Show DESPERADOES AT GASTLE GATE E L Carpenter Robbed of Over Seven Hundred Dollars IT WAS DESPfcRATE WORK rioney Belonged to the Pleasant Valley Coal Company It Was To Have Been Used in Paying Pay-ing Off tho Coal MinersThe Outlaws Out-laws Made Their Escape on Horses Closely Pursued by Posses A Crime That May be Classed With the Most Daring Exploitsof the James GangButch Cassidy and Tom Gissell Supposed to Have Done the Job A robbery which for pure daring and recklessness deserves to be classed with the exploits of the James gang was committed yesterday at Castle on record occurred today at about 1230 > oclock at Castle Gate This is or should have been pay day for the coal miners there and 9800 came down on No 2 Rio Grande Western which reached here at 122S u m When the train reached Castle Gate the money was delivered by the express agent toE to-E L Carpenter paymaster of the P V Coal company who was with T W Lewis an employee of the company They crossed over the tracks and went onto the platform In front of the Wa satch store The passenger train pulled out for Helper and about 100 men or more were congregated around the store and in the road near the post office which is close at hand Two rough individuals who had been loitering ida i lag around town and ol In the saloon all day yesterday were also there with their horses Just as Mr Carnenter was nearing the outside stairs at the I east side of the building leading UD to the P V Coal companys office over the store one of these individuals dismounted dis-mounted and placing a sixshooter ID V Carpenters face said Drop them sacks and hold up your hands At the same time the second robber was whirling a sixshooter in his hand and firing shots promiscuously to create consternation Carpenter and his deputy dep-uty complied with the highwaymans request when the bold outlaw Immediately Immedi-ately secured the money and handing it to his pal started off down the canyon can-yon The horse belonging to the man who did the work got loose during the excitement and he had to run 300 yards down the road to catch It but in the meantime the other holdup was riding at breakneck speed away with the boodle Mr Lewis managed to escape es-cape into the store with one sack of silver containing 1000 and the other sack of silver was either dropped or thrown away by the departing robber and was nicked up a short distance from the store but the satchel containing contain-ing greenbacks and gold amounting in all to S7SOO was successfully made away with ALL WERE RATTLED No one in all that crowd of men had a gun and everybody was rattled and did not hardly realize what had happened hap-pened until too late Three shots however were fired at the retreating highwaymen from upstairs up-stairs windows of the office tQ no effect Down the canyon they rode fully hall a mile through the thickly settled part of the town before getting away from the houses Just north of the HalfWay Half-Way house the fugitives cut all telegraph tele-graph wires apparently to keep the news from reaching Sheriff Donant at Price and In this for a time at least they were successful On they spend and with no one in pursuit until they reachel Spring creek canyon half a mile north of Helper Crossing the mouth of this canyon they evidently took the trail leading across the foothills and came down past Garden Gar-den creek keeping two or three miles away and back from the railroad and farms In Price canyon making a I l ftm 1 kPI I II m 1 111 I 1 fl 1JJJ1gJ1qffiC I I II i i I i i I IIi 1 I 1 II fr t t11h III 11i11111l I d 1 I I CASHIER E L CARPENTER FROM A PHOTOGRAPH Gate the headquarters of the P V Coal company E L Carpenter of this city the cashier of the company went down to Castle Gate yesterday to pay oft the men and on the train with him went 9800 needed for that purpose the cash going by express Therobbers secured all of this but 2000 and the manner In which the job was done clearly shows that they were acquainted with Mr Carpenter by sight and knew the object of his visit for they went about their desperate work without the least I hesitation Fortunately the cashier escaped without injury but It is possible pos-sible that one of the desseradoes was wounded in the melee that followed the robbery Mr Carpenter is well known in Salt Lake and is as plucky a little man as walks He resides at 198 S street and his wife who is at home last ntztit I expressed her satisfaction to a Herald Her-ald reporter that her husband escaped without injury That he did so is doubtless due to the suddenness of the attack which gave him no opportunity to put up a fight The story of the affair is told in the following specials to The Herald STORY OF THE ROBBERY Price Utah April 210ne of the most daring and successful holdups straight cut across the country striking strik-ing the main Price and Huntington road in Emery county at about 230 p m In Washboard flat for just about that time the telephone wire running south to Price through Emery county was also cut This was done too late for their purpose however as word had already reached here and messages were sent to Cleveland Huntington and Castledale to at once organize posses and be In readiness to intercept the robbers By this time 7 p m they are well out of reach and In the vicinity of their rendezvous m San Rafael county if not overtaken or intercepted by some of the numerous posses sent out In about 30 minutes after the robbery at Castle Gate an engine was secured and Mr E L Carpenter and Mr Robert Dickson of Price an eye witness to the robbery and others hoarded it and began i be-gan a chase down the canyon but they i got no sight of the men and came onto on-to Price Sheriff Donan hastily gathered a oosse of four men who armed with Winchester rifles and well mounted started off south toward Cleveland at 2 p m so they were but a few miles behind the escaping desperadoes but will probably not overtake them as the outlaws were riding two good mustangs mus-tangs REWARD OFFERED Mr Carpenter immediately offered a reward of 2000 for their capture or ± 10f the return of the money At I j d r 3 p m another posse left Price for I Emery county and they returned atC at-C t oclock upon hearing of the robbers being so far ahead of them At 430 p m the telephone wire was repaired It had beeneut nine miles south of Price The first message received re-ceived over the wire was to the effect that two men havIng white and bay horses and answering to the descrip tion of the robbers had been seen off east of Cleveland At 630 p m the mail arrived from Emery county and the carrier stated that he met the two bandits just this side of Cleveland and about 15 miles from Price and that these two men kept several rods away from him and the road but he noticed them particularly One man was smooth shaved and wore a blue coat and black hat and the other a broad and light hat so these were most assuredly as-suredly the thieves Mr Carpenter returned re-turned to Castle Gate on tonights train and will again return to Price on the midnight train when he expects a 4 iI5 II 8 1 posse of officers from Salt Lake City These parties are supposed to be Butch Cassidy and Tom Gissell ANOTHER VERSION Another acount of the affair wired by The Herald correspondent at Castle Gate was as follows Castle Gate April 21E L Carpenter Carpen-ter paymaster of the Pleasant Valley Coal company was held up and robbed of over 7OCO in front of the Pleasant Valley Coal companys office at Castle Gate today at 1245 p m The deed was committed in the peer ence of two or three dozen spectators who were too much surprised to realize what was going on until the holdup was over and the robbers far down the canyon with their horses on the run It is presumed a third man was left at the lower part of town to cut the telegraph wires as the wires were found to be cut and communication stopped east a few moments after the holdup occurred An armed posse was at once organized organ-ized and started in pursuit while another an-other party boarded a light engine passing and rapidly covered the ground between here and Price All the mountain passes and places oi egress are being protected and watched and as the robbers had but a few minutes the lead they undoubtedly I undoubt-edly will have a hard time to make a I successful escape Both men were apparently ap-parently under 25 years and general appearances ap-pearances indicate that they were cowboys cow-boys or range riders One robber was about five feet five wore blue overalls brown coat soft hat had reddish hair and was sunburned sun-burned in the face The other robber was about five feet eight Inches wore blue overalls dark coat soft hat and was of rather light complexion One thousand dollars reward has been offered by the officers of the Pleasant Valley Coal company for the capture of thesrofobersand4l000tfor the recovery of tHe money The holdup occurred just as Mr Carpenter started to ascend the stairs to the companys offices with the several sev-eral bags of coin He was suddenly confronted by a man with two drawn revolvers who ordered him to hold up his hands which he did without loss of time A boy who held one sack hesitated and was promptly knocked down by a I blow across the temple with the butt of the robbers revolver Hastily gathering together the money the robbers rob-bers sprang on to their horses and beat I a hasty retreat amid a volley of gunshots gun-shots between the robbers and citizens some of the latter having by this time got on the scene with weapons A satchel that was dropped by the robbers had blood on it and it may be some of the shots took effect One man was arrested this afternoon on suspicion but it was decided he knew nothing about It although he is still I held in custody awaiting developments But little information thus far has been received from the different posses I but some definite report is expected before be-fore morning the latest rumors from the field being that the robbers passed through Cleveland at 3 p m on their way to Robbers Roost and a posse armed with Winchesters is hot on the trail The robbers acted with the utmost coolness and the affair was evidently well planned |