The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1894-11-23
sryTENCE Is SWIFT.
~;,,;.ms and Cash Ordered to
the Penitentiary.
9 - AGAINST ANOTHER THIEF.
TELLS How wallace Tried 70
r.pisssss Bssbs-A salt Tor
false Imprtsonmsnt

,eue;cs. sharp and swift. was rnetsd out
800 Hunes' court yestsrdsy, where
..sssr Williams and Robert Cash. ar
~ Oar high way robbery last Saturday
~ niesdsd guilty and were at once
,.s.eed 70 eight years each in the peni-
-. The two prisoners have quar-
- Or Cash has tried to Implicats G. B.
~. While Williams and Alexander
<.i,e<. smother prisoner. say he 10 limo
=. tvo men we're arrested late Saturday
.s,as for holding up Joseph Little and
- through him TO the extent of so
~ watch and chain.
p,,~cu.ing Attorney Miller and Chief
= ps.ics Rogers. in answer to questions
- H. bench, stated that the men had
-, seen arrested before Judge Humss.
9 ,essiue sentence, said there were no ex-
..uxtipe circumstances connected with
:. crime. which vas deliberately planned.
IRIS offense WAS becoming altogether
..r:fui and. instead OF twenty year,. the
inf of The Law for that offense, be would
.usiones them each to eight years
i, Sheriff WooIery 10 expected home
div nth Matt Ries, the removal of Cash
"a Williams TO the penitsntiary will bs
11fr1sd until Riss joins the party.
fbes are many things in connection
sfl de robbery of Little that are known
5 ssly few. and among them Is the fact
III Alexander Wallace. who was also ar
n,ssd on the same charge as Williams and
ca, hes placed his written confession In
Casf Rogers hands. The peculiar fact
obeus the affair is that Wallace is making
3 ieoscus effort TO lake G. b. Besbs, the
ssl-known gambler. with him TO the pen
tsutisry. Wallace. while admitting that
y took . hand In the robbery, says
iass Beebs handled the gun. After
hensine this Chief Rogers sent out
~ Bssbe and had him locked up.
Bsebs Was almost dazed at being arrested,
ed told the chief that he was in Tom
6sncy's saloon. at the corner of Washing
sea aud Third streets, when the robbery
~ committed. Then came the most
srciiing scene of the day. Williams was
tsIIsd up and asked about Bscbe's part in
~ sss He said Wallace was telling Q
~ falsehood and Waiiacs said he was
not Then Cash came In and said Bsebe
~ soothing to do with the affair. Chief
Rogers had hard time keeping his face
straight, bat the excited argument gave
Nm decided insight into the matter.
Williams was seen by . PosT-IHrELLI-
sFscER reporter during the afternoon. and
nksd for story Of the hold-up He said:
II am willing to tell all that happened
teause this man Wallace is trying TO i'm
yacats an innocent man and because Cash
nads such mean charge against another
hbocsns man named Cameron. This 10
hsE the affair came up and was worked:
Ne we're all drinking IN Tom Ciancy's
i1st Little had $40 and We had better take
~ cut and get IL. agreed to the propo-
dsicn. and then we asked Wallace, or
Tinu." il he wanted to come in. He
agfeed, and then We proceeded TO lay our
planA | had on Beebs's macintosh coat,
ytich bad borrowed early in the even
iaa 1t was decided that 'Wingy' and /
paaid go mp on Fourth street aud wait for
CHa to steer Little around TO us. / got q
ran. but onestly didn't know how 20
handie the thing because IL had no ham,
ner, said TO 'Wingy' that he had better
nAks the gun play and would go through
could stand aside and keep his stub arm
cui Of sight. Well, when We got up to
fourth street We changed coats and hats.
Then We put handkerchiefs over our faces
snd waited for Cash to come along with
The victim. Pretty soon he showed up.
ssd Wallace yelled out: Throw up your
hsndsr
81 amt got cent said Cash.
ait don't make any difference said
Wallace, throw up your hands and keep
them up OF course the victim had his
hands up higher than house and, TO keep
up Appearances. Cash put his up. l went
through Cssh's pockets, but he did not
have cent. Then | went after Littls's
she pile was y 30 and gold-tilled case
watch.
Go back to the saloon where you came
from aud do IL - quick, said Wal
lace. Little walked away TO the corner of
Washington and Fourth with his hands
over his head. Then Wallace and /
separated and Ia about half hour worked
back 10 Clancy's saloon. Then l learned
nat Cash had rushed into the Mirror
ssoon and, pointing TO a man named
cameron. who stood at the bar, declared
nat he was the man who robbed him.
Everybody In the saloon knew that Cash
va lying. and he got little sympathy.
After this he came to me and asked me
had given Bcebe any money. 1 told
sin that | had loaned him 81 TO get some
ssahing. Then he wanted his share aud
inve him 81 'Wingy' GOT $50. and
pli up$25 80 TO bind q match with q fellow
nAmed Richards
new did you happen TO so into this
Eairg' Williams was asked
hsll, l don't hardly know. 1 was
s,nnf and, when Cash proposed the Job,
ihii IN with 10. IL was the first time
u9 did such job aud. if get through
IN sah this sentence. IL ends me. / did not
Mak would get more than Ave years,
sas don't think the Judge would have
- - 70 severe If Cash had not commenced
aAns about his thinking IL was n
n9ohng proposition. Cash. Wallace
~ we're in il. and don't like TO see
asses put in Jail when be had nothing 10
with the hoid-ap"
Recover . Dead Mans overdrsft.
me iriai Of the case of William Corbett
". A. Harrington, +. Hanford and A.
Naeculsky, ss administrators OF the
sa'e OF Andrew Smith. TO recover an
t'afsii on the London, Paris aud
sas'iean bank OF San Francisco. for
ssh was commenced in Judge os-
ia court yesterday afternoon. The
sss'u'sis was made by Andrew Smith and
s'se'ssd by Harrington & Smith. The
e'snse asiege that the oyerdrait was made
snita a. an individual transaction, in
1ssn 40 eeneht Injured 10 the firm. The
VII be on trial again today.
fairneld's Gaze Continued.