The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-07-20
TRAIN ROBBERY
 LAID TO TWO
 NEW HAvENERS
Carl Bishop, One of Prisoners in Frisco Mail HOld-up, Worked
 as Bricklayer in This City
At Large With His Chum, Char les Dunbar, For Three Months But Finally Captured in Sacra- mentO

New Haven, July 20.-Arrested in
 Sacramento Monday night on charge of horse stealing two young men, who
 claim that they are New Haveners,
 have been taken to San Francisco on
 the charge of being the two bandits
 who held up at the point of revolvers,
 the fast China-Japan mail near Good year, Cal, on the morning of April IT last and after a desperate chase succeeded in escaping the snares of
 the officials who pursued them. One of the men arrested gave the name of James S. c. Brown, when first talk en into custody, while the other said he was Charles Dunbar, and each said his home was in New Haven.
 Brown, when taken to San Fran cisco, finally declared himself to be Carl D. Bishop, son of James A. Bish- op of 47 South Water street, but no further clue to the identity of Dunbar was given The men were identified to the satisfaction of the police suffi- cient1y at least to, warrant their be- ing held under this serious charge and they were taken to San Francisco The Identification, it is reported, came through the numbers on the revol
 vers, which they carried. Just before the holdup, three revolvers were stolen from a store at Riverside and it is stated that there were the same num- bers as those the two young men had with them. The descriptions of the men, although masked at the time of the holdup, also tally, including the position of a gold tooth in one of the mems mouth.
 The express was held up in one of the most romantic and daring rob- berries that has been perpetrated in many years and the first in California in a long while. The men boarded the train at a station and slowed themselves away in the tender. When the train was passing through des- olate region they climbed over the coal and held up the engineer and fireman at the point of revolvers and compelled them to stop the train and get out They then compelled the crew of the mail car to throw out, nine pouches of registered mail. These were put on the detached en- zine and the engine was run two miles down. track after which the pouches were thrown out and the engine was set loose with throttle wide open to run wild down the track till steam was exhausted. But for the watch fulness of a telegraph operator the engine would have wrecked a passen- ger train but he saw it was running wild and threw switch which sent it on to a side track into @ group of freight cars. None of the passengers on the train were awakened.
 The robbers with the mail pouches escaped to the mountains and despite the efforts of officials and posses they avoided arrest Now it is reported that these two men claiming New Haven as their homes are the two rob bers and they are being detained un- der that charge. a'.-
 James A. Bishop, blacksmith, father of Carl D. Bishop, when seen and told of the case admitted that Carl D. Bishop was his son and that the last time he heard from him he was in California and headed for Sac ramento.
 MT. Bishop stated that his son had been learning the brick laying trade in this city and after disagreement with his boss had left his job here and went to Bridgeport. He was accus- toned to coming home each week, but at the end of one week in Septem- Der of last year he did not come home
 San Francisco, July 2O-"We have the right men in custody Chief Spe- cial Agent P. G. Kindelon, of the Southern Pacific said today on his re- turn from Fairfield, Solano county. '"The taller one, who gave the name of James c. Brown, has been identi- | fled from letters in his possession as Carl D. Bishop of New Haven, Conn. 1 When we arrived at Fairfield this we found that during the | trip from Sacramento he had remov- 1 ed the blacking from his shoes and l with it dyed his hair. He was sham 1 pooed, restoring the hair to it's na- tural @soft brown color, Charles Dun bar. the other suspect, also is from New Haven, but of him little is 1 known
 The men are being held at Fairfield 1 for further Identification.