The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-12-09

frightful oaths came the exultant
bowls of the robbers.
AS soon as the besieged men realized
that the deSperadoeS were ma king for
them they turned out the torch and
waited for the attack. One of the
thieves fired and Glockner's pistol an
swered, but his companions heard him
stumble and they fell on their faces
and crawled behind the chutes and
posts, for the bullets of the thieves
were falling thick and fast. 1T was a
moment full of horror. for the mar
rows" was thick with smoke and the
only light in that awful darkness was
the flash of their revolvers as the COM
batants exchanged their eaden COM.
pliments. The firing continued until
the thieves were far down in No. 2
shaft.
At this moment We Joined them and
lighting our candles, we found Clock
ner missing. AS we made this dscov-
cry there came a faint muff1 ed moan
from the jewelry stope, and Mr.. Ship
man hastily dispatched Bell and Gill
to rescue the injured man. He was
hanging by his clothes on a Pinch
piece of projecting iron pipe, and if
it had broken he would have been
dashed to pieces on the cruel rocks a
hundred feet below. When he was
shot he fell head foremost, and by a
miracle landed on the slender support
which saved his life. His rescuers had
to carry him up eighteen feet to the
level for he was absolutely helpless.
as his ribs were caved in and the
blood poured out of two frightful
wounds, the left elbow joint being
shattered and an ugly flesh wound in
the right arm. Somehow he lived
through 1t, but it was months before
he was on his feet.
AS we were not certain the thieves
were all out of the mine, an extra
forge of men was summoned and a IL
the outlets closely guarded. Bell, C,iIl
and myself went down into the Emer-
son slope, where the thieves had first
peen seen, and found they had I'M
covered couple of inches of ore and
there was about half a. ton of rich
sy4vanite that averaged about IS a
pound. Their entrance and exit to
the mine was no less dram attic than
the battle, for they had to climb mn
the ladder of the old shaft for 600 feet.
For distance of twenty-eight feet
there was no ladder and they swung
up sailor fashion by buelxIing heavy
straps around the timbers. 1t was q
perllous trip. hampered as they were
by their load of ore, but we estimated
that they made it in about eighteen
minutes.
Here we secured our first clue to the
identity of the thieves. for we found
9 torn letter and a little later when
Lobb lowered himself with a rope into
NO shaft. he found their. sacks and
bulfs-eye melted out OF a lantern
Wheh Bell. Gill and l explored the
smart we found the scraps of several
letters, which. when carefl1I1v niecad
together, proved to be a letter signed
Dy John b. Friedenstein and letters 70
MIN from Red Rock, Col.
Inc evidence was placed in +bo
nands OF the great criminolOgist Jobn
- FRAZER. who soon arrested Fried
Tnstelh IN Anaconda. and Hartley ]
t-ane ana kirch kuykendall. who were
found in Cripple Greek in he'd ,,,;tt
their boots on. Their electric torch 49,
secreted in -four bin while in tn ai,.
stove were chunks of ore that looI<ad
IKE solid nuggets of gold
me long chain of circumst antial Nv
loence was completed soon aftar
wnen Mr.. Shipman and I visited ~
jail. AS we passed Lakes ca gre he coll
ed out: ne cshii-
say won't one of you fellows give
Did you ever hear that voice no
fore ?" asked.
WHAT! Mr.. Shipman cried ar &c
the voice of the man in the mina
-
whose frightful imprecations can naver
be forgotten" 81
me trial was a series of trapedias.
tne father of Kuykendall died of a
broken heart when his son was nrox,ad
guilty, and at his funeral two of tbe
attorneys for the defense placed +bair
nands on the coffin and took sola,,on
oatns TO spend their lives in avene-ing
tne death of the aged man. who fI1aS
canned, was foully murdered bv tbe
iaise testimony of the detectives, at
er one of them attempted to assa sci
nate Mr. Frazier, but was disar,1ad
Inc lawyers for the desperadoes v-era
all arrested and fined for ssIIborna 60
Oh perjury, and the chief witnessed
we're arrested and Jailed on charges
from beginning to end the q ffair
was the most sensational in the anoais
Oh mining history. The colossal scaia
on which the mine was being rohI1aS
.he extraordinary nerve of the tbieves
IN IN voluntarily attacking Bells ns1 rtS
4W rect under ground, their thess 49,
escape through the old shaft. and trair
Dltter and persistent Efforts 10 as $500 ~
punishment make it a capital tI, Is,e
aor piood-and-th thunder story aod is