The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1896-08-07

rose AtpHithiiy to an erect I'ositlon anA
laOkoi over the edge OF tho partition
The first thing | saw was the box,
standing end near a window in the eX-
treme end of the station, and as |
looked saw its top slowly rise and
mans head protrude itself.
1t was thick, brutalized face, with
grizzled whiSkers. Instantly it flashed
across my mind that it belonged to
Grizzly Bill.
The sight sent my heart to my
throat witt Il bound, for | realized OH
" too well that the outlaw would stop
at nothing to get the money which he
knew was in my possession. 70 HIM
murder was child's play. But after
the first emotion of fear | felt perfect
lv calm. Ia truth, felt rs though
fate had thrown the desperate i'll my
way so that could conquer him. ]
don't know why felt thus; probably
| experienced the same emotions that
| a soldier does who goes into battle
with fear and trembling, yet who,
when actually in the midst of danger,
| feels as cool and collected as though
| lie were out of reach of all possibility
of harm.
Il got out of bed, picked up the
| coal shovel and scuttle and made as
much noise as possible. As the night
| had been an unusually cool one fire
was burning, and as passed the stove
| | grabbed my revolver and thrust it
| into my right coat pocket. Into my
| left pocket ! thrust some nails and II
| hammer Then, whistling as loudly
as possible to mislead the desperate
| in the box, IL # the little office and
| walked across the floor of the freight
part of the station. When Immediate
| " in front of the box sprang at it
with the fury of II man lighting for
| his life and overturned it. 1t fell to
| to the floor, top up, with aresoundlng
| crash Instantly | was astride the
| box driving nails into the lid as hard
and fast as a man in terror for his life
| could do And all that while | was
Yelling Mt the imprisoned outlaw at
the top of my voice, telling him that
| if he so much as breathed | would in
stantly kill him.
| But my threats did not seem to
| frighten him much. From the inter
| ior of the box came n volley of mut1led
oaths that would have astonished a
| bigger Indian. | never heard such
horrible profanity. l fired my pistol
twice in the air to let him know that |
meant business. After awhile lie be-
came quiet. carefully examined the
box and found that there was no dan
ger of suffocatiDg. for at the upper
end were number of tiny perfora-
tions which freely admitted air,
Il sat astride the box until my as
sistant arrived at o'clock. 1t was a
long and trying vigil, but the magni-
tude of my victory buoyed me up.
| Nv assistant was almost too much
amazed to speak when | told him of
my capture. He quickly went to the
mines and told the superintendent to
hasten ut once with Il sufficient guard
| Of men to tho station and take Grizzly
| Bill into custody. 1t didn't take long
| to do this, and when Bill was hauled
by no gentle hands from the box he
was the angriest outlaw ever captured.
| He fought like Il tiger, but it WAS of
no use The men who had him cap
tive knew how dangerous he was. lie
was securely bound and later in the
day taken TO Fikeville, where he was
subsequently sentenced to a long term
of Imprisonment in an eastern peni-
| Tertiary.
| That little adventure concluded
the major, proved to be the turning
point III my career. | was promoted
to an inn ortant position in the city,
where prospered, as you see. [ am
today quite content with myself and
the world in general. Thus you see
| Grizzly Bills undoing was my max
ing. ''-St LOuiS Giobe- Democr0t