Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1912-01-05

At Fourteenth Street they caught the
first uptown Van Cortlandt express
of the morning, and they made good
time to Two Hundred and Twenty
fifth Street. There they left the
train, and walked quickly along the
edge of a grassy bluff overlooking
the government cut that now con.
meets the Harlem and Hudson rivers
by a more direct route than h old
Spuyten Duyvtl creek. A few hun
dred yards beyond the low fence that
separates the meadow from the street
they came upon a man standing close
behind a large tree. He was screened
from the little street and from the
bridge that spans 1t by thick under,
brush. When he sighted Britz he
oned. The three men went within
the shelter of the bush.
Anything new, Gordon?" inquired
Britz.
YES" said the other detective.
They have gone aboard"
where's Hicks?"
Down there e. the water, piping
them off,"
Are they on deck?"
mo. in the cabin; they seem pref.
ty busy, too"
Gordon looked at the sky. 1t was
growing brighter every minute.
Stepping with most solicitous ten
derness on the grass. and avoiding
every leaf and twig that might give
forth a slight crackle, the four men
made their way slowly among the
bushes to the spot where Hicks, lying
at full length with his head only q
little way above the ground, was
waiting and. at the same time, watch
ing a naphtha Yacht Of more than
ordinary size. Not a sound broke the
silence of the early morning. The
ground was bare of snow, the grass
almost as green as in late summer,
and only the chill in the air and the
nakedness of the trees indicated the
winter season. The sun was just
trimming the far shore of the sound.
A pioneer ray gilded the Spuyten
Duyvil headland, earoming thither
from the crest OF Marble Hill.
After a whispered conference with
Hicks, Britz slipped his hand into a
side pocket of his coat. and took out
something that glittered In the sun
shine. At a single word from Britz,
Gordon and Hicks wormed their way
along the bank until they were at the
bow Of the yacht. Britz, Fitch and
Manning stayed near the stern. Sud
denly the lieutenant fred a shot over
the yacht that echoed metallically
from the cliffs. and at the signal, all
nve Of the attacking party leapsd
aboard the yacht, their feet striking
the polished deck with a concerted
thud that must have made those with
In the cabin think they were feeling
the first shock of q landslide.
The ave men on the deck gave
those below little time for analysis of
their sensations. Gordon and Hicks
raced around the wheelhouse to the
starboard side of the craft, and
dashed down the companionway from
that direction, while Britz, Manning
and Fitch hurled themselves into the
port entrance to the cabin. alighting
on a richly carpeted floor a dozen feet
below the deck. Two shots followed
before the police party could seize
Prince Kananda and Ali, who, facing
In opposite directions, stood at bay in
the center Of the cabin. Britx and
Gordon struck upward the r%evolvers
OF the Indians Is the triggers were
pulled. The bullets few high, harm
ing no one. Behind Kananda and Ali,
using a table as a breastwork. stood
two more Hindoos, both Of them
strangers to Britz. They YER UNI
armed save for wicked-looking Malay
krises they gripped nervously as they
crouched in waiting for an attack.
Britz and Manning jammed their pis-
tolls into the faces OF the men with
the kr1ses; but the Indians, undis-
mayed, made savage slashes at them
with their raxor-edged long knives.
Gordon and Fitch sprang upon the
kris-bearsrs, Hicks with . pistol In
each hand standing on KAnAnda and
All. Again and again the Hindoos
slashed 1t their assailants. and that
they did not split At least one head
va due Il the wary agility Of the
four Who attacked them. Shots from
the detsctiyes. revolvers would have
BROUGHT them down At such short
range, Of course; but the policemen
seemed bent on capturing them alive.
and Fitch was not . nan to have re-
courso 70 bloodshsd until he could be
certain Il was inevitable. Britx and
Manning waited their chance. After
futile swings 1t the Indians. they
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