The Olneyville tribune. (Providence, R.I.) 1893-189?, 1894-08-04
4 DANGEROUS MAN.
When the Stage Was Held Up"
Ne Came 20 the Front.

Ne Came 20 the Front.
1.-THE business Of holding up
stages in the west and robbing the
mails and the passengers would not
be followed by so many desperadoes
IL few more Of the travellers were
like old Robert Lane, who lives near
Dillon, Montana. said George Craig
of Butte, at the Riggs House yester-
day. Lane is as quiet and peace
able a citizen as ever went to church
on Sunday and put his four bits into
the contribution box. He has lived
in Montana for twenty years, and
even in youth he never personally
INDUCED in the old-time wild excesses
Of life out there, nor in any OF the
hurly burly Of frontier existence.
He has always persued the even tenor
OF his way on his little ranch, near
Dillon. and ever been regarded as the
safest and most peaceable citizen in
the community. He is called old
Man Lane out in Montana, and
everybody knows him. Several years
ago the old man went down to Red
Rock, which il nearer to his ranch
than Dillon is, TO take the stage for
Junction. The mules were pulling
the outfit along pretty lively through
a right nasty piece Of road, when the
passengers were startled by hearing
voice commanding the driver to
throw down his reins. There were
three or four passengers on the in
side, and if it had been light enough
to see them they would have looked
mighty white, / tell you. But old
man Lane was made Of different kind
Of stuff. When he heard the agent
tell the driver TO drop the reins he
Just reached back and pulled out two
guns that he used to carry, because
it was the custom Of the country to
do it, and kept his eye fixed on the
doors, looking at first one door then
the other quickly, so rs to see the
thieves when they made an appear
ance. A shadow fell in each door
window about the same time, and
quick as a fash old man Lane's guns
were stuck through either opening
and off they went. He got meat both
cracks. Then he leaned out the
WlIuOW anu DdliStu ioNsp az ChN iNA-
low who had ordered the driver to
hold up. He got him, too, and then
Jumped out OF the stage. There were
four of the road agents, and the last
one, alarmed at the fate Of his COM
panions, stuck spurs into his horse
and rode away up the trail. The pas
sengers, who had nearly recovered
Ln;r nj
now amazed to see old man Lane cut
the harness from the lead mule, jump
on his back, and 60 sailing away
after the fleeing fugitive. Shots were
heard pretty soon, and in ten minutes
or so back came old man Lane, lead
ing the bandits horse, while the man
himself was sitting up in the saddle,
shot through the back. On exami-
nation it was found that two Of the
attacking party were killed and the
other two wounded, and the whole
quartet was brought into Junction.
When old man Lane was asked what
caused him to bloom out into such n
progressive citizen Of the territory,
he drawled out: Well, | had good
utul VI DuSllltSS w uuOthb w up iANiN
at Junction, and | didn't like the
idea of being stopped when l was on
my way to attend to it. One OF the
men was not very badly wounded,
and before leaving Junction to return
home old man Lane went to see him
in the temporary lookup. Look
here, my friend, he remarked, Il just
want to give you little bit of advice.
If you persist in following of the
business that you have started out in
when ! sort of stopped you, | think
it would be safer for you if you would
look over the way bill of any stage
you might intend to hold up, and
find out in advance who it was AGAR
rying.' Old man Lane is living yet,
and is hale and hearty as you please,
and if he starts on stage ride now
anywhere in Montana the driver don t
even feel it necessary to lock the
treasure box. - Washington Star.