The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1906-10-18
HOW HE SAVED HIS GOLD.
Yosemite Bandit Passed By $500 to
Get 60 Cents.

Get go Cents.
J. V. Dusenberry was one of the vic
Tins of the Yosemite bandits who held
up the passengers of five valley stages
in one continuous performance, says
the San Francisco Chronicle.
Dusenberry lost only 60 cents, but
ON his person when the highwayman
searched him were ten $50 gold pieces
and a gold watch and chain.
Dusenberry had left the stage short
" before it reached the bandits am
bush. He was following slowly be-
hind, gathering wild flowers and in
tending to take a cross country path
later on and head off the stage, which
was obliged to follow the tortuous
road.
The highwayman stopped the five
stages one after the other As he stop
ped one he ordered the driver TO pull
off the road in such a way as to con-
ceal the coach and horses from the stage
following The passengers he lined up
behind a clump of trees. Dusenberry,
ignorant of the, excitement ahead, was
dawdling along enjoying the beauties
of nature and adding blossom by bios
som 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 crevices in the face cover
| ing cleaned an eye.
Hands up!" came in a quiet tone
of voice from another crevice.
'sNow 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' un-
| expected appearance had interrupted.
Instead of standing at the head of
the line, however, Dusenberry saunter-
| ed down to the other end and Joined
those who already had been robbed
Behind the friendly shelter of a won.
ans parasol Dusenberry made a rear
rangement of his personal property,
The 5000, part of which belonged to a
fellow traveller. and the watch and
chain he dropped inside the waistband
of his trousers and sudden chill
around the ankles told him of the safe
| arrival in his socks of his valuables
1t was not until all the passenger:
had been ordered back into the stage:
that the bandit remembered Dusenber
ry. He found the passenger agent an(
demanded his money. Dusenberry gave
up the GO cents and a knife.
Better let me keep the knife" sai'
Dusenberry. IF you take it it Nigh
cut friendship"
The knife was returned and afte
sounding the outside of Dusenberry'
pockets for more coin the highway
man told him to chase himself"
| While standing In line many of tn
passengers, says Dusenberry. threw
their valuables into the brush. The
returned later to find them gone The
had been picked up, however, by tn
detectives who took the bandits trail
and were restored subsequently to til
owners.
The highwaymen opened the Well:
Fargo boy, but refrained from takin
the $50 he discovered there. His moo
esty, he explained, was due to di'
like to interesting the express con
pany in his capture for so small sun
He borrowed Dusenberry's linen duste
spread it on the ground and on 1t lai
all the loot he did not want. He turn
ed this bundle over to one of the pa
sengers for distribution later to th
owners.
"He was very COOL" said Dusenbe
~, 'but took no chances either of su
prise or subsequent Identification. Tt
mask he wore hid even his hair an
disguised the shape of his head. q
wore a loose-ftting suit and his fe'
were swathed In gunny-sacks. The d
tectives found that after we had lie
the fellow had discarded his mask an
the loose-fitting clothes and burne
them. He was a tall man. but mail
tanned crouching position, and ! d.
not suppose any who saw him coul
guess his height within couple I
inches. In the valley nobody seems
think there is much chance of captu
ing him."