Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1877-09-27
Stage Robbers Beaten OF
49,
A Lively Night Skirmisn on the
Tybo Road Higlwayman Jack
Dying Came.
From the Eureka Sentinel
From the Eureka Sentinel

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Dying Game.
From the Eureka Sentinel
A bold attempt to rob the Ty
bo stage was made on Monday
evening at the Willows station,
forty miles south of Eureka. At
s o'clock in the evening three
masked men put in an appearance
at the station. The two occu-
pants of the house were bound,
gagged and laid away where they
could not give the alarm.
In about an hours time the
stage came rafting up to the Earn.
As the driver checked the horses,
a voice cried out in the gloom,
"Eugene Blair, surrender" Blair
Immediately swung himself to the
ground, and as he reached it he
was saluted by a double discharge
of shotguns, one from the rear of
the stage and the other from the
corner of the stable, just in front
of him. He caught sight of q
man and returned the fire. Then
he felt the muzzle of a shotgun
strike against his breast. He
grasped the barrel of the gun and
swung his man around. Brown
caught sight of the bighwayman
as he came in light of the coach
lamp, and, leaning over the box,
gave him the contents Of his shot
gun, riddling him with buckshot.
The robber, who had grasped
Blair by the coat collar, relaxed
his hold and fell TO the ground.
As Brown put bis foot on the
wheel to alight, the man in the
rear of the stage shot him through
the leg, inficting a severe wound.
Both Brown and Blair returned
the fire, when the highwayman
took to bis heels and escaped in
the darkness. The third man
had not put in an appearance DUR
ing the affray, and it was sup
posed that he was holding the
horses. The tracks where they
rode off in the sagebrush were
found the next morning. sl
The fettered blacksmith and
rancher were unbound, and an in.
vestigation as to the amount of
damage sustained ensued. Jack
Perry had perfect control, of the
team during the fighting, and the
two passengers, Prof. Price anet
j. M. Haskell, had remained quiet
spectators inside of the stage. A
light was procured, and the wound
ed road agent taken into the sta
tion> house, when it was found that
he had received nine buckshot in
the back, just abave the hip.
He was in great agony, and beg.
ged to be killed. Browns leg
was next examined, an ugly
wound discovered in the calf of
his leg. The party remained at
the station until daylight, when
the wounded men were placed on
the return stage, and in company
with Blair and Perry returned to
Eureka. On the road the wound.
ed robber was very reticent, OBJ
stinately refusing to give any in
formation in regard to his COM
panions that would lead to their
Identification. His only remark
about them was that, if they had
been as old hands at the business
as himself, the situation would
have been changed, and Blair and
Brown would have been lying on
their backs. He also informed
Blair that this was the second &C.
casion on which they had ex-
changed shots. About 3 o'clock
yesterday afternoon, as the stage
neared Pages ranch, it was found
that he was dying. Ia reply to
question Ifrom Blair, he gasped
out that his name was Jack Davis,
and then breathed his last. Il