Show if I 1 A A GIG ANTiO conspiracy Half halbmillion Million dollars borth worth orrall of rail road load freight stolen pittsburg ila i I 1 li I 1 detectives have unearthed a gigantic conspiracy for robbing tho the pan I 1 an handle railroad company nearly halt half a million dollars wo worth rt i oi of freight 1 alij said luid to biava been carried carnea air 1 b by tile the p plunderers under ers and their tools toola most 0 of 1 t alie 1 i 0 B 1 ll 11 in involved v 0 lv e 1 I i in n tha plot t ar are 0 c con on the 1 I u c t 0 ri i a and n d b r a k e m e n in th tho employ i p lo 10 y of I 1 ilia tt 0 road this morning a concerted lai 1 bigan began upon tho the laboring places pi ices and homes of the pan handle italic ay employees plo conductors and brakemen by a squad composed of policemen cole detectives tec tives and constables rt at 1 15 two prisoners were escor escorted tad to the jail I 1 from rom their hornes homes at 0 1 ting this m morning 0 r n 1 n g forty 1 l four 0 u r conlu 0 n tors 0 lt anil n d brake k m e i i i s e re locked e d u up I 1 in the i e arso county u n tyra ja jail le one entire wing ft ing of 0 had bid been beell specially tiecia lly set bet apart for their ac accommodation dail tho the early trains from rom the west tt cat were war I 1 held in in tile yard iud by the alie of rid red signals from ilia alie block at 1 avenue officers boarded ilia trains knowing knowl ni tile the men that were wanted and promptly secured them thein arid and marched them to jail no aral n arrived that did not loio joao one or more inora men from its creta john it II ll ampton attorney for the Pen pennsylvania sylvania company was wag seen ting this morning antho in alie office of abo detective agency whore sit Bitti ui amidst a heterogeneous collection of plunder he bo said those rob benea havi been carri carried edon on systematically for several beveral years tile alie company have leavo long been aware that there was a leakage hero and so BO early nil am 1886 thy they quietly commenced investigations a ft ero placed on tho the trains whereat ilia goods gooda could bo be watched and the thieves chught we had already discovered that the culprits were employees of the company in september there were eighty crews of freight trains on the pan ian handle coming coaling into pittsburg of these eighty crensh cren crew sm sno less legs than seventy five were found to bo crooked A drew con sinta of a conductor it a flig flagman nian and two brakemen in ili cases aalthe all the men were in evolved in only hilly a part the state stated merit that the engineers i and firemen were mixed up in the robbery it is wrong not a single one is involved the goods gooda were obtained ll 11 by the thieves in v various arlo us ways 1 in n man many I 1 allees ilia seals were broken 1 iwhite wliilam in in others ol liera hatchets were wera used to cut it a holo hole in ili ilia end at 0 tho the car through which men crawled craft led and took aliat flioy coveted then they reported the car lit in bad condition claiming clat ming that the holo hole I 1 had ad been made by accident the operations Ns ere nil all the result of a combination were carefully made inada and each rascal was assigned to tile his particular part of the tha work woric in mull tho same wicy as a bank robbery is co conducted d acted by professional cracksman cracksmen cracks men I 1 do not know that the members 0 of f the combination path bound or anything of that kind but blit it is ia certain 0 that it a thorough understand understanding lill existed among them and they acted in fit concert to cover each others doings tile tho thing winch which alarmed us more than anything else was that they stole large quantities of and drank it in tile cabooses cabo oses they needed vessels to hold the liquorino liquor iSo so they stole milk cans and kept it in ili them not daring to keep ilia whisky openly in the cars car tj they ley tore up the flooring and hid it underneath the men mail were continually drunk on duty anil and the proba 0 of a disaster a t r was something frightful to contemplate all kinds of V gooda 00 a were vre stolen including bowins tie hin 1 I guns guile revolvers cutlery a abw are 01 cigars ciare clothing liquors liquori grots eries nea ill r I 1 ture taro an and in in fact ad every wing imaginable a le art let that can call be carried on oil cars cara were quie quietly aly removed moed re the depredations wiro were coin committed all along the rood road and the tha losers reside at points as tar far west vest its as denver fences manees ra nees were wera established in in this city cily where the stolen property aas A as taken and then sold tho the money being evenly divided among the crews it is is impossible to give what the aggregate balue alue of the property stolen is 11 but as claimed now it will not reach the arrests r treated created the greatest excitement among I 1 the a railroad a employees 0 this thia elf city alie lie sienes scenes si enes a about out the jail doors th this I 1 arnini t where the relatives of the pr ors lind i n gathele to learn the ca cafeo 18 of t tho a were of 0 t the a saddest description at ono one ten more arrests were reported they were captured at the pay car while receiving their wa anges tim this makes a total of 66 56 now I 1 in r j jail a here and it Is supposed ni as many more have 16 been apprehended at other points along the line consternation prevails prevails among the proprietors etora of the fences fenced Fen cea and the dens where tho the goods good were secreted and sold the iho arrests include twelve conductors and nd thirty teton given more ire rrean to have b been imma debut the nimes hire not yet beon been recorded nearly two iwo hundred warrants are till still out A number of botimer lu ill various pans r t of 0 lie 1118 illy city were raided today to day and a r barge r g quantity ofir of roods recovered L avery very nun man crested bad stolen goods somewhere among the tha sonere are several neural desperate deap oraie characters who were by the tha police for other offenses they wore wera all armed mid and when not taken by so resisted listed re arrest numbers overpowered them thom how ove ranil all were lately lodged in indall jail A special dispatch from dorinson Ui Do say the of ol llora floers have arrested rusted ir jamo james end and W mollii with several thousand nd dollars worth yorlli of veleeta velvets and high priced dry good lu in their heir possession pon Hession tile articles having ben taken from the tha balte bonded ears cra en an youie to points visit bit important arrest made mada here bera was hii a brakemen young ile called at to moo 00 oo one or of the be prisoners prisoner this morning and was wai immediately looked locked u up at al tirl first he protested be was innocent bei but tidally binally admitted hollada he had a large lot or of stolen pro property pirty at hit bli home and told low kow the had bad come into lih possession we ills con regal 0 n it li Is said will convict thirteen crows |