them, and to
run them in if possible, while Beasley in high glee took a position on
a prominent corner to scan the passing throngs.

About seven o'clock that evening word came over the wire to
head-quarters that Tettman and Jackson had been safely landed in one of
the station houses. It was quickly arranged to remove them to the
county jail, a more secure place, and it was desired to have Beasley
stand just outside the door of the station house, so that when the
prisoners were marched out to enter the patrol wagon, he might get a
good look at them under an electric light, and thereby make sure that
they were the ones we wanted.

When they passed him he turned to the crowd, and with much complacency
said: "Them's the fellows."

Afterward, while interviewing one of the officers who made the arrest,
as the men were coming out of a notorious saloon, he told us that when
he told Tettman that he wanted him, Tettman instantly put a piece of
paper in his mouth and commenced to chew it. The officer did not like
the looks of the operation and he grabbed the man by the throat and
ordered him not to attempt to swallow what he was chewing.

After considerable of a struggle he secured a portion of the piece of
paper, which he handed to me saying: "I don't know as it amounts to
anything, but I was afraid it might, and so took the precaution to
prevent its destruction; sorry I was not quick enough to get it all."
The little scrap of paper contained the following memoranda:

12,427 at 2c. 248.54
3,240 " 4c. 129.
747 " 5c. 3
892 " 10c.
165 speci
400 du

On the preliminary examination before the commissioner in Dayton they
fought bravely. Their case was managed by the best counsel that could
be obtained, who attempted to prove that Tettman and Jackson were in
Dayton the day before the robbery in Attica, the day of the robbery, as
well as the day after.

In fact there was very little proof necessary for their side that they
did not produce, but the quality, unfortunately for them, did not equal
the quantity.

Beasley's straightforward story was accepted by everybody, and when we
proved by the postmaster from Attica that the number and the
denomination of the stamps stolen from his safe corresponded precisely
with the number and the denomination as noted by Tettman on the little
slip of paper, which he attempted to swallow, the case was closed and
the prisoners were sent to Indianapolis for tr