The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1879-06-02
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The UnsetiIsd Condition OfThIngS Ia
That Conuty-'The Arrest OF Seven o
the Gang or Eletimca-'Chc Insecurity OI
LITE. and the Reign OF IaWIcsSnesS-
IuSenbaugh's PrNrnrlOus ExlatCmce-
LIttIctOn Guar,iCd nj Night by strong
Patrol.
Board TREE TUNNEL W. Va, June /.
EdItOr IntrllIscuCer
Since my last communication to YOU oI
the Goth OF May, concerning the doings Of
the Redmen OF Wetzel county, there has
been considerable excitement at Littlcton
and vicinity. The citizens have been do.
ing guard duty regularly every night for
one week, and the guards report seeing
small squads Of men dodging from point
to point on the outskirts Of the town, but
no act Of violence has been done yet.
Saturday night few Of the guards we're
frightened from their posts by some un.
usual movement Of unknown parties, aud
thealarnl was given that the RedmCn were
coming to make an attack on the place.
The citizens were called out, with the ex.
peCtatiOn Of bringing on light, hut the
men either disappeared or the guards were
mistaken, but in Conversing with them
they are very positive they saw us many
as thirty or forty Of the gang.
Mr.. John Husenbaugh, who was driven
from his home, has been spending the
greater part OF last week trying to get
some Justice to take his information and
issue warrant against the parties who
made an outrageous assault on himself
and family about the Sd OF May last, and
did not succeed until Saturday, us some Of
the Justices said they would resign before
issuing q warrant for them, having been
warned Of the result in CaSe they would
issue awarrant for any OF thegang. On Sat-
urday afternoon Justice Joseph Morris, Of
Burton, issued warrant for nine OF the
gang OF twenty that visited Husenbaugh
and placed the warrants in Special COnsta-
bic Levi Pettit's hands, who deputized
posse Of men and started out in pursuit Of
the men.
To-day Sunday Petit succeeded in ar
resting seven OF the party and brought
them to Littleton, that being the place the
Justice made the warrant Ieturnable.
Considerable uneasiness still exists among
the citizens Of Littleton, rs they arc ex-
pecting an effort to be made to release the
prisoners tonight, and it is with difficulty
that the officer could get place to keep
the prisoners over night. DR.. j. +.
Roger finally consented to give up Il
building for them to be imprisoned
in, turning over the key Of his office 10
the officer where they will be properly
cared for. Tomorrow is the day set for
trying them. As there arc about fifty wit
nesses for the prosecution the trial may
consume several days, in case they insist |
on being tried before the Justice. Some OF
them talk OF waving an examination,
while others claim their innocence, and
propose TO prove it. The state Of affairs
that exist in the vicinity OF Littleton are
bad. Mr.. Husenbaugh has been deprived
ot spending the nights with his family for
about three weeks, from the fact that he
has been notified by the Redmcn that they
would hang him for having them brought
to justice. He spends his nights in out
buildings and IN the woods, as he thinks
they are Watching him. AS he lay down
to sleep in an Outbuilding belonging to
one OF his neighbors some nights ago, he
discovered board loose near where he
had been in the habit Of placing his head,
and on investigation found that arrange.
ments had been made by which parties
could climb up and make an attack on
him He moved his quilts to n cluster OF
bushes in an open field, and while his son
was sleeping he watched and saw four
men pass near him, who appeared to he
lookingsfor some one, us they talked in
low tone Of voice and at times came as
near to him as four rods.
Mr.. Joseph Lively and family, who re-
ceived notice to leave home in thirty days,
and the time expiring on last Thursday,
took his movable effects and started for
Washington county, Pa, where lie expects
to make his home until better order may
be restored, or he can dispose OF his place.
1t was a pitiful sight to see him start out
in the world with his little family, leaving
the accumulation OF something over 10
years Of hard labor behind him. Twould
give you the names Of the prisoners but
could not ascertain them, and all being
strange to me did not recognize them.
NJ.