The Pioche record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1908-1925, 1911-01-14

" Fargo Express OF $4,000 |
VI eleven years ago, is running
an engine on the St. Louis,
Brownsville & Mexico Rail-
road. He is apparently suffering no
pangs of conscience over his crime.
The penalty which he paid for taking
the money was five years in the pen
itentiary, the court giving him that
sentence on plea of guilty.
What became of the $4,000 is a
mystery to the Wells-Fargo people
and the detectives who have been
searching for it ever since, says the
New York Press. 1t is known that
Beeler never has reaped any benefit
from the stolen money From the
time he left the doors of the peniten-
tiary until short time ago there was
not day that he was not Swallowed
by detectives. At last the express
company is said to be convinced that
Now the company has given up all
hope of ever obtaining possession of 1t.
The story of this robbery and the
events relating to 1t form one of the
most remarkable in the criminal an
nails of the country. Beeler was
driver of a Wells-Fargo & Co. wagon
In San Antonio and had been in the
employ of the company several years.
One dismal evening in the winter of
1899 packages of currency and bags
nf cold fa
counted out to Beeler by the local
cashier in the San Antonio Office of
the express company, with instruc-
lions to haul the money In his wagon
safe to the Southern Pacific Railroad
station and deliver it to the pay car
of that road. Local money deliveries
Of this kind had been made many
times, but the express agent always
accompanied the driver 1t happened
on this particular day that the local
agent was not in the Office, and Beeler
drove off alone with the money.
succumbed to Temptation.
He says he had no sooner left the
office than the thought flashed through
his mind that here was his chance
to get fortune. He did some rapid
thinking while his horse was travelins
! toward the railroad station, and he
decided to make way with the money
1t was a stake worth playing for
even should he be captured and made
to serve prison sentence. He turned
the horses heads In an opposite direc
ton from the station and drov,
through the alleys and quiet street.
until he reached the outskirts of tn,
city. Darkness had settled down ant
he drove the horses and wagon on
into the country for a mile and en-
tered a mesquite-covered thicket Ty
Ing the horses to a tree, he soon hat
the safe open and the $4,000 In hi
possession. 1t was a comparativel,
easy matter to carry the currency
but the gold coins made a weight,
bundle. In order to prevent his trai
being followed Beeler started ava
from the wagon on foot. He heade,
south, Mexico being his objectiv
point. He claims that when h
reached ranch few miles beloy
San Antonio he buried all of tn
money except $4,000 in bills. He say
that he placed the gold in tin cans an
carefully marked the spot where b
hid it. 1t was his plan to use tn
$4,000 to make his escape into Me,
leo and to live there for time unit
the excitement over the robbery ha
subsidized, when he would secret
make his way back to the ranch an
dig up the money.
OFFICERS Soon on Trail.
Having relieved himself of the gol,
Beeler purchased horse at the ranc
and started of on wild ride to gal
the other side of the Rio Grande an
the mountains of Mexico. Within a
hour after Beeler left the Office wit
the money the express company hs
spread the alarm, but 1t was not unit
along toward noon next day that tn
abandoned horses and wagon wei
] found in the brush. Meanwhile