The record-union., 1896-04-21

playing upon the pride Of the witness
by referring disparagingly to his lack
of bravery. Then all three started
across the street to the rear door of the
| offices.
THE HOLD-UP.
| While crossing the street two men
came toward them, one Of them saying:
Hold on, boys and we'L go with you"
The witness became badly frightened,
and told Callendine that those fellows
were onto them; that he believed a
trap had been set for them, and that he
did not propose to attempt to rob a
regiment. Baker was also inclined to
back out, but again Callendine per-
suaded them to go on
! Callendine went to the back door, and
opened it, entering first with a rifle in
| his hands. Baker went next with the
pinch bar, and the witness came last
with his revolver. AS Callendine en-
tered he said: Throw up your hands!"
and all hands went up.
There were two men in the office, and
CalIendine asked one Of them, McDon-
| aid, where the safe was. Mcdonald
said he didn't know, and Callendine
said: well, do" and forthwith opened
| the door of the closet in which was the
safe, and ordered Baker to drag it out.
| This Baker did, and with his pinch-bar
pried off the iron tube on the back
| through which the bags of coin were
| thrown.
A GOOD HAUL.
Twenty-Five bags were taken out, and
/ the witness remarked that there must
| have been two extra men on, as there
usually were but twenty-three bags.
/ Callendine was facetious, and, coming
| to a bag heavier than the others, said:
This must have been a Market-street
car" Speaking Of a very light bag, he
said: This fellow must have been
knocking down fares
After the money had been secured and
put in a gunny-sack by Callendine, the
men who were stood up asked If they
were not going to stand treat over the
job, and Baker produced the bottle Of
whisky, which he offered to them.
They, however, refused to drink, and
Callendine and Baker each took advan-
tage of the occasion to imbibe.
Then the three men, with the money
and their TOOLS ran back to the cart and
drove back to the Sixth-street rem
devious by a roundabout way, where
the money was divided by Callendine,
each man receiving for his share SS1
| and a few cents.
CALLENDINE'S EXTRA PAY.
Callendine asked what bonus he was
to receive for acting as leader, and
| Baker said it ought to be worth So to
the man, and he and the witness each
gave Callendine $5.
Callendine put his share of the money
| into a sack, and Baker also deposited
| his in sack of some kind. The money
| sacks and celluloid car checks were
burned up, and then the men separated,
| Townsend going to bed, after first
crossing the street and hiding his
money in the barn.
He did not see Callendine again un-
| til 10 o'clock the next evening. At that
! time Callendine and Baker were dis
cussing the robbery with Walter Bas-
sett, and the latter said: II believe you
three fellows are the men who did the
job" This frightened the witness
somewhat, though the whole matter
was passed off for joke.
The witness said he had lent Callen-
dine $50 and Baker 81 IS since the rob-
berry, none Of which had been returned.
THE OESTER ROW.
He then recounted his trouble with
Joe Oester, who had attempted to shoot
| him and was himself shot through the
foot. Oester had caused the arrest of
the witness, and in return the latter, to
get even, had caused the arrest and con-
viction of Oester for carrying a con-
cealed weapon. He told how Lena
| Oester, sister to Joe, had become en-
ragged because of his action in the mat
ter, and gave the whole matter away
to Officer Pennish and Detective Max
Fisher who arrested him.
Townsend identified the rife he had
carried and the rubber coats worn by
Callendine and Baker on the night of
the robbery.
APPARENTLY TRUE.
Without skip and without one single
| word Of prompting from the City At
torney, Townsend told his story, and
| when he stopped nothing more was to
be said. He had told it all. Throughout
| his story not one single objection had
been interjected by the defense. Town
send was good witness, and though he
| spoke somewhat fast, and at times
| rather indistinctiy, his explanation of
| situations was very lucid.
OSS-EXAMINED.
Then General Hart took the witness in
! hand for cross-examination, and COM
menced series of questions relating to
/ the rubber coat worn by Baker, but up
| to the noon recess he had not succeeded
in scoring a single point against the
| shrewd Englishman, who drops an oc-
casional "h," apparently just to show
that he was born in the suburbs of Lon
don.
| At II o'clock a recess was taken until
p. m.
| In the afternoon A. L. Hart resumed
his cross-examination of Townsend.
Witness said the gun had been in
/ Smith G. Bassett's office ever since he
knew Callendine. The latter brought
| it there, as he said, to guard the safe.
He said he brought it from the ranch.
! There was another gun, a 22-caliber.
| that Callendine said belonged to John
| Catlin. He knew this gun by a little
hole in the stock 1t was the gun wit
ness had on the night of the robbery. 1t
was a 1910 caliber, as Callendine bought
box Of shells for 1t and mentioned the
/ size Of them when he brought them to
/ the office a short time before the rob-
berry. He could pick the gun out of a.
/ hundred.
| KNOX AND HATCH.
/ Callendine told him before this rob-
berry that Melvin Hatch had promised
! to help him in a proposed train rob-
1 berry. There was another man who
+ promised to help in it, but witness de-
/ clined to tell who he was. CalIendine