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misfortunes.  The prisoner in speaking of the money, asked me if I was wiling to pay him $10 if he the prisoner would find the money lost.  I told him I would pay the amount and would pay him $25.  He asked me how the money was fixed up.  I told him in a blue rag in the bureau drawer.  He asked me what kind of a rag the money was in.  I replied in a blue rag and showed me a sample of same.  He told me he found a blue rag same as sample one mile and a half from town that morning.  He took the sample in his hand and examined it asserting it to be like rag found on the road.  He took the sample with him.  He indicated no direction in which he found the rag.  He did not say what time in the morning he found the rag.
The fire was about 2 oclock a.m.  He told me that it was his trade to find out stolen money.  He said he was certain to find my money he thought.  He wa a stranger to me.  Never saw him before.  Never heard of any one that ever saw him.  I told the prisoner that I thought it a negro woman who stole the money, but he told me that he thought I was mistaken, it was a man.  This was in Colorado County State of TExas.  I cannot tell what direction he went from my house.  He had pen and ink with him.  He has not brought my money yet.  He has not brought the man