The herald., 1895-03-10
MEASURED THE FOOTSTEPS
Railroad Detectives on the Trail oil
the Overland Bandits
George Gard and Other Southern Pacific
Sleuths In Hot Pursuit Of the
Hlghwaymen

Lodi, CAL, March 9.-There have been
many detectives in town today, but up to
the present time very little news relative
to the train robbery has been made ap-
parent.
At daybreak Sheriff Cunningham and
Deputies Wall, Black and others were on
the trail, and the first train from Sacra-
mento brought Detectives Gard, Hume,
Ahern and Snyder. Cunningham and
Wall found place two miles from Lodi
where a blackboard with 1-8 inch tires
and 4 feet 8 "a inches between the
wheels, had been tied for some time,
and traced the vehicle from the
rack to Cherokee Lane goin 6 towards
Stockton. Another posse, going north,
found a nest of four hobos who said that
early in the morning three men in buck
board coming from Lodi, had asked the
road to Sacramento. Detectives Gard,
Hume and other officers at once followed
GERS, dividing up into two posses, went
into the tules to search for the robbers.
Hume, in conversation, said that four
men had done the job and thinks they
were the same men who held up the train
near Sacramento week ago, as the de-
scription of one and the buggy were the
same. There are about twenty regular
and amateur officers on the hunt for the
men. 1t is reported that $1,000 reward
has been offered for the arrest and convic-
ton of the highwaymen.
George Gard has the measure ment of
footsteps found near where the buggy was
tied and also two thirty-two calibre car
tridges also found there, which were evil
IDENTIFY dropped by the robbers while re-
loading their weapons after the hold.up.
Sacramento, March 10.-At this hour,
80 a. M, the Sheriff's forces in this city
have surrounded house occupied by two
men who are supposed to be members of
the gang who held up the overland train
between Stockton ana Lodi Friday night.
The men suspected of taking part i'll the
train robbery are supposed to have been
the same men who walked into Scheld s
brewery, at Twenty eighth and M streets,
last Sunday night, and at the point of
their pistols forced the bartender and a
number Of others in the place to dis
gorge.
Last Thursday night horse was stolen
AAoAA A|uN NdhoWCl PAoOO uCdl LIN OIONS
and few nights afterward saddle was
stolen from L. B. Hess place, also near
Elk Grove. During the past week five
horses have been stolen from ranches be
tween this city and Lodi, and the officers
think that it was the purpose of the train
robbers to have relays which would be
used by them in coming to this city after
holding up the train. One of the sus-
peeted men is an ex-railroad man.
Stockton, March 9.-No new develop
ments in the train robbery up to mid
night. The chief officers of the railroad
and express companies, Gard and Hume,
are here working with Sheriff Cunning
ham. They are moving around town try
ing to pick up some clue evidently believ-
ing that the robbers came this way. The
officers are very anxious to find the tramp
who was on the train and was the only
person that saw the face of one of the
men. The tramp was put off the train at
Lodi, but swung on again and rode north
on the overland. The tramp said in Lodi
that the robber who got on the engine
crawled over the tops of the express and
baggage cars and met him face to face
on the blind baggage platform, but no
good description of the fellow was given.
The officers blame the conductor for
not holding the tramp as witness.