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Show ding a body of desperadops, forced the engineer to the express and mail car, and there commanded him to tell the expressman to open up and toss out the registered mail and the strong box. When the con toddled up to snoop In, Whitney yelled orders to a fictitious ficti-tious accomplice to shoot him down and peppered a shot or two to give It emphasis. The engineer was inclined in-clined not to obey. A jab In the ribs, none too daintily delivered, and another, and a final jab with an oath to aid, and the engineer begged the baggageman to spare his life by delivering the swag pronto. Whitney made the firoman uncouple un-couple the engine and baggage car from the coashes, and pull down the line with him on It. Then stop, lei 1 him off, and he took to the hills. Spectacular? ; Well, somewhat. Furnished 1 model for your favorite movie actoi 1 to pattern after. But the thrill 1: 1 in the original. "Man May lie Hush Whitney." Just one more word of digression and we'll ride into the Grand Canyon Can-yon you and I (on the written word) just as I drove in with Elizabeth -m Ford that summer two years ago. This July about ten days ago on the back page of the Tribune appeared ap-peared an article under the caption, "Man May Be Hugh Whitney." II you even glanced at that article the most you probably said was, "Well, what If he was Hugh Whitney?" or "Who the deuce cares if he was Hugh Whitney?" But wait Hugh Whitney was a Cokeville, Wyoming lad, who took up a courss for tuffness (and not by correspondence correspond-ence either), graduated, and at hii height robbed a train, killed a con ductor (1 think), and for the pasi eleven years has been lost to sight and constantly looked for by sleuths Hugh Whitney was the star actor who alone, in a regular approvec movie stunt, without accomplice 01 aid, boarded a train one night at Ev anston, Wyoming, hid his rifle with out the vesibule, paid his fare, and when the train nicely entered Echt Canyon, clambered over the tender held up engineer and fireman, or dered the train stopped, hollered oul fake, Instructions as It command |