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Show A-NOTHEa Stage RuBBEav. The stage from Susanville, evadai was-robbed was-robbed early on Tuesday evening last when within a mile and a half of Peno. Among the passengers were Major Eggleston, a paymaster in the U. S. A., and six so'diers, who with tho driver, dri-ver, were relieved of between seven and eight thousand dollars. Just as the robbers, of whom, as it afterwards appeared, there were but two, were completing the job, the stage driver, who had just been robbed of 100 in coin, drew a derringer and shot one of them, woundn? him. The robbers then started and ran. in the meantime firing at the coach and passengers, but without hurting any odc Afterward; a party came back to the scene of the encounter, and found Major Eggles-ton's Eggles-ton's belt, which contained ST.O'X) oi the money, which had been dropped by the wounded robber in his flight. The wounded man was subseqently captured by a party of citizens, and found to be a youth named Chas. B?a ver. His wound is doubtless fatal, the oall having passed' through his liver. The other robber is known to be a son of the notorious Chat Roberts. There was considerable excitement' at Reno on the affair, and a good deal oflaugh ing, over an officer and six soldier-being soldier-being robbed by two road agents. The 00I7 explanation given by the soldiers as that their arnu, were packed in the bottom of the coach, and not come itable for such a sudden emergency. |