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Wanted Poster -
06.19.1899
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$18,000.00
REWARD |
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THE UNION PACIFIC
TRAIN ROBBERS |
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| On Friday morning,
June 2d, 1899, a party of masked robbers held up the
first section of train number one of Union Pacific
Railroad Company, almost ten miles west of Rock
Creek Station, Albany County, Wyoming, and after
dynamiting bridges, mail and express cars, and
robbing the latter, disappeared. The second section
of this train, being the Overland Limited Passenger,
following ten minutes behind, was fortunately
stopped by the brakemen of the first section who
escaped the robbers. |
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| Three of the
robbers went north mounted and were followed eight
hours later by a posse. The robbers crossed the
Platte River at Casper about three o’clock Sunday
morning, and were followed from Casper by another
posse from that point who overtook them about four
o’clock in the afternoon about twenty-eight miles
northwest of Casper, where a running fight occurred,
the robbers shooting three of the horses of the
pursuing party, and escaping to a point about
fifteen miles further on, where they were again
overtaken the following Monday morning by both
posses, at which time Sheriff Hazen of Converse
County, was shot and killed from ambush. In the
confusion which followed, the robbers eluded the
posses and are supposed now to be somewhere in
Johnson or Big Horn Counties, and are being closely
followed by the pursuing parties. |
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| A description of
these three robbers is as follows: One man about 31
or 32 years of age: bright, five feet eight or nine
inches: weight 185 pounds: complexion and hair
light: if moustache, likely to be long by not heavy:
blue eyes: peculiar nose, flattened at bridge and
heavy at point: round, full, red face: walks
slightly stooping: may be slightly bow-legged: bald
forehead: when last seen wore number eight cow-boy
high-heel boots. Two men look like brothers:
smaller, five feet seven inches: age about 26:
weight 135 pounds. Largest, five feet five inches:
about 30: weight 145 or 150: may have slight growth
of whiskers: complexion of both very dark:
one-quarter Cherokee Indian: smaller man sometimes
wears mustache: both have dark hair, indicating
Indian: eyes dark. |
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When overtaken about forty miles north-west of
Casper where Sheriff Hazen was murdered, their
horses were captured, described as follows: |
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| An Arabian horse,
weighing 1100 or 1200 pounds: strawberry roan in
front, shading lighter to the rear: rump and back,
white, with small black spots: has collar mark on
right shoulder: short mane and tail: indistinct
brand on right shoulder. |
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| Second horse: dun
color, or clay hank, with white mane and tail:
weighs about 1100 pounds: is branded “spade or heart
J” on left shoulder: has worked in harness. |
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| Third horse: small
sorrel, well shaped head: weighs about 950 pounds:
white face and white hind legs: white ring around
right fore-leg at knee joint: several indistinct
brands on left shoulder, one resembling the letter
“H”, another resembling a “flying diamond”: also
three perpendicular bars – long bar in center. |
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| These horses are
now in safe keeping at Cheyenne. |
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It is probably that these three robbers, when driven
from their present hiding, will make for the north
into adjoining states, or possibly British Columbia.
Have not up to this time succeeded in locating the
other three men, but it is probable will be able to
do so soon. |
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| In order to
prevent the escape of these three robbers who are
being pursued, it is important that posse be
organized without delay in your state, and that they
be dispatched at once in the direction of the
present supposed hiding place in northern Wyoming to
capture them if they attempt to cross the line. |
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Union Pacific Railroad Company and Pacific Express
Company have jointly offered two thousand dollars
per head, dead or alive, for each of these men, and
the United States Government has also offered a
reward of one thousand dollars each, making three
thousand per head for each of these men.
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Any information concerning these bandits should be
promptly forwarded to Union Pacific Railroad Company
and the United States Marshall of Wyoming at
Cheyenne. |
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| UNION
PACIFIC RAILROAD COMPANY |
| PACIFIC
EXPRESS COMPANY |
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| Omaha, Nebraska
June 19th, 1899 |
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