Salt Lake Herald | 1899-06-03 | Page 2 | Detective Seavey Talks

DETECTIVE SEAVEY TALKS Believes Highwaymen Were Experts at the Business W S Seavey general agent for the Thiel Detective Service company of Denver who was a passenger on section sec-tion 2 of train No1 was seen at the Cullen last night and told the story of the holdup Mr Seavey noted first the manner in which the train was signaled and gave i as his opinion that the deed was the work of men thoroughly acquainted with railroad maneuvering The actual I work of dynamiting he said was undoubtedly un-doubtedly the work of experts and although al-though Mr Seavey has a firm belief as to just who did It he did not feel that he could at present reveal the identity of his suspects Mr Seavey further stated that the robbers seemed to have the impression that section 2 would contain as passengers pas-sengers two carloads of soldiers and If this had been the case a pretty fair scrap would have been their portion But in this they reckoned incorrectly as there were no soldiers on the train