New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1893-12-06
ouTNlTTED THE BANDITS

! ouTNlTTED THE BANDITS.
!. Mccoy Shepard,s Adventure in q Mountain
Fass Back of Acapulco.
| eff You are going to travel alone in
| this country you must carry two revolv-
ers, but one of them may be worthless.
In fact. it may be better to have one Of
| them of somewhat old fashioned make,
said Mr.. j. V. Hawkins Of Pueblo, Mex
leo. Mexico has improved marvellous
y in the past 10 years. but bandits are
: still tco numerous, and I can tell you
how to protect yourself by relating the
experience OF a friend OF mine. His name
was Mccoy Shepard, and he was on his
! way alone from Acapulco to the capital.
! It is an easily followed trail. He had
been over it o1;ca. and he spoke the Ian
euage very well. He had little thought
Of danger, although holdups a-e com
mon enough on that route. but he went
prepared for business. He put in the
holster of his saddle ! A cs=liber revolver
loaded with cartridges that barely had
enough powder in them 70 blow the bull
; lets out Of the muzzle> and then in tae
small Of his back he hung the hardest
81 caliber he could find When in Frisco
He was making trap, and it worked.
lit happened that as he was coming
down cut Of the main range three road
agents stepped from the rocks beside the
road ard had him cornered before he
could whistle. They were armed with
sbotSuns as well as nachetes, but for
some reason did not shoot before they
spoke, as not infcequently happens, They
invited Mac to get down, and he did per-
force. Then one Of them took the big re-
volver from the holster.
GOOD. It is big, said he.
EYES, said Mac, but it's worthless
thing after all. Inever want to kill any
one. | only carry it because l must
make people think am armed
The bandits laughed at that. 1t was
incredible that such pistol should be
worthless, and they said so.
"'But, gentlemen, will put my hat in
the road. and you may shoot at it with
the pistol. The bullet will not go through
the hat
cat that he took off his hat, gor-
geous Mexican affair that cost $50 in
Acapulco. and put it on a rock not 10
feet away, and stepped back toward, but
about five feet at one side of, the bandits.
They were interested at once. The idea
was novel to them. The man with tho
pistol aimed deliberately and fired at til.
hat. Then the three ran to look at the
effect of the shot. Macs turn to shoot
had come. Whipping out the unnoticed
raw 01E-n, l,r, ct {,,-> e L
fore they could turn on him. The third
did no more than turn round before he
caught his dose as we'll.
Leaving everything as it lay-bodies,
guns, hat and all-Mac sat down in the
shade Of a rock and waited for some one
to come along. He did not even reload
his revolver. He had to make out good
case before the government officials, and
he knew just how to do it.
After an hour or so native planter
with his servant came riding along.
"AHave the goodness to inform the al
calde that al American gentleman has
had trouble here with bandits said he
to the native, and the native did as re-
quested of course. Three or four hours
later came the alcalde of the next place
with half a dozen soldiers. Mac told
his story briefly, and the alcalde noted
each point Of it with the corroborating
evidence on the ground.
"'You have done WE'LL he said. 4
know the rascals we'll. You have saved
cartridges for my soldiers by killing
them
"Then he stopped. He could not I'M
| derstand how the big revolver had failed
to shoot through the hat. He thought
there was some kind Of necromancy
about it. So Mac cut a bullet from a
cartridge and showed that the usual
powder space was for the most part filled
| with cork. The alcalde turned the cork
| over in his hand and then said:
Those wise Yankees! But they do
by subtlety what we would do by valorr
"Then Mac gathered up his hat and
revolver, mounted his mule and rode on
with the alcalde, leaving the soldiers to
look after the dead bandits Take my
word for it, and carry good gun out of
sight when travelling III Mexico, and an
other one where all can see it."-New
York Sun.
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