The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1873-05-01

recognition Of the driver Of that team
as man who had been In Rowell'
store in the afternoon to buy . news
paper, been into the City Drug Store
up In Wolf 4 Landt's ONCE to ge
abstracts Of title to certain lands be
longing to minor heirs" and In vari
GUS other places under various pre-
texts.
The track was now plain. The
right man took It. D. w. Porter, &C.
oompanied by Eugene HIGHLANDER,
followed the trail Of the gray team on,
BY p. NJ. Vests and directly to Lou.
don, whittier It had evidently been
driven Ut spanking gait. At Paris
they first found . man who saw Il
pass and 1t Louden they made sure
1t had gone through. Here Porter
hired fresh team and recruited Mar
shall Barney McCabe, who has often
been proven . most reliable officer.
The track Of the grey horses now led
them through Toronto and Lost Ma
ton. At the former place the pursued
had obtained something to eat and
halted = little, and warm trail led
them to Maquoketa, where another
team was obtained, and through to
Andrew, where they found that the
bully grey horses had been given q
bite to eat at about two o'clock-it was
new seven. At Bellevue, on the Mis-
sissippi, Porter walked the ferryman q
little after one O'Clock and found his
man had crossed just before dark. At
this time it was pitch dark and rain
ing dismally, but the ferrvman proved
to be true blue, and not only assisted
the resolute officers to get fresh team
and got out his horses aud ferried them
over, but also carried lantern ahead
and piloted them through five miles
of overlooked river bottom which no
live stranger could have got through
in that darkness without shipwreck.
ct Galena just at daylight,
after considerable looking they found
the team In . stable-pretty well
knocked up after Its seventy mile
drive, but not given out as was ex-
pected. After run for an early train
which would have taken away Mr..
Burglar had the landlord succeeded
in waking his sleepy guest according
to orders, thorough search Of the ho-
tells Gagged the bird-still In his bed
much needed rest. Mar
shal O'Leary. Of Galena, made the ar
rest. The prisoner was surprised
enough, bat submitted to what he de-
clared his fate gracefully; and upon
the pledge Of Porter and McCabe that
he should not be lynched, came with
them without any legal formalities.
In Q box In his room were found q
small lot Of tools-a half dozen drills,
The powder arrangement we wot OF, a
file and some fuse, and all the stolen
except Rowell's account
book and come papers which he had
thrown in the river. The property
by the way, consisted of "a
old watches, some old silver coin, and
, few bracelets and silver rings, val
ued by Rowell ct $500 in round num-
bers. Hicks interference left the job
half done.
Brought to Upton Tuesday by Por-
ter and McCabe, to " hose indomitable
energy we owe the capture-as he
says, lone out of hundred" he was
soon arraigned before Justice Tuthill
for preliminary examination. AS
most of the facts in the above were
drawn from the testimony Of Hicks,
Porter, Pritchard and others at this
we need not rehearse its
The defendant now gave
bis name as VIM. Crawford, and con-
Quoted his own case calmly and placid
~, making no effort to escape the COM
mitment which he knew was iuevita-
BILE. He was here 1t appeared In
evidence, last March, and registered
then as J. Wilson. At West Liberty
his name was Thompson, and his
other names we don't know.
Justice Tuthill held him CON mitted
and fixed the amount Of bail, with the
Of the prosecuting attorney,
At 81, 2OO-which 10 just as good -
sl2, 1000, lift holds him, as there is no
shadow OF doubt 1t will do. He 10
evidently professional Of experience;
says he did not come here for any such
small game and ought to have been
caught for undertaking 1t against his
own judgment. This leads us back to
the question Of his confederates.
Hicks saw some one outside and inside
1t the same time, 80 there must have
been more than one-as indeed the
prisoner admits. We know however
that he came here and went away
alone, which gives color to his tale
that his pals" are our citizens. Now
rho are they? Those are the men
most dangerous to our community,
and the men we need to reach; and al
though suspicion seems now to be
utterly at fault, We can not help hop
ing that something may yet put Us on
the right scent. Could we once be
of their identity-even should
sufficient evidence to legally convict
be wanting-we opine the mission Of
those individuals in Upton would be
ut an end.
COUNTY SUPERVISORS.
Report Of Adjourned Session held
April 22--.24, 1873.