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Show AN ALLECED TRAIN WRECKER. Charles Ililoy Arrested anil Committed on Serious Charge. Oil Saturday afternoon last Marshal Voung and Sheriff liurt hypeuated their forces and proceeded to Garfield beach where they arrested one Charles Riley, who is suspected of having attempted at-tempted the wreck of a train on the Union Pacific branch to tho lake. Kver since the desperate deed was attempted circumstances have been weaving a serious web around Riley and it is very likely that tho authorities have placed their fingers on the right man. 'This nt least is a well settled conviction in the minds of his captors. The offense with which Riley is charged is one of the most hideous in the calendar. It appears that a week ago ontj of the clubs to whom a train was chartered bowled out of the depot for the lieach, where an evening was to be divided between the pavilion and the wafers. On the train tho conductor found a passenger who was not a member mem-ber of the club. This- was Uiley who is employed at. the lake as ' boatman'. Riley was togged out. in a hectic Hush that shone wilh (he splendors of a planet from his hiber-iiinti hiber-iiinti niKO and was making his presence decidedly obnoxious w hen Mr. Hr.istow, teller of the Wells. Fargo - Co.'g bank, ordered him lo be silent. This excited Riley's wrath, whereupon the I rain was signaled to halt and at the crossing ol' the Rio Grande ho was unloaded, lie swure to avetigo his discomlii lire and if he is the man he hisl; no time in an effort to execute his diabolical threat. At all events it was after 11 o'clock when the members of the club were returning, and the narrow gauge-engine, humping its spinal column, as it were, shot forward at terrilio 'speed. There was a sudden pause in the run, and passiMigers generally were shaken from their moorings, lieneath the glare of tne headlight the cause was plainly revealed. Across the rails of the Hack had been systematically laid a network of ties with the evident intention inten-tion of wrecking the train, l-'nriun atopy the engineer, who had his eve mi the iron trail, detected the dangerous obstruction in lime to avert, a calamity that, in all probability, would have been followed liy wholesale slaughter and bloodshed The ease- was reported at headquarters, headquar-ters, since which time both the sheriff and marshal have been giving it their vigilance. A few days ago Kiley was located as the fiend who had failed in tho awful purpose, and ho now languishes behind the bars of the lockup. IIj will have an examination and if he is unable to establish an alibi, life will at least, be made something of a mockery to him. |