The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1921-05-06
"They Had Me Trussed Up Like :
Christmas Turkey"

"They Had Me Trussed Up Like :
Christmas Turkey"
key, and loaded into the cab Of tie
engine. From that on, 1t was all plain
sailing"
"Then they took you TO the old lum-
Der Campo"
GAS fast as the engine could be made
TO turn her wheels. Arroyo has no
night OPERATOR and when we sneaked
through the Banta yard and past the
| station, the operator there was asleep.
saw him. with his head In the crook
Of his arm, at the telegraph table in
the bay window as we passed.
1--WE ran out TO the Timber Noun
tain ~ and from that on up the old
saw-mill line. The rail connections
were all in place, and l knew from
this that preparations bad been made
beforehand. They wouldn't tell me
anything except that was to be
locked up for a few days"
You knew what that meaDt3"
Perfectly. My drOp.out would be
made to look as if / had jumped The
| Job, and Dunton would appoint a new
Man. After that, | could come back,
il wanted to. Whatever l might do
or try to do would cut no figure. and
no explanation could make would be
| believed I had most obhgingly dug
my own official grave, end there could
he no resurrection"
what .thenT" pressed Ripley, keenly
. interested. as anybody could see.
"When they took the clothes-line
! from my arms there. was another
/ scrap. 1t didn't do any good. They
got the door shut on me. and got
| 1t locked. After that, for four solid
days, Ripley, was made to realize
how little it takes to hold q man. ]
had my pocket-knlfe, but couldn't
white my way out. The floor punch
cons were spiked down, and l couldn't
dig out. They had taken all my
matches. and couldn't burn the place.
| | tried the stick.rubbng, and all those
things you read about: they're fakes;
couldn't get even the smell OF smoke"
"The chinnneyY'
There wasn't any. They had heated
the place, when it was a cOnmissaryi
with stove, and the pipe hole through
the ceiling had Il piece of sheet iron
nailed over it. And | couldn't get to
the roof at ALL They had me-"
| cold
like: "Well, we've got them now-any
| time you give the word Tarbell has a
! pinch on one of The CANADIAN men and
he will turn states evidence. We can
railroad every one of those fellows
who carried you off,"
And the men higher up?" querieG
the boss.
mo; not yet"
"Then Wen drop ii right where 1t is
/ don't want the hired tools; no one
Of them. unless you can get the devil
that crippled Jimmie Dodds, here
They went on, talking about M
burn-up. Listening in, l learned foi
The first time Just how it had beer
done Tarbell, through his hold upor
the welshing Clanahan striker, hat
cot the details at secondhand. A leac
had been taken from power wire
nj the corner of the street and hookeC
over the outer tloor-knob. And inside
] had been given sheet of copper tt
stand on for good ground thf
copper itself being wired TO water
pipe running up through the hall. Tar
bell had afterward proved up on al
this, it seemed finding the insulatec
wire and the copper sheet with isl
connections hidden in small rubbish
closet under the hall STAIR just W e-1
fellow in hurry might chuck them
"Tarbe!l Is striking success" Mr.
Norcross put in, along at the end
things wen keep him on with us
Ripley"
Past this there was q little mOrt
talk about the C. 8. B w. deal, anC
/ about what the Hatch crowd would tx
likely to try next; and when 1t was
| finished, and Ripley was reaching for
| his hat, the boss said "There is u,
change in the orders: we've got EN-
going now, and we'll keep EN- going
/ Drive IT. Ripley: drive it for every
! ounce there is in you. Never mind tn,
election talk or the stock quotations
! This railroad is going to be honest. Il!
| it never earns another net dollar
! Wen win !"
Its beginning TO look a little thai
way, now" the lawyer admitted. witt
his hand on the door knob. Just the
same NorcrOss. there Is safety in nnm