San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1892-02-29

AT last my friend, the superintendent,
could stand it no longer, and, breaking the
silence, he eXclaimed:
"'Come, come, Carter; explain this thing
and let's light up. | always told YOU to
look out for these tramps.'
""Tramps! tell you it's train robbers,
an they amt done yet We did not believe
him, but thought it best to humor him.
But I'll do 'em upl don't care so much
for this leg-it'u get well; out they killed
my dogs
1--WE saw one of your dogs FASTENED
to tell him.
"'You did? Well, where's the other?
They shot him! seen him shot an that's
how they shot me-
eve still doubted the train robber story,
but there was evidently something wrong,
and about the quickest way to get at it
was to let him go his own gait.
"'You see, Mr.. winthrop he went on,
about two hours ago four fellers rides up
here, an the first thing knows Pm held
up. While one of 'em keeps the drop on
me the others they goes through my desk
there an fishes out my time tables an fig
ures out the trains. While they're foolin
round my dogs gets gay an commences
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mad, an he jes' pulls his gun an blazes
away. One dog drops, an the other runs
away, but he takes shot at him, too, an
knows he got him, for heard him yelp. /
was powerful mad, an jes' turns loose an
cusses him high and low. He was kind
o. drunk, the only one AT was, an he jes'
turNs his gun on me an says he, "We want
you still anyway" an lets her go. The
oil yhpf ,,alt 90 ,f he 80 L.,
gang jumps him an knocks his hand down,
an the ball gets me here in the leg. o.
course I'd returned the attention, but /
you have to-" says this Teller.
"'They all had masks an knowed they
wasn't tramps from that, for tramp never
sports no mask, he's al'ays rather proud O.
his profession
Hurry up here broke in Winthrop.
"'No hurry, Mr.. Winthrop was the cool
reply, got any booze?'
81 happened to have little whisky and
passed my flask to the philosophical vic
tim; after he had taken long pull,
sighed and adjusted his other leg, he
went on:
"No, there's no hurry. gentlemen; I've
thought the whole thing out while I've
been lyin here waitin for you fellers to get
back. o. course, if you'd come before
them robbers lit out it 'ud been different;
but didn't much think you would an you
didn't.
"'Well, after they sees Pm shot an can't
walk, the boss, he says, might as well
leave him alone; there amt no telegraph
instrument an he can't walk off,"
"'He was dead right; wasn't in it a lit
tie bit on a walkin match. They talked
right out before me what they was up to
an it's jes' this: You see, they aimed to get
the schedule from my ranch here an
prob'ly tie me up or kill me, or anything
to get me quiet; this yer shot in my leg
done all right an 30 they left me right here;
for the express tonight is the first train
through, which they digs out O. the time
tables, an that's the train they're after.
They've sort o. gone into the camp down to
the bridge where they can stop any one
what comes along an see there amt no ac-
cidental warnin; they don't seem to look
for no one to come from Sidney There
amt no freight due to come through an
they knows it,
"'Do you mean to tell me that there are
some train robbers within mile of us
waiting to jump the expressp exclaimed
Winthrop, now thoroughly aroused.
They're goin to jump it, an they're
goin to get fooled the worst you ever see,'
was the cool reply.
"'Carter, you're crazy said the super
intendent, sitting down again.
$50 help me God, Mr.. Winthrop, it's
gospel true. Look at them drawers-isn't
the time tables gomez Amt shot? Amt
my dog dead? None o. my grub's been
touched-tramps never leaves no grub
1.-The mans manner and voice convinced
us much more than did his rather weak
array of circumstantial evidence. could
see that Winthrop was satisfied that there
was something in the story and was trying
to think it out-he charged up aud down
the shanty. looked out at the moon just
rising, and in fact was in an entirely en-
cuSable state of excitement.
THE situation was certainly unique, to
say the least A train robbery on the cards,
and the division superintendent warned be-
fOrehand
"If Carter had not been hurt we might
have attacked the party, although there
were certainly four, whom Carter had seen,
and probably more in the gang.
''I could flag the train if could only
get across the river said Winthrop.
"'Gou can't cross 'cept right there at the
bridge where them fellows is, was the re-
ply: faint fordable an there amt no
boat
eff could get back to Sidney could
telegraph continued the excited speaker.
thinking aloud.
"'That's my idea; get to Sidney an fire
a telegraph to Antelope down below. where
you can ketch the train easy, to press
lot o. deputies an come through
Yes, but Sidney's twenty miles was
the response
Twenty-one, Mr.. Winthrop replied