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The men not having returned from their work yet, 

 we secreted ourselves until they arrived, and had 

 washed themselves and sat down to supper in the 

 dining cabin, for it must be remembered that there was 

 a sleeping cabin as well as one where the meals were 

 served. Then I went into the shanty where we had 

 slept, brought my shotgun out, putting in it a couple 

 of cartridges loaded with No. 1 shot, the largest I 

 carried with me, and the five of us marched into the 

 dining-room. There the constable read his warrant to 

 the four men and ordered them to come out one by 

 one and be handcuffed, while I with leveled gun gave 

 them just one minute to obey the command. 



The first man called upon hesitated and refused to 

 rise ; a second warning had to be given to him before 

 he rose from his seat, walked around the table, and 

 allowed the constable to put the handcuffs on. The 

 rest followed suit without demur. We took them into 

 the sleeping cabin and agreed to keep watch over them 

 during the night by turns ; the constable and the 

 writer to watch until 1 A. M. and the other three men 

 to watch until daylight. 



For fear of an attempted rescue, it was deemed 

 wise to keep the men in the dining-room over night, 

 and after the other men had eaten their meal and 

 gone to their bunks to lock the single big door of the 

 room so that none of the others could enter again. 

 We therefore brought in all of our belongings from the 



