The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-04-02
THERE WASATHIRD MAN
An Observant Passenger Tells
How the Officer Was Shot
in the Back.
WATCHING THE HAGGIN GRANT.
The Murderer Believed to Be Hid
ing There-Exoitement in
Gridley.

| SACRAMENTO, CAL, April 1.-The de-
| tectives have not yet relaxed in their
efforts to find the partners of the train
robber killed by Sheriff Bogard last Satur-
| day morning, for it is now believed that
three men were concerned in the affair.
| The belief is founded on the statement of
a passenger, who says that Immediately
after Bogard shot the tall robber he was
shot from behind by third man who
entered the car behind Bogard Just as
Bogard was taking aim. This statement
is corroborated by the physician who per-
formed the autopsy and who found that
the Sheriff had been shot in the back di-
rectly from behind, and that it was phys
ical impossibility for him to have been
shot from any other position
The examination of the dead Sheriff's
pistol shows that only one shot had been
fired out of it. The passenger who saw the
third man says that the shot fired by the
Sheriff and the shot which killed him
were in quick succession-not more than a
quarter of second intervening.
The town OF Gridley is excited over the
news that at midnight last night man
rode on a bicycle through that town at
the top of his speed. The detectives were
notified and started in pursuit, but they
had not succeeded in catching him at the
time of the writing of this article, for
man on bicycle on a good road can run
away from racehorse in long-distance
contest with a mile or two start.
i The Haggin Grant otherwise known as
Ell Rancho del Paso, is now being watched
/ by corps of detectives, they having traced
thither the murderer of Sheriff Bogard.
must travel by road twelve miles before he
can pass through it. 1t contains about 100
square miles and in places is very brushy
1t lies between the American and Sacra-
mento rivers and is wei watered by sew
eral small streams A fugitive could SUBJ
slst there long time by killing stock.
: The fencelriders and COWBOYS employed
on the grant cannot and do not penetrate
the brush, and a man could live there for
years without being seen, and without
seeing a single human being, the only
human occupants of the ranch being a
q few neutrality-suspicious. and hop-raisers on
the American River bottom lands, and the
ranch employer who live in a hamlet in
: the bottom about eleven miles from this
j city.
The suspicion that the Wheatland rob-
j train. near Ben Ali about month o7ls
now almost a certainty. and it is for that
reason, chiefly, that the detectives are
keeping such strict watch over the Hag-
j gin. Grant.
Shortly after the Ben Ali hold-up the de.
tectives learned that tramp had seen two
men digging hole at the foot of an old
oak tree and that when they caught sight
rST4 a.
the hole and covered it. This was on the
day of the hold-up and a few hours before
THAT occurrence.
Acting upon this information the de-
tectives visited the locality indicated, and
:. after digging about eight inches down dis
covered board. Lifting the board they
found under it an empty five-gallon coal
oil can.
The can had been placed there, it is
\ thought, either for the reception of dyna-
mite or of money. 1t was the robbers
intention, no doubt, to deposit their
plunder there, the can being fixed in the
hole beforehand in order to save time, and
take it away at their leisure after the affair
had time to blow over.
OROVILLE, CAL, April Special OFF,
Ger w. M. Ahern, accompanied by several
lOOdi OulCcIS, dII1NcQ IteIe ILLS morning
from Gridley, following the supposed trail
of Robber Johnson, who murdered Sheriff
Bogard of Tehama. A bicycle rider was
seen at Gridley at midnight headed this
:; way. A farmer, living about four miles
from here, says his dogs made considerable
noise about o'clock this morning, but he
could see no one. They lost the trail close
| to town.
Sheriff Wilson made inquiry, but could
not learn of any one living here having
been to Gridley on bicycle. Johnson is
supposed to be in hiding near here. The
officers went out on the different roads to-
day, but could find no further track. Nc
Guire and Williams were here about a week
ago representing themselves as bicycle
agents and rented store.
They registered at the Union Hotel as J.
Williams of Marysville and S. Browns of
San Francisco. They left here Tuesday,
stating they were going after stock.
MEXICO, Mo-. April IA telegram
from San Francisco reported that the
parents of the men who held up the Ore
gon express which resulted in the death
of Sheriff Bogard and one of tbs robbers,
lived in this city and that the outlaws
were known there as the McGuires In
vestigation shows that no such families
ever lived in this city.
Bailey and BracBett Safe.