The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1892-04-15

innocents ht hint OF the truth from
him whenl PES raving in delirium--
the rest = Y hj1lSll her.
"AfteI - b .eath, his sis
ter wenS .,'e - see what
nocsnss and to- piaI 6 guilt where IN il
belonged, but soon found that nothing
codld be proved. The Robinsons were
100 strong fof her.
about ydis time Mrs. Wilson and her
younger daughter were obliged to 90
South ogaccount OF ill health, leavinp
the eldsf daughter, who was STUDYING
medicHe, here in Chicago. Not long
after fhis, the hold-ups on the different
lines jof the l.. aud A. began. For the
first few times there was only one road
aSent--a little chap, but a nervy one.
Who got talked about by the papers a
good deal; but pretty soon there were
Others, until a band of about eight or
nine had organized, under the little
fellows leadership, and they made life q
burden 10 the l.. and A. people. 1t
made no difference what precautions the
company took, or how many guards. II
employed; the road agents were too
sharp, and the boldest kind Of hold ups,
were successfully madeT T-aud, by Jovei
ie busted the cosapAay's business. The
L.. aud A. wasn't heavy concern, OF
course, but had always made good deal
Of money. The frequent hold-ups on its
lines, though, proved settler. 1t
wasn't long before nobody would ship or
travel over any of the L. and A. Com
pany's lines unless actually obliged to,
and the company was kept pretty busy
settling the losses of its customers. Then
came the crash, and somehow people be-
not Iuu things as they should have been
handled, and the stockholders iuvesti.
gated. Old Robinson died in disgrace
shortly afterward. The young man took
all he could lay hands Oh aud skipped,
but was caught at Santa Fe. He's
where he should beat Canon City.
Twecdy got off on tochnicality.
About seven or eight months after we
were held up, stage full of fellows, in
cluding myself, were stopped aud re-
lieved one afternoon, about ten miles
from Milliken, on the old Mule -shoo
yysus fellow. psas one f+he
robbers kneF him in spite of his mask.
There were only four Of the road agents
on this occasion.
"They pulled out, leaving us orders
not to touch our arms (Which they had
stacked on the ground) for twenty MIN
utes, under penalty of getting shot. But
one of our party was devil-may care
chap, and no sooner were the bandits
gone than he walked right over to the
pile of guns and picked his out, remark
ing that he didn't believe there were any
road agents around just then And
there weren't.
"Well, the result of this fellows fool
hard ness was that we concluded it would
be m 'ney in our pockets to get on the
trail of those four road agents, so we
started after them, separating little dis
tanco from eseh other. We followed
them all the afternoon, but couldn't find
D trace. -
"You low the old Mule, Shoe
Trail tha SafaiRsss aa sssv bad seeass ssss 20 ..
tIi threc or four miles
81 was making up my mud
to join the o. llows, and had stopped
to think of the BEST way to cross the
creek, when heard a queer sound, like
woman sobbmg. looked cautiously
around, and there, within two rods of
me, was the young road agent, crying a.
If his heart would break. There was
nobody else there, it was plain to be
seen, so quietly sneaked up aud re.
quested him to throw up his hands.
at the sight of mouse2 That's just
the way this young fellow screamed
when he saw the muzzle of my gun
and ], as soon as saw the scared, tear
! full face turned to mine, knew as we'll as
know now, that the famous bandit
known as ,Foxey' was only woman.
She seemed to trust me, somehow, and
Rga!ty soop ~ |! had . the e. whole story from
her likea brother: and the result was
that next dry the road agents missed
their leader, and, inside OF fortnight,
M IS Jeau Wilson was back here in Chi.
cago, at her studies again.
81 need not say that this gentle ban
dit, who ruined the business of the l..
aud A. Company, took not ono cent OF
the proceeds, aud never permitted any
OF the band to interfere with Uncle
Sans mail. The latter fact accounts, iu
a measure, for their success, for Uncle
Sam is bad man to interfere with. The
former fact, think, had to do, to some
extent, with the strong hold which
'Foxey' had over his subordinates, al
though they must have had good deal
of faith in bis demonstrated ability as an
executive. The band was broken III
not long after Foxey's' disappearance
aud three of tue men were caught, bu
they didn't know any more concerning
tneir mysterious exzci,ief than did the
public at large" -''.---
"And-and Miss Wilson is"
Haliegan's oyes twinklcd: "Is wait
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