The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1872-05-31

a DESPERATE KENTUCKY OuTLAw.-The
Louisville Ledger gives the followiu. Incl
dents in the life OF IL noted Kentucky guerilla
aud liofse-thcf miitd "Wild Pat" who
lately got into the clutches of the law:
"Wild Pat" who gives his proper lIamc rs |
John Mcmahon, has been most truly Il |
"wild" and reckless rascal. During the !
war he took the Confederate side and turned |
guerilla, and many deed of blood anu r0lI-
berry was committed by him in this disguise.
He proved upon Union men and sO-callcd re-
bells alike, robbing and when necessary muir
dcrin", indiscriminately. His field of upc-
r7tions was principally in that portion of
Kentucky lying between the Louisville and
Nashville railroad and the Cumberland and
Ohio rivers, and he is accused of more than
twenty cold-bloOdctl murders committed un-
der the cover of hostiliies between the
North and South, but for booty alone.
ovid Pat'' was captured in 1868, tried
as murderer and guerilla by court-marlial,
by order of General Walt Whitaker, and
sentenced to be hung; but the cunning vii
lain managed To escape the day before the
one fixed for his execution, and after the
rope had hcen purchased and the gallows
erected. After his escape he renewed his
work of robbery and slaughter, and became
Il terror to the entire population in the coun-
ties on Green river. and between that river
and the Cumberland. He Frequently cX-
tended his raids into Tennessee. having
under him from five to twenty men. il is
said he and his gang burned the houses Of IA
number of citizens after robbing them.
Before the war "Wild Pat" was q horse
thief. and was convicted in Lyon county of
DEMONSTRATING and sentenced to q long term
in the pcntcntary; but when the boat upon
which the sheriff of that county, with Pat.
took passage for Louisville en- route to Frank
tort pcriteutiary, reached Portland Pat made
his escape. He has been sentenced to the
penitentiary four times, served two terms,
and is now serving the third. When placed
in the penitentiary he was recognized ty
several of the old officers of that institution.
We gave the particulars Of "Wild Pats"
daring leap from the cars between this city
and Frankfort while being taken to the
penitentiary. He had been permitted to en-
ter the water-closet on the car, Captain At
kinson accompanying him and standing at
the door. While the train was running at
the rate Of thirty-tive miles an hour Pat
hoisted the window and leaped out. The
alarm was Immediately given by Captain
Atkinson, and Sheriff SDaulding had the
train stopped, when lie and Captain Atkiu-
son got oil and started in pursuit of the flI-
gitive. After Il chase of half mile he was
captured and taken on a freight train to
Frankfort and safely lodged in the pcnitcn-
tiary. He says he cut off the riyets of his
sllackles in the Louisville Jail, while waiting
the departure of the train for Frankfort,
with 4 knife stolen off the boat upon which
he was brought up from Unlontowri. While
on the boat he also succeeded in nearly re-
leasing himself from the shackles. rIbe Of
ficers of the prison know the desperate cha
racter of ovid Pat" and will keep sharp
eve on him. He was sentenced for mule
stealing.