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Show STAGE DRIVER IS SHOTBYjOBBERS MONEY BEING SENT TO JARBIDGE TO PAY MINERS TAKEN BY BANDITS. Driver Shot Through Back of the Head, Mail Sacks Rifled and Body and Team Abandoned by Murderers. Twin Falls, Idaho. Word received here Wednesday from the Jarbidge mining camp, in Elko county, Nevada, ninety miles south, stated that the United States mail stage was held up Wednesday night within half a mile of Jarbidge. The driver, F. Searcy, was shot through the back of the head and instantly killed. The first-class first-class mail sacks were rifled and a sum variously reported between $3,100 and $7,000 was taken. From the evidence gathered two men, probably posing as passengers, shot from inside the stage. Apparently, Apparent-ly, from the finding of a pool of blood and Searcy's hat, he fell from the wagon, was picked up and supported on the seat by the two men, who turned off on to an old road. They drove some distance to a clump of willows, where they rifled the sacks and abandoned the body and team. A posse of Jarbidge men started at once searching for the hold-up or holdups. hold-ups. Searcy was a young, unmarried man, well known here. His parents live near Kansas City. Wedensday was pay day at the Long Hike mine. The stage was due between 5 and 6 Wednesday evening in Jarbidge, and when it did not arrive men were sent out, and found the body and evidences of the robbery. |