Bisbee daily review., 1916-12-10

Ired to the shock and tumult of con- --ict by the experience. of many years, who first recovered his self-possession and noted one-eyed man stealthily making his way out of a deep and cavernOus Assure in some nearby rocks. Over one shoulder this villain ous-faced prowler bore burlap sack which gave out a clanking sound as he felt his way step by step along the rough trail.
 The captain made up in valor what he lacked in discretion, and. tugging out his heavy service revolver. he rushed after that skulking gangster, loudly calling on him to surrender in the name of the law. But One-Lamp Louie had no apparent intention Of surreldering either himself or the coveted bag of loot to that vrathful guardian of public morals Instead. he cooily dropped to one knee and lived up to his reputation of being the handiest gunman in Legar's hard shooting gang by sending bullet neat ly drilled through the police captains shoulder
 But he did not know as he lodged hls way among the shadowy tree trunks that a youthful figure armed with a heavy police revolver. a reso- lute-faced girl and an elderly white haired man were rapidly closing in on him. As he broke from cover and started up the railroad sembanlment he ripped out a nasty oath as he saw his pursuers emerging from the woods Q short distance below him. At the same moment they saw that sinister figure with the burlap sack and came toward him on the run.
 One-Lamp Louie instantly reached the conclusion that it was safer to run than to fight, and he pounded up the ties with rapid strides.
 Fifty yards up the track the gang ster saw a battered old switching en- zine standing by a dripping water tank. He leaped aboard and opened the throttle.
 As the self-constituted posse came tc a bafIled stop close by the water tank they saw ali evilly grinning fig ure leaning out from the cab Of tha fast reced:ng engine. figure whose hand waved a mocking signal of fare well in true railroad style.
 X few feet distant from the water tank was a small : boXlike shanty con- taining the levers manipulating va riCus switches. In front of this shanty stood a distraught engineer, volubly cursing the bold depredator who had robbed him of his iron charge. Sud. denly a new look of consternation f~shed into his eyes and he turned in frenzy of excitement to his grimy- faced assistant.
 We've got to throw that devil of th main line. Gus he shouted as ha lived into the boxlike structure. The Overland is due any second. They'll crash together head or"
 Almost as he spoke the last words he jammed over one of the shining levers with all his strength. At that moment came a long-drawn screech- ing whistle. accompanied by the grind ing sound of hastily applied airbrakes. Down the level stretch of track the onlookers, grippef in an agony of sus- pense, saw the heavy Overland ex- press rushing at top speed straight for the numbering freight engine. The in- tervening space between those speed ing iTon-clad monsters lessened with every second.
 With set faces the little group by the water tank steeIed themselves for that seemingly inevitable crash of col hsion. But at that crucial instant the outlaw engine .werved ,th incredi- ble swiftness and shot of into the long siding, just as the express thun- dered past with its dozen coaches of human freight
 Like crazy Malay running amuck t3e engine. with the despcra 10 al it's throttle. tore down the siding toward a startled group of laborers who had been ripping out defective rail. Amid a babble of warning shouts the engine struck that deadly gap. and bereit of it's steel guides, plOwed wildly for a short distance along the ties. and then, enveioped in a swirling cloud of steam, plunged headlong over the steep en- bankmont. Under that shapeless mass of twisted metal which had once been a staid old switching engine the white faced pursuers of One-Lamp Louie found the crushed and lifeless form ofl the unregenerate gunmar huddledi across a bUriap sack of stolen plate.. With 6 gesture of distress NaIserys Golden turned away from that repult siye, doath-stilled figure.
 Please take me home she slfs yearly to her father. who was stand-s iDg near by.
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