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Show CAPTURE OF TWO MORE MAIL A.VD EXPRESS ROBBERS. Two Sacks of Gold and Thirteen Hundred Dollars In Currency Recovered The Villains In the City Prison. On Wednesday a dispatch was received re-ceived at the office of Wells, Fai go k Co., in this city, stating that four suspicious sus-picious characters had passed through Deep Creek, who rather avoided the camp there; and that two of tl.eiu who purchased provisions displayed considerable con-siderable money. Mr. Tracey on receiving tho dispatch at once saw Messrs. II. P. Kimball and J. Q. Knowlton, men thoroughly acquainted with the country and well qualified for the work in yiew ; and they immediately started in pursuit. On their way west, they met Mr. Riley Judd coming towards this city with his express, who turned back with them. About two miles beyond I5p. L. D. Young's mill they saw two men, and from the description they had received belieTed they were two of the men they were in search of They called to them and the men came up, having first been allowed to pass, when the fellows were informed that they answered the description of men who were wanted. One of them dismounted, but the other turned his. horse and made over a slough near by, when Mr. Kuowl-ton Kuowl-ton followed him on horseback, the other remaining in charge of Messrs. Kimball and Judd. The pursuit pur-suit was continued for several miles, and when Mr. K. got within about eighty yards of the flying man he shouted for him to stop. Instead of so doing, he made as if were drawing a couple of revolvers, but kept on down iuto a bottom. Mr. K. followed him but kept the road, aud after riding some distance met some men whom he took with him. The fellow was stopped stop-ped by a fence which he could not get over, when he diverged and rode towards to-wards the lake. He was hotly pursued pur-sued and finally gave up his flight. He must have hid his saddle-bags and arms, for when captured he had neither; and when asked where the saddle-bags were said he did not know, intimating that if he .had had such articles they must have dropped off and got lost. A little persuasion in duced him to say he had dropped them in the water. Mr. Knowlton made him go back to where he said he had dropped them, and get into the water to search for them, but they were not found. The other fellow had also tried to escape, but the attempt was ineffectual. inef-fectual. They gave their names as Morton and Baker, but are believed to be John Kennedy, an American of Irish descent, des-cent, and Wm. Harvey, an Englishman. English-man. A pair of gloves was found on the latter, bearing the name of William Harvey. Fifty ounces in gold dust and about a hundred dollars in currency were found on them, the uumbers on the currency having been defaced and partially rubbed off, evidently to avoid detection in case of discovery. The men were immediately brought to this city, and were lodged in the City prison. TREASURE KKCOYEIIKD. Yesterday afternoon James Larkins arrived in town from Grantsville, Tooele, Too-ele, bringing information that the missing mis-sing saddle-bags had been recovered. He had assisted, with others, in dragging drag-ging the stream near the Grantsville woollen factory, where the fellow had said ho dropped the bags, and after some -searching they were found. Two bags of gold and 1 1200 in currency were recovered ; and in one of the bags there were two gold rings and a heavy gold cross. A knife and several coins were scattered around the place. The treasure is in the hands of the Tooele county officers. There are good hopes of capturing the other two robbers. |