Pomeroy weekly telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy, Meigs County, Ohio) 1860-1866, 1861-02-22
Il am going to kill youl' was the re-

81 am going to kill your' was the re-
tply:
i "Kill mel" she exclaimed, her face
fgrowing pale with terror. "Kill mel
:1she exclaimed. "What haveI ever done
to you that you should kill me2"
i, Nothing, nothing, my dear, only you
know you have once seen me, and you
Twill know me again" And he advanced
upon her.
30, sir, let me live. Have you moi
ldone enough to take my husband &
money, without depriving him of his
wife too? l will never say one word
against you, if you will spare me, only
spare meP'
As she spoke she clasped her hands
land looked imploringly at him.
ist.I am sorry that cannot safely grant
your request" he responded. "There
is no help for it, SO come along out of
doors"
He reached out his hand to grasp
Millly. But the instinct of self -preser-
vation was strong Upon her. She eva
ded him, few to the chimney-piece
snatched her husbands s loaded rifle from
the hooks on which it hung, cooked and
presented it at the breast Of the robber.
Her motions we're so rapid that before
he could prevent it, her finger had
pressed the trigger and there was an ex-
ploaion. But with equal readiness the
man had stepped aside, the ball passed
over his head, and the next instant the
grippe Vas ON her throat.
81 will teach you to handle arms" he
said. "You would have killed me
would you? I will show you a trick
worth two of that"
"Mercy, mercy" cried the terrified wo-
'"There is no mercy for you," he ejac.
ulated. He dragged her into the entry
and flung open the door. "Out with
you into the snow"
"Hold, what is this?" exclaimed a
deep toned voice. "Unhand that wo-
man, you scoundrel."
A powerful man stood in the doorway.
He dealt the robber blow between the
eyes which, struck him back into the en-
try. His grasp of Milly was relin-
quished, and she fell to the floor
go, Sir, she cried to the new conner,
''save me, This man has robbed US, and
would murder me that 1 would not tell
of it."
"Fear not, madam; he shall not harm
you" responded thestranger "Fellow,
surrender yourself"
sect out of my way" cried the rob-
Der, making a rush for the door, and
striking at the stranger with bowie
knife. Giving back few steps, the
stranger seized the robber by the collar,
whirled him around and threw him on
his face in the snow The robber strug-
gled, but the stranger knelt heavily on
the small of his back, and grasped his
hair. ''.@eAa1~a a-f--'- - - .+'=s
''Lie still" said the stranger, cor
will send bullet through your brain" :"
The robber felt the cold barrel of a
pistol at his ear, and obeyed Milly
quickly brought ropes, at her rescuer' s
reuuest, and the robber was bound hand
and foot.
'It was strange providence" the new
CONNER said, "that overlook me with
snow storm on the prairie, and forced
me an hour ago to take refuge in your
smokehouse, nearly dead with cold.''
Milly acknowledged the truth of the
remark, and she knelt and thanked her
Father in Heaven for her deliverance.
The next day Milly's husband came
home, and when he had been told all, be
remarked: -.
"This fellow was in the tavern at the
village the day I sold my produce. 1t
will learn me a lesson-never to let
strangers know when money is plenty
with me, lest they be tempted to crime
and bring ruin on me and mine"
That day some sixty or seventy men
gathered at the house of Mr.. Dean. The
robber was recognized as a notorious
horse thief who had long infested the
neighborhood. There was summary
trial, and then in dogged silence the
wretch who would have burned harm
less infant and murdered faithful and
gentle woman, submitted to his inevita-
BILE fate. A rudely constructed gallows
and stout rope ended his existence
So on the thinly settled frontiers of the
West, do they mete out justice to offend
ers against property and life.
There was about seventeen hundred
dollars in bills found on the person Of
the roober, besides the gold he had
taken from Mrs. Dean As there was
no claimants for the bills, at the sug-
gestion of the stranger, whose life had
Ibeen saved from the anger of the winter
storm by the shelter he found in the
smoke house, thousand dollars of the
seventeen hundred were presented tc
Milly in consideration of what she had
passed through, and the remainder was
divided around.
On the very spot is now thriving
town. and one of the finest residences in
the place is that where dwells Milly
Dean and her husband
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