Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1884-02-28
STAND-ANDpEnyER STORIES.
The Con fession ola Stage-rObber who
Thinks tile Average Passenger No.

! Thinks The Average Passenger a No.
body
Reno Letter in the san Francisco Chronicle.
Talking about brave men. stage
( robbe- Marshal said one mghtin Jail,
the idea that 10 takes a man of great
nerve and daring to rob a stage is a
great mistake The trouble with the
people of this country is, they rather
/ like to be robbed l guess, it's eastern
( falling off a lo9 Why, a year ago
/ last winter nay pard aad | was walk
ing along The mountain road, not
/ thinking OF anything IA particular,
/ when along came couple Of tender
feet in a carriage Before we could
catch our breath one Of them threw
up both hands. knocking the others
4 hat Off. and hollered, For Gods
sake. don't shoot Well, now, we
hadn't any idea of shooting az all,
and didn't know these fellers were in
/ those parts, but when they sort OF re-
minded PTS Ct our business by com
mencing to uubuckle their watches
and weasels, why, we just took them
/ IN charge of course, and told the
! tenderfeet never to let us catch them
/ ou that road again, for it was our'n,
They thanked MS SO warmly for spar
I ing their lives that ! felt a little an
easy about IT, 1t fact, | was half
/ tempted after we'd let them 90 to fol-
Ter them up and kill one or both Of
them for somehow they gave me the
/ impression that / hadn't done my full
duty lie smiled grimly for a mo.
ment and added Now, what on
earth could | do under such circum-
stances | didn't rob these fellers.
They made as presents of what they
: had Yet, when they got 10 Wads
worth they told the people that
they had an all-day fight with road
agents
81 and my pard have robbed the
Sierra Valley stage three times now
at the same place. Ill tell you how
it was done Pard had Winchester
! and had a pair of Colts in my belt;
I but The Job was done every time with
an old poWder-aud ball pistol that had
no load iu it, and wouldn't have gone
off if there had been one, for didn't
have any caps. Pard would fire his
/ Winchester as close 30 the ears OF the
horses as he could without dropping
them and | would swing the OLD
blunderbus in the air and holler
/ Every time il happened just the same.
There was only just my pard and !,
but the passengers would thing they
see some of our men behind every
tree
zone felior tainted dead away
once Wed just got them in a row
good when this fellows knees com
menced TIA knock together, and he
kept getting out of line. | finally
thought I'd scare him and the rest Of
them q little, so hullercd, pretending
to give orders 10 the boys hidden be
hind rocks aud trees
Boys, bore a hole in this gentle
man with the light overcoat on if he
moves an inch, or any of the rest of
them
"Just then a big Teller, the second
one from the Timber legged chap, had
chill like, ana his teeth came TO
gether with such a noise that the
other feller thought somebody was
cooking rifle, and with wild whoop
he dropped ia a dead faint The rest
of them thought he had been shot
dead They were too scared TO no.
tice that there had been no report Of d
gun.
Speaking about weapons, why, |
have robbed stages up in California
and over in Utah without any
weapons at all. You don't need any.
I'll bet tcnner that | can take aB
old fashioned tin candlestick and hold
mp The best stage load that ever came
over the mountains.