Grand Rapids morning telegram., 1885-07-25

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as engine u a hurry AZ tie +5lst nile
post and then backed ap- he declared
train robbers lad placed distractions Oh
TIE traek and were iylag ia ambush Ia
ysstl < alton showed thai what be had
thought distractions vas nothing but
some u the oig rolling weeds which had
blown across The prairie and gathered on
TIE track. or course the engineer as
laughed al FOR as error, aud after that
whenever train rObbers were mentioned
somebody wouid inquire II they were the
same Kind that William Roberts saw al
the 4slst mile post
zone IA ght | ~as alone ia my othcs,
waiting for No. ( She was an hour or
more late. / was dozing over my pipe
when, on looking up, ! saw reyolvers
pointed AZ me from both ticket windows
or course l threw up my hands They
were train robbers. sure enough There
were only three OF them, bat such desper-
ate fellows / never saw. They told ne
what they wanted me 10 DO. was TO
write a dispatch Tor the cOnd uctOr Of No.
3, signing the Superintendent name 10
IL ordering him - leave bis train at my
station, in my care and take the engine
and several armed men and 20 on towa ard
Plum Creek, moving cautiously and pre-
pared 20 attack train robbers This dis
patch | was . hand the cOndu ctor through
the window when he came up for orders
as usual, two Of the men hiding Ia the
office ready 20 shoot me II / attempted 10
give the alarm The scOundrcls expected
by this means % have the train left at
their mercy. | told them No. was four
hours late, and tried 10 scare them out
that way. Then l tried 70 delay matters
50 that No. 3 would come before got the
telegram ready. But they meant busi-
ness, and in ten minutes the dispatch was
written as they dictated. | cudgeled my
brain for some means q defeat the rob-
bers. but ! could not think OF anything for
"a long time. Suddenly | remembered my
wife and the telephone l had put up con-
Meeting or residence with the station.
made that telephone myself, and, though
crude, il answered very we'll | told the
robbers that | wanted 70 telephone my
wife that the train was late, and that she
should go 20 bed
" II don't lot her know | added, she
will be down here-you kaOw how queer
! women are-and you'll have trouble
Then / was given permission to talk TO
/ her, but was cautioned that any attempt
on my part to give the alarm would send
a bullet through my head. SO | simply
called 20 my wife and said:
"'N umber three late; trouble at 46lst
mile post; 20 TO bed, as | shan't be home
till late. Good night
THAT was all, but was satisfied it was
/ enough felt sure that my wife would
detect in my tone that there was trouble,
and never be satisfied TO retire until she
had sent down To sec Besides l had mem
toned the 46lst mile-post, TO which my
captors had no objections, as they knew
| nothing Of the scare that Roberts had had
there, and hoped this would alarm her.
The minutes that followed seemed like
hours The robbers were becoming impa-
tient and vicious, and they more than
once threatened TO kill me IL l tricked
| them In about fifteen minutes we heard
the tramp of feet upon the platform, and
in walked my wife with four men all
armed, whom she had aroused in the vii =
lage The two robbers were captured,
but they afterward escaped My wife
said she knew | was in trouble, and IL was
her duty TO come 10 me with assistance, as
If had told her so in plain words. | tell
you, I've had pretty high respect for
woman's intuition and sense since that
| night"