, 1876-11-18
have another man; no said, III you will HAVE
lin, Jou wnnt a mai who understands stone'
work, and why don't you ret


! would nut be known tn. euth men. brown
had been In town several days. HI is straight,
and knew ho coufl lie trusted. lte can talk
tic slang. When said ret ret him. they wa,,tc.i WI
to see him. Hughes had seen him. Thc cum
tractor did not want anybody tn knnw he was |
in It. Ilc made Mullins aud Hughes Il! do all
my house, and gave i'I'a an Introduction
tho Hub fur p.e purpose Of show!ne
WIS 70 do, a& lad given him INSTITUTIONS. At
first he would not have anything to do With It,
but told HIN was working under ths orders
lad convinced him Of the truth Of what ttaid,
lc concluded to help me out. AZ I said. Null
l1ns and HugAcs werc satisfied, and they led ne
to understand that thu tub. was t1 be done to-
talked Tint over, and came to tho conclusion
that II we waited 80 long there would lie too
much tce, and perhaps snow, and the ground
would probably be frozen, aud digging would
l'cturc, and Mt a time when there would bc tho
least suspicion. Ous last meeting was held A.
my house On Sunday, the 5th inst. Mullins.
Hughes, The contractor. auu nrsell were prea-
cut, ntnl
YLEcTloa-N1GHr WAS FIXED UPON.
That WIS considered a. elegant timt to do
II. Thcrc would certainly be- very few visitors
during the 'iay; the election would keep every
likely to be there; the street,. of Springfield
would be full Of people. and uwagon Euing aIong
the roal al night would nut be not!rcu, sine:
those who saw II wu,ld thIuk Il contained farm,
crs going home fruu tie polls. They wrru
afraid the custodian might Dc at the monument
at night. The contructor went dowu weck a4.o
for tho purpose Vi looking tnto tho cataeouIb
nerve, aud dl'n't ilnd u,lt ,narh. They we're ut
| q loss as II what the tomb WIS nude 0f. He
said the monument wns y terribly eolid-lookIng
pile, and they asked, sWI,at must thc tomb bci'
| Tuat WIS tile rcason, az said, they wanted Il
1nau Of talent; and Brown was taken in. The
next thing WIS to
They wanted bis udvice about getting rid Of the
s,onr slab, und lie sud hue GUILD Io drilled In
!! 1t, aud powder put in anl fused. unl thu whole
thing blown to pieces. So we got d can Ut pow
der, fatlo,n Of fuse, hammer, steel punch
drills, sssel saw. 2 tc, etc' They expected to
hughes bail, Three-tourths uf It belungs to
ll!ui; the other 500 was put up by. one os bis
friends. The case VIA to coinc up Monday, tue
did not get tho '.soncy.. Bruwn and Ind no
mouuy to 60 down. They had been out
u convy ,ior sumo time. aud, couldn't
raise 'nucl,, money; Brown hat tohi
didn't think Ut lust that i was going to nr ycry
| hard work: aud they said I'd luug ~ they hatt
the tools, II it was no. very hard work, u brown
would get . team nntl bring It to the cemetery
a!ong Without him, they would cali him up.
Nc we're to commcpce operations carly In the
evening. We were to take along
HALF or 4 PArEK,
torn iilagoually across,-thc Catholic Onion and
Times, think; It III published In Iopdon and
Liverpool. It WIS got a. Tom Mdcktn's. on
Dearborn street. A foFcign paper was selected.
BECAUSE Il wa* said errtaln pirate defective
thus clalm to have q clev. Mullins hal this
piece uf paper in his coatrpocket, md
Il. was to &c, left in the vault as n
eIinc s saa ts ocefs pe up "
thing laying around, and try to associate It Will,
somebody they know. We'll, unless something
Of this kind WAS done, Cornelius, who, think,
WIS to DO the negotiating for ths return q tlu
body, would not have any standing, for the pri-
vate detectives would Co to the Monument As
soesatton With aAgoss-loads Of cicws, md some
Of them would beat tue Assoeiation out Of
money If tAs ofllcors were fools enough to give
up any. The other half Ut thu paper was to b.
left behind in Chicago, and slowed nway IN !
bust Of Lincoln ut the 'Hut,' and when the
ia evidence tl,ut he was IN Communication witt.
the parties that did tho job and could re-
cover tho rcnialns upon the conditions l hayc
told YOU. Tint would Girc him some standing
could match the. piper found in the vault. II
the thug game OF, they reasoned that no one
could tell who did IT.. nor could they. There
wonld haya been no clcw, the bue}ncss WIS .losu
/ ~ ulCt3. Lucy UcI4CtCA Ill ~ A0HAtAh hcA1A
be offered; t1at tE'c Whole country would he III
tcrcstcd and It would he necessary. when the
time catle to ''et,iw up" tn present something
convincing that they bud author!ty to deal.
was for Brown anil myself to 60 to canada i'm
media.ely after tle casket was buried. We were
to remain there and b. supplied With With
money to pny p, our ,oc c1pssnsts .nr,1 a,d thsy
Canasla,-had gotten letter, aud that the pleye
OF pApcr calne lii It, unly small portion Of It,
-juss enough to show that the edges t,1l1ectctl
prnrerly; for pieces were to b. produced ,io f5o
ing that the parties they wcrc IN correspondent
with were tic right oues. One Of tnenl-slu
lIns-was tu return to Cn(caEU, and Hughes Was
to CONE over to CIna41a to see us, mud then Gu
back utd bring aloHs some hIle ulltflurtZeu to
tleAl. Mullins, or whoever went, was t' tako Il
well. known criminal lawyer, Of Chicago tnot
Tru(c) alonE, ia Hct III ply behalf, anu sre hc
WIS treated sqHarefy. We'll.
VII DECIDED 10 START MoxnAr NIGHT.
It WIS nut MY intention to fayc Brown go,
since, II they were arrested and we "ere lot ~,
It would luok very strange; and bcsitles, y
would te tiend givc-away tn them, and Il
Waited the Jail wlere they WIRE for more III
formation, they wusa not trust me. Wa left On
tho st. L,us trim IN the cyentng,--at least
three of us dd@nEes Malilns nd ,al, nyssii M T..
showed up to tteln. touk him through thelt
Ear to satisfy them thut he was ali Right, and
when VIZ got I" tho Burlington crossing IL
on tic train, for tley might have haa soinu
oue In thu dcpot, and II the shadow.
had seen hin n1ound nfter the train left
he would hayc Thought something was wrong
ton III q. last. 1t .ill louk at ono Tins US il
would not 70 with them; and ! didn't haye
nIuch time, ~ It was, to get to the depot. We
had been Up until 3 o'clock the night before
I,rown's oyrrroat from him, aud when r..
turned to tho chr where Hughes and Mulllnt