The Wadsworth dispatch. [volume] (Wadsworth, Nev.) 1892-1899, 1894-01-10
UNCLE SAN sO0oPBD.

A Bold Fad B1andi.-ohallie Wiley
Hands Up''-Laaael b. Deputy U.
s. Marshal Golding-A Joker Jokod
To Jail.
Last Sunday evening AZ G. NJ. Wiley
and John Wilson were engaged in a
social chat at the Eagle Salt Works their
conversation was interrupted by the
rather sudden appearance Of u masked
man and u six-shooter that looked like a
cannon. Mr.. Wilson was ordered to
turn his face 10 the wall and Mr.. Wiley
WAS politely requested TO hand over all
the money he had. He did SO and was
told to hand out the money in the safe
Mr.. Wiley tried 10 expostulate to the
effect that the coin in the sale was
Uncle Sans post office lucre and told
the robber he was doing a very dangerous
thing III trihing with U. S. The bandit
said he was after Uncle Sans money,
in TACT he preferred it as it was pretty
certain to be very good money. OF course
Mr.. Wiley, thus persuaded, yielded to
the Establishments of the six shooter and
enptied the sale OF its contents, some
tifty-six dollars, at the same time in
forming the r1bber that he recognized
him as Dennis Murphy. Dennis was
not satisfied with the amount OF the haul
and told Mr.. Wiley to bring forth the
! irnp hoy in tho cata Dappio u.ac oaftcE.
ed on that score when he saw the box
was empty but told Mr.. Wiley he would
bother him to detach the gold repeater
which adorned the vest pocket Of the
Salt Works man, SO Charlie handed
over the repeater mentally wish ny it
was a Winchester instead OF a Naltham.
Dennis then told Mr.. Wilson he would
be obliged to him for what spare cash
he had at ready command and. Mr.. Viii
son turned over SIX big dollars. Then
Dennis went through the door into the
Silly night and was not to BIZ seen when
" illey looked out soon after with a six
teen shooter. The robbers cap which
had a cape attached which fell over the
head and face leaving only a place for
the eyes, and his boots and pants were
wrapped with grain sacks, but dispite
disguise Mr.. Wiley recognized the rob-
Der by his voice as one Dennis Murphy
a former employee of the Salt Works
} and a man well known III Churchill
county. The more Wiley thought Of
: the matter the warmer his feelings got
! at the outrage and he and Wilson went
to Hot Springs and notified the officers
along the line Of the railroad.
A few hours after Murphy made u
second appearance at the Salt Works
and handed Mr.. Wiley the stolen
money and the watch and said it was
all "a joke. The next morning bright
and early Deputy U. s. Marshall Gold
: ing took Murphy into custody. Gold
: ing hunted on the desert until be
found the mask and grain sacks
which Murphy bad discarded Muir
ply told Wiley the s~ix-shooter was
empty when he stood the men up but
Gulding hanted Tor aud found the
cartridges which Murphy had ex.
tracted and thrown into the vault oi
an clubhouse. Deputy Marshall Gold.
ing took his prisoner 10 Reno and
locked him up in the county jail
pending preliminary examination by
!, the U. >. Commissioners on the charge
of robbing the United States mail. A.
Murphy bore Wilson a grudge for pass
differences and Murphy bias been
pursing his wrath in San Francisc,
for u year Mr.. Wiley theories thai
Murphy thought Wiley would not be
at the Salt Works that night but
would spend the day with his family
at Wadsworth and Wilson would bt
at the Salt Works alone. Murphy
would put Wilson out Of the way and
rob the safe. He accounts Tor Muir
ply coming back by the fact that one
Of Murphy's feet was badly frozen and
the haul was moi worth the risk OF
him trying - get away on the desert
while unable to travel very fast. Muir
ply it appears reached the Salt Works
Friday night and bid in the barn two
nights and days before he made his
dramatic appearance. He bad IA sack
of food with him and burroxed in
the hay. IN explaining the joke to
Deputy Marshall Gplding Murphy
said If it was not a joke he could have
killed Wiley and Wilson and n"budy
would have been any the wiser, for
getting that he had told Wiley, VII.
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