The Yellowstone journal., 1894-06-06
HELD UP BY HER LOVER.
4 Highwayman Loses q Bride Through
Her Pluck as a Stage Driver.


4 HiEhwayman loses a Bride Through
Her Pluck q Stage Driver.
''Of course you've heard innumer.
able romances of women stage driv
ers, said F. c. Olcutt of Cheyenne to
q reporter so have l, and most of
them are fiction, too, have no doubt,
but / know of one in which every
word is true. The heroine of my story
was not the regular driver of the
coach which have in mind. but dul,
ing the trip speak of she was Z
substitute for her brother, who was
farmer, and having been reared uI.
the farm she was noted for feats NOR
usual to men than women. For III
stance, she was an excellent horsg-
woman, could ride almost any hors,
was a first rate shot and was no.
afraid of anything. Often she hu#
driven the coach for her brother
when from any cause he wanted t.
have day off She did 1t well, too
perfectly, in fact, and she was th.
pride of all the people roundabout.
Now she had lover, which wa
perfectly natural and quite commend
able. Her lover lived with his pa
ents on a neighboring farm I'll.
lacked Z great deal of being "A mode
for y. NJ c. A. superintendent, bu-
yet his infractlons oil the ordinary
amenities of life were not so fia
grant and glaring as to give him no
torious character. Still. he was shift
less and inclined to wildness. lie
would often go to town, be absen'
three or four days and return very
reticent as to where he had been ui
as to what he had been doing. Thi-
morning my heroine cracked the
whip over the stage horses for her c,
mile drive. William-she called him
shat, though the rest of the peoplt
thereabouts called him Wild Bill
was absent from home, supposedly
in Cheyenne.
The coach was a mail coach. OF
course, and aside from the revenue
derived from the government fol
carrying the mail had a good pas
senger traffic, for 10 years ago raj
roads were scarce in that country
The coach left at o'clock in tht
morning and was due at its destina
ton at o'clock in the evening. E7
erything went well, the passenger
were very merry until about :
o'clock in the evening At just abou.
that hour five men jumped out from
behind "A bowlder in front of the
coach and demanded Hands up
The nervy little woman ON the box
didn't hands up worth cent. Ii
stead, she dropped her lines, grabbed
winchester and was pouring a fu
sillade of bullets into the robbers b,4
fore they, i'll their amazement, coul,
comprehend what was going on.
She so completely astonishc,
them that they for a second or iva
1idn't KNOW straight up, as the say
ing goes. Her example inspired thc
passengers TO courage, and they, to-,
opened fire. The result was that al.
the robbers save one fled ingloriously
The exception was one who haG
dropped at the first shot with Il
wound in his right shoulder. Wei.
after the Others had fled, the girl came
down from the box to look at the
wourled man. She stopped over him
and pulled off the mask, revealing t.
her astonished eyes the features ot
Wild Bill, her lover No, she didn't
marry him, but she took him into
town, had his wound attended 20, and
never revealed To the authorities
what had occurred. That's a true
story. Fort Worth (Tex.J Gazette.