The Morning standard. [volume] (Ogden, Utah) 1910-191?, 1910-12-18

ran up to the sidewalk this other crumped up and
with bis deputies sent rattle of shots down the
street after the fugitive The MarSbars shotgun
empty, and he had thrown it aside. He had his
magazine revolver out and he pumped at the runner
who was Dclback, until he brought him down. As
Dielback fell Abernathy's weapon empty.
Exit Quigg.
At this instant the Marshal In the heat of fighting
had worked up almost to the steps of the bank Now
he faced about to find, half hidden In entrance,
a little man. who held him covered with big. old
fashioned revolver. The little man was Quigg 1t
was one of those seconds that In retrospect 20
have stretched out into aeons Abernathy knew
ouigg-knew he was crnck shot tyro could
not have missed at the distance. The big Marshal
heard the burglar chuckle, the CLEAN Of the blue
steel barrel In the cold moonlight and saw the finger
crooked about the trlgGer-a details their place
In picture at which he seemed to have been gazing
for hours There fear In him no hope no
emotion Of any kind. He waited, helplessly
The hammer fell There was n click AS II poised
on springs Alternately lcaped at Winters who bad
not seen clearly what passing, snatched the
pistol from him and, turning It on Qugg pumped
n stream Of lead into him the burglar levclled
again QuisG screamed and jumped from the door
way The Marshal met him, closed with him and,
graspng the burglars weapon. strove to win It
QulggS strength was great Now It was that of a
uend Inc TWO spun and wrestled in a terrific Stlug-
gle. Quigg striving 10 bring his gun into play Aber
nathy bending all his power upon the wrist And
then, suddenly, the thing over The Marshal felt
bis opponent limp in his grasp and collapse Aber
nathy caught him and lowered him to the ground
But Quigg had died on his feet, while still fighting
The Marshal took account at glance. Jones was
dowr. badly hurt. Winters was wounded Ouigg
was dead Delback. up the street. lay groanng in
pain AT the foot of the steps Carpenter. Aber-
uathy bent him
Where'd you get itI"
The wounded pressed a hand TO his breast
I'm through" he said quietly.
Did you know meT
Sure answered Carpenter 1--WE knew 1ou rho
minute you sung out"
Why didn't you throw up your hands?"
~ % Men' We saw 1t was three to three and we figured
weakly, you better look out for that chair there
Lucky some one didn't Kick 1t over"
"peh ADernathy examined the chair which had
not oecn disturbed In the conflict he found upou t
tne packages Quge had placed there, e-ough nitro.
elycerne TO have botted the OF Harrow Off the
map. - ~
Carpenter died of his wounds four hours later after
haylns given all the details OF the burglars move
rb rho y Pt ue arsnal. IL nad been their purpose to
ioo Tue lost ou1ce after cleaning out the bank Dcl
ooch was picked up In serious condition. but later
recovered He Is now serving his time In prison
aoeinathy Is not man who wastes much time in
lumbilnS around what might have been But he had
considerable curiosity concerning the failure of
oulggs pistol, to which he owed his life The re-
toH'l, nc lounu, had been carried In the little mans
right hand overcoat pocket In this pocket was an
empty WniSGey flask, stopped with a crumbly worm
hen Abcrnathy came TO examine the weapon
CLOSELY .he mystery was cleared In beside the plum
ger VI le mechanism was tiny piece of the cork 1t
was wedged firmly In such a manner as 10 Interfere
eHectNeiy with the discharge of the revolver When
QuigS pressed the trigger the plungcr was crowded
10y nls inconSiderable obstacle and fell with dlmln-
lsneu loce upon the cartridge The blow was enough
TO dent the cartridge cap but just failed of sufficient
force TO explode the illuminate
AS to the Rum Habit.
Anu SO II Is that the United States Marshal Of
UNlauoinu mas nothing 10 say against the habit.
he peIoNes IL Is all very we'll like many other Ill
matters at times and occasions. For If Qulgg had
not INSISTED upon buying the whiskey he would NOT
nave hau the nask I'm his pocket and If lie had not
had the uask there would have been cork and II
tnerc nnd been no cork there would be no Jack
Alternately.
nave nad bullets come So close TO my head that
could fSel the wind of Them" be says "and have
had them DO all sorts OF funny tricks that al
most home runs against my side But / was never
close TO plSsiug out as the time that gun
against my heart and heard the trigger click
That little piece of whiskey bottle cork was the
'nly thing that kept where l enjoy threel
square meals each daY"