The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1882-03-10
A Detectives Story.

Our readers were no doubt nearly all APP
prized 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 rob-
berry had been committed, Mr.. Mead joined
the robbing band and effected the capture
and subsequent imprisonment Of that des-
perate crowd. Mr.. Mead yesterday RECALLED
us with an account Of the leader of the band,
who was captured a short time ago. The
story is as follows:
After having jagged the gang, I was
called East, and had to forego for the time
the pleasure of handing their leader over to
justice. / knew that he had fed to Oalifor-
ma, and there l was forced to leave him.
Not long ago, however, while working mp
another case in San Francisco received a
note one day in my hotel, in which the
writer requested me to call at certain place
and time and hear of something to my adj
vantage. never pay attention to anony-
nous notes, but something impelled me to
do SO in this case. called ut the time and
place mentioned, and found both time and
place anything but assuring. The house was
q rookery in the Chinese quarter. was met
ut the door by man of remarkable height,
stoutly built and wearing long whiskers.
He ushered me inside in a manner at the
same time polite and suspiciously mysteri-
Gus. observed mine host very carefully,
and the furtive glanoes he shot at me made
me wish l had remained at my hotel.
never before or since was looked upon by
eyes such as he seemed to pierce through
me with. They actually glittered in his
head with mocking, cutting glance that
made me unoomfortbly nervous. He ad-
dressed me by name, treated me kindly and
talv Irt
His manner impressed me as being unusu-
ally strange, and watched his every move
ment. It was well 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, and 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
desperate struggle ever had and have
had several. Over and over we rolled, now
one on top and then the other. broke his
hold upon my neck by an almost superhu-
man effort. 1t was long and tight struggle
for the mastery. My right arm was famed
at the time from rheumatism and that made
matters worse. However / managed 10 get
out my billy A blow of that peacemaker
soon quoted him, although 1 struck him
with my loft hand, the right arm, as ! re-
marked, being crippled with rheumatism.
The nippers were soon on him. In the strug-
gle, the whiskers, which were false, were
pulled from his face, revealing the WE'LL
known mug Of the leader of the train rob-
bers.
Had the struggle lasted much longer
without giving me chance to get my billy
he would have overcome me, owing to the
weakness of my rheumatic arm; but the
rheumatism and a struggle for life never
caught me together again. got rid of the
robber and the rheumatism together. The
| next day, while reading an account of the
struggle in the San Francisco Cal, noticed
an advertisement of st. Jacobs Oil, the Great
German Remedy, and / Immediately and
sensibly purchased bottle of that peerless
medicine. had tried so many different lin
iments and So called remedies before tried
st. Jacobs Oil, and found them all useless,
that am warranted in calling that medicine
peerless. The way in which st. Jacobs Oil
knocks the rheumatism is astounding.
had not used it more than a day before
noticed a remarkable change in my arm, and
after week felt as though it would be q
delight to meet with another adventure just
to have a chance to WELD it. In less than
twelve days time my rheumatism had dis
appeared, a complete and permanent curt
being the result of using st. Jacobs Oil, anb
can truly say that have never felt tlje
least sign of pain in my arm since. Could
but rid the West of train robbers rs fat
as ST. Jacobs Oil can knock the rheumatisrh,
travel on the u =. would be safe. CID
ciaadh Times Star.