seems TO have
! faded from sight aud scent like q
gull footprint In the ocean.
ror hundreds Of yards around the
scene OF the robbery the ground,
brush raylueS hillsides and old ant
now prospect holes have been care
fully searched for the treasure IL Il
supposed tho robbers could not carry
of. Many boys aud men engaged il
tho search. but without finding ;
trace
George Suhr o. Pine street Oak
land. the passenger talked freely 0
the adventure. He was not serlousl!
hurt He says:
'At French Gulch | took tho lou
horse wcayervlllo stage for Reddin.
and sat on tho left hand side Of tn
driver Montgomery Wolls.Fargo'
messenger was also on the Same seat
sitting on my left
,Whon wo left SHASTA for Rcdding
Montgomery. instead OF rosuming hi
,eat beside me got inside tho coacl
and occupied tho seat facing tn
lhorses NO had probably driven hal
wny 20 Rodding when we were stoppe
in tho cut
II was Mt tho moment looking dow
a tho horsoa was thinking Q
nothing In particular. aud was sudden
iv stnrflod with tho words
..Passengerl Throw up your hands!
Looking up ! saw n man with
hort two.barreled gun leveled point
! blank nj us, standing upon top OF tn
mt TO tho right OF It's aud not NOR
: han twenty five feet away
.a,knt ,sna MI he suid, 1 did nc