The record-union., 1897-06-02
Thieves Make Raise of Several Thou
sand Dollars.
Open the Safe With Sledge-Hammers,
After Binding the Watchman to a
Concentration, and Loot 1.-THE
Outlaws, r1asked and Heavily
Armed, Evidently Very Familiar
With the Premises.

NEVADA CITY, June IA sensa-
tional and daring robbery was commit
ted at the Providence mine last night.
Peter Seth. a mill man who was
alone in the mill, was captured and
bound to a concentrator, after which
the robbers broke open the little safe
in the amalgamating room and secured
the balls of amalgam. superintendent
McKinlay will not divulge the amount
of the loss. 1t represented the scrap
ings from the plates since the general
cleanup of last month, and it is esti-
mated at from $1,000 to $1,000.
Seith's story is that it was about mid
night when the robbers entered the
mill He was about to eat his supper,
and as he started for his dinner bucket
he felt something cold touch one of his
ears, and, turning, found himself look
ing into the muzzles of a brace of re-
volvers in the hands of man about
his own hight. About ten feet away
stood another man. somewhat taller
than his companion, who had a rifle
trained on him. Both were masked.
Throw up your hands," commanded
the man with the rifle Seth put up
his hands, and instantly the smaller
man pulled the leg of an old pair of
overalls down over the millman's head.
The two thieves then seized him, bound
his hands behind his back, and, seat
ing him in a chair tied him, chair and
all, TO the concentrator. His feet were
also tied together. The rope used was
a piece of marline.
One of the men said: NOW, sit there,
and if you move for two hours We'll
kill YOU" The men then fastened the
upper door of the mill leading in from
the road by bracing a shovel against it.
Going to the amalgamating room they
forced the safe open, using tools which
they procured in the mill and black
smith shop. They found couple of
sledge hammers, went to the millman's
tool drawer and selected other certain
tools. They seemed perfectly familiar
with the premises and knew where to
find what they wanted. The safe,
which is small affair, has thick out
side door. but no inside door.
The robbers hammered on the COM
bination knob until they bent it down
and then inserted a blacksmith's
harding a tool for cutting cold iron
and having a handle. With these tools
they cut the knob off, and with a thin
piece of steel drove the spindle of the
lock in.
When the tumbers fell into the safe
they had only to turn the opening knob
and throw the bars. The job evidently
did not take long. Seth sat fidgeting
in the chair for an hour and then,
thinking that his captors must be gone,
worked on the ropes which bound his
hands until he managed to free one
hand, which was not tied very tight,
and which he thinks he could have
freed at any time had he dared Once
free he went to hosting works and no
titled Engineer David Richards, who
hoisted some of the men in the shaft
Repairing to the mill, the men found
the electric lights still burning, the
safe open and the treasure and robbers
gone.
A miner was sent to town to notify
the Superintendent and by 3 o'clock
superintendent McKinlay, r. C. Wal
rath and Sheriff Getchell arrived at the
mine. The robbers had gone while it
was still dark and little could be done
There is no clue to the perpetrators