Guide to the Train Robbery Related Records, [ca. 1907-1940]

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Guide to the Train Robbery Related Records, [ca. 1907-1940]

Collection number: BANC MSS C-A 372

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Collection Summary

Collection Title: Train Robbery Related Records,
Date (inclusive): [ca. 1907-1940]
Collection Number: BANC MSS C-A 372
Creator: Southern Pacific Company
Extent: Number of containers: 14 cartons
Repository: The Bancroft Library
Berkeley, California 94720-6000
Physical Location: For current information on the location of these materials, please consult the Library's online catalog.
Abstract: Correspondence, trial records, clippings, scrapbooks, photographs, circulars and posters, relating mainly to train robberies in California, Oregon and Arizona, particularly the De Autreamont case. Some clippings relate also to labor disturbances.
Languages Represented: English

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Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], Train robbery related records, BANC MSS C-A 372, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.

Key to Arrangement

Carton 1, folder 1-2

Roy Gardner -- clippings, trial records, etc., ca. 1921-1940

folder 3

Train holdup, 1922, near Clifton, Arizona, by Tom and Sidney Fulcher -- correspondence, press clippings, etc.

folder 4-10

Train holdup at Jaynes, Arizona, 1922

folder 4

telegrams and general correspondence re Edward Winkler

folder 5

newspaper clippings

folder 6

transcript of testimony, coroner's inquest, and preliminary hearing, State of Arizona vs. F. W. Jirou

folder 7

correspondence and court records re disposition of rewards

folder 8

miscellaneous correspondence

folder 9

statements

folder 10

photographs, reward posters, etc.

folder 11

Map of Siskiyou and vicinity

folder 12-20

Derailment near Bon, Arizona, 1924

folder 12

blueprints and maps

folder 13

information re John and Charles Reeves, L. Williamson, etc.; investigation and records at Los Angeles; statements of John Reeves, M. Merritt, M. Farmer

folder 14

re Allen G. Fox and Herbert Hamer; re Charles Claw; re Clarence H. Pruett; re A. G. Fox

folder 15

trial transcript; miscellaneous telegrams

folder 16

statements of witnesses

folder 17

Rafael Camargo vs. Southern Pacific

folder 18

re Peter Raney; transcript of statements; statements of investigation by William Wilson

folder 19

statements; transcripts of court proceedings

folder 20

photographs

folder 21

Robbery near San Francisco, February 1927

folder 22

Derailment attempt, 1926. Joseph E. Faulkner and Jack Woods

Carton 2, folder 1

Robbery on Overland, Ltd., at Chicago, 1928 -- miscellaneous correspondence

folder 2-7

Robbery on Train No. 75, "The Lark," at Los Angeles, 1928

folder 2

telegrams, circulars, clippings, clues

folder 3

re F. D. Moses

folder 4

re H. L. Daw; file of suspects; circular file; re connection with robbery on Train No. 8

folder 5

re Capt. V. Craig; witnesses; miscellaneous transcripts, memorandums, etc.; re various suspects

folder 6

photographs; statements of porters; summary

folder 7

D. O'Connell's working file

folder 8

Circulars of robbery on Train No.36 at McAvoy, 1929

folder 9-17

Derailment at Saugus, 1929

folder 9

sheriff's office -- work re suspects

folder 10

reward files and claims

folder 11

re evidence

folder 12

reports, statements, etc.

folder 13

miscellaneous file

folder 14

reports of Board of Inquiry

folder 15

re Thomas Vernon and Jesse C. Rumsey

folder 16

re Thomas Vernon

folder 17

photographs

folder 18

Robbery on Train No. 17 at Cheyenne, 1929 -- miscellaneous clippings, letters, etc.

folder 19-20

Attempted derailment at Ming, Arizona, of Train No.4

folder 19

general file, telegrams

folder 20

re suspects

folder 21-24

Robbery at San Francisco on Train No. 76, 1932

folder 21

general file

folder 22

San Francisco Police teletypes; statements of passengers and crew; circular file; re Harry Johneson; file of suspects

folder 23

re Jesse C. Rumsey

folder 24

reports to general manager; claims for rewards

Carton 3, folder 1-3

Attempted derailment of Train No. 76 at Grain's Spur, 1932 -- miscellaneous clippings, reports, etc.

folder 4

Robbery on Train No. 2 near Ontario, California, 1933

Carton 4, folder 1

Scrapbook of newspaper clippings re train robbers and robberies, 1892-1907

Additional Note

(Also on microfilm)
folder 2

Scrapbook of miscellaneous newspaper clippings, 1907-1908

folder 3

Scrapbook of clippings concerning the following:

 

Harriman, 1907-1908, 1912-1915

 

Controversy between Southern Pacific and Union Pacific

 

Case of Dan Fleming

 

Threatened strike, 1913

 

U.S. vs. Southern Pacific in oil land suit

 

I.W.W. activities

folder 4

Scrapbook of clippings, 1910-1917, concerning the following:

 

Holdup on Train No. 10

 

Stevedores' strike

 

Explosion of Shasta, Ltd.

 

Threatened trainmen's strike (1916)

 

Mooney and Billings case

 

War with Germany and draft law

Carton 5, folder 1

Scrapbook of clippings, 1917-1920, concerning the following:

 

Railroads during war

 

Strike of switchmen

 

Death of P. J. Kindelon

folder 2

Scrapbook of clippings, 1920-1922, concerning the following:

 

Switchmen's strike

 

"Box-car" burglars

 

Murphy and Kruvosky

 

Murder of Jackson, Dorman, and Petry in Santa Rosa

 

Roy Gardner

 

Detective T. Bailey killed by Walter Castor

folder 3

Scrapbook of clippings, 1921-1922, concerning the following:

 

Railroad strikes

 

Roy Gardner and wife

 

Walter Lambertson

 

Strike of Shopcrafts' Union

folder 4

Scrapbook of miscellaneous clippings, 1922-1932

folder 5

Scrapbook of clippings, 1921-1922, concerning the following:

 

Roy Gardner

 

Supreme Court decision separating Southern Pacific and Central Pacific railroads

 

Shriner Convention in San Francisco

Carton 6, folder 1-3

Scrapbooks of clippings re strike of Railroad Shopcrafts Union, 1922

folder 4

Scrapbook of miscellaneous clippings, 1933

Carton 7, folder 1

Scrapbook of reward circulars, 1920-1927

folder 2

Record of criminals, ca. 1925-1930

folder 3

Scrapbook of circulars and accounts of train robberies, 1913-1920

folder 4

Scrapbook re wanted persons, circulars, 1927-1932

Carton 8, folder 1

Scrapbook re penitentiary escapes and parole violations, 1915-1917

folder 2

Scrapbook re penitentiary escapes and parole violations, 1917-1923

folder 3

Scrapbook re circulars, escapes, 1918-1921

folder 4

Scrapbook re penitentiary escapes and parole violations, 1922-1924

folder 5

Scrapbook re penitentiary escapes and parole violations, 1920-1926

Carton 9, folder 1-8

De Autrement Case

folder 1

register, Western Hotel, Medford, Oregon, 1923

folder 2-8

letters to D. O'Connell, 1923-1926

Carton 10, folder 1-7

De Autrement Case

folder 1

clues 1926-1927

folder 2

clues 1926

folder 3

clues 1923-1925

folder 4

clues l923-1924

folder 5

clues 1923-1925

folder 6

clues 1923

folder 7

clues 1923-1925

Carton 11

De Autrement Case: circulars, photographs, correspondence on circulars (1924, 1925-1926, 1927); correspondence on preparing circulars; list of where circulars were forwarded; assorted maps and blueprints; two volumes of State vs. De Autrements, 1927; press clippings, 1923-1928

Carton 12, folder 1-5

De Autrement Case

folder 1

clues 1924

folder 2

clues 1924-1925

folder 3

clues 1923-1925

folder 4

clues 1923-1924

folder 5

clues 1925-1926

Carton 13, folder 1-6

De Autrement Case

folder 1

clues 1927

folder 2

clues 1926

folder 3

clues 1925

folder 4

re H. C. Young, 1928-1932

folder 5

clues 1927

folder 6

clues 1927

Carton 14, folder 1

Placards displayed by "Communists" in 1928

folder 2

Miscellaneous photographs and photostat copies of records

folder 3

Time cards, Southern Pacific, 1929

folder 4

Directory of special agents and railroad police, 1919

folder 5

Register of persons entering Southern Pacific Building, 1934

folder 6

Southern Pacific rule books, 1917 and 1922

folder 7

Address book

folder 8

California State penal code, 1906

folder 9

File on longshoremen's strike, 1934

folder 10

Losses by theft of Southern Pacific Company property, 1925-1926