Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1885-01-01
pEvlLlsH DEEDS.

How a Gang OF Thieves Secured 1910 ana
a Horse and Buggy from an Ohio Farm
er--CItIzens OF wheeling, w. Va, Ex-
cited by Many Crimes, Threaten 10 Elk
ecute Summary vengeance-A Party OF
Texas Cowboys Capture n Train OF Cars
and Have Their Fiji OF "Fun.'
DAYTON, o., Dec. 25.-Slx masked men
entered the residence OF an aged farmer,
Henry jackson. near Bowersyille, Tuesday
night Jackson, his wife and three
daughters. and Miss Matte Sirgny
were In the room at the time. The
robbers were armed with heavy clubs,
which they had cut in a nelghborlng grove,
and upon entering commanded every one In
the house 10 remain quiet Jackson was
struck several times over the head with a
club, and when his daughter Louise pluckl-
ly sprang TO his assistance she was met by
one of>the men, who placed cooked re-
volver TO her head and threatened to blow
her brains out. The men then tied
the whole family to chairs with sheets
which they had torn into strips. They
attempted to compel Jackson to tell
where his money was concealed, and
threatened him with death II he refused.
One OF the men remarked that he knew
that the money was in the house, as he
had been under the bed The night be-
fore and heard Jackson talking about
IL Mrs. Jackson's clothing was then
saturated with coal-oil, and, after being
submitted to various tortures. the robbers
threatened to set fire to her clothing If she
did not disclose where the money was. She
finally told them that it was in trunk.
After trying In vain for some time to opeti
1t they released one of the young ladies,
who, under compulsion, tried to open the
lock. The men, however, had spoiled the
lock, and she was unable to open
it, Becoming impatient at the delay the
leader of the gang ordered the men to burst
the trunk. This being done they rihed Ii
of It's contents and secured $500 in gold and
SITS i'm currency. After the robbers had
obtained the money they compelled
Jackson to tell where they could find his
best horse and buggy, and, leaving one
man to guard the family, the others went
| for the team. Soon they returned, gave the
signal and the guard left. The family re-
NAMED tied to the chairs until nearly morn
in, when Mrs. Jackson united with
her teeth the knots which bound
her hands. She released the others and
the alarm was Immediately given
| 1t is supposed that the robbers came toward
this city. The horse and buggy were founc
near Xenia. The hand-car at HarbineS
Station was stolen by them, and with Il
they coStinued their flight toward Dayton
fSo29flg r8f I'll pou5erss.e IN
WHEELING, w. Va, Dec. 25.-The three
shocking crimes of the past week have
strongly stirred up the people OF this vicin-
| ity, and the community is ripe for
desperate deeds. Peter Heiner, who be-
came the father of his twelye-year-
old daughters child-a capital crime
under the State LAWS at large, with
no apparent chance of his capture. The
| WorkenOur house, i'm the heart of the city,
was plundered by masked men, the inmates
horribly beaten, and $4,000 stolen, and nc
arrests. A defenseless farmer, Elijah Mar.
| ling, was assaulted by the same gang, and
subjected to fortunes that shamed the inquisi-
| ton and left him on the verge of the grave.
Guenther Schnell, in cold blood, brutal
| ly murdered his uncle and reputed
father A jury found him guilty of volun
| tary manslaughter, and he gets off with q
four years sentence. Men gather oil the
streets and talk of the Cincinnati riot. The
state of feeling is such that If any of the
criminals should be caught the law would
be spared any further farcical exhibition.
Marling, the victim of Monday
| nights outrage, is in q critical condl-
ton His body about the waist loin:
and thighs is one livid surface. The poker
used in the torture was of inch-square iron
and heated to a white heat AT every touch
| Il burned deeply, and in five places the
authorizations look as though the tiends had
| tried to impale their victim on the heated
| bar. The recovery of the old man is
| not probable. Three details of police and
constabes are securing the country in every
| direction. Suspicion was directed to mar
named MCGOWAN, whose record is unsavory,
and TO one Murray, who Is alleged TO have
told of the affair before it was discovered
Both were arrested on suspicion and placed
in security, but the place of confinement Is
not known. Sheriff Brown and posse
have gone out on a new trail, and impor
tant developments are expected hourly.
SAN ANTONIO, Tex, Dec. 25.-As The
east-bound passenger on the Southern Pa
cific was nearing the bridge crossing TIT
Pecos River Tuesday evening mum
her of torpedoes were exploded OF
the track, causing the engineer 4
stop the train. Six cowboys boarded
tef tt6a ud6aJrro Stop at Eungtry; rn'
next small station, at which point twenty
more cowboys boarded and took possession
| Of the train. They were all more or les:
under the influence of liquor and amused
themselves by shooting out all the win
dows, extnguishng the lamps, and terror
izing the passengers generally. AS the
train passed small stations the cowboy:
would shove their heads out of the broker
windows and shoot and yell. A pass
ing freight train was saluted in similar
manner' Several hundred shots were fired
and the roofs of the cars were riddled. The
cowboys robbed the train-boy of his stock
of peanuts and candies but so far as known
nobody was shot. Judge Falon, United
States District Attorney Evans and Sheriff
White were among the passengers, but
thought it best not to make their presence
known. The gang left the train at Uvolde,