Show BOLD HOLDUP Of SOUTHERN PACifiC TRAIN Number 10 China Japan China Jp a an Mail Mall Robbed Near Dear OaK OaK- land ONLY REGISTERED MAIL POUCHES TAKEN Bandits Being leing iii Vigorously Pursued and Ca Capture P PIs tore Is Probable I. I I BENICIA DENICIA Cal April 18 Tire The The China China- Japan mall mail No 10 which left San FranCisco FranCisco Fran Fran- Cisco for tor the east at 9 o'clock Saturday night was held Up by masked men at Sprig tw two o miles mUes east of here at 1230 Sunday morning and robbed of nitro nine pouches of ot registered mall mail The train carried no express whatever Four of these pouches have rave been recovered Th The he Passengers on the train were not ji disturbed and several of them did not learn of ot the holdup until next morning After getting the mail maU sacks the robbers cut the engine loose from the train and sent it wild throttle open down the main track to the eastward In the direct path of the engine was a section of ot passenger train No 5 6 westbound westbound west west- bound heavily laden with passengers But for the presence of mind of a telegraph operator at Suisun a serious collision would have taken place The engine was waa thrown into a switch In the nick of time limo The train robbery Is the first that has occurred In California for tor several years It was plotted and executed in a daring spectacular fashion Before the fast mail maU had arrived at Benicia two men who had left Oakland on another train two hours earlier and had left their train on the Port Costa ferry boat climbed unobserved on the rear end of No locomotive The Japan China Japan mall mail had gone less than five miles from the Ben Ben- landing when the stowaways crawled over the oil olt tank In n the tender and presented presented presented pre pre- revolvers at the heads of the engineer engineer engineer en en- and fireman and ordered them to stop the train and get oft of the engine We Ve are not going to hurt you Baldone said Bald one of ot the robbers All AIL ve we want Is the treasure box Want Registered Mail The engineer and the fireman complied quickly having nothing to defend themselves themselves themselves them them- selves with except Jack Then the robbers taking the engine crew with them went back and compelled the engineer en engineer engineer en- en and fireman to get into Into the mall mail car which was in charge of Herbert J. J Black Dlack and his assistant Thomas Clancy Throw out the rho registered mall mail pouches ordered the robbers Black started to toss out newspaper sacks but the robbers showed their fa familiarity familiarity fa- fa with the situation by detecting the ruse at once They threatened to kill the clerk unless he gave them the mall at once Black complied The engine crew then was forced to carry earry the rho nine sacks to the engine The engine and mail mall car were uncoupled from the coaches filled with sleeping passengers passengers passengers pas pas- and run down the track two miles Hero Here the mall mail pouches were thrown out upon the ground the engine was u uncoupled Us its throttle O pushed wide W rd Ord Pj open and it began 1 its wild Journey toward to toward ward a passenger train coming westward at sixteen miles east cast passing the first of ot this train on a a. a siding at Cygnus As the engine passed the station at Suisun the operator on on duty there noticed that it was running wild a with no one Inthe Inthe in inthe the cab He Fie immediately reported this fact tact to the dispatchers dispatcher's office at Oakland Oakland Oakland Oak Oak- land and received ed Instructions to call up Tolenas by wire and order the men there thereto to derail deran the oncoming engine Second section train No o. o 5 5 6 westbound had Just arrived at Tolenas under orders to wait trait there for the Japan China-Japan mall malt The switch was thrown and the runaway runaway runaway runa runa- way engine which by this time n was aa pretty prett well relieved of steam ran on onIL ona ona a IL siding and smashed Into a string o of 10 box bas 1 cars The operator at Suisun had averted what would have have e been a serious Robbers Escape I. 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V In t the he meantime the the robbers were makIng making making mak mak- ing their escape across San Pablo bay where the Sacramento river empties into it The flash dash of or the tho robbery had gone goneI I up and down the lino Uno and posses were fo forming I Just before fleeing with the sacks of mall mail the robbers fired four shots with the purpose of frightening oft orr any Immediate immediate immediate im Im- mediate pursuit Even this did not awaken the passengers The porter heard the shots and locked all the doors to the sleeping cars The Japan China-Japan mall mail lay engineless for some time Uma while a locomotive was being Ing brought from Sac Sac- It then was hurried hurtled Into Sacramento Sacramento Sacramento Sac Sac- arriving at 8 o'clock this morn- morn Ing A fairly good description of the bandits bandits ban ban- was furnished by a man on the Porto Costa ferry boat a who ho had observed observed ob ob- ser served d them as they hung about waitIng waiting waltIng wait walt ing for the train they intended to rob The nr men Den en had the appearance of being railway mechanics and from the familIarity familiarity famil famil- which they showed with the engine engine engine en en- gine there is no doubt in the minds of or orthe the rho officials that the Ure men are former railway employees Th troll trail of the men menas was as followed to the rough hill hili country between Martinez Martinez Mar Mar- ad Oakland and It t is believed r that they are headed toward San Francisco Francisco Francisco Fran Fran- cisco and that they have a good goad chance to escape Near where the ilia bandits left the engine en- en engIne engine en en- gine Ine a stead road leads to the east bank of the bay The rhe he men ran down this road to a rowboat they had concealed in the bushes The four sacks which they did not take with them were found later by other trains along the edge of the track They evidently had fallen from the engine en engine engine en- en gine after It had been uncoupled from the train From Flom the point where their boat was moored the bandits rowed directly across the bay to Bulls Bull's Head Point one and anda a hau had miles east of Martinez There they abandoned the boat In climbing the bank one of the men slipped sUpped and lost a caliber Colts Colt's revolver and a pair patr of field glasses This made three clues for the officers to work on In the identification of any suspects From the point pont where the boat was abandoned all aU trace of the men was lost until Martinez was reached where It is s believed they stole a horse and buggy bugg ag ages There e of i r registered are ninety four dt mail IU missing I separate r t In packages packages pack pack- each h hof of these pa packages are several letters The railroad officials have havo posted a reward of for the capture of the robbers The United States government has of offered offered of- of 1000 1000 |