Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1864-12-22
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OTHER SHOCKING MURDRR-RErALIATIoN.
We learn from q citizen of Harrison
county that on last Friday night the house
of Mr.. Henry swiger, living on CoOn's
Run, in that county, near the Marion line,
was entered by gang of guerrillas, and
himself robbed and brutality murdered
The Williams had their faces blacked to pre-
vent recognition. Mr.. Swiger was reused
from sleep by their entrance. They de-
manded his money with cooked muskets at
his breast, and he gave them what he had
in his pockets, some $40. They cursed
him and told him they must have the
greenbacks for which he had sold his cat
tie the day before. AS Mr.. Swiger turn
ed to pass through door into another
room to get the money one Of the robbers
gave the signal to ''let in" and three of
them gave him the contents of their guns.
Even after receiving three balls the victim
did not fall, and one of them snatohed up
Mr.. SWiger's own gun standing by and shot
him dead.
Mrs. Swiger who had been witness of
this atrocity, gave the alarm, and the next
day some members of home guard COM
pany started out to search for the MUIR
derers. They tracked one of the horses
ridden to the house of a rebel named John
Short, two or three mIles distant, and in
saa .chino, bip Lougo Co1pd Tho roII NJ th a
gang, including his name. The soldiers
also appeared to have come information
obtained from the widow of the murdered
man. Short was not at home, but they
found him at work in corn field of his
brother in law, arrested him, took him out
and shot him dead. 1t was said by those
who laid out his corpse that remains of the
black disguise were still visible about his
face and neck. We learn that two others
of the gang have been caught and summa.
ry justice executed on them, but did not
learn their names.
On Sunday evening last about dark,
some unknown men probably members Of
the same gang, approached the house of
Mr.. John Barns, living on Shinu's Run
about three miles from Shinnston. in Harri-
son county. The dogs giving the alarm
and little girl Informing the family that
there were some men on the porch. Mr..
Barns stepped outside the door and was
saluted with the "click" of two or three
gun looks. He hastily spraug within and
bolted the door. Two Sons of AR. Barns,
and the Rev. W. d. Wallace were in the
house, and they had three guns, and pre-.
pared for fight. No attempt was made to
break in, however, and the scOundrels
decamped.
Great alarm prevails in the immediate
section where these successive outrages
have been committed. These outlaws ap-
pear to be partly resident rebels, and part.
ly deserters from the rebel army and they
evidently are sufficiently numerous and des-
perate to create alarm, for no loyal mans
life or property is safe in their reach
Sections of the same gang have undOubt-
eddy committed the numerous robberies at
WOrthingtou, Pennington, West Warren,
Littleton, Burton and Shinnston, of such |
recent occurrence.
There can be no adequate protection
against repetition of these outrsges by the |
military. Soldiers unacquainted with the
country cannot find the perpetrators of
them. The citizens must arm and organ
ize for their own defense. They should
execute instant vengeance whenever one of
the villains is caught; aud we are glad to
learn that this is now the feeling, aroused
by these recent events and backed by the
of the commander of this