The herald., 1894-10-15
DETECTIVES ALL AT SEA.
No Clue to the Sacramento
Train Robbers.
Two Suspicious Men Seen in
Woodland.
Officers in Pursuit Unable to Run
Them Down.
No Truth In the Alleged Arrest of Coi-
onol Inmnn-Train Wrecking Evil
dentIy Contemplated by
tho Bandits.

SACRAMENTO, Oct. 14.-The detectives
are apparently as much at sea as other
people concerning the identity OF the
men who robbed the overland express
train between Davisvills and this city on
Thursday night last.
Ii they do know more about the affair
than other people they are very wisely
keeping such information to themselves
and awaiting developments.
However, no arrests have been made
in this vicinity as yet, which is pretty
good indication that the officers have re.
ceived no satisfactory clue.
Nothing further has been heard OF the
two men seen south of Washington on
Friday morning carrying valises and
making toward the river. 1t is not un-
likely that they were hunters returning
from daylight visit to the tule ponds
west OF Washington. No one could have
gone down along the river without hav-
ing been seen, and il the men referred
to were the robbers they would not have
come up in this direction, rs they would
have to pass many farm houses.
Detective Kindelon. of San Francisco,
robbery and was soon afterward on the
scene. claims to have discovered evil
dences that the robbers had intended 10
wreck the train, but changed their
minds after encountering and capturing
the track walker. He found clawbar
near the scene of the robbery, and
thinks it was to have been used in loos-
ening q rail. On Saturday one OF the
otficers found shovel in the tules near
Washington, which may have been used
to bury the stolen money.
The report circulated on Saturday that
Inmsn, alias Carpenter, the whilom
colonel of the Industrial army, who wac
released from Jail here a week ago, had
OF -urIug ONO uI JnS ropUefH, wRs Win.
out foundation. He was in that town ut
the time the train was held up.
There was great excitement in Yolo
today growing out Of the suspicious ac.
tions OF two strangers who appeared in
Woodland and then left that town in
great haete. Mr.. Ellis of the Woodland
Mail telephoned to the Record Union
that just before q. m. two well-dressed
men, who were strangers, entered the
bsr-room OF the Byrnes hotel through
the side entrance. One was short and
the other very tall. They carried q
large black gripsack, which they placed
on the counter before them. Both were
freshly shaven. They at once called for
and had drinks. One of the men had a
cut, or some other similar injury, on one
OF mis- hands. and asked the barkeeper
if he could supply him with cloth to
bind it up. Tne latter replied that he
the bar to get the cloth. There is but a
nd "a hur III
only few feet away while in tho room.
While he was getting the cloth he heard
one of the men say to his companion:
"We had better get out OF here pretty
quick. or we'll get nailed"
When the barkesper returned he
brought a cloth and arnica, and the
wounded man hastily tied up his hand.
The two men then asked for a bottle of
whisky, paid for it and left.
The barkeeper, having his suspicion
aroused. went to the door and watched
them. He saw them 60 from the hotel
in southerly direction. When little
way off they turned and saw the bar
keeper watching them, whereupon they
broke into q run. The barkeeper had
in the meatime telcphoned 10 the off,
GERS.
Tho two strangers went over an open
space between the Baptist and the
Christian churches, and. crossing the
railroad track, got into single buggy
and drove rapidly away in the direction
OF Merritt's station. In the meantime
officers were after them.
Shortly afterward. Len Merritt, of
Merritt station, four or five miles dis
tsnt, while coming to Woodland met
two men in buggy. One was tail
the other nhort. They were driving fast
and as they turned off the grade nearly
tipped over in their haHte. Presently
Merritt met Deputy Sheriff Wyckoff,
brother OF the sheriff, driving after the
mon. He told tho deputy what he had
seen aud he pushed on as rapidly as
possible.
In the meantime Constable Rhodes
and Dietrict Attorney Head drove out in
a southwesterly direction and Marskal
Irwin went toward Cacheville, four
miles north. Sheriff Wyckoff. accom-.
panied By the bsrkeeper OF Byrne's
hotel. went another direction and were
next heard OF at Davisville, which local
ity they we're searching close.
Marshal Irwin returned in the after
noon to Woodland. He thinks the
men were guilty OF come crime other
than the train robbery, which accounts
for their strange actions. and that they
had no hand in ths hold,up. Others
expressed the opinion that the whole
thing was practical joke gotten up to
TOOL the officers, while others firmly be-
lieve the two strangers to be the men
who held up the train. and that they
have buried the $4,000 somewhere in
the tues.