Show I 1 NOT WHOLLY A COV Rn Good Reason for Not Resisting Train Robbers S Chicago Inter Ocean When I hear people p boast what they theIr would or do under the pers Jl I sion of a 8 tel said enId an air Old pi p j conductor 1 l am urn awfully remind i I ed ad 01 or an experience e ot of mine years ago on the tile Iron Mountain railroad I 1 I was station statton agent at t te e time at a ai at i t little town near Texarkana and arid had I S been summoned up to Little Rock Hock on onI I some somo business that has nothing to do with this story 1 was wan in the tha first day i 1 coach well up to o the and in the next seat was an express messenger I had attracted a good deal leal of attention irom the tact wore his hair ht lr long and had a pair of ot enormous revolvers 1 stuck m in his bolt belt The rest re t of ot the car waz was well titled filled with a mixed crowd in including Including perhaps it dozen women woman At It about J at night while we ware I going over a very desolate part of the road the train slowed down suddenly and before we inquire what was w s wrong the front door flew open anda masked man stepped ste p tl inside with a sawed saw I ot orr shotgun houlder Sit still he yelled y Til turn tum loose if airy soul so a finger r As AI he h spoke another man stepped him with a cooked revolver m rn his a sid td and started down the ip e aisle looting the he passengers pa as le he went came to the express hm me he burst out ont laughing la You rf scarecrow he said what are you doing with them guns and ne he snatched d One of the pistols out of hit Kim him over the head hood with the butt Then he took look the other made him hint hand over this vatch watch and arid money and passed on The rhe rhem messenger m wiped the Blood off of his face e and said nothing S After it was all aU over and the robbers had disappeared the messenger was a target for numerous sir remarks i If I 1 had made a a Break reak he said to me mO quietly that feud feller at the would have blazed biased away with his ills gun n nand nand and killed h women folks in 1 e ecar car At the ithe next t he got gol goloff gotoff off and one of ot the ie women her bier hoed head het d dout out of the window a and d screamed Cow Coward COWard Coward ard S Two days das later that same messenger walked up to a little cabin In the moun molin mountains kicked in the door shot two of the ti robbers lead deed in their t and three others all I often wondered whether the woman who hol hal hollered hollered bred Coward heard haard of that Incident |