The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1894-02-13
TWO MORE HOLDUPS.
A Railroad Conductor Puts
Highwaymen to Flight.
BAD MEN FROM WELLINGTON.
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Two highwsymen attempted to bold up
. ~ Sassnsuzh, . condnetor vho has
Deen IN the employ of the Great Northern
rss.road, yesterday morning as { O'Clock.
ouf the doughty conductor showed Eight,
Knocked cneof the wosrid-be robbers down
and put the other 70 fight Cavenangh
ssrs THAI he kncws chs two rnen and will
make naince meat Of them IL he erer meets
either again. He reported the matter 90
the police.
According to caveuaush's story he met
the highwaysaen in front Of Cordrsy's
fneasef. on Madison street. He was walk
Ing along. when one Of them stepped be-
hind him and the other stopped him,
pointed revolver a. him and demanded:
Throw up your handsfn
thought the fellow uas ioshing. said
Caysnaugh. when talking about the Incl
dent iaser. land 80 / TOLD him to go-ueII.
never mind where. Just then recognized
them ~ being dead tough mugs from
Wellington and skykomish. on the Great
Northern. II m ads me % mad that l
jumped forward and smashed tho fellow
who had the gun. Ny FIST hit on his neck,
on the butt Of the ear, and. OF course. ne
went head over heels In the gutter. Just
then heard the fellow behind me grunt
and l knew something was going to hap
pen- lodged Just in time to avoid being
smashed in the head with sand bag. The
sand bag just missed my head and struck
my neck and shoulder. then turned on
the fellow, but he shouted 20 the other
man. who Was picking himself up:
Run, kid. rum
"And you bet they both ran. I went
down 20 police headquarters and told Capt.
Hanna about il and wanted him TO give
me gun 20 go ont aud kill them with,
but he wouldn't give it to me. II he had
given it to me I'd have hunted EN-, up and
shot 'em down like dogs: that's what l
would.''
Cavenaugh has for some time past been
passenger conductor on the Great North
ern, running to Spokane and return, but
be resigned . few days ago and was paid
or He had $i25 ia his pockets when as
sauIted, and says that the robbers knew
that he had the dough-" when was
trainmaster at Wellington. said the con-
dnctor, II knew those fellows. They be-
longed TO gang who we're in the habit Of
hanging around the office when the boys
were paid OF seeing how much they got
Then the gang would scatter and hold the
boys up before they got home. Why, one
fellow held q railroad man mp ct Lsvan-
worth 200 feet from the paymaster's
Office and took ali the money he had from
him. That happened in daylight, too.
They're dead tough. you bet. One Of
these fellows who tackled me came from
Wellington. He held mp one OF the boys
there and robbed him. heard about il
and hunted him up, cracked his cocoanut
and made him 60 TO the man he robbed
and give back the money. These two
fellows knew had money: they had It
In for me, anyway. But hey wouldn't
shoot They weren't men enough"
Cayenaugh could not give the names of
his aasailants, but says tina. he knows
them and would know them again should
he see them. The conductor il . big six
foot. raw-boned, muscular man and would
no doubt give any person a mighty hard
light
Through tho arrest of J. W. Tollman,
alias John Smith, for petty larceny, n
highway robbery was brought to light
yesterday aud the stolen property recov-
cred. When Smith was brought 10 Sunday
Clerk Fiemming's curiosity was aroused
by the fact that he had q gold watch in his
trousers pocket, and that while being
searched he tried to shift 1t
TO his coat pocket. Elemming
looked over Smiths personal property
and found besides the watch knife with
the name "F. w. Tapert' on the handle.
Such man worked in the Fulton market
and when Fiemming asked him about the
matter he learned that as Tapert was on
the stairs leading to the second story In the
Hinckiey block Saturday night be heard
shuttle of feet aud the next thing he was
laid out by blow on the head. When he
recovered his gold watch, knife and IS in
change were gone. He identified the watch
and knife and in consequences John Smith
was brought back from the municipal
court and charged with robbery. Smiths
re al name Is j. W. ToIlman.