Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1910-04-18
ROBBERs MAKE ESCAPE.

been serious wreck.
ROBBERS Make ESCAPE.
In the meantime the robbers were
making their escape across San Pablo
bay. whore the sacramento river emp-
ties into IL. The flash OF the robbery
had gone up and down the line and
posses we're forming.
Just before fleeing with the sacks u
mail the robbers fired four shots. with
the purpose OF frightening of any Inn
mediate pursuit. Even this did not
awaken the passengers The porter
heard the shots and locked all the doors
TO the sleeping cars. The China-Japun
mail lay engineless for some time while
locomotive was being brought from
Sacramento. II then was hurried into
Sacramento. arriving at O'Clock this
morning.
A fairly good description OF tho ban
dist was furnished by a man on the
Porto Costa ferry boat. who had OBJ
served them as they hang about wait
ing for the train they intended to rob
The men had the appearance OF being
railway mechanics. and from the famil-
iarity which they showed with the en-
CINE there Il no doubt in the minds OF
the officials that the men are former
railway employees
The trail OF the men has boon follow
cd to the rough hin country between
Martinez and Oakland, and Il Is be
lieved that they are headed toward San
Francisco, and that they have a good
chance 70 escape.
Near where the bandits left the en-
gine a road leads to the east bank OF
the bay. The men ran down this road
10 a rowboat they had concealed I'm the
bushes. The four sacks which they did
not take with them were found later by
other trains along the edge Of the
track They evidently had fallen from
the engine after II had been uncoupled
nom the train.
From the point where their boat was
moored. the bandlst rowed directly
across the boy 10 Bull's Head point one
and a half miles east Of Martinez.
There they abandoned the boat In
climbing the bank one Of the men slip
ped and lost a 3s caliber Colts revolver
and n pair OF field glasses This made
three clues for the officers 10 work on
in the Identification OF any suspects.
ALL TRACES LOST.
From the point where the boat was
abandoned all trace OF the men was
lost until Martinez Is reached.
Before daylight a horse and buggy
were stolen. supposedly by the robbers
from the stable OF a man named Hoag-
Icy. Between 3 and o'clock in the
morning George Frazer a farmer liv-
Oakland, heard a horse and buggy be-
ing driven past his house at wild
pace All this has lent definite direc-
ton to the chase. which early in the
afternoon conferred in the hills and open
country leading to Oakland.
Sheriff Neale OF Contra Costa county
was the first official 10 start after the
bandits With a posse Of men he left
Martinez before 1 o'clock in the morn
ing They jumped into a launch on the
west shore Of the bay and crossed
quickly 10 a point near whore the
bandits embarked for the west shore
So quick and accurate was the pursuit
that II is thought the bandits and Of
ficers passed one another in the dark
and the hunted men were kept aware
OF the whereabouts OF their pursuers
by the noise made by the launch. The
oars were dipped quietly, and by the
time the officers found that the quarry
had escaped the robbers were crossing
the open fields on the Martinez shore
and hunting for n horse.
The sheriff and HIS men found little
10 aid them on the east shore. Al day
break they crossed over again and
found a red rowboat hidden under a
bank This red rowboat forms an i'm
portant link in n theory connecting the
robbers with two unknown young men
who had been living in a cabin a mile
from Martinez for the last two weeks.
In the rowboat the officers found six
registered letters which had not been
opened A gold 50 cent piece OF 1859
date was found in the bottom OF the
boat
one clue TO the plans and Identity OF
the robbers. which the railroad officials
consider a hoax. was found In the coat
pocket Of garment left by one OF the
robbers IN the engine after the hasty
exit with the mail sacks. a letter was
At tHaF ri Of
up and where the loot was TO be d.
vided which was a saloon In Sacra-
mento. 4 map % Texas was found,
with several cities marked with
cross.
Officers were sent out 10 the cabin OF
the two young men near Martinez. The
men were gone. In held near by
suitcase was found. filed partly with
shotgun shells and coils OF fuse for
dynamite. and soap.
The finding OF the dynamite fuse
lends more color 20 the theory that
these young men were robbers. HAIR
a mile back from the place where the
mail train WIS stopped by the robbers
20 sticks OF dynamite were found be-
side the track one stick had been set
underneath n tie, with fuse attached
and the train had gone over this The
robbers also had mentioned dynamite
when threatening 10 kin the mail car
men after Black and clancy had re-
fused 10 give up the mail sacks at FIRST
demanded
sheri0f's forces shortly after day
break began closing in on both sides of
the county where the bandits are sup
posed to be hiding. Railroad detectives.
postofico inspectors and volunteers,
made up several posses. but at night
fall the search had been fruitlcss.
There are ~ separate packages Of
registered mail missing. In each or
these packages are several letters. The
railroad officials have posted n reward
Of s. 600 for the capture Of the robbers
The United States government has Of
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