The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, January 22, 1904, Page 4

ROBBERS TOSS A COIN-LADEN SAFE FROM THE DOOR OF A 0X WITH NITRO-G DESTROY THE B Crime Committed at Night Near San Luis Obispo and the Rifled Treasure Box Is Found Near a Tunnel. —_——— 21.—The , is known that they left this city for the s r accomplished | north. a + of the State was reported e <ahaide . morn.| SUPERINTENDENT ADVISED. elis- way safe ONliomal gn Comtrol of Coast Yine x No. 9 had been tumbled Learns of Robbery. £ tuns SAN JOSE, Jan. Superintendent r of the Southern Pacific in San Jose to-day. terview he stated he had been informed the Wells-Fargo safe had stolen from the northbound coast line coast The box dollars. | that shed while the nd Express Mes- | [mited carly this morning. He said at the train w not stopped, accord- er S v ing to his advices, but that the robbers . e &l d managed to enter the car and d mot miss afe off. It was not missed a ne after. | . n Francisco passed 9:20 this morning, 4 i scgne of the robbery, ARRESTS ARE MADE. | X3 te N A SKIPPER Sailor in Charge of One of the Clallam’s Boats Criti- cizes Action of the Captain | been | FIXES BLAME | w £ ra B M s identified Jans Of oSon &1 - VEOTOREA, 8.°C.; Tan M. _Caniam £ oy M h, a boatman who had charge r ifeboat of the Clallam which 3 . s ked with the body of Miss oh San Luis Obispo-| Harris in it, gave testimony before the . t way | ( r ; that the boat th 3 ; : & f it had : - e aigpen > s have being - o Tk D of the s not . N f and boat had filled | s . r he pl swamped s i other arti- « ed that she had not | K f 8 I 1 Captain Roberts 1 said R the CI. rts kn lam co without amanship a were prope witness gave In an in- | | NCISCO CALL ‘RIDAY JANUARY 2¢ 1904. C [4 TIMOIHY, DLLI VAT wziis ke | SSENGER>. P LYCERINE AND CARRY AWAY THE OAST LINE RAILROAD TRAIN, HEAVY BURDEN OF MONEY 'While the Sleuths of the Railroad and Express C B M £ I saw that It The first news of the robbery of the | fears were realized when “Limited” reached the railroad officials | my small express box was missing. in this city at an early hour yesterday | Was evident that a robbery A e, morning and was promptly c‘mveyed;(ommlttcd, and 1 hurried to the for = | ward part of the car, where th= dvor to the officlals of the southwestern di- | (o5 aiso partly open. The battercd | lock and the splintered door sill readily | suggested the way the robber had | gained an entrance to the car. ey “Hastening back to the rear cars, I "_/9‘/’// | | summoned the conductor and told him /4 | | of the robbery and he prepared a tele- | | eram, which was filed at the next stop and sent forward to the southbound train. Later we reported the briefly to the officials at this end of the | line.” “The safe, which contained about $400, weighed about 200 pounds. There were some papers in the safe, but they could be of no value to any person. I am sure that the safe was on the ex- press car after we left San Luis Obispo, as I had occasion to it to place some valuables in it. As soon as I saw that the chain which acts as a guard to the door was out of place I looked round and was thun- derstruck to find the safe missing. I have been with the Wells-Fargo Ex- ; first experience, as also my first TRAMPS ARE SUSPECTED. Messenger Sullivan's theory of the the express and the railroad company. tramps, with which that part of the Southern Pacific Company is at present infested. Of late hobos have been get- ting on the iron beams of freight box cars in that part of the State. After the trains get in motion they swing out on to the side of the cars, where they smash the seals and the locks, and then, with the aid of an iron bar, they gradually work the door open until one of the men is able to crawl up into the car. He then assists a partner to join | him. Once in the car the hobos pick of the door. When they have got they wait until the.train starts up a grade and quietly after their plunder. It is believed by the railroad detec- tives and the official both the ex- | press company and railroad that | | uable to them and throw it out | the affair | go to| press Company fifteen years and this | robbery is shared by the detectives of | It is thought that it was committed by | out whatever freight they consider val- | enough | alight and go back | ompanies Are Hurrying to , the Scene of the Robbery, Messenger Sullivan Arrives and Makes His Report to the Local Officials. | supposed was the richer treasure box, they threw it out of the car. A f | miles north of San Luis Obispo tt | train encounters a grade and the speed naturally slackens, which gave them a chance to escape from the car and re turn to the place where the box was thrown out. LOSSES ARE EXAGGERATED. “That the robber or robbers boarded the train at San Luis Obispo is also suggested in the message received here to-day that two mail pouches were found just this side of San Luis Obispo at a point known as Hathaway avenue. It is but a few minutes’ run to there | and it is an opinion accepted by the | officials of the company that the rob- bers'threw out these sacks under some | previous understanding with their pals | that the mail would be picked up.” | The rified express box, according to | the information received by the rail- | road officials, was found by a pursu- | ing party near Thyle station, which is thirteen miles north of San Luis Obis- [ po. One message stated that it had apparently been broken open with some iron instrument. Another stated that a large number of express and railroad money orders, the latter re- mittances to the Southern Pacific Company, were found lying on the ground near the broken box and that in the latter was discovered a dia- | mond, which may have been wrenched from the setting of a ring worn by the robber or more probably escaped from an express package. The first reports from the scene of the robbery to the effect that the rob- bers had got away with $80.000 were emphatically denied by the express | company's officia who claim that | the most the local box contained in | cash and curren was a sum less than $700. The express orders and remittance tags of the railroad com- pany called for sums aggregating | about $15,000. They were, however of no value to any one, for an at- | tempt to cash them would result in nmediate At the same time the express horities admit that | is not the custom to make public the losses by robbery, for it is believed | that publicity often encourages others to commit simi crimes. DETECTIVES ON THE SCENE. BOOTY IS NOT LARGE A N et B the S b ‘ i 2 : \ i | | freight trains are implicated in the| Captain Crowley, head of the South- : A . 24 | | robbery of the baggage car of tie|ern Pacific detective bureau. lef . - 25 v = L R A LA = | “Limited.” 1In fact, the is | the south or ld"‘l evening’s lr'lh'\r and i ; : 2 ¥ _ | borne out by the finding later of the | Will supervise the investigation of t Fr tain Collister, inspector of hulis, | [ T |1 | vision of Wells-Fargo & Co. The in- | !00ted treasure box near the track. ety gt e o s is inspection of the steam- | | | formation received from the conductor | .. e have been having a lot of trou- | 23 i Senberny (he raliond SANEE p £ ¢ = aid she was well constructed | j | i i 1 X ble with these hobos down in Southern | @n@ Will, of course, co-operate with ax I | | of the train as it sped on its way north | calitornia late id one of the de- | Detectiy ker of the express com- . 4 s 3 7l | | was very brief and misleading in that | tectives of the Southern’ Pacific Com- | Pany in p to capture the offend- ‘ A | : | | it inferved that the through treasure | pany yesterday, “and there is little | eS: 5 i - g I ? | | jbox as well as the local box in the, doubt that two or more of them haa | ~Strangely. few of the passengers on o % G 354 I’nb‘- i ’ | messenger’s car had been captured by | planned this affair, expecting, of | the Limited, among whom were L'm_-hn : y X ; : - e g TrTE 7R ‘ \”‘I‘; ‘!h“‘ '"'l R Gaart tan || course, to get the through box, which | Crane, local agent of the New . ' t Aciide 5 ‘ i or n L nerally is rich with wealth. It is . - ; th pointed by sy 2 1/ A _ll nt to a l‘l “l. on ll.n,{ | | nere Detectives Thacker and White of probable that these fellows had ral W s . hat was e 1 0n s Moun- North Shore Line in Marin | ‘ | | the express comp nd Peter Lewin, | heen watching a chance to get into t . company, knew of v o Zac to be i tv 4 e S Tiiati . [ |a Southern Pacific er, had started | express' car of the ‘Limited’ for some til train was ap- er s unt) ANUSes NoIne lljllllt.\, | | | south to the ene of the robbery, | time and their opportunity came Wed- | s city sterday morn- S ¢ ! | where they were instructed (o join with | nesday night t occurred they were all s m e ok | | | the authorities of that section of the 2 . . ’ ere being no stop or gen- TOMA AL The Sream b — H? road in a hunt for the criminal. The| GET BOX AND ESCAPE i <araforcnpnih B o . sit s Thinrls Euansy i Hoditatoss. coach of ithbound train from | 2 railroad company and the express com- t appears that the mess the i 2 3 5 2 | 'XPRESS COMPANY OFFI- | - . Linitedr of Tate’ Ky AEF SRE . SROR IS 1 LOS ANGELES, J Hugh G. | Cazadero, on Nor ore road | EREREEN AOMESS o | | pany were meanwhile telegraphing or- | the ‘Limited’ of late hava f v lerable satisfaction 5 il sttt < of et, who " | was dera t about 2:30 o'clock | GERL:, WREH -\enie ity Tekly ders south tc officers there to come | had to perform the service of baggage- | . jnced by the express company’s of- Betkeex % o : stion 14 ROBBED TRAIN. K north and join the pursuing party. 1t|Man in addition to their ow es, | feials when they learned ¢ s = < by S Fx: o ;s . | was after 10 o'clock |and this extra labor has ¢ o i Rl SF the ; 23 s £ mained on the.f 4 e G R 0 > their presence in both cars at different | theg, A °h"_ : i - racks. MURDERER HAS IC | Southern Paci ¥ times. The hobos became aw of this s iy ¢ . " ' ssengers were injured, none g = fhet Colf no SOt nivis bbers. mply contained . = gl e ALL CHANCE FOR LIFE | ¢lVé anviung ‘ b Bucheras it iy money and orders sent from Los An- be dis seriously. T re Harry of the affair, a until portunity offered them to get into tl while the “through” box usu gy f Cazadero, C. M. Didding of e “Limiied” had a 1 the | express car while the messenger was S arme. aakdtat’ de 5 \. Powell of Cazadero | Orégon Supreme Court Dismisscs the | company's messenger, Timothy Sulli- | absent in the adjoining one. It is ofr N Bl e - B 2. Field of Con-| Final Avpeal in the Celebrated van his report of the affai theory that thes ve been lying # 1 1’;'1 '_w 2 Murray and two passengers | Canérof Aruat MESSENGER SULLIVA STORY. | arou San L Obispo for eral { | oclected to take Wednesday night is v . 3uell Flat, com- | we thrown A EY o & ‘ 3 | qays watching ti chance Fedne: ey g s il sia i e g thrown ‘tirbugh .o WIsEEOE B L. o e Or. Tain 4 he Supreme | According to his story, he had occ lnys watching their chance. Wednes- | onorted to have contained many r The injured persons were at-| S4L bl SUPTOME | cion to enter the baggage-car just as 2V night they saw Sullivan enter the | ;ougand dolla valuables that led by*Dr st of Occidental. | Court to-day handed down a decision | o 'y oin was pulling out of San Luis | PASEage car as the train started up and | cou1d have be converted into : accident was caused by the re- {in the matter of the appeal of Arm- | Oyispo, they boarded the express car | .oin by the robber: i = . her conditions, . rains hav undermined - the | strong, the condemned murderer, sen- | “When I returned to the express car | DY the forward platform. Then they | = v ) Iuwl lr:.x | roadbed tenced to be hanged to-morrow at | later,’ he said, I noticed the cold con- | Waited until the train had got weil | rejected ¥ v i . Baker City. Armstrong asked for a | dition of the car, and, glancing around, | Urder way and proceeded to force the . £ | Women constitute nearly 30 per cent of execution to permit furthe- 1 was surprised to find that the cide|car door. Perhaps only one man did b T e Mty o¢ of all college ents in the re im- 3 Ay ¢ door, which Lad bec d when we | the trick, but generally two work to- | Commerce . S portant c« the count and | legal steps in his behalf. The court ’ 3 i 3 i > e i n entant eol the Somnteyy taniid Ias 1 Bt entered San Luis po, was partly | Sether. Once inside the car they ex- e .- > {15 the United States. hotir tostsc | b oa the spjenl. Murther SeM | giien. 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