The Highwaymen — Owen G. Irons

The Chicolote highwayman, notable for his odd habit of returning his ill-gotten gains after terrorising passengers and stagecoach drivers, had long been responsible for disrupting coach travel and gold shipments along the line. Now he was dead, or so the story went, but his body was never found and the stick-ups continued as before. Could there be a second man imitating him? Or perhaps more? The robberies always happened on the same stretch of the same dangerous road, with the same precision. The banks were getting nervous about sending anything of value on the Chicolote and the passengers feared for their safety. Someone had to stop the hold-ups...It was a job for Laredo.