The Great Pixley Train Robbery

To your hands I give you

Aboard from Hawaii

The ship they call Northern Light

A fugitive

One of three highwaymen

Who stopped the Pixley train that night

About 8 PM

22 February

We forced 7 thousand in gold

Two were killed in the melee

A fireman of the train

And a passenger from Modesto

The leader was an

Insurance agent, this I know

The third man set for

Remote islands near the equator

When he found the ship

Would not put in there

There's reason to believe he set her on fire

When our bomb exploded

Buckshot unloaded

We three made off in dire

To the Right Honorable

American Council

To the Hawaiian King

I swear before Notary

To make a clean breast

Of the whole thing

In hope of salvation

For surely I'll be found before port

Before Postal authorities can act

I surrender myself unto the reward

Since I was taken

From the Napa asylum

And put on a whaler for my own good

I told the Captain

Not to let me ashore

Except under guard

If no faith is placed

In this letter

You are letting a brigand free

The passenger coaches

Were not molested

Violence I can't see