New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-07-07
Nv Charles VI. Howell.

-ANpS UP" rang out the start.
I'LL ling command as the owner Of
Il the voice sprang from a cump
:, h,sbes al the side of the highway and
~ revolver in each hand covered the
w.. men occupants of the approaching open
stage, ,.,,.--,. ,o,,o,.,ua,.. .,
!, ,be driver. as he drew rein at the com
sand which he regarded as a Joke. He
~ss instantly undeceived by the vicious
warning
oHands UP. everybody, or / shoot. :"
.s he dropped the lines. the driver threw
:, his hands. as did poor Fleishbein. his
CINNAMON on the front seat and the two
nossengers on the rear of the three seats.
Mackuchor. however, Fleishhen's banker
.r,end from Minneapolis, occupying the mid
Ala seat who alone was armed. drew a re-
,o,ver and with great courage, but small
d,screYion threw his head over to the side
bevond Fleishbein who sat directly in front
~ him. and levelled his sun at the bandit.
:, was Muckuchor. however. and not the
hIghwavnar, who got a bullet fun I'm the
cbssk II toppled him backward over his
,sst while the bullet from his own gun
,Dsd harnleSsly into the air A second
bplIet and third, unerringlv fred by the
bandit struck the doomed Fleishhein below
,ba groin The two missiles entered about
,uo inches apart. ranged upward through
,bs abdomen. and both lodged in the spine
Fleshbein, as he afterward told the writ
9, threw himself TO the ground to get out
N the range Of the bullets. As he did so
t,.r, Of Mackuchors inert body became ex-
sIg4F
death dealing weapon bored through the
bankers leg as it dangled over the seat.
A DRAMATIC EXIT.
These fateful incidents consumed scarce
,v-baf dozen seconds, when the horses
hated frightened by the shooting The
a,ter. selling the reins. brought the fren-
zsd animals 10 a standsull some three or
fosr hundred Yards from the place Of at
,ak Firing bullet over the stage the
highwayman shouted orders TO drive on or
he would shoot 10 kin. With Banker
Mackuchor apparently dying in the bottom
Of the wagon and with no weapons avail
able for coping with the bandit, there was
nothing for the men IN the stage to do but
70 make all possible haste 10 the nearest
railway station, Gogehic some three miles
distant. secure medical aid for Mackuchor
wire the proper county officials and hurry
back with medical and other assistance to
iFleishbein.
On receipt Of the telegram at Bessemer,
TIE county seat. some twenty miles from
Gogebic station. the writer, acting in HIS
ofHeial capacity as prosecuting attorney.
immediately arranged for a special train
In two hours from the time If the hold
up the special was speeding to the scene
and abroad were Sheriff Foley and posse.
In the mean time. as the stage disap-
peared. the bandit turned his attention TO
iF1eishbein. who was mortally wounded and
unable 10 move. but still conscious. The
booty obtained must have been disappoint-
ing, as il consisted of only a valuable
watch and a pocketbook containing less
than SO Appropriating these articles, the
hghwayman fed into the dense. .trackless
forest, which extended scores of miles in
every direction.
This affair is known in criminal annals
as The Hold-Up of the Gosebic Stage
THE LONE HloHWAYMAN.
The bandit. whose identity was not posi-
lively known, but correctly suspected, had
previously become notorious in the Far
West and quite recently in Northern Wis
eonsn as BLACK Bart. the Lone Highway
man He was indeed a terrible reality
not a myth or a character In fiction. in
the known record Of BLACK Bart it IS
literally a fact that truth is stranger than
fiction, as will appear from this narrative,
which embraces only a few OF the principal
Incidents of his career prior 10 and follow
ing his conviction Of murder in the first