The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1904-04-04
THEIR TRACKS
WELL COVERED
No Clue to the Men Who Held
Up Oregon Express.
DETECTIVES LOOKING WISE
BUT UNABLE TO TURN UP ANY
THING TANGIBLE.

Redding, Cal, April 3.-No arrest
has yet been made in connection with
the holdup of the Oregon express
Thursday night at Copley William
Ahern. the railroad detective, said To-
night:
The people seem to expect that we
must capture the bandits right away.
IF not today at least tomorrow. They
forget that the robbers probably
planned their escape for a month be-
fore holding up the train. We cannot
turn around in a day or two and un-
cover their tracks. especially when We
have absolutely nothing To work on
The work being done by officials now
is principally that done by detectives.
wncse number was added to today by
J. ]. White Of san Francisco, repre-
senting Wells. Fargo & Co. Sheriff
Richardson is aiding them in every
way possible, but feels that the ser
vices of himself and force will be more
in demand when the bandits are
located than at present Since the
Kennel clew Of yesterday resulted in
the suspects proving a complete aI5i,
the situation as regards the apprehen-
sion of the robbers is as dark as it
was on the morning subsequent to the
killing of Messenger O'Neil. The de-
tectives are following up every posi-
bic clew.
Robbers at Home.
They have worked from the first on
the belief that the train robbers reside
in this vicinity Everything they say
goes TO show that. None but men per
fectly familiar with the territory could
have given the directions to Engineer
Joeslnk that the three masked men
did as they were being hUrriedly
drawn away from the scene of their
crime.
That makes it one of the hardest
kind Of cases" said Detective O'Brien
tonight THE highwayInen reach their
homes, dispose of all signs of their
crime resume their air of respectable
~. and in such an affair as this where
there is nothing to work on make II
an awfully hard case to ferret out"
Detectives at Work.
The detectives were working along diff
ferent lines today. Ahern and White went
north On a freight. not giving out their
destination. IL is believed the journey was
made 20 acQuaint White, who arrived mere
only this morning. with the scenes of the
crime G. G. Crowley. chief special agent
for the Southern Pacific company spent
last night at Heswick and returned 70 the
smelter town today He has nothing 10
give out as to the line Of his work. y Brlen
stayed in Redding today. COnstaDle r
Eldridge and Deputy Sheriff Bud Crume
went out to the Sulphur Creek section OF
the Buckeye region and ran down a false
rurnor. a miner had reported that as ne
sat washing Daneof dirt for gold three
armed strangers passed near MIN anu
faned TO answer his friendly salutatlon.
The officers found that the three men
We're residents of the neighbOrhoOd out
after game and had not felt it incumbent
upon them TO answer the greeting OF
A Possible Clue.
Six weeks after the Weaverville stage
WIS held UP last year the officers learned
that Immediately after the holdup three
cabin for several days on the north fork
OF Clear creek. al a point in the noun
tains out of French guiCh. Deputy Sheriff
Foster left this afternoon for the cabin.
working on the theory that the same men
who held up the stage held up the train.
and may again be rendezVOused in the old
cabin in the mountains. Detective Ahern
reports that he learned today from An
derson. twelve miles south of Redding.
that on March >. six days before the
hOldup. a stranger bought a box Of dyna-
mite in a store there The salesman says
he IS able 10 give a good description of the
purchasers.
Ex-Convict Recognized
4 peculiar point came up today. De
tective Ahern received photographs of
the states prison. and VINO were supposed
70 b. in this cart Of the state. It was
thought tho eX-conVicts might be con-
uccted with the crime. Peculiarly enough.
one OF the photographs was that OF
George White. the tramp who is being
held as n witness, as he was tho first
person encountered by the robbers As
Ee was starting 10 steal ride out OF
tupley the masked men mace him go into
the smoker and proceeded to carry out
their plans. White acknowledges that
the photograph il one OF him. The Off
GERS DO not connect him with the holdup.
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