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The real names of some of the robbers, below, were Gassaway.
Much more detail at (not my site):
http://www.rootcellar.us/shlrjf0.htm
DARING HIGHWAY ROBBERY --
On Saturday last [June 25], while the stage
from Quincy to Oroville was coming down,
driven by Chas Wycoff, and containing two
passengers, Mr. O. W. Cherry and A. F. Landen,
with Whiting & Co.'s treasure box, it was
attacked by three men and robbed of $1,852,
principally in dust, about $220 in coin.
In the first instance, two men appeared in
the road, one taking the horses by the head,
and the other demanding the treasure box,
with cocked pistol in hand presented at the
driver...
...They were conducted to Oroville, and are now
undergoing an examination before Justice Coughey.
Constable Parks holds the same parties under
charge of robbing Langston's Express near
Camptonville. The names of the parties,
as given to Constable Parks, are as follows:
Upton Sheridan and wife, Henry Sheridan,
Charles Sheridan, Jas Stairs, J. F. Sims,
and Mrs. Nelly Johnston.
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Much more detail at (not my site):
http://www.rootcellar.us/shlrjf01.htm
October 29, 1864
CONVICTED --
U.S. Gassaway, convicted of highway
robbery, was sentenced on Wednesday
last, for six years; U.T. Gassaway, ten;
Charles Gassaway, three. James Shuler
receives his sentence today.
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