Next day after our last attempt Allen, McGloyn, Grady and myself met at Lafayette Hall and arranged to abandon the Forty-second street plan.

Tristram, Hudson and McGuire were never present at our conferences at Lafayette Hall.

I used to meet McGuire and tell him what had transpired, and he used to convey the intelligence to Tristram and Hudson.
"The new plan was that three of us were to secrete ourselves in the express car during its brief stay at Forty-second street, and the other five were to go in the passenger cars.

We three were to throw off the safes after the train got over the Harlem Bridge.

The five were to get out at the bridge.