Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1886-11-21
Those AFFDANTS.
The Revelation Generally Discussed About
the City.
WHERE The CROOKS ARE LOCATED.
A Fourth Person Who is Undoubtedly as
Guilty as the Others.
DAYS WHEN The GANG HAD MONEY.

The publication in yesterdays REGlsTER
of the evidence secured by Chief OF Police
Smith, in June, 1885, regarding the
Workenauer robbery, created lively IN
terest among . large class of readers, and
during the day the substance Of the athda-
Wits made by the BenwOOd couple was the
chief subject of conversation about the
Public Building, and in the Justice offices.
EVERYWHERE the story seemed to be re-
garded as true, and thus accepted, there
was q general desire to know why the
evidence had been allowed to accumulate
dust in q ~pigeon-hOle for seventeen long
months, instead of being used in securing
the conviction Of one or two OF the parties
named in it. Gentlemen whose opinions
in such matters are entitled to weight,
thought the evidence of the couple whose
names are signed to the afidavits now IN
the possession of the REGISTER, would De
sufficient to convict Thomas Condry, ana
probably Corners and the third party as
well. and it was deemed strange that no
effort had been made TO Secur the appre-
hension of one of the two men.
Condry and the other crook, whose
name was withheld, could be arrested
within twenty-four hours if wanted badly.
''Egvie" is known to make his headquarters
in Pittsburg, and vibrates back and forth
between that city and Martins Ferry,
where, in a we'll known saloon, quite a
number of Jobs" have been put up with
in the last two or three years. There IS
no doubt Chief BlackmOre could put his
fingers on "Eggie" without trouble and
he could be brought here on a requlSltlon
as q fugitive from justice and put on trial.
| Corners is believed to be in Nashville,
Tennessee, and could not be gotten readily,
but there are apparently well authenticated
rumors aAOat Of his having been in this
city two or three times since he escaped
from Jail. The third party named in the
| afidayits is about town, and could be ar
rested by the police at any time.
There Is a fourth man who was q com
paniOn to the above three in the Worken-
auer robbery beyond the shadow of a
doubt, but, although his guilt Is well
known TO a certain person, 1t would be
impossible to secure proper evidence. In
other words, the person in whose bosom
this knowledge repOSeS would commit
perjury rs quick as wink, to shield the
criminal. This suspected person, who has
no visible means OF support, had q thOus-
and dollars in cold cash not long after the
perpetratiOn of the series of robberleS
which followed the Workenauer crime, and
that he came by it honestly is doubted by
: tn ose who know him best.
There are 4 number of things that 90 to
prove that the story told in the affidavits
printed Yesterday is strictly true. Several
of these were recOunted yesterday by Off
Gals. At one time Just after the Marling
robbery two well known crooks were run
in by the police for an infractiOn Of a
city ordinance, and the fines and costs
assessed footed up about Sd. The day
the fines were imposed ''Eggie" COndry
marched into the office of the Chief of
Police, in the old Ark, and enquired:
Say, how much is that tine?'
(which one of them?'
both of EN-"
He was told about $31, when he said:
"Well, I'll pay 'em both" and reaching
into his pants pocket he produced a roll OF
notes as thick ~ q mans wrist, and threw
three tens and a nve upon the desk, re-
ceiyed his change and went of. Shortly
after that ''Eggie" left the city, and Chief
Smith says be knew Of him being IN New
Orleans soon afterwards, ~ is asserted
in the afidavits.
1t has been ascertained that when "Eg-
gle" COndry and his yet unknown compan-
ion visited BenwoOd and met the persons
making the afidavits on the county road ,
they went straight from q well known
Market street saloon, where they had
spent some hours during the early evening
and where they undoubtedly had . con-
ference with others of the gang OF thieves.
Additional developments ore expected in
this case and they will be awaited with
interest by the public.