Mexico weekly ledger., 1877-10-25
THE GRIM ENGINEER.

pointed an interview in order to Sc
cure the engineers adventures dur
ing the slate war;" The brother of
the foot-board was willing to tell his
story without stopping to take on
wood or water he rang the bell and
began:
II raj the last passenger train over
the road-the last train allowed to
pass by the strikers. All the train
officials were heavily armed, many
of the passengers carried revolvers,
and we were all ready for the muss.
We expected hat the strikers would
displace a rail, let us through q
bridge, or switch us into some gravel
pit, and just before we left the sta
ton / kissed my wife and told her
where she would find the sum of thir-
ty-eight hundred dollars which l had
buried in the garden"
Possible" gasped the reporter
as he made a note of it.
"And my fireman, feeling certain
that he would not live two hours long
er, confessed to me that he was the
abductor of Charlie Ross and that he
once murdered a man in Missouri"
The reporter made his pencil fly
for a minute, and when he let up his
note book read:
''Great Heavens -coolly
confessed-thirty-eight thousand dol
lars Charley Ross! : l--mur-
dered seventeen men-nane of fire.
man Tom Collins-! more
coming g.! ! I" ..
,"And the conductor Of the train"
continued the engineer, t.also pre-
pared for death. He returned TO the
company 81, 55S, 644, 13 which he had
knocked down during his connection
with the road, and humbly asked for
giveness. He was much troubled to
think that he had invested his share
of the plumber in founding an orphan
asylum and could not restore it tt
the road. He owned up to having
killed IN old woman OF two, but
forget their names or whether they
struggled very hard when he wa
choking them" .
The pale-faced young man wEot'
again, and his notebook read:
s'Further horrors" = *-conduc
tor stricken with remorse-! ]
restores money-owns up to murde
sees ghosts of his victims aroun'
him! ! /! biggest item eve
published in a Detroit paper
scoop the Free Press stone blin'
=! ! =" 5a
"well, we finally pulled out" sal
the grim engineer, as he wiped hi
heated brow on the back of his hand
IL had q deringer on one side Of mt
q revolver oh the other, a bowie-knii
down behind my coat collar, and
musket loaded with one hundred an
seventeen buekshot was strapped I
my back. The, fireman had four II
volvers and six one-pound cans of n
tro-glycerine. We meant tC 81,
'em the best we had, you see:"
The reporter wrote:
''Revolyers-muskets -deringers-
nitro1glyeerine-all r~eady--bsaye +,
lions, but modest as schoolgirl
The plot thickens-full particulars
this issue-n0 other Detroit pap
has a line OF it" ~ ..
1--WE lit out at o speed of for
miles an hour" the engineer we
on, s'for I reasoned that we might
well go down with flying colors as
crawl like a snail. We whizzt
through cuts, dashed past farm hou
es and across highways, and ever
thing was running finely when, +
ahead, in the dim CLEAN of the hea
light / saw men on the track. III
moment had comet" ~ =
II see!" whispered the report
as he seized his pencil again-'sral
torn up-fends waiting to wash the
hands in blood--horrible massacre
innocent -deyilsf IL
a-h-h-h-! ! !" aI !
II should have put on all stea
and dashed ahead" resumed thee
gineer, ssbut the fireman entreat,
me to give him time to confess til
he had been hiding the Bender fan
Iy in his front bedroom, and | slow.
down till the train stopped just whe
i had seen the crowd. Only Of
mali was now visible"
ssfhe rest were in ambuscade
exclaimed the reporter.
81 guess SO. This one man q
preached. He had something in /
hand.n
"Yes. lie did-a hand-grenade-
bombshelli shouted the listener,
IHE-aaL-E7 - EE+aHsEh
Tile came closer and closer al
closer. walking like a man who meal
murder.
ssIIold on!'' cried the reporter, al
he wrote:
Shark figure came nearer-near