The Russellville Democrat., 1881-12-01
No. I've been very mell.n

No, I've been very we'll"
 "Pm surprised to see you back here-had no idea they'd ever catch you, You must have been drink ing"
 i "No, 1 hadn't drunk drop"
 We have heard that you stopped a while at Rutherford, Tenn. Is l that so?"
 "Yes, Istopped near there awhile" 1"
 We have been anxiously inquir- ing after your whereabouts fer sene time.
 "I expect you have"
 "When did you see Casey last?"
 Not since the second night after ws got out of jail. He and Hill went into Missouri l suppose"
 "We thought he went with you"
 q supposed they had tracked us far enough to know that we were not all together.
 The interview was cut short by the arrival of the jail keys and that was the last of Jim. He shook hands with several, spoke to Jimmie Johnson, Charley Goodman, Marcel lus Davis and few others, and look ed like dispair itself. He was not freshly shaven and had been wearing only a mustache, and was very poorly clothed.
 Mir. J. C. Hannah very kindly de- tailed to our reporter all the circum. stances of
 THE CAPTURE.
 "Did you arrest Holland yourself?' asked our reporter.
 "1es, with the assistance of & young fellow named Morgan whom summoned to assist me-"
 Did he make any resistance?
 "No. He and his brother Dock whom l took to Ge Casey, were at dinner when stepped in on them and ordered them to throw up thelr hands. Dock threw his straight up, but Jim was very slow, and when 1 held my pistol right down on him and it cooked, he didn't finch par tiole. Morgan was not armed and he searched them while 1 kept them covered. Neither of them had any arms on."
 "At what place was tnat?"
 "That was Tn Polk couaty, Tenn, about 16 miles from Benton, up in the mountains, on Springtown crock, at Jim Blanton's house."
 How came you to suspect them?'
 Il had received, last April, from Mr. Cole, of your county, descrip- tion of Holland and Casey with thelr pictures and the request to be on the lookout for them"
 "How came them to be sent to you?"
 Simply because I was sheriff. l suppose they were sent to every sheriff Tn Tenn"
 You recognized Holland from the pIcturer
 'The resemblance attracted my attention and caused me to question them. They were in Benton when 1 first saw them on the second day oi this month. I asked their names, where they were from and where they were gong. Jim said hls name was Adams, and Docks was Dick Clark Said they were from West Tennes see, and were going cut to old man Blanton 3 and talked so cleverlv that l concluded to- wait and watch a lit tie further.
 kept an eye on their maneuvers and after they had gone. 1 inquired of different parties what they had said and their answers agreed with what they had said to me. uowev- CT, to satisfy myself further, the next day went up on Springtown, staid all night and passed BlantoI's next mornlng, and there they were, out in the barpyard, and l rode on feeling satisfied l was mistaken because they were telling the same tale and going where they said they were, so l returned home and let them. But in the meantime old man Blanten suspected them of being detectives from Arkansas, in search of Tom Blanton, and to assure him that they wore not they told tke old man that they had escaped from the jail in Arkansas with Tom, and then the old man told about it to q neighbor, and this talk got to me. had not known that Tom Blanton had ever been in jail ia Arkansas, but when learned that l went down on them and made the arrest as stated, on the Sth Of this month, and on old man Blanton's testimony lad them com mitted, then te.egraphed to sheriff Shores, of Franklin county Ark, who answered and said that q full descrlp- ton would be sent by mail. l wrote to Gov. Churchill and a reqnisition was sent me by mail which receiv- ed at Cleveland Tenn.
 THE LAST SCENE.
 Lee Smith and Charley Hearn were on guard at the jail and were both asleep when the raiders went in on them wILh cooked pistols, ought to have been awakened by the sledgo hammer They demanded the keys-said they didn't have them, searched and found them, opened jail, came hack and demanded cage key, sand didn't have them. D-lie. Must get them, tapped Smith on the head with pistol barrel, said Geo.