The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1875-12-16
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lonan vas, $50 lEOpr
lid Il I would end 4 a1plsi
Certsinly, but yon might g I. 4.
rould charge you more than Is cc4
q sending, / said, sharply. - : :
We mistaken about the chsnges'
Die reptha. IN a,zapOloSetic tone.
What do Jon gish tosendg I ask
Here its, I wrote it out before I
e ebossdI md she handed me aslip
l1nee at !: put Stins
my pocket, and in the depot asked
the operator tie charge of sending
He opened the paper and, sitter look
fing at it a moment, said:
What kind Of gibberish do you
tcall this, any way?'
l took the paper, it reads
B-4-N-I-sure pop come
S. A.
1t was directed to a person at *,
. place ffty:miles beyond.
Il don't know said I. but send it.
Did you send the telegram asked
the woman, when l again saw her.
4 did, l answered.
told Abe about the telegram; he
was much mystifed. What's she
sending such teegFams for, I'd lie
to know, said he.
At K-two very rough and sus-
Fpicious-looking men came aboard,
and after scanning every one on the
train, they seated themselves behind
the woman, and engaged in conyer-
sation with her. At the same place
l received a message from Janesville
signed by the agent, which read,
t.The bill l changed for you isacoan-
terfeit.' Twas startled. Calling Abe
into tie Smoking car, I told him my
suspicious.
ABE said l, read that giving
him one of the bills which I had put
in my pocket.
fBy the holy mackerel,' he exclaim-
led, its the deviln
think 50 myself Ianswered.-
Now then, Abe, we've got to capture
sher and the men,
Five hundred apiece said he mus.
tingly. :
4 j prepared the following dispatch,
which I sent at the next station.
''Pinkerton's Detective agency,S
Chicago, III. Have you description
of the woman, chief of the gang Of
counterfeiters, for whom $1,000 re-
ward is offered? If SO, send it at
once to L. R conductor No. 4,
-R. r., at B."
The message traversed the small
wire with lightning speed, and back
THE answer came, which l received at
B. Rather large. fiery nature,
gray hair, and generally dresses in
black" Beyond a doubt it was the
woman on board. The two men were
| probably her accomplices. She had
some of the ''queer7 inner possession
for she had passed a bogus fifty on me.
Conviction would be insured without
a doubt. Ellsbank was less than six
Ety miles distant. She and her ae-
complices would leave the train at
that point, and they must be secured
before arriving there. I telegraphed
to D., twenty miles this side of
Ellsbank, for two ;oficers to get on
the train, and to be prepared to deal
with desperate characters. l met
them on the depot platform and di-
rected them where to- station them-
selves. They were dressed in plain
clothes.
sWe undoubtedly shall have Sc
we're tusslc If we attack them all.to-
gether," said one of the officers; @if
we can manage to separate them it
will be easy enough"
T'll manage that said Abe. Ap-
preaching the trio, lie said, (which
one of you gentlemen got onat CO"
@Why?s. asked one OF the men.
"Because there is package which
was pu. into the baggage car for one