The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1898-05-02
Three Robbers On Seattle & Raj
nier Beach Railway.
SIX NUMEROUS REvolvE5s.
LAST Car ONT From the City sstur-
dap Wight stopped On the Track
Conductor and siatormaa and STA
teen Passenger. Ordered to Throw
In Their IInads--R OTHERS Get
$3.50 ana several Watches

Car No. Il, % fhe Seattle ard Rainier
Erasa Rsalway was hAid ~ By three
ss1a&kes usen iuss beyond Valentine sra
fsoa A. i1sss o-eIock Saturday hight snd
shs.aixteen passengers and crew robbed Ct
ssent $40 In caka and ak Or seen
watches
Tie hcse~up was not reported 10 tbs
police until o.cloek yesterday morning.
20 hat the higiiwsyrssn has An sxselient
sisaess for escape. The crew say they esad
IN Get back 20 town 10 report the affair
q once because the current is saut on
al o'clock and ~ She time they cersi-
pistee their run and sat BACK I" co.s'7lblh
City there was no florw power 20 Tun tne
car. IL IA presumed thai after their some
what unusual experience they eere no. IN
fae mood 10 foot tne wag oyer Ire ties and
snrouga the dead OF night into town.
The police nave not yet succeeded in get
sfns any clue to tba robbers. They have
ssttie to work upon beyond the msager
oes1la gathered from tie crew and pas
segysrs, none Of waar. can give any fuller
description OF tha men than the faet that
they were pretty nearly Three % a size
In build ard wore masks from sne eyes
aown biasG sfaueh hats psiea we'll over
the face ard dark overeeats- They wsfe
OF medium helg.f and slim excerpt oisr.
whs Inclined 20 be heavier set
How the Job Mas Done.
Conductor T.. T. Hiekins and Motormaa
y. Wilbur brown were running the ear.
Ihcy had sixteen passengers aboard.
amonx them being: Miss Carrie Cameroa.
Mss Pike. Mrs. Newell. William Buichin-
sou and his housekseper. Doe" Whiting
a.
Henry Lamb Richard s.gapson and N
Kennedy. az of Columbia eity. There
were several strangers IN the car, whose
names eon.d got Be iesr1eo.
Car No u was the lag nHe ruu for tbs
sight. aud LEFT the foot ot Washington
ssrsst 81 lisa Notofmsn kro&a, just
after passing Valentine station, slowed
down 10 let of MF Hutchinson and his
heoseksepsr. who- ilse IN house that
stands faw hundred reds from the track.
While the car stIii had considerable head.
Way BfswH saw three men standing
c!sze hy ths track ahead OF him.
As The car ran pas .hem one
al the three attempted to board
the fgsnt platform. lie missed II.
however the hsnd-Fail struck hisn and he
was hurled 10 ere side. In falling he
knocked down one Of his companions. Ev-
ery one In the car, though II was a closed
one, heard the thud and several jumped to
their feet. thinking some one bad been
killed on ti.e track The ear stopped win
- lark. But there was no dead man about.
There wss another kind OF Tragedy agont.
Three fO@sked men Spfang onto the Fenr
platform. Conductor Hopkins saw the
sieaen hats and ia. black masks At the
sstnie Instant he saw something else that
interested him even nfoFe-sae nlGyzles or
fear %f-caiiser Colt reviewers looking him
In the face. Throw 49, yaur hands. there,
and be aaiek about is," TIE voice was
gfaT aad ill-naiufed. ana the guns looked
baSsess. Conductor Hlnkns uuwillingty
bui pransfiy obeYes.l
The next suggestion made 20 Mr. Hip
kins waa that b. get inside the car
quick. As ne stepped through the door
Way tic familiar face of MotoTman Brown
greeted him froni the ether end OF the
car. Mr., Brown were "a cynical smile
"a Of q n1tu VINO does not appreciate the
joke. lie WAS guarded hY two more guns
a SMITH & Nesson y and wiclSed-look-
fag 'Est gSh huiides ~ .he hands az
the third robber who had gono through
the car % ths fFoat platform while his
ct:npsniouS wgge doing business in the
rear.
All these prsiiEl,naglea had occupied less
than minute The situation WAS narv
this: At the front end ~ t. aisle one
man VIII, hso guns ard MotoFmsn Rrowa:
rs She rear end - the aisle two men with
feur guns and Conductor uipklns, between
The sriiNrry sixteen asserE s;-s~a taxe3
uasn aEd faar wsnreH In various stages ~
alarm SEsin cane he orders n a rvuga
voice from TIE tsadsr 81 3 ne gang Throw
up your haaas every bedv. Ne mo-. ky
bgsTess here"
sisseen pair eF bands vrnf an f~w Of
them sg kWayaiy Sri H*sitatiuxjy 5ut
NEST az them wnh premuTuess ard good
s.are. Then ths man who had stood ~
the spolses tcsan 3t t1e rear % tae eRr drop
pad hLs pistols Into A}a raas pockets and
started Ia sexsFra the crewd TIE men
were ula.ie 10 etnna up w9tie taIeir posk
ete Were gene hastily tHroa&h and. watch.
eS eha3na and sssvf r}us torn or. Il Is
thought Shat t3saut $i5e in ns2ney slx or
seven watches and several Vsi8aaie pius
wrrs gvttrE in the loot. The whole affair
Occupied Hflsaa minutes. TIE hjKaway uaea
IA taear wogA quickly. thonga the nerV0,sss-