The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1881-06-18
Daring Exploits Of Modern H,ob.
Waymen.

In commenting upon the recent es
cape of Billy Leroy, the darino roa5
agent and mail robber, while bein9 ON
veyed from Denver to Detroit, under !,
ten-years' sentence, the Detroit IRE
Press says:
Several months ago, while WRITING
prison sketches, our reporter fonnd !
prisoner in the House of Correction who
under the name of "Dandy Jim,n WA,
for q year or more sharer in LeRov,,
dangers and successes. The two nlsn.
ned and executed some of the bodies
adventures, and their success in eyadino
capture was something marvellous. rs
the fall of 1867 they stopped coach IN
Arizona and robbed eight passengers
Pursuit was made by thirteen men, and
the party came upon the road agents
while they were seated on the ground
dividing their plumber. A complete
circle was formed around the pair. but
with the arms captured from the STAGE
coach they drove the men over half q
mile and put them to rout.
In the same year, one day when the
pair were riding along the highway alsJ ii
forty miles from Fort Smith, they were
suddenly attacked by force of about
forty soldiers, herders and ranchmen
Their horses went down at the first vol
ley, but the two men, shootingright and
left handed, produced such confusion
that escape into the bushes was an easy
matter. In this affair Dandy Jim got
two bullets through his hat and rake
across the left shoulder, while Leroy
had q charm an his watch-chain shot
away and two bullet holes in his cloth
ing.
A month later the pair rode into a
rancho in the Indian Territory and asked
for dinner. While at the table posse
of nearly twenty men surrounded the
house, captured the outlaws horses, and
demanded the surrender of the men
themselves. The house had but one
room, lighted by one window and en-
tered by a single door. While Jim
guarded the door Leroy took the win
dow. With a cup OF coffee in one hand
and revover in the other he would fire
a shot and then take a sip, having no
more fear than a man OF stone. The
fight lasted upwards of two hours, and
ended by the posse retreating and CIV
ing the outlaws a clear road to escape.
In 1868 the two men planned the
plumber of Texas railroad train. Each
was armed with two reyolvers, and at
ten O'Clock at night they built a fire on
the track in an unfrequeated spot. The
calculation was that the train would
come to a stop at sight of the fire, and
while Jim mounted the engine and took
care of the engineer and fireman Leroy
was to 60 through the passenger
coaches. They knew it was q train
carrying at least 250 passengers, with
probability of half the men being armed,
but the one man had planned to take all
the chances against him. The engineer
saw the fire and suspected a trick, and
instead of shutting off steam he put
on more, and dashed the burning brands
clear over the smokestack as he rushed
his train out of danger. No fewer than
five men, outside of this instance, have
tackled such job as train-robbing, but
these two were going through the whole
business alone, and they might have
reaped a rich harvest for all that is
known to the contrary. Both Leroy
and Jim have stopped stages when
alone, and made from five to eight per-
sons get down and submit to robbery.
Later telegraphic news from Del
Norte, Colo, describes the lynching of
LIE Row and a cOmpaniOn named Potter