dent Noble  of  what  had  happened.  The  train 
was  in  charge  of  Conductor  McClellan,  and  the 
engineer  was  Colonel  Harper  who  had  a similar 
experience  in  the  big  robbery  near  Pantano  last 
April.  A special  train  with  officers  and  Papago 
trailers  was  sent  out  from  Tucson  that  night.

These  pursuers  were  joined  by  two  tramps 
who  were  on  the  train  when  the  robbery  oc- 
curred, and  by  brakeman  J.  Cerremo.  The 
latter  gives  the  following  account:  He  saw  two 
men  whom  he  supposed  were  tramps,  get  on  the 
forward  end  of  the  mail  car.  After  quite  a run 
he  reached  them  but  found  two  rifles  thrown 
down  on  him,  coupled  with  an  order  to  get  back 
lively.  He  did  not  know  they  were  robbers 
until  the  train  stopped  about  a mile  from  there. 
The  robbers  then  fired  three  shots  and  made 
the  engineer  cut  the  mail  and  express  cars  off 
and  pull  ahead  about  two  miles.  They  then 
stated  to  engineer  Harper  that  they  did  not 
desire  to  harm  anyone,  and  for  him  to  inform 
the  messenger  of  that  fact,  and  there  would  be 
no  trouble.  The  messenger  concluded  this  was 
the  proper  thing  to  do,  and  opened  up,  giving 
them  his  gun,  and  handed  them  the  money 
packages  which  they  placed  in  sacks,  and  with- 
out offering  to  molest  the  mail,  disappeared, 
taking  a southerly  direction.

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