Just as the curve was turned, a few hundred paces ahead, stood a small group of tramps. Seeing the train, they hastily broke and ran for the timber along the edge of the right-of-way, but not before one of them hurriedly stooped and placed something on the track, A hundred eyes were on him, and as many rifles were instantly raised to fire, but Daly was the first to pull the trigger, and the man fell backward down the enbankment, bearing with him that which he had endeavored to place on the rail. In firing, Daly was compelled to let go his hold, which kept him on the train, and he lost his balance and fell forward, crushed into an unrecognizable mass beneath the wheels. The train was stopped, and a hundred aching hearts, which had melted in the presence of death, went tenderly to their duty of gathering up poor Daly's remains. The tramp had been shot fairly through the head, and he had died holding in one of his clenched fists a deadly bomb, which, but for the presence of mind and quickness of action of the despised recruit, would have sent every soul on the train into eternity. The next day the _Rocky Mountain Daily Eagle_ contained this Associated Press report: "The late Private Daly, of Company E, --th Infantry, who was crushed beneath the first train out of Patterson, Mont., while firing at Antonio Bressi, the anarchist, was from New York City, where he has a mother and younger sisters and brothers dependent on him for support. His right name was Leonard Dresel, and the name Daly seems to have been assumed when he entered the Army to conceal his identity. There was no apparent reason for this, as he has an excellent reputation for honesty and industry, and he enlisted in the Regulars because he could obtain no employment elsewhere. He worked for officers of his regiment in order to make additional money that his brothers and sisters might remain in school. "Antonio Bressi, who died from the deadly aim of Daly, was a noted anarchist leader, prominent in the Coeur d'Alene riots a few years ago, which were so promptly quelled by the --th Infantry. It is believed that for this reason he endeavored to blow up the train, for it is known that he is not in sympathy with the striking railroad men." A week later Company E was paid, and that night a money order payable to Mrs. Catharine Dresel, No. ---- Baxter Street, New York, for $150, left on the east-bound train. In the little cemetery at Fort Meredith there is an elaborate granite monument bearing the inscription: "Private Patrick Daly, Co. E, --th Inf. He gave his life that others might live. Erected by his comrades." A DYING SPANIARD'S REQUEST