St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1895-04-13

heels. Gen. Waterson's report leaves
us in no doubt as to how his plan dis
| posed of the forces. Fifty got off at O,
near Newark. Twenty-Five were
/ dropped at Waver1y and twegltty five al
Elizabeth. Fifty were disposed of al
Railway and one hundred before reach.
| ing New Brunswick. Between Deans
and Monmouth junction another hun
dred left and at Princeton Junction, at
the suburbs of Trenton, four hundred
more disappeared. Fifteen miles out
Of Bristol the remaining hundred
| dropped from the cars. The engine
was then reversed and the train
started spinning backwards to meet
the special.
Nest of these men adopted the plan
that had been tried at st. Mary,s. They
started at once In diverging lines
and disappeared In the surrounding
country.
The excitement in New York over
the affair was widespread, and was
famed into flame before evening by
the news that came from Philadelphia
that the United States mint had been
similarly robbed by another regiment
that had seized a train and gone to
Lancaster.
The next morning full details OF the
two exploits were printed, and there
was no doubt that they were both
parts of one plan. But no one appears
to have suspected the exact method of
the regiments or their plan of subse-
qnent disintegration. The popular
imagination planted an armed force
in the field somewhere and added un-
told resources of men out of it's own
terrors. Something Of this feeling was
reflected by the press and the action
Of the secretary Of the treasury, for all
the endeavors were directed to the in.
Perception and capture Of an armed
force which as the reader knows did
not exist. New York now recalled the
st. Mary's affair which it had formerly
treated as a western practical joke,
and the Louisville papers were rather
exultant at what they called an eastern
dose of the joke.
But it must not be supposed that the
central po1ice-ofice at New York had
been entirely led astray by these
events. 1t had quietly arrested six
men whom its sharp-eyed detectives
had recognized as being in the ranks
of the visiting regiment, and on oneof
them was found five hundred dollars
IN gold The superint who saw
underneath the surface what he con-
ceived to be vast and brainy con-
spiracy, summoned his best men; put
himself In communication with the
secret service bureau at Washington,
and very soon began to formulate some
Of the inevitable deductions Ia this
he was fortunately aided by one or two
circumstances. He obtained from the
bureau the photographs OF
the men who had boarded the Corin-
THAN, which photographs had been
forwarded from England. One of the
persons in the group was discovered 10
be Fenning. The other circumstance
was that the Washington bureau had
sent two men west on his trail and
they had disappeared in Tennessee.
With these facts before him, it did not
take the superintendent very long to |
focus his suspicious upon western
Tennessee.
CHAPTER XXX.
The one man who seemed to have
the clearest comprehension of all this (
was Hendricks, who, from his retreat |
underground, watched by some in
scrutable process every move that was
made. Gen. Waterson reached Laran
N the Goth of July. He left New
York just six hours before the police
began to look for him, and he found
hat four hundred and fifty of his men
lad preceded him to the Laran Dur
ng his absence the sanitarium had
been burned to the ground. This took
,lace on the 8th. On the 9th Gen.
luscomb's party had been attacked In
he rear. The general had been killed
Ind his men routed. Those that es-
'aped got in at Covington and re-
'orted the sanitariun burnt and the
fang gone eastward. In the public
mind this appeared to explain the ap-
,earance of the regiment in New York
N the 18th.
About ten miles east of the Laran
nugly perched on the side of a wild
len Is q solitary Swiss cottage. 1t is
'ailt of stone and looks down upon a
ugged but beautiful country. Tt is
ust three miles from the town of
Ioxie on a branch of the Tennessee
abroad where there is post office
nd telegraph station. The people in
he town understand that an eastern
Iterary woman who has an enormous
lail has hired the place on account
I its seelusion and salubrity. She
as a pony and two servants, one
t whom is a man, and she comes to &
own frequently with her pony to
lail her letters, get her papers and
leet an occasional visitor from the
asst whom she takes back with her.
This literary woman is Mrs. Hem
ricks. In her pretty little bondoir
q the second floor she has a tele-
raph instrument built into the wall, Ii
nd she communicates constantly with
.endricks in the Laran by an UNDER
round wire that has been laid with
reat care and expense through the
'ildest and most unfreqnented part
the Intervening country and which
aters the cave through an artesian
riH that is hidden by four feet of soil.
In a fragment of q preserved letter
Hendricks he says: This wire cost ,
e more trouble and labor than any
ling else. It had to be laid at inter
ais after careful survey in order to
Foid observation, and it had to follow /
le unfrequented ways and escape the e
ossibIe surface water courses. for If it