The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1900-02-03


Yes, stree, the train robber doesn't
walk in shoe leather that's ever going.
to relieve me Of copper cent, and don't
you fail to remember that!
THE little man, who, as afterward
ascertained, was on his way to Cali
| fornia for his health, looked so puff
| toady and fierce while he was getting
| off those brave remarks that 1 couldn't
help but laugh in his face. That net
tied him trife, but smoothed it over
and made remark or so to him about
the general matter of train hold-ups.
"'My friend said l, in conclusion,
the only advice can give you is, If
any of these chaps ever comes along
your way and asks you to call heaven
| to witness with your two hands point
ing to the zenith, just you do it,
that's all, and do it in a hurry; do it
a-running; be nice and good about it,
and don't get gay; don't endeavor to
be frivolous with man that's got the
edge on you with a 45-caliber lead
| splitter
"'Just let one of 'em try it with
me, that's all!' exclaimed the little man,
fiercely, and then we changed the sub
ject.
'Well, at about nine o'clock that
night we pulled up at little station
called Tyrone, to give the engine a
drink. We only halted there about
four minutes, but it was long enough.
The train hadn't got more than five
miles out of Tyrone before we heard
a lot of shots up forward-the smoker
was the second car from the engine
and the train came to a halt. The
wheels had scarcely ceased to revolve,
when the front door of the smoker was
thrown open with bang, and the COM
mand rang through the car like the
crack of a whip:
Everybody put 'em up! Quick!
"a tall, raw-boned man, with a strag-
Cling red mustache, stood in the door
calmly waving his gun from side to
side with the characteristic movement
of an expert gun-fanner. He looked
business all over. l decided instant
ly-1'd put my hands up before I'd done
any deciding, however-that he wasn't
any amateur, and that he was going
to get all that was coming to him. L
couldn't help but notice that the dys-
peptic-looking little man in front of
me threw up his hands with the rest,
although he did bit of fumbling with
his right hand before it went up in
| the air.
Seem that my podner's busy
| keepin' tab on tn loco-driver,' said the
| w-boned bandit-he didn't wear any
| mask. and there was certain devilish
| twinkle in his eye as he spoke-I'll jes'
| ask you gentlemen to spring what
| you've got on with one hand at time,
as pass along, and I'll do the rest
"He wore hickory bag, suspended
| by string around his neck, in front of
| nina bag similar to those worn by
carpenters or fathers for holding nails
and he just reached out his left hand
| and dropped wallets, watches and
| chains and loose rolls into the bag as
| he passed along. None of the vic
| tins had a chance to hold out anything
on him, for he was one of the eagle-eyed
species. and he seemed to see all hands
in the car at once. He walked sideways
| down the aisle so as to make sure that
he wouldn't be plunked from behind
after passing along. He was scientist
in his business, all right, was that raw
| boncd man. and he didn't miss trick.
| Every man up forward unquestionably
passed over his belongings TO be
| dropped into that roomy bag. The
| little man with the Bostonese accent so
amused me, with his hands sticking up
Lei, ..,r.I =. lnt n Il,
| forgot to worry about what / was GO
| ing to lose when ii came my turn. He
| had gone as white as a sheet, and he
| looked more CHASTITY as the raw-boned
robber approached him. Finally it came
| his turn. The robber looked him over
with half grin.
Sorry, my sawed-off friend the
robber started to say. when puff! the
right hand of the yspepticlooking
little man opened with a cat-like rapid
| ity and the robber got fist-full of red
pepper square in the eyes! He let out
a howl, and the little man dropped to
the floor like flash. So did |, for that
matter.
"The robber yelled like mad man.
lowered his gun hand and CROPPED
around with it, and half second later
lie was butted in the stomach with all
the force the little man from New Eng
land had in his head That doubled
the robber up, and a minute later we
were all on top of him at once.
You will try to appropriate what
doesn't belong to you, hey. dog-gone
you!' the dyspeptic-looking little man
muttered, standing over the blinded
bandit, who was almost insane with
pain. We bound him securely, did what
we could to alleviate his pain. and put
a guard over him. The robber who
was holding up the engineer. hearing
the agonized shouts of his partner,
concluded that there was nothing do
ing and firing a few bluff shots, seam
pered of the tender into the darkness.
We took the rawboned bandit to Trim
idad, where he was tried. as l after
ward learned, and got 20 years. And
that's one time i got fooled up whole
lot in Observation-Disclosures Star.
Floating Chips.
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