The herald., 1894-10-18
TRAIN ROBBERS CAUGHT
The Quantico Bandits Run
Down.
One Arrested at Cumberland,
Maryland.
Two Others Captured at Martins
burg, W. Va.
Officers on the Trail of the Rest OF the
Gang-Part of tho Booty Recov.
cred = General News
Gleanings.
Bv the Associated Press.

CUMBERLAND. Md, Oct 17.-This
morning Officer Beck noticed man
near the B. and O.. depot trying
to board the express westbound, with
two satchels. The man answered the
description of one of the three implicated
in the robbery Of an express car at
Quantico. Va, last week. When the
officer attempted to arrest the man, he
started to run, but was caught. Upon
being searched. 1883 WAS found hidden
in two wooden stockings; 1928
in notes and $500 in silver coin.
He has silver watch, gold one, lot
of pawn tickets and pocket books. A
Colts navy revolver was found on his
person. There were A cartridges in his
pocket, and memorandum book shows
ing where the entire Doodle had been
divided between the men. In the
satchel were found muddy shoes,
slouched hat and wearing apparel that
looked like disguise. He asked to be
taken to the water closet, and while
there tried to hide another revolver and
some money, but was caught in the act.
The man weighed at least 100. is ak
feet tall, with smooth face, and dresses
neatly.
1t was discovered he arrived in this
city about IL O'Clock yesterday morning,
and lost several hundred dollars in q
gam bling house. The police are conf
dent they have one Of the robbers. He
was committed to Jail to await trial. He
is very sullen and refuses to talk, but
before being committed he told num-
OF conflicting stories.
The prisoner gives the name OF G. J.
Searcey. By the first train from Wash
ington today q party of Pinkerton de-
tectives arrived, including Capt. F. f.
Hinde. He was accompanied by Crutch-
field, the messenger in charge Of the
car at the time OF the hold-up. In the
prisoners possession was Sl057 in cash,
1897 was in greenbacks. When Hinde
saw the roll OF greenba he examined
them closely. He showed that every
one of the notes had small perforstions.
In every package OF money shipped by
the Adams Express company the notes
are stitched together, leaving them full
of holes, which a person could not fail
to discover on examination. Every note
had these small holes.
MF. Dliu6 Uiuholy c4hmluou motnO-
randum book which the prisoner had in
his pocket. In this book was row of
figures, in which s2500 had been divided
by two. The book contained diagram
which ia believed to show where most of
the stolen money has been hidden. Now
the greatest endeavor of the detectives
will be to unearth the hiding place OF
the treasure.
Tomorrow afternoon the express COM
pany will be obliged to show their case
against Searcey, because he has engaged
lawyer and writ OF hsbess corpus
was served today, with the hearing fixed
| for tomorrow.
Searcey is tall. of medium build, has
thin face that is rather attractive, and
small brown moustache. Ee would
pass for a prosperous business man.
/ When questioned he began to tell
stories of the most conflicting and ram
bling nature.
NEW York, Oct. 17.-Oi the seven
Quantico train robbers the Adams Ex-
press company believe three are now
under arrest. President L. @. Weir be-
lieves the Cumberland suspect was one
OF three men under surveillance who
passed through Front Roysl Monday
night. They bought new clothes and
were traced to Norfolk and Western
train. subsequently two were sppre-
hended at Cherry Run and sent to Jail
at Martinsburg; the third escaped.
| Weir ia positive, the total amount stolen
did not exceed $4,000.
| WAsHINaToN, Oct. II. = Conductor
Green, who arrived at Washington at
noon today. reported that the authori-
ties were on the track of four men in
addition to the three arrested for the
Quantico robbery. OF the four, two. he
says, were placed under arrest at Mar.
tinsburg this morning, where they had
boarded freight train. At Shenandoah
Junction, between Martins burg and Hars
per's Ferry, railroad men told Conductor
| Green that two men had purchased
tickets this morning, whom the agent
thought to be suspicious characters.
The conductor says the railroad haa
been infested with toughs, who have
been at the Maryland county fairs and
are now seeking other fields. This
statement is important, as indicating
the men in Jail may have other reasons
than participating in train robbery for
Wishing to avoid the officials.