a large, powerful man, with bald head and sandy whiskers and moustache,
answering the description, given so many times of this man. He is pretty
badly wounded, and at the time was somewhat delirious, so that nothing
could be gleaned by questioning him.
His body was full of wounds, mostly caused by buckshot. His worst injuries
were about the head, several shot having penetrated the skull and embedded
themselves at the base of the brain. It was evident that some of these
leaden missiles had lodged among the nerves of the right eye, as that
organ was closed and inflamed, and appeared to be forced forward. On
entering his head, these shot had broken down the palate arch, and the
pain experienced by the prisoner must have been intense. Lying by his side
was