New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1886-10-20

time kept perfectly quiet, holding the
reans firmly.and poking the beast with
thsswhip.
eve wasn't an hour in going that
dozen miles mot bit of it. hadn't
much fear-perhaps 1night tell the
truth andS say that j had none, for
had a goodpistol.and more Than that,
my passenger was safe-yet did feel
glad when / came to the old flour bar
rel factory that stands at the edge Of
Jackson's village, and in ten minutes
more hauled up in front of the tav-
ern and found q couple of,men in the
barn cleaning down some stage horses.
"'Well,. old feller,' says /, as I got
down and went round to the back OF
the wagon, you've had good ride,
haven't YER
"'Who. are your he cried, and his
voice trembled little, too, as he ask.
ed the question.
~ am, the man you tried to Shoot
/ told him.
where am I? Let me outg he
yelled.
CLOCK here,' said l., we've come
TO safe stopping place, and mind We,
I've got q revolver ready. for ye the
moment ye show.yourself. Now lay
quiet.
"By this time the two 'ostlers had
come to see what was the matter, and
explained it all to them. After this
got one of them to run and find the
Shorthand tell him what I believed ia
got for him. The first streaks OF day.
light were just coming up, and in hall
an hour it would be broad daylight. In
less than that time the sheriff came
and two other men with him.
told him the whole story in,
| few words-exhibited the handbills
had for him-and then he, made for
the cart. He told the chap inside who
he was, and that if he made the least
resistance he'd be dead man. But,
mind you, the sheriff didn't tell him
the suspicious we had about him.
Then slipped the iron wrench out,
and as let the door open the fellow
made spring. l caught HIM by. the
ankle and he came down on his face,
and in a few momets more the officers
had him. 1t was now daylight. and
the moment saw the chap recogniz-
ed him. He.was the very man | had
suspected, and his fine black clothes
were pretty well covered with lint and
dirt. He was marched off to the lock
up, and Itold the sheriff I should. re.
main in town all day.
"After breakfast the sheriff came
down to, the tavern and told me
had caught the very bird, and that il
| would remain until the next morning
I should have the reward of two hun
dred dollars which had been offered.
l found my goods all safe, paid the
express agent for bringing them from
Indianapolis, and then went down to
work to stow them away in my cart.
l found the bullet-holes in the top OF
my vehicle just as l expected. They
were in q line, about five inches apart,
and had been where I usually sit,
two Of them would have hit me about
the small OF the back and passed
upward, for they were sent with a
heavy charge Of powder, and his pistol
was a heavy one.
"Or the next morning the shell
called upon me and paid me two hun.
dred dollars in gold, for he had made
himself sure that he had got the vii.
lain. After an early dinner set out,
and here am. I've sold my load all
out, and am now ready to lay up for
the winter. | found letter in the of.
flee at Portsmouth for me, from the
sheriff of Hancock county, and he in.
formed me that Mr. Hardhead is now
in prison for life
| So ended the peddler's story. In the
! morning had the curiosity to look at
his cart, and found the four bullet
holes just as he had told us, though
they were now plugged up with phial
eorks. Whey came out while I was
looking, and showed the prints Of the
williams feet upon the cart. They
were plain and must have been given
with great force.