The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1886-06-10
A DESPERATE GANG.
FIYR wHRRLINe oRIMINA1s
AIDA Pal from BrinlAat Caught while Gem
mittipE Burglary At WsllsbuEE-Thr'S
Eseaps, one shooting Town sergeant
HAll-John Mooney Captured.

About 10 o'clock Tuesday night SIX
burglars were discovered in the residence
Of Clerk Of the Courts, Q. B. Turner, at
Wellsburg. The police were notified, the
men followed and one named Murray and
two others arrested. City Marshal Hall
and another officer were following the
others Of the gang, when one OF them
turned and fred two shots at the officers,
one Of the shots taking effect in the left
groin OF the Marshal, making Q bad
wound. The town was at once aroused
and scouts sent out in all directions after
the criminals.
A message was sent to the police here
to look out for the other three men, who
were believed to havecoms toward Wheel
ing. This dispatch was printed in yeater.
days INTRLLIdRNCRR, About hall past 8
O'Clock yesterday morning Sheriff David
Brown, Mayor George w. MCCleary, De-
putty Sheriff T. H. Buchanan and James
b. Miller, all Of WellsburG, arrived In the
city in pursuit Of the three men who es-
capped, About hali-hour alter their ar
rival, as they were all walking down along
the river front, they saw o man pulling to-
ward the wharf In skiti, and hailed him,
Instead Of landing, the man turned about
and began TO pull toward the Island,
The pursuers shouted to him 10 stop or
they would fire, but he only pulled the
faster, Thoroughly convinced that this
was one Of their men, the officers opened
fire upon him, emptying their revolvers,
but without stopping him,
The shots. however, had the effect Of
bringing Officer Bob McNiChols 10 the
Island shore Just In time TO see the man
land from the skif. The officer at once
gave chase, firing three shots after the
fugitive, and finally caught him after o
lively chase.
He proved to be John Mooney, well
known In local criminal circles, As he
was brought across the Suspension bridge
he took some small arEiCles, apparently q
pair OF sleeve-buttons, from his pocket and
threw them over into the river. On his
book containing his name and address,
The gentlemen from Wellsburg identi.
fed Mooney as soon as they saw him as
the man who shot Sergeant Hall. He was
locked up here till noon yesterday, and
the officers went over 10 Martins Ferry TO
look after his two late companions. It Is
believed that the two men left the skif
there. They are believed TO be "Eggy"
and "Whisky 9noot" Condrey, both now
iugitiyes from justice, the former having
broke Jail at Moundsville and the latter
escaped from the work house here. They
were not found, and the WellSburg officers,
accompanied by Deputy Sheriff Blanchard,
Of this county, took Mooney TO Wells.
burg at o'clock,
Mooney has only been out Of jail a few
days. His sentence TO peniteItiary, its
reversal by tho Supreme Court Of Appeals,
and his resentenCe to confinement In tho
county jail, for an assault with intent to
kill on Frank McAdams, are matters Of
such recent local history as to be fresh in
the minds Of the public.
Mooney has the name Of having been
engaged in the masked robberies and
other crooked operations here some time
ago. It 10 hoped by the authorities here
that there Is enough evidence 10 convict
him at Wellsburg. The akif in which he
came down the river Is alleged to have
been stolen.
Deputy Sheriff Blanchard returned
from Wellsburg last evening. He did no!
recognize any OF the three, men arrested
Tuesday night, as he would had they
been Wheeling crooks. Murray formerly
lived in Wellsburg, but now lives in Bril-.
liant.
Lewis Hall, the wounded sergeant,
served in Company tx" West Virginia
Infantry, and was regarded as one OF the
most prudent and efficient soldiers in the
regiment. To show his popularity and
worth in Wellsburg he was elected on the
anti.license ticket, while the license ticket
carried the election, with two exceptions.
He iS aged about44 years and has family.
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