The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1879-05-13

This specch suficed to convince me that
further explanation would be useless. They
were certain that was Harry Keble, and,
unless that individual should turn up. or,
more correctly speaking, unless he should
be turned up, soon, | would be compelled
TO suffer for his crimes. | thought now
that they were so certain Of hay.
ing the right man, the search for
Keble would cease; and as | was
very little known, and apprehended that
there were many who would identify
me as that person, considered it unlikely
that | could prove myself any other. Many
other unfavorablc circumstance rushed into
my mind, and made me feel extremely mel
anchoy. My captors were jublant over
| having caught the notorious counterieiter
and thought this additional proof of my
precarious situation. About sunrise we ar
rived at the county Jail where was locked
up to await my trial. To be locked up
alone in gloomy room in Jail land all
rooms in q jail are gloomy, is not caculat-
ed to inspire one with any great amount
of confidence in a favorable conclusion
to particularly unfavorablc affair 1t did
not so inspire me, and was more detected
than before entering. went over all of
the circumstances in the case once more.
and they seemed to me more adverse than
they had while was on the way thither. |
fell into gloomy reverie, meditating on
the probable result of the last few
hours adventure. was still in
| this when my friend came in. He put
bright face on the matter, and said they
couldn't make anything out of it; there
was mistake and he knew it, and there
would be many Others who would know
the same thing, My friend was SO conf,
dent ! would come out all right, that
began to be more hopeful, though not san
guine. 1t was soon known everywhere
| that the countcrfeiter had been caught;
and as people came to see me,
and at once recognized me, as
Keble, began to realize, fully, how DIES.
perate my situation was, Notwithstanding
my friends protcstation that nothing seri-
Gus could come out Of it. However,
threw off my melancholy, and determined
to make the best Of badmatter, Finally
the day of my trial came, The room was
crammed with people, and a large number
were standing outside, As was being con
Quoted through the throng, | could fire.
quently hear such expression as, That's
him." That's the man." ''Thc vey fell
ler," and Others Of like character. When
| was led before the justice things wen not
stoutly denied that was the right pgson;
but in place where every third man Knew
the counterteiter personally, and, that an
swered to the identity Of that individual,
denying had little weight. Witness fter
witness testified to my indemnity as Kble,
and the point, to their minds, was 500 es-
tablshed beyond doubt. The next Ting
in order was to prove the charge of coulter,
feitng against me. As there were reliibe
witnesses present who had seen myself and
associates in the very act, this took built
tie time.
The witnesses had all given in their wi
dence, and, apparently, my guilt had |een
incontestably established, when general
attention was attracted by some peEons
entering the room. AS they pushed tleir
way through the crowd, | could see a
look of surprise steal over the countennces
of several of the men standing Where
they. passed. The crowd was 50 cose
up to the Justice that | could see no me
| entering until he was reached. | was tus
prevented from seeing who the new arrinls |
were. until rough looking man stcppd |
up to the justice and said: "Wcll, squire,
here he is-herc's Keble." The nameof |
Kcble induced me to look at the perSn
whom he had in custody. Ny surprise
can better be imagined than described,
when ! saw before me the very image f |
myself; so much like me did he look tint
my most intimate friend would easily haze |
mistaken him for me- The iustie
looked perpleyed. "There must be some
mistake" he said, "Kcblc's here. Vince
did you find him." lie added, indicating
the man just brought in, Down abo,t
forty miles from here, near Canyonvilb.
He's never denied his being Kcblc.' Tie
justice looked from one prisoner to tie
other, and then seemed more perplcXtd
than ever He finally settled back in his
seat, hopeless expression oyersprcading
his face: well" he said at last, 81 can
see any difference in EN-, Blast if know
what TO do At this iuncturc a bury
mountancer stepped forward and cy-
claimed; "say, Bill,n what" said some
one in the crowd. "You remember Jim
Fingal" YES" Him that shot Jack
IIerdcr" Eyes" "Wcll, he cut Harry
Kcblc on the left arm, the time they got in
the scrapc over that game of poker, We
remcmber!' And without more ado, he
walked up to the man who had just been
brought in, and pushing his left sleeve
up, disclosed long scar evidently
what remained of adcep flesh wound that's
Keble' exclaimed q half dozen voices in
chorus. 1t was so indeed; and after furth-
or investigation, ! was released Kcble
was sctcnced to serve good round term
in the penitcntary. | was little nearer
there that time than was agreeable, though
my friend and often laugh over it now
considering it worry good joke. Wnat
caused that man to leave me suddenly on
the road that morning do not know; but
no clue could ever be obtained to one of
those counterfciters and have long been
under the impression that he was the one.
Why WILL YOU allow cold to adj