Holmes County farmer. [volume] (Millersburg, Ohio) 1857-1926, 1861-02-21

know you have once seen me, and you
will know me again" And he advanced
upon her.
40, sir, let me live. Have you not
done enough to take my husbands money
without depriving him of his wife too?-
/ will never say one word against you il
you will spare me, only spare mel"
AS she spoke she clasped her hands
and looked imploringly at him.
81 am sorry that / cannot safely grant
your request" he responded. "There is
no help for it, 30 come along out OF
DOORS"
He reached out his hand to grasp Mil
ly. But the instinct of self preservation
was strong upon her. She evaded him,
flew to the chimney piece, snatched her
husbands loaded rifle from the hooks on
which it hung. cooked and presented it
at the breast of the robber. Her motions
were so rapid that before he could prevent
it, her finger had pressed the trigger and
there was an explosion. But with equal
readiness the man had stepped aside, the
ball passed over his head, and the next
instant the grip was on her throat.
IL will teach you to handle arms" he
said. "You would have killed me, would
you? ] will show you trick worth two
of that"
"Mercy, mercy" cried the terrified
woman.
"There is no mercy for you," he ejacu-
lated. He dragged her into the entry
! ,l . ho nrf ~
into the snow"
"Hold, what is this?" exclaimed a deep
toned voice. "Unhand that woman,
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 relinquish-
ed, and she fell to the floor.
80, SIR" she cried to the new conner,
"save me. This man has robbed us, and
would murder me that l would not tell of
it,"
"Fear not, madam, he shall not harm
you," responded the stranger. Fellow,
surrender yourself"
"Get out of my way" cried the rob-
Der, making a rush ior the door, and
striking at the stranger with bowie knife.
Giving back few steps, the stranger
seized the iobber by the collar, whirled
him aorund, and threw him on his face
in the snow. The robber struggled, but
the stranger knelt heavily on the small OF
his back, and grasped his hair.
"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
request, and the robber WAS bound hand
and foot.
cit was strange providence" the
new conner said, "that overtook me with
snow storm on the prairie, and forced
me an hour ago to take refuge in youl
smoke house, nearly dead with cold"
Milly acknowledged the truth of the re.
mark, and she knelt and thanked hel
Father in Heaven for her deiverance.
The next day Milly's husband came
home, and when he had been told oil, he
remarked:
This fellow was in the tavern at TIN
village the day | sold my produce. i
will learn me lesson-ncver to le
strangers know when money is plenty
with me, lest they be tempted to Grim,
and bring ruin on me and mine"
That day some sixty or seventy meI
gathered at the house of Mr.. Dean. Th,
robber was recognized os notoriou.
horse thief who had long infested tn,
ncighborhood. There was summary
trial. and then in dogged silence tn,
wretch who would have burned harm
less infant and murdered a faithful
woman, submitted to his inevitable fate
a rudely constructed gallows and u stou
rope ended his existence. SO on tn,
thlnly settle frontiers of the West, d,
they mete out Justice to offenders agains
property and life,
There were about seventeen hundred
dollars in bills found on the lerson o
the robber, besides the gold he had takel
from Mrs. Dean. AS there was Mt
claimants for the bills, at the suggestion
of the stranger. whose life bad been sav
ed from the anger of winter storm by tn,
shelter he found in the smokehouse, I
thousand dollars of the seventeen hundre,
were presented to Milly in consideration
of what she had passed through, and tn
remainder was divided around.
On the very spot is now thriving
town, aud ono of the finest residences il
the place is that where dwellS Milly Dear
and her husband GIeasoR's Weekly.