The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1883-08-22
A DOCTORS WILD RIDE.
Aroused at Midnight, Blindfolded and
Taken 20 an Unknown Patient I'm
the Mountains OF Arizona.

quite strange adventure, at least so
far as one of its prominent citizens was
concerned. Williams is on the line of
the Atlantic & Pacific Railroad, at the
foot of Bill Williams Mountain. The
one street of the village runs parallel
with the railroad track, and the only
buildings anywhere to be seen are di-
rectly facing the north, and, therefore,
the railroad. The buildings are all
frame and for the most part one story,
they having been built with the idea
that some day the town might move,
and then the buildings could be torn
down and transported with little cost
Nearly directly opposite the depot
and about midway in the built-up por-
ton of the street Is q low board Office,
upon the door of which this legend is
enscrolled: ''Dr. Bishops Office" En-
tering, the visitor is met by the amiable,
pleasant-spoken DR.. Bishop, and imme-
diately given one of the two chairs in
the room, with the comment to make
yourself at home" Bottles of all kinds
occupy the shelves on one side of the
room, while files of the leading papers,
hung along the opposite side, denote the
doctor as the wide-awake man of the
town. There are two rooms in the
OlllCc, OI IdluGT Ouc u III
which is divided off by low wooden
partition for sleeping apartment. 1t
was in portion of that Office that the
strange adventure of that November
night began, and it was in this room
that the whole history of that night was
related by the doctor to the writer of
this article.
About the middle of last Novem-
ho,- ~ horror pfGhnn n
dark and chilly night, after reading un-
til quite late, turned down the light,
and was soon wrapped in slumber. 1t
must have been eleven o'clock when
was awakened by knock at my front
office door, The knock was not loud
one, and was not repeated, so thinking
that 1 might have been mistaken again
laid down to sleep. No sooner had
closed my eyes than second knock
came-this time at the back door, close
by my bed. / could not be mistaken,
and so asked what was wanted. The
answer came that a man had been badly
hurt and required my presence at once.
After lighting a candle the door was
opened, and in stepped two gentlemen,
both well dressed and both indicating by
their faces that their education had been
in nowise neglected. In fact they were
Eastern-born and Eastern-bred. The
spokesman, who was the tallest of the
two, and who, by the way, was a splen-
did type of manhood, urged upon me
the necessity of being somewhat in a
hurry about making my preparations.
For said he, you must go with us,
and we have long ride to take before
morning." The doctor demurred at
going at all, and..said that it was certain
1y very strange proceeding to ask q
man fifty years of age to 60 out on such
night. and especially with two men of
whom he knew nothing whatever D
'1t don't make-a particle of difference
who we are, what we are, or where we
are from, remarked the taller stranger.
''You have got to go with US, and the
quicker you make up your mind todo SO
the pleasanter it will be for all con-
cerned." sE &c l5
sHow was the man hurt?'' inquired
the doctor. -
..He was shot, was the answer.
Arguments based on the age and
health of physician were of no avail,
and so it came that hurried preparations
were made, and in a shorter time thar
it takes to tell It the party. including
DIR. Bishop, were out in the cool, damp
alI Vi Inc ul04l- II lOOk OuI u lew UlO-
ments for the strangers to find theil
horses, and to point out splendid big
chestnut, whose every motion and form
proved him to be a thoroughbred, as
the animal upon which our friend, the
doctor, was to make the unknown
journey.
THAT is your horse, DOCTOR" said the
strangers He is good one, as sure
H. 81. -
need never be afraid of him for mo-
Into the saddle went the now thor.
oughly mystified man of medicine, an6
the two strangers mounted two horses
nearly, if not quite, the equals of the
chestnut stallion The party had hard
ly gotten clear of the few midnight
lamps at Williams when a halt wa.
called. and our NJ. p was informed tha
4would be necessary to blindfod him
as his companions had no idea of allow
ing him the faintest conception of the
direction in which the trio were travel
ing. The doctor, of course, objected u
this kind of treatment, but he was quick
ly voted down and compelled to submit
himself to the inevitably. A sack
which one of the party carried, wa
quickly drawn over his head, and theI
they were again ready to advance. Inn
agine, if you can,- the feelings of thi
follower of Esculapius, in the compan,
of two men, neither of whom he hat
ever seen before, riding he knew no
whittier, seated upon q magnificen
thoroughbred stallion, and this all hap
pening at the dead ofnight on the sand.
mesas of Arizona.
The horses were given the spur with tn
admonition to the doctor to '.give him
free rein," and away the band dashed
On they rode, hour after hour, up hil
and down hill, now crossing a marrow
stream, now q broader one, into an
across arroyas, through what seemed +
be dense forests, and out again on tn
sandy plains, never once stopping, no
even speaking a loud word, the Who'll
idea being bent on the early arrival q
some specified point. Night began t
break into morning, and morning int
broader day, the sun came up in all II
western splendor, and yet our traveller
never once spoke of stopping. 1t mus
have been eight o'clock when all
once the rein of the chestnut stallio
was grasped and halt called. An
now for the first time since midnigh
DIR. Bishop was allowed TO look aroun
him, his forced blindness having bee
removed by his guides.
They seemed to be in o beautiful va
lev, down which trickled stream c
clear, sparkling water, and all aroun
them the earth was covered with gal
ment of grnmma grass They ha
halted Immediately in front of smal
but neat-appearing log house, the doc