The Tiffin tribune. (Tiffin, Ohio) 1868-1887, 1871-08-24

l determined TO try and sleep as much
Of my time as possible, remembering
the French prOverb, "qlti d0rt dine" /"
/ read a deal OF Shakespeare during
the day, and about eight O'Clock in
the ewing, / again composed myself to
sleep.
/ was suddenly awakened by the
sound of voices in the stone vault, and
naturally snppOsing that il was ten
o'clock on Monday morning, and
some Of the clerks were coming 70
open the safe, glanced 1T my watch
and found to my extreme surprise that
it was exactly twelve o'clock at night.
By some intuition, the truth struck
me in a moment. Ii was some one
to rob the bank, and the reverend wise
itOT of the day before was a SPY. l
The first words l heard confirmed
/ the truth OF this conclusion, for heard
the Rev. Mr.. Elliot's voice exclaim to
his confederate: t r
/ "Well, here we are in tile famous
stone vault-dO you know. Jim, we
got in much easier than expected" +"
Thanks To your visit on Saturday
afternoon, Bobby, a one Of the black
coated gentry" ra
The robbers, then, were tue famous
| "White Haired Bobby" and Slippery
Jim"
"Yes, p" returned Bobby, az think /
gammOned the buffers pretty well.-
You see, Jim,s what it is to be a man
Of education. / should just like to see
yOu in the part of Rev. Mr.. Elliot, and
see what figure you'd cut i'm it. -
'"That amt in my line, no how
but tell you what, Bobby, you can't
beat me at picking a lock-" t..+
lyon are pretty good at that, and
no mistake. But come let us get at
! the swag.n
"YOu are sure you haven't forgotten
how 10 open the safe, Bobby ~ ..
"No, indeed; the fool told me chat
it was by turning the handle round
seven times. OF all the blessed bab-
| bles L ever saw, | never saw any to
come up to this man Bsaintree." r.
saw that it was now time for me
to act. Fortunately I had my pistol
with me. / drew it from my pocket,
cooked it, and turned up the lamp to
its full. / waited for the door of the
safe to he opened, realizing fully that
my only CHANGED Of OverpOwering the
two ruffians was TO take them by sur
prise; for if l allowed them to recover
themselves from the. sudden effect Of
my appearance, they, being two TO.
one would soon OverpOwer me.
had not long to wait. heard the
handle turn seven successive times,
and then Bobby gave a strong pull at
the heavy door of the safe. rU ID
1t yielded, but in n moment / step
ped out with the dark-lantern turned
full upon the robbers, and with my
arm stretched out holding the cooked
pistol in my hand. .- Fl
The effect of my appearance on Bob
by and Jim was absolutely terrific
They must have thought me ghost
for they both turned perfectly livid
with fear.
Before they had time to recover
themselves, L knocked Jim senseless
to the floor with the butt end of my
pistol, and, springing upon the other,
1 grasped him by the throat and bore
him to the ground.
Fortune avOred me i'm another re-
spect, for 1 saw hanging out Of the
pocket of the ruffian l had under me
a long piece of strongcorl. Hestrug-
gled violently, but was the strongest
man of the two, and succeeded in
binding him fastwithOut much trouble.
When 1 had White Haired Bobby
secured / turned my attention to his
companion, who. fortunately for me,
remained in a condition of insensibil-
ity.
In five minutes had them both Sc
curely bound that they could not
move hand or foot. L left them while
l went to arouse the house.
l proceeded first to Mr.. Braintree's
room. He slept over the hank.
knocked loudly at his door.
'Who's there? What is it," heck
elesinaod
"Get up, Mr.. Braintree," l cried
out, 'White Haired Bobby and Slip
perry Jim have made an attemOt To
rob the bank. They are both NOW ~
ing in the vault securely bound"
F'You are jesting, Archer" said
Braintree, jumping out Of the bed and
opening the door.
at is positive truth. The Rev. Mr..
Elliot, to whom you so obligingly
show the vault on Saturday afternoon
and explained to MIN how to open the
safe, was none other than White
Haired Bobby himself.
It was a minute or two before Mr..
Braintree could realize the news l
brought him. At last the truth began
to dawn on his mind.
"YOu say the villains are securely
bound on the floor in the vault"
FYes.U
''But who bound them ?'' he asked,
more and more puzzled.
'I did"
"Who helped you?"
"NO one"
"But how the deuce comes IL that
you were on the spot ~
/ then told him how had been fas-
tened i'm the safe, and he began TO see
through the fog. .''... -
While this conversation had been
progressing, Mr.. Braintree had been
busy dressing himself. We went down
together. summoned the officers of
the law, all proceeded to the vault.
We found our prisoners just where /
had left them, and in a quarter of an
hour they We're safely lodged in Jail.
1t was the last exploit of White
Haired Bobby and Slippery Jim, for
they were tried, and public opinion
having at last been aroused at their
terrible contempt of laws, human and
divine, they were sentenced to the
penitentiary for life.
Mr.. Braintree and the directors of
the bank, compensated me for my in
declaring that it was the
most fortunate Imprisonment that
had ever occurred.