I was in this robbery…
source date: 1888
availability: public-domain

I was in this robbery. The leader of the band was Charles Small. There were five of us in the robbery. Besides Small and myself there was a man named Charles Hudson or Hutchinson and two others whose names I did not learn. They were with us only a day or two before the robbery. They came down from Ari- zona. For the last 15 or 20 days before the robbery we had our headquarters at Captain J. C. Beatty’s Biecho ranch, 45 miles nearly south from Chihuahua. The night of the robbery we reached Mapula about three-quarters of an hour before the train was due. We opened the side switch. When the section hands came in they ran in on the switch. The negro foreman of the section hands started to throw the switch back. Charley Hutchinson told him not to touch it. “That’s what I am here for, boss,” said the negro. “If you touch that switch, I’ll blow your head off!” said Hutchinson. The negro stepped back. The two robbers whom I don’t know were left to take care of the section men, Hutchinson held up the engineer and fireman, and Small and I went into the express car. I got for my share of the money $100 in Mexican silver and $50 in Mexican gold. When I was arrested I had the gold in my boot leg, and it was not found when I was searched. “How much of a haul did you make?” Hines was asked. “I won’t tell that.”