Butte semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1886-1890, 1886-12-25

We had not gOl.
Nick asked me, "Wh,
halted?" l said, 81 q
month to fight to save tres..
shoot at the first thing that cr...
said, "X, I'll tell you a better plan; II "
are halted, let's give up the money and ride
off half a. mile and come back on foot and
catch the robbers knew the game was
up and stuck my head out and holloed to
Tom: "Hold your lines well in hand and
let them rum"
The moon was full and bright as day. It
was II D. m. and we ratified into Little
Dry Creek on good swinging trot, and as
we got into the creek, which was walled up
on both sides with rocks, and natural
place made especially for road agents,
man raised up from behind rock and hol-
loed:
"Haltu'
was head and shoulder out OF the
coach, shotgun in hand, eighteen buckshot
| to the barrel and powder enough to SEND
| them. He hadn't the word out OF his
| mouth before he had eighteen buckshot i'll
| him. only had to shoot about ten feet.
| He fell backwards and both barrels OF his
shotgun went off as he was falling; they
looked like the smokestacks OF steam
boat. The smoke from my gun had blown
away and there stood my next good man
1
other load, hitting him just about the
eroins, he fell over, and during this time
road agents on the left hand side of the
coach had fred several exciting, but harm
less shots, and Frank Orr had fired one
shot-I don't know what at-and Big NICK
had fired one shot from needle gun from
the inside. This firing had set the team on
a dead run; my gun was empty and gov
nv revolver out, but We were then out ol
range of the road agents.
I looked around and found Big Nick
living on the bottom OF the stage and thu
team going at a break-neck pace. l hol
lowed ia Tom Caldwell, the driver. "Ar'
YOU hurt, outside?" He said, NO, ar,
YOU hurt on the inside?" l told him
2 didn't know, as Big Nick was lying on tn
! bottom of the coach. | asked NICK II d.
was hurt and he said NO." laughing, ant
wanted to know what he was doing dowl
there. He said he vas resting: l callet
e him a few "pet" names and told him w
e would never be in another fight together.
o We got to Hole.in- the-Rock. eight miles
in quicker time than the Utah & Northern
ever made it since.
1 telegraphed ahead to Salt Lake
s "Coach attacked; road agents repused.
# T.,ey telegraphed back for me to send tn
i treasure on with Big Nick, Frank Orr an
q messenger that was sent on TO NEE
u them mot having any confidence) and
J. was Instructed to 60 back and follow tn
d road agents that we're left, and d'o.
4 got saddle horses and three good me-
and started on the trail found where on
e man had been buried, and found handage
Il and blood in their camp, where they ha
fixed up the wounded man.
The road agents got too much start o.
us and we only followed them two days.
was. in fact, impossible to follow anyon
h in the Lava Bed country. We learne
e that the party consisted OF seven mer
. four at the attack and three holding tn
:, ten horses.
Big Nick and Orr were discharged imm'
II diately upon my return, as we couid no
e run together any more. l afterwards me
n Big Nick and he admitted to me that
- got his dividend out Of the $4,000 pr
e yiouslv robbed from the coach, and that
and Frank Orr were to have had thel
y "whack" out OF the $4,000 that wa
e aboard but that if ] would have given u
q the money as he suggested l would no
have been killed. Hesaid he wanted money
but didn't care to see me killed.
met Frank Orr once since, but our COZ
n yersation was limited. l told him to sto
y my part OF it or fight.
About two months afterward was OF
% dered to make run up to Elko, Nevads
'e where met my old friend, Doc. Terry. an
d in conversation he told me he bad been calle
!. to 20, some two months previous, to see
wonnded man on the Humboldt rivel
some twenty miles distant, and that b
ls had picked up a handful OF buckshot ou
ss of his groin and legs. He said he had don
E. all he could for the patient to lessen hi
re- pain, and asked the man how he got sho
and he said a gun went off unexpectedl!
y and he had got the worst Of it. The ma
vt died. found out it was the second ma
ID that shot when the coach was attacke
at Dry Creek.-Avant Courier.