Morris tribune., 1882-03-30
A Detectives Story
Cincinnati Times Star.

Cincinnati Ilmes-Star
Our readers were no doubt nearly all ap-
priced of the robbery Of U. P. train last
summer and the capture of the band by our
heroic, efficient and astute detective officer,
Mr.. Steve Mead; how, after the first robbery
had been committed, Mr.. Mead joined the
robbing band and effected the capture and
crowd. Mr.. Mead yesterday RECALLED us
with an account of the leader of the band,
who was captured q short time ago. The
story is as follows:
After having jagged the gang, I was call
ed east, and had to forego for the time the
pleasure of handing their leader over TO
Justice. knew that he had fed to Califor-
MIA, and there l was forced to leave him.
Not long ago, however, while working up
another case in San Francisco, received
note one day at my hotel. in which the
writer requested ne to call at q certain place
and time and hear OF something to my ad
vantage. never pay attention to anony
nous notes, but something impelled me to
do so in this case. called at the time and
place mentioned, and found both time and
place anything but assuring. The house
was rookey in the Chinese quarter. was
met at the door by man OF remarkable
height, stoutly built and wearing long whisk-
ere. He ushered me inside in q manner
at the same time polite aud suspciously
mysterious. I observed mine host very
carefully, and the furtive chances he shot at
me made me wish that had remained at
my hotel. I never before or since was
looked upon by eyes such as he seemed to
pierce through me with. They actually
differed in his head with q hooking, cut
| ting glance that made me uDcomfortably
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treated me kindly and politely, but would
| pressed me as being unusually strange, and
l watched his every movement. 1t was
| we'll for me that did so, for suddenly,
while in the midst of a courteous speech,
| he leaped upon me in my chair. and hurled
me backward to the floor, with his knees
upon my breast and his hands tightly
clutched about my throat with an embrace
| like an iron wise. 1t was the most desper
ate struggle I ever had, and had had sew
eral. broke his holt upon my neck by an
almost superhuman effort. 1t was a long
and tight struggle for the mastery. My
right arm was famed at the time from rheu-
matism and that made matters worse. How
ever I managed to get out my billy A
blow Of that peacemaker soon quoted him,
although struck him with my
left hand, the right arm, az
remarked, being crippled with rheumatism.
| The nippers were soon on him. In the
struggle, the whiskers, which were false,
were pulled from his face, revealing the
we'll known mug Of the leader Of the train
| robbers.
Had the struggle lasted much longer
without giving me a chance to get my billy
he would have overcome me, owing to the
weakness Of my rheumatic arm; but the
| rheumatism and struggle for life never
caught me together again. I got rid Of the
| robber and the rheumatism together. The
/ next day, while reading on account OF thu
struggle in the San Francisco Call, no.
| ticed an advertisement OF St. Jacobs Oil
the Great German Remedy, and immedi-
| ately and sensibly purchased bottle o.
| that peerless medicine. had tried 81
| many different liniments and so- cnlleG
remedies before / tried st. Jacob
I! Oil and found them all useless
that am warranted in calling that medicin,
peerless. The way in which st. Jacobs
| Oil knocks the rheumatism is astounding.
1 had not used more than 70 day before
noticed remarkable change in my arm
and after q week / felt as II it would be {
delight to meet with another adventure jus
to have O chance to WELD it. In less thar
twelve days time my rheumatism had dis
appeared, complete and permanent cur
being the result Of using st. Jacobs On
and can truly say that never felt thu
least sign Of pain in my arm since. Coult
but rid the West of train robbers as fas
as st. Jacobs Oil can knock the rheuma
tism, travel on the q. p. would be safe. "
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