| Show FAMOUS HEADLINE HUNTER cherches Cher diez chez la femme by FLOYD GIBBONS THROW another log on the fire uncle mike call all the neighborhood adventurers in light the old pipe settle back and ill tell you the story of the adventure ive heard in many a moon A bunch of the boys were whooping it up in the malamute malamate Mala mute saloon when out of the darkness and into the light there stepped a blond i oh ohl oh I 1 im getting ahead of myself allan J mcdonald now lives in chicago but a couple of years ago he was a reporter for a paper in el paso tex right across the rio grande from juarez mexico well sir it was als night off and he and a bunch of the boys went across the rio grande to juarez they went into a couple of bars had a few drinks and along about midnight decided it was time to start back to el paso out ran the blond girl As they stepped out of a bar onto the dimly lit street a tall fall blond amer kan girl went running past them close at her heels and cursing in spanish was a swarthy mexican the girl was screaming and it take al and his friends long to realize that the girl was in trouble with a yell they were off in hot pursuit up unpaved alleys they dashed slid around dusty corners onto dark streets shouted and yelled no one paid any attention to them nor did anybody else join the chase suddenly they came to the banks of the rio kio grande and then the girl and the mexican disappeared into thin air al and his pals looked around a bit but find a trace of the girl or the mexican so the boys started back toward the center of the town they gone half a block when from behind them cama came fifteen mexicans on the run waving all kinds of weapons in the air and shouting at the top of their lungs al tells me that in the glance he gave over his shoulder before he started to beat it he saw lead pipes old boards knives and razors strapped to hammer handles great battle in the river well sir al and his two buddies started they started right for the rio grande and the good old U S A the river at that time of the year 7 R e s Z the mexicans were on top of them was practically dried up there was only about twelve inches of water in it so it was possible to wade across they hit the river a few feet in front of the mexicans but the mud slowed them up and one of the party fell the mexicans were on top of them and the fun un began boy oh boy what a battle royal three against fifteen al and his friends had bad no arms they were trapped properly it was darn tough to defend yourself in that slippery muddy river bottom every time you took a swipe at a guy your foot would slip and five mexicans would be on top of you it was easy then to slice an ear or klonk you over the head with an iron pipe al wrestled with one mexican and succeeded in getting a lead pipe away from him then al swung that lead pipe left and right every head he saw that look like his own he be brought that lead pipe down on it with gusto and then it was a case of cracko pat was mortally wounded there was one irishman with al of the name of pat stacy pat knocked three of them gents down before somebody shoved an old fashioned hat pin clean through him pat died three weeks later from lobar pneumonia the other friend of al was knocked out early in the fight and fell into the water why he drown A al know for twenty minutes they fought in the rio grande that night before help came but to ali al those twenty minutes felt more like twenty years the border patrol finally heard beird the commotion and broke up the affair al was minus part of an ear his head and chin were slashed up and both his lapels were cut completely off the fellow that was knocked out and fell in the river have a scratch on him was he lucky and were you lucky al believe me ive been in juarez and I 1 know they used to get pretty rough over there all right uncle mike ill tell you about the blond she was the come on for the mexicans they pulled the same stunt often and it is said that it was a profitable business although A al never could figure out how it could be so good when the take had to be split fifteen ways C service |
