| Show MAII 1 ur UP AND n r Cal l April 17 Tim Chinn Japan mall mail mal No 10 tO which left lef San Sn Francisco for fer the east Ot at 9 Saturday night w wee held heM up by two w mak masked ke d men m at two mlle miles mi east el elet of et here at UM td 11 ock this thin morning and robbed of nine pouches of regis registered flAIl mal The Tue train carried no ez ex pre pr n whatever ter Four Pour of ot those these pouches P have h ln been n recovered but the robbers rifled rife the others other and ald now ar are hiding with wih their toot loot It in the hills hill anti and canyons between Martinez antI and nd Oakland Oaklan Slier Sher Sheriff iff Irl iffs posses posse from two to counting counties detec detectives dee tires tives antI and Inspectors Ina to on hors hom horses homes ho hoe es e and automobIles automobile are r engaged en I In the Ih manhunt The Te robbers robber rob are r well wel armed ano and a battle bU with wih them I Is expected The passengers passenger on the train were Wre not nol disturbed and several of ot them did not learn lean of the th hold holdup up until this morning After getting the mall mal sacks racks the lb rob roh robber hers ber br out cut ut the engine loon looe 1 from the train and ad sent nt It wild wid throttle open down the main inn In track to the th eastward OPERATOR PREVENTS In th the direct dirt path of the tho to engine was wasa w a of ot passenger trait train No I G heavily laden lt with wih pa en n gore Kom But Bul for the prosier presence of mind mill of ot ofa a 1 telegraph operator at Suisun a seri reel serious ous oun OUI collisIon would have taken t 1 place 11 The Tb origin wu was thrown Into Inlo a switch In iu the th nick of time The train robbery U Is I th the first th tat t tuu ha h occurred In California for fO veal 1 years n It 1 wits was w plotted and an executed In Ina Ina ina a daring spectacular fashion n Defoe for forthe the fast fu mall mn had ha arrived at t Ulal two nun men ma who wb had bad left Oakland Okland on an another another another other train two hours hour earlier and Ald hail had left their train on the tl Port Costa CoMa ferry ferryboat fer hoSt boat bt climbed on oil 01 the near Ma end of ot No Xo 10 locomotive IOU The China Cin Japan mall ml hid hed gone C lem tesia l than then five fivemile fv Jap mile 11 from the Ih landing when the th stowaways stowaway crawled over the tho oil 01 tank Ink In the tender and prevented presented re cc revolvers Ivra at t the th heady bd of ot the engineer e and Ad an and ordered enlaced them Ulem to stop top the train anti ami n get gt off or the tIle engine The engineer anti the th fireman earn com compiled m mple plied piled quickly having h nothing to de defend defend defend fend themselves with except ext jack Jaek jk jackknives knives Then the Ih robbers taking the engine crew with them the went back bk anti and compelled the engineer r and fireman to 10 g get t Into Inlo the mail nl car tr which was Wa In charge of Herbert Herbrt J 1 DIk and hit his hi assistant Thomas Clancy Chancy Throw out the th registered mall II pouches ordered the tho robbers robber Black started to tows toes tO out ot newspaper r rM sack M but the robbers showed howd their fa familiarity a with the th tI situation by detect detecting del t ing li Hi the rw M ru at tt once 01 They tn d to 10 kill ki th Ihl the clerk unless nl lie he I gave R them the registered mall 1 at t once corn com complied em plied The Tle engine crew rr then ww WM tarred forced fore to carry earry the nine sacks to 10 the end The Th engine and mall ml car rr tv wr were r un uncoupled uncoupled coupled from th the conches coach rb filled 11 with l passengers passenger and run Ion down the track two to nub mile mi here H the moll ml were wr thrown out upon tho the ground tho Ih uncoupled uncouple Us Its 11 wild Journey journy toward to word a I passenger train westward at 16 IS mIles nest east Mit passIng th U first ft of f this Ihl train on R ft Rl aiding l at al t the Ih engin nn missed i d 1 the Ih station at a the IMI on tin In duty dul Y there Ihre not no t th Ihl thai i r It I sea II wild with no M one o In lit the cab i He lit H immediately re is renor reo nor ted th fa ri d t I the tl ti dispatchers of off f f flee at lt t Oakland a i nl 1 r nelv received d tim to tn on I 1 HP 10 T 1 lena na by wire eric and nd order th Ih the men there to 10 derail deri the th on oncoming oncoming coming engine S Second vond hem tr In No n B r r st t tunc unc und had Just lust arrived at ot Hol un tin 4 ii t t wAit l thorn t ni the UIA I China Cn r Japan mall mU The Tho le leh was wan 1 thrown and ae tho the runaway engine which by thIs ihs time tl wan pretty pty w wl well II relieved of ot ran on ott a Tiding hUng and nd smashed l Into Into a string of or box cars cs The Tho Te operator e at t had hl averted what would wol have MV been ben a R serious cr wreck wk nI M MA ESCAPE In Ui Ue the the tho rubbers robbers were w making their Uler escape 9 anrose I San Ban Pablo Palo bay oy whore the tho Sacramento river snip mp tie tl t P Into Inlo It Tho Slash flash lMh of the robb y had ha gone ge up anti and ad down tho line Una Uni and anti were w forming Jut before bo fleeing n eng with wih the til socks sacks IU of mall mail mal tho robbers tired Ir four foul shots with the tho purpose pure of o frightening oft of any ILY Im urn Immediate mediate pursuit lIven J en this thin did not awaken the passenger The Te porter rte heard the abuts hol and locked all 11 the door doers dor to the tho to sleeping cars cam cT The Tho 10 runt mall lay hay for fOI some somo Nm time Ur while a 1 wn being In brought from It I then the wan WM we hurried hure Into Sacramento arriving at 8 S this morning moring A fairly 11 description dNton of ot the ban was wan WW by a I man ma on o the Porto Celia ferry ferl boat boal who had ho ob observed observed served rd them as I a they hung luing about abut wait waiting wal walIng ing for the Ihn train tin they tey Intended to 10 rub rob rb The no men had tho the me appearance of ot being railway manIO and from the emil famil familiarity larity which they showed hoe wt the th en engine engine n gine Ulee Is ii no doubt doub In the th minds mind of ot the that th t the men n Are aro former railway employee employ Tile The trail of or the men n has heart bonn follow followed tolo ed ad to tho the rough rUh hill hi country between bh n Martinez and ami an Oakland and It I is III hll be 1 loved lond that they th nr era re headed toward towa H Sn San n FrancI Jcl o and that they have hae a 1 goat good chance cance to escape Near Nar where the bandits bandi left lef the Ih en engine engino n nn gine gino n a rood 1 leeds leads to 10 the east It bank bk of the tho bay b The men ran down don this Ihl road to 10 a 1 rowboat t they had bad concealed In the Ih b hM The Tho Th four nark which hii they IhlY did not net take Ilke with wih thorn them tho worn went 1 found later hater lale by hy other r trains train along the tho th ell of the track tm The They ho evidently had fallen from the engine after It I had been uncoupled from fm the train Prom From Fm the th point where their boat bat was W moored mor the rowed directly dl ly across ae the te boy by to 10 Hulls lined Head Hed point one and a half miles east et of or There lere they th abandoned the boat boit bt In climbing the tho honk bank one of the men slip peel pail pl and lo I lost t a 38 31 caliber Colts Colta revolver rohr This Thin made And a I pair pall of field neld gla Tl three clues for the th ii officers to work on In the th Identification of any suspects suspect ALL AIA TRACES TICE LOST From the tho point pint whore where the tho boat bt was WI abandoned nil all ni trace trece lre of the men was 10 lost lot until Martinez allne 1 is 18 reached daylight a a horse IKe and buggy wore wo stolen supposedly by the robbers from the stable able of ot a man mn named Hoag HO HOla ley la Between 3 nm andl i t In the thE morning moring George Frazer a I former liv living Iv IvIng living ing three thre mlle mile mie out of ot Martinez toward Oakland heard a horse hora and ad buggy b b be belog log driven past his bin hil house houf nt at a a Li 1 wild ld pace All this thle ha hR ham lent direction pe lion tion to tho thio chase which early In the tho afternoon centered in the Ih hula hills hll and open country leading heeding leing to Oakland Sheriff Veal Veale Vele of at Contra Costa county was WIS WI the first 11 official to 10 start after afler the bandits With Wit a 1 posse of men he left heft Martinez before 1 In the morn mornIng mor Ing Inc They Jumped jump Into Inlo a 0 launch on the west welt shore of ot the tho th bay and crossed quickly to a point near where the bandits band lis embarked for the t west wet shore etore Po So f quick and accurate was I the pursuit pur ul that It is its I thought the th bandits and nd of ot one another in the dark and the hunted men were wor kept kelt aware awa of t the whereabouts of ot their thell pursuers by the noIse nolee made modo by b the Ute launch The oars oar were dipped clipped quIetly and by the tIme the found that the quarry had ha escaped the robbers robber ware m crossing Martinez shore the open fields feld on the tho and hunting for a I horse hor Tho The sheriff and fd hb hl hi men found little littleto tte to 10 aid Ril them on the tho east shore horo At day daybreak da daybreak break they crossed over owr again anti and found a red d rowboat hidden under a 1 bonk bank bak This rod rowboat forms form an Im Important Important portent link In a I theory connecting the robbers robber robb with two unknown young men who had been living In a cabin a a from Martinez Martin for tho the last la t two weeks In the rowboat the ot found six registered letters which had hd I not nt been fn opened olnO A gold Iohl 10 1 cent piece piN of UK date tite was wan WI found in the bottom of or the boat beat One dun clue Iu to 10 the plans and Ind identity l of ot the robbers which the railroad officials consider a hoax wa was Wi found In the coat cot pocket of a garment l left Idt ft by br one of ot the robbers robber In the engine after the th hasty ha ly exit with the mall mail sacks ekl A letter Iter wa was WI found detailing tho the manner of ot the hold holdup holdup up and where wh the loot lot was 1 to 10 be di dl divided I vided UI Id which was wa a saloon lalon In Seem Sacra Sacramento mento A map mal of r f Texas Texan TeX WM was found with several cities marked with wl a across across cross cr Officer Ole were vre wee sent nt out to the tho th cabin of ot the two young yung men nn near ner Martinez The Themen Themen men mn were gone In a field nl near by a n suitcase wa was found filled Ile partly with wih shotgun shells heli antI and coils colls cole of ot fuse te for dynamite and soap I The finding of the th dynamite rue fuse fuseI fUI I II more color to the theory that these young oung men were wn robber halt Half Halfa JaC JaCa a mile back bk from the t place where the t mall mail mal train tIn was stopped by the Ih robbers 10 20 2 sticks Micks lck of ot dynamite were w found fould be beside b side aids ale the tle track One O slick lt hail l been ret rat t attached underneath a tie t with wih fuse fu and the th train hail had gone Je over this The Th robbers em elan 1110 had ha mentioned d dynamite when threatening to kill ki the mall mail mel car carmen ca camen carmen men after arr Black Ik and and nd Clancy Cancy had re me refused the mall mail sacks at first demanded fused to 10 give up ml al fHI force tOI shortly after day dy daybreak daybreak break began b closing In on both skies aides of the county where the bandits ar are aN sup II o Hl to tn be hiding hl ln Railroad detectives inspectors and Id volunteers mad up several posses p but at It night Bight nightfall fall fal the th search Ih had ha been There ne are CI l separate packages package of c registered t mall missing In lie II each Moth of f the Ih these are a several ral letters letter leU The TN railroad officials have I its potted posted a reward 1 nt of 0 for foi fO the th rapture rpt pl of nf the robber ebbers r t The 1 United 1080 10 States government has b of c offered |
