The record-union., 1896-06-06
DAYLIGHT ROBBERY.
Nah CaulO'S Dollars Taken While Sheriff
COnrOy Looks On.
Williams, the Sure-T Thing Man, and
Benton, the Restaurant Waiter,
Were the Principal Actors

Thursday afternoon Nah Caulo, a
young japanese who had been en-
ployed at Auburn, determined to visit
Sacramento He had about $50 in
his possession, and having imbibed
rather freely invited J. H. Benton and
E. B. Williams into saloon to wash
away bitter memories in horn of fire
wateg. AS both Benton and Williams
had bitter memories to wash, neither
refused, and in paying for the beverage
Nah Caulo exhibited his hard-earned
ducats.
Both Benton and Williams had
fallen upon hard lines recently, the
former being a waiter who has been
employed in the restaurants of Sacra-
mento at odd times for the past year,
and the latter being one of the three
sure thing men arrested here by Off
Ger Maley last week, but turned loose
for lack of evidence, though his bunco
layout was confiscated.
After bibulous Jap and his hobo COM
panions had swallowed their poison,
the former boarded the smoker on
train No. 2, which was just ready to
pull out for Sacramento, while Will
ia ms and Benton mounted the sleeper
at the rear end of the train and made
their way forward to the smoker where
the Jap was making himself as COM
Portable as possible, having plenty Of
room to do so, there being only two
other passengers to share the car with
him.
By the time the two hobos reached
the smoker the train was in motion,
and they at once collared the unsus-
pecting Jap and forced him out upon
the platform of the car, where they
attempted to dump him off. But the
Jap struggled violently, refusing to be
dumped, until a passenger rendered his
services and attempted to separate the
Jap and his assailants, when all three
lost their balance and tumbled off the
platform, the Jap striking on his head.
He at once regained his feet, but be-
ing dazed ran against the moving train
and was knocked 10 the ground, when
Benton and Williams at once went
through his clothes, relieving him Of
his hard earned dollars.
The Pullman porter who had been a
spectator pulled the bellrope and the
train stopped, but not before the MIN
ble-fingered gentry had escaped back
to Auburn, going to the Putnam House,
where they ordered drinks all around,
and tipped the bartender with 81 so,
coin of the realm, informing him that
they had caught fish at the depot.
They next hired a team and driver
and were deposited at Clipper Gap,
where they boarded freight train, but
were fired by the crew at Appleton, and
from there walked into Colfax.
Sheriff Conroy Of Placer County had
stood at the depot at Auburn and
watched the robbery-it having oc-
Cured just outside of the switch yard
but he had no idea of what was going
forward, thinking that the three men
he saw scrambling uponsthe ground had
been elected from the train, which was
a usual occurrence.
But when a short time afterward he
learned that a robbery had been COM
n,itted under his very eyes and in the
broad glare of day, the man hunter in
him became aroused, and he set about
To head off the aSpirants for the gal
lows He was not long in putting two
and two together, and when the robbers
walked into Colfax they walked into the
Sheriff's arms, and before they had
time to cogitate over their past lives
very long, were deposited safe in the
Placer County Jail, where they will
await verdict of twelve good men and
true