The Potter journal. [volume] (Coudersport, Pa.) 1857-1872, 1862-03-26
COUDERsPORT POTTER COUNTY Pa WEDNESDAY MARCH 26 1862
she stood erect aud waited the reply.


81 am going to kill you, said the man.
"kill me r' she exclaimed, her face
growing pale with terror. xiii me =
What have | ever done to you that you
should kin ne F''
Nothing, nothing, my deer, only you
know you have seen me, and will kpow
NE again" And be advanced apon her
30, sir, let me live. Have you not
done enough to take my husbands money,
without depriving him of his wife too
| will pever say word against you if you
will spare me--only spare me !"
As she spoke she clasped her hands
and hooked lmploriLgly at him.
'1'm sorry that | cannot safely grant
your request" he responded "There is
no hep for it, SO come along out doors
with me.
"He reached out his hand. to grasp
Milly Bat the instinct of self-preserva-
ton was strong upon her. She evaded
him few to the chimney piece, suatched
her husbands loaded rifle from the hooks
on which it hung, cooked and presented
it at the breast of the robber. Her mo-
tions were so rapid that before he could
prevent it, her finger had pressed the trig-
ger and there was an explosion Bat
with equal readiness the man had stepped
aside, the bail had passed over his bead,
and the next instant his g:ipe was on
her throat.
81 will teach you how to handle arms, -
he said. "You would have killed NE;
would you? | viii show you trick
worth two of that
"Mercy, mercy" cried the terrified wo-
man. .....
There's no mercy for you !" he ejaeu-
lated. He dragged her into the entry,
and flung open the door. Out with you
into the snow"
Hold what is this p exclaimed a
deep toned voice. Unhand that woman
you scoundrel."
A powerful man stood 10 the doorway.
He dealt the robber blow between the
eyes which struck him back into the en-
try, Ills grasp of MilIy was relipquishea
and she fell TO the Roor.
20 sir," she cried to the new conner,
''savc me. This man has robbed Us, aud
would murder me that ] should not tell
of it,"
Fear not, madame, he shall not harm
you," responded the stranger "EelloW,
surrender yoarself.'
"Get out of my way" said the robber,
making a rush for the door and striking
at the stranger with a bowie knife. Civ
ing back few steps the stranger seized
the robber by the cpat collar, whirled him
around and threw him on his face in the
Snow.
The robber struggled, bat the stranger
knclt heavily on the swall Of his back,
and grasped his hair.
"Lie STILL" said the stranger, "or I
will send a bullet through your BRAIN"
The robber felt the Geld barrel of a
pistol at his ear and obeyed. Milly bro't
ropes at her Tcscuer's request, aud the
robber was quickly bouno hand and foot.
at was a strange Providence that over
took me with a snow storm on the prairie,
and forced me an hour ago to take refuge
in your smoke house, nearly dead with the
cold"
MiIy acknowledged the truth Of the
remark, and she knet and thanked Der
Father in Heaven for her deliveranee
from death.
The next day Milly's husband cane
home, and when he had been told ALL he
"Ttis fellow was in the tavern at the
village the day | sold my produce. 1t
will learn me lesson-BeVer to let str2n-
gers know when money is plenty with me,
.est they should be tempted to crime, and
briug ruin on me and mine"
That day some sixty or seventy men
gathered at the house of M. Dean. The
robber was recognized as a notorious horse
thief, who had long infested the neigh
borhoOd There was summary trial ,and
then in dogged silence, the BretCh whoI
would have burned q helpless infant, and
murdered faithful and gentle woman,
submitted 20 his inevitable fate. i rude
" constructed gallows and stout rope
ended his existence. So on the thiniy
settled frontiers OF the west do they mete
out justice to offenders against property
md life.
On that very spot is nov a thriving
-own, aud one of the finest residences in
The place is that where dwells Miily Dean
and her husband.
IRON IS KING-It turns cut, after all
The boasting of our Southern brethren,
that Iron and not Cotton, is King, and