Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1894-07-26

NO one KNOWS now IL RoO mere. IL
Is Drawn up on Main street at present.
Have failed to communicate with
officers"
After some delay, the governor sent
this word:
"Will arrive in the morning with
Adjt. Gen. Luscomb. Do nothing till
l get there"
While this was going on an hour was
lost and it was three o'clock. At half
past three o'clock the regiment was
moved from the banAto the vicinity of
h company's works. 1t proceeded in
fine open order and was cheered along
the route by the people. A strong
guard vas left at the bank and no one
allowed to enter.
On the company's common it was
again drawn up-a strong encircling
line of piclets thrown out and the fol
lowing note sent about five o'clock to
the director:
"Sir:-The first battalion of the
workingmen's advance guard will pro-
tect property until the state takes pos
session. l shall encamp my men on
the outskirts until tomorrow. Let the
citizens retire to their homes till that
time
After several attempts to see the
colonel. the sheriff sent. a conn1unica-
ton to him:
"Sir:-Will you inform the authori.
ties of this county by what right you
invade this state. IS the legally con.
stituted officer of the county, l demand
that you appear before me and explain
your conduct under penalty of arrest.
To this the colonel made no answer.
1t was six o'clock in the evening
when the regiment was marched to al
open tract on the southwest terrace
overlooking the town: strong guards
were thrown out in all directions anG
apparent preparations made for going
into camp. As there was nothing fol
the town to do but wait the arrival o.
the governor in the morning, it slowly
Quoted down. The camp fires of the
military burned in a long row on the
far terrace. The regular beat of the
drum was heard far into the night
which was an unusually dark n and
at twelve o'clock allwas still.
But as soon as it was light tht
streets were thronged. There were
the Ores on the terrace smoking as i
with preparations for breakfast ans
the white tent O1 TIC CoIO1le1 CoOld Dt
plainly seen. The early train brought
in a crowd of idle men, but the rail
road officials denied having seen any
regiment.
As soon as the day was fairly arrived
crowds began to make their way tt
the edge of the camp. The guard had
been withdrawn from the bank in tho
night and at seven o'clock Matlock re
ceived word that the regiment had dis
appeared. He went Immediately t
the bank with the sheriff. At the same
time the news of the disappearance
spread like wildfre. Crowds over-rar
the camping ground, but not a sign O
the soldiers could be found except the
snouldering fires, the remaining ten
and the strong smell of the troddcI
grass, with here and there a dropped
fragment of clothing-a cartridge or 6
piece of food.
Then it was that the director dis
covered that all the specie had been re
moved from the bank. A great crow(
had gathered round the entrance. II
got upon a chair and in an excite
manner conveyed the information. l
was received with incredulous jeers
cries of Served you right. We don
believe it. You brought the soldiers
etc." and the widest excitemen
ensued.
The sheriff was paralyzed and los
his head. He sent kilograms to Louis
vile and Cairo calling on the autho,
tiles to arrest all soldiers in blue shirt
and duck trousers armed with Spence
rifles. He arrested the agents at tn
| TDoI,,ooh Wildwood or1 hold &hano fC
collision. Armed parties were sen
out on the highways and discovere
nothing but struggling e drawn t
the town by the news.
Every other subject was no,
swallowed up in the robbery of tn
bank, and upon the arrival of the GOV
ernor and his adjutant in the after
noon, there ensued a scene of il
credulous indignation and fussy 0:
ficialism. The adjutant, an old-tim
veteran with purely Kentucky pre-
udices and Kentucky dignity, immed
ately framed a theory that there ha
been a raid from southern Indiana
and was for calling upon the governo
of that state to make good the loss an
to return the raiders for punishment.
In Louisville, Cairo and Cincinnati
the most extraordinary accounts wer
published in the papers. One of tn
sheets announced in It's head line
THE English syndicate at ST. Mary
makes away with a million and a ha.
of money belonging to the working
men"
4 paper in Louisville announced thu
Kentucky had been invaded by an arm
of Indiana free-booters, and its hea
lines were startling. Are we to hay
another civil ware" they asked
shall an invading army desolat
kentucky while our a~pathetic oficia,
are dickering with the bloated barons
Let there be a call to arms"
One fact alone was clear to til
people of st. Mary's. The money an
the regiment had disappeared togethe
That the astonishing circumstane
did not at the time betray to the cou1
try some of the real facts was OWN
to fine muddle which the incompeteI
Mr.. Matlock and the ~pig-headed sheri
and governor had produced in til
minds of the people. There was
widespread suspicion among the worl
ingmen that the superintendent was
some way implicated in the remov;
of the gold, and nothing could Grad
cate from the governors head the n,
ton that the regiment was an exaI
Grated ruse which had been broug1
about by a descentof invading villair
from southern Indiana.
Hendricks had counted on this yer
result. His motto was: "Audacit
that bewilders-and then, energy ths
DISCREPANCIES"
49,
CHAPTERsxv
1t is necessary now to keep in mir
:, two orders of events. One is the slo
focusing of public suspicion about IL
operations at Laran. The other is II
. extraordinary relationship of the pri1
. cipal at the headquarte