Show A ROBBER MET HIS MATCH robbery is fast becoming industry Inthis in this count country ry connected with this pursuit ats keup up a formidable dally daily record As aa rule e the artesta engaging in them are 1 successful in making large hauls instances of their being baffled by the courage rod and intrepidity of proposed victims are rare A case of that kind occurred however near virginia city nevada on august 2nd and the details are interesting and we therefore precept them as aa given in a san frao fran cisco chronicle Chro nicla dispatch james jamea H kinkead superintendent of the occidental mine accompanied by a driver while en route this afternoon in a buggy with in coin to pay off the employed emp loyes for the month of July was nd mud denly ordered to halt at a turn in the road leading to the mine by a man wearing a black mask and a rubber coat and holding a pistol in his hand mr kinkead had a shotgun charged with buckshot across his hi kees and replied by firing at the highwayman the charge entering the batters lat right arm and disabling him alter after receiving the wound the highman ran and was pursued by kinkead who sume succeeded eded in capturing him after a race of half a mile and brou brought ht him to town in his vehicle and placed Tim him in the custody of the sheriff while endeavoring to escape the highwayman discarded his rubber coat afrand co and mask and kinkead discovered on capturing him that he was an employed of the occidental mill named william hurd and aged 24 years hurd had inquired of kinkead a few hours previous to the attempted robbery at what time he would pay off and was told at 2 hurd had the sum of due him for wages for july included in the effects left by hurd was a gunny sack double lined with canvas evidently intended to carry away the coin in he expected to secure although ot of medium stature and slight light physique mr kinkead has a record old of being one of the camest gamest men in the state which he acquired chila deputy sheriff of washoe count yin 1871 w when en he captured single handed parsons gilchrist and J H Squi reFi leaders inthe in the verdi train robbery in that year prior to that event he arrested two des desperadoes e r d 0 e T near steamboat springs for a ro robbery b r y at t reno both of whom fired at kinkead d without effect and in returning the shots kinkead wounded one of them subsequently he captured a man at peavine leavine Pe avine washoe basloe county charged with stealing diamonds valued at 2500 from truckee while seated at a dinner table the night of the arrest his prisoner leaped through an open window and was followed by kinkead As the prisoner jumped into an open mine shaft and attempted to drown himself in four feet of water at the bottom kinkead aped into the shaft after the prisoner and kept the batters lat head above water until both were rescued |