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98 X. AMERICAN STATE TRIALS.

said to McKee. Well he did! he went to both Dovers; but
wherever he went he wore the cap and military pants and
Gordon’s watch with the watch paper in it, and Gordon’s
saddlebaga and the one boot with the identifying patch! He
visita first his friends and relatives in Maryland, They had
no suspicion of crime, but his strange action and curious con-
duct proclaim to them his mental disorder. It is told in the
depositions from Maryland. At last he is in Dover of Del-
aware. His parents reside there. He puta up at a conspic-
uous hotel; he visita his father and mother and goes every-
where publicly ; he remains for days; the papers having car-
ried thither news of the fate of Gordon. The police are in
the town; Wentz, a constable, and perhaps the Philadelphia
policeman; they are consulting three lawyers as to the best
mode of arrest. Worrell learns they are after him. He doea
not fly; he does not attempt it nor does he secrete himself.
He goes to bed at the hotel; before doing so he hangs up his
vest upon his bedstead, with Gordon’s watch in it, and Gor-
don’s saddiebags near him. The boot with its patch is there
also and the military cap and the military pants; and in his
trunk the frame of the daguerrotype, and in his pocketbook
with the hair of a loved one, and some other tokens of affee-
tion, is the receipt of money paid for the board of Mr. Strong,
and for the keeping of three stolen horses. Tho police, with
Couzins at their head, at a late hour in the night, rush into
the room. Their preparation was such as 8 proper caution
would dictate to arrest a desperate, bloodthirsty, sane felon,
Their action was suited to that idea, But they only encoun-
ter a question, and it is full of significanee: ‘(Why did you
not come in the daytimef’? Couzins has time to examine his
arm for a tattooed mark upon it. It did not require time to
see seven rings on his fingers! Every man and woman, in
the cars, at hotels, on the streets, at the theater, or st balls,
saw seven rings on the fingers of this flying felon! This refu-
gee from justice, this sane criminal, urged by the instincts of
self-preservation to hide his identity and ‘‘bafiie’’"—yea, ‘‘baf-
fle’’—-that is the word used by the most skillful detective who
ever won police laurels! He changed his name, say the proae-

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