The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1896-01-25

'''' ~ ''lN ItuNtn Sake
-report-to-trai dispatcher at-Lara-
mle-quicI-- t'at-I-am-ln--the hands
-ot-scven-r robbers who-will-compel
-me--to-flag- Mo-. Send help
quick"
Then signed name and office call.
| released the armature and the instru-
ment clicked out:
p-little-girl--I-
H.
II. was the train dispatcher's call With
fierce shout the leader sprang forward
and rudely snatched me away from the
table and asked:
'Gal what's that"
"only distant office asking for orders
for freight train responded.
"None o yer lyin,' you little imp" he
roared. ''ler up to some trick"
'No,' | replied, 81 am not. If was
doing that, my fingers would be on the in
strument. Don't you see am not touch
ing it, and yet it works. 1t is only an
order to a freight train away down at Med
icine Bow"
Keep away from that table, he said
savagely. And if I ketch you at any
tricks | II choke the life out o YOU
oh, how eagerly my ears drank in every
word the instrument clicked out. | heard
telegram to the sheriff at Green River, 20
miles west, asking him to arm a posse of
men at once and ret on board special
train which would be ready for him.
Then another to the young superintendent,
who was at Green River telling how my
slowly written words had been heard by
the dispatcher and asking him to supervise
the preparations to fly to my relief Then
third dispatch to the master mechanic
instructing him to fire up his fastest pas
sengcr engine and couple CD to a carriage
and await the superintendent orders. Ny
heart beat so violently that it almost took
my breath away. 1t seemed an age ere
heard the Green River operator call the
dispatcher and say:
''The superintendent, with sheriff and
20 armed men, is aboard and train ready
for orders. -
The order came flying. 1t told the
engineer he had clear track and to run at
his very highest speed to within half Il
mile OF my station and with his party to
| alight. Then came the welcome report
from the Green River office:
Special east departed 10"
Oh, how my poor heart beat, and how
my every nerve tingled with excitement.
One fifteen. | mentally figured that the
train on such a desperate Grand should
make nearly mile minute and reach
the stopping point about l:35.
The robber chief gave his men their in
structions. | was to be sent out alone to
signal the train, and when it halted the
land would make rush and board the
train.
"Bill, you jump on the engine rs soon
as she stops ard hold the engineer and fire
man under your gun. Jack, you pile into
the mail car and make the clerk give up
his registered letters and Yank and
Aleck'll work the express car, while Tom
and Shorty hold the conductor and brake
man back. Do yer work quick and bold
and don't be afeared to burn powder, if
necessary. Thar's a big haul on that train
and we We got to have it,"
How eagerly watched the clock, and
how slowly, how very, very slowly, the
hands seemed to move. One twenty-one
| |. % and 30 were licked off. One thirty
five Would they never come? One forty!
There came fearful crash of glass, and the
black muzzles eff a perfect cloud of rifles
were thrust through the windows and
pointed directly at the robbers. Then a
voice cried out:
"Men, throw up your hands l am the
sheriff, and in the name of The law demand
your surrender. Make but move and I'll
order my men to fire ~
'Ner little cat ~ Kissed the leader. glar
ing at me savagey as the band suddenly
held aloft their hands, Then the sheriff
and three men entered and disarmed anC
handcuffed the robbers, and | saw thu
superintendent looking at me and hearC
him say, What debt | owe you, my
brave girl, " aud then fell fainting in hi
arms.
When | reganed consciousness, | wa
lying in my bed in my room at Greer
River, with several ladies around me, an(
was told that seven days had elapsed since
the capture of the robbers. | was suffering
from brain fever brought on by the terrible
strain had passed through and had beel
unconscious for that long period.
| finally recovered, and when called int,
court to testify against the desperate gans
will never forget their fierce glances to
ward ne as | told how had entrappet
them, or how, in spite OF the efforts of til,
Judge and court officers to suppress it, thu
crowd chcered me us left the stand Tn,
men were sent for long terms to an eastern
prison and have never heard of then
since
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