The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1893-10-24

three or four dead bodies in day-corpses
OF chumps who'd tried to make a holdup
and got left. One day, about 10 miles
south of the Platte, when there were five Of
us in the stage fellow jumped out and
yelled his yell. Every man in the stage
knew he was galoot by his antics and the
trembling of his voice, and we weren't bit
surprised when the driver out with his gun
and dropped him' without checking the
gait of his horses"
"Then man has got to be good one to
make a successful holdup2'' asked.
''Theres where you hit hard pan, " he an
swered There may be towards travelling
around out west but never met any. The
idea that five or six well heeled men are
going to submit to being cleaned out by
one if there's show to stop him is all bosh.
It's all in the man and his way of doing
business. If he's got voice with a sort of
laugh to it; if he's got gun in either hand
and keeps 'em moving about like the heads
of snakes travelling through the grass; if
his eyes seem to be looking right through
you and watching everybody else at the
same time, don't make a fool of yourself"
"You mean give up your boodle?"
Exactly and don't be too long about it,
either, for those chaps are always in a
ucSC newspaper iuCD Sccil W ILL
agine that the passengers in coach sit
with revolvers in their hands throughout
the trip Their guns are right down in their
hind pockets, of course. Give 'em five min
utes to get ready and they'd clear the road,
but they don't have five seconds. When
you get the hail, you know you're covered
Only one mantle one next to the door
could do any shooting anyhow, and he'd
be more apt to miss than to hit. What
then? Why, the robber would turn loose
and kill or cripple everybody inside quick
erin you could count.
you have probably noticed a limpin my
gait? That comes from a bullet ! got in
my left knee when the Deadwood stage was
held up by Wyoming Charlie. 1t was in
the afternoon, and there were six of us. A
tenderfoot had the seat by the window,
and he thought he'd show his sand by
opening fire with his pop. The robber
wasn't 10 feet away, and the idiot had three
shots at him without a touch. The shoot
ing made him mad, and he began firing
right and left into the stage. He killed
| two men and wounded the other four, and
all of us were robbed besides. The tender
foot was one of the killed, and can't say l
was ever sorry about it.
81 think remember reading that Wyo-
ming Charlie was killed while holding up
stage somewhere out west"
Eyes, down near Plum creek, in Ne
braska, and it was curious how 1t came
about. There were seven passengers, and
one of 'em was woman-the wife of a cat
tleman She was with the driver, on top.
Charlie took the outfit at turn in the
road and made a complete surprise. He
got the men out and in line, and when his
back was turned the woman fired at him
with derringer.
"Her bullet passed through his hat, and
as he wheeled about to see what was going
ON one of his own guns was accidentally
| discharged, and the ball entered his groin.
l saw him at Plum creek before he died.
He was tough looking customer, and even
In dying he boosted of the number Of men
he had killed. forget his figures, but ev-
erybody was willing to believe he had killed
a full dozen. He'd been robbing for year
or so and had several thousand dollars
planted somewhere along the Niobrara
river
"If he had any relatives, he didn't care
| for 'em, and when he found he was going
over the creek he tells the woman who shot
at him where he had cached his plumber
and just how to find it. / had this right
| from her own lips, and know that her
! husband afterward got the money. Queer,
wasn't it, being as she brought about his
deathP But he didn't lay it up against her
He was a born road agent and had the bust
ness down so pat that it was almost pleas
ure to be robbed by him. Detroit Free