Bisbee daily review., 1910-09-02
How the Train
 Was Held Up
By BEVERLY woRTHINcroN
Copyright. islo. by American Press
 Association

notulng 10 oo inside. some Of us got together to talk. There was a Meiho- dist minister in a white cravat and a woman dressed in calico. an Irishman with a red head and a colored man Others there were. but these four are especially impressed on my memory We had exhausted every topic we could think of and were pining for something to break the monotony of the journey when the conductor came in and said 10 us:
 Were coming 10 a place, a cut and a curve in the road. where there is u possibility of the train being held up. If you people have any valuables that you don't care to lose you had better dispose of them in some way by which they won't show up''
 How do you know the train is like ly to be held up?" asked the Irishman
 "A man got on at the last station who said that his little daughter. only twelve years old. had heard some men laying plan. They had agreed thar they would go through this very train and at the cut two miles beyond Rae coon. There's only one cut about there. and there's curve in it."
 .Why don't you go backT' asked the woman. trembling
 Because there's no certainty about the matter l don't know how well can depend on tbe information. If backed at every such report. throwing the roads schedule out. I'd soon get my walking papers"
 "where's the man who told about this?"
 ''ln the baggage car"
 One or two of the passengers went forward to interview the informer. while the others began to take meas ures 10 put their valuables in places where they would not likely be found We had left Raccoop and would be in the cut in few minutes The woman unlocked her dress in front and cram med in a pocketbook The irishman. thinking that she would not be likely to be forced 10 disrobe asked her if she would kindly take charge of a roll of bills for him She consented. No one of the other passengers-they were all men-seemed to be satisfied 10 keep his vaiuables on his person. so one by one they went to The woman and ask ed her to be their temporary safe de- posit She was very obliging. but. not having room where she had put her own pocketbook. she suggested that they tie up their goods in their hand kerchiefs and she would pin them on to the waistband of her petticoat,
 This seemed so admirable plan that every man in the car came to this lone woman and begged the protection of her skirts for his money. watch and jewelry of every Kind. She was lit- eraily loaded down with them. having a circle of suspended articles around her waist
 The aews that the train was likely to be held up was carried into the next car back-there were but two passenger cars-and half a dozen per sons came into our car to learn about the matter There was DO more room for vaIuables under the woman's skirt. but the minister stepped forward with a plan. much to the relief of these newcomers. Taking off his silk hat. be said
 "I am carrying funds for the church. and. knowing of the danger of being robbed in this wild country. I had a false top put iD my hat. 1 have room for what money any of you may wish to secrete."
 He took out the false top and put 1t back again on all the money there was left unprovided for.
 But there was no room in the clergy mans hat except for money. The col ored man opened a worn suit case that looked as If it would scarcely hold to- gether to complete the journey and among the contents. some soiled under clothes. hid a fifty cent piece and two nickels. all the money he had. This seemed to those passengers whose watches and jewelry had not been rak. en care of rhe acme of fine hiding places. No robber would expect 10 find anything in that suit case among a negro-s sofled underclothes. ConSe- orentiy tbe goods that had not ye; been hidden were dumped into the tat fered receptacle
 By the time the last article had been stored away the train reached the cut The passengers held their breath while passing through it and brenfhed again on reaching the other end When they were coneratulafing themselves oD getting through safely there was a jerk on the bell rope. and the train suddenly came 10 Il stop
 The passengers turned pale and kep, their seats except the clergyman. the woman and the negro. They went to the door. apparently to see what had happened Bu they did not stop there Four horses stood saddled beside the track. The three passengers mention ed. the negro holding op 10 his suit case. jumped from the car and on te the horses The fourth horse was mounted hy the inforrner Waving an ere~'sf-H'e -d'cu. they put spurs to t.~a .a n'-si
 By Inun.ri. "iaimed the con ductor. that's the peatest scb 1 evd dreamed of"
 Among all the passengers on ths train there was not enough money lefI to buy a breakfast.