The San Francisco call., 1905-03-21

able opportunity. In support of this the
ory he recalled having noticed buggy
standing on Railroad avenue, par
allel road to the railroad tracks that
runs north from the cut on the east
side of the railroad embankment. The
stableman observed the buggy there
this morning as he drove along, but
paid no special attention to 1t. The
riS was gone after the robbery oc-
CURED.
Roche and DAILY saved the gags and
ropes and turned them over to the au-
thorities. The gags were knotted
pieces of canton flannel and blue shirt
ing fastened by ordinary spring twine.
The masks of cotton napkins We're
also tied ON by twine. New bale rope
was used for the thongs about the
mems hands and feet The robbers
worked quickly and they did not make
as good a job of their fastenings as
they might have with less speed.
They had their situation we'll in
over their victims, train passed along
through the cut, within fifty feet of the
scene, but the men were hidden behind
the grass on the embankment.
The robbers took care to see that
neither DAILY nor Roche were armed
in fact, neither of them had a firedrm
or weapon more deadly than their
D
beeu afraid of trouble, as he did not
suspect his errand was known to out
siders He is sure now that the rob-
bers were we'll informed as to his mis-
sion in view of the remark one of them
made about the "oil money"
EXPLAINS HIS TRIP.
Roche, Daly's companion is son of
A. W. Roche of Pasadena, the young
mans home until two years ago, when
he came to Oakland. Until two months
ago Roche had been in the Sunset Tele-
phone Company's employ in this city
He resides at 1927 Franklin street.
In explaining his trip. Roche said
DAILY had invited him TO go along as
he had last month And he added:
1T was the nervieSt thing / ever
witnessed When the man with the
Winchester rifle jumped out at DAILY
did not realize what had occurred until
the second man stuck his pistol toward
me. The man who talked with me had
a foreign accent, German or Swedish.
They got us out Of the buggy mighty
quick and soon had us smothered in
gags and binders. Both men wore
white cloth masks that covered their
faces from their eyes down. 1 could
only get general impression Of them.
They ordered us about in a lively way.
After we had been secured and were
lying on our faces / heard the buggy
driving away. 1t wasn't but few
minutes before 1 got myself loose. 1
cautiously looked over the edge of the
embankment, but saw no one. Then L
tore DAILY loose and we started on the
run for the railroad depot
DAILY supplemented Roche's story
with details of the encounter with the
masked robbers. The stableman was
surprised by the sudden approach of
the first highwayman. DAILY continued:
DAILY TELLS STORY.
''The man who approached me was
hiding behind a telegraph pole on the
right hand side of the road, near
which was a broken-down farmers s
wagon. When he ordered me to stop.
the rifle being at my head. / jerked
out my whip to start the horse going,
but the robber said: Don't you make
another move or I'll blow your head
off, / stopped just as the other robber
came UP on Roche. They made me
drive off the road to a fence. where VIC
| both got out at their command My
robber said:
II suppose you know what we
want?'
Yes 1 replied. I guess do
Then / asked them to tie the horse
fast so that he would not run away
After that was done they marched US
across the road. through the fence
along the railroad embankment south
as far as a telegraph pole. After we
had been tied and gagged we were
warned not to raise our heads, under
pain of having them blown off. After