The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1894-03-09
NO TREASURE TAKEN.
The Angels Camp STOCKHOLDERS
Were Poorly Paid.
They Must Content Themselves With
the Contents of the Regis
tered Mail.

ANGELS CAMP, March S.-The up stage
from Milton TO Angels, which was held up
O'Clock last evening by two masked
highwaymen at Matthews place, about
nine miles from here. carried eleven pas
sengers. among them two ladies. No
treasure was obtained. The robbers did
not succeed in their efforts TO get the ex-
press-boX open. The mail pouches were
cut open and plundered.
Two sheep-herders warned the driver
about half mile beyond the scene of rob-
berry, and the psssen gers hid their money,
etc.. excepting some small change. The
registered letters were all the robbers Sc
cured.
One of them is described as being about
25 years old and about feet 10 inches
high. He wore faded wine-colored over
coat and was called Joe" by the younger,
who looked a mere bov, and was called
kid" by his partner. Each carried large
Smith & Wesson reviewers and old
fashioned. muzzle-loadng shotguns.
The officers have returned from the scene
of the robbery. They found some blankets
and have good description of the rob-
bers, and have no doubt but they will
capture them.
SACRAMENTO, March S.--The police to-
night arrested two men answering fully
the descriptions of those suspected in
Stockton of having robbed the Milton
stage. An officer will be here tomorrow
to Identify them.
Detective Hume of Wells. Fargo & Co.
has gone to the scene of the robbery of the
Angels Camp stage. In speaking of the
tendent of the express company, said ::
"The robbers did not attempt to open the
iron box. and the wooden box which the
stage-driver threw them contained no
money. The only times when the stage car
ries much of value is when the pay for the
men at the Utica mine is sent up and
when the mine makes its monthly ship
ment of bullion. Latterly the mems pay
has been sent up In the form of checks.
The bullion is shipped down in 300-pound
bars, which robbers would find very in
convenient to handle. OF course, il sue
cessful in robbing stage they might sue
ceed in dragging the bars for distance
and cOncealing them, but this would not
be very possible.
II know of but one instance where the
company was robbed of a great amount of
bullion in transit of which we recovered no
part" continued Superintendent Powell
THAT was when the Montana stage was
robbed at what is now Green River. Wyo
The robbery took place in August, 1868
The robbers secured $4,000 worth of bull
lion and got away with it successfully"
Superintendent Powell states that the
company has two men under arrest at Los
Angeles for the train robbery at Roscoe.
They have been in custody for two
days, but 1 have not learned whether
they are the right persons or not" said
he. Detective Thacker asked that Fred
E. Potts. the messenger who was in the
express car on the night of the first rob-
berry. be allowed to remain over at Los An
geles to Identify the men if he could.
There is no doubt that the second train
robbery near Roscoe. in which a fireman
was killed, was perpetrated by the same
men who held up the first train. OF that
we are absolutely sure. Certain express
sions made on the occasions of both rob-
berries and the peculiar information of the
robbers in speaking satisfy us that it was
the same gang in both instances"