The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1871-12-22
tFreH the Msnphis Ape u
HUNTED TO DEATH
The Late Express Robberies on
the Mobile and Ohio
Railroad
Correct Details of the Operations of
the Detectives Against
the Robbers.
Pursuit, Capture and Death Of
Harrington. Chief Of
the Gang.
A Short Chapter from the His
terry of the Modern
Murrell.
The Efficiency of the Greet Pinker-
ton Detective Agency.
The Efficiency of the Greet Pinker-
ton Detective Agency.

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fearful Nemesis which never relaxes pur-
suit until death or the law clutches in It's
memorable grasp the being who is weak
enough to attempt to rob or empezzle
their property.
Harrington had perpetrated many
crimes before he touched tbs express It
was his fatality to rush against that rock,
and upon it he split. The first time ne
WAS brought to the notice of the Memphis
police was last spring, when a gentleman
from Augusta. Arkansas, saw Harrington
on board boat at our wharf and sent for
Captain Athey 20 have him aFrested. He
was brought to the statiOnhOuse, as was
also a horse which he was taking with
him to Arkansas. In few days after
ward the horse was claimed by a gcntle>
man from Upton county, in this State,
and Harrington was bound over in the
sum of two thousand dollars to answer to
the charge of horse stealing, but subse>
quently got out on straw bail some Gems
tlemen came here from Missouri to see if
he was not the person who had killed par
ties In that State. They looked ut him
through the bars of his cage and said,
No; he is not the man; it is his brother
we are after" Harrington made dash
for liberty while being escorted from the
magistrate's office here to tie iail, break
ing away from the officer who had him in
charge ct the corner of Commerce and
Main streets, and, after running two
hours, had to halt in front of high fence,
and allow himself to be recaptured and
led to Jail After getting away from here,
be Immediately set about the perpetra.
ton Of heavier robberies than any he had
before participated in. he associated
himself with others, and, no doubt, the
brother was the leading spirit in the bust
mess, rs it appears that Levi Harrington,
alias Clarke, Was not half go bad a man
as bis brother, who has not yet turned
up. In July last the train was rObEed at
Moscow station, Kentucky. 1t was gener-
ally believed at the time that the Far
rington gang were concerned in the lob
and again, in October, another train was
robbed At Union City, and again the same
clan were suspected
It was on the evening of Saturday, the
2lst of October, the latter robbery was
perpetrated. The train, az WAS usual
was switched on the side~track, and ali
hands except one man, the guard. left the
cars, to have supper at some distance
from where the train rested on the pids>
track The switching was done to allow
a clear through line for a train which ".
to pass about that time, going in a differ
ent direction. When the coast was all
clear, two men jumped into the express
car and told the guard to keep quiet at the
peril of bis life, while others got unon
the engine and commenced backing the
train down the track. Pistols were held
at the head of Mr. Thomas, the guard
and he was requested to hand out the
keys of the safe, which he did The men
went through its contents, taking all the
money there was, amounting to about
ffteed hundred dollars. When they had
secured the booty, they signalfed the en-
CINE to stop and hands got of and took 20,
the woods.
AS the robbers escaped, negro men
at the citation notified the engine driver
and conductor at their supper of what
had happened, they started down the
track after the train, and when they
reached it found everything right except
the express car. The guard related the
story, which was so strange that it as
founded all hands On the engine one Of
the thieves lefta small satchel, which con-
tanned q loaf of bakers bread and a piece
company were notified of the affair, and
in short time the assistant superintend-
ent, III. j. GBrien, and the assistant
superintendent, Mr.. Morley, were on the
ground, and had made their decision
what to do in the case. Pinkerton, of
Chicago. WIS sent for, and, Ia conjunc-
ton with Pat Connell, of this city, COM
msnced operations, starting out with the
satchel and its contents as a basis for op
erations. From the description of the
men, Cornell inspected that it was the
work of the Harrington Family. In No.
Vember, they had traced the Farrinstons
80 place called Leister's Landing, below
Hickman Kentucky, and about twenty
miles from Union City. Here the officers
went, walked into the house where the
thieves were in company with humber
of other men Of like kidney, and had a
bold fight, but failed TO capture the birds
Pinkerton and Cornell got some scratces
from pistol balls in the encounter The
Farringtons and Barton, the other you til
concerned in the affair, got away shortly
after this, we ublished an account in the
APPEAL of the movements of the FgTTing
tons, in which it was stated that the
mother Of the family was about to remove
from Waverly, a station on the Nashville
and North Western RAILROAD, to Texas. She
had circulated that story, aud it coming
to the ears of Connell and Pinkr.on, they
resolved to profit by the information.
They had by this time surrounded them
selves with good force. Two of their
men weae dispatched tOWaverly to make
with Ara Harrington. One
of them hired with her as a teamster,
and the other kept covering arou ID to
observe and to notify his chief Of what
was going on. In this way they iearne,i
that Mrs. Harrington was not bound for
Texas, bat for Missouri, where she i'm
tended TO locate in the neighb0rhOOd of
her relations, at a little town called
Verona. Detectives were at once dispat 81
ed to Verona 10 watch Tor the Farrin gtons
COnnen and PInkerton also went in diff
ferent characters. Two Of their men
hired themselves out as farm Iaborers to
the uncle of the FaIringtons. Ghs thieves
were traced to their holes, and there sur
rend cred on last Tuesday Yesterday
We received the following dispteh. which !
tells how well the plans of the officers
were laid;
ST. Louis, December Is.
William A. Pinkerton and 4 T. Gall
lagher, of Pinkerton's Chicago Detsetive
agency, and Connell, of Memphis, lea
here last night for Union City, Tennessee, :
having in charge Hillery Fareington. alias
Henry Clark, and William Barton.
charged with robbing Southern Express
company messenger. by boarding trains,
at Moscow and Union City, on the Mobile
and Ohio railroad, last July and October.
These men were arrested at Verona, on
the Atla ntic and Pacific railroad, in tie
extreme southwestern part of this State,
and we're captured only after the houses
in which they took refuge were securely
la ricaded from the outside and then set
on fire. They are desperate characters,
and charged with murder as well as rob
berry. Their arrest it is believed, will
bare the eject . brsak ap one Of The