I never saw the prisoners before the night of the robbery, to my knowledge; I was coming down Rosemary-lane, between nine and ten; and at the corner of Mr. Maddox's timber-yard, I saw a number of people assembled; I asked what was the matter; the prosecutor told me: I said, any man is an officer to take a felon: I immediately took him in charge, it was about ten, and at eleven the same evening, we