Jasper County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 August 1908 — BOLDEST BANDIT YET [ARTICLE]

BOLDEST BANDIT YET

He Holds Up and Robs a String of Eleve i ( oaches in the Yel owstone Parte. t6ukists “couoi ur $12,000 Stops the Vehicles One After Another with No Help. Last Coach Gives the Alarm 4 After • Wild Hide at Full Speed— Soldiers Go on a Man-Hunt. Butte. Mont., Aurf. 25.—One highwayman wearing a black mask neul up and robbed the passengers of eleven stage ooaclies in Yellowstone park at a point onljv a few miles distant from the Old Faithful Inn, near the upper basin, according to telephonic advices received here. The coaches left the hotel in the usual order, at intervals of a few minutes, and were held up one after the other as fast as they came in sight. The highwayman was stationed at a bend in the road where he was invisible from either direction. At -the muzzle of a rifle he lined up the passengers, and after relieving them of money and valuubes allowed them to enter the stage and resume the Journey. Steals a Horse as a Climax. Tliis performance the bandit onneted eleven times. It is understood 'from the meager accounts of the affair received here that he collected in all more than $2,000 in money, drafts worth SIO,OOO, and much valuable Jewelry. The fact that tourists in the park are not permitted tu carry weapons made it impossible for any of tbe passengers or drivers to offer resistance. The robber was a man about fifty-five years old. weighing about 140 pounds. After holding up the last coach be disappeared into the hills, and it was afterward found that he had made his escape on a hojso belonging to the transportation company.

Wild Ride In a Coach. ■ y" All haste was made back to Old Faithful Inn, and the ride in the sixhorse coach at full speed to give the alarm was not the least exciting of the morning Incidents. The soldiers encamped at the Thumb station were immediately notified, and a messenger was dispatched to the camp of the sol* diers on the West Gallatin river at the west boundary of the park. The soldiers from Fort Yellowstone were on the road to take up the trail within ten minutes after news was received.