The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1877-10-04

ton was strong upon her. She eyaded
him, few to the chimney piece, snatched
her husbands loaded rifle from the hook
on which it hung, cooked and presented
it at the breast OF the robber. Her mo-
lions were so rapid that before he could
prevent it her finger had pressed the
trigger and there was an explosion. But
with equal readiness the man had
stopped to the floor, the ball had passed
over his head, and the next instant his
grippe was on her throat.
81 will teach you to handle arms"
he said. "You would have killed me,
would you2 I will show you a trick
worth two of that!"
"Mercy, mercy!" cried the terrified
woman.
"There is no mercy for you" he eiac-
ulated. He dragged her into the entry,
and flung open the door. "Out with
you into the snow p
"Hold what is this? 2" exclaimed a
deep-toned voice. finland that woman,
you scoundrel |"
A powerful man stood in the doorway.
He dealt the robber blow between the
eyes which struck him back into the en-
try. His grasp of Milly was relinquished,
and she fell to the floor.
''Oh, sir, she cried to the newcomer,
"save me. This man has robbed us,
and would murder me that I should not
tell of it.
"Fear not, madam, he shall not harm
you, responded the stranger. "Fellow,
surrender yourself p
sect out of my way" cried the rob-
Der, making a rush for the door, and
striking at the stranger with bowie
knife. But the stranger was prepared
for him. Giving back few steps, he
artfully seized the robber by the collar,
whirled him around, and threw him on
his face in the snow. The robber strug-
gled, but the stranger knelt heavily on
the small of his back and grasped his
hair.
ellie still, said the stranger, "or l
will send bullet through your BRAIN"
The robber felt the cold barrel OF a
pistol at his ear and obeyed. Milly
quickly brought ropes at her rescuer's
request. and the robber was bound hand
and foot.
''It was strange providence" the
newcomer said, "that overlook me with
a snow-storm on the prairie, and forced
me some hours ago to take refuge in
your smoke-house, nearly dead with
cold"
Milly acknowledged the truth of the
remark. and she knelt and thanked her
Father in Heaven for her deliverance.
The next day Milly's husband came
home, and when he was told all he re-
marked,
"This fellow was in the tavern at the
village the day sold my produce. 1t
will teach me lesson-never to let
strangers know when money is plenty
with me, lest they be tempted to crime
and bring ruin on me and NINE"
That day some sixty or seventy men
gathered at the house of Mr.. Dean. The
robber was recognized as a notorious
horse-thief who had long infested the
neighborhood. There was a summary
trial, and then, in logged silence, the
wretch who would have burned harm
less infant and murdered faithful and
gentle woman, submitted to his newt
able fate. A rudely constructed gallows
and stout rope ended his existence.
So on the thinly-settled frontiers of the
West they mete out justice to offenders
against property and life.
There were about 81, 700 in bills found
on the person of the robber, besides the
gold he had taken from Mrs. Dean. AS
there were no claimants for the bills, at
the suggestion of the stranger, whose life
had been saved from the anger of the
winter storm by the shelter he found in
the smoke-house, 81, 900 of the 81, 700
were presented to Milly in consideration
of what she had passed through, and
the remainder was divided around.
On that very spot there is now thriv-
ing town, and one of the finest resi-
dences in the place is that where dwell
Milly Dean and her husband.