The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1895-01-29
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shoes on lil9 feat io
like yourself shoot t- IS.
them. Shoes arc aol 3,
him in the offlce, bat who
to town Jim wears boots sll sai
style.
This came so fra ~ ir1m Saave
and without any be ltancy ~ 4.l
that they seemed to believe lli1l, and
one of them said:
"All right, youngster. just open
that face of yours till / shove fhis
plug into it to keep you quiet AID
put your hands behind your back for
this lovers knot, and then we will
tie you to your chair 80 you won {
get skeered and fall off when the
shootin irons begin to bark at that
train.
Then / was fully aware of what
their mission was, and feeling safe
from discovery, I at once began to
put into operation a plan / had out
lined in the first moment after my
awakening. Cautiously crawling
over the top of the box car, at last
reached the side of the car where the
wires were strung from pole to
half crossarm fastened to the roof OF
the car, and with q pocketknife 1
sawed through the No. wire, strand
after strand, until 1 succeeded in
cutting through it, and then fastened
the wire from the pole into one of
the binding posts of the relay and
then began the task of cutting the
other wire.
The job was not an easy one, as
the knife blade was small and soft,
and twas at least 20 minutes before
succeeded in cutting through the
second wire. Hastily inserting it in
the other binding post, 1 was de-
lighted to find that I had selected
the correct wires that We're "looped'
in from the pole, but I was panied
to hear the train dispatcher say:
I'D like to know who held this
wire open for 20 minutesw Carefully
adjusting the instrument to the
finest possible alignment SO as to not
permit the instrument to click louder
than a heart beat to disturb tho
stiffness of the night, lest l be de-
tected by the train robbers in the of
ice directly under my feet, / inter
rupted the dispatcher and had to
contest for the wire with him, as he
was in the middle of the train order,
md train orders have preference over
Ill other business on railroad wires.
Finding me SO persistent, he yield
ii the circuit and demanded to know I
what in blazes / wanted that trainsI
must come to o standstill and wait {
or me to talk. In as few words as
possible explained to him the situa-
ion and told him where was To- {
ated while giving him the informa-
ion, and that as soon as 1 told him {
II l must desert my post and try s
o escape in the darkness. {
Like all others of his class-or {
early all others-he wasted no time
n idle questions, but grasped the '
ltuation at once and began to act. L
First he called 80" "a station t
ext to mine, at which No. 6 was v
ow nearly due--but not succeeding t
raising him in half dozen calls
@ called the next station behind D
o" and asked if No. 6 had gone.
Yes, on time" was the prompt re- n
ly. h
The night operator at so" was O. v
eepy head, and it was with faint W
JOS III my LCttIU ulluD ltdTSu No u
as now asleep and would not awake I
ntil No. 6 passed his station, when IL
3 would get up and report them
by" to the dispatcher. ID
All else was suspended on the wire, b,
lille the dispatcher rapidly called &C
D. X" (the telegraph signal for
OD. Minute after minute passed, W
Id no response from I'D. K" No. tr
was then due at &c." and the dis st
ltcher seemed to grow nervous in
aking the Office signal, but still ra
'pt on at what seemed a hopeless re
SIX. Several more minutes passed, til
I'd then came back the signal II. in
ID. K. SIS No. by there? If
IT. stop Them, " was the almost hui til
an voice that came from the wire of
No. is here with a hot box and is til
st pulling ont SlOyu1v coy,a hack | ~,