The morning call., 1894-12-11
TWO SUSPECTS ARRESTED.
Trailed to Monterey County by a
Former Fellow Workman.
NOW SAFE IN oAKLAND's JAIL
George Ray and William CorIiss, the
Mems Names-Some Com.
promising Letters.


JudsoD train robbery has at last been
cleared away. Three railroad detectives
and a constable arrived in King City.
Monterey County. yesterday morning and
arrested two men known as George Ray
and William Corliss.
Last night the three detectives, the coA-
sta bles and the two prisoners arrived at
the County Jail, Oakland. where Ray and
Corliss were charged with the crime of
train robbery. in that they did 10 broad
daylight, on the 12:h day of June. 1892. on
the Berkeley train, rob Secretary ellison
of the Judson Iron Works of $4,000 in
gold and silver coin. Tie prisoners were
locked up and their captors faded out into
the night and were gone.
The officers who made the arrest are
Deputy Sheriff w. e Wallace, Watchmen
Ed Lawrence and c. L. French and Con-
stable Page. They were very reticent,
however, and would give no more than a
bare outline of the circumstances leading
up to the arrests.
To understand the outline, however, a
knowledge OF the facts of the robbery is
necessary. The JudsOn robbery was The
most daring piece of work recorded in the
criminal annals of Alameda County.
1t was on Saturday morning, and Secre-
tary Gibson and an assistant named Peter
son took the IL o'clock boat from San
Francisco with $4,000. designed for the
payment of the employees OF the iron
works. AtB-Street station, just one stop
west of EmeFyville, where the works are
located, masked man suddenly stepped
mp to ellison. He was Joined by another
man and both of them, in full view Of all
the passengers in the car, leveled pistols
at ellison and Peterson and demanded the
money. ellison yielded up the precious
bags, the robbers jumped from the train,
got into team, which had been loosely
! hitched to pole near the station. and away
they went uD B street. followed by
leaden trail of bullets sent after them by
some of the armed passengers. An hour
later the buggy was found at the corner of
Tenth and FIlbert streets. lt contained
the masks and improvised armor worn by
the robbers. Some of the articles were
stained with blood. aud it was thought
that one of them was wounded.
All the avenues of escape were guarded,
but Notwithstanding the men got away
without leaving the slightest trail or clew
to their identity. None OF those who had
witnessed the darinE robbery could give Il
G"od description of the robbers. ALI that
wa known was that one Of them had
biackened his face with burnt cork or
lampbIack and was short man. The
other man was taller and wore amustache.
| Beyond that little was known by those
who cared to tell all they knew. But few
! robberies have been planned with greater
| care, and few have been more successful.
! George Raw, the taller of the two men
arrested at Kings City, is "a years of age
| and about feet 1917 inches in height. He
was once an empluye of the JudsOn Iron
| Works, and what first directed suspicion
| toward him was that he disappeared on
| the very day OF the robbery. BE was
| traced into Mexico by one OF Morse's de-
| tectives. but for some reason the officer
! abandoned The trail and returned without
| his man.
At the time of the robbery G. L. French,
| one or The men who arrested Ray aud Cor
| liss, who is also known as Rainsford, was
also an employe in the Judson Iron
| Works. He suspected Ray from the first,
and for two years he has been working on
| the case, lured On by the reward of $500
| offered by the Juds0n people for the IT,
covery of the booty and the $500 reward
| for the arrest and conviction Of the rob-
| bers. During the strike be was employed
by the railroad company 10 protect their
property from the strikers, and ever since
| then he has been systematically working
| up his case against The men arrested. How
he learned OF The wherea bouts OF the men
! French would not say. Neither would he
sta what reasons he had for suspecting
| the men or whether he had sufficient evil
| dence TO hold either of them.
| 'All That l can say" said be, sis that
have been working on this case for the
past two years. and l know exactly what
/
| son works at the time of the robbery, and
until the robbery so was Ray.
when we arrested them neither one
| offered the slightest resistance. We found
Corliss or Rainsford tending bar in Star
| keys saloon in King City. Ray has sQuatted
on piece of land about ten miles from
! Starkey's, and there we found him.
Il have no hope of recovering any of
the money realized from the robbery, but
| l do think that we have the right men and
/ hat mill Of 10 c-6
their capture. can say no more, because
| do not want to take the chance of giving
them the benefit of any of nay evidence"
| A number Of letters were found in the
mems pockets, aud it is said some Of them
| are most compromising.
1t was learned from good authority that
the two suspects have been closely watched
| for months They have been very much
| together, and one or the other would dis
| appear periodically for several weeks at
| time These disappearance will probably
| be very important features in the trial.
The same authority says that the Off
| GERS are positive that Ray is ono of the
robbers, but are not quite so certain about
| Corliss, who. though short and square and
in this particular like the description of
the short robber. is much emaciated from
| the effs cts of cigarette smoking.
Both men, however. are very cunning,
| They would hardly answer the questions
put TO them by the officers and refused
| point blank 10 say anything TO the public
| through the newspapers. They do not
even affect innocence, but deport them
selves just as though their situation was
not tn them strange one. Still there are
many who doubt that the fellows arrested
last night are the robbers.
| A pet theory of many of the local officers
is that Touniil, Matheny's former COM
| paDion, was impiica ted in the affair. II Is
related that when Mr.. Nor, the stable
man who owned the team that the Judson
robbers made such good use Of viewed the
remains of TOuhill on slab in the MOrgue,
! he remarked: "Well, | do not say that
| that was tho man who hired the team, but
1 will say that if it is not the same it was
his twin brother. and never did twins look
more alike"
GENERAL Nelson A. Miles is a consistent