Omaha daily bee., 1883-11-09
BAGGlNG the BuzzARDS.
The Pennsylvania Outlaws Cornered in
The Welth Mountains.
Frightful Tragedy Near Kansas
City--The Pittsburg Gang.
of Burglars.
CRIMINAL RECORD.
THE BUzZARDs OUT

II BUzzARDs OUT.
LANCASTER, Pa, November 8.-Hol.
fingers store at Lincoln was robbed last
night. A large posse started in pursuit
OF the thieves, Buzzard and his gang,
who recently escaped Jail. The thieves
were overtaken at WEIGH Mountain and
a fight followed. John Clifford, Iii es-
capped prisoner, was captured, Buzzard,
the leader, was shot and seriously in
jured. Bard, n of the posse, is proba-
bly, fatally shot. The thieves escaped.
Clifford was lodged in Jail tonight.
He states that six of the escaped prison
ers are depredsting the vicinity of Welsh
mountain. Clifford, at the time of his
arrest, narrowly escaped being lynched,
owing to the shooting of young Bard.
Ropes were provided by ome of the
party, but cooler heads dissuaded them.
The mountain is surrounded tonight by
a large posse. 1t is believed to be i'm
possible for either Abe or his associates
escape. Clifford revealed the hiding
place of a large amount of stolen goods
which were recovered.
TIL LINCOLN MYSTERY,
CHICAGO, November S.-Dr. Miller, OF
Lincoln, arrived here to-day, bringing
with him the brains, liver, kidneys and a
portion of other viscera of Fora Burns,
whose murder still remains a deep mys-
terry. The theory has been advanced
that the murdered girl used drugs for
procuring an abortion, and that through
their use she came to her death. 1t is
expected that the analysis will determine
whether she took poison of any kind.
PROFESSIONAL BURGLARS At WORK.
PIrTsBURe, November SIT is evi.
dent a gang of expert thieves are work
ing in this vicinity This week three
extensive robberies have been commit
ted. The boldest was tho brcakip
the safe Of Samuel Schultz, q storexeepef,
p few miles from the city early this
morning. The robbers hauled the safe
out of the building, blew it open with
powder and got 81, 200 in cash and jew
elry. Three hundred dollars worth of
cloth, stolen Tuesday, has been recovered
and three men and a woman arrested,
but it is thought there are a dozen others
in the gang.
PRIGHTPUL TRAGEDY.
KANSAS CITY, November S.-A fearful
tragedy was enacted to-day at the farm
house Of Fl. Clay MCGEE, ten miles south
of the city. His children returned home
from school this afternoon and found the
lifeless bodies of the father, mother and
older sister lying dead upon the floor.
MCGEE evidently had killed his wife,
shooting her in the breast with a shot
gun, shot his daughter in the back and
then completed the horror by going to
an upper room and swallowing a dose of
morphine. The house being isolated
the neighbors were not aroused
and the bodies consequently lay until
discovered by the children later in the
day. The immediate cause for the insane
deed is not known. MCGEE is described
as a man of violent temper, amounting
almost to frenzy at times. He was a
prosperous farmer, having ceme into the
vicinity several years ago 'FRONT.' kentucky,
where it is said he once killed a a
There were six children, som of them
married. Mary, the murdered daughter,
was twenty years of age. Another
daughter, the wife of James Hopkins, a
member of an old family here, was acct
dentally killed by her husband some
months ago. MCGEE was 45'or so years
of age,
MURDERED FOR MONEY.
ANDERSON, rInd., November S.-Mrs.
Susannah Nelson started for Ne
braska September 6, and has not
since been heard from by her
friends. She had a large sum of
money with her. Michael COburn to-
day made known to his brother that he
found a life insurance policy issued to
Mrs. Nelson in the woods zeal Terre
Haute, where some time ago a badly
mutilated body of a woman was found
by a hunter. He claims to have proof