East Saginaw courier. (East Saginaw, Mich.) 1859-18??, 1861-03-28
EAST SAGINAW, MICHIGAN, MARCH g. 1861

"Put your baby IN the cradle, he SAID
"if you wish to save its life. have othe
business for you."
"What do you mean?" cried Milly
eyeing the man with suspicion.
Let me have him." he said, trying t.
take it.
"No, no, | will put the baby in the
cradle myself. You shall not touch th,
poor little thing. Now, sir," sho contin
ued, almost choking with excitement
"What is it!' After having laid the
pretty infant on its downy place Of rest
she stood erect and waited the reply.
81 am going to kill you?' said the man
"Kill mel" she exclaimed, her face
growing pale with terror. Kill mel
What have | ever done to you should
kill me!'
"Nothing, nothing, my dear, only you
know you have seen me, and you will
know me again. Aud he advanced upon
her.
go, 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 if
You will spare me, only spare mel"
AS she spoke she claspcd hands and
looked imp!oringly at him.
81 am sorry that cannot safely grant
your request he responded. "Ihere
is no help for it, so come along out doors. ,
lie reached out his hand to grasp
Milly. But the instinct Of self-preserva.
ton 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 robber Her motions were so rap
id that before 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 his
gripe was on her throat.
Il will teach YOU to handle arms" he
said--"You would have killed me, wonld
you? ] will show you trick worth two
OF that"
"Mercy, Mercy" cried the terrified wo,
man.
"There is no mercy for you," he ciacu-
lated.-He dragged her into the entry,
and flung open the door. "Out with you
into the SNOW"
"Hold, what is this ~ exclaimed deep
toned voice. "Unhaud that woman, you
seoundrel.n
A powerful man stood in the doorway.
Re dealt the rohber blow between the |
eyes which struck him back into the en-
try His grasp o. Milly was relinquish-
ed, and she fell to the floor.
go, sir" She cried to the conner, "save
me. This man has robbed us, and would |
murder me that could not tell of it,
"Fear not, madam, he shall not harm
you,' responded the stranger. "Fellow,
surrender yourself"
'Get cut Of my way" cried the robber,
making a rush for the door, and striking
1t the stranger with a bowie knife. Civ
ng back a few steps the stranger seized
he robber by the collar, whrled him
'ound, and threw him on his face in the
'now. The robber struggled, but the
stranger knelt heavily on the small Of his
,acll, and grasped his hair.
end a bullet through your BRAIN"
The robber felt the cold barrel of a
,istol at his ear, and obeyed. Mlly
quickly brought ropes, at her rcscuer'>
and the robber was bound band
nd fcot.
at was strange providence" the new
omer said, "that overlook me with q
now storm on the prairie, and forced me
n hour ago to take refuge in your smoke
ouse, near..y dead with cold"
MilIy acknowledged the truth of the
emark, and she knelt and thanked her
ather in Heaven for her deliverance.
The next day Milly's husband came
ome, and when he had been tsld all, he
..
"rhis fellow was in the tavern at the
illage, the day sold my produce. 1t
'ill learn me a lesson-never to let stran-
ers know when money is plenty with me
Est they shall be tempted to crime and )
ring ruin OH me and mine."
That day some sixty or seventy men :
altered at the honse of Mr. Dean. The
Dbber was recognized as a notorious
orsc thief who had long infested the /
There was summary
rial, and then i'll dogged silence the '
'retch who would have burned harm. ,,
,ss infant and murdered faithful and :
entle woman, submitted to his inevita- ,
le fate. A rudely constructed gallows,
nd stout rope ended his existence. -
% on the thinly settled frontiers of the !.
Vest do they meet out justice to offend /.
RS against property and life.
About seventeen hundred dollars in
ills were found on the person of the !
obber, besides the gold he had taken
rom Mrs. Dean. AS there were no claim. !.
nts for the bills, at the suggestion Of the :
tranger, whose life had been saved from =
he anger of tho wintry storm by the
helter he bad found in the smoke house, :
thousand dollars of the seventeen hun
red were presented to Mily in consider. |:
tion OF what she had passed trough, aud }
he remainder was divided around.
On that very spot there is now athriv- s
ng town, and one of the finest resden- I
90 in the place is that where dwells Mil {
Y Dean aud her husband.
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