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


not dofesH imself. The confession
made byi siny man was net alto
gethsrev ary one. His sister, who
had know: Thing except that he was
innoceut, |ht hint Of the truth from
- - --.ys1 RS raving Ia delirium--
the rsst = 10 hjy.. y her.
,s5 nse s,eath, bis sis
nocsnee asd a. Bi.I GsSiis ns'Uss where II, +
belonged, but bon found that nothing
coald be proyd "a. The Robinsons were
too strong fol her.
"About 9eis time Mrs. Wilson and her
younger dughter were obliged TO 90
South or4account OF I'LL health, leaving
the eld9f daughter, who was stud wing
medic1e, here in Chicago. Not long
after lhis, the hold-ups on the different
lines Pf the l.. aud A. began. For the
irstAew times there was only one road
aSfnt--a little chap, but a nervy one.
Who got talked about by the papers a
good deal; but pretty soon there were
others, until band of about eight or
nine had organized, under the little
fellows leadership, and they made life
burden b the l.. and A. people. It
made no difference what precautions the
company took, or how many guards II
Employed; the road agent, were too
sharp, and the boldest kind OF hold ups,
were successfully made-aud, by Jovei
Il busted the oosspAay'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,
aud the company was kept pretty busy
came the crash, and somehow people be-
gan to suspect that the Robinsons had
not Iuu things as they should have been.
handled, and the stockholders investi.
gated. Old Robinson died in disgrace
shortly afterward. The young mau took
all he could lay hands OH aud skipped,
but was caught at Santa Fe. He's
where he should be-uL Canon City.
Twecdy got off on tochnicality.
About seven or eight months after we
were held up, a stage full of fellows, in
cluding myself, were stopped aud re-
lieved one afternoon, about ten miles
from Milliken, on the old Mule -sboo
fellow naS one of tho
roBDers-I knew him in spite Of his mask.
There we're 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 mrn-
utcs, under penalty OF getting shot Bat
one OF our party was dcyi-may care
chap, and no sooner were the bandits
gone than he walked right over to tho
pile of guns and picked his out, remark
ing that he didn't believe there we're any
road agents around just then And
there weren't.
"Wcll, the result Of this fellows fool
bard ness was that we concluded it would
be IN 'ncy in our pockets to get on the
trail of those four road agents, so we
started after them, separating 4 little dis
tanco from each other. We followed
them all the afternoon, but couldn't find
4 trace.
"Iou know lSpw the old Mule. Shoe
Trail is sa-S, S,es Ss- ddfiHazsv d Hazsv bs4lo gore ae,
the Shoe it is )oniy three or four miles
across.
81 was just About making up my mud
to Join the other fellows, and had stopped
to think Of the best way to cross the
creek, when heard queer sound, like
n woman sobbing. | looked cautiously
around, and there, within two rods OF
me, was the young road agent, crying ~
If his heart would break. There was
la, llin fn hn
seen, so | quietly sneaked up and re-
Questcd HIM to throw up his hands.
"Did you ever hear woman scream
ut the sight of II mousea That's just
the way this young fellow screamed
when he saw the muzzle of my gun
and !, as SION rs saw the scared, tear
ful face turned to mine, knew as we'll rs
| know now, that the famous bandit
known rs 'Foxey' was only woman.
She seemed to trust me, somehow, and
pre!ty soon ! had the whole ole. story from
| her like brother! and the result was
that next dry tho road agents missed
their leader, and, inside of II fortnight,
NJ SIS Jcaa Wilson was back here in Chi.
cn.o, ut her studies again.
| ~ need not say that this gentle bal
| dit, who ruined the business OF the l..
aud Il. Company, took not ono cent o.
the proceeds, aud never pernittcd any
Of the band to interfere with Uncle
Sam'S mail. The latter fact accounts, il
a measure, for their success, for umc!;
Sam is bad man to interfere with. Tn
former fact, think, had to do, to som
cxtcat, with the strong hold whicl
'Foxey' hal over his subordinates, al
though they must have hal a good dca
of faith in his demonstrated ability as Il!
executive. The band was broken II
not long after 'Foxey's' disappearance
and three of the men were caught, bu
they didn't know any more conccrnin!
I tneil mysterious cx7ci.ief than did the
public at large"
"Aud-and Miss Wilson s."
llailegan'S eyes twinklcd: "ls wait
ins for us. Let us join her." he said
-Ar3maut.
Encampment at Wrightsville.