Los Angeles herald., 1905-03-21
STANDARD OIL
MEN HELD UP|
HIGHWAYMEN GET AWAY WITH
LARGE SUM
Money for the Monthly Pay Roll Is
Taken From the Messengers,
Who Are Bound and
Gagged
BY Associated Press.

by Associated Press.
BERKELEY, Cal, March 20.-J. e.
DAILY, an Oakland liveryman, who was
acting as a messenger for the Central
Bank of Oakland, was held up and
robbed of $4,000 while on his way to
the Standard Oil refinery at Point Rich
mond at 1880 this morning. There
were two highwaymen, one Of whom
was tall and the other short and stout
Both carried revolvers, but only the
taller of the men wore mask. The
short man had a heavy black beard.
the roadway between Siege and Point
Richmond.
The highwaymen jumped out of a
clump of brush at the side of the road,
and at once covered Daily and former
Deputy Sheriff AL Roach, who was rid
ers DAILY and Roach were compelled to
jump out of the buggy and give up the
sack of gold. Then the robbers tied
them to fence and placed gags in
their mouths.
DAILY and Roach freed themselves aft
to Siege station, on the Southern Pa
cific railroad, about half mile away.
They rang up the Oakland and Berke-
ley police stations, and Sheriff Veale
of Contra Costa county. In telling his
story over the telephone Daily said
that the highwaymen took their buggy.
as well as their own dilapidated rig in
which they had driven to the scene of
the hold-up. Travellers coming from
San Pablo said that a man bearing the
description of the taller of the men
had been seen driving rapidly in that
the old rig, took the road in the direc-
tion of Berkeley.
1t had been the custom of the Cen
trail bank to send out $4,000 to the
Standard Oil plant for the payment of
the employees once month, and there
acquainted with the fact.
Sheriff Frank Barnett and several
deputies and detectives from the Oak
land police department started at once
for the scene of the hold-up as soon as
the news reached Oakland. Sheriff
Veale of Contra Costa county, who was
notified at Martinez, has left for Siege.
Constable Moitoza and deputies are
watching at San Pablo. The belief is
held here that the men will soon be run
to earth.
Nine thousand of the stolen money
was in gold and $1,000 in silver. The
money was in two canvas sacks, and
the gold was mostly in twenty-dollar
pieces.
Victims BrutaIIy Treated
The hold-up occurred in a lonely spot
known as Deaths Cut" where the
San Pablo road crosses the Southern
Pacific tracks. about six miles from
North Berkeley and about four miles
east of Point Richmond. DAILY was
driving bay horse hitched to light
rubber tired road buggy. Having as
sured themselves that the money was
in the buggy, the robbers tied the rig
and marching their victims hundred
yards up the road at the point of their
rifles, bound, gagged and blindfolded
them. Then. dragging them to the side
OF the road in a most brutal manner,
they threw them into mud puddle,
having first tied their feet to the
fence.
"Some one viii come along in an hour
or so and release YOU" cheerlly re
marked the taller OF the two robbers,
who seemed to be the leader, as they
left the scene of the hold-up. and drove
away in Daly's buggy.
From the conversation OF the thugs
DAILY was able to gather that they were
well acquainted with the affairs of the
oil company. The taller Of the two
robbers remarked to his companion.
while searching the men. that this was