The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-05-31

him down the towpath of the old canal. now long since disused. At every town i heard of his having been there. After l had caught Griffin he told me that twice on the way down the towpath had passed him and he had seen me Once l was pressing him closely He
 turned and saw me plodding along on horseback and cast about for place for conceament.
 He climbed into a tree right beside the towpath and could have touched me as passed. I soon discovered that l had overtaken him, however, and turned back. He, thinking was still ahead or him, took 1t easy until he once more saw me coming, to his consternation. He se- creted himself in the hull of an aban- doned canal boat half sunk in the water, and once again I passed him. Hot on his trail. one day I pressed into Vincennes I went immediately to the office of the town marshal dhere was no chief of police them, and knowing him, told of my quest and asked him to look over the town while I took a sleep. l was "tuckered' out.
 I slept all evening and all night. Get ting up the next morning I took a stroll ] up town after breakfast Nearing a lum- Der yard I perceived the head of man suddenly bob down behind a pile of tim bers Having Griffin on my mind, I nat uraly suspected 1t was he. Turning. approached the yard but the man doubled around behind me as I passed. I got a good view of him and it was not Griffin.
 A few minutes later as I came from cigar store where I made a purchase the same man of the lumber yard made
 dash for me. I did not know whether or not to pull gun.
 What do you want?' I asked. The
 man was trembling and his teeth fairly
 chattered.
 q want you" he said I told him
 would go along when he displayed an of fcer's badge. but not to lay his hands on me- as I would neither fight nor run. He appeared considerably relieved. At the marshal's office, where he took me- the chief Seeing me. said: Well, captain have you seen your man?' "No," said ''but I think this man
 has," And I pointed to the officer well, John," began the chief.
 Johns teeth began chattering again. TT thought this was the m-m-man.' he stammered And how the chief did laugh.
 Soon afterward I traced Griffin 10 Louisville. There had recently been
 murder there, and the police were strict in enforcing the ordinance against the carrynig of concealed weapons. I had on a blue yacht cloth suit that day-Rus- sian serge had not yet come into vogue
 then-and it was very thin. I was play ing game of billiards, and while lean
 ing over a table the butts of two pistols
 in my hip pockets showed plainly big policeman in the room tapped me on the shoulder
 You seem to be pretty well fixed" he said Finish that game and l want to
 see you
 He wanted to take me to sub-station,
 but I asked to be taken to the city hali'
 where the police headquarters were TO-
 cated.
 .Who do YOU know there?' he asked "Well. I know Captain Bly," 'Yankee' Bly was as well known as a detectiVe
 then as he was large in size
 "How many guns do you carry! suddenly asked the policeman.
 ".Why, I carry one. The law allows me to- said he.
 Well maybe the law allows me 10 carry guns. too." I replied.
 He asked me and I told him who
 was. He then insisted that the oriiihs were on him, but I laughed
 A thorough search of Louisville showed me that my bird had flown. traced Grlf- fin through Kentucky and away down to Knoxville, Tenn. There 1 lost track Tor while but suddenly remembered that his mother, Mrs. Cox, lived in lnolan- apolis. Back I traced my steps Tn ih- dianapolis I put up at the oid spencer house, near the Union station, and stayed there for a week. I asked the police about Mrs. Cox, as she was noted character, but they had no record or her.
 Here's where the peculiar part Of my story comes in. I awoke one morning