The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1894-03-14
TWO MEN HOLD UP THE WOOD.
WARD AGENT.
TEN THOUSAND DOLLARS STOLEN.
Army Paymaster's Money -Shcrin Love Ia
Hot Pursuit Marshal Nix sends out
Reinf force ments-Detail of Cav
airy Out-Amns Chapman
and Ills Famous Indian
Scouts ON the Trail.
Spccial 90 the Leadcr.

] Specldl 10 llt Leader.
| Woodward O. r., March l3, pm
Two men entered the Southern Kan
sas railroad hotel here about o'clock
this morning and went upstairs, enter
ing the room OF George w. Bourke,
agent. lie was walked covered with
six-shootcrs and told TO get up and
dress at once. One OF the men lit n
lamp The agent obeyed and was
marched in front of the men down
stairs and over to the baggage room Of
the depot, and ordered to break open
the small route safe As the trio APP
preached the office they encountered
Sam Peters, a harmless young boy
lounging near the station; he was or
dered to fall in and throw up his
hands
The railroad safe was then opened
and robbed of all the currency and
checks it contained The robbers put
the money in a sack brought for the
purpose Rourke was made to carry
the sack and the robbers and Peters
carried the route safe about a quarter
of a mile east of depot where the rob
bers broke open the small safe, which
was found empty and left on the
ground The four men then went over
to the stock yards, a half mile from
the depot, where horses were hitched
and in readiness. After the robbers
mounted. Rourke was commanded by
the leader TO hang up the money sack
to the pommel of his saddle. The
other robber then handed the boy
81. so in silver for his service. The
agent and boy were left there while
the robbers rode off in a Southeasterly
direction.
At break of day Sheriff Love, Depu-
ties Tobe Odell, Eugene Hall and sew
eral others started in pursuit Colonel
Parker, commanding Fl Supply, if
teen miles out, was notified and he at
once detailed Lieutenant Kirby Walker
with twenty cavalrymen for the :hase.
Amos Chapman, the noted scout Of the
Canadian, was notified and he organ
lied company of Indian scouts to cut
of the flight of the robbers, who, it is
thought, are heading for the bad
lands.
The robbers were after the soldiers
money shipped TO the army paymas-
ter. No authentic information can be
obtained as to the amount stolen.
Superintendent Roads of the railroad
will make any statement 1t is
thought to have been a good haul,
somewhere in the neigh borbood of
IS. 600 or SlU 600, since the wires have
been hot all day with inquiries from
the war aud treasury departments.
The bandits made no attempt at
concealment and a good description
was telegraphed to Marshal Nix. One
was five feet, ten inches tall, thirty
! years old, slim, dark, weight 10
pounds, moustache, closely built, dark
brown shirt, dark slouch hat. rather
heavy voice, The other is five feet,
seven inches tall, twenty five years old,
about two weeks growth Of beard,
slouch hat with high crown and crease
in top, weight $50 pounds, pants in
boots, check handkerchief about his
neck, dark suit, sack coat, dark com
pleXion. This man was the leader.
Neither was masked. They were on
red bay horses and rode off from the
stock yards in a southeasterly direc-
tion. DUNCAN.