Salt Lake Tribune | 1910-07-30 | Page 1 | Drives off Bandits with Automatic Gun

DRIVES OFF BANDITS H WITH AUTOMATIC GUtN , H OURAY, Colo., July 29. An attempt tc hold up a stage coach containing a paxty jj H of eight easterners was frustrated last r H night by tho coolness and nerve of Samuel 'mmm McCurdy of Pittsburg,- a retired financier. k 1 The parly was returning from an out- H ing In tho mountains In an old-fashioned ! H stage coach, driven by A. L. Stewart, a H veteran stngo driver, when two bandits H stepped into tho road and ordered Stew- H art to stop. H Being well versed in the etiquette of f H such occasions, Stewart promptly clc- H vated both hands, but McCurdy refused to 'Mmmm play tho gamo according to the old rules 'H and opened lire with an automatic pistol. H The bandits answered with a couple H of wild shots and took to the woods. ,1 while the bullets from McCurdy's gun M splashed around them. mmm A posso sent out from Ouray failed to H lind traces of tho robbers. H