Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1892-11-30
RUN TO EARTH.
A Gang of Highway Robbers
Captured by Policemen.
One Of the Worst Gangs Ever Known in
the South Now in the Hands
Of the Law.
Special to the Leaf.Chronlcle.l ]

BRISTOL, TENN, Nov. 30--Lieut.
Reeder, of the Knoxville police
force, left here last night having In
charge the two Sullivan brothers and
Frank Jones, who were arrested here
Sunday night suspected of a daring
robbery at Radford, Va, a few
nights ago. 1t now turns out that
they are not the Radford robbers,
but are three of the most clever high
way robbers that have ever worked
in Tennessee. They have been do
ing their work in Knoxville for the
past three weeks, but had escaped
from the detectives.
The robberies have all been COM
mitted in the suburbs OF Knoxville,
where the perpetrators could evade
the police force. A large number Of
wealthy people have been robbed Of
valuables, consisting of money,
watches, rings and diamonds,
amounting to large sum. These
robberies had become so notorious
that the people had become afraid to
venture onIthe streets in the suburbs
at night.
These robberits are known all over
this portion of the country. Several
years ago dozen young men of
Hawkins county organized them
selves into regular gang and made
a lonely cave in the mountains their
headquarters. They had read the
lives of the James brothers and de-
termined to follow the examples set
by them. 1t is from this gang that
the robbers doing SO mach meanness
in Tennessee are supposed to have
sprung, II
1t appears that the gang Of rob-
bers that has been making so many
rich hauls in Nashville, Chattanoo-
ga and Knoxville recently are being
run to earth. Nashville, it will be
remembered, has suffered in this
respect heavily of late, many thous.
and dollars worth of diamonds hav-
ing been stolen. Chief Clack, OF
Nashville, went to Chattanooga yes
terday and succeeded in taking into
custody very handsome woman
who had three thousand dollars
worth of diamonds on her person, the
property of Nashville people. The
woman admitted that she was the
wife of man who had forfeited
good watch and fifty dollars which
he had put up with the Nashville
recorder for his appearance on q
charge of picking some mans pocket.
She cried when the police relieved
her of her diamonds, and said many
naughty things about the officers who
were bounding her footsteps. This,
however, did not keep the officers
from going into satchel she was
carrying, and in this they found the
following diamonds, which they know
were stolen in Nashville: Capt. Alex
! Kendall's stud, valued at $3.50; Hill
man Cheat hams horse shoe diamond
scarf pin, valued at $3.50; Finley jew
elry store diamonds, valued at $500.
There were Others which the officers
did not recognized.
Chief C.ack has made disclosures
which justify the statement that he
has captured some of the members of
one OF the worst gang Of thieves and
pickpockets that ever operated In the
United States. Chattanooga seems to
have been their headquarters and the
woman mentioned above was used as
a fence behind which TO hide their
stolen property. There is little doubt
that some of this gang robbed DIR.
Northington at Nashville the night
of the ratification meeting.