Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1893-10-18

.us"ou inauiy dneau, Wnen ali at once
l went down with terrible crash
over something on the beach. They
were near enough to hear my fall aud
one OF them shouted:
''Here he is, Bill; we've got him:
d him for givin' us so much
trouble. we'll Tx him now"
thought about as the burglar did.
but as l tried to get up found was
In a boat drawn half way up on the
sand.
1 almost shouted with ioy when l
made this discovery. 1t was their
boat and once in 1t ana on 1.-THE water
was safe! By this time could hear
their footsteps along the shore, which
was quite rocky and rough here, ex-
cept the little bit of beach where tho
| boat lay, and they could not make
such Roadway as did as they did not
know the way through the rocks.
But they were coming fast enough
ana cursing at every step and with
the energy OF despair. l caught the
noat IN my arms and with a wild
strain l tried to shove it into the
water. But it would scarcely bulge.
Again and again tugged; the blood
almost bursting through my ears by
Inc exertlOn and the skin tearing
from hands and bare arms.
SO near thought to safety and still
the danger increasing every second,
tnen as l heard an oath more wicked
imam the others, as one OF the burg
lars fell over stone, l felt the boat
move, and little wave rolled in and
lifted it, SO that with one more push
1t slid off into deep water. Jumped
in, caught the oars, aud as the burg
lars dashed down through the dark
ness to where they heard the noise,
the boat shot out into the water and
l was safe.
They might have shot ME from the
shore, but they had either left their
revolvers in the house or had none,
the revolver being too noisy weapon
for burglars as a rule
Whatever the cause, they did not
fire, and I did not wait for it, at
least that close. A hundred feet out,
l began to be myself once more and
stopped rowing.
why don't you come on?" /
shouted back, halt Historically.
"Hold on" they yelled, and 1 could
hear them running up and down the
shore in the darkness.
'Oh, you're all right" 1 laughed
shrilly. I'll come back and take you
OH in the course of few hours" and
then fearful that they might get
their guns. l rowed away as fast as l
could for the mainland.
think made that three miles in
half the record, and when l found
the hrst policeman, he was for run
ming me in as lunatic or a Sleep
walker. but he knew me, and as
told my story, a force of ten men
boarded tug and we returned TO the
Island. BY this time the first gray
streaks of dawn were showing in the
summer sky, and as we cautiously
ran up to my wharf, it was almost
light enough to see the house
We saw no burglars however, nor
any signs Of them, though I knew I
had them penned up on the island
and escape was impossible. We
waited until daylight, and then, de-
ployed as skirmlshers, the policemen
began TO move across the island, ex-
pecting any moment to flush a burg
lar or get shot from ambush.
''As we came up to the house one
OF the burglars appeared in the door
way and was covered on the instant
by u dozen guns
"'COme in, gentlemen, come right
in, he said cheerily. we we're ex.
pecting YOU and we've got a nice
breakfast ready"
The mans GOODNESS almost gave
me the Mysteries, for 1 know by the
sound of his voice that he was the
fellow who wanted to fix me.
''But he was uttering the truth
they did have a nice breakfast for US
(out OF my larder), aud not that only.
but they had found that Henry was
not dead, and they had washed him
and done what they could in caring
for him, and had done it so we'll that
he is alive to-day with only an ugly
scare on his neck as memcnto.
''There were four in the lot and
we soon had them handcuffed, and
then we sat down to breakfast and
enjoyed it, though l must confess
that by this time the condition was
in physically was not pleasant
You're a queer gang said the
Lieutenant of police to the leader,
who had invited US to breakfast
What did you do this for?'
"'The breakfast, you mean?'
land all the rest of it, said the |
officer
lowell, cap'n,' he replied, it's like
this: We wuz here fer de swag, kill |
CIR NO, and we thought we had killed
the fust one, and. of course. the other
one had to go, to stop talk. Then
when he got away and had us penned
up like rats we came to the conclu-
sion that we had better git out the
best way we could. The one we
thought was dead only needed re-
pairs, so We repaired him, and we
knowed you'd be here bimeby to look
fer us, and probably comm out so
early in the morning you might be