The record-union., 1896-02-19
Tfain-RObber Brady and the
Man He Made Wealthy.
The Bandit Smiling and Happy, the
Other Serious and Silent.
Examination Of Herman, or Harnens-Brady
Tells How The YOlO Robbery Vas
Planned and Executed

It was indeed a. picture yesterday
when Karl Herman (J. p. Harmens),
the whilom denizen of the Yolo willow
jungle, the man who found the money
planted by Browning and Brady, the
train-robbers, appeared in Justice
Henry's court for examination on
charge of secreting money that he knew
or believed to have been stolen. Only
few feet away from where the late high
roller sat also posed Brady himself. the
man who helped rob the train, and who
is under sentence of life Imprisonment
for the killing of Sheriff Bogard of Te-
hama while engaged in looting another
train near Marysville a few months
later.
Brady risked his life to get that
money, some $4,000, and expected to
live in comfort the remainder of his
life, but while he and his partner,
Browning, were blowing in" the first
few hundred dollars, Herman, the
tramp, found and carried off the bulk
of it to another spot. He had whole
years fun out of the Doodle, and after
squandering about $4,000 of it, he
turns up in court face to face for the
first time with the man who planted it
so conveniently by his camp.
Brady was brought here from the
Folsom Prison to testify to the robbery
and planting of the coin in order to
prove that it was Wells Fargo & Co.'S
money that Herman the tramp had
been spending so lavishly on good
clothes, wine and women.
The crowd was so great that Justice
Henry found it necessary to hold the
examination in one of the Superior
Courtrooms, and that was so jammed
that standing room was barely to be
had. Most of the crowd had
come with desire to get a
look at the man who was so suddenly
transformed from Yolo tramp to a
metropolitan prince; who had discarded
his rags for silk underwear and the best
raiment the fashionable tai1ors of the
metropolis of the Pacific could provide
or that money could buy.
But Karl must have felt his insignif1-
canoe when bandit Brady, the hero of
several railroad train hold-ups, tripped
gaily up to the witness platform and
launched his grand-stand smile upon
the vast audience before him. Interest
seemed to center in him while he re-
lated how he and Browning stopped
the train in Yolo, lugged off the 184
pounds of gold coin and secreted it in
the willows. The memory of his subse-
quent train robbery, when the brave
Sheriff Bogard shot and killed Brown
ing and was in turn murdered by
Brady, must have been left behind him
in the bastile on the banks of the Amer
lean River, whence he had just come,
for he was all smiles and his demeanor
was that of one who felt that he de-
served to be and was being nonized.
Brady certainly did not look like the
proverbial blood-stained bandit, and the
ccolness with which he dispensed his
witticisms while testifying stamps him
as a really remarkable youth. He said
that when he shot through the door of
the express car he did not hit Messenger
Paige, but added dryly that it was be-
cause he couldn't see just where the mes
senger stood. With an air of sincerity
he said he had preferred to loot the
train without having to shed blood, but
all who heard the cool young bandit
were impressed with the idea that if
anyone had attempted to balk him he
would not have hesitated TO take his
life
While Brady was on the stand no one
of the vast throng present studied him
with more intense interest than Her
man himself. He gazed steadily at
him through the gold-rimmed specta-
cles he had purchased with the money
that Brady had stolen, but just what his
thoughts were it would be hard to
guess. When the court adjourned they
marched down to the jail-yard side by
side-Brady in the rough garb of the
penitentiary, Herman in the smart
and stylish costume of a well-to-do
merchant or banker. They did not ad
dress one another. for none of the officers
had thought to formally introduce
them.
There were present to conduct the
prosecution Charles T. Jones, special
counsel for the express company, and
District Attorney Ryan, though the lat
ter did not take an active part. De-
tective Thacker sat at Mr.. Jones' elbow
to prompt him about the witnesses.
Ex-senator Frank S. Sprague was Her
mans (or Harmens0 counsel.
AS TO THE MONEY.
The first witness called was Dennis
It. Mullin, shipping clerk for Wells,
Fargo & Co.'S Bank in San Francisco.
1aS was put oH eHS steAd " SHOW NOW
much coin was shipped on the overland
express train on the 11th of October,
1894. There were two bags of $40 600
each and one of $4,000, all in gold.
The money was addressed to ]. E. Doo-
ley, Ogden.
Considerable time was taken up in
proving by this witness the fact that
the money was dispatched from San
Francisco and that Wells, Fargo & Co.
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