The daily morning journal and courier., 1906-08-18
HOW HE SAVED HIS GOLD.

Yosemite Bandit Passed by Two Hun dred Dollars and a Gold Watch to Get Sixty Cents.
 J. V. Dusenberary was one of the victims of the Yosemite bandit who held up the passengers of five valley stages in one continuous performance. Dusenberry lost only sixty cents, but on his person when the highwayman searched him were ten twenty dollar gold pieces and a a gold watch and chain.
 Dusenberry had left the stage shortly before it reached the bandits ambush. He was following slowly behind, gath ering wild flowers and intending to take a cross country path later on and head off the stage, which was obliged to follow the torturous road
 The highwayman stopped the five stages one after the other. As he stopped one he ordered the driver to pull off the road in such way as to conceal the coach and horses from the stage following. The passengers he lined up behind clump of trees. Du- senberry, ignorant of the excitement ahead, was dawdling along enjoying the beauties of nature and adding blossom by blossom to the bunch of wild flowers in his hand.
 He turned a sharp bend in the road and found himself looking into the barrel of a rifle, Behind the rifle was tall, stopping figure with head, face and neck swathed in cloth, Through one of the crevlces is the face covering gleamed an eye,
 Hands up!" came in quiet tone of voice from another crevice.
 Now stand at the head of that line" continued the voice.
 The highwayman then resumed the operation of stripping the passengers of their wealth which Dusenberry' $ unexpected appearance had interrupt ed.
 Instead of standing at the head of the line however, Dusenberry saun- tered down to the other end and JplllSQ lIlOoS WI GblICduy 1lcu DcSIl robbed Behind the friendly shelter of an old ladys parasol Dusenberry made c encouragement of his personal prop erty. The two hundred dollars, part of which belonged to a fellow traveller and the watch and chain he dropped inside the waistband of his pantaloons and sudden chill around the angles told him of the safe arrival in his socks of his valuables.
 It was not until all the passengers had been ordered back into the stages that the bandit remembered Dusen- berry. He found the passenger agent and demanded his money Dusenber- ry gave up the sixty cents and knife. Better let me keep the knife" said Dusenberry. eff you take it it might cut friendship"
 The knife was returned and after sounding the outside of Dusenberry' pockets for more coin, the highway man told him to "chase himself"
 While standing in line many of the passengers, says Dusenberry, threw their valuables into the brush They returned later to find them gone They had been picked up, however, by the detectives who took the bandits trail, and were restored subsequently tl the owners,
 The highwayman opened the Wells Fargo box, but refrained from taking inc fifty dollars he discovered there, His modesty, he explained was due to a dislike to interesting the express company in his capture for so small a sum. He borrowed Dusenberry's lin en duster, spread 1t on the ground and on 1t laid all the liot he did not want He turned this bundle over to one oi the passengers for distribution later tt the owners.
 He was very cool" said Dusenber. ry 'fbut took no chances either of sur. prise or subsequent Identification, The mask he wore hid even his hair anC disguised the shape of his head. Ht wore a loose fitting suit and his fee were swathed in gunnysacks. The de- tectives found that after we had lief the fellow had discarded his mask ant the loose fitting clothes and burned them, He was a tall man, but main tained a crouching position and I q, not suppose any who saw him coult guess his height within couple o inches. In the valley nobody seems t think there is much chance of eaptur ing him. San Francisco Chronicle.
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