The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1901-03-07


heard a noise and saw dim light in
the outer room. lie knew 1t could not
be the watchman, and at once raised
his revolver for action and crouched
to one side. Then he heard a voice,
saying: My God, must have killed
him. / didn't know Il was so power
full. Wake up, Mixer
There was no response, and Bond
says he recognized the voice as that of
his father just in time. for he intended
to shoot and escape in rush if possi-
bic. Then Bond became conscious of
his own danger. His father might
shoot him. The father soon saw the
open doors of the vault. What does
this meanY he said. Mike. you didn't
do this; you couldn't! who Is there?
Speak. or I'll shoot Quiclir Then It
was that Bond saw he had no show
and he shouted to his father not to
shoot, and revealed his own identity.
Then there followed a strange scene
In that bank vault. There were the
father. the son and the unconscious
watchman together in the early hours
SOM said the father, sternly Has
it come to this-my son bank rot.
berT Young Bond said he was game,
and he replied: What are you doing
here? Are you bank robber your
self? Who put Mike in this condi
tionF You see he had overheard his
father make that exclamation about
nd Ia tAAI .l.,
your position ON the inside of that
vault said the father. Explain what
you said about not knowing that some
thing was so powerful when you saw
Mike said the son. And then the
father broke down completely and the
son went to pieces and each, thinking
that Mike was about to die, confessed
10 the other. The father had been
specializing in the Eastern markets.
had used up a lot of trust funds in his
charge, and the only way for him to
get out was TO rob his own bank. He
had also left some Knockout drops for
the watchman, and IL was the com
bincd dose that made father and son
think that the man would die. The
son owned up to the father and then
followed a discussion as to what was
best to be done.
They agreed that the bank must be
robbed; that was their only salvation.
They agreed also that it would be hest
for one Of them to appear to be de-
Tending the banks treasure. 1t was
finally decided that 1t would be best
FOR the son to wound the father slight
ly in the side, take enough money to
suit their purposes and leave his faith.
er there to be discovered in the morn.
Ing. The Old man said he was so des-
perate that he would take chances.
and he would tell a story about feeling
uneasy In his dreams as TO the condl-
ton OF affairs at the bank and of get
ting up in the night and going down
there to see If all was right of en-.
countering robber or set of ROBBERS,
OF having n mighty struggle with
them, ending, so far as he could recol-
lect, with revolver shot which made
him unconscious. He had no fear as
to Mike. II Mike recovered he would
be so ashamed Of being drunk that he
would invent some story of being
gagged, especially as father and son
had arranged to bind him with a gag
and tie his hands.
"Then father and son planned the
details of the shooting, disarranged
the furniture, bound and gagged the
watchman, took the money and broke
the locks, and the father lay down
after tearing his clothing and had the
son give him what he supposed was
only slight flesh wound in the side
The old man was full of nerve. and
after the shooting was over hurried
the son away and told him how to act
when the discovery was made in the
morning. They had wounded the
watchman, also.
Bond says he went home and to
bed and acted his part thoroughly
when they reused him 70 tell him of
tue dreadful accident to his father. 1t
turned out really to be a dreadful af-
iair, for both the father and the
watchman Were found dead and the
Dank robbed. Young Bond says he
made good his gambling debts and en-.
listed In the army so as to get away
from the storm that arose when IL was
round that his father was insolyent
IL soon became the general theory In
the town that the elder Bond had gone
there to rob the bank, and had been
killed by real bank robber, and there
were those who thought they could
remember the exact looks of certain
mysterious strangers that mad been
seen about town.
Bonds conscience could stand Il no
longer, he says and he went to Kan
sas and enlisted and came out here
hoping secretly that Ne would be
killed, for he had not the courage to
commit suicide. He waited me to
write to bis relatives clearing up the
entire mystery, and telling them that
he had explated his crime. The one
thing can't understand" said Peters
In telling the story. sis why he wants
me to write all this before he dies. lie
must have dreadful conscience. He
said to me: i am wounded exactly in
the place In which my father was
Wounded when shot him. / know l
can't live, Just tell the truth about
me, aud make sure that the boys will
not desplne me too much. have done
my duty by them and by the flag
says he. hrone down and wept. III
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