The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-08-05

this trip ran into an ambush. One as
sistant was killed and the other wound
ed One of the robbers was hurt, and
caught later nursing his wound in .
hut The other robber was picked mp
in a lonely canyon, dead, bullet
through his head, revolver in his
hand, and the brick on his breast.
Must have been grimly sarcastic cuss.
81 notice you are having good many
stage robberies here. Used to have
them in Colorado. Abolished the rob
berries first and afterward the stage.
But speaking of robberies reminds me
OF one highwayman who could give
your Black Bart points He had held
up stage after stage in southern Colo
RADIO; taken everything in sight He
always gave orders as though he had a
whole posse in his gang. When he was
captured it was found that he was a
cripple weighing about one hundred
pounds, and never had any confederates
except dummies armed with broom
sticks. He's in the government pen at
Detroit now"
whats the use of resisting when 9
man has the drop on you?" This from
fierce-looking Individual whose pierre
ing eyes would have scared the ordinary
highwayman. "All nonsense, say.
Now in the Redding robbery Messenger
Montgomery resisted What did he get?
Why, a system full of lead. He didn't
save the treasure He didn't do himself
any service, and the good opinion of the
company is nothing to a dead man. 1
say it's all right to give up when a gun
is at your head. There's nothing else
to do. Shoot your highwayman when
he runs if you can, but look out for
your own hide. You'll never get an
other"
Are the authorities severe upon
stage-robbers in California;" queried
Philadelphia.
'Oh, not very" answered the fierce
looking one. ''In the first place, they
usually do not catch them. Two boys,
frightened half to death, stopped
stage near Cazadero the other day.
They trembled SO that they couldn't
get the quaver out of their voices
for week. and this gave them
away. They were sentenced to two
years each. AS to the Redding robbery,
the comparatively innocent lad who
was led into it was captured. His elder
brother, the one who killed Montgom-
cry and got the booty, is still at large
The San Andreas murderer, who shot in
to stage few weeks ago and riddled
ayoung lady passenger, has never come
to light. No. California is not partic-
ularly hard on stage-robbers
Coming back to the Berkeley case"
remarked the quietest member of the
loungers, ''the pair Of brigands were
audacious enough to have trained under
Jesse James / do not blame the men
for yielding. When robbers are so des-
perate as to make such an attack in
daylight, and in the midst of crowd,
they are desperate enough for any
thing. was in the big Blue Cut hold
up on the Rock Island railroad years
ago. 1t was done by the James crowd,
and want to say that the barrel of the
six-shooter l gazed into looked bigger
than joint of stowe pipe Some of us
had been boasting the night before
what we would do in just such an
but we didn't do it. We at
tempted to crawl under seats and
windows, and many forgot to
hide their watches and money. Oh, it's
easy enough to sit around hotel and
brag, but the man who refuses to
the potency of the drop
the other fellow has on him is bigger
fool than am. But l don't mean to be
personal, no indeed"
And the quiet man looked apologetic-
ally about to see if he had hurt any
ones feelin gs.-San Francisco Exam