Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1875-07-09

ne was uOlDR Lli5 MOTIFS Slipltu lue
$1,000 package in his pocket, and he and
johnson divided it
AFTER THEY LEFT THE CITY.
In the division Johnson and Morris
each got about $500, Woods about Sl100,
and the negro, Henry johnson, about
| $500, not taking into consideration the
loose money Woods had stolen or The
| $1,000 Goyer package. About $3.50 Of
the larger bills were given to Woods,
| which he stuck in the breast pocket OF
| the coat he, had on ed JOhnsOu's coat,
| and he received about $3.50 in smalka
| bills, which he put in roll in his panta-
| looms pocket. Just as the quartette was
breaking up to scatter to the fourwinds,
| johnson changed coats with Woods,
| who was in great hurry, and forgot to
| take his $3.50. cut OF the coat pocket,
| and johnson carried tnSt off. By
this means Woods had only
| between $3.50 and S4OO eft, and Johnson
had about 5000 after dividing the Goyer
package with Morris, and Morris had
about $1,000. johnson took care not to
let Morris know that he had $3.50 Of
Woods share, and Mat did not find it
out until he was brought back and put in
jail, and it is said Mat has not yet for
given johnson for
THE TRICK.
After they sailed out, Woods went to
, his house, where his wife and mother
in-law were, and threw the roll OF small
money Oh the bed in great excitement,
and in few minutes Mat entered and
stayed a short while, when ne aud Woods
left the house. But before leaving Mat
slyly handed Mollio Mrs. Woods one
hundred dollars in order that che might
be able to carry OUt g previously ar
ranged plan for her to meet him in Sher-
man, Texas. In the meantime, Ed
Johnson and Morris, being afraid that
Woods would not have sense enough to
get away, had taken 8 fifth party into
the secret, whose part was To take
charge OF Woods and get him of.
for which said party received
part of their 'whack." Said
fifth party (the name is not given be-
cause his case is yet to come before the
court for trial. took charge of Woods
and carried him to the house of negro
named Green Fellows, in Fort Picker
ing, and told him to remain there until
he called or sent for him. After thus
hiding Woods: the said fifth party went
to the express company's office and told
Msjor Willis that he would give him in
formation that would lead to the detec-
ton Of all four Of the robbers for two
hundred dollars apiece. This Willis re-
fused to do, and was about to have the
man arrested when he sbscOnded. But
before leaving the city he saw Green
Fellows and gave him fifty dollars, and
told him to give it to Woods and tell
him to meet him at Grand Junction, on
the Memphis and Charleston railroad. |
1t will be borne in mind that Woods had |
gone off and left the roll of money (three |
hundred and fifty dollars) on his mother
in-law's bed, thus being stripped Of all |
his ill-gOtten- treasure. Old Green de- |
livered twelve dollars of the money to |
Woods and the message, but also ad- |
vised Woods not to so TO Grand June. |
ton as he would be caught. But told |
him he could hide him near German
town. He took Woods to a negro cabin |
near that place and left him there. 1t is |
evident old Green did not want WOods's |
friend to find out that all OF the fifty dol |
Iars had not reached Woods, 90 Green |
returned to the city, and went to the pO- |
lice Office and told where Woods was,
WOODS WAS ARRESTED
that night, and made q confession. In /
the meantime, on the third of February, |
Woods's mother-in-law went to the of. |
fee of the express company in this city |
and handed Major Willis S35, and said |
Woods had told her to take S25 out OF |
the roll Of money on the bed and she |
took S35, and said she did not know |
what became of the balance. But she |
gave full information as to all the par
lies implicated, and thus put the officers
Of the law
UPON THEIR TRACKS.
But before Woods was captured the in
formation from the mOtheT-in-laW had |
been obtained, and the negro Henry
Johnson was arrested at his home in |
Crittenden county, Arkansas, and $500 |.
recovered. Ed Johnson and Morris left
the city together about twelve o'clock
on the day of the robbery in a skiff.
They put off from below the elevator
and rOWed to Presidents island, thence
to the Arkansas shore, where they had
skiff tied up. They hired q negro to
take the skiff (Which was known to be
JohnsOn's by the river mem and go
nine miles below and tie it up, SO that
it could be found there by the police if
they followed, and thus throw them off
the right track. They then went in
their other skiff up the river along the
western side to Mound City, Arkansas,
and struck out across the bottom to the
railroad, which they followed on foot,
until near Madison, when they bought
two horses, and after leaving Madison
took the road along CrOwley's ridge and
went to depot on the Cairo and Full
ton railroad, when they shipped their
horses for Texarkana. While Mat was
looking after the shipping of the horses,
Johnson bought copy of
THE MEMPHIS APPEAL,
which gave an account of the arrest and
confessions of Woods, and the negro
Henry Johnson, and he sat down in the
depot to figure upon card which was
lying on the window-sill. When he
finished this, upon turning over the
card he found it contained printed
full description of him and Morris
Leaving it lying there he went and in
formed Morris and urged that they con-
tinue their way into Missouri on their
horses. Mat objected, it is supposed, be-
cause he had an engagement to meet
Mollie at Sherman, Texas. When the
and let Mat and the horses
90 on. Mat not missing him
until he got to Texsrkana. Johnson
walked towards Cairo to the first sta
ton, and when the eastWard-bOund
train came along he took it and made
his way to the vicinity of Mound City,
Illinois, where he got his wife's sister
Maggie to come to Memphis and take
his wife to him. Maggie came and
found that Mrs. Johnson had been ar
rested and, as she supposed, under bonds
to appear in court. She returned to her
home and informed johnson of the ar
rest of his wife. When Mrs. johnson
was arrested, man appeared and rep
resented himself to her as
being "COlonel Stone" and
practicing attorney Of this city,
and kindly rendered his services to aid
and defend her, and extended his kind
ness so far as to become her bOndsman
ION bogus bond, and by this means he
won her confidence and found out that
Maggie was down here, and that Johnson
was some where near Mound City. The
man "Stone" was a detective whom
Curly M'Cune had fixed up to play
lawyer in order to get information, and
he got it. When Maggie left here to re-
turn home the express company sent two
men to shadow her and try and catch
Johnson, but they played their part SO
that Johnson went 10