The Seattle Star Newspaper, September 3, 1920, Page 5

THE SEATTLE STAR OH SERVICE oe Here’s Beauty and Economy ae 0. H E | R Y S T \ my Hh ‘This beautiful davenport typifies the general spirit of economy that we are all so desirous of exercising these days. of oak and massive and substantial in constructions The uphol stery is imitation brown Spanish leather, Tt is made This davenport may be easily opened up into a bed at night, giving you the advan tages of having an extra bedroom if necessary. Price, . Other davenports priced up to.. Don't fail to call in and look over our new line of Quick Meal Fusenameal Ranges and member, we take your old stove in exchange and allow you .. $72.50 - $165.00 new style heating stoves, Re a full value and apply it to your purchase. LIBERAL CREDIT EXTENDED WRERE PIKE MEETS FIFTH ts . IN a fofofofofofojojo) IseeeEs ofofo}o]o) Woman Is Given Sentence of Death BRUSSELS, Belgium, Sept. 3. Rachel Pariset was sentenced to ‘@eath after being convicted of the charge of denouncing, during the German occupation, a Spanish at tache, causing him to be shot by the Germans, and also with compassing the death or imprisonment of other persona. Here’s Sad News for Dry Boosters STOCKHOLM, Sept. 3—-Reports [have been received here that of fenses against the Finnish prohibi tion law are continually on the in crease. The secret importation of liquor is growing, and all classes of the population are urging more and more vigorously that the prohibition {law should be revised. FREEZONE FOR CORNS Lift Any Com Right Off. Seems magict Drop a little Freezone on an aching corn, Instant- ly that corn stops) hurting, then ghortly you lift it right off with fingers-—truly! ur druggist sells a tiny bottle It Doesn’t Hurt a Bit of Freezone for a few cents, uf fictent to rid your feet every hard corn, soft corn, or corn between the toes, and painful foot calluses, with out the least soreneas or irritation. No humbug! when IT Jumped on the running board on one side, while Jim mounted the other, As soon as the engineer and fireman saw our guns they threw up thelr hands without betng told, and and ask what was the matter with | that little gal, and whether he had} any intention of going back on her, | which would make him start up aunin like sixty, I think that old) begged us not to shoot, saying they | boy standing there in his silk hat| would do anything we wanted them/and bare feet, playing his little to. | French harp, was the funniest night | “Fit the ground,” T ordered, and|! ever saw. Ope little red-headed | they both jumped off, We drove| Woman in the Ine broke out laugh: | them before us down the side of the |!ng at him, You could have heard | train. While this was happening, | her in the next car. | m and Ike had been biasing away Then Jim held them eteady while eon each wide of the train, yell:|I searched the berths, I grappled | ing like Apaches, so ax to keep the around in those beds and filled a passengers herded In the cars. Home | pillow cane with the strangest assort fellow stuck a little twenty-two call-|ment of stuff you ever saw, Now bre out one of the coach windows/and then I'd come acri a little! and fired it straight up in the air.|pop-eun pistol, just about right for | I let drive and smashed the glass! plugging teeth with, which I'd throw s over, his head. That settled | out the window. When I finished | everything like resistance from that|with the collection, I dumped the | direction pillow-cane load in the middle,of the | | By this time my nefvoursness was| aisle. There were a good any fone, I felt a kind of pleasant ex-| watcher, bracelets, rings, and pocket citement aa if I were at a dance or|booka, with a sprinkling of false & frolic of some sort. The lights| teeth, whisky flasks, face-powder were all out in the coaches, and, as| boxes, chocolate caramels and heads Tom and Ike gradually quit firing | of hair of various colors and lengths. and yejling, it got to be almost as| There were also about a dozen ladies’ still as @ graveyard. I remember kings into which jewelry, hearing a little bird chirping in a] watehes, and rolls of bills had been bush at the side of the track, as If|#tuffed and then wadded up tght it were complaining at being waked |and stuck under the mattresses 1) up. |offered to return what I called the | I made the fireman get a lantern, | “soalpa,” saying that we were not In-| and then I went to the express car|diang on the warpath, but none of and yelled to the measenger to open| the ladies seemed to know to whom up or get perforated. He slid the| the hair belonged. | floor back and stood in it with hin] One of the women—and a good-| hands up. Jump overboard, son. looker she was—draped in a striped 1 maid, and he hit the dirt like @/ blanket, saw me pick up one of the| lump of lead. There were two safes! stockings that was pretty chunky in the car—a big one and a ittle/and heavy about the toe, and she jone. By the way, I first located the | snapped out jmenwenger's arsenal—a double-bar-| sernuty mine, str. You're not in reled shotgun with buckshot cart ridges and a thirty-eight in a drawer. | the wusines# Of robbing women, are I drew the cartridges from the shot gun, pocketed the pistol, and called Now, as this was our first hol4-ap. the memenger inaide. I shoved my |** hadn't agreed upon any code of | gurl againat his nose and put him to| Sthics, so I hardly knew what to an- | |work. He couldn't open the big mute, | "er. But, anyway, I replied: “Well not as & specialty. If this contains but he did the little one. ‘There was only nine ‘hundred dollars in it.| ¥OUr personal property you can have it back.” | That was mighty small winnings for “It Just does.” she declared eager our trouble, #0 we decided to go thru the passengers. We took our frie ly, and reached out her hand for it “You'll excuse my taking a look oners to the smoking car, and from | there nent the engineer thru the /at the contents,” I aaid, holding the stocking up by the toe. Out dumped train to light up the coaches, Hegin ning with the first one, we placed &/_ big gent’s gold watch, worth two! Man at each door and ordered the | hundred, a gent's leather pocket-book passengers to stand between the /that we afterward found to contain seats with their hands up. |wix hundred dollars, a thirty-two If you want to find out what) calibre revolver; and the only thing cowards the majority of men are, all/o¢ the lot that could have been a you have to do in rob a passemmer | inay's personal property was a silver | bracelet worth about fifty centa train. I don't mean because they don't rewet—Ill tell you tater o why they can't do that—but it], ' esld: “Madame, here's your prop- makes a man feel sorry for them the | Srt:” And handed her the bracelet. | ap than their heads. Big. | Now.” T went on, “how can you ex burly drummers and farmers and ex ama ty'to a celve oe tn mr ot jecelve * man sold) vi! collared dew diers and high-coltared dudes and 200, (Fy 1° eed at such con duct.” sports that, a few moments before, were filling the car with noise and brageing, get. so soared that their) The young wortan flushed up as if care flop jshe had been caught doing some ‘There were very few people in the) thing dishonest. Some other woman | day coaches at that time of night so | down the line called out: “The mean we made a slim haul until we got to) thing™ I never knew whether she the sleeper. The Pullman conductor |™eant the other lady or ma met me at one door while Jim was| When we finished our job we going round to the other one. Hel ordered everybody back to bed, told very politely informed me that I | ‘em good night very politely at the could not go Into that car, ae it did door, and left. We rode forty miles not belong to the railroad company, before daylight and then divided th and, besiden the passengers had ab | stuff. Each one of us got $1,762.85 ready been greatly disturbed by the|in money, We lumped the jewelry shouting and firing. Never in all my|around. Then we scattered, each life have I met with a finer instance | man for himself. of official dignity and reliance upon| That was my first train robbery, | the power of Mr. Pullman's great/and it was about as easily done ar| lone | darkness, while the others are in the | That }You can't coax him to cross a little name. I jabbed my six-shooter so hard against Mr. Conductor's front that I afterward found one of his veat buttons so firmly wedged In the end of the barrel that I had to shoot it out. He just shut up like a weak any of the ones that followed. that was the last and only time I} lever went thru the passengers, I don't like that part of the bustness. Afterward I stuck strictly to the ex press car. During the next eight | But) |the rest while I was taking toll. }we had the drop on the whole outfit years I handied a good deal of Starts on they generally go far away to one of the big cities to wpend their money pon hands, however successful a hold-up they make, nearly always wive themecives away by showing too much money near the place where they got it 1 was in a job in "04 where we got twenty thous dollars. We fol lowed our favorite plan for a get away—that is, doubled on our trail and laid low for a time near the seene of the train's bad luck One morning I picked up a newspaper and read an article with big head lines #tating that the marshal, with olght puties and a posse of thirty armed citizens, had the train robbers surrounded tn a mesquite thicket on the Cimarron, and that it was @ question of only a few hours when they would be dead men or prix oners hile I was reading that article 1 Was sitting at breakfast in one of the most elegant private ren dences in Washington City, with a flunky In knee pants standing be hind my chair Jim waa sitting acronm the table talking to his half uncle, a retired naval officer, whose name you have often seen in the accounts of doings In the capital. | We had gone there and bought rat | tling outfita of good clothes, and were resting from our labors among | the nabobs. We must e¢ been killed in that mesquite thicket, for I can make an affidavit that we didn’t surrender. | Now I propose to tell why it is easy to h up a train, and then,| why no one should ever do It In the first place, the attacking | party has all th dvantage. That! in, of course, supposing that they are | old-timers with the necessary expert. | ence and courage, They have the! outside and are protected by the light, hemmed into a small space, and exposed, the moment they show a head at a window or doa, to the aim of a man’ who is a dead shot and who won't hesitate to shoot But, in my opinion, the main con dition that makes train robbing easy in the element of surprise in con nection with the imagination of the passengers, If you have ever seen & horwe that has eaten loco weed you will understand what I mean when I say that the passengers get locoed horse gets the awfullest imagination on him in the world branch stream two feet wide. It looks as big to him as the Mississippi river. That's just the way with the passenger. He thinks there are a hundred men yelling and shooting utaide, when maybe there a only wo or three, And the muzzle of a forty five looks ike the entrance to a tunnel The passenger in all right altho he may do mean little tricks. like hiding a wad of money in his whoo and forgetting to dig up until you jostle his ribs some with the end| of your #ixshooter; but there's no harm in him. Aas to the train crew, we never had any more trouble with them than if they had been so many sheep. I don't mean that they are cowards; 1 mean that they have got sense. They know they're not up against a bluff. It's the same way with the officers: I've seen secret service men, marshals, and ratiroad detec tives fork over their change as meek an Mowes. I naw one of the bravest marsha I ever knew hide his gun under his seat and dig up along with He wasn't afraid; he «imply knew that Besides, many of thore officers have families and they feel that they oughtn't to take chances; whereas death has no terrors for the man in loose back style. bust. $55.00 and up to $17 Egwite Shampoo Two Shampoos for 15 Cents Cleans the Hair and Makes It Fluffy Directions: Stir _con- tents in half pint of hot water until completely dissolved. Wet the bair with warm water then rub one-half the lution into the head u & creamy lather js tained, Rinse thoroughly with warm water. Then apply the rest the shampoo in the same manner and rinke well Pith warm water as be- ore. of Notion Section New Plush Coats Featuring Short Coats Unusual At $24.50 HE tured this season finger tip Suitable for every occasion, light weight and com- fortably warm, are looking taupe coney fur col- lars. Other models in beaver cloth with col- lars of self material. 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In all my experience I never knew! officers to attack a band of outlaws they outnumbered them at/ least thre un plone to one, | But the outlaw carries one thought | MASON FRUIT Special, 85c Doz. Extra Special for Saturday These are the Ball Mason Fruit Jars, com- plete with porcelain lined covers and rubbers, Quart-size, special, dozen... .85¢ springed knife and rolled down the car steps money I opened the door of the sleeper! The best haul I made was just and stepped inside. A big, fat old|seven years after the first one, We man came wabbling up to me, puff-|found out about a train that was Ing and blowing. He had | going to bring out a lot of money and was trying to put hin |to pay off the soldiers at a Govern I don't know who |}ment post. We stuck thag train up Jin broad daylight. Five of us lay “Young man, young man,” says |in the sand hills near a little station he, “you must keep cool and not get; Ten soldiers were guarding the excited. Above everything, keep, money on the train, but they might coc }just as well have been at home on a furlough. We didn't even allow them to stick their heads out the windows to see the fun. We had no trouble at all in getting the money, That. old man tried to dive into! hh was all in gold. Of course, a one. of the lower berths, but a/big howl rained at the time sereech came out of it and a bare | about the robbery It was Govern foot that took him in the bread-|ment stuff, and the Government got basket and landed him om the floor.| sarcastic and wanted to know what I maw Jim coming in the other door,|the convoy of soldiers went along | and I hollered for everybody to climb | for. The only excuse given was that out and line up. nobody was expecting an attack They commenced to scramble |among those bare sand hilla In day down, and for a while we had a/time, I don't know what the Go three-ringed elrcus. The men looked ernment thought about the excuse as frightened and tame as a lot of |but { know that it was a good one. rabbits in a deep snow. They had|The surprixe—t in the keynote of on, on an average, about a quarter |the train-robbing business, The pa of a suit of clothes and one shoe|pers published all kinds of stories apiece. One chap waa sitting on the|about the loss, finally agreeing that |floor of the aisle, looking as if he/|it was nine thousand and were working a bard sum in arith-|ten thousand dollars, ‘The Govern He wag trying, very solemn,| Ment sawed wood. Here are the cor & lndy's number two shoe on|rect figures, printed for the first] nine foot. jUme—forty-elght thoumnd dollars. didn't stop to drems.|If anybody will take the trouble to were #0 curious to see a real,|look over Uncle Sam's private }cogee and put them on the train a » train robber, bless ‘em, that they |counts for that little débit to profit | Besides them they had fifty armed just wrapped blankets and sheets | and loss, he will find that I am right /™¢n hid in the depot at Pryor Creek jaround themselves and eame out, | to a cent When the Katy Flyer pulled in squeaky and fidgety looking. They} By that time we not a Dalton showed up. The next | always show more curiosity and|enough to know what to do, We) Station was Adair, six miles away sand than the men do. rode due west twenty miles, making | When the train reached there, and We them all lined up and/a@ trail that a FE tway policen the deputies were having a good pretty quiet, and I went thru the|could have followed, and then we|tme explaining what they would |buaeh. I found very little on them | doubled back, hiding our tracks, On| have done to the Dalton gang if they of men and }—-I mean in the way of valuables.|the second night after the hold-up had turned up, all at once it sounded nt One man in the line was a sight./while posses were scouring the coun-/ke an army firing outside, The month have bought their He was one of those big, overgrown, |try in every direction, Ji nd 1|conductor and brakeman came ren suits at Gately’s would tell solemm snoozers that #it on the |Were eatin; supper in the se nd | ning the car yelling, “Train you—"There are no better form at lectures and look wise, |story of a friend's house in the town’ robbers!" values in Seattle.” fore crawling out had managed | where the alarm started from, Our] Seme of thore deputies lit out of to put on his long, frock-tailed t| friend pointed out to us,in an offi the door, hit the ground, and kept and his high silk hat. The rest of the street, a printing press/On renning, Some of them hid their him was nothing but pajamas and|at work striking off handbills offer-|Winchesters under the seats. Two bunions When I dug into that!ing a reward for our capture. of them made a fight and were both | Prince Albert, Igexpected to drag out Ih been asked what we do| Killed At least a block of gold mine stock | with the money we get. Well, I never] It took the Daltons just ten min could account for a tenth part of it) Utes to capture the train and whip or an armful of Government bonds, | but all I found was a little boy's |after it was spent. It goes fast and in twenty minutes more has have a the express car of French harp about four inches long. | freely. An outlaw to What it was there for, I don't know.| good many friends. A highly re) Wenty-seven thosuand dollars and I felt @ little because he had |spected citizen may, and often does,|™4de a clean getaway fooled m harp up|get along with very few, but a man| My opinton ix that those ¢ lohukie andes: Masi mobic te |would have put up a stift fight at} lickers.” With angry posses and re-| Pryor, Creek, where they were ex |ward-hungry officers cutting a hot|Pecting trouble, but they were taken tra!) for him, he must hay few | by ri and “locoed™ at Adair, places ttered about the country |Just as the Daltons, who knew their gunbarrel whero stop and feed himself | bUSiNass, expected they would. constantly in his mind—and that is| what makes him so sore against life, | more than anything else—he knows | where the marshals get their recruits! who holds up a train. He expects to get killed some day, and he generally docs, My advice to you, if you should ever be ip a hold-up, ts to line up with the cowards and saye your | bravery for an occasion when it may |Of deputies. He knows that the ma: | be of some benefit to you. Another |jority of these upholders of the law! reason why officers are backward] were once lawbreakers, horse | about mixing things with a train! sion rustlers, highwaymen, and| robber is @ financial one, Every | time there in a scrimmage and some-|OUtlaws like himself, and that they | body gets killed, the officers lose|gained their positions and immunity | |money. If the train robber gets turning state's evidence, by turn away they swear out a warrant|ing traitor and delivering up their against John Doe et al. and travel|/comrades to imprisonment = and hundreds of miles and sign vouchers |death, He knows that some day unless he is shot first—his Judas for thousands on the trail of the | will set to work, the trap will be Jaid. fugitives, and the Government foots {the billa So, with them, it ts alfand he will be the surprised instead question of mileage rather than cour-jof the surpriser at a stick-up, age That is why the man who holds I will give one instanée to support|up trains picks his company with a my statement that the surprise i*/ thousand times the care with which | the best card in playing for a hold-!q careful girl chooses a nweetheart up. That is why he raises himself from | Along im ‘92 the Daltons were cut:|his blanket of nights and listens to ting Out @ hot trail for the officers|the tread of every horse's hoofs on down In the Cherokee nation. Those|the distant road, That ts why -he j Were their lucky days, and they got |broodg suspiciously for days upon a so reckless and sandy, that they] jesting remark or an unusual move used t oannounce beforehand what/ment of a tried or the they were going to undertake.|proken mutterings closest Once they gave it out that they were | friend, sleeping by | going to hold up the M. K. & T. flyer on @ certain night at the station of Pryor Creek, in Indian Territory That night the railroad company | wot fifteen deputy marshals in Mus Fancy Decorated China Salad Bowl—Special at 39c Pert, This is a beautiful selection of thin Fancy China Salad “or Berry Bowls, decorated in an attractive floral design. 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When he makes a haulhe /€xperience of eight years “on the I remembered hearing when I was a|feela like dropping some of the coin | dodge It doesn't to rob trains. | 7 kid [with these friends, and he does it Leaving out the question of right E Mammy and Daddy told me so, |h of reguge, fung a handful of |to envy in the life of an outlaw. | . WHITE 1113 Third A gold and bills into the laps of the|After a while money ceases to have! For SUPERIOR | ar ve. I made him keep on playing it all{kids playing on the floor, without|ny value in hix eyes, He gets to| BETWEEN SENECA AND SPRING STREETS ft, time ve were In the cnr. Now |knowing whether, my, contribution | ong enter aw his varkers ava| COURT JUDGE (ADVERTISEMENT) | He caught hold of the harp, turned/and hia horse and get a few hours'| 1 don't think I ought to close with | red as a beet, and coramenced to alee without havin 2me deductions from my . | | |iberally, Sometimes [ have, at the| 4nd moral, which I don't think I | Prettiest little gal in the country—oh!|end of a hasty visit at one of these | Ought to tackle, there is very little and then he'd get weak and off the|was a hundred dollars or a thousand, | press companies as his bankers, and key, and I'd turn my gun on him When old-timers make a big haul! his sixshooter ag @ check book good