Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1884-11-29
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The Wolsh mountain thieves arc again
! NJ work aud last night thcy perpetrated
| their heaviest robbery. The store of u.
B. Shitfor, (son Of Coroner Shiffer, } at
Bowmansvillo, was entered aud robbed OF
| a number OF watches, chains, rings and
| other leselry. The value OF the goods
stolen in about 5000.
The stable OF John Houser, near the
Blue Bali, IN East Earl township was also
| broken open last night and horse stolen.
! Another horse was stolen In the same
vicinity, and tho society for the detection
OF horsc thieves, at Compassville, of which
| the owners were members, was at once
notified Of the thefts. This society has
been called together and in a body will
make tour Of the w olsh mountsin, whero
| they expect TO recover tho stolen horses
and capture the thieves. The Buzzard
gang are credited with Friday nights rob.
| berries. The noighborhood In which the
theIts were committed Ia greatly excited.
At an early hour this morning thieves
visited tho promises of Col Joel l.. Light
nert who resides between Soudsrsburg aud
Paradise, ard stole dozen large turkeys.
Between and O'Clock the colonel heard
noiso and he believes that is about the time
| tho poultry were stolen. He came to this city
and took u look through the market, as he
believed that the turkeys had been brought
to town, but none were recovered.
TIE New Holland CLARION gives the fol
lowing account of theits committed Ia that
vicinity on Thursday night
At late hour on Thursday night last,
bbers stole n horse and spring wagon
en- the barn Of Myers Hoover, about one
mile south OF town they also entered his
cellar and took two jars of butter-about
, 80 pounds, They then won't to the resi-.
dence OF Mrs. Isaac Mentzer, where they
|. took two turkeys. Isaac and Wash.
/, hent2ar heard them at the turkeys and
they arose as hastily rs possible, took their
guns aud ammunition and went out, but
the thieves had gone. They could, how
ever, hear the team going not great dis =
tauce away, The thought a. once struck
| them that the loot would 20 towards the
, mountain and they pluckily decided to
hasten through the fields in the darkness
and head them OFF, aud il necessary slay
:, them.
They reach d the main road about 100
: yards below the residence of Levi Good.
where they discovered the horse and
:, | wagon and tho stolen goods. They looked
, towards the home of Mr. Good and they
thought that they could distinguish the
= forms Of two men through the darkness.
y They then entered the wagon aud en-.
deavored to catch them but they soon
were out of sight through the fields. They
then awoke Mr. Good, who got up and
e discovered that they had already opened
n his cellar door, but nothing was mis- sing,
y the brave Nsntzer brothers having fright
ened them off, We are Informed that sus
picion does not point drsJtly 20 tho Bug
, zard gang, but it must be borne in mind
that the gang of which Abe Buzzard II
!, leader are not all residents who live ir
!, tha vicinity Of Red Well and the Hand
" Boards. The bravery exhibited by the
slentzer brothers is exceedingly COM
mendablo, and We would suggest that they
e be made the leaders of vigilance com.
mittee of 800 or /, 600 of the citizens OF thii
section. They certainly meant business
aud had th0y met Abraham himself, the,
would not have ainched.
Last night chicken thieves paid visit
o to the home Of VIM. A. Morton, at the
extreme end of South Queen street. The,
passed through the tobacco shed, ant
10 with key unlocked the chicken house
!, from which they stole 25 or 30 fowls
q Several heads, which had been wrun,
u from the poultry, were left behind. 1t i
10 believed that the thieves were we'll &C
10 quainted with the premises, and manage,
~ to secure a key TO ft the chicken house.