The morning call., 1894-08-07
MAD FROM LOVE.
s.. !:
Strange Stories About a
!. Highwayman.
DESERTED BY HIS BRIDE:
An Ex-Army Officer, Then a
Newsgatherer.
:: HTS STRUGGLES ON A STEAMER.
While Being Brought Down From
Eureka lie Fought Desperately
and Was Chained Down.
ITS STRUGGLES ON A STEAMER.

Help. help! am dying; God knows I
am guilty of no crime. Oh, let me up.
Let me upP'
; The lower deck OF the steamer Hum
boldt rang with agoniziDg cries and the
rattle of chains artled the passengers
above. Securely shsckled IN a forward
cabin in the vessel that arrived here
Sunday from Humboldt was Henry H.
Deymore, prisoner of the United States
authorities for having robbed the mails on
the 22d of last June near the little noun
tain town of Hoopa. Humboldt County,
The story of Henry DeymOTe is one OF
peculiar interest, filed with strange cnap-
tiers of love, bEaYadO, Temorse, crime and
attempted self-desruction.
Henry Deymore, now charged with rob-
berry, is perhaps insane. That is what the
defense proposes to prove, and there ap-
pears TO be good grounds for assuming
that the lone robber who held up the pony
mail-carrier at the point OF Winchester
rifle, buried his stolen gold and afterward
appeared at Arcata, en- route to China
:;Flai, is as mad man as ever was sum-
: mo ped to answer in court or Justice.
J The story of the a0Opa mail robbery is
practically unknown to San Franciscans,
*1herefore it is well to tell it briefly before
#gOiHg into the details of DeymoTe's life
: any more than to say that he is an ex-army
officer and was later a newspaper man.
I'm the capacity of a reporter he gave evil
:deuce of being a man of more than
ordinary intelligence, but in the face of
his manifested ability to write we'll he has
.develoDed a weakness OF character
strangely unnatural in one capable of con-
:Yeying his thoughts to paper In clear and
Interesting style.
= On the evening of the 22d Of June the
=: United States Marshal at San francisco
was informed Of the robbery of the HOopa-
-Areata mails. Over $500 in registered
=: packages was taken and all OF the latter
mail destroyed, some numerous small reg
lsJeTed envelopes containing sums ranging
from 81 to S., aggregaIlng about $50 in all.
:: These were found near the Tit1ed pouch
"piIFd up beneath stone that served as
weight to prevent them being blown away.
. On; the top of the pile was an envelope
marked in a bold handwriting, II never
steal from the poor"
The mail carrier described the robber as
a man of medium height. He was
dressed in ragged clothes" said he, land
wore mask over his face that was made
= from the bark of madrOne tree.
-.''He carried a Winchester rifle, which
he aimed at me and ordered the mail sack
handed to him."
After Deymore secured the sack he re-
turned to a bill near by. cut it open and
secured the registered packages of value,
which he then secreted.
:. From the scene of the robbery he Travelled
ito Arcata. entered the hotel where he had
':beep stopping. changed his shoes and
started for China Flat.
:. L. was near the latter place that he was
arrested, taken back 10 Arcata, where he
was held pending the arrival of Deputy
Marshal S. P. Monckton of San Francisco,
WHO brought him to this city.
:: Harry Deymore's insanity is alleged to
= be hereditary. His father, who resides at
.7G9: Sierra street, in the Mission, claims
:: that his son was in a private asylum at
Stockton in 1885. Mr.. Deymore Sr. is an
old.gentleman ana not financially able to
.Terder any assistance to his son.
:: But the Eureka and Arcata friends of
: 1.-The. mail-robber, of whom there seems to
= be q great number. claim that a mistake
:..lh marriage created all the young mans
:: trouble. upset his mind and finally brought
:>hiu to disgrace.
r. The true secret of the highwayman's