The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1880-07-23
rcorrespoudence New York Times. !

la,ion in the vicinity OF this place were
discovered 10 be f0rgeries. The perpe-
tralion OF the forgeries was traced
to Harry English, u man OF desperate
character, living in an isolated part
OF Elk county. He was widely known
through the tier Of Pennsylvania counties,
where his name has been g terror for years.
lie was a lumberman, and also at times
worked about the oil-wells. HIS home was
rs much in the fere.t as in the settlements,
and lie was considered the crack ritie-shot
OF northwestern Pennsylvania. He lnyari.
ably went armed with two reyolvers, and
frequently appeared in the village carrying
Winchester repeating rifle as well. He
owned two OF these deadly weapons. Be-
ing nearly seven feet in height, weighing
$50 pounds, although not fleshy, possessed
OF enormous strength, sbrewd, courageous,
cold. blooded, and desperate. English was
considered more than a match for any three
men in the region.
This was the
CHARACTgI OF THE MAN
for whose arrest OF Il charge OF forgery q
warrant was issued in 81. Mary's, Elk
county, last April. Friends OF English
caused the news Of the issuing OF the war
rant to be carried TO hin at Caledonia, where
he was living with second wife and his
father.in.uw, A. j. Rummel. He disap.
peared, and 1t was not known where he
was. The officers OF 1t. Mary's employed
the postmaster at Caledonia 10 act as a secret
detective, and 10 give them notice il English
appeared there. So great was their terror
of English that, although he returned
home, people In Caledonia were afraid
to inform the officers at ST. Msry's,
fearing vengeance at the desperadO's
hands. Finally, on April 10th, the post
master at Caledonia surreptitiously sent a
letter to the officers, telling them that Eng
lish was secreted in his father.in-law's
house in Caledonia. On the 18th, District
Attorney Wurzell, Constables Vollmer and
Warmth, John Kreg, and /. III. Burke,
went as posse 10 arrest the notorious out
law. They reached RumtuePs house at 3
O'Clock in the morning. Rummel answered
their knock. When informed Of the party's
errand, be said English was not there.
The officers insisted on searching the house.
At that moment English came out OF Il
room on the ground floor and ran up stairs,
where be shut and locked himself In room.
Justice Burke and Constable Warmth fol-
lowed. They ordered English TO
OPEN THE DOOR.
His reply was warning to the officers to
go away II they valned their lives. Burke
ilied to break the door In. English fired
| three shots from revolver through tue
door. One Of them took effect in Squire
| Burkc's leg. Burke returned the fire.
| Rummel then warned the officers that they
had better 90 out OF the bouse, for 1t was
| evident now tnat " Harry bad his blood up,
aud somebody would be killed." The other
1 Al, had t-tH In
guard against English's escape from it,,
when Burke and Warmth went up stairs
i'm pursuit OF him. When Rummel warned
the two men to leave the house they
started down stairs. They were about
halfway down when English unlocked the
door OF the room he WAS i'll, walked coOlly
Out to the head of the stairs. and. with a
Winchester rifle, shot at the retrelting OFF,
GERS. The shot struck Constable Warmth,
who was carried to the village tavern, where
be died in short time.
The excitement was now intense. The
villagers had assembled about the premises,
in spite of the early hour, and surrounded
the house with the officers, cutting oil every
avenue OF escape for English. After shoot
Ing Warmth. English walked back into his
room, raised a window that commanded
the place. where the officers were on guard
on the outside, and commenced
FIRING AT THEM
with his Winchester rife. The first shot
killed Constable V0llmer. A fire was then
opened upon Epglish. He stood his grouLd
and wounded two more men in the crowd
without receiving any injury from the shots
levelled at him. He then retired. About s
O'Clock in the morning, armed with his two
yif fkyn N
OF the former charged with sixteen shots
he walked out Of the back door OF the house
and made for the woods. AS he ran across
the fields yoley o, bullets followed him.
Lewis Fagley, one Of the crowd, had VIM
chester rife. A ball from this took effect
apparently in one Of English's legs. lie
dropped on one knee. He quickly reganed
his feet, ran a short distance, and fell again.
Once more he arose, and this time wheeled
about aud laced his pursuers. Bullets rat
tied all around him. He fired four shots
from one of his rifles. One shot wounded
District-Attorney Wurzell slightly. Eng
llsh then disappeared In the woods.
For days
THE WOODS WERE SECURED
for miles by bodies of armed men search
ing for the fugitive outlaw. No trace OF
ulin cOuid De iOuilu. Il Et COuulIy Nl doOut
the scene OF this Caledonia tragedy Is an
almost un6roken wilderness for twenty-five
miles in all directions. Bark-pee!ers, lum-
bernen, aud hunters alone venture into its
depths. The logging camps in this forest
were all well known TO English, asd the
men who work at them were friends OF his.
ss he was Of them. i. was supposed that he
i.ad sought one OF these camps, and that he
bad been secreted by tbe lumbermen. An-
other theory was that the wound he had re-
eeNed while 1eeing to tie woods Was
q fatal one. and that he had crawied
10 soge creyce in the rocks. OF some dense
swanhl and died. For weeks extravagant |
reports Rcre heard OF his hayiKg been seen |
II dilensDt points In western Peunsyl- |
,ania, ai15ed 10 The teeth, and forcing sus-
enance ans money from the inhabitants,
~. Investigation proved them to be with
ut foundation. The latest aud most |
OF these reports was brought IN
v an lad ian huafer few weeks ago. This
indian had been In the forest Of the Kinxua
egiop, ia Warren county. In that wild
art OF the state, English, II was we'll
nowp, bad macy friends aud relatives.