The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1910-04-28
DOZEN EGGS COST A BANDIT HIS
LIFE BY BETRAYING HIS
IDENTITY.
Hozv it Feels to be Held up Graph
cally Described BY one Who Has
Been There.

| Savings Bank building when the matter
irof hold-up came up, says the Butte
News.
tom ought to know" said Colonel
Colbert, winking slyly over a mortar of
poison that he was mixing.
"You bet l know" replied Tom, stop
ping in the middle of column of fig
ures, for Tom Mullane was the man who
figured in one of the biggest hold-ups in
the history of the camp.
Il guess different fellows feel differ
ent ways, but | wasn't frightened; not
bit, although l had two of the most
| desperate men in the criminal world at
my neck with murderous- looking guns
II can't say in a spirit of bravado
that l wasn't frightened. l mean it.
didn't have time to be frightened. Be-
sides, one thing is in fellows favor He
knows that the hold-up man wants some
thing done, and will at least not kill his
victim until the purpose is accomplished.
Furthermore, where large sum of
money is involved fellow invariably
figures that there may be chance to
outwit the criminal and get him. in the
heel of the hunt, SO he stalls and tries to
be cunning.
"a dozen of eggs cost Paisley his life,"
said Mullane, putting marker in his led
ger. "When I say it cost him his life
l mean that when he drew so years at
Deer Lodge it meant that he had forfeited
his existence-gambled it against $sy 500
and lost"
"How was that, anyway asked
Frank Carter ~
Centerville after my days work." said
Mullane
"Just as was leaving the door heard
fellow say, Let US in; we want some
stuff You're too late,' | replied. The
days business is over
"Then | looked up at masked man
knew the worst thing in the world had
happened. | had package of eggs and
bundle of magazines, so both hands
were occupied. l didn't look down the
barrel of revolver. 1t was pushed pretty
close to my stomach, and behind me under
my ear | felt another hold-up man jab
bing the muzzle of a Colts against the
base CT my brain.
"Now, the man who was in front of
me was holding his gun with one hand
and was holding up his mask with the
other.
"'Open that door, you , and
open it quick he said.
"1'll do it, | replied. Hold these
eggs SO | can get my keys He withdrew
his hand from his neck, held my eggs,
and as he took mis- hand away the mask
slipped ard l looked into a face there
was no forgetting. Murder was written
in every line; death spoke from his lips.
"When | unlocked the door and let
| them in Paisley laid the eggs on the show
case and | found them there, not even
cracked, when the whole affair was over.
$50 they marched me back to the safe,
poking their guns into my ribs and call
ing me vile names. My, but it's lovely
sensation! | was sailing for time, hop
ing that some one would come in and
interrupt the game. Paisley's partner was
telling him to throw the harpoon into
me, that | was stalliEg. | faxed the first
time and lost the combination of the safe.
They kept at me to quit taxing. They
kept at me to quit taking Finally, strange
as it may seem, got mad and said:
"See here, | can't make any progress with
you fellows monkeying with me. Now you
lay off me with that gun and | will get
this thing They did, ard-well, to make
a long story short, theygot the coin. There
was $40 which | saved for the firm by
throwing some paper over it as | dug
up the real plant for them. While Paisley
was making me deliver the goods, the
other fellow, and will / know him, had
the Waterman stuck up.
s'They worked without interruption, get
ting in all $500
"After they went | gathered the gun
and tore out of the back way. Had |
kept the gun could have killed them
both and | could have done it, as they
passed close by me. But l thought there
would be chase, and, being physically
handicapped, | thought best to give the
gun to a fellow who could run after
them. The minute he got the gun he be-
gan to fire in the air, and directly both
men ran by and escaped among the laby-
rinth of houses.
"The story is well known. Paisley es-
capped for the time and his partner for good.
Paisley went = Los Angeles and came back