Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1886-11-20

had gotten a good stake out of the Work
a1,orer burglary. | remember of having
asked him IL they had hurt any oil tne
family in the Workenader matter. he
renlied that they had not hurt any one
bodily. but had put up the job ana went
tbrongb II az well as they could. He told
me that the money he had gotten as ms
share of the robbery had been all spent In
travelling around the country--ln Ne"
Orleans, Pittsburgh, and other places.
at was in this same conversation that
the robbery and burglary at Elijah Mar
Iing's came up between Condry and my
seIf had heard an account Ofthis affair,
which happened shortly after the WorEen-
auer affair. asked him.
"'Johnny, how about the Marling case?
Did YOU and your pards have anything to
with that job?
HHe gave hearty laugh, and said
&" That was terrible affair, wasn't II:
HE said nothing more about 1t, though
l tried to pump him.
before we parted something like the
following took place between us:
"Condry-TOmmy, you are railroad
man. and have come down here expressly
to ask YOU in regard to some freight trains
which and my friend can beat out Of
trim TO Camefon and Grafton. We want to
90 TO those towns and give them the same
tearing ND we did Fulton and Martins
Ferry. We want to make Cameron, es-
pecially, SINCE.
II told him they could get freight the
next day about dinner time. He said he
and his pal would take that train. We
then parted. Idon't know where they
STAYED that night saw COndry
the next morning in the orchard
about $50 yards below my father
in-law's house. / told him the sooner he
got away from that place the better. He
said that he thought / was about right.
About that time train came along bound
for Moundsville, and when showed 1t to
him he went away. Ihave never seen him
since, though / understand that he was
arrested two days aftcrward in Mounds
Vile
This affidavit seemed TO open up prom
ising lead, and the following Monday,
June 10th, the wife of the witness was
seen at her home by the Chief of Police
and the Notary. She, being separate aud
apart from her husband, made an affidavit
TO the same general effect aS the one gwen
above, the only point of difference being
that instead Of remaining across the road,
while the three men were talking she enter
ed the house laid her baby on the bed and
then came out and stood behind the fence,
where she could hear what was going on.
She said Condry put the sum he had real
lied from the rObberies at seventeen hum
bred dollars, which he had spent in trav-
cling about with woman.
These afiidavits were filed away, the
officers meanwhile keeping sharp look
out for Condry and Corners. Thomas
Condry ('Eggy') was picked up at
MOundsville, but he soon made his escape,
and is still at large. Corners skipped
out of our county Jail under Sher-
if Browns administration, and
is still among the missing. The
third party mentioned in the affidavit is
still hanging around this city and Pitts
burgh, lie having been arrested
once since the WOrkenauer robbery
on charge of petit larceny.
Whether anything will be done in the
matter, We know not, but the story told in
affidavit is an interesting one, and the
narrative olthe robheries given is probably
true,