Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1886-07-30
DID NOT FIND THEM.
4 TRIP TO PIrrsBuRG, AND WHAT CANE
OF IT.
The Authorities Of Two Towns Have a Number o.
Adventures While Searching for the
Escaped Jail Birds

The five prisoners who escaped from the
Ohio county Jail at noon on Wednesday
are still at liberty, Notwithstanding Sheriff
Handlan and his deputies and a dozen or
two Pittsburg officers were on the alert all
through the t~wenty-four hours which
ended at 10 o'clock last night. The OIL
GERS of the two cities-Wheeling and Pitts
burg-have had a series of thrilling adven-
lures since last the REGISTER gladdened
the eyes of its readers, a condensed account
of which we shall proceed to relate.
When Sheriff Handlan, JailOr Nichols
and Justice George Ankle started out in
their hack, about 5 o'clock Wednesday
evening, after returning from the trip to
the east of the city during which they
had learned the escaped prisoners had
Uone out the old Hempield road,
they drove rapidly to Elm Grove,
where q freight train had stopped. be
lieving the men they were in search OF
were concealed in n of the cars OF TINS
train, the three officers dismOunted, and
proceeded to investigate. Before more
than two or three cars could be examined,
however, the train pulled out, and the
Sheriff and his companions drove rapidly
on to Point Mills, where it was understood
the engine would stop for water. Here
the train stopped, aud one or two young
men cot out of one of the cars. Justice
Ankle eyed one of them until he was con-
WINGED he was Ross StOtsbery, one
of the the missing men, and then
placed the fellow under arrest, and,
Sheriff Handlan coming up, turned him
over to that official, while he and Jallor
Nichols, who was on the other side OF the
train, should look for more OF the gang.
Mr.. Ankle started to run around the end
of the train, but had proceeded but a few
stems when the train began to move. Look
ing around, the Justice saw the Sheriff
standing alone, while the man so lately IN
his custody was swinging himself to the
top of one of the Ears of the now rapidly
movingtrain StotSbery had nimbly wrested
himself from the grasp OF the Sheriff.,
Jumped on board the train, and was C
more at liberty. 70, .
Thus fooled in their attempt to re-arrest
the party, the Sheriff and his companions
drove back to Elm Grove, where a tele-
gram was sent to Chief Blackmore, at
Pittsburg, to search the train at Glen
wood. This was duly received by the
| Pittsburv officers, and what followed there
is best related in the following, clipped
from last evenings Pittsburg Chronicle
Telegraph. ,
About midnight last night an unusual
hustle among the detectives and the police
force was noticed. Detective Sol COulson
had gone up home at IL o'clock prepared
to take a good, solid sleep, when there was
4 ring at the door belt and he was sum-
moned to 90 down to the Mayors office.
Upon arriving there he was shown a tele-
gram from Sheriff Handlan, of Wheeling,
which stated that twenty prisoners ut the
Wheeling Jail had broken out and made
their escape. The Sheriff stated that he
thought they had boarded a Baltimore and
Ohio freight train for this city. lie
also offered a reward of So for each cap
ture made. Detective COulsOn was ordered
to take a squad of police and look out Tor
the escaped prisoners. The Black Maria
was brought out and stood in Diamond
| alley ready for taking the squad whittier
il was thought best. Lieutenant Hanna
was chosen to accompany Detective COul-
son and he picked out fifteen officers.
| About one o'clock the officers got into the
| Maria and were driven out to GlenWood,
where it was thought the men would be
| found, provided they had come towards
this city. The police arrived at Glenwood
about 100 o'clock, and rs the freight train
on which the escaped prisoners were sup
posed to be did not arrive until t0ur
! o'clock the police had plenty line to pre-
pare a plan of action. The Black Maria
was stood off where it would be conVe-
nient, and the officers prepared to put in
| the remaining time until the arrival OF the
| train in the best way they could.
The laundering Of the heavy freight
| coming down the road and over the Glen
wood bridge was heard for miles away.
The officers were somewhat excited, fearing
that i'm the event of the men being on the
train, there might be a lively fight. Some
of the escaped prisoners were reported Us
| dangerous characters. When the headlight
of the big locomotive was seen at last away
up the track, Detective COulsOn gathered
his men together and gave them their IN
structiOns. Men were placed on bOtG
| sides of the track, and were to keep Il close
watch en- any one who attempted to leave
the train when il stopped. The train pull
ed into the yards. OOulS0n approached i
brakeman and asked if any men were
aboard.
There's about a dozen fellows back
there in one of those cars, " responded the
brakeman, pointing back towards the real
end of the train. They are all together,
and they arc q tough lot
This was the information that COulsOn
was awaiting, and having found which cal
the men were in, he moved his men quiet
" back and surrounded it. There was i
movement in the ear and several heads ap,
peared.
'Here, you fellows, want you all to get
out and come here" exclaimed COulSon in
such q delightfully."- winning way, that whcr
the men saw how matters stood they GOT
out like lambs and stood surrounded by
the blue coats, There was II exception.
however.
About the last MAI TO get out was q
f~ne-loOking fellow, who had q mOustach,
and a rather prepOSsesSing appearance
Watching his chance he slid through The
crowd so quietly that he was almost dow
over the banks below the tracks before
Coulson got his eye on him. Leaving
Lieutenant Hanna TO watch the Others
COulson gave chase TO the sly chap Will
the moustache. He ran down the hill, and,
flashing his "bulps eye" around on thai
part of the town below the tracks, he oh
served a door open into a stable OF car
rage hOue. Mr.. Goulson walked in, apd
under one of the carriages he observed the
object of his search.
Crawl out of that remarked COulsOn,
in a voice that raised the roof of the stable
about four inches.
There was alittle scramble under the car
riaga and then the fellow was standing be
fore Coulsoa. He was covered with dir
and dust and didn't seem to like his situa-
ton at that moment for q cent.
Now, l don't want any more of this
thing" said Mr.. CoulSOn, as he put the
nippers on him, 81 don't like it."
al don't like IL, eithef,'i responded the