he was a dissipated, and so far an immoral man.  He at least gave his children an example of industry, and could not be suspected of training them in dishonest practices.  The eldest son was pardoned, or served his time out, we forget which, and came home to his father’s house; but was soon taken in another misdemeanour, and sentenced to ten years’ confinement in the Kentucky State Prison.  At the expiration of his term the second also returned, but fearfully depraved and abandoned.  He seemed to take a delight in all manner of wickedness, and bore evidence that he came from a good school.  After a few months of dissipation, supported by robbery, he was again taken, convicted the second time, and sent to the State Prison.  From it he made his escape, and found his way to Vicksburg, but on attempting a robbery, he was detected, and shot through his left shoulder, the ball fracturing the bone very badly.  One day while he was under arrest, several men visited him; he was alarmed when they first entered, but soon regained his self-possession.  One of the party inquired why he seemed so much affrighted at their entrance; to which he replied, that at first sight he had taken one of them for a man of the name of Phelps. [A robber who was afterwards taken, and attempted to break from jail, but was shot down in the streets of Vicksburg.  For particulars see “Gambling Unmasked.”] A very friendly feeling was soon established between the robber and his visitors; in a few days he was taken from jail, and bent his way for New Orleans, where he was again detected in the very act of robbery, but in attempting to make his escape was shot down by the captain of the guard.

This same year of his death the third brother got into difficulty, and was sentenced to the Penitentiary for three years.  Before the expiration of his sentence, the fourth was convicted.  The fifth boy at this time was about seventeen, and he too was caught stealing, convicted, and received his sentence about the time the fourth regained his liberty.

The third brother, after serving the specified period in what is called the Penitentiary, took his way south, where he was again committed for robbery, and sentenced to five years’ confinement in the Louisiana State Prison.  At the expiration of that period he started for home, but when near the island of Sixty-six, on the Mississippi, he concluded to take a trunk and jump overboard.  This feat he accomplished successfully; but unluckily for him, it was in the same year in which so many outlaws were put to death by the citizens, and having connected himself with a band who were at that time flooding the river with counterfeit coin, negro-stealing, and indulging in all manner of villany, he was taken by a company, and with about forty others put to death, some being shot, and others tied up in sacks and thrown into the Mississippi.