Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1902-11-23
A MOONSH|NER STORY
HOW A PLUCKY CHAP CAUGHT A
WHOLE BUNCH OF THEM.
1T WAS HIS COOL NERVE.
And He Had to Keep His Eye Busy
All the whi1e-Lewllyn JewelHs
Achievements Discussed by v. p. I.
Foot-BalIists In True student
= Fashion.
7 WAS HIS COOL NERVE.

I -
that man Llewlyn Jewell has mere nerve
than any fellow I ever saw. There are
different kinds Of nerve. Some men nave
good football nerve and are blamed
| towards when it comes to snow down
IL, a fight and can't stand the sight or a
knife in an operating room: others can
stand physical torture, but can't go into
, a line head first to save their souls l
saw a woman once, sit in dentists
chair and nave sixteen teeth drawn In
succession without a sound and without
one thing to lessen the pain. But, for
| all that for ali-round courage, coolness.
grit, and at times ieroclty-essentals TO
| nerve-JewelI takes the palm.
+ This was an interesting group The
| speaker was w. F. Cox, better known a.
| Bill or Cascade" captain and tackle
| of the Virginia Polytechnic Institute
| team two years ago: the others were
| members of the same eleven. The time
was the night after the Virginia Poly
| technic Institute-virginia Military Insti-
| tute game in Roanoke when the men
t from Lexington forced home a score OF
| 5 to on Virginia Polytechnic Institute In
/ the game OF their lives: the place was q
| room in the First Division. Old Barracks
( of the Virginia Polytechnic Institute at
( BIacksburg.
( The subject of conversation was. OF
/ course, the game. Virginia Polytechnic
Institute lost-a clean defeat and her
| players were talking it over as players
will.
A TRUE STORY.
T The story which follows is essentially
| true and is given here as Cascade told
! it that night two years ago. 1t concerns,
| Jewell
you fellows knew, didn't you, that
| Jewell had done a little of everything In
his time?
/ 'He was in Cuba during the Spanish
| American war; has been all over the
| face OF Gods green earth, and among
| other things has had a hand in that dare
| devil work. still cracking among Ten
\ nessee and North Carolina moonshiners.
! Now 1 got this yarn from Old Man
! Wilthrow' chief of a squad of revenue
| men, who told it as I tell it now. Ola
! Man Withrow' began his story as I be-
| gin mine-he said that Llewelyn Jewell
beat any man he ever say in his life
| for GOODNESS and nerve. The old man in
| his business deals in nervy men.
This incident that I am going to tell
| you about. happened a week after the
| slaughter of six out of revenue squad
| of eight men. Jewell and Wilthrow only
| escaped. They had been killing Illicit
! stills all day and paying little attention
| to the mountaineers or to the orninous
| fact that none were seen at all, except at
| long range during the entire day.
THE PARTY AMBUSHED.
Late that evening at the head of the
| mountain gorge where the horses had
been left and just as the squad was
| mounting. they were ambushed and six
killed out OF hand at ehe first fire. Those
! fellows fight like Indians.
| Jewell and the old man dropped with
| the rest and escaped on their hands and
I knees off up the mountain side, through
| the dvsk and gathering darkness.
well this day am telling you about.
! the SQUAD went down into just another
| such gorge or ravine. leaving the horses
as before at the head of 1t: but leaving
| Jewell with them Jewell had a Win
/ chester rifle That was early in the
| morning and It was late In the even
! ing when they got back.
HEARD THREE SHOTS.
About half an hour passed for the
man with tho rifle and the horses after
| the gray fgures.swept away through the
/ early morning mist. and then he heard
! family. three shots In quick succession
/ away to the right.
/ Jewell looked to the tethers and light
i ell a cigarette. Then he stepped behind q
/ wind brake. facing down the canyon IN
/ the direction in which the others had
/ gone, and from whence the shots had
come In very few minutes team
/ mountaineer swung himself over a boulder
in the tran and approached Jewell with
4 that long swinging stride OF the woods
!