The Waco daily examiner. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 187?-1888, 1888-03-29
ROBBERS ROUTED.
West Virginia and Kentucky to be Re
leased at Last.

l-ased at Last.
HUNINGrNo, w. Va, March - There
is at last some indication that the people OF
the counties of West Virginia and Kentucky
living along the Big Sandy river will be re
leased from the domination OF the robbers,
murderers and outlaws who have ranged up
and down the country over an area OF more
than 100 square miles during the past
eighteen months, robbng stores, postoflices
and dwellings, and not hesitating to commit
murder when that crime was necessary to Sc
cure the safety of themselves, or grasp the
plumber they coveted. In Cabell, Wayne and
Logan Counties in this state, these outrages
have been most frequent but Boyd county,
Ky, aud the adjacent county has
also suffered severely, and even the
Ohio side OF the river has been
subject to these unlawful excursions. The
gang was recruited from all three states, and
the number has been placed at from ten to
twenty-five by those more or less familiar
with them and their operations So success
full were the outlaws in evading arrest that
little was known of their strength or person
mel. Lately there have been an exceptional
number of robbers, and officers were started
after the gang determined to not stop the
pursuit until they had been put under arrest.
The band was known to be in Wayne county
and there, after persistent effort, two of the
rngleaders brothers, named Charles and
Stephen Kelly, were captured. The two men
were confined in the county jail, and in the
hope of lettering their prospects at their trial
made confession, which, although startling
in its nature only confirms what has been
generally known.
The Kclleys said they were members Of a
baud of twelve men, recruited in Ohio, Ken
lucky and West Virginia, who had INDUCED
in murder and robbery as trade, but their
motto was, 'Ncver kill unless compelled to
do so to gain your end In the confession
the kelleys named as member of their band
an old man named Merida Workinen, who has
served his time They further said that they
shot and killed Ed Bush near Ceredo last
year, also that thcv had robbed p Lyman &
Co, at the mouth of Berry Fork, and several
private reside noes and stores at Guyandotte.
across the river at this place.
The gang robbed, upon information fur
nished by woman named Melisha Badtram,
the house of NJ. II Bay"rd, near Guyan 9otte
This woman was used as a decoy to find out that
Bayard had money in his residence. The
woman is under arrest here. The prisoner
stated that on the night Gen. Walker was
wounded near Huntington, they were on their
way home from that place, and shot at some
one supposed to be Walker They intended to
kill them. They recently robbed a country
store in ONO not far from the river and the
neighborhood of Huntington, besides partici-
pating in various other robberies Last
Thursday night they intended to rob VI Lam
der Il Co.'S store al Round Bottom, and Mon
day night they intended robbing Coxs store,
at Coxs Landing, Cabell county, after which
they would transfer operations to Kentucky
The names of the gang are known and more
arrests will be made in a few days