The morning news., 1888-08-03

heard one Of them making INQUIRIES OF the
clerk IN regard 20 a stage line operating be-
tween the city and "a village twelve or fif-
teen miles away. He was told that the
stage left the next day at three o'clock, and
he paid his bill until after dinner and Sc
cured a seat. That man could by no posi-
bil ty be Ashman.
He had full beard, his teeth were all in
place, and nothinS in his personal appear
ance answered the description. | had
turned TO my paper when the landlord said
"Whitewater? Why, used to live there!
Have they got national bank there' just
issued, eh"
l Ipricked up my ears like fox, and as l
turned my face to the desk / saw the land
lord closely scrutinizing new groenoack.
Its all right said the stranger.
''Oh, discourse it's right. Wish | had a
million of 'emn
Half an hour later l wanted that bill to
send off in letter, and | wanted it SO bad
ly that | exchanged "A IS gold piece for
it. AS soon as | could compare 1t | knew
that it was one of the counterfeits. There
was private bank in the town which made
a practice of exchanging money and two
regular banking institu ions. Before ten
O'clock that night found that every one of
them had been stuck. The stranger had ex-
changed about $1,000 in all, and his coun-
terfelts had passed without word. | could
have arrested him that night. but after
thinking the matter over | made up my
mind that he was going to rendezvous, and
that by giving him rope | might make a
bigger haul He did not come down to
breakfast next morning, and he hadno soon
er eaten his dinner than he disappeared to
remain in hiding until just as the stage was
ready to start. When it rolled away he
was he inside and the outside man. He
looked me over pretty closely. saw nothing
suspicious, and gave me no further atten-
ton.
the driver, VINO had been sizing me up to
his satisfaction and maintaining severe
silence, leaned over and whispered:
WHAT do you think of him"
"IVho?'
Man inside"
Hes a stranger, but all right. guess.
"ls he! Carries two reVolvecs and a
knife with him. Two of his friends came
out with me yesterday, and they were hard
characters I'll bet hos a robber."
81 shouldn't think it,"
Hes got two false teeth in front; saw
him take them out. Them don't look like
regular whiskars to me, either. He's a bad
'un or I'm no judge"
1t came to me in moment that the man
inside was Ashman, and the next moment
| was planning to arrest him. He was armed
more dangerous with his rails back of him.
We had gone six miles, and had just crossed
a small bridge, when the nigh wheels fell
into a washout and the coach canted over
and rolled into a deep ditch. There was
time for me to jump. and the driver also
saved himself. The man inside had no
chance and the fall threw him against the
side of the coach with such violence that he
was senseless when l cllmbered up and
found him. My first move was to slip on the
handouts; the next to remove his weapons.
In three or four minutes he regained con-
seriousness, and when he came to realize his
situation he did some awful cursing. He
was in for it, however, and that night he
slept in a stout jail. In his satchel was
about $4,000 of the queer and we had
such a strong case that he pleaded guilty
when the trial came on and took his SEN
tence of fifteen years without a wink. He
lived to serve ten of il, and then died of
faVpr