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were surprised to find that Gordon had not arrived. Several
days elapsed and they began to apprehend something had
happened to him. Walker learned from a Mr. McDonald, a
railroad contractor, that Gordon bad been seen on the 24th
on the Boonslick road by a Mr. Ferguson, in company with
two men, all on horseback. Walker started the next morning
on the locomotive for St. Charles, having directed McDonald
to go up on the Pacific road, and return by way of the Boons-
lick road, and ascertain if possible where Gordon was last
seen. Walker left St, Charles and proceeded up the Boonslick
read, making inquiry at every house until he reached the resi-
dence of a Mrs. Stevenson, where he learned that a negro
boy of Mrs. Stevenson had found a dragoon saddle in a thicket
about half a mile south of the road. This led to a thorough
search of the thicket, which is a dense pin oak thicket extend-
ing along the road, about one hundred yards and widening
as it goes south.

It is unnecessary, gentlemen, to recapitulate the cireum-
stances attending the discovery of the body. The witnesses
have detailed them with great minuteness, and you have be-
fore you a diagram of the ground showing the meanderings
of the traveled portion of the road and the place where the
body was concealed and found.

I will now undertake to connect Worrell with the murder.

It is in evidence that he and Bruff deserted from the army
at Fort Leavenworth on the 7th of January. The prisoner
was a first orderly-sergeant and Bruff a private. Mr. Fer-
guson states that about noon on the 24th of January Worrell,
Broff and Gordon eame riding up to his house on horseback,
Gordon riding a Chestnut sorrel. Worrell waa leading 2
horse which he gold to witness, They remained nearly half
an hour. The horse was afterwards claimed by another per-
son, who alleged that it was stolen from him. Witness ree-
ognizes prigoner as the man who sold him the horse, reeognized
him in the jail at St. Louis. You will recollect what passed
between them in jail with respeet to the horse. Witness re-
sided on the Boonslick road, 11 miles west of Warrenton.

Mr. Pace saw prisoner on the 24th of January at Mr. Jones’

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