The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1872-07-27
kisc Surporca Columbia Eansi-H0bbcr
nnt his S.1m% Catalogue Of Crincs--
XXI, Last Desperate Attempt as E.S-

From The Frankfort tKy.l Woman. Esd
! Wilson GiiG< Lee. &C.. who Wa arrested
~ ;-lrrky! Ferry fi*i week on suspicion OF
| ir;n- enc ~ In" tn'lGmhia bank rnhlr"rS,
" h"n taE"H 10 Ioumhi, proved IN c"bf.
credible witnesses from linurb"n going for
ward and tr<tifviri@ ;illt he WAS in that
county "il ihc 18th Of April, the day of the
robbery AMI murder. Immediately after
maxim" this proof, and before being dis
CHARGED, he WAS IL arrested OH Il Warran! for
stealing Il horse IN Ics>lninc rullnty. Mar
>hul Curd of Columbia. assisted hy Mr..
Sell and smother SPECIAL constable. placed
him ON Tue stare and >trrlCd with him
to Nich"il>yillc, To Which place they would
have proceeded ut once but for Tie
,at t'mi HI friends from Bourbon
county followed the party 10 Lebanon,
where one OF thom (, relative nf the lady r.
whom Ii" WAS 10 have been married last
| w",i> sued ont u writ OF hi 'sns rUTpus nj
| that place. for the uu:iioac al bailin" him
or rather - allowing him to give " Lc--Gc :
| i'ni,---whirh. however after Il Two days trial
went against him. anil Ii" was rcl;and"d 10
the custody Of t'" CiiiccrS. on the warrant
from .lr->l'ninc. IT," was then placed on Inc
train and started for Nichola>yiIc T0 Louis
| vii" and Lexington. Arriving at Louisville
on saturday evening, The party was COM
pcii"i 10 lie over there until Yesterday morn
img, when the prisoner, in charge OF Marsha
t,Ird and the two guards, lett Oh the early
;rLiu for Lexington.
Wilson atlas Lcygc complained Of bcin.
very sick. aud no douht was so-Sllllcrin.
evidently from both asthma and diari hu;l
While Oh the train IN rOHtc from Louisville
L" Lexington, when mile or two cast Of th
city. he took advantage of the diligence @
his relaxed on account of his appl
rrnt extreme exhaustion from this COnlpli
cation of di>ra>c>--;lrd while the train WI
running at Il speed Of thirty miles IN hour
jumped from the window of the watcr.cloSct
in Il desperate attempt 10 escape or die. Ate
| the failure Of the h0bcd$ corpus ut Lebanon
he had told his guards that it was all up will
! iiim-h!S conscience, no doubt, bringing lc
| fore him all the crimes OF murder and rob
| Der, he had committed in the last few years
aid they believe that when he jumped from
the train he expected either to break Iii
neck or be shot 10y thc guards.
The train was stopped, and search mad,
| for the prisoner by the marshal and hi
guards, but without success, until the
searching party was reinforced ny Officer
! Hyde and Il posse from this city, composed
OF Mc$Sr>. Mcr>hon. Crumbuugh, Henry
Brown, and NJ. II. i. williams. Wilson
| alas L"-r"c WAS finally discovered by Mcr
| shon and Hyde. hidden in Il ruvinc on tht
grounds Of Colonel \. w. Dudley, only
| few hundred yards from where he jumped
off the train. He surrendered without
| trouble, and was brought to town yesterday
about +. NJ. and lodged in Jail.
The prisoner hid not been in Jail long be-
| fore Marshal Carter and Officer Gallagher, %
| iIarrudShurg, who made the original arrc>
1T Shaker Ferry. made their appearance II
the iaiI, and demanding Wilson on Il warrant
from Esq. Gwin, of this city, against him fol
horSc->tcaing in Mercer county, he was de
livcrcd up to them, placed i'll irons, and Il
once started of by them to llarrod>hurs
about o'clock. 1T seems that these officer
have heard of large rewards offered for Wi!
son in Georgia and Tennessee. and they thinl
they are entitled 10 them Is the first to arir>
him.
IL turns out that this man Wilson alta
Lcwgc, who Is only about twcnty-SlN year
old, is the same Lcgge who some time llS
fall came TO this State either from Virgin;
or Tennessee with 4 wife and three children
soon after arriving here he began 10 buy
horses Oh speculation, for which he rt!t
foi red checks and being soon found on
and Il warrant issued against him for forgery
and also for obtaining goods under false pre-
fences. he abscon,Ged Ia paris unknown. leav
ing bis wife and children to take care o
themselves. They are still living ut Bridge
port, in this county, in circumstances of OK
IRENE restitution. Since bis disappearance
from this county, us our readers will remcll
Der, Wilson, under the name of Bryant, laC
addressed and WAS when arrested ut Shaker
Ferry last week, on the point of marrying :
respectable young lady Of bourbon county
Ii is also alleged that Wilson's career fol
wears plst--ever since he was. eighteen per
Ilaps-ha. been crowded with all manner o.
crimes aud violence, the chief of which are
two or three murders. For two OF these
murders, one in Georgia the other i'll Ten
ncssce. it is understood that requisiionsfron
the Governors of those States arc now on tilt
WAY to Governor Leslie.
He was visited in his cell yesterday by Drs
Phythian and Williams, who are of opinion
that in jumping from the train he may have
received 4 severe internal injury, which may
have aggravated his asthma; in fact, he made
the impression on many yesterday that h
did not have long TO live--that ne was goin!