Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1888-04-24
THE SHOTGUN GUARD.
CONVERSATION RELATIVE TO THE
EXPLOITS OF HIGHWAYMEN.


uou Road Agents Attack stase-Try-
.nc TO tho Nerves OF the Guard-Leh-
=, varnInG-A Case of Total Col
lapse.
when the treasure box came in on the
n."duood stage the other day, the MEM
t"rs Of .he shotgun guard carried it into
~ axpress car and sat down by it's side.
nSere were three of them. The box had
siso OO) in bullion in it, and as usual q
I'll assembled to look at 1t and at the
nan nan having it in charge. AS there was
~ bonr before the train would start, the
~ and the guard fell into u converse
.ian relative to train and stage robberies.
af,er some of the exploits of highwaymen
"a the Hills road had been referred to,
pul Dunn. one of the shotgun men, said.
81 see that there is "A heap of talk in the
,,,ers about the cowardice of men who
fanpen TO be mixed up in tussles with the
syents. Now, this is all very funny when
rou are 900 miles away from them and
inow there isn't a Winchester within
s,rr miles of you, but the thing takes on
different aspect when You are within
r,noe / never was in hold up but
onee but have seen more than one time
when felt as though l would like to get
ont and walk and let the box go. The
fet that you have so much money in your
teenne is of itself enough to make You
nervous in country like this. AS rule
when agents attack u treasure coach or a
train they are on you before you know it,
Then You can fight or die, just as you
Inon n The times that make yorr si,irt
Pi,,S'o ,,;lt .ro when vo,, box. roos,o,, ~
coiia, tIot Won arc to be ATTACHED 40
oo wv not .ttacked
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LIE ihi'S of "Ah'NiN"'
"When | carried a gun on the Sidney
route there was month at one time that
Inever left Deadwood without having re-
ceived u letter notifying me that was to
be held up on that trip. Sometimes l got
the warming through the the postofIice,
once | received it in Sidney, and several
times it was pushed under my door at my
boarding house when L was asleep. In
some of the letters the writer assumed to
be the robber, and he always wound up
his warming with the words: so look out,
I'll have the box, and l may have YOU
Others of them, though they were all
written in the same hand, came ostensibly
from others parties, who pretended to
have only my interest at heart? OF course
knew that that was dangerous road,
and 1t was my business TO shoot and be
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TOTAL COLLAPSE.
The roads were heavy, and before we
reached the first station, where we were
to pass the night, it was dark. Some of
you may know what darkness in western
Nebraska was In those days. We had
about three miles to travel before hauling
mp for the night, and Parker, the driver,
and were straining our eyes to see the
Light, when, with sudden yell at the
horses he pulled them up on their launches
and shrieked in my ear; Whats thatT
Well. now, at the instant that he first
yelled there WAS a crack like rifle, and
heard 1t as well as he. 1t may seem
highly ridiculous. md SO it was, but the
minute that he shrleked just dropped of
the coach like log. shotgun and all,
1t was a total collapse | had no power
over myself, and, what is more, when
found myself in the DlI11 almost under