scuffle,
and Pitts told me afterward that Howard fired a pistol near Heywood's head
to scare him.

Bunker tried to get a pistol that lay near him, but Pitts saw his movement
and beat him to it. It was found on Charley when he was killed, so much
more evidence to identify us as the men who were in Northfield.

"Where's the money outside the safe?" Bob asked.

Bunker showed him a box of small change on the counter, and while Bob was
putting the money in a grainsack Bunker took advantage of the opportunity
to dash out of the rear window. The shutters were closed, and this caused
Bunker an instant's delay that was almost fatal. Pitts chased him with a
bullet. The first one missed him, but the second went through his right
shoulder.

As the men left the bank Heywood clambered to his feet and Pitts, in his
liquor, shot him through the head, inflicting the wound that killed him.

We had no time to wreck the telegraph office, and the alarm was soon sent
throughout the country.

Gov. John S. Pillsbury first offered $1,000 reward for the arrest of the
six who had escaped, and this he changed afterward to $1,000 for each of
them, dead or alive. The Northfield bank offered $700 and the Winona &
St. Peter railroad $500.

29. A CHASE TO THE DEATH

A little way out of Northfield we met a farmer and borrowed one of his
horses for Pitts to ride. We passed Dundas on the run, before the news of
the robbery had reached there, and at Millersburg, too, we were in advance
of the news, but at Shieldsville we were behind it. Here a squad of men,
who, we afterwards learned, were from Faribault, had left their guns
outside a house. We did not permit them to get their weapons until we had
watered our horses and got a fresh start. They overtook us about four
miles west of Shieldsville, and shots were exchanged without effect on
either side. A spent bullet did hit me on the "crazy bone," and as I was
leading Bob's horse it caused a little excitement for a minute, but that
was all.

We were in a strange country. On the prairie our maps were all right, but
when we got into the big woods and among the lakes we were practically
lost.

There were a thousand men on our trail, and watching for us at fords and
bridges where it was thought we would be apt to go.

That night it started to rain, and we wore out our horses. Friday we
moved toward Waterville, and Friday night we camped between Elysian and
German lake. Saturday