Democratic Sentinel, Volume 17, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 November 1893 — GOT THEM BOTH. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

GOT THEM BOTH.

A Little of ThU Would Discourage Train Robbers Further East. The story comes of the nerve of a Westerner, who was concerned in a recent holdup, which took place in Montana. A local railroad train was stopped by two bandits, who secured a mail bag and a box containing a considerable sum of money. The crew was intimidated and did not dare say their souls were their own. The train proceeded to a watering station a mile away and here a passenger prevailed upon the engineer to give him a rifle and wait while he went back to the scene of the robbery. He surprised the bandits as they were rifling the bag and box and opened

fire. One dropped dead and the othei drew his gun. Another shot settled the second robber, but not before the passenger had been hit on the head .by a bullet, which fortunately glanced without doing much harm. In forty minutes the brave fellow vas back to the watering station, and half an hour afterward the two bandits were under the sod and the train speeding on its way with bag and box somewhat mutilated, but their contents intact. “I thought they’d know just enough to wait for me,’’ was all the brave passenger said.

GOT THEM BOTH.