Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1871-11-23
H FARRINcToNs.
The History of a vaEraat Family who
Steal and Murder for q Living.
The Express Company on
Their Track.

On day In the early part Of last spring a
gentleman who was on board a White river
packet ct our wharf, having taken passage to
Augusta, Arkansas, sent for Captain Athey,
Of the police force. TO whom he pointed out 8
person who was a deck passenger, saying said
passenger wasa murderer. Captain Athey ar
rested him, and lodged him in the station
house. His nams was Harrington, and he had
a horse in his possession which was claimed a
few days aferward by some gentleman from
Upton county. But the cause Of his arrest was
not this horse. The gentleman who had him
aILesteu accusso MN OF committing three
murders-one at Augusta and two in a town Of
northern Missouri Harrington was sent to
jail, and kept there until some gentlemen
from Missouri came down end interviewed
him. he was not the man that had done the
murder In their house, but Il was his brother.
De was then brought before a Justice,
charged with hoTSe-stealing, and sent back to
jail in default Of sOOO ball. While going up
Main street he got away from the constable
ard ran all through Chelsea, but had to "haul
up" finally in front Of q large lence and was
again captured and lodged IN jail After this
episode he remained In jail for some weeks,
until he managed TO get out on straw bail
through the medium OF some of the lawyers
that can manage such things. During bis
stay in jail, Captain Athey had information of
half a dozen murders and as many robberies
that had been perpetrsted by himself and his
brother, but being unable 10 obtain any wit
Misses he could do nothing. The Farringtons
again turn up as the principals In the recent
robbery Of the express car at Union city.
Since the occurrence q few weeks since, at
Union city, Of the express-car robbery, Mr..
Worley and his detectives have bee Indus
triOusly working mp the case, and have finally
s~ucceededin discovering who were the thieves.
The Union City Courier says their names are
Henry Clark, Edward Russell and William
Barton, and there Is no doubt but that they
are the parties who committed tine express
robbery al Moscow. They we're traced TO Lus-
Ier's landing, on the mississippi river, about
fifteen miles below Hickman, where they have
been making headquarters for some time.
Their ostensible occupation was keeping gro
Gerry at q point where, perhaps, they would
not sell enough in amonth TO pay their board
a dsy. Hearing they were suspected.
they took to the canebrake. Escaping from
their ~hiding-hole, Clark went to Missouri,
where he was arrested and escaped Clark
and Russell are brothers, going under assumed
names, their real names being Harrington.
Their mother has recently started to move TO
TeXa, and It is understood that the three
thieves are to meet her at some point along
the route Of her travel, and accompany her.
There is no doubt but that the thieves viii
soon be captured, aud justice administered to
them. One thousand dollars reward is offered
for them, dead or alive. The F~arringtons are
from Dickson county, and Barton from Texas,
but more recent a brakeman on the Nash
Vile and railroad. The arrest
OF the men al Somerville Is another case OF
mistaken identity.
With these facts before them, our sharp
ought to be able to make a bold
strike for that one thousand dollars.