The Panola weekly star. (Sardis, Miss.) 1882-18??, 1882-10-07

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pot On trial. In fact, BY mean u The
hammef system W. might dlspcnse With
the police entirely. Once. when ! liywl
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long roW Of hpasrs IN q suburban pof'
ton o. the city organized = hammer
alarm. hal to de- Il for sslLpn1isr-
ton There bal been robbery after
roblery Ia the row. and the police were
afraid 10 Interfere. Every body In that
row went regularly 10 bed with q ham.
NOR. II was very hard on the thieves.
for. ~ bad luck would have II icf those
r%ascals, they tried 10 brak iSo one
house, Just Al the end Of the row In
nix seconds every inmate In the row hal
been informed that a burglarious at
tempt was being made. You might
have heard the three taps working along
from house 10 house IN the stillne.. ~
the night. Every body turned out under
my lead. We made a Gordon, swept
the street. aud captured six or seven OF
the robbers. | don't remember the
number Of them exactly. only that they
were the most bloodthirsty rasrals
known In the annals ~ crime
The old LADY,. whose hair fairly stood
up BY this time or would have stood
up II she had hal any wa proiuso In
her thanks. Just what ! wanted took
place. was invited next evening TO
take tea. and the old lady in person
showed me her garden. so that ! might
understand the lay Of the land.
Now, ! hal m%connoitured the prem
ises before. not that ! thought anything
ever would happen. but really out OF
consideration for the young wom,n.
The fence was not 0 very high one,
though adorned with spikes. To 'acili-
tate my climbing. | rolled a big barrel
near Il. could step on that and then
with a slight effort could scale the fence.
| showed my plans Of succor and the old
lady approved OF them. | bought n
tack. hammer, presented Il To her. and
explained TO her. In detail, the method
Of signaling.
The tea was n very pleasant one, and
the young lady agreeable. | went to
bod that night quite happy and quite
forgot all about the signals. In fact. o
week or 80 elapsed and nothing DC
cured 10 break the quiet Of that really
peaceful ncighborhood.
am a sound sleeper generally. but
on a certain night not long aiterwand
there was such n terrible storm % wind
and rain, with rafting Of windows. that
my usual rest would not come. Al last
/ went on into q halt-dresmy done.
when suddenly close 10 my earl Was
awakened with n start hearl the
three omlnous taps On the wall. never
listened TO anything so dreadful in my
life Was | awake waited aShile.
II WAS the precautionary signal. bu,
not the positive alarm Rat.lat-iat
went that devils tattoo on the wall.
then | knew that the danger was immi.
ncnt looked out Of the window. AMI
Il was raining cats and dog. | shud.
dcredl Slill the cursed rspping Of tho
hammer r~eycrbcraied through the
room | hnddlod on mr. clothes. |
never had a revolver IN my life. and.
had | owned one. would not have
known how 10 shoot Il on. wished |
had not lied so. but always was ro-
maaiic The rspping continued like
msd. Suppose these were real. true Tor
true robbers next door! What could a
single. poof. inodensive. unsfmed young
man like me do against = whole gang
OF bloofthirsty house. breakenp knew
that they would murder mo for inter
iering with their legitimate business.
! thought once ] would open the window
and yelli Murder ihleresl' but my
window looken on the yard ana the
VIM WIS moving 80 mat hsa mere
oeen = whole squad OF ponce below not
one OF them would nave beard me "
was dreadful 10 ~ wased up mat
way, 70 wax 70 sudden DEAN ana 80
unprePared' A. khe" wa< icnrseu
my olno'ousneS.l was dressed some
now a last ana wen, slowly ~shl'ering
uown the STAIR making al me noise !
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