Show d ti FAMOUS AMOUS SS HEADLINE E E HUNTER HUNTERMan U 1 frS I i 6 S than Man With the Knife By FLOYD GIBBONS is a story sent to me by Eva Halm of Chicago the Chicago the HERE story of a little girl whose impulsive act saved her from one danger only to throw her into another one Eva has grown up in the meantime but back in 1907 when she was just a kid her dad was superintendent of the he trolley car lines over a large area in hi Chicago He spent the day going from one station or car car- barn to another and at night after dinner he usually drove down to the biggest station and checked over the others by telephone Those were the horse and buggy days Evas Eva's dad drove a spirited horse hitched to a light tired rubber-tired runabout and usually when he be went to the main station In the evening someone in hi hithe inthe Inthe the family rode rodo with him On this particular night it was Eva who was to go driving with him There had been some labor trouble on the line lino and some of tho the men As result he carried a loaded were out to get the superintendent a 38 revolver in hi a leather holster in hi his hip pocket Dad Took His Gun Along He slipped the gun in his pocket that night as he was starting out out out- and then buttoned his coat and overcoat over it Eva noticed that She knew too that there were a couple of pretty tough customers among the tIC men who were after I aft r her dad and she asked him why he didn't keep that gun in ID his over over- overcoat overcoat overcoat coat coat pocket where he be could get at it more easily But dad just laughed at her They got into the carriage and drove along The station he was heading for was quite a distance away and about three miles mlles from home 5 5 S 1 t k Eva Used the Whip and the Horse Plunged they had to cross the Belmont avenue bridge over the north branch of ot the Chicago river The bridge was darkest in hi the middle for only the arc lamps at either end gave it light They had just about reached that darkest point when a roughly dressed man stepped out from behind one of the bridge uprights Evas Eva's dad had to pull up the horse Often when he couldn't be reached by phone a pitman was sent from a nearby station to give him hima a message at this point There Were Vere Two of Them He brought the horse to a stop as he approached the man and said Well what is it But at that same moment another roughly dressed figure stepped from the other side of the bridge and caught hold of the horses horse's head For a minute no one spoke Then suddenly it dawned on Eva that these couldn't be men from the station If It they were were why didn't they answer And if it they weren't well then well then they must be a couple of at those fellows who were trying to get her dad And then Eva saw something else The fellow up front by the horses horse's head had something in his hand which gleamed dully in hi the dim light Eva Had an Inspiration A knife e Right then was when Eva acted on impulse She jumped to her feet reached over the reins in her dads dad's hands and snatched the whip from its socket As she grabbed that whip she thought of the gun in her dads dad's pocket buried under those up buttoned-up coats where he couldn't get at it Then she raised the whip and brought it down on the I horses horse's back with all her strength The horse reared and plunged The man at his head jumped aside aside cursing The he carriage arriage moved back and forth and Eva fell feU sideways Just hi in In time her dad reached out and caught her But for his quick action she says I III would have have- been thrown to the bridge and probably knifed to death But that move of her dads dad's was disastrous In reaching ng out for her he had slacked up on the reins and lost control control of the horse The horse got the bit in its teeth and away it went But at last las dad pulled the horse up and turned it into the street lead lead- leading ing to the station When it was all over he turned to her and said You must never do that again You might have been killed But Eva still wonders what would have happened if she she hadn't done it it o Service |