  CHAPTER I. Why this exposure is made at the present time—Who oppose reform—My lectures—The New-Light minister—How some get rich—My opponents 9 CHAPTER II. Goodrich, the gambler—His malicious conduct—Cause of it—The Browns—Their plan to escape punishment 16 CHAPTER III. The colonel takes medicine to bring on sickness—Ruse will not take—Character of the administrators of justice in New Orleans—Colonel Brown deserted by the Brotherhood—Dearborn county, Indiana, delegation 22 CHAPTER IV. The secret correspondence brought from Canada—The Brotherhood desert Brown—How I obtained the secret writings—Not suspected—Mrs. Brown and the landlady—-Cunningham suspected of purloining them 27 CHAPTER V. Brown's lawyer attempts to bribe me to testify falsely against Taylor—Acquaint the deputy-marshal with the fact—Brown's ineffectual attempts to find bail—Suspected of having removed the hid money—The colonel's visitors 34 CHAPTER VI. His Lawrenceburgh friends—A hypocritical lecture—Further disclosures—A searching examination—First intimation of the existence of The Secret Band of Brothers—Colonel Brown's narrative of the conspiracy against Taylor 42 CHAPTER VII. The colonel resumes his narrative—The missing papers.—Fare advice 57 CHAPTER VIII. Conspiracy against my life—Conversation with Cunningham regarding the mysterious papers—Death of Colonel Brown 62 CHAPTER IX. Explanatory remarks—The Grand Master of The Secret Band of Brothers—Vice-grand Masters—Ordinary members—Objects of the Order—Colonel Brown sacrificed lest he should betray them—Taylorites and Brownites 66 CHAPTER X. Anxiety about the missing papers—Cause of the hostility of the Band to me—The papers supposed to be deposited in the United States Court—Clerk's office broken into, and the box containing Taylor's indictment and the spurious money stolen—Suspected—Placed in prison for safety—The robber discovered—My release—The mysterious box—The stranger—Conversation with Wyatt—The box opened 75 CHAPTER XI. The trading operations of the Band—Lectures at Lawrenceburgh—The Browns and the hog-drover 84 CHAPTER XII. Initiation—Penalties—The Grand Masters—The secret writing—The six qualities, Huska, Caugh, Naugh, Maugh, Haugh, Gaugh—Vocabulary of flash words—The post-routes.—The horse-trade explained—Allowances— Specimens of correspondence—The biter bit—A letter of introduction with an important note—Subsequent inquiry into the case 90 CHAPTER XIII. Thieves and thief-catchers—A family of five—Penitence and Penitentiaries—The chain-driver and his gang—Lawyers' fees and Lawyers' privileges—Our representatives 139 CHAPTER XIV. Character of the inhabitants on the Texas frontier in 1833—The murder of Dr ——. Operations at Fort Towson—Edmonds and Scoggins—Robbery— Journey to Fort Smith—The dumb negro speaks—His character of Scoggins and Edmonds 147 CHAPTER XV. 1. Chaplain Morrill's letter commendatory of my visit—2. My own account—3. My second visit—4. Mr. Gary's letter—5. Reply to the accusations of Mr. Morrill—6. Mr. Merrill's charges—7. Vindication from these charges—8. Further particulars relative to the life of Wyatt alias Newell alias North, and a horrid murder committed near Perrysburgh, Ohio— Drawing of Lottery Tickets 267 |
|
