The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-12-17

! the tank. Before anyone could think the negro jumped into the cab of the l engine. covered the engineer with his pistol and forced him, to run his en- zine straight ahead. The small army was just starting out on a hunt for the negro. As the caotured engine with the desperado in the cab moved off up the track he began shooting at the group of men, who were afraid to re- turn the fire for fear of killing the en- gineer. The outlaw made the engineer open his throttls and the locomotive, with speed of about thirty miles an hour, ran for nearly two miles up the track. Ordering the engineer to stop the negro got out of the cab and sti1l covering the engineer with his pistol backed off into the swampy thicket and was gone.
 Late in the afternoon of a perfect day of early Spring two men vera walking along a road leading through the swamp near the village of Bay Minette. It was the latter part of April, but little more than month after the exciting and rather spectac- ular affair at the Tensas railroad tank. That affair had made not only the entire secret service of the Louisville and Nashville railroad but the Pinkerton detective agency as well "sit up and take notice," and the forests and swamps of south Alabama and north Florida were being threshed over for the outlaw.
 As the two men strode through the dust of the country road their conver- sation was limited to low tones. It was not wise to make much noise in Baldwin County swamp in those days. Opening into the dirt road was a threadlike path so indistinct as to be little more than a blazed trail As the
  of the path. An ugly looking custom CT he was walking arsenal with n Winchester rifle, and big, vicious looking pistol on both sides. Glanc- ing back one of the men saw that the negro was following them.
 What do you mean," he called. The negro's answer was to step behind a tree. Just fin time the two men sprang behind trees for a rifle ball buried it. self fin the tree that sheltered the spokesman. Firing their pistols to- wards the tree that the negro was behind, the two men slipped from tree to tree finally getting deep enough in the woods when they made a dash for the station at Bay Mnette.
 At the railway station of Bay MI. nette freight train was just stop. ping. A tall. well-knit man with a soft black hat pulled over his eyes dropped off the caboose and was met
 
 Watts. the secret service man of the Mobile and Montgomery division of the Louisville and Nashville. He had found that a negro woman. Emma Da- wis. who belonged body and soul to Morris Slater-or Railroad Bill' as hs was known far and wide now-had or dered 8 large supply of Winchester cartridges from Mobile. Tn the effort to stop them he reached Mobile too late. They had been shipped the day before. TelegraphIng the agent ar Bay Minette he was informed that the box had been delivered to the Davis woman some hours before a telegram to Morgan Ashe. the deputy sheriff of Baldwin County, he went back to Bay Minette Ashe meeting him as he stepped from the train.
 Trailed In the Swamp.
 Scarcely had the two greeted each other before the two men from the swamp came up in a very excited man. ner and told of the duel in the woods Stapleton. one of the men. had not been quick enough and had received a rifle ball In the feshy part of his thigh. A possee was being formed to go back into the swamp in pursuit of the negro. Watts and Ashe with a couple of men by the name of Stewart and Wilkins formed the sqYad--alI heavily armed-wihch started, out on hunt for the outlaw from which one
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