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rWELVE PACrES PART V. TWENTY-EIGHT HOLDUPS WITH AN a EMPTY GUN flere's Highwayman By JOSIAH M. WARD Illustration Who Swore Never to by WILL CRAWFORD A Story to Prove That ' 01 or Injure Man or the New York Type of Woman, andWhoKept Holdup ManHasMuch Bis Word and His to Learn Before He jServe for Seven YearS Can Rank Profession- ally With Black Bart The Prospector HF WAS .« failure, There was no worthy freed himself doubt of that. Just one of the many having of the euetody of box and bag. "Drive on." West in the flush men who went The men who were aent out from OroviDa days of mining with the cxpectation to rescue the box and the bag found in th" rifled box the cf wresting a fortune from the stubborn hills following bit of doggerel ver?e, and baek written, one may surmise, while the robber w. of Nevada and California going in who had lyii r wait for the stage: I om« ) iive at ease.one of those Here I lay me down and a to sleep, * home to which he could -retftrn patient, To walt the comtn_ morrow j there for him. Be could Perhaps sncceas, perhaps defeat trusting wife waitlng And everlastinjr sorrow. work for wage* baek there in his Illinois home Tet come what wtll.ri] tn N w, My condition can't be woreet *own. What he sought was the big gamble And If there's money ln that hem, He was a prospec- T_ money for my purse. in minihg.thc bonanza. BLACK BART. » O ft. .-,; but somehow all the mines he ataked And thus Black Bart, staga robber, waa turned out to be barrancas. A prospector, ushered Into fame. howc er, Is ever lured from one barren hole The descriptlon of him fnrnlshed by the tn another. Always he has feith in his lattBt driver of the Russian River stage tallied wit'' the find. and he C"cs on year after year palched. description of the robber of the Ororii!" tarched and hungry.seeking the pot, of gold stage, including the note about a hollow voice. By the last robbery he obtained a sum of mone" of his rainbow. 11 is a lonesome _ th cnd marked "considerable" in the report of (he if. r- .' reeds ecrecy. expresa company given for publication. Thia Wl--- ;.ii his money ia tfone, his credit ex- meant, decoded, about $5,000. Black Bart ..;.! hc can find no one to jrrubstake had now rohbed the United States mail, and his second exploit drew forth 1"" v il! irn *" some voutine cmployment him an offer of $300 from the Federal government aml earn a fund for another prospc-ting trip. for his arrest. $200 from the postal authori . niai apt t<> brood, to become mis- ties and $300 from the Wells Fargo Company As .,,,.).. ,pic, to envy thc good fortune of others. robbery succceded to robbery, each drew a duplication of these 6ntil the sum a ..;,- there in the pot of gold at the offer.*, total reached $18,000. where it. was left as a stand ra ubow. One more one more pf [hc trip, ing offer. Twenty-five successful robberie- a| and it his. foliowed. The twenty-eighth, attemptcd Charles i'- Bolcs, thc failure I am writine November 3, 1883, proved his undoing. H- had gone once too often to the well. Coli ,. was pro pector in Nevada in the bo- stant success had in deep, dark, damp made Black Bart carelesr. digging An odd peculiarity was his seeming deter ..-; -,i< $ i day for him. ile bad his up* mination to earn the second title lie bad he _0wn bul his upy werc few «nSan Francisco, to find the owner of the laundry torned to civilization to become Bolton the mark FOX7. cl«k. It was a tantalizing existence, and *«* was no raor© tantalising eight in it than Capture and Confession ^ treasare boxea of the com- repcated the clerk at the laundry heavy expresa baaineaa foresight and acuman ever came to a fat treasure box. For his money supply waa lar interest, dropped his sight to the sinister the Inside of the coach indicated that there WJpOXT?" * office on Bush Street between and . were both men women was Kearney Wny chock full of gold gold in coin, gold his mind he ignored it He waa a failure. He becoming lesa. looking gun. and aboard. 'It !n "You he the box to be alive on that Montgomery, to which place Black Bart's laun¬ hullion, gold in amalgam, gold in rich was past the productive period of life. Though The habit of secretivenesa had grown upon win," remarked, tossing good pleasant spring day side of the road. in 1878. The man on the seat with the driver dry had been traced by Morse. "That is the -ewelry. Tossed of constitution, there waa no denying him, and when he needed suppMes he walked out upon the to and from stage coach, vigorous "Drive masked man then ordered. was moved to mark of Charles E. Bolton. I know him quito the of his life'a calendar. to a distant country store to get them rather on," the song: *»»>_ or train like it aeemed to be a tally on to Russian well." To Morse's further inquiries the clerk drosa, nearer stores. A who watched The driver proceeded his trip W-a-l-t for state of than to person the w-a-g-o-n, "He's a man .hing of little Talue. Yet it contained the sum Bolton was in this semi-morbid River. The box contained five or six hundred W-a-l-t for the w-a-gr-o-n, responded: mining who altcr- 01 his movements might conclude that he courted nates between San human happinesa or of human mind when he was forced to the conclusion dollars. The men sent out to investigate found W-a-t-t for the w-a-£-o-n, Francisco and his mines. greed. obscurity. And we'll all take a rtde, He left this for his Charles E. Bolton saw all this with an intro- that he must seek new fielde to find the mine it in the bushes. It had been broken open morning mines." ^ its richea to him. He he warbled The other Morse ?ective eve- H© was a ailent man, but he that was to yield np Black Bjart with a heavy, blunt tooL. brayingly. passengers explained that he wished to consult some much, but for I should re¬ laughed and jeered him. The spirit of spring Bolton as an on the value of some ot-» and nouriahed wild schemes whereby had money.not enough ONE of those hot midsummer days of "Sort o' undersized feller, say," expert jooded* could a start.and selected the California slope of |~|N the driver. "Kind o' hollow voice. was in their blood. in his possession, giving a flctltlous name. obtain some of this burden of gold the Sacramento Valley, California, where ported .»t was so the Sierra Mountaina. Being: a lode miner, he Wore overalls. never got as low as a a man Charles Richmond. He found that Bolton kept carelessly htirled about by the ex- nature and at the mercy of My eyes At turn in the road masked stepped J^sg a lode mine. when he all lay panting a rocm in a small hotel, and, made men. looked for Exactly from Fort Ross to Russian his feet Gun barrel uncommonly large." out from the bushes and pointed a big re- going there, found it I don't know, but it wasn't much of the sun, the stage This roadside affair occurred in 1877, and, volver at the driver. a minute search. He found nothing more sus¬ Gradually there formed In hia mind a apirit River clanked and clattered over the dusty he to do conaiderable tun- as robberiea were not infrequent in those picious than a small, worn Bible, on the fiyleaf resentment againat the men who owned a mine and had at a stage "Throw out the treasure box and the mail road. The four horses moved shambling Hume of the Wells-Fargo com¬ of which was written Bolea' Sold and againat the powerful corpora- neling. down the driver'a days, Detective bag," he remarked in an even, quiet tone of Mary inscription jJJJ that at trot, perspiration trHckled after making the usual investigation, to her husband. had grown rich in handling and He made a rough shack for a home the were no pany, voice, j"* face. There passengers. it aa Vcasual" and flled all the informa¬ This revealed to Morse two strong it-the tunne! month, from which he had a clear view listed Two of the women thrust their heads prob- £J"Porting Wella-Pargo Expresa At a turn in the road a masked man atepped tion obtained for future reference. abilities, to wit: 1, that Black Bart was Bol¬ The bonanza were not of the country spreading for miles below, the the open side.s of the coach and stared 2a«y. kinga out from the bushes and pointed a heavy re- Time and with it the rains of fall through ton ; and, 2, that Bolton's real name waa Boles. env1ed in those were into the fiats at tha base of passed, with distended UtH d*y8'but they canyons melting volver at the driver. nnd the torrents of early spring. All nature eyes. Therefore, when the owner of the laundry of th«ir methods. If the the range. He could see short stretches of tiny "Do not be alarmed, ladies," the masked man thouthr ,account cloud "Throw out the treasure box," said the gushed with new life, and the four horses that mark FOX7 showed up at the laundry Morse they had ""cceeded where he ribbons marking roads and the moving cur- said, with dry gallantry; "you will not be hurt atdf n_7at masked man in such a tone as one uses in drew the stage from Quincy to Oroville beguiled him by the ore expert trick into 6VCr intraded he thrust it aside. of dust thrown up by the Wells-Fargo stage or robbed. I only want the treasure box and if th 1? a for a match. veted and snorted with equine friskiness. The Hume's office. "I knew he was Black Bart," that the coaches as dashed along between the aaking Btranger the mail His tone was .»d ri _T?ht Wells-Fargo people they at the masked of the driver sparkled with animation bag." apologetic. fortune8 ln their had fields of manzanita and chaparraL And every The driver took one look eyes "Thank he added to the m__*»__; vajiture and of and the merry chatter of voices coming froa you/' driver, that (Contimud on pags tw) ***" f«tan_a through the exerciae of atage coach brought up in his mind visions of features, but, seeing nothing there particu-