The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-07-20


ture HinI-His Cave Observation-Disclosures of
the state Officials While He Lives.
We have given at different times intelligence
relative to the doings of this notorious despe-
RADIO, and of the rewards and efforts made for
his capture. From the st. Louis Democrat of
the 10th inst. we take the particulars of the
latest attempt to arrest him.
THE RECENT EXPEDITION
1t has Ebeen generallyknown to the public that
with view of capturing the outlaw, dead or
alive" large sheriff's posse was put in the field
about month ago, and placed under the COM
ml nd of Colonel William d. Bowen, of the st.
LC uis police force The posse consisted of 200
II en-, organized by Sheriff Murphy, of st. Fran
ctis county, only ten of whom, when mustered
were armed and their weapons consisted mostly
of old squirrel guns. This force was intended
to scour the country lying along Big river, Flat
creek, and on the Plattiu, also the region about
the Vale Mines and the Pike Run Hills. The
country is very broken; the streams and deep
ravines are in many places shut out from the
sunlight by lofty ledges of rocks and elevated
ridges, in which are numerous caYerns, affordug
place of shelter and concealment to wanderers
and desperadoes
Colonel Bowen, who commanded the posse,
returned to the city on Wednesday night, the
object of his search having eluded capture
although several times almost within the grasp
of his pursuers.
We learn from Jefferson City, though not off
cially, that the Sheriffs posse will be dsbanded
and probably reorganzed as a military force
and that the counties of st. Francois and Medi-
son will be declared by the Governor to be
under martial law, or placed in stage of siege.
We give the above rumor for what it is worth
From our correspondents who have kept us
posted from time to time in regard to the pro-
gress of the expedition, which, for prudential
reasons, has been kept back until all prospect
of success appears to have been abandoned, we
compile the fellowinS interesting narrative
ADVENTURES OF THE PARTY IN SEARCH OF HILL
DEBRAND.
Colonel Bowen left st. Louis on the last eXpe-
dition on the nth of June, and arrived at Potosi
on the 18th. He stopped at Irondale waiting for
the sherff's posse, when twenty men reported
Sheriff Breckenridge, of Washington county
could not get man to volunteer.
On the 2Oth Colonel Bowen started with ten
of the Irondale men, and Officers Mcqueen
Schulster, and Watson of the st. Louis police
force, in quest of Hildebrand.
AT 10 o'clock that night they arrived at the
house of one HILL loyal man, and said to have
suffered from Hilderbrand in various ways, and
here they rested until o'clock A. M. of the 2lst
CALL ON mLDEBRAND's SISTER.
They then marched before daylight to the
house of Hidebrand's sister, having received in
formation that the outlaw was stopping there.
Soon after daylight they learned that Hide
brand had left the premises in the night some
two hours before their arrival. They obtained
their information in this way:-The family at
first obstinately refusing, was natural, to in
form against their relative, Hthey threatened to
hang up two OF the youngest boys, when the
smallest-a lad eight years old-diyulged the
secret
The boy said his uncle had been there two
days, and that his wounds were dressed by his
mother. He left the house, as stated, jus. in
time to elude capture,
After obtaining this important information,
the posse did not arrest the woman or treat her
with any disrespect, it being considered that she
had only performed sisters part towards D
brother, in harborng him, though an outlaw
contrary to the recent proclamation. 1t would
have been against the promptlngs OF human ma
ture to have done otherwise,
| ARREST OF mLDEBRAND's BRoTHER-IN-LAw;
On the evening of the 22d the party arrested
| William Harris, the brother-in-law OF Hide
| brand This Harris formerly served under
\ Colonel Bowen, his present captor, III the
| 10Th Missouri Cavalry. They also arrested
| man named Cash, and another named Dunham;
| These men were helieved to be in the habit OF
conveying messages from Hidebrand TO various
| parties in that section, threatening them
| with harm if they did not Immediately com
| ply with his demands. This black-malllng
system 1t is stated, has been carried on py
Hlldebrand among loyal citizens ever since the
close of the war.
| MORE HANGING FOR INFORMATION.
After promising bribes threats were resorted
to, and finally the hanging process was tried, in
order to extort information from the prisoners
After hanging awhile, the truth was choked out
OF them, and they informed Col Bowen that