The record-union., 1895-04-03
BANDIT WILLIAMS, ALIAS BRADY.
The Slayer of Sheriff Bogard is Still
UnCaptured.
Was 1t He and Browning Who Robbed
the Train in Yolo s-Brady's
Description.

No tidings have been received, SO far as
is known in this city, of the train robber
who escaped on Saturday morning last
when his pal, Sam Browning, alias Nc
Guire, was killed in the hold-up near
Marysville.
The trunks found in the rooms occupied
by the men in San Francisco contained
photographs of Browning and Harry
Williams, alias Jack Brady-the robber
at large-as bicycle riders. There were
also found, among other things, shoes
which correspond with the tracks made
by the robbers who murdered Cornelius
Stagg recently in the suburbs Of San
Francisco, with mackintoshes, slouch
hats, etc. The mackintoshes are proba-
bly, what the men wore on several of their
raids when they were described as wear
ing long busters.
Both men have been in the State
Prison, whittier they were sent from
Amador for horse-sIealing. Browning
was in this city on the day preceding the
Ben Ali hoId-up, and was given a ride
out to the Haggin ranch by Henry Gerber
in his buggy.
There Is no longer particle of doubt
that it was these two men who held up
the Oregon train on the Sd of March; VINO
robbed SCheld's brewery in this city on
the following night; who four days later
held up the overland express near Stock
ton, and few nights atterward murdered
Cornelius Stagg at his Ingleside inn near
the Cliff House.
Detective Thacker is now satisfied of
the correctness of the RECORD UNIONS
theory that it was the same men who
murdered and robbed Hans 2. Cornelius
at his roadside saloon near this city on
the night of the 10th of November There
is striking similarity in the manner in
which all these crimes were committed.
In each case the officers were batf1ed by
not finding evidence of horses or vehicles
being used by the men in effecting their
escape. This is now explained by the
TACT that they travelled on bicycles and
thus escaped the suspicion OF persons
who may have seen them.
DID THESE SAME MEN ROB THE TRAIN
IN .YOLO?
During all the speculation that has been
INDUCED IN regarding the crimes be-
Heved to have been committed by these
men, 1t seems strange that nobody has
thought to try and connect them with the
1000 train-rObbery near DaVisvilIe on
the night Of the llth of October last. Yet
they answer the descriptions given of the
two men that did that neat piece of work.
one was fully six feet tall and weighed
about 200 pounds, the other several inches
shorter, and both wore linen busters,
The same description applies to the men
engaged in the more recent train hold
ups and murders, the linen busters being
worn on each occasion.
When Browning's body was examined
at MarysyIue the other day il was re-
marked that he had very soft white hands
for man who had been known TO do
ranch labor, but this was explained By
the TACT that while he and Brady (or
Williamsl We're employed on farms in
that vicinity they always protected their
hands by wearing heavy gloves.
On the Dight of the HolO train robbery
Engineer Scott told d RECORD-UNTOT
reporter that ''One of the robbers was six
feet tall, or upward, and the other was
some inches shorter" He noticed nar-
tlcularly that "the tall man had long.
slender, white hands,"
The night after that robbery a tall and
short man, one with a wound on MS
hand, gave the Woodland officers a long
chase into the country, but escaped. il
was atterward reported that the men were
found TO have been employed on a ranch.
What Is more likely than that Browning
and Brady were employed on ranch in
olo at that time, and that they commit
ted the robbery?
The Golo train robbery took place on
the night of the llth of October, and a
week or two later Browning and Brady
showed up IN san Francisco, where the
former engaged room on Golden Gate
avenue and at the latter at 3O5 Grove
street.
AS these men had been operating in
this vicinity, IL is not improbable, also.
that they were the murderers of Mr.. and
Mrs. Weber, who were killed and their
house plundered in this city on the 18th
of Decem Der last.
THE ESCAPED MURDERER,
The rewards for the arrest of Brady.
the man VINO killed Sheriff Bogard OF
Ienama in the recent hold-up. now
amount To $4,000. His description. as
taken down at san Quentin in July, 1892,
Is as follows:
Henry Williams, grand larceny, AM
ador, year, Illinois, age y, salesman,
feet = Inches, hOrid complexion. hazel
eyes, dark hair, foot 81, round, full fore
head, large features, square chin, good
teeth, scars on lower lett arm, l on point
left elbow, / on end Of left middle finger.
l on lett thumb, l below and l above
right elbow, l on chin and l on back OF
neck, back OF head; mOles-2 large back
of neck to left, ? on left of back, j right
blade right side OF neck, stout build
weight l5O."
Another description of him, which has
been sent out TO the various officers, is as
1OllOWS:
Age %; hight, feet 6! inches; weight
li0 pounds; medium slender build; dark
brown hair; brown mustache, thin: dark
eyes long arms and hands; legs rather
long IN proportion to body; shoulders
high and slightly dropping; head inclined
slightly forward; thin face, sharp feat
ures, small chin, slightly recediug, short
upper lip, lower lip droops down when
talking, showing lower teeth; upper front
teeth protTude, showing heavy gold fill
ing; the two center upper front teeth ap-
pear TO be false; bouy hands, pleasant
tGlkeT, very suaye manner; usually wore
uark-colOred clothes and hat is quite
proud Of his foot, wears about No. 81 or
shoe; Is temperate, does not smoke, sell
dom uses prOfane languages; is q good
dancer. Has the general appearance of
ranch hand, even when wearing best
clothes; usually wears a gold ring with
large cameo setting; is a good bicyclist;
owns and rides Cleveland bicycle; is an
american of probably Irish ancestry"
live PAPER HERO.
1t is evident that certain San Francisco
papers which boasled of their "enter-
PRISE N daily publishing columns of
sensational matter concerning the ex-
plots of Evans and Sontag, who were
pictured as heroes, are responsible for
Sam McGuire ior Browning turning
tralu-robDer. John Barry, Nuba farmer.