People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 May 1895 — TWO MEN WITH NERVE [ARTICLE]

TWO MEN WITH NERVE

BOLD STACK ROJBSERY IN CALIFORNIA. Two Bavdtts Experienced ia the Work Believe Passenger* of BI.SOO —No Resistance Made and the Bobber* Bscape. Calistoga, Cal., May B.— Two masked robbers overtook a stage containing a number of San Francisco p#ople on their way to the summer resorts of Lake county yesterday and relieved them of their valuables. The robbers secured about *1,300 from the passengers and looted the Wells-Fargo treasure box, but how much they got from it is not known. The hold-up was between Calistoga and Clear Lake. The stage left Calistoga at noon and had reached a point one and one-half miles from Mirabel when two masked men stepped from the bushes lining the road and ordered the driver to halt. Keeping their pistols pointed at his head, they made him throw down the express box. While one of the highwaymen kept the driver and the passengers covered the other broke open the box, but found no money. The passengers were stood up and while one of the robbers kept them in order with his weapon the other searched pockets. These highwaymen went about their work like old hands at the business, one In particular being as cool about it as If he were collecting taxes. Twelve hundred dollars reward has been offered for the capture of the robbers.