The herald., 1895-07-03


Pullman car giving $400. another in Q
smoker 500. A bridal couple in day
coach, from Gold Hill on the way to Port
land to spend their honeymoon, were the
: tirst passengers held up. All their money
was taken. Both sat with their hands ur
Y for an hour after the robbers left the car.
Miss johnson. a teacher from lamafh
county, returning homo to RoseburS,
offered the robbers a small purse contain
ing $2 1t was not taken. The totai
booty including the registered matter is
variously estimated at from $4,000 to s4ooo.
r. E. Smith, special agent at Phoenix
! of the Hartford Insurance company OF
San Francisco. with two friends. was IN
the Pullman smoking loom when they
heard the first bomb. They looked out
of the window and were told by robber
with many oaths to.pull their heads IN
side. whereupon they piled over each other
s in the middle of the room to get away
!. from the shots. They told the Pullman
4 conductor the train vas held up. coon
afterwards they ran to their berths ana
rolled in. After long suspense the rob-
bers with the engineer, fireman, express,
man. porter and tramp, came along ana
5 told them to dig up, but did not search
\ anyone in Smiths presence and as all
had plenty of time to get calm and hide
the gold, only a few gave most or all
- their Treasure. Smith threw his money
under his berth except a few dollars IN
all he had. The robber asked the porter
at every berth: Lady or gent?
Lower berths only were inspected. Ladies
, were not disturbed. A Berkeley student,
, sound asleep in the Pullman. knew moth
ing of the hold-up until punched IN the
ribs with pistol and told TO dig up,
as: the robber did not want to spoil the
bed linen. He gave up everything, in
cluding gold watch. Smith estimated
the booty at about $1,000. He says the
robber was tall, wore u white mask.
: hanging well down on his breast. with
: large opening at the mouth exposing part
of the chin. He was recently shaved,
had blue uveralls and looked like la
borer He laughed and talked with pas
sengers while taxing their money and
valuabIes.
Silly Riddle, who lives near Riddles.
. lust arrived in town. states that three
men who have been working for some
time at Nichols station, thirteen miles
south of Riddles, and a short distance
south of the point where the robbery oc-
Cured, disappeared yesterday. One OF
the men usually wore white hat with
buckskin band which corresponds with
the white hat worn by the robber who
went through the coaches. The same hat
was today found near the scene OF the
hold.up. The indications are that these
: men are the robbers. They are thought
to be hidden in cave near the scene OF
T10 robbery.
SAN FRANCISCO. July 2.-General
Manager Towne has sent out the following
to division supeirntendents;
Inform United States marshals. sher-
iffs, constables. police and other officers
that at :l5 on the evening OF July l,
1896 the California express train 10, north
bound, was stopped by robbers about
eight miles south of Riddle. at the mouth
of Cow Creek canyon, Douglass county,
Ore,
The mail car was robbed of number
of packages of registered matter, and
number of passengers robbed OF amounts
varying from So to 500. One gold-hlled
bought from Bosky Bros, jewellers, Red
ding, CAL. was taken from Rev. d. L..
Mcguire and $50 in coin, from Sheriff A.
A. Fitcn of Klamath county. Ore, 3o-
caliber Colts revolver. blue steel barrel
back handle, and 500 in gold. 1t is sup
posed that there were three men implicat-
ed, out only two men entered the, cars,
and are described as follows: From five
feet eleven to six feet in height, native
horn American, pleasant voice with
clear ring to 1t, light complexion, light
mustache. hair cut close. light gray or
blue eyes, rather round shouldered, hands
hard like laborer. weight about 10
pounds, high cheek bones. upper jaw
projects over lower one, ridge of nose
swollen as though poisoned with poison
oak. blue overalls and jumper, light
checkered vest or checkered cotton shirt,
heavy stogy shoes, about No. s. The
Southern Pacific company will pay a re-
ward of $4,000 for the arrest and convic-
tion of each of the robbers.
PORTLAND July 2.-R. NJ. Donahue.
messenger for Wells. Fargo 81 Co., told
the following story of the robbery:
GAS soon as heard the explosion and
felt the train slow up, | knew that a rob
bod 1aaH f,f ba
gang took the engineer and fireman, and
coming to the express car, ordered me to
open the door. l refused, and took the
money packages in the local express box
and hid them under box OF goods. The
robbers finally threatened to blow me to
pieces, when the fireman asked me to
open the door. l did so. and the fellow
jumped in and tod me to throw up my
hands, at the same time pointing pis-
tol at me.
''Then he told the engineer and fire.
man to come inside, which they did.
"He carried his gun in his hand, and
kept. on me continually, When he got
in he stepped toward the back end vf the
car. and l stood between the big safe
and the local box. The engineer and fire.
man had come in the front door, and
they stood together toward the front emu
of the car. In this way the man had the
three of US covered with his gun. | was
fireman.
she told me to open the local express
box. at the same time saying that ii l
did not he would blow my head off. I
hesitated for some moments, and then
opened it. When the fellow saw that
there was nothing inside he was disgust
ed. He then told me to work the combi-
nation of the big safe. which contained
the through express money. [ said that
could not do it, as l did not know the
combination.
"Well, open it, or I'll put hole through
you,' he said.
going to-that | would not open it if l
could"
'Hurry!np now and open it; Ill give
sou five munutes, he yelled again.
Then | explained to him that l could
not open it and showed HIM why. When
he became satisfied, after remaining in
the car about ten minutes he ordered me
to take the lantern. and the engineer and
fireman and tramp who was riding on
the train. and proceed to the mail car,
which was next to the express car"
Postal Agent Herman said the first in
timation that he had Of the robbers was
D loud explosion.
81 knew what was coming" he said,
Sand | stepped down from my bunk.
had five registered packages and hid two
of them. | knew that l could not hide
all, for the robber would make me dig up
] then hid other mail matter and some
registered letters, scattering them all
around the car. After that | crawled
back into my bunk. Very soon the rob
her knocked at the door, and ] got up
and opened it. He said he wanted me
to produce the registered pouches. | told