Ceredo advance. [volume] (Ceredo, W. Va.) 1885-1939, 1909-01-27

The night captain and desk SER
geant were playing seven-up when
burst in on them, hot and disheveled,
and they looked up at me a bit sus.
piciously. The tale told them almost
made their hair stand on end. They
hastily summoned the patrolmen from
the nearby wards and in less than 90
minutes we had every avenue of es-
cape from the little cottage guarded by
blue-coated officers.
II had given them descriptions of
all the persons within the shanty, and
had cautioned them particularly to let
each victim get far enough away be
fore arresting him so that the others
would not become alarmed. / wanted
to bag the entire outfit and not have
any slips or blunders.
I'VE caught the three men and Mr.
and Mrs. Lefevre without difficulty.
only the bearded foreigner showing
fight. The officers overpowered him
before he could use the pistol and
knife with which he was armed. Mr.
and Mrs. Leferre were indignant at
what they termed a base insult.
THE most dangerous part Of the ad.
venture was still before us. There
were two persons now in the house, a
woman, and man with a voice like
the roar of waterfall and evidently
Of gigantic build, for he shook the
little house to its foundation when he
walked across the floor, as I had
learned IN my spying beneath It. had
thought good deal over the best
method OF effecting their capture, and
finally decided to employ again my
friend the messenger boy. I sum
moned him and gave him his instruc
tions. l had learned the name of the
| man, while listening under the house.
and 1 addressed a dummy letter to
him, which the boy was to deliver.
Two policemen and took positions
on the porch and the messenger boy
knocked at the door. II was opened
by the woman, who peered through
small crack suspiciously. When the
boy called her by name and exhibited
the letter, she became excited and
allowed the door to swing wide open
as she took the envelope with trem
bling hands.
This was our opportunity. One OF
the officers seized her and ciarped q
big hand over her mouth. The captain
and I rushed into the house, our re-
volvers held ready for instant use. The
front room opened directly on the
porch. We had made some disturb
ance and, as we crossed the threshold
a bass voice beloved: What Is il
Katrina?' We flashed our electric
lamps towards the corner from which
the voice came. Sitting up In bed, a
large revolver in either hand, was the
most powerful specimen OF man ]
have ever seen outside of side-show.
He was bearded like a lion, and the
huge muscles of his arms showed like
, knots through the thin sleeves OF his
night-shirt.
"He seemed to divine the trouble
Quick as thought both his revolvers
flashed. One bullet sent the captainJ
cap sailing from his head and the Other
spat by my ear uncomfortably close
Before he could fire again our revolvers
had replied, and he sank back gioan.
ing upon the bed, staining 1t red with
his life's blood
I'VE searched the house, and what
we found made us glad the affair hac
not terminated more seriously. In the
back room were enough explosives tC
have blown the cottage and every
building in the neighborhood into the
middle of next year. There were
bombs Of all sizes and shapes, all of
masterful workmanship. There we're
bottles and jars and cans IT explo
sives of the most powerful kinds
| There were documents and letter,
which showed we had captured ~
most dangerous company OF anarchists
| that had ever infested this country.
The man we had killed was an es-
| capped Russian convict for whose ar.
rest a large reward was outstanding
The woman was his wife. There was
also a price upon her head. Lefevre
was French terrorist, we'll known
to the Paris police. The three others
were all notorious criminals. men
whose names made crowned heads
/ tremble and thrones to totter.
Among the papers we captured In
| tho cottage and at the rooms OF the
others, was correspondence relating to
several contemplated assassinations Of
European soveTeigns There was evi
! dence, also. OF a cuuaingly conceived
: plot TO murder a certain high official of
I our own government who was soon TO
visit this particular city while on
| tour Of the south"