They found the iron chest without difficulty, and the will having been placed in the hands of the Surrogate of New York County, its contents were turned over to that official to be dealt with according to the law.
By the confession of Tisdale, all stain being removed from the name of our hero, in due time he came into his own.
And these two important points being settled, nothing remains but to dispose of the principal actors in this strange but true narrative of events growing out of the robbery of the Webster bank.
The body of Reuben Tisdale was recovered from the sub-cellar beneath the Donegal Shades upon the morning of the burglars' arrest.
In some unexplained manner, P. Slattery had got wind of the affair, and deserting his saloon, has never since been seen.
In due time, Elijah Callister, exposed in his true colors before the world, paid the penalty of his many crimes upon the scaffold in the yard of the Tombs, which event occurring as it did only a few months since, after a long and much talked of trial, must still be fresh in the minds of all who read this tale.
The Cutts, father and son, were sentenced to Sing Sing on the testimony of Caleb Hook, for a term of years.
Between the detective and Mr. Billy Cutts this most effectually squared accounts.
For his services, so kindly and faithfully rendered, as may be well believed, Frank Mansfield saw this brave member of the New York detective force fully repaid.
Indeed, it is rumored that so liberal was this compensation, that there is no actual need for Caleb Hook to continue on the force.