Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1880-09-24
ROOF ROBBERS
Again Lead the Authorities
Over the Roofs OF Main street
Rusiness Houses.

II ia evident that a gang OF burglars
have struck this town. and are prepar-
inc 10 work it in first class style or else
there is a crazy individual, running
around loose, who should be Gagged up.
The fact that these statements are
based on is the finding OF men on the
roofs Of prominent business houses anu
banks. A.,
The excitement incident to the find.
ing OF a man on Green q Lalngs rool
about midnight Wednesday night by
Patrolman Murdoch, the chase on the
tin roofs and the pursued mans daring
escape from q third story window, by d
lin gutter, the chase up Main street anu
his final escape, will be remembered py
our readers, as they were fully set ioIth
i'm Yesterday mornings paper me
nolice hunted for over an hour butcould
Ind nothing whatever. The chase was
at last abandoned and the officers all
withdrawn except the patrolman.
1bout two o'clock yesterday morning
P~a,rolnlan Junkins, who had been en-
raced in the chase a few hours before,
yas diminishing around in the alley in
the rear OF George K. Taylor's dry goods
store. when on looking up he noticed a
man on the roof, looking around as II
seeking some way OF escape. Junkins
fortunately was in the shadow and
therefore was not seen. He Immediately
notified the central office and in a few
moments Chief Sweeney and Officers
McCully and Gillespie, together with
Patrolman Murdoch were on hand.
1t was arranged that Sweeney and
Junkins should search the root, whiIe
the others watched below. These TWO
then started up the stairway In the te-
terson block, Junkins in advance. As
thew reached the third story q slight
noise was heard, and looking out oil q
window, the man was observed stand
ing on the roof OF a small building in
the rear of the Peterson block. Its en-
closed on all sides by the brick walls OF
surrounding houses, and 1t seemed that
c was impossible. Sweeney or
dered him TO surrender, but without
saving a word, the man started for the
farthest corner and rapidly ran up a
small ladder onto the Rhodes building.
Sweeney fired at him twice, but although
he staggered a little at the first
shot, it did not stop him. McCully and
Gillespie were then called up and the
man pursued over Rhodes, Taylor and
Graham's establishments, but here he
disappeared in that part OF the Horn
brook building occupied by the . and 10
cent store. He opened a third story
window of this building, dropped down
to the %cornice Of one oil the second story
windows and from there slid to the
ground and disappeared down street,
without, as far as is known, being hit by
one OF the bullets.
II is generally believed that this is
the same man that was on the Greer q
Laing building. He evidently has on
gum boots or felt bottoms, as his foot
SteDs cannot be heard. He is very
quick in his movements, wears dark
clothes that fit loosely and a black
SLOUGH hat, which he pulled down over
his face.
After the first chase it is presumed he
doubled on his pursuers by going down
Market to Twelfth street and then up
Main until some one coming down the
street, drove him into Peterson's Block.
Is the man a burglar, a lunatic or the
celebrated gum boot man?