| Show THE STORY OF Ai TRAMP SACRAMENTO Cal Feb 13John P Harmens a tramp 50 years old who by his own confession recovered over ze oer 20000 that vas hidden by train robbers rob-bers a year ago is locked up In the jail in this city For months he has been living in San Francisco qn the fat of the land from the proceeds of the money taken from the overland express ex-press near Sacramento by Jack Brady and Browning over a year ago The prisoner hag turned over to the police 2000 which he had in the German ± l t1it 1 < Savings banlr in San Francisco 5900 in securities a diamond ring and a diamond collar button Harmens found the money hidden under a clump of bushes near Sacramento Sacra-mento where the robbers who Held up the train had buried it I is known that the robbers obtained over 50000 from Wells Fargo C but Harmens did not find all the plunder He says he obtained only 20000 but it is believed be-lieved that these figures are under rather than the exact amount This conclusion 1S based on the fact that when Brady bne of the bandits confessed con-fessed and took the officers to the place where the money was burled only 6000 was found Harmens had evidently evi-dently taken the rest of the treasure before the officers arrived Harmens was arrested in San Francisco on Saturday Sat-urday and brought to this city last night In appearance he is a typical tramp Among his friends he is known a Dutch Charley After he foUnd the money he went to SanFrancisco where he loaned a great deal to responsible re-sponsible business men But he was not miserly as it is said that he lived a life of luxury seldom dreamed of toy the average tramp He bought the most elegant clothes for himself making mak-ing a trip to New York for the purpose and the tramp was transformed into a I regular fashion plate |
