Year: 1872

standing under m umbrella; I went up and we
worked till abeut one O'Clock that night when. we
time IL was understood that the "of1cen or signal
lians or Doyle would stand on the steps sf the
bank take OH his hat and wipe his face with his
handkerchief; was to


GIVE hwILLIAMs TWENTY PER CENT
of the pr01ts the division Of the money was all left
to me; McWilliams told me he wanted his snare in
greenbacks; told him he ought to be satisfied with
bonds II there were not greenbacks there; Doyle
sess, but p it was % understooa SSns ''s that mae he
was to get Q portion OF McWiams' twenty
per cent; Mcwilllams told me he would pay his
McWilliams offered me some money, but did not
take II; he told me that one OF the bank Officers
had invited him to look at the bank, but he de-
cIined he said he was sorry for his refusal after
wards; was locked up in cell all night after my
arrest, ana sent to tail next day; saw McWilliams
twice since my arrest; the second time was nine
or ten days after was sent 70 jail; he came to my
cell ana said he called on me because 1t would not
look wei II he, the Chief OF Police, did not have o
look at the burglars; asked him where he was at
the time OF our arrest; he replied that he was In
Philadelphia with Bumsted, and that he went there
away; asked him why he brought MS over ana got
us IN such scrape and then leave us; he said he
had lost 500 he had bet that


BUAsTED WOULD NEVER COME BACK;
he said he was sorry he was not here, and that II
he were we never should have reached the Jail; he
told me not to be afraid, that everything would be
right. and that should never 90 below Ito State
PRISON.; told him not to come to see me any
ba be % ne
would be done for me as soon as possible; he saw
me again In the cell on Tuesday; he had been re-
went TO- Judge RandopS and got got perm permit, tai after r
representing to Messrs. Wallis and Young. OF the


CONNscrED WITH TIE NATHAN MURDER;
said that was o good excuse, and that he could
get In to see me almost any time on that; asked
New York on that charge he said in regard to the
despatch sent to him to Philadelphia that he did
not get 1t till two O'Clock in the morning. as he was
drunk that night In house OF i'll fame; he said he
was willing to stand his portion Of the legal ex-
penses of our trial; he said that Proctor's sister
John Egan, Chief OF Police OF st. Louis; said she
was right, and that Proctor was as good as Egan;
McWilliams SAID that If we could be successful in
getting hearing before Justice OF the Peace we
could all get away; Doyle was the first to speak to
me abOnt an examination; he, tOO came to see me
" - TWO KEYS TO OPEN uANDouFFs;


they were similar to those lkeys produced) gave
them afterwards to the Sheriff: Doyle said that
some station house handouts should be put on us,
and when the van would leave there he would be
sent in charge Of us; as soon as we should come to
the foot OF the hill the van would be stopped we
would unlock the handouts and the door OF the
van and get away; we were to be furnished with a
key to open the van; McWiiams talked over this
plan and said he had every confidence 1t would
succeed.


The witness was subjected to long and rigid
cross-examinaton by Mr.. Winfield, but his testi-


Ex-Chief OF Police Francis McDon0ugh, OF Hobo


ken who was delegated by the District Attorney


on dangerous mission in regard to this case, next


took the stand. He went to the house In which


Proctors sister, Mrs. Devereux, resides, No. 2l2


West Fortythird street, the morning OF the Sd OF


October, and secreted himself In wardrobe by


the connivance OF the woman who was aiding the


District Attorney in order to obtain mercy for her
brother. Detective Doyle entered the room and
had long conversation with her, in which she
stated that the job was put upn by the Chiefs that
her brother would be all right; that McWilliams
was to get half the proceeds OF the robbery, aud
he Doyle) nalf of that again. room was to be
hired In New York in which to store away the
'swag." In answer to her allegation that McWil-
liams had given her brother away, Doyle said IL
was not so, that he knew McWilliams to be as true
as steel, and would see that her brother wonld be
all right.


The case was adjourned till this morning, at half
past nine O'Clock.