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By this time suspicions began to spring up^and spread, and word was passed round * through the country of the probable character of the visitors. Some miles south of Pa-a ^ 'oli, a farmer, who was strongly impressed with the conviction that they were on a steal-excursion, mounted his horse, and by j taking a short cnt got into Paoli ahead of them, and aroused the citizens, who turned out promptly, to the number of 150, Mr. C. thinks, and stood ready to resist the daring intruders. In about half an hour, or nearly four o’clock P. M., they came up, but stopped juat outside of the town, and made some inquiries of a person they met as to the course 1 of a road lying in view. They could see j people riding round and passing about with guns on their shoulders, and this was hint enough for them to change their course. They turned westward on the Vincennes road, and kept on ahead a mile or two, when they turned north again, and went some five or | Six miles beyond Paoli, where they stopped 1 and took two horses, leaving but one in exchange. Some three or four citizens of Paoli, who encountered them, rode with them the first mile or two out of that town, and all,
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Indianapolis Daily Journal
Indianapolis, Indiana, US
Tue, Jun 23, 1863
Page 2
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Sullivan C.
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