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EDWARD D.

WOREELL. 25

traced this description until we
got to Pittsburg, where wo learn-
ed he shaved, After this the de-
seription was the same except
his beard.

Captain J. E, D. Cousins. Re-
side in St. Louis; am present em-
ployed by the insurance com-
panies as inspector of buildings.
Have been in the police many
yeare—captain and ‘other offices
therein. Saw prisoner first time
at Dover, Del., in a tavern there.
Mr. Worrell came with me and
one or two othera to the railroad
there, where we met Mr. Wentz.
This watch was in the pocket of
a_vest on the bed in which Mr.
Worrell was sleeping at Dover,
in Delaware. When we got in the
hand car I handed Wentz the
watch. gon A aes a little
town depot myrna,
asked Worrell avhose watch it
was and he eaid it belonged to
Mr. Gordon. I identify thia as
the same wateh. Between Alton
and St. Louis, on oar return, Mr.
Wents again asked me for the
wateh. There was also a pair
of saddlebags, together with a
tronk, in the room, and some
other things brought there from
Worrell’s room, and most of
them are now here. Worrell said
the saddlebags belonged to Gor-
don.

Cross-examined, I gave the
tronk to prisoner or his friends
at the jail at St. Louis; a small
eommon trunk, not vary old. We
got to Dover Thursday evening.
‘He was arrested that night be-
tween 12 and 2 o’clock. We went
into his room and took him ont
of bed—in his room at the hotel.
He had been described to me as
having a tattoed mark on his
hand and a sear on his cheek,
IT examined his hand before he

got out of bed. Had a piece of
sandle, The room was dark,
There was another gentleman
sleeping in the same room. Was
not ready to arrest him before,
because I wanted no difficulty,
and wanted to get the deputy
sheriff of that county there.
There are: always more or less
difficulties when a person is eur-
rounded by his friends. Did not
ears about anybody’s knowing of
my arrest of him until I got him.
Had warrants for his arrest both
in Maryland and from Wilming-
ton also, in Delaware. He had
been deseribed to me ag a man
with a very large mustache and
beard. When I found bim it was
shaved off. I found in Balti-
more a tailor's shop where he
had bought some clothes he got
there—a vest, and I got a piace
of the cloth of ‘which it was
made. He had a pair of mili-
tary pantaloons in his trank. We
knocked at the door, and the man
sleeping by it opened it, I took
hold of his band and examined
it. One of us told him he was
arrested and to get up. We
pulled the ¢lithes off, examined
hitn to see if he had any arms;
then made him get out in the
middle of the floor and dress
himself. He asked what was the
matter. He got on his elothes
directly, and I took a pair of
handenffe ont of my pocket to
put on him, He said he would
die before he would have such
things put on him, I eaid, very
well, and desisted, and put them
back in my pocket. He made
no demonstration of fighting—
only talked loud and jumped
back a little, He asked why we
did not come in the daytime. I
told him his parents lived there,
it was a very painful matter, and

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