The San Francisco call., 1897-10-02
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Milton Stage Robbers
=* Had Laid. Their RIans
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.BREAsTWORKs >AT#A
ROAD SIDE.
We're Prep ared to. Resist Shot
+ gun. Messengers or Armed
:. q. Passengers. S
MAN-HUNTING c IN THE HILLS
s. OFT UOLUMNE. ...,. :.
Posses. Have Failed to Track the
..# Daring Pair to Their Htding-:.* :
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s STOCKTON: CAL, Oct* 1.-Sheriff Yam
eey of TuoIumne County and his deputies
were busy: To-day on the trail of the BAN
:aits who robbed the Angels and Milton
stages yesterday. Sheriff Cunningham of
this county was to have left for the scene
I of: action: but was TOO busy here with
business pertaining to his own county 10
get away. -: -.
/. The authorities in Tuolumne County
are of The opinion that the robbers are
residents of that section, and; that they
are well acquainted with the. country in
the vicinity Of The hold-up. They were
seen near Milton early yesterday morning,
making over the hills toward the place
: where the robbery was subsequently COM
mitted. There are many hunters ON the
hills now, and little was thought at the
tim of the sight of two armed nieG, They
must have had some place selected where
they could disguise themselves with the
sacks, which so com pletely covered the m
when they stood before the frightened d
passengers, guns in hand, for when they
were travelling over the hills from Milton
they did not have anything with them
that could have contained the sacks they
put to such good use afterward. r.:
That the robbery was as carefully
planned as: it was executed is evidenced
by the Preparations made by the bandits
to resist in: case they metwith opposition
from shotgun messengers or passengers.
w here the man with the shotgun stayed,
VINO kept in the background most of the
Time during the hold-up, small rock fort
mad been made. The rocks about formed
natural protection for him, but Others
had been placed in position lc shield him
from q fusiIlade from the coaches This
spot was carefully inspected to-day by
Sheriff Y ancey and his posse, and the trail
OF the men followed over the hills until il
was lost. -
The officers believe they know, from
their work and past actions, who the men
who were engaged in yesterdays hoid-up
were. Tney are now at work on the :clews
they have, and hope to have the highway
men within the next forty-eight hours.
From what the other passengers say the
tales spun in: San Francisco by the
Arabian: peddlers who claimed to have
lost so m uch money appear fshy. Stage
Driver Raggio and passengers H. L. Nc
| l:Allister, G. F."Blewett and William War
| rem all say that the robbers did not get a
cent from the passengers In the big coach, q,
to W hich the horses that were shot were
/ attached, and the Arabans boasted on
T the drive from the scene of the nold-up to
Milton that they had saved considerable
sum ofmoney from the avaricious sack. COW
eled gun=wielders: The express compa 7. v
still claims that it lost little or nothing
/ from the breaking open of the strong box.
| and as the men could not have got more
/ than $40 altogether they cannot hold out
| hong with out attempting another robbery,
/ either ON the same line or on. one of the
other stage routes le aiding from the mines
! La commenting on yesterdays robbery
/ one old time officer said: .4.
| 81 have never known OF a robbery being
com N ifted up .north-that is in Mendo-
cino, Hum boldt or any of those counties
i but that one was shortly afterward COM
| mitted in one of the counties ad iacerit to
this. The robbery yesterday reminds mo
OF that of about twelve years ago" when q
little fellow known as the 'putchman an
held up single handed, a stage and tour
teams. He made fourteen passengers
stand in. line while he searched them.
Then he tried to break open the express
| box right in the presence OF the fourteen
| men in line. In doing this he hit him self
/ a blow with his AK, inflicting wound over
| the eye that subs qnenlly led to his cap
! ture. He was arrested soon afterward in
the eating station at Lathrop by Sheriff
| Cunning nam and Deputy Oscar Atwood.
The: work of yesterday was the 'nerviest'
since that hold up"