afternoon about half past three in the stable. That night about quarter after five while George and I were separating the milk down in the milk house, George said, "How would you like to have that bunch of money Lew's got on him?" I don't remember saying anything to that. There was nothing more said about it that day. The next morning, George and I were separating the milk down at the milk house before breakfast, and George said, "Well, Lew will have that bunch of money on him to-day. Let's get it." I said, "What do you mean?" He says, "Why, do away with him." I says, "What? Kill him?" He says, "Yes." I says, "No. I won't kill him." He says, "Well, you start it and I'll finish it. I got a blackjack up at the house, I used one time myself to knock a man in the head with out West, to get seventy-five dollars from him to come East on." He said he was in a bank in the West and saw this man get the money--the seventy-five dollars--and when the man came out, he managed to get a ride with him, and while they were going along the road, he hit the man in the head and knocked him out, and went on his way. I didn't say anything. That afternoon, about three o'clock, George came to me in the milk house, while we were getting the milk buckets and cans ready to take to the barn, and handed me the blackjack and said, "Here's the blackjack; you can do it with that." I put it in my pocket. We then went to the barn. From then up to about five o'clock, while we were working about the barn, George kept saying to me, "Don't lose your nerve. The first chance you get after the workmen are gone, get him." Several times he said, "Don't miss your chance--Don't forget." Lew was away that afternoon. He came home while George and I were milking.