Jasper County Democrat, Volume 12, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 July 1909 — SPENT GOLD TOO LAVISHLY [ARTICLE]

SPENT GOLD TOO LAVISHLY

Police Hold Buyers of Champagne as Train Robbery Suspects. Laramie, Wyo., July 23. Money spent for champagne by William White and R. W. Stockwell led to the arrest of the men and the recovery of a large sum of money believed to be a part of the loot taken by bandits several yean ago in a Union Pacific train robbery at Wilcox. The men spent 3445 for wine, White later depositing $4,020 in a Laramie bank. White declared he found the money tn a glass jar buried in the cellar of William Taylor’s residence here. All of it is gold coin and bears dates many years back.