The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-07-07

asked, puzzled TO-. know, what the fell
| low was trying to get at.
You ben a fool answered the
| Swede, getting a trihe excited. You
tank Aye don't know man from WOO
| man. sr
Il saw that the fellow was dead in
| earnest, and that somehow or other
| there was woman in the case. / ford
ed the river and pushed on as rapidly
as ] could. | inquired the next day or
so from people / met on the road
| whether they had seen a man and wo-
man pass that way, and the answers
l received confirmed the Swede's state
ment. l was up against it at last. 1
had never heard of female train rob-
Der in all my experience, but here was
one who was evidently on to her job.
Part of the time the trail led over
rough foothills, and at times the fugi-
times would take the open road. | had
the advantage in the respect that they
had not the slightest idea that. they
were being pursued, but | knew that
they would never relax their watchful.
ness for an instant. - 2
AT last l saw that they werennaking
for the Wolf mountains in Montana. 1t
was evident to me that they We're
striving to reach friends, and / knew
/ must catch them before they got to
them. l had been just 80 days on the
chase when / crossed the Cheyenne fork
of the Tongue river My people were
only a few hours ahead of me, but
found that they had changed horses
and We're riding like the very devil
himself My poor beast was frightfully
jaded, and | thought several times of
trading him off, but l could 9fardly
bring myself to the point. I knew the
Wolf mountains like a book, and the
deep gorgeS and precpitous canyons
f,,iA ~,
fugitives, for l saw that thsNowere
wandering hopelessly. On the abearnoon
of the 32nd day they ran into abblind
canyon, ad l kew | had them. TIC
4 had seen the remains of fires they
had lit, and I thought l would be- able
to trace them by the CLEAN of the one
they had that night. As luck would
have IT, they did not light any fire, that
evening, and while | was leading my
horse carefully along the mountain I
saw that they We're camped about so
yards below me in the valley. IL 2,
1.-THE bandit and his female compan-
! ion were sleeping in tiny shelter tent
which they had bought some place
along the route. TSeir horses were
picketed within 30 feet. of them. I was
afraid that my horse would neigh, and
j took off the saddle and put the sack I
had under it over his head. i waited
the whole night through, watchful the
whole time. 1t was absolutely useless
to think of attacking them in the dark,
but l crept down to within 10 yards Of
the tent and sat behind a tree till dawn
Just as the first streak of the morn
ing light appeared in the east the
woman, a coarse-featured type of the
rough females to be seen about mining
camps, showed her head out of the tent.
She peered around cautiously and then
walked boldly to where the horses were
tied As she was coming back she
caught side of me sitting by the tree,
with my rife on my knees. She did the
nerviest thing l ever saw any one do.
She never appeared to notice me, and
pushed her way ito the tent. / was too
foxy there, however. l saw the time
had come, and l drew a dead bead on
her and told her to halt She saw the
jig was up, and she stopped, but she
called out:
''Jim save yourself; the marsfals
are here Then she stood there and
faced me detantly. a.,
1.-THE tent, frail thing hardly larger
| than a. good-sized handkerchief.
| Topped down in an instant, and be-
| meath its folds j saw the struggling
| legs of man.
1--we got you. JIM called out. If
| you mako another move I'll I'LL your
hide full of lead | saw that the woman
| was unarmed, and 7 aimed my Win
! chester straight at the heap'of canvas.
I was afraid that he would get some
| kind of a peep hole through the cloth
| and nail me with his siN-shooter.
THE woman made howl when l
| made the movement, and told Jim that
| they had better surrender. He an
swered with a muff1ed voice that he
| gave up. Il told him to keep quiet and
| not make move. Then | tied the
| hands of the woman with a piece of the
| rope by which the robbers forses We're
| picketed. and turned my attention to
the man. He was a big, dangerous
| looking customer. and / had a notion
to knock him in the head when I pulled
the tent off him. He had not been able
| to get hold of his gun or I would have
had trouble with him. I tied him up,
/ however, and marched the two down
to a logging camp on Tongue river.
From there it was easy to get them
| to a place of safety. They had spent
| but $500 of the money, and the remain
| der was in a big sack which the man
had carried behind his saddle. The man
| got 10 years and the woman two. She
| died in prison. and her male companion
| got out about a year and a half ago,
| IN account of good time allowance"