Show BIG nom ROBBERY ay desperadoes at gazala gate capture in gola yesterday was to have been payday for the miners at castle gate and was sent down own on rio grande western train no 2 E L carpenter went down a as paymaster of the coca company pany arriving at castle gate at 1240 p m and obtaining his money money in three packs from the express office in one 1000 in another and SOO silver in the third started across the street to the building of the wasatch store company making for the stairway leading to the offices on the second floor the store is located about seven ty five berds from the station and a young man named phelps with T W lewis an employee of the company helped carry carry the money the passenger train pulled out for helper and about men or more were congregated around the 0 store and in th the e rosa roal near the post office which is close at hand two rough colah individuals who had been loitering around town and in the saloon 11 all day were also there with their horses one of the he I 1 I 1 robbers had asked for stabling I 1 privileges of stored beeper nelson a short time before but bill was A as refused because the stable was full young phelps carried a bag containing 1000 and was the first to reach the stairway at this point be was accosted by one of the two men who vibo presented two revolvers and commanded him to throw up his hands the young youn man paid no lie attention to the request but started to ascend the steps the robber then hit him on the head bead with his revolver causing him to I 1 stagger back and drop his coin bag to the ground around mr carpenter was close behind phelps ond and the robber now raised his revolvers on him and called hands up and was promptly obeyed ube mr lewis carried a third sack containing in silver and was a few leeps behind mr fr carpenter and just opposite the store door when the holdup occurred and taking in the situation he ran in the are sti re and hid his sack inthe in the meantime the robbers robber had gathered a up the two coin packs and mr carpenter s hand grip rip and ran toward their horses which were held I 1 by a pal a few steps distant and hastily mounting rode away do don n the canyon at the time mr carpenter was wais held up one of the clerks in the office above looked out of the window and taking in ia the situation took a rille rifle and ran out on the platform at the head bead of the stairs and tried to fire on the robbers but the old gun failed to work mr cameron Caro eron took the rifle ride and fired several shots at the rob bers which were replied to by a revolver shot from the holdups hold ups the shooting was not effective except to scare the crowd which had gathered around the store in mounting their horses herpes the robbers found their sack of silver rather cumbersome and they let lei it fall and did not stop to recover i it t but made off with the hand bag and the sack of gold only about five minutes after the robbery the telegraph wires were cut by the robbers or some of their pals about a mile and a half east of the station within a 1 few minutes every available man in town was brought out and posses organized to fell follow the robbers an engine was wag pressed into service and several armed men got aboard and ran down the canyon to overtake the robbers before reaching helper four miles below but it was discovered that they had left the main canyon and turned southward up spring canyon evidently making for the san han rafael fafael country mr carpenters handbag haud baa containing paychecks pay checks and pay payrolls rolls was found by the roadside about a mile from the scene of the holdup hold up A reward of 1000 has been offered for the capture of the robbers and another 1000 for the recovery of the money S L tribune later A correspondent of the deseret ne news ws wired that patter to the effect that one of the castle gate robbers the one riding the gray horse was wounded by one of the castle dale posse later it was learned that the was without foundation in fact and arose from the fact that the huntington posse either by accident for fun or because they mistook them for the robbers gred fired on the castle dale posse sir mr carpenter from whom nhom the gold was stolen returned to salt lake an attempt was made to head the robbers off at iron springs in Wap hington county but this failed and they are nowlia fe beyond the reach of pursuit in the robbers robber s roost their impregnable natural fortress where they can defy all efforts to capture them |