The record-union., 1896-09-09
MORGAN OF GRAND ISLAND.
II Is Thought Probable That the Dead
Robber Was He.
Did the Other Two Come to Sacramento
on the Overland Train
That Night?

w ulIS lHGIc are IIldny rumOTS COLI
corning the identity Of the bandit killed
by Engineer Inglis in an attempt to
hold up the overland train on Saturday
night last, the railroad officials appear
to be unit in the belief that the first
theory. borne out by facts already pub
lished, that he was T. J. Morgan, for
merly Of Grand Island, Neb., is the cor
rect one.
In fact, Assistant Superintendent
Jones said yesterday that there was not
one particle of doubt about the matter,
regardless of what has been said. or
written to the contrary. He, however
qualified his statement by saying that it
was possible that Morgan had operated
under an assumed name in other sec
tons OF the State, and that he may
have been the same man who recently
held up number Of stages in Stanis-
laus County, and resided for time at
Hills Ferry, where he took orders for
typewriting machines
So that the theory advanced by one
OF the shrewdest detectives in the State
that the dead man and Huntoon are the
same person may after all prove true
while 1T may also be shown that Hun
toon was none other than Morgan
travelling under an assumed name.
The further statement that Huntoon
and his two accomplices frequented a
saloon on | street a few days previous
to the attempted hold up and were seen
a number of times by the barkeeper In
earnest consultation, would further the
claim that Huntoon was the man who
was killed, while it in no wise detracts
from the universally accredited theory
that the dead mans name was in re-
ality Morgan, and that he hailed from
Grand Island, Neb.
The further fact that the dead man
is said to have been fully identified by
the barkeeper as one of the three men
who frequented his place Of business
would tend to bear out the theory that
HuntOon and Morgan were one and the
same man.
In the meantime the detectives are
working upon the stub ends of num-
Der of clews, anyone of which may, or
may not prove Of value
On the night of the attempted rob-
berry about 1870 o'clock a. M, a man
Of medium hight wearing a black
slouched hat black coat and brown
trousers, with sharp eyes and a very
large nose, Slouched into the ladies'
waiting room at the railroad depot,
and carelessly threw himself into one
of the seats, at the same time saying
to two gentlemen who happened to be
present:
Have you heard anything Of the
holdup down the track?"
When Informed that some rumors of
the kind had been received, the ques-
ticner observed that ne had heard the
business mentioned up town.
A few moments later another and
taller man entered the room and he and
the first mentioned held a whispered
conversation in one corner Of the room.
By this time crowd had gathered, to
be on hand when the extra train bear
ing the dead robber entered the station,
and the two men, who were strangers,
separated, taking different corners of
the room, and apparently fell at once
into sound slumbers.
The two gentlemen felt certain that
the inquisitive stranger and his partner
knew something Of the attempted rob-
berry and were on hand to learn some
thing concerning the man who had been
shot. They accordingly notified Felix
Tracy. Superintendent Of Wells-Fargo
Express Company in this city, and
Captain of Police Ash. Both Tracy and
Ash closely inspected the strangers
who seemed to sleep through it all, but
did not seem to think there was any
thing suspicious about them.
There the matter rested, but the two
gentlemen who watched the suspicious
characters feel certain that had they
been Jailed on vagrancy charges the
officers would not now have far to go
to locate the two missing men.
In this connection it may be men
toned that when the overland train on
which the attempted hold-up occurred
arrived in the depot, some difficulty oc-
CURED in uncoupling car, on account
Of the curve on which ii stood, making
1t bind. A stranger stepped up to the
train man who was endeavoring to un-
couple the cars and offered to assist
him. A bystander who saw the occur
renee states that the man had a large
nose and answered the description of
the one who was afterward noticed in
the depot
1t is not at all impossible that the two
robbers, instead of jumping off the
train and remaining near the scene of
the robbery, either swung under the cars
and rode into or nearly into the city
on the brake beam or else rode on the
lower step of the car, where they did
not attract any attention, the car be-
ing deserted by the passengers, and
jumped off when the train came into
the depot and showed themselves bold
ly in the crowd, as the safest plan for
1r<Aa
of proving an alibi in case suspicion
were directed toward them If that were
the case, their staying around the depot
and apparent indifference, while really
listening and gaining information from
re emarks of the bystanders, would fit
in well with their action in coming di-
rectly to the city and the very boldness
of their course would be most condu-
Give to their safety ard be most likely
to divert suspicion from them
UNDER THE SOD.
The body of the dead bandit was
buried yesterday under the direction of
Coroner Clark in the Helvetia Gene
terry, and a plain board bearing the in
scription IF. ]. Morgan" was placed at
the head Of the grave.
PICKP0CKET ARRESTEn