The Newtown bee. (Newtown, Conn.) 1877-current, 1879-12-03

Mrs. George w. Bacon, of milwaukee,,
Is the heroine OF the day. Recently
she was travelling by rail in Italy with
her husband, when they were beset by
two brigands who had secured seats in
The compartment of the car occupied
10y them. 1t was carly in the evening
and My Bacon was DOING when sud
denly he was confronted by one of the
men with pistol in his hand pointed
directly ut the formers head. And
then nm exciting time occurred, as Mr..
Bacon himself relates it in q private let
ter to u friend:
My wife screamed, "Get out your
pistol but, bless your soul, the fellow
was on me before could rise out of my
seat. did say, What do you want,
Sirg" and he replied, money This
all took less time than it does TO read It..
And, us L said before, | was n little
drowsy and it took nm instant or two to
bring me TO my senses, but Il pistol al
most in my face brought me to real
izing sense of the situation, and |
went for him without further delay,
grabbing his revolver with my Lett hand
and his throat with my right. He
grabbed my right side whisker with his
left hand, but [ put my head down rs
much us possible, and had him over in
his corner and down in seat before he
well knew what was the matter.
felt his grip of his revolver loosenin 2,
and would have had it away from him
IN halfa shake, but his companion, to
whom he had been calling in Italian to
''Shootl shootm threw himself on me
aud broke my hold. Just here my
wife pitched in and took hold of the
Ong fellow. (My man was about
thirty, my height and Us heavy rs ~
lie soon freed himself from her, threw
her on the floor and almost to the other
side OF the car, but she was beck and in
tlr fight again in nm instant. While we
were ak together, my man pulled off his
pistol just by my ear. Fortunately no.
body was hurt, though for an instant
did not know whether my head was on
or not. Then the long chap threw my
wife oil and down again, and between
them forced me on the seat. Nell here
Appeared again and placed herself be-
tween my knees, and the two fellows
food over us, with their pistols ut our
heads, Swearing to have our money.
seeing there was no assistance to be had
from the pusiIianimous ch p, the other
passenger, who sat pale and trembling
with hands Clasped, calling on the Viz
Kin, and fearing some real harm might
come to Nell by further resistance, | de-
IIIDI tn OF II loo hpf Hot
which unfortunately was quite full,
having some 600 francs in gold in it..
This ! hoped would satisfy them and
that they would clear out or leave us
until they would get off. But no! They
had seen the strap of my little sac dc
r2gdgc which had under MY ulster and
they wanted that and to go through me
generally. This we decided to object
toand to fight it out. So the rough
and-tumblo fight commenced again.
Nell was thrown down, but l made it so
hot for them that she had II chance to
right herself quickly. Then we got
som low to our md of the car. and Nell
stood against my left side where the sac
was, and / held her fast with my left
arm, and with my right and Nell's two
hands, which the plucky little woman
used well, ] can tell you, we fought
them off when they came to close quar-
ters. Finally they contented them
selves with threatening us and keeping
their pistol Is pointed ut us. but we had
gotten used 10 looking Mt these pistols
and came to the conclusion that they
dared not or did not care tn shoot Here
Nell bethought herself of the female
prerogativc of screaming. This seemed
to alarm them, and with many threats
they left the ear and stood on the step
Once my curiosity led me to iook out
;uul see if they were still there, but as I
hid pistol stuck under my nose, |
mOdcstly withdrew.