The record-union., 1894-10-13
NO CLEW TO THE TRAIN ROBBERS.
They Got Away With Fifty Thousand
Dollars.
A Host of Detectives at Work-Sus-
picious Characters Seen Down
the River.

The great $4,000 train robbery that oc-
CURED within six miles of this city on
Thursday night was the all-absorbing
topic of conversation yesterday.
There is little to add to the very COM
plete narrative Of the robbery told in
these columns yesterday. A score of de-
tectives, under the guidance of ]. B.
Hume, the veteran detective of Wells,
Fargo 81 Co., have been at work on the
case all day, but thus far no clew has
been obtained to the perpetrators of the
deed.
The general belief is that the men who
did the job are old railroad hands, for
Engineer Scott says they handled the
engine as well as any one could have
done.
1t is also generally understood that
when the highwaymen made off on the
engine with their three bags of plunder
they ran the locomotive close into the
town OF Washington before they left it
aud reversed the machinery.
There are various rumors afloat of sus-
plclous characters having been seen. For
instance, the foreman of DIR. q. NJ.
Dixon's ranch, which is situated about
four miles down the river, on the Y olo
side, came to this city yesterday after
noon with load of hay.
lie said that when passing through the
town of Washington he heard or the train
robbery, and was quite sure that he saw
the two men on the ranch shortly after
daybreak yesterday morning.
AT that time he was going to an alfalfa
field on the ranch to see about some
horses that had broken into the field, and
while on the lookout for the horses he OBJ
served TWO men making their way across
hn riy
They acted suspiciously, but not being
aware at the time of the train robbery he
made no effort to intercept them, or ask
them what they were doing on the ranch.
After having been informed of the rob-
berry he became doubly assured that the
men he saw were the robbers.
he described one of them as being
much taller than the other and one was
armed with a Winchester rifle. Each had
valise, which appeared to be rather
heavy.
DIR. Dixon's employe is a trustworthy
man, and there is no reason to doubt his
story.
In this connection it may be mentioned
that river boatman is said to have been
spending money quite freely along the
Eront-street line of saloons yesterday,
and some persons believed he had re-
celVed good fee tor little boating
service.
There was one incident in connection
with the robbery that was overIooke ed in
the haste OF writing up the report on
Thursday night-the robbery of the track
walker.
The highwaymen first relieved him of
some 50 and then compelled him to use
the torpedoes and red light for ''fagging''
the train. They also broke his track
Velocipede and threw the wheels into the
tules.
Last night it was learned that on Thurs
DAY afternoon a couple of strange men
answering the description of the robbers
engaged a room at the Western Hotel
They left their Overcoats and overalls in
the room, but did not return in the even
Ing and another lodger was assigned to
that room. Early yesterday morning
the two men entered the room, and on
nndlng 1t occupied they made kick"
but contented themselves with taking
their orercoats and overalls and depart
ing. They have not since been seen.
The detectives have been kept busy fol-
lowing up and investigating all these fly
ing rumorS, but none Of them have de-
veloped into anything tangible.
Detective Hume has taken steps to have
all the roads north, south and west on the
olo side watched, and will be promptly
notified OF the appearance of suspicious
characters thereon.
The Southern Pacific Company has
issued a circular Offering a reward of SlO,-
600 for the arrest Of the two robbers and
the recovery of the plumber. In this
circular it is stated that the bandits
plundered the express car of over S5O, 900
In gold. The circular announces that the
Southern Pacific Company and the Wells
Fargo Company will pay $1,000 for the
capture of each rObber, and So 900 for the
recovery OF the money, or proportionate
amount for any part of the whole.