After Johnson's backing out we did not know what to do, and were just about abandoning the whole thing, when I came across an old traveling friend of mine in Chicago, who had been on a protracted spree, and who was without money and friends, in a strange city, and who came to me to borrow enough to get him home to Denver.

The idea at once occurred to me to induce him to join us and in this I was successful, for he was in a desperate state, and anything that promised to furnish him with money would have been greedily accepted at that time.

Even after this, however, I don't believe that either of us would have had the courage to carry out the scheme, if we had not continued our drinking, and I don't believe I was sober a single moment until after we had accomplished our object and the robbery was committed.

How it was done, you all know, and it is not necessary for me to detail the particulars of an event which will overcast my whole life." As he ceased speaking, Edwards buried his face in his hands, and wept aloud.
"Who was this man whom you procured to help you ?" inquired William.
Edwards hesitated for some time, as though he was loth to divulge the name of his companion, but finally he said: "His name is Thomas Duncan, and he was in the clothing business, in Denver, Colorado." "Now tell us how much money you took from the bank, and how it was divided ?" asked Mr.Warner.
"There is something about that that I cannot understand," replied Edwards.

"From what Pearson told me, there must have been more than twenty thousand dollars in the vault, twelve thousand of which was in gold.