Los Angeles herald., 1892-08-08

work. A cutoff shotgun of the COM
pany's was in my hands. All that I
had to do was to pull the trigger. 1t
was loaded with q cartridge which con-
| tanned twenty-five buckshot and an ex-
traordinarily heavy charge of powder.
| When finally robber did come to the
door of the car, he had in front of him
the fireman, whom he used to cover his
own form with. For me to have fired at
him would have been to kill the brake
man. In fact, would have killed them
both. The buckshot would have gone
right through the two men. l did not
know what was coming next. For two
minutes no dynamite had been ex-
ploded in the car, but there was still q
promising outlook for me to close busy
career in short time and in an unex-
pected manner. That fireman will never
know what close call he had. could
not make up my mind to fire and take
the chances of killing him, come what
might to me. But had not long to re-
fleet. A few seconds after the robber
appeared at the door with the poor fire.
man for a breast-works, he quietly
threw in another dynamite bomb for
luck. That explosion blew the hole
in the car and came near blow
sBut the unkindest thing of all was
when the robbers politely requested me
to assist them in getting the coin off at
had secured it. was feeling very bad
something, Just what, did not know.
and was slightly disfigured, though
ST ir1f ha arir, II
manded-picked up sack of coin and
Then one robber stepped up, and, tap
ping me ia no gentle manner with his
gun, he bade me move on. AL
though feeling decidedly gioggy, 1
arose and stepped forward. Again
fell. Then the same robber
put the barrel OF his pistol in my mouth
and, using some very bad language. he
bade me arise land get move on me-"
did so with all possible celebrity. be-
! lieve that hate that man with about as
intense hatred as it is possible for any
one to despise another. l hope that all
Of the robbers will be captured, but
more particularly do want that man
captured that put the gun in my mouth.
| When I felt the barrel touching my
/
speaking of men who have COM
mand Of blasphemous language, think
that in this art the Coils robbers were
| far. far advanced. 1 have heard men
swear before, whom I,thought to be un-
usually gifted in this line, but never in
my life did l hear such flow of curses
and blasphemy as fell from the lips of
those men. Every other word was q
vile oath, They were certainly grad
ates.
"Wnen the train fret stopped had
an idea that it was the work of robbers.
Usually l am asleep while the train is
passing from Mendoza to Coils, but it
happened that on Wednesday | had an
unusually large amount of stuff to work
up, and it kept me up. l someway, had
no desire to sleep. The consequence
was that as soon as the train stopped !
had robbers in mind, and turned the
lights down. Then the train started up
again, and supposed that the brake
man had merely been putting some
tramps off. You have no idea what a
weight was lifted OFF my mind when that
train started to move. But in few
moments the engineer slowed up again,
and finally stopped. A few moments
under my car knocked the tramp theory
entirely out of my mind. Then was
when commenced tot figure on what was
to be done to save my life and protect
my trust.
81 sincerely believe that if the car had
not taken fire l could have protected the
treasure from the robbers. But as soon
as saw that it was on fire 1 made up
my mind that further resistance was i'm.
possible. / crawled to the door and
putting my hands out, indicated that /
gave in. But it seems that the robbers
had not fully agreed upon the point as
to whether 1 was to be killed or not. ]
heard one of them say Kill the ---
- and finally when they got hold
of me they were still discussing the
matter in that kind of language. 1t
made me very uneasy. When l was
commanded to open the through safe,
one of them said to me Open up or we
will kill you.' AS did not have the
key could not do so, and so informed
them. Then the gun was placed to my
head and was told that if I did not
open up the box at once / would be
hustled into eternity. thought was
gone, but they let me live. In this
they were quite reasonable.
"After it was all over, took my run
into Fresno. When we reached there, ]
really felt worse than | did at any time
during all the fuss at Coils. l com.
menced to feel decidedly weak, then and
had to take it little quiet for awhile
They say that some people begin to feel
that their nervous system is little out
of order after they have passed through
or had hair-breadth escapes. believe
that this is true.
"Some years ago, down in Mexico, ]
had an experience with express rob
bers. 1t was between Chihuahua and
Zacatecas. The considerate Mexican
bandits, by tearing up several rails,
threw my car into ditch. They knew
nothing of dynamite. Bat the Cal
caught fire and was burned up. The
robbers got nothing for their pains, ex-
cept retaining their skins entire.
/ 1.-Two experiences as messenger, in
connection with an express car robbery,
are enough for me-"
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