AT MANKATO,

the excitement was immense. A vast concourse of people—including hundreds

of women—had congregated at the depot and cheered the St. Paul train as it

drew up. The cars had hardly come to a standstill when a whistle was heard

and the discordant clang of a bell which foretold the approach of another

train from the west.

A general rush of the assembled throng was at once made to meet the

incoming train—Monty’s—which was thought to contain the captured bandits.

Cheer after cheer rent the air and broke upon the evening’s stillness as

the train slowly moved up toward the station, but when it was announced

that the prisoners were not on board,