Several people both in Geneva and Newtonsville were found who remembered seeing Edwards, whom they knew--and a companion who was a stranger to them--about these towns on the day of the robbery, and they described their actions as being very peculiar.

They had disappeared immediately after that and had not been seen since.

If further proofs of the complicity of Edwards were required they could have been procured by the score, and as all traces of their route from Geneva had been lost, William resolved to commence a thorough and systematic process of espionage, which he believed would eventually lead to the discovery of his hiding-place.

He thoroughly canvassed the situation and his conclusions were soon found.

Newton Edwards had a father and mother--he had brothers and sisters; and in addition to these he had a lovely young wife, from whom he had parted in anger.