Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1883-10-05
HUNTED FOR YEARS.
An Escaped Convict Surrsndsrs at
Last.
No Rest on the Earth for a Hounded, Con-
science-Striken Aan-An Event
that Recalls the Murder
Of Howard.
n. Y. Star,

a tanned and ragged-lookiug man,
whose appearance indicated that he was
a seafarer, staggered into Police Head
quarters last night, much the worse for
liquor.
"Im convict and I want to surren-
der myself" he said to Officer Joseph
O'Conner, who asked him what he
wanted.
"Ail right; come this way" said the
policeman, leading the self-confessed
convict into the rom where Captain
Mcdonnell, the Acting Inspector, was
on duty.
"My name is Jimmy English and I've
got six moRths to serve on Blackwelrs
Island" he said in answer to the Cap
tain's question. 81 escaped in 1871, and
Iwant to go Back:
But Tve got $3.50 fine to pay" and at
the recollection of the fine the man
burst into lit of weeping.
Why do you want to surrender your
self?" the Captain asked.
Because everybody is pointing at me.
They pull my coat tail and say, 4 know
YOU | want to go back" Surprising
nom the man demeanOr that he was
| perhaps suffering from an incipient form
| of delirium termens, Captain Melon
nell questioned him further, and, to bis
surprise, English answered every quas-
| ton correctly. II was sent up for q
| stretch and two moons and $3.50 fine"
he said, for pulling the badger 4. e.
| l-nnv,fyrr An yNnpn1 hFI,caA Iannin Nav
she's now Diapers girl,
Worked a. with Ne.
| The badger house was on Lawrence
street-it's now South Fifth Avenue.
| Old times have gone by aud the town is
turned around. But / want 10 do my
old sentence. Judge Cox committed
me and / worked in the quarry for a
while. Tim MahOney was my keeper.
| was sent to the smallpox hospital, and
| got away from there. | stole the
| clothes Ofra dead man who was in the
| dead house and threw gang plank
| into the river. ! SWAN on that until it
! landed below the dock where the
| steamboats, comes in. Then | went to
! Boston on a coaster, and shipped on an
English brig for Africa. I've been all
around the world since, and landed two
days ago in Brooklyn from a steamer
! from South America, and pve made
my mind up to
Go Back 10 the Island
After he had concluded his tale Cap
| thin Mcconnell sent English to tue
| Fourteenth Precinct station house, to
! be- detained there until to-day on a
charge Of intOxicatiOn. The Penten-
! tiary authorities will be notified, and il
| English proves to be convict he will
| be turned over into their custody.
English figures upon the criminal
| records OF the detectives as one Of the
most expert ofsneak thieves. After his
| escape from the penitentiary he was no
more heard of, and the detectives be-
| lieved that he died. His wife, Jennie
May, alias Jennie Mooney, to whom he
was married in 1867, was likewise an
| adept in panel ihieving and married
Shang' Draper while English was in
prison. Jealousy Of this woman is said
| to have been the motive for the myster-
| iUuS murder of George Leondas Leslie,
alias Howard, the bank burglar,
who Was Found Murdered
in June, 1878, near "Tramys' Rock" on
the borders of this city, near Ionkers.
The murder of Howard, which was one
f the most mysterious crimes commit
I'D near this city, furnished work for
The detectives for over year, but they
made no further progress than ascribing
the deed to jealousy on the on the part
of Draper OF his mistress, English's
wife. English was sought after at
the same time by the detectives, who
through him then hoped to obtain a
clue that might lead to the solving OF
the mysterious surrounding Towards
murder.