The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1884-06-26

Ike Buzzard, Pennsylvania
Noted Outlaw, Arrested
in Chicago.
Especial from Chicago.l

"Halloo, Ike" was the exclamation Of
Officers McInerney and McKeough as they
discovered low-faced, slender young:
man standing in front Of Forepaugh's cir
Gus at the corner of State and Twenty.
second streets. A dense crowd surged
about the Young man, eager to gain adj
mittance to the tent, but their progress was
stopped for a moment at least.
You are Ike Buzzard, the outlaw, con-
tinued the police, "and we want you to-
come with u.s." Both officers placed hands
on Buzzard and moved him off to the
Twenty second Street Station. The
prisoner seemed dazed as if unable to COM
prehend what had befallen him. For
several minutes he said nothing, but walked
quietly along with his captors. In appear
ance he seemed very unlike the typical des-
perado. He was thin and emaciated, and
wore suit of faded summer clothes. In.
height he was trihe over feet inches, and
weighed only 125 pounds. Yet the cap
| tive has the reputation of being second
Jesse James. in all the qualities of daring.
and reckless desperation. cheap SLOUGH,
hat concealed his closely cut white hair,
and fitting back on his neck, with the rim
turned up in 'front.' allowed good view of
his eountenance. 1t was wasted, blood
slender nose. and eyes that shone with a
strange brilliancy. Presently Buzzard re-
covered his composure. A smile over
spread his face, and he merely remarked
We'll, guess you have me right; but 1t
was a mean trick to give me away.
The words were delivered in a weak,
drawling tone of voice, as if thes speaker
was unweH. With greater emphasis how
ever, he continued: at was that hound,
Pat Doyle, who gave me away. We were
in Jail together at Lancaster, Pa, eight.
years ago, and 1 shook his hand on the
street day"
As soon as Buzzard was locked up word
was telegraphed to the Governor of Penn
sylvania, where a reward of $500 has been
offered for his capture.
For the past six years the midland.
counties in Pennsylvania have been at the.
mercy of the notorious Buzzard boys. There
We're six boys in the family. Under
the leadership of Able Buzzard, the
elder, they achieved a reputation in the
East only trife inferior TO the James.
and Younger brothers in the West.
Abe and Ike. the desperadoes OF the family,
were house breakers and highwaymen.
They terrorized over the district in which
they lived, and, though outlawed several
years ago, none of their neighbors had the
courage to divulge their hiding place They
were raised on the Walsh Mountains, some
ten miles outside of Lancaster, where innu-
merable caves and assures in the rocks at
forded them places of concealment Time
and again they have been sought by>a sher-
ifs posse, but the movements of the latter
became so we'll known to the outlaws that
they were easily enabled to evade arrest.
They deffed the local authorities and two or
three times managed to escape from the
State militia.
Ike was captured less than three years
ago, and sentenced to ten years in the Jail
at Lancaster for HOUSEKEEPING. He served
some two years when his brother Abe was
arrested. Abe occupied cell in another
corridor from Ike. The latter had num-
Der of singing birds in his cell, and one.
day induced keeper of the Jail TO take one
of the birds to his brother. The keeper
forgot TO close Ike's cell door, and in q mo-
ment he was on the outside. He
locked up the keeper in the cell of
his brother, and then went about the
work of releasing his friends Another
keeper was deprived of his liberty, and the
two Buzzards with ten other convicts made
their way to the outside. They reached the
outskirts of Lancaster, and at the Conestoga.
bridge separated, six going one way and six
another. Ike took to the mountains, fol-
lowed by the Sheriff and fifty men, and,
after concealing himself one night, made
for Fredouia, n. Y. Here he was harbored
by his brother-in law for another day, and
then he made for Iowa.
Since then Buzzard has tramped over
Iowa, stopping at Council Bluffs and other
towns, and picking up an odd sort of living
the best way he could. He denies having:
committed any serious crime in Iowa, but
grinned knowingly when asked how he con-
trived to live there. He arrived in Chicago
from Clinton without a cent in his pocket.
Soon after he Glanced upon his old prison,
friend, Doyle. The latter, he claims,
the circus, he. said, to better his fortune,
and was dumfounded ut his arrest.