Flying Pesos with Marshall Trimble 2.0

[Music] uh Joe George and Grant wheeler were a couple of coaches County Cowboys and um they decided to try to up their station in life by robbing a train it was becoming very popular uh and they had nine train robberies right right here in Arizona between 1887 and 1922 so it was it was a popular place the way I should I should mention here that um um in 1890 around there uh New Mexico made Robin trains gave it the death penalty and uh because uh uh you know that's that's pretty serious business and so are the Outlaws going to rob a train in New Mexico no they're going to sit there watch it pass through doubtful Canyon and when you come into Arizona then they'll Rob the train in Arizona only one guy got hanged ever in the West for robbing the train and that was Blackjack catch him and in his the hangman miscalculated his uh the Rope the drop Jack lost his head over it and and that might have had something to do with why they resented the law a little later but finally Arizona thinks hey if New Mexico is going to have these guys are just waiting to get into Arizona to rob the trains let's just we'll get the law we'll pass that law too but there's one problem with a law like that some of these Outlaws were gentlemen and they wouldn't hurt anybody they're just like Butch Cassidy you know they just Train Robbers we don't we as a jury we won't we won't convict uh so literally you could actually rob a train and with the death penalty hanging over you the jwy would have quit you you could get away with train robbery for a very short time and they figured it out it didn't take them long to figure out hey we better do something about this death penalty because the juries are not equ are not uh uh finding them guilty and so both Arizona and New Mexico dropped the hang the death penalty uh capital offense for Train Robbery but for a short time it was long enough to get Blackjack catch him well anyway Grant wheeler and Joe uh Grant wheeler and Joe George are going to rob the train as it leaves this is 1895 just as it leaves Willcox and goes up that incline on the way up to coochi station and um so they B to town Soto's hardware store and they buy a box of dynamite and just to throw people off they're saying um we're going to we're going to go to mining we're going to start being Miners And of course people say you guys oh you are as Cowboys not good ones at that but um and um Joe George is kind of a sirly sour guy and and Grant's a young good-look kid and with from a good family in Utah but um they're um they're Train Robbers now so they go out they they plant the dynamite uh up a ways and then leave their horses hobbled up there they walk back down and then they'll they jump on the train on the engine because it gone so slow and they jump on the engine and they again the same old routine uh they order the the the conductor to disconnect the cars uh leave the passengers down below waiting and and the May car and they'll just take the engine and the express car up and blow up the safe and so um they get up there and they um they they get it they go into the express car and they look around and there's um there's a safe there all right and there are about 10 sacks of of silver full of silver pesos and they're thinking and this time by the way they're called doe dollars as Adobe uh and because they're Mexican dollars and um so there's all these sacks of silver dollars silver Pils lying there and they ignore that they think if they got them lying out here in the open there must be really something in the safe so they decid well let's let's stick some dynamite in there these boys had never played with dynamite before and they uh uh they they put a few sticks in there and then light the fuse and they run out and into the desert and lay down on the ground and cover their heads and waited well there's a little explosion and uh When the Smoke Clears they go back in the door on the safe is still intact so uh they said well let's try a little bit more so they put some more Dynamite on there a little more this time and same thing light diffuse run out cover up their heads and wait and um another L another loud boom and um so they come back in it's still intact they said well we'll fix this they took all of the dynamite they had left in the box and and then they put the silver pesos on top of it for ballast they figure this will blow that sap open and they light the fuse and out in the desert they go again and uh cover up their heads and this is not this is not a a boom this is a kaboom it must have shaken all the way from Dosa bases to dracoon Springs and U and when it Smoke Clears they go back in and there is uh uh there's the safe the door is wide open and where are the they've gone flying into the desert like shrapnel and one even embedded in a telephone pole alongside the tracks They found it later and um but silver pacil just went everywhere and so um they think well uh know just money's in here but there's no money in there or just a few bucks so they cuss a little bit and stick the money what few dollars they had in their pockets and get on the horses and ride away um foiled um well the train backs into town still a train robbery and um and it not only that it blew the car to Pieces it was the whole express car is in splinters and um so they back back into town and announc robbery well would you think a posi is going to form um no they didn't have much luck raising a posi because soon as people found out there were pesos lying all over the desert they went home and got their rakes and they went out to rake that that had to be the best manicure piece of real estate this side of Paradise Valley and I've told that story a number of times uh in uh one time I get an email the next day and the guy says hey I'm I'm a I'm a treasure hunter uh can you tell me about where that robbery was I'm going to go out and see if there's of them pil still there and I say F that was that was a hundred years ago I don't think there'll be if they if they are they they're probably if they're heavy enough they probably got buried by now by the elements and uh but people still they still like those kinds of stories well in in fact that that leads me into a um a treasure lost treasure story because this this deal between wheeler and George has been turned into a treasure story I won't tell you which his story had started it but I really have my doubts but I and I won't say his name because he's a good friend but um there's a story about that Grant wheeler they took $84,000 and that robbery now we know that's not true but they got they said they and they buried it in a cave and do cabasas and left it there uh and um u in in saddle bags and stashed it and and then they were going to come back and get it when the heat cool you know kind of cool down a little bit but um but there's more to that story because um they they did a month later they they robbed again the same train uh same crew it's like hey guys here we are again and um and so uh yeah said hi Grant how Joe Joe how are you how you doing fine how how the kids but um they stopped the train and uh do the same routine this is over by doubtful Canyon along the Arizona New Mexico line and um they've got their Dynamite stash the whole the same same uh standard operating procedure and um uh they they get the engine and what they thought was the express car up a road about 2 miles and uh when they go to open up the express car they find out they've switched the cars usually it was the engine and a Wells Fargo express car and the male car and they reversed it and the boys the two boys didn't didn't know the difference so so they um they got mad and they said I'll get on out here go on and let them go and and they they they they blew up the dynamite but uh blowing up uh blowing up a car turning one to splinters uh is is not uh is is not cool with Southern Pacific Railroad so they've got the detectives on their Trail and one of the detectives is is Billy Breckenridge who's famous from the coochi county War tombstone he was Johnny Bean's Deputy down there during the Wyatt herb days well anyway he and CS fly uh the famous photographer uh is now Sheriff of coochi County and fly was a man of many talents and uh so he uh so they're out there they're hot on their Trail and somewhere along the line the boys were going to go to Colorado I guess and U until things cooled off and seems that Joe George had a bad snoring problem and Grant wheeler couldn't stand he snoring and he was afraid it would give him away if posi was coming up he was snoring so loud so he decides to go back to Utah and uh he goes back and reunites with his family in Utah and Joe George Goes Down to Mexico where he gets into an argument with a with with a V and and get shot and killed so George is dead when the posy um actually Breen Ridge and fly catch up with Grant wheeler he sees the he sees it's up and I think rather than humiliate his family he takes his own life he P pulls a pistol and shoots himself so both guys are both guys are dead but um but how this story about a lost treasure hidden in the caves when they blew the car blew the train up and there were just a few dollars in the safe and there was no $84,000 net safe and so but anyway it's it it just shows you how these treasure stories go and it just and it ends by saying somewhere in a cave in doab basis um I've been to DOA basis and I don't think there are many caves up there but um uh where you could hide that money and somebody not find it sooner L they should have never been outlaws some guys have a knack for it These Guys these guys don't thank you for watching this episode of mysteries of the Superstition [Music] Mountains [Music]