Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-08-25

civilization to the spot whore the rob
berry occurred These Is men are to-
day in salt Lake. and quartorod at
the Kenyon. They tell an interesting
story of the receipt of the news OF tne
holdup at Old Faithful iun. aud Of tho
excitement and CONSERVATION loHoW-
ing the announcement that real hold
mp hnd occurred In the park aud that
the occupants OF half dozen stages
containing pleasure seekers we're COM
PEELED to give up ut the point Of gun
their money and valuables.
The head of the Pittsburg party who
by the way Is a detective OF large prac-
tise in the smoky city, Is Mr.. Robert
j. Mcintosh. and he Ia accompanied by
probably rs inc appearing bunch Of
men as would be found in the country.
They were resting at the Inn after
their trip to Seattle. whore they had
attended the national convention Of
Eagles recently held in that city.
About 9:15 yesterday morning" said
Mr. Mcintosh, I'VE were all sitting
around In front OF the old Faithful inn
when we were astunished to see dash
ing up the road u man on horsebdCk
without coat or hat. lie was evidently
greatly perturbed, and when he finally
reached the door of the hotel and
jumped from his horse, he stood, agI-
tated and trembling. Nainly trying to
summon his powers of speech. This
he was unable TO do for fully two min
utes, and then he managed 10 blurt out
the words, Hold lp--L.Onc Star cross
roads-evorybody help
"All was excitement and confusion
at once. The man went into the ho-
tel office, and in y few minutes was
able TO tell connected story of tho
holdup, how one lone robbcr had heln
up six coaches all by himself, and had
stolen everything of value that the
passengers in those six coaches had on
them. He told how the robber missed
one coach-one of the Wylie camp
coaches-and how lie was dressed in a.
brown shirt, blue overalls. and had u
white handkerchief over his face, how
he pressed into his service one of the
tourists and compelled him TO hold tue
sack into which the passengers were
forced to drop their valuables after
being lined up in front OF each coach
as it passed along, and how he reward
ed the tourist, who had thus periorce
assisted him, with n blow across the
head with the butt Of his gun.
THE instant the news was annouuc-
ed" continued Mr.. Mcintosh, eight or
ten of the boys accompanying me vol
unteered 10 go with the party TO chase
the robber. 1t was lust in my line, and
of course, ! was anxious to go. We
tried high and low to get horses and
guns to pursue the bandit, but the
rule of the park that no one may
carry guns inside the lines made ii inn
possible to get shooting pieces, and
horses were just as scarce: In fact,
they could not he had, This we re-
GREETED very much, as we had the
news and could have gotten out 45
minutes ahead of the time the sol
diers were placed on the march
"'rhe sergeant who brought tho
news headed the party OF soldiers who
took UP the chase and they trailed
the robber three miles to a swamp
whore they lost the trail and We're
compelled to turn back. The robbery
was committed at a lonely spot in
the mountains where the road takes a
heavy. down grade, and it was evil
dent the highwayman darted out from
the brush at a point where only the
stage and himself could conveniently
occupy the road. The stages travel
about 10 minutes apart, and the man
must have worked quickly to get them
all but one.
1--WE noticed around the hotel the eve
ming before that many of tho women
wore great clusters of diamonds around
their neck, as well as eardrops and i'm
ger rings of bright sparklers. We are
of the opinion that ii was no stranger
To the place who held up the stages,
and no stranger to the park, The man
who did the work, it is said, was about
81 years old He knew what he was do
ing. Tho only thing we regret" said
Mr.. Mcintosh, In conclusion, Us that
we were preventing from getting into
the chase"
Accompanying Mr.. Mcintosh In the
Pennsylvania party were Z. Il. Nun
hail. william c. MCNAMARA, Sam Bal
ley, Dennis Cronin. Thomas Nardina,
j.. l.. Doyle, Harry l.. Miller, John
Brown. Paul Angler, George Lapee.
Charles Bosch. a. j. Dougherty, d. A.
McCee WIN BurlSatt, James Johnson,
Edgar Syphers and j. Hancy all of