The Last Stagecoach Hold-Up In San Mateo County
Near this location on Aug.17, 1905, a masked desperado described as "nine feet high and armed with a small canon" stopped the Half Moon Bay Stagecoach. He angrily demanded driver Ed Campbell to throw down the Wells Fargo Co.'s treasure box, Levy Bros. strongbox, and the U.S. Mail bag. No valuables here but five passengers hid their gold and only gave $4.30.
A Poet Commemorated:
Huzza! romance returns again,
Once more as in the days of old,
Disdaining banks or Chu-chu train,
A robber stops a stage for gold,
Trouble for the terrible tempered
trigger man terminated.
Hurrah! Such news is great, immense -- -
But softly, what is this I’m told?
This robber robbed me for thirty cents!
Dedicated the 28th day of March, 2009
(Clampyear 6014)
By the Ancient and Honorable Order of
E. Clampus Vitus Yerba Buena Number One
Capitulus Redivivus
Marker is on Chrystal Springs Road west of Woodbridge Road, on the left when traveling west.
Courtesy hmdb.org
