Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1907-07-18
THIS WOMAN LED
LIVELY PURSUIT
Her Cool Headedness Resulted
In Routing of Two Train
Robbers.
HER NAME is MRS. A. w. KLINE
She Is n Besutisu, Woman and a
Merry" Once Alice Blue Gown
Caused II A,i,

Mrs. A. w. Kline Of New York.
whose cool. calm deIncsnor in most
thrilling moment resulted In the rout-
ing of two train robbers ON Califor-
mia train several days ago was at the
Kenyon this morning. She has been
accompanying her husband. a travel
ing man, on western trip and left
for Chicago at noon, Mrs, Kline is a
beautiful woman. a blond with the
fairest OF conpIexlons. golden hair
and large blue eyes. She does not
look at all formidable. although tall
er than the Ordinary woman and pos
sessing a magnificent physique. There
are two men somewhere under cover
In California who are willing to give
her credit for possessing more nerve
than the AVERAGE woman.
CAUSED BY CLOTHES.
1t all came about through clothes
woman's one thought. Mrs. Kline oe-
cupie lower on southbound coast
train last Friday and as the upper
above her was not occupied, she placed
an Alice-blue gown hat and other gar
ments to match IN 1t for the night.
At the unearthly hour OF 2 q. M, she
was awakened by q noise at her side.
she opened her eyes Just in time to see
two pairs of No. IL feet disappear in
the berth above. The dun thuds which
followed made her faint ut heart for
IN her mind she saw a badly rumpled
Ailco- Dlue gown and mashed hat.
she listened carefully during the sue
ceeding minuts, but could hear no noise
mot the slightest disturbance, which
would have told the men were taking
or their shoes or preparing for sleep.
AS her husband was in the buffet car,
she decided to wait until he returned
TO the sleeper and after a half hours
walt ne came. She told him in n whg-
per what she had seen, but he whs-
pered back that she must have been
dreaming, as he could not see any
thing wrong with the exterior appear
ance OF upper ).
LEAD THE PURSUIT.
No dear, ! was not dreaming. there
are two men hiding up there now,' abe
answered IN a low even tone. Mr.
Kline went after the porter but lust
as he was returning two men dropped
aoWh from the upper birth through
, ,1,ss ,Iisiu. OF the curtain, barely
SlsIe sul oluI mo loS ppu
70 summon a porter, herself
pointing towards the end of The car
announced very calmly that was the
direction the men had taken. One fell
low laid on the floor OF the buffet car
ana FOR a few minutes eluded his pur-
sltrers led by the determined Mrs.
Kline. The second man went to the
rear end of the train and pulled the
peii rope. A brakeman hit him and Mr.
kline broke finger in placing a blow
on the mans nose. The fellow dropped
off and the last the passengers-ali
were UP. now-saw OF him was as he
SPRAYED In the dirt between the rails
me second man ran up to the front
END or the train and begged the con-
ductor TO let him on, explaining he
was merely beating his way towards
Los Angeles. The conductor let him
on, much against the wishes of tho
WANTED NO MEDAL.
When the first thrills passed away
the occupants Of the various standard
sleepers wanted TO raise a subscrip-
neutrality-suspicious." mounted with a
diamond but she would not listen to
such thing. She laughed heartily
this morning as she described the scene
In the car when the pursuit of the
would-be-robbers was on in fun swing
up and down the narrow aises of the
car. One old woman called hystericaIIy
for her brandy while men and women
dived into the depths of their bedding.
The scene, when everybody appeared in
gowns a-la-nocturnai, was worth the
first little fright A man with a 500
stud In his shirt front wanted to get on
his knees to thank the fair heroine of
lower 5, but she would not permit this
either. "The best part OF II all was
that the gown and hat We're not badly
rumpled,' concluded Mrs Kline as her
husband and she seated themselves In
the depot bus. 1T would have been fun
but for Mr. Kline's breaking his An
ger"