The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-04-21

volunteers, when they got near what they supposed was to be fighting ground they grew ambitious. and all wanted to be officers. This caused con- siderable dissension, and before the rank and file knew anything about it their leaders had absconded, taking with them all the available funds. This left three hundred or so of the men around Malone, with no visible means of maintenance. They forth with began to forage on the surround ing country. and their presence drove terror to the heart of many a farmer, who dared not refuse their every re- quest for fear of having his farm buildings burned. ..t~ j..
 When the men came they were url- armed, but later on a carload of arms and ammunition was shipped to them, without its true nature being found out by the authorities until the car had got we'll up the road. Then word was sent to the railroad company to hold the car. Word had reached the Fenians as we'll, however, either through spies or sympathizers in the employ of the IOdu. dlSu IL MdS llt-lOGSoAy -RO shunt the car down fon the line to Chaumont. This movement, too, was watched by the men. and they finally seized a locomotive, after driving the engineer off, and attempted to go to Chaumont after the car. They had but little knowledge of locomotives and had the pumps going so fast that the boiler was kept too full to generate steam. Then they would have to stop every little while to let the water boil away sufficiently to allow the steam to col lect. Then a short distance would be made and another stop would ensue
 Finally they reached Chaumont and coupled on to the car and started back
 The railroad authorities thought they might have met with an accident and started men down to Chaumont on a handcar. The returning locomotive was met and one of the railroad men got aboard and drew into Watertown, where a sufficient force of railroad men took charge of the car and prevented the Fenians from getting any. of the contents. E.G4 E
 Shortly after this funds came from New York, and it was generally sup posed that 'Bos' Tweed was the sender, with orders to ship the men. against whom complaint had been filed with the state and federal authorities, on to the metropolis. I was selected as the conductor for the train. collected all the tickets soon after leaving Water town, and, after punching them, found myself surrounded by a number of men, who seemed anxious to converse. I finally put my hand in my coat pock- ct, where had placed the tickets and punch, and found that all had been stolen by some of the crowd. This gave me an irkling of the class of men had in charge, and before II reacher Rome in the evening there was had received visit from some of the party. Crackers, cheese and other eat- ables were purloined, and in one in, stance a tub of butter, a coat and a vi olin were among the spells brought on to the train. Music Ereigned and the men had all the enjoyment possible. They practically regulated the running of the train, for they had men on guard who would not let 1t start until all their comrades had returned from their forays. " |. '&5# (a., ,ats. .y Through one of the ringleaders of the gang recovered my property, laf'-. ter had explained that the punched tickets were of no value to the men. It was with sigh of relief that saw the men put aboard the waiting Cen--g, tral train when Rome was reached. That was the last seen of the Fenians in this region" -s 'SS ~
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