The Red Cloud chief., 1878-03-07
s.STAND AND DELIVER"
A Victim Of q Texas stage Rob.
berry Tells 1aiA Experience.

berry He'll" sst% AP0rsence'
Awriier inrhe Galveston NeUS tells
Of a recent adventure while travelling
in s~tage-coacb. in Texas. As follows {:
On Sunday morning. al one o'clock,
near Pegleg. | was startled from an in
different slumber in the stage-coach by
the clicking Of a Winchester. and by
voices from without hallooing to the
driver. Turn into the bush. or | will
shoot the-Sde Of your face off Will
not ~tell'you again At the same time
saw two men with guns. n bearing
on the driver and the other pointed at
the opening of the coach. There were
tSo passengers beside myself in the
coach, Lieutenant Kirby, Of the Tenth
Infantry and a graduate Of West Point.
assigned to duty at Fort Mckavett; the
other, Mr.. Barouch. a drummer, from
New Orleans. Ny pistol was rolled up
. infny blanket. the drummer had no
arms, but Lieut. Kirby was well heeled.
We had from the time Nc left the road
until We were stopn the brush time
TO consider wbat3 build DO. The
drummer and SI~K concluded that
We were not in . con Z to risk the
fight. But the Lieu insisted up
On a fight, nOton thOpnnt OF the
money he migt. lose. but on account
Of his profezNh- We Truled him
and were really 10
be-v when the coach stopped in the
brush, two Or three hundred yards from
the road. One AT a time was called and
stepped to- the front Of the horses. The
coach was then plundered for money,
jewelry and arms. Each one had hid
den a portion Of his money while In
the stage. ! threw mine in the hay in
the bottom Of the coach. the drummer
tucked his away in the top Of the coach.
and the Lieutenant put his in his boot
Mine was found; the balance they did
not get. The drummer delivered them
thirty dollars, the Lieutenant five dol
lars and | twenty-five dollars. They
also got the Licutenants and drum
mcr's watches, which were left in the
coach. While the coach was being
robbed we were all guarded, a Win
chester being on us. The robbers-the
two we saw-wcre men of good address,
and executed the robbery skillfully.
They attempted to disguise. except the
boss, who evidently thought | knew
him: to the others he was unreserved.
They talked among themselves, from
which we learned that another party
We're to rob the down coach and that
they We're in supportln distance. When
they commenced cutting the mail bags
open | made an appeal to them, stating
that they would hardly find any money
in registered letters going up into the
,,nptr- Thn,- ont ty-n hnuray-nr anI
stopped, putting all the mail back.
They asked about the paymaster. A
short tine after they got there the lights
of the down coach came in view. They
told us we could get in the coach and
not to make any noise or strike a light.
and if we did they would fire on us.
The down coach tumbled along in a
few minutes and we got back on the
road and came along. Before we left
the boss said ..YOu may tell the Mayn-
ard people Dick Dublin has come back
to stay awhile" The robbery will not
net more than three hundred dollars in
money, arms and jewelry. My first
sensation was that of a bad dream.
which sOOn vanished before a humili-
ating and outrageous reali V. | was
struck with their GOODNESS and audacity.
One thing seemed singular, they declin-
ed to touch us personally. that is, to
put hands on us in any way. They fire.
quently threatened to kill us if they
caught us in A lie. but never made any
personal search. A little less than a
year ago the stage vas robbed on the
very spot where we were robbed. Then,
and in this last. the intention was to
rob the United States paymaster. |
was impressed with the terrible earn
estness with which they acted, some
thing like that of an eXecutioner when
he executes the penalty of death. |
understand that they did not rob the
down stage. This is strange. l can
only account for it on the theory that
they found they would not get anything
but rms, with probably some jewelry
and 4 little money.