For three days the men hid in the woods, unable to escape because of the guard kept by the whites.

The third night a great rain came up and the whites sought the shelter of their homes.
"The brothers thus had a chance to escape.

John escaped into Arkansas, but Samuel, poor fool, went only forty miles, remaining in Louisiana.
The mob forced one of our number, who escorted him on horseback, to inform them of the road that Samuel took.

In this way they traced and found him.

They tied him on a horse and brought him back here with them.