Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1886-06-10
QUITE A BATTLE
Fouoht en- ths island at Daybreak
Yesterday,
Between a Number of Officers and One OF
the WeIIsburg BurgIars---A Six
teen Mile Chase.

One of the most serious ARRAYS in which
our police have been engaged for many o
long day, occurred on the Island just at
dayDreak yesterday morning, about twen'
ty five or thirty shorts being fred before
the trouble was quelled. The cause OF this
bIoodless battle can best be told by going
back to the robbery at the residence Of
Clerk C. B. Turner, Of Wellsburc, and the
shooting of Town Marshal Lewis Hall,
of that place, which events &C.
Cured late Tuesday mig hit, and were
briefly referred to iu yesterday morn
ipr's REGISTER. When the shots were
fred which resulted in the woundipg Of
Marshall Hall, the three members OF the
gang who had evaded arrest By the resort
10 firearms, fed south along the river rosd,
and we're pursued, after the lapse of some
little time, bya pose OF citizens headed by
Sheriff Brown of Brooke county. The
thieves succeeded in keeping well out OF
the reach of the Sheriff until Short Creek
was reached where the party stole a skif
from a mau named Johnson and started
to float down to this city. The trail bark
of the burglars was soon spied by Sheriff
Brown and his men. and IS the Wheeling
police had been previously notified BY wire
10 look out for the crooks, the Sheriff felt
reasonably certain of their capture.
The Brooke county people kept as near
abreast of the skiff as they could without
being detected, and when theyresched the
tell house of the suspension bridge at 1
o'clock, the boat was just pasaingtud the
bridge, having at this tire but
one occupant, however, as two OF the gang
had been landed at the upper end of the
Island. Officer Jake Watson, who, With
others of the city force, was on the lookout
for the men, saw the skiff before it reached
the bridge, and he and Officer Duffy called
to the occupant to come ashore. This
order not being obeyed, Watson secured a
skiff at the wharf ard started out TO head
the burglar off. He fired several shots a.
the crook, and finally drove him ashore
near StoEetown.
By this time Sheriff Brown, one of his
deputies aud Mr.. C. B. Brown, the gentle
man who wal robbed, had crossed the
bridge, with Officer Duffy. The crook start
ed tor the back river bridge, intending to
cross to Ohio, but be was mel By Officer
McNicbolls, who had gone to the bridge to
head him of, and driven south along
| South Huron streets, sho's being ex.
changed at intervals. On Virginia
street the crook ran foul OF
Sheriff Brown and Officers Watson
and Duffy, and sfer more shooting he
broke aud ran across lots to near the cor
ner of Ohio ard South Huron, where be
took possession Of a depression of the
GROUND, locally known as q soak hole
and proceeded TO do battle. The officers
pulled their pops and slosly advanced on
the burglar, who continued to return the
fire until he had exhausted his cartridges,
when he threw upe his hands and surren.
dered. He proved to be John Mooney,
we'll known in criminal circles in this city.
He was locked up, and then the
officers, reinforced by Officer
Lukens, who had been awakened
by a messenger, made a search. for the
two remaining crooks. One was seen,
about FIVE o'clock, in the doorway OF Mrs
Brues' residence, and Gnother, in a stable
On North Isent street, but up TO midnigb,
last night they had not been arrested.
They. ike Mooney, are well known crooks
Of this city.
Near the coal shaft, at Wellsburg, where
Marshal Hall was shot, there was found
yesterday, a revolver and u kit OF BURGLAR
tools.
= telephone message tpum Wellsbu;g
late last night stated that Mar8hnl Hall
was doing well, and would ultimately re.
cover.
Mooney was taken up to Wellsburg at !
o'clock yesterday afternoon by Deputy
SheriFs Blanchard and McCulloch and
lodged in Jail, for a hearing this morning
A telegram from Wellsburg gives the
following additional details Of the robbery
and shooting up the e:
Tuesday night between 8 and
10 O'Clock Joseph Mclleury
saw a man trying TO effect
an entrance into the residence OF c.. B
Turner, Clerk OF the Court, who was, 10
company with his wife, attending a con.
cert at Barth's Hal. The nightwatchmsn
was notified and officers wen: &c the scene
of the etta4pted housebreaking, aud
Mash injury and two strangers Of a sus,
%picious looking character were arrested on
suspicion and lodged in Jail, and q short
time after this Janice Il. Rodgers called
the atten,;ol OF Sergeant Hall to three
other Suspicious looking characters who
we're skulkiDg near the Briggs marble shop
and said hat they might know some
thing about the robbery of William Rogers
store at Brilliant on Monday night. The
officer and Joseph McHeDry started toward
the group, who started off on a run. Sew
ersl joined in the chase until the coal shaft
on the railroad was reached. when, being
closely pursued, one OF the men, whom
Mcaenry says was Mooney, Whirled and
fired two shots, one OF which look effect in
the left thigh of Louis Hall, the city ser.
gesnt. Mr. Hall wa taken home and was
found TO have a painful wound ; the ball
is not yet extracted.
by this time neH.i.;y the entire town WAS
aroused, and q freight rain tina. was ut the
station WAS searched, and two or three
men toIud who were pro1abis, as they
claimed, stealing a ride. One stranger wss
taken i'll charge by q couple CT young men
who refused TO give an account Of
him. Ore OF The youpg men vent to call
an officer, and while gone the Involuntary
prisoner presertsd a r-yolyer in the face
OF the remaining young man. and bscked
off, keeping him under cover Of his shooter
until far enough off 10 run.
A RACE has BEEN made between Jacob
Humts, of Martins Ferry. and Jose ph
Duuning, OF Brilliant, Ohio. for q purse Of
fifty dollars, to be skaled on mex, Saturday
evening AT the Alhsnbra Rink
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