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would use it for legitimate purposes. Opr. then proceeded to Cicero where he saw both Proprietors of the only Hardware store there but does not know the names and they said that they sold none only to those they know and Opr. asked them if they knew John A. Bowles and both replied "no." Opr. then proceeded to Arcadia where he arrived at 6 P.M. and after supper he went to John Hall's Hardware store and he has a case of "Atlas" capital "D" in a circle-- image but he sold only one order and that to a former he knows and who used it in blowing boulders. About 7 P.M. the horses being rested Opr. left for Noblesville where he arrived a out 9 P.M. and saw C.W. and reported to him that he had omitted when sending the telegram from Sheridan that Kirke Howe belonged at Westfield, not at Sheridan. Opr. being played out he soon retired. Opr. reports while at Sheridan that he examined the register of a small hotel call the Musslewhite Hotel in the upper end of town and found under the heading, Monday May 28 John A Bowles Aurora, Ill. Then added in different hand writing "call 6 A.M. unclear in an hour. The woman in the house could tell nothing of the meaning of this, but Opr. thinks it is the morning he went to Westfield and bought