The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-11-04

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bills which / had extracted from my roll.
/ This handed to him, and he counted it
and found there was only Sl4.
81 Is that all you've gotln he asked in
| disappointed tone of voice.
Il put my hand down in my trousers
| pocket and pulled out 70 cents in change
1 and some poker chips. He laughed
| when he saw the chips, and then he
started to feel of my pockets, asking me
| again if that was all the money 1 had.
| assured him that it was, and after he sat-
/ ished himself that ] was telling the truth
| he refused to take the silver, saying:
Well, hang on to that. Buy drink
with it
"As he started to walk off he said
| Don't you carry watch2'
- Il did carry one / replied, but that
| was before the Butte races. You should
| have tackled me before those came Of
| "With that he walked off The poker
| chips and the story Of the Butte races
were strong points of circumstantial evil
| dence in his eyes and he left me, satisfied
! that he had all that was worth taking
| from me.
"The robbers appeared to be good-na-
| tured enough, but they were not out for
| tritiing just in front of me sat a young
| telegraph operator and his best girl.
/ Naturally he wanted to appear hero in
| the eyes of the young lady and when the
! robbers came to him he was leaning with
| his elbow on the sill of the car window
near him, apparently unconcerned about
their presence.
d" Come, shell out, said the leader.
haven't anything for YOU the
| young man drawled, slowly shaking his
head to emphasize his remarks.
The leader said nothing, but quickly
| bringing his Winchester rifle into posi-
ton he placed the barrel diagonally under
the nose of the young man and pulled the
trigger, The ball just skinned by the
young mans face, and crashed through
the window near him.
ooh, Charley, if you have anything
give it TO him. oh, do! dot screamed
| the young lady, but Charley didn need
any urging after that shot. and he soon
| ished out roll of green backs from his
| pocket
- Il see that you have something for me,
after all the robber said as he passed on
| ''SOme of the incidents were numerous,
and the rest of us were obliged to laugh
in spite Of the seriousness of the situa-
ton.
One of the passengers on the car in
which | was seated was a big, stout
woman who was travelling alone Like
the rest of us, she objected to giving up
| anything, and she tried an original
scheme to eucher the thieves. She
crawled down partly under one of the
seats of her section and managed to cover
herself up after a fashion. She probably
thought they would pass her hiding place
without noticing, but she was doomed to
disappointment.
Il heard the robbers laugh as they
! passed me, and looked up the aisle to
see what the hilarity was about l
couldn't help laughing myself. The stout
woman had hidden the upper part of her
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! lower eXtremities, and there, across the
| passage, when she thought she was lit
orally out of sight were pair of we'll
| filled white stockings blocking the ad-
! vance of the gang The leader touched
| her on the back, and courteously invited
/ her to take seat, which she did, much
to her own discontinue. Then he com
manded her to shell out and she did so
/ without any parley.
"One of the other passengers in the car
was young lady, and when they came
! to her she gave up all her valuables with
! out murmur until she came to her rings.
! One Of these she refused to part with
/ It's my engagement ring. Won't you
/ please let me keep it2' she asked
Can't do it. It's engaged to us now -
/ responded the leader, as he pocketed the
/ gem.
Leaving our car, they went into the
/ Pullman ahead. didn't hear of any in
/ cidents in the other cars which would be
worth mentioning, except, perhaps, one.
! One of the passengers was a cattle de-
tective. He is employed by the Northern
Pacific to look out for cattle thieves, and
there is said TO be no cooler or drawer man
in Montana When he heard the racket
he quietly unshipped pair of pistols ard
and placed them under the seat. The
robbers recognized him as they came
along, but they did not offer to modest him.
and he said nothing to them. They looked
for his pistols, but they could not find
them.
"While we were being held up a freight
train backed down to a side track. but.
although the robbers saw it when it came
in, they apparently took no notice of its
presence They had finished their first
trip through the train, and were talking
of making second and more thorough
search of the crowd when one of their
gang found out that the engine of the
freight train had left the yard and had
them to change their programme, and in
stead Of going through the train once
more, they made for their horses. patting
the engineer on the back as they left him,
and, with good-by and good luck. old
man, they ordered him to Jump into his
cab and pull out the train. Then they
jumped on their horses and backed awav
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with volley from their Winchcsters.
This was only meant as sport, however.
and did no more serious damage than
crashing through the wood work on the
tops of the cars.
II had read and heard a great deal
about western nerve on such occasions.
but | didn't see any great amount of Il
manifested at the time of that train rob
berry. All seemed to regard discretion as
the better part of valor, and | was with
them. The cattle detective on that train
was as nervy man as ever lived but
when he saw the odds and the loss of life
which would ensue in consequence of a
resistance, he hid his guns instead of
| firing them. The same is true of the en-
! gineer and of the conductor of the train.
the latter of whom gave up $50 and a gold
watch without a whimper, only making a
request for the Masonic charm attached
to the chain
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