Show SMITH WAS A IUD BAD MAN HIN and ue lie had learned one geue of which ile he could boast but abut speaking of train rob robberies bories put in tho the colonel rominda reminds mo of a man I 1 mot inot when I 1 was in command comma tid of port fort D A russell at Chey cheyenne onne ho he wai an messon messenger gor named smith and his run was on what they called out there tho the agh high liue line of tho B and M railroad smith aint much of a man to look loock st at but ho was groat roat in action as lagree td id heard beard of smith bofo before e I 1 met him hed killed two man down in western kansas und and they wore were saying baying aroud Cho cheyenne Chey yenne enno that lie casad tas bad so I 1 was iwas curious to got hirn him to toll tell me the story and after awhile lie be did ile ho used to have a run nin on the swita santa PC down chero it crossed into colorado all the messengers you know carried guns in those days they do yet for that mat matter tor but smith understood the ho use or of a six shooter better than some of 0 his bis mates things had been so smooth on his run nm for so long that thai lie got a bit care loja at last aist and used to leavo leave the door of his car unlocked so that tho bralo brahe men could come in and talk with him whenever they liked without his having baving to go to tho end of abo ih car to unlock the door smith had one game though which was all his own ile he told me hat ho he had practiced it a good deal so that ho he could shoot within a friction fraction of a second after hearing bearing any one say bay tut put up tip your hands all the train men on his run nin know that you know those follows fellows aro great in skylarking and smith had warned thorn them nover never to try to play that joke on on him because ho bo said the first nian man who camo came into hia car and took him unawares with that remark would bo likely to dio die one day ho he was sitting behind his little square iron safe clinching chec clie ching kingoff off his money packages ho he had thy tho safe in a corner of the car fazing one ond end he always sat with his hia face against the front end of tho the car the front door was always barred when he raised the lid of the little trunk trun like liliko safe tho messengers used then lie always put his two big six six rs on the corners of the safe in front of the lid any ono one approaching hini him from tho the roar rear md find of tho the car see the guns but thy th y wore ready for instant uso use well on this day im tolling telling you about as ho was checking off tho the packages package 3 lie he heard the car door open and soine one come in he took it for granted that tha visitor was the brakeman whom he was expecting and without looking up tip went on with his work he chocked two or three more packages and was almost finished when he be heard beard the sharp command put up tip your hands 1 he looked up on the instant and saw two men inen not in tho the least dis guised covering hini him with six shooters his own hands bands were behind tho lid of his safe all right boys he said dont bufe shoot up they went up that was true but as they camo over tho the lid of tho the safo safe thoro was a six shooter in eacil each one both Q six shooters shoo tins cracked the instant choir muzzles camo came above the safe lid and both bullets killed tho the robbers cited but they pull until after they had been hit and their bullets went wild it was all done so quickly that thero there was no outcry or and when tho brakemen bra hemen went into the car a few minutes afterward after ivard ho found smith washing blood from tho the floor tile tho dond dead wen men were on a blanket in a corner that was wc s how smith got his reputation fur for being bad now no v york sun |