The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1889-03-28
ABOLD BAND.
Outlaws Tracked to a Mountain Re-
sort in Pennsylvania.
SURROUNDED AT NIGHT
Daylight Dawns and the Game No
where to be Found.
SURROUNDED AT NIGHT
ROCKS COUNTY TRAGEDY
A Farmer Beats His Wifs's Brains
Out With a Club.

UNIoNTowN, Pa, March 22.-At In
tervals from o'clock to midnight last
night, men on horseback, mostly alone
and occasionally in pairs were seen to
leave Uniontown, coming at random
from all directions, but all galloping
away toward the mountains. The few
who saw them suspected that this was
a party of vigllantes that was secretly
organized and which has been the only
organized expedition yet made to cap
ture the McClellandtown robbers.
There were ten from UniOntowD and
five from the vicinity of the late neigh
borhood of the band, among them the
all men OF grit and deter
mination. They were to have been
Joined by twenty-five or thirty
men along the road and from the
vicinity of the outlaws camp near
Markleysburg, where the people are
greatly excited and willing to aid in re-
moving the bad gang from among them
they appointed a meeting place near
the point of assault and were to as
semble quietly after midnight and no
attack TO be made until daybreak
this morning. The gang has
been under surveillance and they
were known to still be ensconced in the
Hill house yesterday and the move
ments of the posses were made as
quietly as possible to avoid letting the
band know of the intended assault.
The party were all well armed with re-
volVers and in the portion from here
there were twelve Winchester rifles.
The mountaineers all keep themselves
supplied with arms and the whole party
made body of considerable strength
and should an assault fail to surprise
the inmates and capture them the
party proposed to surround the house
and starve the gang out, shooting any
one who made his appearance with
arms.
No word has reached here vet as to
their movements, the camp being
thirty miles in the mountains
from here and it is supposed
that they are engaged in a game of
starvation. This afternoon word
reached here that they had tried to
force an entrance into the log house in
which the robbers are at bay, during
which shots were exchanged on both
sdss MnOq 4en nuf 70 anyUn @rrendee
and are prepared to sell their
lives as dearly as possible
and to die if they cannot escape under
cover of the darkness. Nine men and
| three women constitute the party in
| the house among whom Lewis, Sullivan
and Ramsey were recognized. The at
lacking party have the house well sur
rounded and are watched from safe
distance by about 100 wondering
mountaineers. who have no arms. All
the armed men in the neighDorhoOd
having joined the posse. The out
| laws have an abundance of ammuni-
| ton four Winchester rifles and sixteen
revolyers and are not afraid to use
them. The attacking party are prof
fered a cannon which is in the vicinity
with which to batter down the house,
but hesitate as yet to use 1t
until they ascertain if they
can do so legally. The last
messengers trip was for information
on this point. The intelligence that
| the band was corralled spread like
wildfire here and soon Sheriff Miller
had started for the scene of the diff
Guilty with large posse raised here
who expect to reach Markleysburg
about dark. The vicinity of the rob-
ber's den is ablaZe with excitement
men hurrying therefrom all parts of the
mountain and with good leader they
expect to finally land the band in jail
| THE BIRDS FLEW.
| UNIONTOWN, Pa. March 23.-Sher-
Tiff Miller's party reached Markelsburg
at 2 o'clock this morning, to help cap
| III T6 GUG h(SISllduOLO"H TOOL0ISs WI
| were reported to be surrounded In log
cabin. The sheriff could find no per
son about and rode to the house. Hill
and his wife were the only persons in
the house, and they denied that any OF
the alleged robbers were there. A
search of the house and surroun dings
failed to disclose any of them. Hill
admitted that three of the suspected
men had been at his place, but claimed
that they had left last Wednesday. A
Winchester rifle, the property of Chas
Lewis, who is the alleged leader of the
rObber band Was secured by the Sheriff
at Hills house. Either the first body
of officers was fooled by Hill, and led
to believe their game was there while
they were fastening away to safety
or they got away in the darkness last
night before the sheriff party arrived
A portion of the posse has returned
here in disgust