Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1921-08-13

then went to the express car and yelled
70 the messenger TO open up or get per-
forated. He slid the door back and stood
In it with his hands up. Jump over
board, son." / said, and he hit the dirt
Ike lump OF lead. There were two
safes in the cara big one and a little
enc. By the way, / first located the mes
senger's ARSENAL double barreled shot
gun with buckShot cartridges and a .5S
in dr3 wer. l drew the cartridges from
the shotgun, pocketed the pistol and
called the messenger inside. / showed my
gun against his nose and put him to
work. He couldn't open the big safe,
but he did the little one. There was
only $500 in it. That was mighty small
winnings for our trouble, so we decided
to go through the passen gers. We took
our prisoners to the smoking car, and
from there sent the engineer through the
train to light up the coaches. Beginning
with the first one we placed a man at
each door and ordered the passengers to
stand between the seats with their
hands up.
II you want to find out what towards
the majority of men are, all you have to
DO Is to rob passenger train. don't
mean because they don't resist-lU tell
you later on why they can't do that
but 1t makes man feel sorry for them
the way they lose their heads. Big, burly
drunmers and farmers and xsoldiers
and high -collared dudes and sports that,
few moments before, were filling the
car with noise and Dragging, get so
scared that their ears flop.
There were very few people in the day
coaches at that time OF night, so we
made slim haul until we got to the
sleeper. The Pullman conductor met me
at one door, while Jim WIS going round
to the other one. He very politely In
formed me that I could not so into that
car, as It did not belong to the railroad
company. and, besides. the passengers
had already been greatly disturbed by
the shouting and firing. Never in all
my life have met with finer instance
Of official dignity and reliance upon the
power Of Mr. Pullman's great name. l
jabbed my six Shooter 70 hard against
Mr.. Conductors front that afterward
found one of his vest buttons so firmly
wedged In the end Of the barrel that
had to shoot 1t out. He just shut up like
a weak-springed knife and rolled down
the car steps.
opened tho door OF the sleeper and
stepped inside. A big, Fat, old man
blowing He had one coat-sleeye on
and was trying to put his vest on over
that don't know who he thought l
was.
Young man. young man" says he.
you must keep cool and not get ex
cited Above everything. keep cool"
Il can't" says l. "Excitements just
eating me mp" And then 7 let ont a
yell and turned loose my forty five
through the skylight
That old man tried to dive into one
OF the lower berths, but screech came
ont Of II and a bare foot that took him
Ia the bread basket and landed him on
the floor. ! saw Jim coming in tbs
other door, and I hollered for every
body TO climb out and line up.
They commenced TO scramble down
and for a while we had n three rinRed
circus. The men looked as frightened
and tame as lot of rabbits in Q deep
snow. They had on, on an average
about quarter OF suit Of clothes aud
one shoe apiece One chap was sitting
on the floor OF the aisle looking Rs II
he were working a hard sum in arith-
metic he was trying, very solemn, 70
pull lady's number two shoe on his
number nine foot.
The ladies didn't stop to dress. They
were so curious TO see real. llvs train
Tobber. bless EN-, that they tust wrapped
blankets and sheets around themselves
and came out, squeaky and fidgety look
ing. They always show more curiosity
and sand than the men do.
We got them all lined Up and pretty
Qniet, and | went through the bunch !
found very little on them-I mean IN /
the way Of valuablss One man ia the
line was a sight He was one Of those
big, overgrown. solemn snoozers that
sit on the platform al lectures and look
wise Before ere wiling out he had man ,
aged TO put -on his long, frock-tailed
coat and his high silk hat The rest OF /
him was nothing but pajamas and bun /
ions. When I dug into that Prince Al I
bert, ] expected 10 drag out at least a
block of gold mine stock or an arrnful /
Of Government bonds, but all found I
was little boys French harp about
four inches long what Il was there /
for. don't know ] felt a little mad
because be had fooled me 50. I stuc% I
tha harp UP against bis mouth.
II you can't payday" I says.
can't play" says he.
Then learn right on quick" says 7
letting him smell the end OF my run- /
barrel
He caught hold OF the harp. turned /
red as beet, and commenced to blow /
he blew dinkv little tune ! remembered