. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . court house and time the court con-vened, together with other necessary in-formation which we, as amateur crimi-nals, stood much in need. While hewas talking, in my minds eye I couldsee a big gun, shackles and other ap-purtenances supposed to be an integralpart of a well equipped sheriff, but asnothing of the kind was I fellto wondering when our arrest would be-gin and the nature of emotions pro-duced when in such a predicament. Heturned to walk away and I timidly in-quired if we w
. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . court house and time the court con-vened, together with other necessary in-formation which we, as amateur crimi-nals, stood much in need. While hewas talking, in my minds eye I couldsee a big gun, shackles and other ap-purtenances supposed to be an integralpart of a well equipped sheriff, but asnothing of the kind was I fellto wondering when our arrest would be-gin and the nature of emotions pro-duced when in such a predicament. Heturned to walk away and I timidly in-quired if we were under arrest, to whichhe replied, yes, but that he had someimportant business to attend to beforecourt opened and would see us to our own resources we droppedinto a neighboring hotel and were en-tertained by the landlord until abouttime to present ourselves before thejustice who was to adjudicate our im-mediate future. On our way to thecourt room the conductor and myselfstepped into the office of our attorneysandj^npon canvassing the matter at is-sue, during which it was admitted by. , jirint, Onick. A CHURCH CAR ON THE CIBIRIAN R R. that we were running more than sixmiles an hour and quite another toprove it. and I proposed to stand finally adjourned to the superin-tendents office, acquainted him with ourdilemma and were informed that the factswould be submitted to the general solici-tor of the road. This was done and aday or two later advices reached us that us that the train was running someeighteen or twenty miles per hour atthe time it was decided that we be notput on the witness stand to testify inour own behalf, as under cross examina-tion it might prove extremely difficultand embarrassing to reconcile the speedwe were actually running with thatcalled for in the ordmance. Following July. 1904, RAILWAY AND LOCOMOTIVE ENGINEERING 303 lliis llie conclusion was reaclictl tliatothers less familiar willi speed thanourselves should be relied on
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