It is supposed that at one time, before the gang was broken up, there were upwards of one hundred persons engaged in it, although the precise number has never been ascertained.--Their method of operation was this. A horse stolen by one of the gang was conveyed by night to the next station, the thief returning immediately to prevent suspicion. In this way the business was managed until the horse was out of the reach of pursuit. They had regular stations where the horses that were stolen were kept until they had collected a sufficient number, when they were taken in small droves to New York, Philadelphia, and other large places, and disposed of. The route on which James was stationed, was between Kingston and Toronto, near Coburg, where he had been engaged for some time. On one occasion he had been to Kingston with a horse thus stolen, and there received a considerable sum of money for his service to the company, and, on his way home, broke into the stable of a British officer, and stole a very valuable horse, but the noise awakened an old inmate who got up, and perceiving the door opened, he went in and found the horse missing. He immediately gave the alarm to the officer.--Several men were sent out in pursuit. He was overtaken before he got ten miles from the place where the horse was stolen. They were brought back to Kingston, where he was tried before a magistrate and thrown into prison, until the sitting of the Kings Court, when he was condemned and sentenced to be hung. He was executed at Kingston, some time late in the year eighteen hundred and thirty-five. Thus ended the unhappy career of both father and son--the father setting the example. After this news, she became, if possible more cruel and barbarous than before. She now seemed to take no delight whatever in anything but acts of the most blood-thirsty and inhuman nature; nothing now satisfied her murderous disposition but the death of some innocent, and to her unoffending victim; but her career of guilt was nearly run; she had carried it to such a height that it was impossible to continue in this way much longer, without being overtaken by justice, and it was not long after this that she was, by the following circumstance, exposed, and her gang broken up and some of them brought to condign punishment, for the high handed and outrageous crimes, they had for a long time committed, thus far without detection. She, and her associates, Griffin, Brown and Sharp, murdered a Quaker, who was travelling in that section of the country in November, 1843. During his stay in that vicinity; he had formed considerable acquaintance, and had intimated to a friend with whom he had considerable business, that he would stop at that tavern that night, and probably board there while he remained in the neighborhood, which he did, for he was seen there four days after. [Illustration: Ann and an accomplice murder a guest in their bed.]