The White Pine news. [volume] (Ely, Nev.) 1906-1910, 1908-08-30
THRILLING TALE OF
NATIONAL PARK ROBBERY
Passengers Who Were Victims OF
Highwayman in Yellowstone Give
AccountS-How Bandit Works.

Accounts-How Bandit Works.
SALT LAKE. Aug 29.-Nictims of
the lone bandit of Yellowstone Ma
tional park who reached Salt Lake
yesterday were united i'm the opinion
that the daring highwayman was not
some wanderer who chanced TO ram
BILE into the park and was tempted TO
hold up the tourists, but was a man
who was well acquainted with the
park country and had spent eonsid-
cradle time in preparing for his spec
tacular descent upon the sightseers.
Among the Salt Lakers woh got back
from Yellowstone yesterday were
Joseph Geoghegan and his two
daughters, Mr. and Mrs. Sidney ID.
Evans, Mr.. and Mrs. A. f. Hutchin-
son and son. Mr.. and Mrs. J. Y. Rich,
Miss Vera and Miss Lueila Cutler,
daughters of Thomas r. Cutler, Will
lam W. Bellows. manager of the Utah
Bingham Mining Co. and others. Mr..
and Mrs. W. II. Foster of New York
returned with the Geohegan party.
SPOT WE'LL ADAPTED.
THE place selected by the robber
for the hold-up,' said Mr.. Hutchin-
son. was ideal-from the highway
mans point of view. On one side
there was a steep hillside and on the
other a stream.
Vehicles approaching the spot
were compelled TO round curve.
which brought them right under the
robbers rife before the drivers and
the tourists were aware of what was
going on ahead. BY the time they
caught.sight OF the bandit there was
no way of escaping and there was
nothing TO do but TO drive on and
take what came.
: he robbers had his head covered
with what seemed 10 be a piece of
cheese cloth or a portion of a flour
sack. i'm which two holes were cut
through which he could look.
As his face was completely COW
cred by the mask. | could not tell
whether he wore beard. although
in the descriptions sent out It was
said that he had gray whiskers. But
| could see his eyes. They were OF
steely gray. and looked deter
mined
FAMILIAR WITH WEAPON.
THE man seemed nervous, but
handled his rifle I'm manner that
suggested long familiarity with the
weapon.
II do not know how much money
the rohber collected from the 16
stages he stopped one after another,
but there Is no doubt that he missed
more than he took because of the
necessary. haste with which he OPP
Grated.
"The highwayman had little time
to devote 10 rifiing the pockets of
the occupants of the stages. As fast
as he stopped one vehicle. another
would approach. He seemed unwill-
ing TO run the risk of having a line
of stages walt in the road for his
attention. and would hurry the We
hieles along at sight OF the approach
of new load of victims.
1T is possible that when he took
his position at the side of the road
IL was his intention 10 rob only few
of the stages. but they crowded so
closely one after another that he
changed his plan and halted all of
them.
Il was told that pursuing parties
traced the rohber for some distance
toward the Jackson Hole country and
lost track of him In swamp
THOUGHT IT FIRST A JOKE.
Al first We thought is was a
Joke" said Sidney d. Evans. THAT
probably accounts for the fact that
none of the ladies tainted or were
badly upset by the shock of the adj
venture.
AS We rounded the curve. We saw
the highwayman bidding adieu to a
stage load of his victims. Our driver
turned 90 us and said: It's mold
up. Cache your yaiuables.'
lis thar straight | asked. feel
ing inoredulous. because a young man
was holding the bag for the highway
man, who was a member OF one OF
the parties of tourists and whose face
was familiar 10 us.
THE driver assured MS that 1t was
hold-up In grim earnest, and al
though | still felt that 1t was all
Joke prepared by the drivers and
some of the other tourists. | dropped
my money upon the floor of the sur
rey in which | was riding. Mrs. EV-
ans picked mp the money
STAND AND DELIVER.
"When We reached the bandit. he
ordered us TO stand and deliver. Mr..
Hutchinson. who, wit hhis wife and
son. was riding with MS, handed the
man a roll of bills. II looked large.
but did not contain more than $50.
| gave him some change which / had
In my pocket. something less than a
dollar. He seemed dissatisfied until
| told him that Mr.. Hutchinson was
carrying the money.
"Then he seized my watch. As 1t
has a plain gold case, he concluded
that II was not worth much and toss
ed II back, saying contemptuously,
that he would not carry 1t away: but
he took Mr.. Hutchinson's watch,
which had more ornamental case,
roughly breaking the chain as he tore
the watch away. He also took ring
which Mr. Hutchinson was wearing