Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1903-02-18

hadn't got more than five miles out of
Tyrone before we heard lot Of shots
up forward-the smoker was the Sec
ond car from the engine-and the train
came to a halt.
1.-THE wheels had scarcely ceased to
revolve when the front door Of the
smoker was thrown open with bang,
and the command rang through the car
like the crack of whip:
Everybody put 'em up-quick!
"a tall, raw-boned man, with
struggling red nustache, 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 all over.
II decided instantly-Td put my
hands up before I'd done any deciding,
however-that he wasn't any amatuer
and that he was going to get all that
was coming to him. couldn't help
but notice that the dyspepttc- looking
little man in front Of me threw up his
hands with the rest, although be did
a little bit Of fumbling with his right
hand before it went up in the air. :
Seem that my podner's busy keep
in tab out in 'front.' said the raw
boned bandit-he didn't wear any
mask, and there was a certain devilish
twinkle in his eye as he spoke-I'H
ask you gentlemen to spring what
you've got on you with one hand at q
time, as pass along, and I'll do the
rest
He wore hickory bag suspended
by a string around his neck, In front
Of him-a bag similar to that worn by
carpenters and fathers for holding
nails, and he just reached out his left
hand and dropped wallets, watches and
loose rolls into the bag as he passed
along. None Of the passengers had
any chance to hold out anything on
him, for he was one Of the eagle-eyed
kind, and he seemed to see all hands In
the car at once.
HE walked sideways down the aisle,
so as to be sure that he wouldn't be
plunked from behind after passing
along. He was an artist in his busi-
ness, all right, was that raw-boned
person, and he didn't miss a trick.
Every man up forward unquestioning-
ly forked over his belongings to be
dropped into that roomy bag.
1.-THE dyspeptic-looking little man
amused me, with his arms sticking up
there as rigid as poles, so that I al
most forgot to worry about what was
going to lose when it came my turn.
He had become as white as a sheet,
and he looked even more ghastly as
the robber approached him. ...,
Finally, it came his turn. The rob-
ber looked him over with grin.
"'Sorry, my sawed-off chum,' the
robber started to say, when puff, the
right hand Of the dyspeptic-looking
little man opened with cat-like rapid
ity and the robber got a fistfull Of red
pepper square in the eyes. He let out
howl, and the little man dropped to
the floor like flash. So did I, for that
matter.
1.-The robber, yelling like madman,
lowered his gun hand and groped
around with it, and half a second later
he was butted in the stomach with all
the force the little man from New Eng
land had in his head. That doubled
the robbed up, aid a minute later we
were all on top Of him at once.
"'You will try to appropriate what
doesn't belong to you, hey, doggone
you! shrilled the dyspeptic-looking, lit
tie man, standing over the blinded
bandit, who was almost insane from
pain.
We bound him securely, did what
we could to alleviate his misery, and
put a guard over him. The robber
who was sticking up the engineer,
hearing the aganized shouts Of his
pardner, concluded that there was
nothing doing, and firing.a few bluff
shots, scampered off the tender into
the darkness.
I'VE took the raw-boned bandit to
Trinidad, where he was tried and as
afterward learned, he got twenty years.
And that's one time got fooled up
head in a stick-up."-Ne York Sun.