The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1884-10-22
THE HOLD Up.
The Boulder Coach Stopped by q
Resolving Party.
Dissertation OF the Scene by an
Eyewitness,

WNS ux18O0 Us
We were on the south-bound coach
en- route to Boulder for the purpose OF
attending court. We had with the
driver. The Ham, fourteen men on
board, nine inside and five on top;
the names of the PASSENGERS were as
follows: Chief Justice D. 8. Wade,
Colonel J. A. Johnston, Messrs. E.
w. Toole, w. E.. Cullen, William
Chumasero, T. H. Carter, attorneys;
Rev. L. L. Wood, Bapt ct preacher;
Henry Ditto, Hank Hutchinson, Con
Rice, Patrick Howard, a man whoee
name I am unable to recall. and my
self.
Just as we turned q rocky point
before reaching the last steep
pull of the Boulder divide we
heard a voice crying in t N OF c,m-
mand. "Hold ur your hands and &c,
out of there, quick" At that mo
ment the coach stopped, We heard
something "drop'' and upon looking
out saw Col. johnson on his back
near the coach wheel with hands and
feet held high in air. Judge Wade
asked what was the matter. aud the
Colonel replied in tones Of thunder,
"hold up your hands, for Gods
sake" and scrambled to his feet W tn
hands yet uplifted. Again came the
command, "Get out, every one of
you; hold up your hands, and be
| quick about It," and five masked
mer, three on the left and two on the
right were seer with weapons drawn
upon us. You never saw an order
obeyed with greater promptness.
The coach was unloaded in q twink
ling. I got out on the right hand
and all the others on the left except
the driver and MI. Howard. The
latter. a jolly son of Erin, cried out,
"For the love of the Holy Mother,
don't make me get down. I'm an
old man, and there's not a red clint in
my whole family" He was per
mitted to remain. MI. Carter evil
IDENTIFY preferred remaining on top.
He put himself in a devotional atti-
tude and seemed happy in his ele-
waited position, but one Of the mas
queraders TOLD HIM he had better get
on a more solid foundation and keep
his hands up and he at once got down
with his hands up. MI. Toole had
his hands full of newspapers and did
not raise" them at once, hut upon
being directed to put them hands
up there qaick,' he put tn en- up"
Two of the holding party had two
revolvers each, the other three had
Winchester rifles. The boys with
the revolvers were somewhat nervous
and kept their pistols in a state of
agitation which led Mr.. Tcole to re-
quest in his blandest manner, don't
let those things 60 off," After taking i.
q good look at us the men seemed to
have made a mistake and suddenly
ordered us to "get in and get away
from here quick" The passengers
obeyed with great readiness. 1t
seemed to be just the thing they had
been wanting to do. Isupposed that
they had ''gone through" the others,
and as I had not been robbed I pre-
sumed the order to get in did not
apply to me and kept my position
when the two-revolver-man stepped
quickly toward me and thruslirg
his weapons at me said. ''get in
there quick" and I ''got in" on the
double quick. L never until that
moment knew that a stage coach was
such a comfortable, luxurious thing.
After we had proceeded two or three
hundred yards Sheriff Cameron, of
Meagher county, who was in
wagon behind us, but had not seen
us when we were held up, came
along and after passing the ambus>
cade his attention was called to the
fact that there was "a masked man
behind a rock out there"
He got out Of his wagon.
leveled his Winchester and
called out "What r you doing
there?" He was answered by several
shots. The driver dropped down be-
hind a rock and fired four shots at
the enemy, VINO replied with perhaps
a half dozen shots and then retreated.
Cameron received q bullet through
his coat just below the right side
pocket. He conducted himself with
great courage, but it was thought he
failed to hit. The men were so pro-
tected by the rocks that it was diff
cult to get a bead on them. When
we got to Boulder, Sheriff McDer-
mott with a posse OF ten men started
on horseback in pursuit of the attack
ing party
The maskers were evidently not
bent on robbery, but were odt for the
purpose Of rescuing some prisoners
who they supposed were on the
coach. The prisoners. however, had
been left in Helena. Feeling is high
in Jefferson county, and if the party
should be overtaken there will doubt
less be warm times"
A Phenomenon.
Prof. A. P. Peabody, of Harvard
College, says of Joseph Cook: Jos
eph Cook is a phenomenon to he &C
counted for. No other American
orator has done what he has done, or
anything like it; and, prior to the ex-
pertinent. no voice would have been