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Show Robbing a Bank i Bub was away from Ft. Bridger. We felt uneasy and expectant. As I said, we in he bank were in deadly terror of a hold-up. One day 1 word quietly came to us "Butch Cassidy Cas-sidy seen between Rock Springs and Evanston." We froze stiff. A man was hired to sit by an open j window in a two story brick just a- j cross the street and if he saw r.ny ( Norsemen ride up alongside the bank , he was to begin shooting as if all t liell itself had broken lose. And a t jawed off shot gun and another rifle i ituck behind a grocery store counter n another building on the opposite j corner. And I got this white thatch n the next three days. Three days later it happened. Ca3hier Grey of the Montpelier g lank had just stepped out on the e iidewalk at three o'clock, lit up his j gar and was standing talking to g wo customers, when three men rode Q ip horseback, two of them tossed heir reins to the third who sat his lorse, and Grey heard a calm even b jommand, voiced not to alarm the iitizenry, "Line up inside there!" The trio did so; the bookkeeper g if the bank made a false move, and c lown he went from the butt of a p orty-f ive. tl The three horsemen stole $6,000 in :urrency, and about $700 in the biil-:y biil-:y silver, which none but a good get--way would tempt them to under-ake. under-ake. It was quick, it was speedy; t was done and over, and three men S eisurely rode away, secure with the h lank force locked in the vault. They I nade for the famous Jackson's Hole, he rendevouz of the worst gang in he west, in the fastnesses of which T l small force could pick off any pos-e, pos-e, or get away to a safer retreat. Well, unholily, we were glad it p fas Grey and not us. E Groy laid his plans. He told Sher- ff Ward to let him know when Bub urned up. About three months later Bub love into port, riding a better horse, ind himself better outfitted than was lis wont, which spoke volumes, as Bub and hard wark never held a peaking acquaintance, and to all it aeant j Yes, it meant just what Grey was, ifter, a chance to look over Bub as me of them. Before Grey could get there, that ivening Bub drifted into Joe Guild's tore and post orfice at Ft. Bridger, 1 ind sat around chatting idly with Joe uitil quiting time, and just after oe had counted up the day's swag, ictore the haul was tucked away in he safe, Bub went out; in a moment lack he came in, $nd again sat. But only a moment or so, for a nan walked in with mask on and truffly stuck both Joe and Bub up,j md of the two, Bub made more ap- j larent effort to get 'em up higher md kept 'em longer than Joe. Guild had to submit to being rob-' led and the man disappeared. When tha thing was over, Joe went lehind, got hi3 revolver and cover- ng Bub said, "Now you da , "Just sit there," said Joe covering "But I didn't have a hand in this! expostulated Bub. "Just sit there" said Jos covering lis man, and the quiet meant he'd ;boot. Half past nine came and no Guild 1 it home. Ten came and the good : A'ife set out to see why. She walk-:d walk-:d toward the store, still lit up, and magine her feelings to see her husband hus-band holding a bead on their fellow ; townsman, the man they all knew as: we do the man we've grown up with. 1 She gave the alarm In the most ap-j (Continued on Page Two) j I 1 6RMD CUIYON 1 (Continued from Page One) proved fashion, shrieks, flight outside out-side to all the neighbors, and In a trice the little villago was busting in In parlnke of the glory, chewing tobacco to-bacco and spitting viciously to em-phasic em-phasic that ono movo and daylight would trickle through Dub's frame In a huge joint opening, a syndicate syndi-cate affair. Word was sent horse-trice horse-trice Bub word was being sent horse-town horse-town was holding a man he could get by just riding over. Groy positively identified Bub, who was sent over the road for It, feigned Insanity, was sent to the Blackfoot Nutt Collego, and one day as he was on a scaffold up on the third story on some work being done. Bub thot it the time to make a break. He leaped, fell heavily to earth, broke his leg, which was so badly broken that the splintered bone protruded thru the flesh. Infected the wound and they amputated his leg near the thigh. Thus branded and handicapped, handi-capped, they let him go to dlsappeai as a bad man, and hence, to gracefully grace-fully fade from our tale. |
