The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1879-12-05


Mrs. Geo. w. Bacon Of Milwaukee i
the heroine Of the day. Recently she
was travelling by rail il Italy with her
husband, when they We're beset by two
brigands who had secured seats in the
compartment Of the ear occupied by
them. 1t was early in the evening and
Mr.. Bacon was doing, when suddenly
he was confronted BY one Of the men
with pistol IN his hand pointed direct
~ al the formers head. And then an
exciting time occurred. as Mr.. Bacon
himself relates in a private letter 10 a
friend
My wife screamed, Get out your pis-
tol," but, bless your soul, the fellow was
on me before could rise out Of my seat.
! did say, "What do you want, sir
and he replied, ''money." This all
took less time than il does to read il.
And, rs said before, l was u little
drowsy and it took IN instant or two to
bring me to my senses, but pistol al
most IN my face brought me 10 realiz-
ing sense Of the situation, and l "went
for him" without further DELAY, grab
bing his revolver with my LETT hand and
his throat with my right lie grabbed
my right side whiSkcr with his left hand,
hut put my head down as much a.
possible, and had him over in
his corner and down on the seat
before he well knew what was the
matter. felt his grip Of his revolver
looscning. and would have had il away
from him in half shake, but his COM
panion, 10 whom he had been calling in
Italian 70 '.Shoot, shoot, threw hin :
self on me and broke nv hold. Just
here my wife pitched in and took hold
Of the long fellow. (My man was about
30, my height and as heavy a. | ID He
soon freed himself from her, threw her
on the floor and almost 10 the other side
Of the ear, but She was back and III the
fight again in nm instant. While we
We're altogether my man pulled off his
pistol just by my ear. Fortunately no
body was hurt, though for IN instant
did not know whether my head was on
or not. Then the long chap threw my
wife off and down, and between them
forced me on the seat. Nell here APP
peared again and placed herself between
my knees, and the two fellows stood
over rs, with their pistols at our heads.
swearing % have our money. Seeing
there WAS no assistance 10 be had from
the puSillanmous little chap, the other
passenger. who sat pale. and trembling
with his hands clasped, calling on the
Virgin, and fearing some real harm
might come 70 Nell by further resist
ance, | decided 70 give Vp my little
leather wallet, which unfortunately was
quite full, having some six hundred
francs in gold iii IT, This | hoped
would satisfy them and that they would
clear out or leave MS alone until they
could ret of. But no, They had seen
my little sac Ne rouge which had on
under my ulster and they wanted that
and to 20 through me generally This
we decided 10 object to and to fight il
out. So the rough-and-tnmble fight
commenced again. Nell was thrown
down, but l made il so hot for them that
she had chance % right herself quick
~. Then we got somehow to our end
Of the ear, 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 quarters. Finally they contentcd
themselves with threatening Us and
keeping their pistols pointed at us, but
we had got used TO looking at these pis-
tolls and came 10 the conclusion that
they dare not or did not care to shoot.
Here Nell bethought herself Of the fe-
male prerogativc Of screaming. This
seemed 10 alarm them, and with many
threats they left the car and stood on the
step. Once my curiosity led me to look
out and see If they were still there, but
rs ] had pistol stuck under my nose
modcstly withdrew.