St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-02-28

tone shall never forget: Throw up
your hands, 1t was terrible yell,
only such one as imagined cow
boy could give. and IL was meant to
strike terror. l knew, of course,
that the rObber was outside the door.
but it was very dark night and could
see nothing beyond the arm which was
jumped to the side of the car next to the
robber and raised my revolver in both
hands. cooking it as L did so.
l see that Perry says he after
ward found my pistol OH the floor
half-cocked and that it had not been dis
charged. i cannot say positively that l
fired it, but l know that L aimed
it at the spot where 1 thought the rob-
Der must be behind the arm at
the window and pulled the trigger.
At the same moment there, was dis.
charge and l fell stunned by blow
over the eye, and my revolver went.
that | was shot in the left hand.
although did not know it at the time.
discovering from the effects of the
blow on my head, threw myself for
ward on my hands and knees and
crawled rapidly TO the rear of the car,
where | reached up and pulled the bell
cord and the air-whistle cord. The air.
whistle cord is small and hard,
and, as | pulled it down with
all my might, it cut my fingers on
the inside, which left these marks, as
you see, cutting the flesh and making
my right hand stiff. l must have pulled
the cord three or four times. This
should cause little air whistle right in
front Of-the engineer to blow and thus
give HIM the signal to apply the air
brakes. But it must have failed to
work.
IL tried to find the lever of the air
brake of the express, which, when
pulled down, would set tightly the
brakes of my car, but although CROPPED
about on the side of the car L could not
find the lever. In the meantime, the
robber had entered the car by push
ing back the door. He lighted a
match, which l first thought was
the fash from bulls-eye lantern. By
the light of the match he saw lying OH
the floor my revolver, and securing that
he knew | was powerless. Then he
lighted some way bills on the floor, and
after using them as they burned up. he
raised the lighted brand above his head
and rushed to the forward end of
the car, yelling, oh you, I'll kill
YOU" He had heard the cord, for that
sound is heard in the car when the
whistle cord is pulled. and it made HIM
mad. He expected the whistle would be
heard by the engineer and the train
would be stopped. He went to
the forward end of the car.
He turned back and lighted the
lamp with flaming way bill from the
pile on the floor. Then, seeing me in
the rear of the car, he made a rush,
yelling at the top Of his voice, You
d-n s. of b., I'll make an ex-
ample of you for your associates l
know by that he would kill me
if necessary, so that other express
messengers would remember my fate
if they attempted to resist him in the
future. AS he yelled and came at me, L
rose up and he fired the ball, taking eff
feet in my leg. [ did not know that he
had shot me then. [ don't want you to
think was not frightened by this time,
for l was. and when he threatened me
again told him if he would not kill me
l would do anything he asked"
Mclnerney is pale and haggard, and
shows evidence of great suffering. He
is very weak, and with difficulty was
able to tell his story. He is improving,
however. and his physicians have no
doubt of his recovery.