and gave an account of his party’s wanderings from Mankato. He said all
six crossed the railroad bridge together. They came right through the town
on the railroad track. They knew, he said, the other bridge was guarded,
for he saw the guards; and then, hastily correcting himself, he said:
“We knew the bridge was watched, and then hastily crossed over on the
trestle bridge. We got some melons out of a garden, and on the right of
the railroad, a little further down, we got two old hens and one chicken,
the only fowls on the place, and then went on to the place where we were
disturbed when getting our breakfast ready. We had it all ready to cook
when”