Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1900-07-18

your way auo uSho yoo w Soih Aoo'oA
to witness with your hauds pointing
to the zenith, just you do it, that's all.
and do it in q hurry; do it a-running;
be nice and good about it, aud don't
get gay. Don't endeavor to be frivolous
with man that's got the edge on you
with 45 caliber lead-spitter.
"Just let one of 'em try it with
me, that's all!' exclaimed the little
man fercely, and then we changed the
subject.
"Well, at about o'clock that night
we pulled up at little station called
Tyrone to give the engine drink. We
only halted there about four minutes,
but it was long enough. The train
hadn't got more than tive miles out OF
Tyrone before we heard lot of shots
up forward-the smoker was the
second car from the engine-and the
train came to halt The wheels had
scarcely ceased to revolYe when the
front door of the smoker was thrown
open with bang, and tho command
rang through the car like the crack of
whip:
Everybody put 'em upl Quiclr
ga tall, raw-boned man, with q
struggling red mustache, stood in the
door calmly waving his gun from side
to side with the characteristic move
ment of an expert gun-fanner. He
looked business oil over. I decided
instautly-pd put my hands up before
I'd done any deciding, however-that
he wasn't any amateur, aud that he
was going to get all that was coming
to him. [ couldn't help but notice
that the dyspeptic-looking little man
in front OF me threw up his hands
with the rest. although he did little
bit of fumbliug with his right hand
before it went up in the air.
"'Seein' that my podner's busy
keepin' tab on TIL loco-driver,' said
the raw-boned bandit-he didn't wear
any mask, and there was certuin
twinkle to his eyes as lie spoke-I'll
jes' ask you gentlemen to spring what
you've got on you with one hand at
time, as I pass along, and I'll do the
rest.
'He wore hickory bag, suspended
by string around his neck, in front
of him--a bag similar to those worn
by carpenters or lathers for holding
nails-and he just reached out his left
hand aud dropped wallets, watches
and chains and loose rolls into the bag
Us he passed. along. None of the vic
Tins had chance to hold ont any
thing on him, for he was ono of the
eagle-eyed species, and he seemed to
see all hands in the car at once. Ho
walked sideways down the aisle 30 as
to make sure that he wouldn't be
plunked from behind after passing
along. He was scientist in his bust
ness, all right, was that raw-boned
man, and he didn't miss trick.
Every man up forward unquestionably
passed over his belongings to he
dropped into that roomy bag. The
little man with the Bostoncse accent
amused me, with his hands sticking
up there as rigid as poles, that al
most forgot to worry about what l
was going to lose when it came my
turn. He had gone MS white as q sheet
and he looked more CHASTITY as the
raw-boned robber approached him.
Finally it came to his turn. The rob-
ber looked him over with a half grin.
Sorry, my sawed-off friend, the
robber started to say, when, puff the
right hand of the dyspeptic-looklng
little man opened with a cat-like
rapidity aud the robber got fst-full
of red pepper square in the eyes! He
let out nm howl, and the little man
dropped to the floor like fash. SO
did /, for that matter.
.e The robber, yelled like. a mad
man, lowered his gun hand and groped
around with ii, and half a second later
he was butted in the stomach with oil
the force the little man from New
England had in his head. That
doubled the robber up, and minute
later.we were all on top of him at
once.
You will try to appropriate what
doesn't belong you, hey, dog-S gone
youp the dyspeptic-looking little man
,muttered, standing over the blinded
bandit, who was almost insane from
pain. We bound him securely, did
what we could to alleviate his pain, and
put guard over him. The robber
who was holding up the engine, hear
ing the agonized shouts of his partner.
concluded Shat there was nothing
doing, and, firing few bluff shots,
scampered off the tender into the
darkness. We took the raw-boned
bandit to Trinidad, where he was
tried, as I afterward learned, and got
20 years. And that's one time got
fooled up a whole lot in q stick-up."