Show T T afi d 0 adventurers adventurers CLUB HEADLINES FROM THE LIVES OF PEOPLE LIKE Y 0 U R S E L F Ft I 1 tic the nurse and the mid by FLOYD GIBBONS famous headline eadline Ij hunter E LLO EVERYBODY H HELLO heres a holdup story with a different twist almost from augusta C gores of glendale a tragic one 0 ne for we learn L I 1 L the gun gunman man confessed to judge that lie he was about to assault me had it not been for the curious curllie incidence coincidence co related below augustas adventure might have had h ad a different ending augusta who is a nurse was attending atte anding an a n invalid patient in glendyle glend ale and on th the a night of april 4 1030 at 1120 p m she alighted from tho the metropolitan avenue trolley a block and a halt hall from the house at which she was employed the road at that point happens to be very lonely inasmuch as saint johns john a cemetery Is but a brockaway block away augusta felt rather creepy tor for that reason as she was walking that dista distance nce from the trolley suddenly ahead of her site she saw a lengthened shadow travel ing in the same direction SOMEONE WAS IVAS COMING ALONG BL BEHIND IIER hen site she looked back to make certain and sure enough a man was hurrying along toward her augusta felt the man might bo be following her so she bhe figured she would cross to the opposite side of the road in order to see whether the man would actually follow her ile ho did augusta looked back once more as she was crossing and as sho she did the man crossed also ile he too was looking back to seo see whether the road behind him was clear 1 I was not mistaken augusta says no chance to escape by running fear came over her fighting tor for control she realized in mounting panic that she must suppress her blind desire to outrun the man no hope lay in that course she must use her wits instead behind her the footsteps grew louder at last unable any longer to restrain herself augusta turned not a toot loot away from her was waa tho the man she attempted to turn back to the avenue as there were several cars going through but the fellow prevented her from doing so by telling Y C I 1 wars the drunken thug was getting rough and augusta began to tremble her to go on ahead of him and obey his bis orders as he had her covered with a gun and would use it on her it if she screamed or made any attempt to call tor for help at the same time augusta says the man pressed his hl body up against hers so that she might feel that he had ft a gun the man wore a leather jacket and had his hand in the breast pocket concealing the weapon this was enough tor for augusta all thoughts of flight vanished she knew she must somehow talk her way out of this situation but she knew in the next instant that she have a choice the man was under the influence ot of liquor and he was past the reasoning stage augusta invented a husband As the man began getting rough augusta told him desperately that she expected her husband along any minute and that her husband was a police officer be in for an awful lot of troubled lel lell she warned the persistent annoyer hopefully augusta adds in parentheses 1 I happen to be a widow she thought by manufacturing this story the man might go away and let her alone but on the contrary he seemed inflamed by this threat ile he became rougher boasting that he could handle the situation and augusta seeing now how drunk the fellow was began to tremble inwardly and despite her rising panic she knew that her one hope lay in just one thing SHE MUST NOT LET THIS FELLOW KNOW HOW frightened SHE WAS OF HIM to scream was useless there was no one who would have heard her cries augustas one hope lay in holding off her annoyer until someone should happen aloag the man was powerful and augusta was powerless against his drunken strength in vain she wrestled to tree free herself from his grip he was just about to overpower her when turning down the road augusta saw the headlights of a car her savior was a policeman the thug had his back turned augusta recalling her feeble threat of a few moments back cried out here he comes bowl the instants attraction was enough while the thug wheeled to face as he thought the approaching police officer augustas fictitious husband she pulled away from him and threw herself into the ran range ge of the headlights headlight sl I 1 the car was traveling at a pretty good food clip and the driver told augusta afterward that he did not see her until lie he was almost down on top of her and actually came very close to running her augusta leaped on the cars running board begged the driver a man to help her explaining that she was the victim of a holdup by this time the thug was making his getaway lie he was making good headway WHEN SUDDENLY AUGUSTA H HEARD EARD A S shott ai OTI and heres the strange coincidence the very man augusta had stopped in the car proved to be a police oane officer er in plain clothes who was coming home from a prize fight he wa was 8 a total stranger to augusta but he be must have been just as effect effective ive as if he had been the imaginary husband she had tried to scare the thug with because the next scene in this drama shows the thug up before the judge augu augusta sta was commended by the court upon being able to hold the man off long enough tor for help to come copyright |