The record-union., 1894-10-15
YOLO'S TRAIN ROBBER SUSPECTS.
Two Men on Whose Trail the Officers
are Camping.
Sheriff Wyckoff and Deputies Have an
Exciting Chase After SuspI-
cious Characters.

The detectives are apparently as much
at sea as other people concerning the
identity of the men who robbed the over
land express train between Davisville
and this city on Thursday night last.
If they do know more about the affair
than other people they are very wisely
keeping such knowledge to themselves
and awaiting developments. However,
no arrests have been made in this vicin-
ity as yet, which is getty good indica-
ton that the officers have received no
satisfactory clew.
Nothing further has been heard of the
two men seen south of Washington on
Friday morning carrying vallses and
making toward the river. 1t is not un-
likely that they were hunters returning
from daylight visit to the tule ponds
west of Washington. No one could have
gone down along the river without hav-
ing been seen, and if the men referred to
were the robbers they would not have
come up in this direction, as they would
have mad to pass many farmhouses.
Detective Kindelon of San Francisco,
who was at Davisville at the time of the
robbery, aud was soon afterward on the
scene, claims to have discovered evil
dences that the robbers had intended to
wreck the train, but changed their minds
after encountering and capturing the
track walker. He found a clawbar near
the scene of the robbery, and thinks il
was to have been used in loosening a rail.
On Saturday one Of the officers found a
shovel III the tules near Washington,
which may have been used to bury the
stolen money.
The report circulated on Saturday to
the effect that lnman. alias Carpenter, the
whilom Colonel of the Industrial Army
who was released from Jail here week
ago-had been arrested in Woodland on
suspicion of being one of the robbers,
was without foundation, He was in that
town at the time the train was held up.
EXCITEMENT IN YOLO.
There was great excitement in Yolo
yesterday, growing out of the suspicious
actions OF two strangers who appeared in
Woodland, and then left that town in
great haste.
Mr.. Ellis of the Woodland HaiL tele-
phoned to the RECoRD-UNIoN that just
before A. NJ. two well-dressed men, who
were strangers, entered the bar-room OF
the Byrnes Hotel through the side en-
trance. One was short, the other very
tall. They carried large black grip
sack, which they placed on the counter
before them. Both were freshly shaven.
They at once called for and had drinks.
liar injury on one of his hands, and asked
the barkeeper if he could supply him
with cloth to bind it up. The latter re-
piled that he could, and turned into a
small room near the bar to get the cloth.
There is but thin partition, and the bar
keeper was only few feet away while in
the room. While he was getting the
cloth he heard one of the men say to his
companion: I'VE had better get out of
here pretty quick, or We'll get nailed"
When the barkeeper returned he
brought cloth and arnica, and the
wounded man hastily tied up his hand
The two men then asked for bottle of
whisky. paid for it and left.
The barkeeper, having his suspicion
aroused, went TO the door and watched
them. He saw them 60 from the hotel. in
a southeasterly direction. When a little
way off they turned and saw the bar
keeper watching them, whereupon they
broke into run. The barkeeper had, in
the meantime telephoned to the officers.
HOT CHASE.
The two strangers went over an open
space between the Baptist and the Chris
tian Churches, and crossing the railroad
track got into single buggy and drove
rapidly away in the direction of Merritt S
Station.
In the meantime officers were after
them. Shortly afterward Len Merritt of
Merritps Station, four or five miles dis
| taut, while coming to Woodland met the
two men in the buggy. One was tall, the
other short. They were driving FAST and
as they turned Off the grade nearly tipped
over in their haste. Presently Merritt
met Deputy Sheriff Wyckotf, brother OF
the Sheriff, driving after the men. He
| told the deputy what he had seen, and
the officer pushed on as rapidly as pos
sible.
| In the meanwhile Constable Rhoades
and District Attorney Head drove out in
a southwesterly direction, and Marshal
| Irwin went toward Cacheyille, four miles
north. Sheriff Wyckotf, accompanied by
the barkeeper of the Byrnes Hotel, went
in another direction, and were next heard
of at Davisville, which locality they were
searching closely.
| Marshal Irwin returned IN the after
noon to Woodland. He thinks the men
were guilty of some crime other than the
train robbery, which accounts for their
strange actions, and that they had no
hand in the hold-up. Others expressed
| the opinion that the whole thing was a
practical joke gotten up to fool the Off
GERS, while others firmly believed the
| two strangers to be the men who held up
the train, and that they have buried the
! $40, 200 somewhere in the tules.
The K-Street Vendetta.