Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1890-04-19

ana yet ynerc came q day very soon
when Mr.. Haync wished that he could &c
TO Buxton's quarters. He had in no wise
changed his opinion OF the man himself,
but the Rayners had not been gone fort
night before Mrs. Buxton began TO toll
the ladies Of the charming letters she was
receiving from Mrs. Rayncr--all about
their travels. There were many things
he longed to know, yet could not ask.
There came TO him long and sorrow
full letter from the captain himself, but,
beyond few matters relating to the
company and the transfer OF It's prop
erty, it was oil given up to recapitula-
tion Of the troubles Of the past few years
and to renewed expressions Of his deep
regret. OF the ladies he made but cas-
ual mention. They were journeying
down the Mississippi on one Of its big
steamers when he wrote, and Mrs. Ray
ner was able TO enjoy tho novelties OF
the trip, and was getting better, but
still required careful nursing Miss
Travcrs was devoted TO her. They
would go TO New Orleans, then possibly
by sea around to New York, arriving
there about the 9th of June; that, how
ever, was undecided. He closed by ask
ing Hayne to remind Maj Waldron that
his copy Of Clancys confession had not
yet reached him, and no was anxious to
see 1t in full.
''The one thing lacking TO complete
the chain is Cover" said the major, as
he looked up over his spectacles. ut
would be difficult to tell what became Of
him. We get tidings Of most Of the de-
serters who were as prominent among
the men as he appears to have been; but
/ have made inquiry, and 30 has the
colonel, and not a word has ever been
heard OF him since tho night he appeared
before Mrs. Clancy and handed over the
money to her. He was q strange char
acter, from all accounts, and must have
had some conscience after all. DO you
remember him at all, Hayne7'
~ remember him well. We made the
march from tho Big Horn over to Battle
Butte together, and nc was a soldier one
could not help remarking. OF course I
never had anything TO say 10 him, but
we heard he was an expert gambler
when the troop was over there at Miners
Delight"
"Of course his testimony isn't neccs-
sary. Clancy and his wife between them
have cleared you, after burying you alive
five years. But nothing but his story
could explain his singular conduct-plan-
ming the whole robbery, executing 1t with
all the skill of a professional jailbird, de-
serting and covering several hundred
h.u 10 -,
to the old fort, find Mrs. Clancy, aud sur
render every cent the moment he heard
of your trial. What fiend that woman
was! No wonder she drove Clancy to
drinkr
"Will you send copies of her admission
with Clancy's afiidavits?" asked Hay ne.
"Here they are in FULL" answered the
major. "The colonel talks of having
them printed and strewn broadcast as
warnings against SNAP Judgment and
too confident testimony in future"
Divested Of the legal encumbrances
with which such documents are usually
weighted, Clancy's story. ran substantial
ly as follows:
81 was sergeant in x troop, and Cover
was in +. We had been stationed to-
gether six months or 30 when ordered
out on the Indian campaign that sum-
mer. was dead broke. All my money
was gone, and my wife kept bothering
me for more. I owed lot Of money
around headquarters, too, and Cover
knew it, and sometimes asked me what
l was going to do when we got back
from the campaign. We were not good
friends, him and I. There was money
dealings between us, and then there was
talk about Mrs. Clancy fancying him too
much. Tho paymaster came up with u
strong escort and paid of tho boys late
in October, just as the expedition was
breaking up and going for home. and all
the officers and men got four months
pay. There was Lieut.. Crane and twenty
Elen of 4 troop out on scout, but the
lieutenant had left his pay rolls with
Capt. Hull, and the men had all signed
before they started, and 80 the captain
he drew it all for them and put each
mans money in an envelope marked
with his name and the lieutenant's too,
and then crowded it all into some bigger
envelopes. ! was there where / could
see it all, and Cover was watching him
close. Its a big pile the captains got,'
says he. I'D like to be road agent and
nab him! When told him il couldn't
be over eleven hundred dollars, he says,
That's only part. He has his own pay
and six hundred dollars company fund,
and wad of greenbacks he's been car
ryin' around all summer. It's nigh on to
four thousand dollars he's got in his sad
die bags this day.
"And that night, instead of Lieut..
Cranes coming back, he sent word he had
found the trail of a big band of Indians,
and the whole crowd went in pursuit.
There was four companies of infantry, un-
der Eapt. Rayner, and + and X troops
what was left of them-that were ordered
TO stay by the wagons and bring them safe
ly down; and we started with them over
towards Battle Butte, keeping south of
the way the regiment had gone TO .lelkow
Mr.. Crane. And the very next day Capt.
Rayner got orders to brig his battalion
to the river and eur on the boat, while
the wagons kept on down the bank with
acting quartermaster, and he stayed with
us; and him and Capt. Hull was together
a good deal. There was some trouble,
we heard, because Capt. Rayner thought
another officer should have been made
quartermaster and Mr.. Hayne should
have stayed with his company, and
they had some words; but Capt.
HUI gave Mr.. Hayne horse
and seemed to keep him with
him; and that night, in sight of Battle
Butte, the steamboat was out of sight
ahead when we went into camp, and
was sergeant of the guard and had my
hre near the captains tent, and twice in
the evening Cover came to me and said