GOING TO SIT THERE ALL NIGHT,

and inquired about the fords and roads. After Nelson went in, the outlaws

changed their grays for his two horses, both black and blind, one in both

eyes, and the other in one. Nelson saw their revolvers. They rode the

blacks until two o’clock Monday morning, but made only ten miles, when

they changed for a pair of grays, five miles north of Sioux Falls. The

blind horses probably did not suit them. They went through Sioux Falls

about five Monday morning, and overtook the Yankton stage. They asked the

driver where he was going. The driver told them, and asked them the same

question. The robbers did not answer, but turned back into Sioux Falls.

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