Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1861-04-14

it Ter finger had pressed the trigger, and there
was an explosion. But with equal readiness
the man had stepped aside, the ball had passed
over his head, and the next instant his grsPe
was on her throat.
4sI win teach YOU to handle arms" be said:
q 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" be elaeulsted.
He dragged her ints the entry, and flung open
the door. Out with you int the snew p
Hold what IL this ?n exclalmed deep
toned voice. " Unhand that woman, you seoun-
drelln
A powerful man stood ia the doorway. He
dealt the robber blow betweehthe ewes which
struck him back into the entry, His grasp
Of Milly was re'inquished, and sne fell TO tne
floor.
40, sir,D she cried to the new conner, save
me. This man has robbed us, and would muir
der me that would not tell Of it,"
"Fesr not, madam, he shall not harm you,"
responded the stranger "FelioW, surrender
! yourself1
"Get out Of my way" cried the robber,
making a rush for the door, and striking at the
stranger with bowie knife. Giving back a
few steps the stranger seized the robber BY the
collar, whirled him around and threw him on
his face In the snow. The robber Struggled,
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bis back and grasped bis hair.
ole STILL" said the stranger, "or viii send
a bullet through your brain"
The robber felt the cold barrel OF pistol at
his ear and obeyed. Milly quickly brought
ropes at her rescuer's request, and the robber
was bound band and foot.
"It was a strange providence the new
csmer said, "thst overlook me with snow
storm on the prairie, and forced me an hour
D aer r, kalr 81 N hHnap- nearly
dead with cold y
Milly aekno Eledged the truth OF the re-
mark, and she felt AMI thanked heF Fsther In
heaven for her deliveTanee.
The next day Milly's husband came home,
and when be had been told all, be remarked,
"1his fellow was In the tavern at the village
the day sold my produce. It viii teach me
a lessOn-neveT 70 let strangers know when
money is plenty with me, lest they shall be
tempted to crime, and bring ruin on me and
mine"
That day some sixty or seventy men gath
cred at the house Of Mr.. Dean. The robber
ives recognized as a notorious horse thief who
bad long infested the nsighborhood. There
was a summary trial, and then in logged 81
lsnce the wretch who would have burned
harmless infant and murdered faithful and
gentle woman, submitted to bis inevitable fate.
A rudsly constructed ealows and stout rope
ended bis existence. So, on the thinly settled
frontiers Of the Wes5, do they mete out justice
to offenders against properly and life.
About seventeen hundred dollars in bills
were found on the person Of the robber, besides
the gold be had taken from Mrs. Dean. As
there were DO claimants for the bills, at the
suggestion Of he stranger, whose life had been
saved from the anger Of the winter storm by
the shelter he found in the smoke house, 4
thousand Of the seventeen hundred were pre-
] a1 70 in OF W
had passed through, and the remainder was
divided around.
On that very spot there is now a thriving
town, and one Of the finest residences in the
place is that where dwells MillY Dean and her
husband.