Los Angeles herald., 1907-02-13

dering at the sounds Of human suffer-
ing. l though possibly it was some
Mexicans who had been in a fight and
been wounded. The men passed almost
directly north. l looked at the clock,
but could not get to sleep again"
On a Redhot Trail
Ramsay was at once convinced that
the woman had heard the wounded rob-
Der crying aloud He reasoned that
the men throught they were far from
any habitation and the wounded man
was giving vent to his long suppressed
agony. The sound of the dogs bark
ing made the injured mans compan-
ion determined to stop his cries until
they got away from the house which
was nearly concealed by the trees and
which the men probably had not seen
in the darkness.
The officer started down the trail
looking eagerly for the bright crimson
stains so eagerly sought all day by the
posse, but he was disappointed. Where
the trail dipped to a small stream of
clear cold water Ramsay dismounted
and made careful reconnaissance. There
! was an excellent chance that the men
would stop to battle or possibly rough
ly dress the wounds there. He was
chagrined to nd no trace of the men
having crossed at the sandy ford. He
reasoned, however. that they were ex-
perienced enough to leave no exposed
trail at such points. He believed they
had gone up stream and crossed in the
brush, then returned to the hard rock
trail, which left no imprint of hurry
ing footsteps. He searched in vain for
broken bushes or blood stains.
Trail Grows Cold
Two hours the officer rode through
the tangle of greasewood and sage
searching for sign. He said after
ward it was possible he had gone with
in few feet of the men, who might
have been concealed in the thick tangle
Of puckerbrush. The man with the re-
volver could have held the trailer un-
der deadly aim ready to send the death
dealing bullet speeding to its mark if
| the officer had turned his bronco's head
in their direction.
| OficeT Ramsay worked his way to-
ward the coast and secuted out Santa
| YneZ canyon and came out on the
beach, three miles north of Port Los
| Angeles. He was convinced that he
| had ridden completely around the hid
ing place of the men, but felt that it
would be almost an immposibility to
make them break cover
Early in the search it was suggested
that the men may have broken into a
box car on the side track hoping to be
thus hauled out to safety. Without de-
lay Aguirre sent two men to the
Southern Pacific tracks below the
bluffs. These men found there had
been no cars taken from the yards and
the only string of cars that had been
pulled from the wharf were gone over
carefully, but the seals on both sides
proved to be intact
A report was circulated that hand
| car was missing from the tool house,
but this proved another false lead
1t was for a time argued that the
men had separated and two of them
driven in d light buggy up the West
gate boulevard toward Los Angeles.
This was hardly credited because
Deputy Sheriff Pritchard of Holly
wood was out within an hour of the at
tempted robbery and covered the coun-
try between Hollywood and Westgate.
A Colegrove deputy sheriff with G..
Frick of the Hollywood Cemetery COM
pany drove from ColegroVe TO a point
west of Sawtelle and covered all cross
roads so that 1t seems unlikely that
rig carrying the bank robbers could
have gotten past them.
Deputies Cover All Roads
It is admitted, however, that in the
darkness rig might have been readily
turned into a field until any one ap-
preaching in an opposite direction
would pass without seeing them.
Deputy Sheriffs Martin Aguirre and
Claude Mathews drove from Los An
geles 10 Santa Monica via the old Bal
Iona road. Deputies Rico and Woods
also drove to Santa Monica. All these
men approached the city over different
highways and all reached the scene of
the robbery about daylight. 1t is
hardly believed the robbers would at
tempt 10 get into LOS Angeles as they
could not have reached there before
daylight and the police would be on the
alert TO meet them.
The theory that the men had left the
beach by rowboat was not given much
credence though it was admitted that
they might try to again make a sue
cessful getaway by that route as they
did after the ruccesGful raid on the
State bank Of Newport January 4,
where the robbers yleW the safe and
got away with $1,000.
Well Supplied with Money
The robbers re believed to have
been well supplied with money, be-
cause, since the robbery of the Newport
bank, they secured 5000 at the Duarte