Jasper Republican, Volume 1, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 June 1875 — How a Brave Girl Defended Her Father. [ARTICLE]

How a Brave Girl Defended Her Father.

’Squire Thomas Pyle and Charley Rednail took a contract together, a short time since, to remove the Catholic Church from He old location and place it on the comer where it now stands. Pending the completion of the contract a dispute selativeto money matters arose between them, Pyle claiming some S2OO due him, as he said, from Rednall. As the latter failed to come to time, Pyfe concluded to enforce the demand in his own way, and on Wednesday evening, having stowed in a cargo of tangle-leg, he armed himself with a rifle and started for Rednall’s house. Arriving at the fence surrounding the yard he rested the gun on the fence, with the muzzle pointed toward the house, evidently waiting for Rednall to put in an appearance. In the meantime Miss Lizzie Rednall, daughter of one of the parties, had noticed the approach of Pyle, and fearing danger to her father had notified him of the fact. Rednall, not thinking Pyle meant serious mischief, came out of his house, and picking up a crowbar started toward him. Pyle, seeing him coming, raised his gun aDd told him to stop and drop the crowbar or he would kill him. Rednall, fearing that hs would shoot, dropped the bar and stood still. Miss Lizzie all this time had kept close to her father. Pyle then ordered Rednall to get in front of him and go down town and get him S2OO, on the penalty of his life if he refused. Rednall started off, followed by Pyle with the gun drawn, while Lizzie kept close to Pyle for reasons which will appear hereafter. Upon reaching the corner of Fourth and Orange streets Lizzie attracted Pyle’s attention by a movement, and at the same time caught him by the arm and turned him around. Rednall noticed the maneuver, and immediately sprang upon Pyle, seizing his throat with one hand and the gun with the other. The men struggled furiously for some time, Rednall trying to get the gun from Pyle, and the latter trying to get it in position to shoot Rednall. In the melee the gun was discharged, fortunately without damage. The weapon being useless both men loosed their hold upon it and it fell to the ground and was immediately seized by Lizzie. In the struggle that followed the dropping of the weapon Pyle threw Rednall and was making it red-hot for him, when Lizzie, with the gun clubbed, came to the rescue and proceeded to belabor Pyle w T ith it, nor did she quit till she had broken the stock all to pieces. By the aid of his daughter Rednall was a little too much for Pyle, and, turning him, he held him down and dispatched his little son for a policeman. In a short time OfScer Knowles made his appearance in a hack. Springing out, he arrested Pyle and told him to get into the hack. Pyle, not feeling in a very good humdr, concluded to hit the boy for bringing the officer and, launching out his fist, hit him on the cheek, the blow not expending its force till caroming on the nose of Officer Knowles. The officer, justly indignant at this uncalled-for attack, struck back with his billy, which, missing Pyle, flew from his hand and crashed through the window of the hack. Pyle was finally persuaded into the hack and was driven to the sta-tion-house, muttering maledictions on the Rednall family in general and Lizzie in particular. —Chico (Cal.) Record.