| Show BRnm n VAYJLEU AtWDlPt to Stop the Mendo 111 eyAttempt duo stage Bat are Foiled the following account of has The POt stage robbery dAtlDJ madelastnight i was again aM ttemptwas Mendocino stage which left the t tob the arrival of the even CoTerd after CIOfcrdale and was only frustrated by uDttain of Henry C Ward Wells e the eoar2ge Cos shotgun messenger who fi got of hIs life stood the robbers I risk J the t stage left there at 8 oclock The S about niae miles out and a jdebea 13 from the Mountain distance ort fort two men were seen We in the road Armed t plies One of the men was 8itb n es on an elevation which < nding him on alevel w th the driver brought other had taken his station in t bile When the stage got abreast ad tberoad the raise called out fcSnthe man on iTrFhdt the IsayI I and at he same IIa1tllIalt discharged his rifle full at the mes tiJIIediseharged in returning mlr was not slow who trgire hbut unfortunately t without rp 1 e fire in tluroad fit robber standing The eed fired the shot taking effect lu the td messenger Ward who was t of the snd corking his gun tor the net of thehis of wage thcac the iJ d shot When the cry of halt TVOS head Ward told the driver James beard 11 90n as hA woulike gomaneto pun the np gentleman probablv n teTVleV gentlemanwould to interview inking that shooting would occur rattbiaking The driver endeavored to do osooa the shooting scared the horses obut it was impossiole to stop them thAt the they continued to run down the sad they shots fired no more road d nUY The thinking robbers they had found foe one on the stage this time that it Snot do to trifle with The mes world r XerHenryaward1 well known eager the coast having been con all over retOol with Wells Fargo Co for over been in Svyea He has placed twenty years of trust where his positions See and daring have been severely oar3ge true tested before and always proved tobis trust This was the drivers second sec-ond to trip over the road and Mr Ward him the compliment that his foolness payS Braverv and skillful handling he of his team in a case of emergency sever saw excelled 1l later account says The stage conned con-ned at the time three passengers two menand one woman The first intimation in-timation of trouble was the order ° Halt Halt I say l II Ward ordered the driver to stop the horses which was done The messenger with one motion of his right hand quick as a flash almost shoved back the cocks of his doublebarrelea shotgun laden with buckshot and leveled the weapon at the man on the bank tutreen whom and the heads of the two on the stage there was about three yards difference The road agent had hardly uttered the last two words of his command when he let drive at Ward sad fired his Winchester rifle the bullet bul-let lowing through the inner side of the left sleeves of the overcoat and coat furrowing across the breast of the over coatand chipping off a piece from the npper edge of the button Ward had almost at the same moment discharged one of the barrels of his shotgun at his assailant The nearness of theo the-o shooters to each other was the i cause that from the concussion aPr I the powder smoke Ward was co pletely blinded the driver had his hat town off while his face was so black that he would hare been taken for a negro rather than a white man While tndeavonng to cock the second barrel Ward was shot at again by a second road agent who was in the roadway Mow his companion on the bank and m whose direction Ward had partially tamed himself The three shots frightened fright-ened off the horses and in the confusion they sped from the scene down the steep grade under the admirable con tat of the driver Ward found himself Bounded in the right hand the forefinger fore-finger being shattered and several buckshot buck-shot entering the hand The female fiuenger says she saw the man on the Irak drop Eureka Leader 13th |
