| Show lONE LOME MAN ROBS EXPRESS Off CE iN KING SI SEATTLE After Binding end and jagging the Night the Robber ps fo 10 Sacks of Gold in Safe and lakes akes us lIis Escape Seattle Wash Nash Oct Ocl and the tho nIght chief clerk and hIs assistant and carrying them to an unoccupied part of oC the building n a lone holdup man robbed the of the Gr Great at Northern Express company compan nt at atthe the King street station earl early this morning securing several sacks of r bold gohl and silver and a large amount of paper money the total amount run fling Into tho thousands While A P White tho assistant was out to lunch inch W Simonson heard hearda a knock at the door Opening It Il ho he confronted bya by a masked man who covered him with n a revolver and or ordered dered Simonson to open the tho safe saCe SIlO orison onson says sars that ho with the robbers demands and opened all the compartments or of the tho safo where mon money ey y Is kept As soon Roan as this was done dono robber threw Simonson to the floor bound and gagged him and then car carried carried ried him to part o of the build log hero he his prisoner with an overcoat o Returning to the office the robber awaited the return of Whito whom he made a prisoner disposing of him In Inthe inthe the same mannor manner as he be did with Sim orison He then cut nIl all the tho telephone wires and ami taking all the money lie ho could coull carry left the tho place i After a short time Simonson suc ce ded in freeing hImself and after liberating White gave gao the tho alarm When the police entered the tho office they found that the robbers had bad lofta loft n a sack fack or of silver contaIning It has been the custom to keep all th the monC money received from the tran continental trains In the tho safe from Saturday to Monday and It Is bello believed d that a largo sum was secure secured by the robbers heart In the desert Sheriff Ralphs will start out today on the long trail Two previous expeditions have failed Ralphs posse will be joined In the dOIi desert lt b by another band commanded b by Sheriff Wilson of Riverside county count The plan Is to lay siege to the tho desperado des Crado in the granite fastnesses or of Bullion mountain where he was last entrenched and starve him out The Tho necessity for fOl making certain of the capture of t do 10 Indian murderer I was made more apparent yesterday hr by bythe the of numbers of oC frightened I who brought their families In because they feared visits from the Indian I |
