The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-03-21
ROBBERS SECURE
$4,000 IN CASH
Money For Standard Oil Co. Changes
Hands.
BANK MESSENGER HELD UP
DAYLIGHT JOB BY TALL AND
SHORT MAN.
y ERKELEY, Cal. March 2O.-J. Z.
= DAILY, an Oakland Iiveryman.

. DAILY, an Oakland Iiveryman.
who was acting as a messen-
ger for the Central Bank of Oak
land was held up and robbed Of
$4,000, while on his way 10 the Stand
ard Oil office at Point Richmond. at
1890 this morning There were two
hlghWaymen, one Of whom was tail
and the other short and stout Both
carried reVolvers, but only the taller
of the men wore a mask The short
man had a heavy black beard. The
hOld-up took place at a point on the
roadway between siege and Point
Richmond. The highWaymen jumped
out OF a clump Of bushes at the side Of
the road and at once covered DAILY and
former Deputy Sheriff Al Roach. who
was riding with him. AT the point of
revOlvers DAILY and Roach were COM
PEELED to jump from the buggy and
give up the sack of money. Then the
robbers tied them to a fence and
placed gags in their mouths. DAILY
and Roach freed themselves after con-
siderable difficulty, and then pro-
Ceeded to Siege station on the Southern
Pacific, about a half mile away. They
rang up the Oakland and Berkeley po-
lice departments and Sheriff Veale of
Contra Costa county. In telling his
story over the telephone DAILY said
that the highwaymen took their buggy.
as we'll as a dilapidated rig in which
they drove 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 direction. The
short rObber who took the old rig. took
the road in the direction of Berkeley.
1t had been the custom Of the Central
bank to send out $4,000 TO the Stand
ard Oil plant for the pay of the en-
DloyeS once a month. and there is but
hot hn y
acquainted with the fact Sheriff
Frank Barnett and several deputies
and detectives from the Oakland police
departments started at once for the
scene of the hOld-up as soon as the
news reached Oakland. Sheriff Neale
of Contra Costa county, who was
notified has left for Siege. Constable
MOitoza and deputies are searching at
San Pablo The belief is held here
that the men will soon be run down.
Nine thousand dollars Of the stolen
money was in gold and 81. 900 in silver.
Bound and Thrown in Mud.
The money was in two canvas sacks
and the gold was mostly in $50 pieces
! 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
.
driving a bay horse hitched TO a 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 a hundred
yards up the road at the point OF their
rifles, they bound, gagged, and blind
folded them. Then dragging them &c
the side of the road. in a most brutal
manner they threw them into mud
puddle having first tied their feet Il
| the fence. some one will come along
I i'm an hour or so and release you,
! cheerily remarked the taller of the
I two robbers. who seemed to be the
[ leader as they left the scene Of the
I hold-up and drove away in DAILY
buggy
From the conversation of the thugs
Daily was a bic 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 wa!
/ better than working for the oil com
: Dany-
The robbers took only pocket knive.
/ from DAILY and Roach and in thei
l hurry overlooked 500 in Days pocket
Roach managed to work loose from
I his bonds and untying his companion
! returned TO siege where they told thel
! story TO Station Agent Grady Thei
apDcar4nce bore out the story of tn
brutal treatment they had been sub
. jccted to. Grady procured another ri|
/ for them and they drove on TO Rich
/ moud. where the authorities We're uou
fed. Armed posses are now searchiu,
/ for the robbers.