The Forrest City times., 1900-06-29

Shici VI pouct. L was SHOWN INTO MS
room at once, but he was busy talk
ing over the robbery with Mr.. Pa,er-
son, and IL was some time before he
asked me what l wanted. l told him
l wanted to see him alone on very i'm.
portant business and he told me he
been big robbery in the city and he
was very busy.
That's just what / wanted to sec
you about" said /.
do you know anything about t?"
he asked, in surprise.
"Yes, sir. do, and IL you will listen
to me l will tell you where you can
find the things that were stolen, and
also tell you how you can catch the
whole gang. have got it all planned
out"
Both the chief and Mr.. Paterson
to speak till Mr.. Paterson was out of
the way, for / was afraid he would
be so anxious to get his things that
he would spoil the plan, and after he
left the room and 1 told my story to
the chief. he said I was right. He
told Mr.. Paterson that / had very
important clew, and that he would
follow it up at once.
Ny plan was this: No one was to go
near the mill till after dark, when the
chief, with four picked men, would
go over the bridge in citizens clothes,
each one by himself, and come to my
house. Then l was to take them to
the mill and we were 70 hide till the
men came for the goods. Then the
police were to overpower them. OF
course, / did not know whether there
would be two or three men there, but
thought the four police would be
enough, even if all three came.
The scheme was carried out and
we all got to the mill without attract
ing any attention. The first thing to
do was to see if the bags were safe
They were just as l had left them,
and then the men were placed in po-
sition to watch for the robbers. OF
course, the catching of them was
planned by the chief, but he asked me
what thought of the plan before he
carried it out, and / made one or two
suggestions, which he adopted.
About midnight while l was watch
ing at the upper window l saw three
men in boat coming up the river. 1
Immediately ran to the cellar and
told the chief. He placed his men
at once, and l hid behind the barrels
to see the fun. l had a big fash lam
tern, and l was to turn it on when
the men started to remove the rub
bish from where they had hidden the
bags. OF course, they did not expect
anything out of the way, and they all
three came in. The two men who
were called Jack and Jim came first.
| and the one whom they referred to
as Johnson came last, with lantern.
AS the two men leaned over the pile
to clear away the rubbish l opened
the lantern and the police jumped
upon the men and secured them. while
the chief put his pistol into the face
of Johnson with the remark:
Throw up your hands, old man, il
you don't want this bullet"
He dropped the lantern and put up
his hands in hurry, 1 can tell you.
In less time than it takes me to write
it. they were all handcuffed and taken
out into the boat. Just as we were
about to row off with the men. we
saw light in the cellar and /, with
two of the police rushed back just in
time to put out fire that had started
from the lantern that Johnson had
dropped, and that we had failed to
notice as we took the men out.
| We made sure there was no more
fire and then rowed back to the city
The men were convicted. of course
and / was given a very handsome re-
ward for my part in the discovery.
None of the boys dared to say any
thing about it for fear the townspeo-
pie would find out why / went to the
mill, so to this day no one, not even
the police, know how / knew about
the robbery. We did not have our
celebration, but we spent the whole
day in the acorn field, talking over
the robbery and the fact that / cap
tured the robbers.
One thing more I want to say, and
that is that from that time till now /
am the greatest coward that ever
lived, and no money would ever hire
me again to go into any dark place
alone. can't say why, but such is
the fact.-Jennie Jameson, in Farm
and Home.
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