The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1884-02-03
HOLD UP YOUR HANDS,
A Gagged Claude Duyal Gives the "Pro-
flesh" Dead Away.
"HasIer'n Falling or a L0s"-Ihey
Like IL.
Some Tricks OF The Tradc Shown up.

Some Tricks OF the rradc shown up.
Taking about brave men, Stage Rob.
her NJ irshal said ono night IA Itii "the
idea that 10 taxes man OF great nerve aud
daring % rbN stag. ~ amlsiuk', can
tAso the snittst teudgru1t you ever saw
] aud nhef nXug him up 10 tho people IN
the tttae will know his profession the
! minute ihty ret their eyes on hin. l'il bet
/ | can tcatr the lliu out OF the best Concord
/ load YOU ever ste. The notion that We hurt
people, or threaten q hurt them, ana that
1 We arc rougA and all that, h nl nonsense.
/ w. inst lay Tor the sngo m lonely place,
/ aud when The leaders hoayu IN sght We
/ lust level our guns aud maybe li'e shot
/ or two In the air, 10 make the horses jump
rnen, whs.. sll hands are locking out
ol the windows, with their eyes nearly
/ popping cut at their sockets, we veil,
. Hand. upl Nine tunes out 81 ten that's
all We have - say or do. The iellefs IN the
rnaol rot out OF their own uccori, and We
Iu-t stand them up IN n row, and while one
~ us hntls a pistoi, tho others go through
their pocketa aud take what few little
iserp.akrs they hRl pen 10 have.
Tine trouble with the people OF this coun'
try liz, they IA her like 10 be rob ned, guess.
It's eastern falling Oh log, why, year
ago last winter my pard aud | was walking
along the mountain ROAD, noe thinking OF
anything m PARTICULAR when along came Il
couple oi teuderleet in u carriage. Before
ws could catch our breath one OF them
threw un both hands, knocking the others
hat or and holiered, For Coos sake, don't
shoot
ing a. Ell, aud didn't know those irllers
were In those parts but when thoY sort OF
reminded us ~ our Business b. CcmmunC-
inr 20 unhucJie their watches an l welsels,
why. W. iusL look them N charge, ui
rour,r, ana told the tend ricut never
10 let ts catch them on the road GNain, for
Ia vas uur.u. They theukli a. 50 warmly
i1r spar.ng heir lives ina. let "A lif'lo IN.
ems, Apru' a.. Ia fact, | was BAH temptt d
after we'd lpi them go o. 'p'ier them mp anu
ikiIt owe ur both Ut bonn. tIr slmcnuw they
gave me the Impression that / hadn't done
! my iui ouiy.'
"Hp smiled grim'y Tor moment AVID
added: Now, what on esrtn could ! 30
under such cifCums,auccs2 l didn't foo
tho o ipier5, Inev made us presents 81
wha. they had. Yet. when they got 20
Waiagurth, they tod the people that they
. had had an all. day iight with roAd-agents;
tbnt the woods was full OF thom, and that
they had surrendered their valuubles only
, Mt the last moment, hnuing them-
selves overwhelmed. These things are all
believed, too, even by The old'tlmers men
who ought 10 know better. j aud NY rngd
have ROBBED the Sierra VALLEY stag three
times now at the same place. ~ tell you
, how IL was done. Pard had a Nirch ser
aud hal u pair OF Colts M my tell, tn.
9 the lob waE done every time wltu dn Did
y pow or and ball pistol that nad no LOAD ~
= IL, and wouldn't have gone OF u there had
been one, for didu't h va any crp7. Parj
4 would fire his Winchester as clOsn TO the
u ears of the horses ~ hn could without drop
4 ping them, and | would swing the old
hlundoTbasd Ia the. air ana boiler. Every
time IT. happened lust tbs same. The chap'
; climbed out, begging that there should be
Z no bloodshed. AND We would say mere
wouidn', he auy II the yield was good, but
j. thar We would have :" kill s)mesody II w
dihu't ret enough % pay Tor our trouble
;, Every mothers sou OF them would give NJ
IIbines that we'd never have thought u
|. looking Tor or demanding. There was onlS
Just my p.rd aud /, hut thu passe ger
would think they could see some OF oul
y men bghind every tree,
"ODe teller tainted dead away once
!. We'd Just got them In arrow good when
4 this fellows knees commenced To knock
together and he kept getting out OF line.
= | finally thought I'd scare him and the
, rect OF them little. so nollered, Pretend
ing TO give orders 10 the boys hidden be-
3 hind rocks and trees:
b. "'Boys, boro "a hole In this gentleman
with the light overcoat on II he moves an
. incn, or any OF the rest OF them.
= Just then big Teller, the second one
from the limber-legged chap, had chill
IKE, ard his tseth came together with such
u NOISE that tina other Teller thought some
, body was cooking a rife, and with Wild
: whoop he dropped in u dead faint. The
q rest Of tnem thought he had been shot
dead. They were too scared to nosice that
= there had bean no report OF a gun. Wen,
' We came pretty near OVERRIDING the thing
, that time. They all got 80 liant and sick
that 1t was hard work 70 fluid their valua-
: bles. 1t Is q great convenience to stage
0 robber to have the passengers hand tbeir
stuff right out.
"SpeukiDg about weapons. why have
robbed stages up In California and over IN
Utan without any weapons ~ all. Iou
cont need any. I'll bet tenner that |
/ can take an old fashioned tin candle STICK
= aad hold up the pest stuee-loat that ever
came over the mountains. The driver IL
!. generally as badly ir Rhtened az any OF
=. them. He Is always looking out for agents
J. and he sees them behind every bush.
have robbed stages al alone and made the
- driver aud passengers give up tnsir arms
. their watches and mouer, ADD then dance
q tor me. They thought had any ndmoer
!. OF pards bacR in TN. ROCKS, rnd tney di'n
dare say peep Well OF course, that1
b the great advantage We have il our bust
, ness. We scare them TO begin with, aud
a then they see everything double. Ohe man
a is Just as good as ii'ty IN this ltne. IL
!. don't need - be hero either he Just
3 vents u little nerve Hni a. imperiuu5 air
;, II had always worked alone | Il have beer
= rcn npn to-day. and wouldn't be- her,
either. | made my great mistake when
y commenced working In partnership IL
will ruin any man in my profession. III l
i ever get out of this sctnpe m gong t.
J. lump the COUNTRY. The business amt wha'
- used to be years ago. LIS too easy
e There is nothing exciting about IL All,
9 more. 1t makes me sick sometimes when
. think of the tenderieet / We robbed.
ouyht to have gone into the train recke
long before this. '-[San Francisco Chron
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