With two train robberies at Bearmouth, the June 1904 robbery has potential of recovery of portions of the loot still being found. Some sources say it consisted of cash, silver, securities, and diamonds. Fifty thousand dollars’ worth of securities, cash, and diamonds have been recovered, which had formed part of the loot of the Bearmouth train robbers. John Christie, arrested in Hope, N.D., guided Special Agent McFetridge to the place where the cache was made, eight miles below the scene of the robbery, and on the same side of the river.
The securities filled a flour sack, in which they had been thrown into the willows, 20 feet from the river bank. Three miles further up the hill, he led the officers to where $170 in silver and bills had been cached under a stone. One package of money had been torn in two and thrown away as worthless.
One hundred and five small diamonds were found where the package containing them had been torn in two by the robbers and spilled in the sand. Two of the drafts aggregated $40,000.
Map Caption: The train stopped short of Bradman and there the safe was blown. The boat was used to cross to the north side of the river and the two thieves got on their horses and rode off from there. The mention of a canyon where the horses were kept fits the area of Mulkey Gulch and Garden Gulch.
, should be a cemetery and an old mine. Whos knows what else could remain?
