The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1903-03-15
ROBBED
UNCLE
SAMUEL
Whitehead Postofice Burglar
lied of Good Sum in Stamps
ROBBERS MADE ESCAPE
Said to Have Ridden on Same
Train With Sheriff.

| Alva, o. T., March H-Saturday night,
between the hours of L m. and a. m,
| the postoffice at Whitehead was robbed
The robbers, altering entering the post
Office tied the clerk, who was sleeping
| in the office, and went through the Office
at their leisure. It is reported that they
got about $120 worth Of stamps and Sc or
IS in money. 1t is a good thing for the
postmaste that they did not make the
break just before the close of the month
as they probably would have gotten con-
siderably more.
A gentleman who went up on the train
from Woodward says: I'VE left Wood
ward about a. m. the train being late.
On arriving at Whitehead two men, one
spare built, dark complexioned man
about feet 10, with dark eyes and hair,
well dressed. with turn down collar,
black tie, his complexion being what is
termed an olive complexion; the other
one of those peachblow red compilations,
with large jaws, indicating a strong de-
termination, and farmer kid got on at
the same place"
The gentleman says that when the con-
ductor came in the front door of the car
he said: There is considerable commo-
o1sce has been robbed
When the conductor arrived opposite
the two men above described he followed
out in the usual tone, Tickets" Then
followed the explanation that aroused
our friends suspicion. They began ex-
planning that they had lost their tickets
after getting on the train and that the
conductor had put them off at Whitehead
and that afterwards he had found one
ticket in his grip, which he showed the
conductor, but said they were going back
to Gage to try to find the other. On ar
irving at Gage they got off, and that was
the last our friends saw of them until
Sunday night. The boy who got on the
train with them, or rather at the same
! time. turned out to be an employee of the
railroad, by the name of William Par
| sons. and was on his way to the Pan
handle, Texas. Our friend, having some
! business in Texas, and having attended
to it, returned on the midnight train
from the west The parties above de-
scribed were on the train. On arriving
at Woodward he saw Marshal Howard
and tried to prevail on him to arrest the
two men on suspicion, but to no avail.
Sheriff Stump got on the train going to
Guthrie. Howard told him what he knew
and the sheriff promised to search them
before they got out of the county.
Whether he did or not will probably
never be known.
Our friend is almost certain that these
are the men who did the work at White
! head, from the circumstances surround
/ ing the case and their actions after ne
first saw them; and while he had the
railroad men telegraph the facts along
the line to several agents the O1sceTS of
the law were running over the sand hills
/ looking for the robbers. while they were
resting asy in a hotel at Gage, and were
allowed to ride off in vanished coaches
without molestation because no officer
had the nerve to arrest them. even when
! pointed out by citizen.
This might be termed a comedy of
errors" One deputy left town Monday
with complete outfit-horse. Winchester
and nerve-but what he went to look for
had gone through Woodward the night
before in a vanished coach, and rode on
! the same train with our handsome sheriff.