San Francisco Call, Volume 83, Number 98, 8 March 1898 — LONE HIGHWAYMAN ELUDES HIS PURSUERS. [ARTICLE]

LONE HIGHWAYMAN ELUDES HIS PURSUERS.

SANTA BARBARA. March 7.— Deputy Sheriffs Storni and De la Cuesta, who are searching for the outlaw who robbed the stage near here yesterday, have reported to Sheriff Hicks that they tracked the road agent to the summit of the mountains adjacent to Santa Ynez, where they lost the trail. Deputy Sheriff Storni sent word to the Sheriff to-day that he had good reason tp holieve that the highwayman slept last night at Goleta. as a man answering the description of the robber as given by the driver of the stage was seen at Goleta. Sheriff Hicks, on the receipt of this information, sent two men to Goleta, but up to a late hour to-night they had been unsuccessful in their search. Some of the Sheriff's officers are of the opinion that the robber left here by train this morning and is fast making his way to Mexico. Deputy Sheriff Storni, in his message, says that he found the express box back some distance from the road. It was broken into pieces.