Salt Lake Herald | 1899-08-24 | Page 5 | Escaped the Highwaymen

fSCArfO THf HIHW AYMB EXPERIENCE OF SALT LRS I IDAHO Judge Street and C C Higgins Might Nave Been Victims of the Stage Ii R bber But For the Snow JUdge James A t and C t Higgins Hig-gins who have just returned from a trIp to Idaho were congratulating themselves yesterday that they got I home with their pocketbooks and a share of their content A snowstorm in the mountains between Salmon City and ned Rock Mont Is all that prevented pre-vented them from gQlng out on the stage that waa held up Monday noon just over the Idaho Ine and eighty i miles west of Dillon ont I Mr Higgins says the dispatch about f f i the affair l in yesterdays papers was not entirely correct H T Reing manager man-ager of the Salmon Bridge comvan and his wife iwere the only passengers on the coach at the time and the were coming out with gold dust valued I at about 2000 Mr nelng also had I 32O in mone with him The robbers l e1 I carried off au the dust and left 1 Mr Reing In possession of 50 cents In I money They Intended to take his mone3 watch but he pleaded that I was given to him 1w his mother and I was returned re-turned The robber searched lrs I tteiling for her jewelry but fortunate ly she left I locked up in a safe at Salmon City Her jewelry is said to I be valued at several thousand dollars I The robbers before making the attack I at-tack grounded the telephone wIre so no communication cold be had with officers of the law They all rode horses and the fresh snow soon covered up theIr tracks r they cull not be trail d Mr Hlgginssld one naq had bee I arrested as a suspect but no one I thought he was oneof the robbers