The star of Pascagoula. [volume] (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1873-1878, 1874-04-04

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10 the appearances Of the detectives
and young Daaiels, and we're eating
dinner Of the timo they passed. After
eating their dinner, John Younger re-
marked 10 Bis brother james that
they would follow those men and see
WHO they we're, stating at the same
that he supposed they were deciect-
ives, and when theY caught UP WIN
them the battle commenced, as repor'
ted below.
The following Is the evidence be-
fore the coroner's inquest held on The
bodies of Edward Daniels aud John
Younger
w. J. Allen, being duly sworn, ses'
tilted as follows: Yesterday, about
halfpast 2 o'clock the 17tb Of March,
1874. Il. B Daniels and myself were
riding along the road from Roscoe TO
Chalk Level, which road runs past
the house of one Theodrick Snuiler,
and when about one~half mile from
the residence of said Snuifer, and
abotS three miles from the town oI
Roscoe and in St. Clair county, Mis-
souri,, Daniels and myself were riding
side by side, ana Wright short DIS
tance ahead Of us, some noise BEHIND
rs attracted our attention, and WI
looked back and saw two men or
horseback coming toward US, ahe
one was armed with double barre
shotgun, the other with revolYers-
don't know if the other had shotgun
or not; the one had the shotgun cock
ed both barrels, and ordered US to
halt: Wright drew his pistol, and put
spurs to his horse and rode of; they
ordered him TO halt, and shot at him
and shot eff his hat, but he kept OF
riding. Daniels and myself stopped
standing across the road on oul
horses; they rode up. TO us, and order
ed us to take off our pistols and droE
them in the road, the one with thu
gun covering me all the time with th'
gun. We dropped our pistols on TIL
ground, and ono of the men told th'
other to follow Wright and bring
him back, but he refused to 60, say
ing he would stay with him ; one o
the men then picked up the revolver
we had dropped. and looking at then
remarked they were damn fine pistol
and we must make present OF them
one of them then asked nae where W
came from, and l said from Osceola
he then wanted to know what W
we're doing in this part of the coun
try; | replied, rambling around. N
of them then said, you were up her
one day before; l replied that W
were not; he then said we had bee
at the springs; l replied we had bee
at the springs, but had not been en-
quiring for them, that we did nc
know them, and they said detective
had been up there hunting for thel
all the time, and they were going
stop it. Daniels then said Il am n
detective; | can show You who ! al
and where / belong :" and one
them said he knew him, and the
turned to me and said: aWhat
the hell are you riding around hel
) with all them pistols on for?" And
said, "Good God! is not every ma
wearing them that is travelling, al
have | not as much right to wei
them as any one elscY' and the OF
:. that had the shotgun said: "Hold o
Young man, we don't want any
that" and then lowered the gu
cooked, in threatening manner; thu
Daniels had some talk with them, al
one of them got off his horse al
picked up the pistols; two OF the
were mine ane one Daniels; the o.
mounted had the gun drawn on N