The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-12-11

tried to push it from its resting place,
so II would roll down the hill into a
rayine below, but they could not stir
il.
"A few lays later / thought Of a way
10 do il, and without telling anyone
about IL l went up with my little snoNel
and spent all the afternoon digging ire
dirt away from the lower side OF the
stone. \ little before dark II started,
and IL moved so quickly that my hand
was caught under II and badly crushed.
screamed so loud that they heard ne
at the hotel, and some people came and
carried me home. My hand was all
right in a few days, but my mother
was made severely i'll by the shock; IN
fact. ] think she never really
from IL. The next morning several OF
the men who had tried To roll the
stone down started out to see where u
had gone. They followed the track u
made TO where il had made a big jump
and landed behind a clump of bushes.
Back of the bushes they found a hole or
little cavern in the size of the MIL.
and there they found the stone, md
under the stone was the body of a man.
They aid Il must have killed him in
stantly. 1t took a long time to get the
stone off ron him, and after they got
him to the light he was recognized as
an outlaw, who was a robber and a
murderer. Officers had been looking
for him for a long time. and the peo-
pie said IL he had not been killed that
way whe he was, he would probably
have robbed some of us hat night,
and maybe committed murder again.
They tried to make a heroine of me,
and talked about a child being the it,
strument of God, bu ! felt horribly
about IL.
The next one occurred when ] was
about Is years old. Both my parents
were dead then and my little brother
and sister and | were living with some
friends. One night I was feeling very
much depressed and could not get to
sleep. About midnight ! heard a
strange sound downstairs. The longer
/ listened the more sure 7 became that
a burglar was in the house 4 number
Of houses had been robbed at about That
time. and even then n OF our neigh
bors was lying at deaths door a. a re-
suit of injuries inflicted by a burglar.
The head of the family vas out 81
the city at the time and the young man
who lived with them was attending a
party that night and had not yet come
home. The thought OF possible danger
To the children nerved me and | went
to his room and took the revolver that
he kept lying on the dressing case. To
avoid acClQentS ne kept ~ unlodutu. bul
he had told me where he kept the cart
ridges and I found them and put one
in the revolver. Then ! went back q
the room and waited. IL seemed a year,
while the strange noise seemed TO be
/ getting nearer and nearer all the time
At last il was just outside my door
and then I ! heard a familiar sound. and
when / opened the door i found tins
cat there with a mouSe ! had beer
so frightened that the reaction was ter
rife and il left ms in a miserably
nervous condition n nearly crazy.
had Just strength enough TO creep {,
the mans room and leave the revolver
where / found IL. forgetting all abOu
the cartridge in IL. Some time afte
the young man came home and / hear,
him go TO his room. a little later IN
report Of a pistol shot awakened every
body in the house except me. I was no
asleep. but IL aroused me to conscious
ness Of my neglect. Then / heard
wOman's scream from his room and
knew nothing more until weeks after
when / recovered from an attach y