Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 February 1884 — FIGHT WITH ROAD AGENTS. [ARTICLE]

FIGHT WITH ROAD AGENTS.

Perils of Stage-Coach Traveling in Texas. [Telegram from Concho, Texas.] A stage going to Abilene met the incoming mail from that town, which gave information that it had been stopped about a mile back, the mail robbed of all the cash, and one of the passengers relieved of $25. The firstnamed coach had aboard Sergeant Turbom, of the State rangers; Sheriff Gerald, of Don Juan County, New Mexico; Edgar Stetson, of Oshkosh, Wis.; Samuel P. Cochran, of Dallas, Tex., and a United States soldier. The ranger and Sheriff were alone armed. They ordered the driver to go ahead, and quietly laid their pistols across their laps. When the spot was reached the coach was commanded to halt by two masked men coming from the mesaulte brush. The Sheriff fired. The shot was returned. The ranger then took aim and fired. The man threw his pistol into the air, placed his hands over his stomach and fell. The herses started and the firing from and into the stai/e continued with great rapidity. Sheriff Gerald was hit in the shoulder, and a second ball entered his back and passed through his stomach. A spent ball struck Cochran in the back, and three balls passed through his overcoat. He was not, however, seriously hurt. The coach drove to Concho as quickly as possible. Gerald will die. This is the third robbery of the same coach within a month.