The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1893-09-11
IT WAS THE M'CARTYS
The RosIyn Bank Robbers Came
to Grief at Delta.
ToM AND FRED k'LIEr
Bnly Nee Yet Cssshs-Ths Murdsrers
81 Hrs. wright. - Kansas City
sosn C.psursd.

DrrrA. Col, Sept. IA-The two men who
were killed last Thursday while attempt
ing to escxps sitter rohbing the Farmers
and Merchants bank and killing its cash
Ter were positively identified today ss
Tom and Fred McCarty. father and son.
The third man who participated IN the
robbery but escaped is Billy McCarty,
aiso son Of Tom MeCarty- These men
constituted the McCarty gang Of Oregon,
and are wanted there for robbing stages
and United States mails. There are re-
wards of $4,000 for them on that &C
count.
The dead men were exhumed and iden-
titled by Sheriff Condee. OF Baker City,or.
who attempted TO arrest them in Oregon.
but was prevented by the McCartys get
ting the drop on him. Ex-Chief OF Police
Farley, Of Denver. also knows the gang
and says Tom McCariy is the man who
robbed President ID. II. Moffatt. OF the
First National bank Of that city.
some four years ago. securing 81 COO
Budd Taylor. of Moab. Utah, who claims
60 be relative by marriage to the Nc
Carly family, also identified the men.
Billy McCarty, the escaped robber. Is still
at large, but the pursuit has not been
given UP.
fThe killing of Tom and Fred MeCsrty
breaks mp the dangerous MeCsrty gang OF
robbers, which, while not so famous as the
James, Younger and Dalton families. was
more dangerous and quite rs bold, secured
more money and was almost uniformly
successful In its operations Ii was this
gang which robbed Ben +. Snipes Il Co.'S
bank at Roslyn. September -, 1892. The
fffl fna nf
George McCarty and Ras Christensen. ALI
five were engaged in the Roslyn robbery.
which was done on the same plan as that
1T Delta. Col. Ii would take columns of
space to tell the exploits OF the McCarty
gang. The most daring was the robbery
Of Millionaire Moffatt. of Denver. by Tom
MeCarty. killed at Delta. and Ras Christ
enson, now in Jail at Eiensburg. Tom
McCarty went into the First National
bank at Denver one day in 1859 and made
an appointment with President Moffatt
for the purpose Of telling him about q
scheme to rob his bank. On heappointed
day he met Mr.. Moffsst in the presidents
private office, just of the main banking
rooms. When he had the president inter-
ested in the scheme he arose and said: II
am the man who is going to rob your
bank" and at the same time he drew q
revolver and began his crazy act.
He was natural actor and
looked not unlike Lawrence Barrett. He
told Moffat that he had become desperate
and had the night before decided to kill
himself, but had changed his mind and
had come to rob the bank. As evidences
of good faith he produced from his top
coat pocket q supposed dynamite cart
ridge which he said he would use in blow
ing up the bank If Mr.. Moffatt did not
comply. Then he gave a check TO Aof-
fatt and comm anded him to make IL out
for $2f 900. Moffatt was told to carry the
check TO the cashier and have it cashed,
McCarty telling him If he did not do as he
told him orif he made any trouble or ex-
PLANTATION he would instantly drop the
dynamite bomb and blow up the whole
outfit. All the time he acted crazy, and
he always thought he did it so we'll that
Motfatt did not know il was artificial. The
cashier, after being told twice, brought the
money, 81, 90 in gold and the balance In
currency. Then he walked out. and by
the time Mr.. Moffatt had explained he had
been told, but he said il was this
wise: Ras Christensen was stationed at
the bank door, and Tom passed the money
TO him N he left the bank. They sepa-
rated IN the usual way. McCarty taking a
hack TO his room and Christensen loafing
off in an opposite direction. Once IN his
room McCarty did the lightning change
3te. u0u0lUk u mlUlSte3ldt suit Oh ZINC X
and showing full beard on his face. He
remained In town q week and then Joined
Christensen nc Star Valley, in Wyoming.
Jobs beside that at Roslyn which the Nc
Cartys are positively known to have dons
are: Robbing the San Miguel County
bank. Telluride. Col. June, 1889. SO 200:
Wallowa National bank, Wallowa, Or,
October S. 1891, $3.50; Farmers Mortgage
and Savings hank, Summeryille, Or, No
vember 3, 1884, IS 600. In robbing the last
bank the robbers turned up at s 80 o'clock
at night and captured Cashier IL. G. Rine-
hart just as he was leaving the bank AID
compelled him to open the safe.
The Roslyn job was planned at Ras
Christenson's house at Alberta, Douglas
county, on the Great Northern railroad.
After the raid they returned to the Chris
tenson ranch and enjoyed reading tho
newspaper accounts Of the robbery. Sub
sequentiy they all went TO Eastern Ore
gon. where the gang had q rendezvous In
Baker county. Christenson's wife and
her sister got mad at the gang and gave
the story of the robbery away TO the au-
thorities at Ellensburg. An attempt Was
made 10 arrest the whole gang, but Tom,
Billy and Fred McCarty escaped and were
not heard from until the other day when
they robbed the Delta bank George Nc
Carly and Ras Christensen we're tried last
May for the robbery and the jury dis
agreed. They are now IN Jail at Eiiens-
burg awaiting IA ney trial