Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1897-02-13

treme end of the station and as /
looked I saw its top slowly rise and a
mans head protrude itself.
"It was q thick, brutalized face, with
grizzled whiskers. Instantly it flashed
across my mind that it belonged to
Grizzly Bill.
"The sight sent my heart into my
throat with a bound, for 1 realized
only too we'll that the outlaw would
stop at nothing to get the money
which he knew was in my possession.
To him murder was child's play. But
after the first emotion of fear felt
perfectly calm. In truth, l felt as
though fate had thrown this desperate
in my way, so that could conquer
him. I don't know why felt thus /;
probably I experienced the same emo
tons that 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 he were out Of reach of all
possibility of harm.
81 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 I passed the stove l
grabbed my revolver and thrust it into
my right coat pocket. Into my left
pocket thrust some nails and ham,
mer. Then, whistling as loudly as
possible TO mislead the desperate in
the box, 1. left the little office and
walked across the floor Of the freight
part of the station. When immedi-
ately in front of the box l sprang at it
with the fury of a man fighting for his
life and overturned it. 1t fell to the
floor, top up, with resounding crash.
Instantly 1 was astride the box driv-
ing nails into the lid as hard and fast
as a man in terror for his life could
do. And all that while I was yelling
at the imprisoned outlaw at the top of
my voice, telling him that if he so
much as breathed I would instantly
kill him.
"But my threats did not appear to
frighten him much. From the interi-
or of the box came a volley of mutfied
oaths that would have astonished q
Digger Indian. I never heard such
horrible profanity. I fired my pistol
twice in the air to let him know that l
meant business. After a while he be-
came quiet. I carefully examined the
box and found that there was no dan
ger of suffocating, for at the upper
end were a number of tiny perfora-
tions which freely admitted air.
II sat astride that box until my
assistant arrived at 7 o'clock. 1t was
long and trying vigil, but the magni-
tude of my victory buoyed me up.
MY assistant was almost too much
amazed to speak when I told him of
my capture. He quickly went to the
mines and told the superintendent to
hasten at once with sufficient guard
of men to the 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 be
was the angriest outlaw ever captured.
He fought like a tiger, but it was of
no use. The men who had him cap
tive knew how dangerous he was.
He was securely bound, and later in
the day taken to Pikeville, where he
was sentenced to long term of i'm
prisonment in an eastern penitentiary.
"That little adventure" concluded
the major, "proved to be the turning
point in nay career. I was promoted
to an important position in the city,
where prospered as you see. l am
today quite content with myself and
the world in general. Thus you see
Grizzly Bills undoing was my max
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