Ashtabula weekly telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1880-1886, 1880-05-14
HOW CARL WALDOW PUNISHED A
R0BBER.

DURING the time of the Meadow Lake
mining excitement-of which many
Comstockers have sad recollections-I
was sent as representative of the
DaSlV Territorial Enterprise, to write
up the mines of the camp, then most
fourishing place. A large town had
appeared as if by magic to the shores
of the beautiful lake which gave its
name to the town, and half the people
of the place thought themselves million
aires.
Shortly before my visit to the town,
Steve Venard had performed the ex-
plot of hunting down and shooting,
single-handed, three stage robbers.
During my stay, Mr.. Venard visited
Meadow Lake and was a good deal
honized, though he was not the man to
take kindly to that sort of thing.
Naturally, there was good deal of
talk about the affair, which occurred in
the same county-Nevada County, Cal
ifornia-and many stories of robbers
and robberies were told about camp
fires and in the saloons of evenings.
One evening party of us were seated
in the reading-room of Asa Waugaman's
saloon, talking of the exploit of Steve
Venard and similar adventures by 9TH
ers. Several stories had been told by
persons of the party, when a man who
had come into town a day or two be-
fore from one of the Oregon valleys,
Carl Waldow by name, said;
" / was once stopped by a highway
man-and in this very county-but l
got thoroughly even on him before l
was done with him. had my revenge.
There is nothing very exciting in the
story, but the adventure had much to
do with shaping the course of my after
life."
All present expressed desire to hear
the adventure, and in order that there
might be no interruption once it was
commenced, a gallon measure of beer
was ordered, and the glasses all filled to
the brim.
Carl Waldow was a German by birth,
but spoke with so little of the accent
peculiar to the people of that country
that it was scarcely noticed He was a
man over six feet in height, light-haired,
blue-eyed and well and powerfully built.
In appearance he was a second Baron
Trenck. Naturally a good-natured
man, there was at times a glitter in his
blue eyes, and an expression about the
lines of the mouth that showed he was
fearless and man not to be tritled with
when aroused.
In his own country he had served as a
soldier, and traces Of his early training
in the army we're still to be seen in his
erect carriage and general bearing.
Having taken sip of beer, Waldow
at once began the relation of his adven-
ture, warning his hearers that the story
was a long one.
CARL WALDoW's ADVENTURE.
In 1851 was mining near the head
of Fall Creek in this county. had q
claim that was paying me over an
ounce day, and, for once in my life,
was quite content with my prospects
In July of the year named l took LOT
of about eight ounces of gold dust, and
went down TO Washington, on the South
Yuba. Fall Greek is a tributary of the
South Yuba, into which river it empties
but few miles above Washington, al
which town l generally procured my
provisions and other supplies.
/ arrived at Washington late in the
evening, and going to the hotel got my
supper, and soon after went to bed, tell
ing the landlord to wake me early, as