The morning call., 1894-10-13

shots that whizzed past me told me I had
better be careful. l saw the robbers.
One was short and rather thin. and the
other very tall and apparently a very
heavy man.
The passengers included very many Sac
ramentans, the overland being popular
ira in fer local travel. "At first we didn't
know what was The cause Of the stop out
there in the tules." said one of the pas
sengers. SIT was not long before we found
out, though. Some Of the ladies in our car
were a little curious to learn the trouble,
and SO they put their heads out of the open
windows. They brought them in to the car
mighty quick, however, when they heard
gunshots whizZing down the train from
the engine to the last car. 1t was warn
ing from the robbers which the passengers
at once needed. But we were not at all
uneasy. and somehow didn't fear being
molested. as we were not"
Detective Hume of Wells, Fargo & Go.
Is here managing the search for the two
robbers. The officers naturally will not
talk about what they are doing or expect
10 d., but they are working theoretically
aDd believe they will be able TO run down
the highwaymen.
About daylight this morning two men
were seen three miles south of Washington
coming from the brush and crossing an
alfalfa field. The farmer who saw them
did not know of the robbery till this after
noon. He thinks they were the men.
Each carried a Winchester and each had a
vallse, which he seemed to carry with diff
feulty. One of the men was quite tall and
the other little shorter.
It is not unlikely that these were the
men who held up the train. and if so they
will be heard of again. If they go south
they must pass the ranches along the
river, and if they cross to this side they
will be in thicky settled farming neigh
borhood. 1t seems to be now accepted as
fact that the locomotive on which the
men left the scene of the robbery was run
very near the town OF Washington. No
arrests have been made of suspects, but
the two tramps who were on the train at
the time it was held up are detained as
witnesses.
John Hanley and James Cotton are the
names Of he tramps. Co.lon was beating
his way from Suisun to Sacramento. and
he tells the following story of the robbery:
''The first thing l knew about any
trouble was when the torpedo went eff.
said 10 Hanley, a tramp w no was riding on
the foI ward platform of the blind baggage,
where was riding: There goes torpedo :;
somethin G is wrong swung out on the
step and looked ahead. ana saw two figures
on the track, swinging lanterns. One had
q red. the other a white lantern. As the
train slowed down / climbed up in the
back end Of the tender and lay down,
while Hanley went inside the storm doors.
The next thing / saw were the two rob-
bers, who ran up on each side of the en-
CINE. They were dressed in close-hting
white suits, with high peaked white caps,
exactly like the pictures have seen of the
"W htecaps" in the East. They looked
like clowns in circus. They bad Win
chester rifles, but no pistols or cartridge
belts that could see.
The big one fred off his rife and said
to the engineer. Get down out of that,
and be 90 quick about it. The engineer
replied: 1 will. J will; don't kill me.
I'll mind you The engineer and fireman
accompanied the 70 bbers. who kept poking
them with their guns. The tall man said,
Get a move on you, you They
went back, uncoupled the four front cars
from the passenger-coaches and then
brought the engineer and fireman back to
the engine.
''The tall man stood on the platform of
the first car and said to the engineer,
Pull out now, - lively. and 90 till tell
you TO STOP One of the robbers kept his
gun aimed at the engineer and rested it
on my legs without seeing me. 1t was an
CID gun, so large bore that l thought at
first it was musket. After we had gone
about mile the big man told the engineer
to stop. The big man climbed on the ten
der and saw me for the first time. He
pointed his gun at me and said. Who in
- is this? I said, Don't Shoot mister;
I'm only tramp He told me to keep
quiet and I'd be all right.
Then the men compelled the engineer
and fireman to 90 back to the express-car
and call the messenger. The messenger
began to shoot at once, but was implored
not to by the engineer l saw the four
come back presently bearing sack each,
and heard the large man say that the
sacks weighed about seventy-five pounds,
though the two carried by the railroad
men were larger than the other TWO. They
put the sacks on the engine. told US to get
away from the machine and they pulled
out. AS they were bringing the sacks to
the engine the messenger fred two shots at
them and the engineer said: That - fool
will kill US yet.' TIE big robber laughed
and said: No he won't; he can't hit the
side of house, They were the two
coolest men l ever saw. The mouth OPEN
ing in the big fellows mask was very
large. and could see that he had dark
muStache."