The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1904-09-12
FLY TO UNITED STATES.
Robbers After Making Haul Hasten
Across Border.

Seattle, Wash, Sept. IA special to
the Post Intelligencer from Vancouver,
b. c., says:
Todays developments in the case of
the robbery of $1,000 from a Canadian
Pacific railway train on Saturday night
show that the robbers fled for the Unit
ed States and are probably now safely
across the border
The robbery was planned to the mi
nutest detail. After having robbed the
express and mail cars. the robbers
forced Fireman Freeman to uncoupIe
the engine and With it they started for
a point which they named, two miles
down the track towards Vancouver.
Take US to the Wharnock mile post
in front of the little CHURCH." is the
way in which they DESCRIBED the place.
and with an oath the leader of the
three robbers commanded the engineer
TO hurry When they approached the
place, the leader said. This is the
place and ordered stop. The rob
bers clambered off together. the leader
backing away, covering the engineer
with his revolver.
Nov go back to your train,' he COM
manded, and the engineer and fireman
started back TO where their cars had
been left
Tracks Head Toward Line.
This morning the special train car
rying the posse arrived at daylight on
the scene and went over the vicinity
with the fireman. The latter showed
where the robbers jumped off From
there the tracks led plainly along the
railway for 200 yards, then through a
field 10 the bank of the Fraser river.
close at hand. There the three had
Jumped into boat which they doubt
less had previously prepared and
crossed the river. On the other side
they started for the international boun-
dairy by the Mount Lehman road. a dis
lance Of eleven miles They may have
had horses and there was nothing TO
prevent their being III American terri
tory by daylight today. The police are
watching this district and enclosing the
roads On all sides so that there is still
chance of the men being CAPTURED
before they reach Blaine or Be:Iing-
ham. They left nothing behind 20 give
the slightest indications of their iden-
tity. Their masks and outer clothing
must all have been taken or else sunk
in the river. The registered mail sack
was carried away.
Knew Local Conditions.
The mystery IS increased by the re-
ceipt of telegram yesterday from an
unknown source, directing the teIe-
graph operator al Mission to have the
express agent open the safe The
scheme of this message was evidently
10 suggest that the agent at Vancou-
Yer Was away or for some other reason
that the combination could not be
Opened here The telegram was signed
ID, for the dispatcher and must have
been sent by the robbers tapping the
wires and using their own instruments.
Inc message was sent from no station
along the route. The robbers had a bag
of dynamite with which to blow it open
II necessary. 1t is possible if one Of the
robbers was an operator that they lis
tened to the kilograms passing over the
Wire later in the night regarding ar
rangementS for their capture but the
general belief is that they get away
at once.
The sending Of this telegram. togeth-
er with other circumstances. shows
that the robbers had local conditions
sized up TO nicely. The robbers must
have climbed on the blind baggage at
Mission Neither the fireman nor en- !
Fineer heard sound until the revolver I
in the hand of the leader touched the
drivers shoulder When the engineer |
tunred. he found this revolver and two /,
rifles leveled at him from the coal ten /
der. The leader. d small old man with
an effeminate voice. told him To sep
at a certain point. saying if he did not 1
he would be killed. The only man I'm /
the train crew who had a gun was the 4
express messenger and he promptly
put it away when the robbers appeared !
at his door with the muzzles of their4
rifles sticking into the ribs of the fire. |
man and engineer.