s, where every train that passed over the road was sure to
stop. Here was a water tank whose supply was never exhausted, and this
fact we assumed the robbers knew, as well as some others. They knew if
they could reach Thorntown by Monday night they would be able to catch
a south-bound freight that would land them in Indianapolis, and no one
would be the wiser.

All day Thursday, we looked for the mysterious strangers in
Indianapolis. We went everywhere where such persons would likely be.
A thousand men I saw who looked something like them, but every time I
called Beasley's attention to them, he would say, "No." To the
captains of the police Beasley described the men minutely. They could
think of none who answered the descriptions in every particular.
Beasley examined the pictures in the rogue's gallery and in every other
gallery, and all without success.

The captains said they would wager their lives that the men did not
belong to Indianapolis. If they were looking for them they should go
straightway to Dayton, Ohio, "where," said they, "more thieves hang out
than in any place in North America, with the possible exception of
Windsor, Canada." It is true if these men belonged to Dayton, they
would have taken exactly the same course to reach home that they would
have taken to reach Indianapolis.

Friday morning bright and early found us in Dayton, waiting for an
interview with the Chief. Presently he came, and to him and two of his
assistants I told the story and Beasley described the men. They had a
man there who answered the description of Cushman, the quiet gentleman,
and they also knew one who answered for the large one, but they had not
heard that he was out of prison yet.

Handing Beasley an album, containing the pictures of a few of the
well-known notables, the chief asked him to see if he could recognize
any of them. Scarcely had Beasley commenced to turn the leaves of the
book before his eye caught a familiar face, and, jumping from his seat,
he said: "That's the big fellow."

"This was Tettman," they said, "one of the most accomplished safe
workers in the State, and the little red-headed fellow, whom you
describe, is Reddy Jackson, a quiet hard-working robber, though not as
renowned as the former."

The officers assured us that it these men were in Dayton, they would be
only too happy to find and deliver them to us, and with this end in
view every policeman in Dayton was notified to search for