Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1892-08-17
TO THE RESCUE OF rALr HALL.
Wise County, Va. Excited-ExpssGing Raid
Of Kentuekiaus.

Wise County, Va. Neutrality-suspicious. Raid
Of Kentuekians.
A special received in Richmond from Big
Stone Gap, Wise county, last night, sid that
Judge Skeen has . telegram from Wise Court
House which says that an attempt win Be made
to rescue Talt Hall, who IL undsr sentence Of
death in the Jail there. An tho able-bodied
men at Big Stone Gap started for the court
house under the command Of the Judge. They
would not arrive there until utter midnight and
1t was feared the rescue would b effected by
that time.
correspondent Of the Richmond DispatcA
at Wise Court House, Va, writes a. follows in
regard TO the case Of TAFT Hall. A fortnight Of
Talt Halls death watch IL over, End there h
the lun now which preoedss . very probable
storm. The Ksntuckians are swaittnG the re-
suit Of the pc titiOn for change Of sentence, and
John Wright. Halle great friend. II away for .
fortnight on business for . big land company.
when he does not care to take o hand himsek.
They say he gives orders and leaves homo, and
that his henchmen do the rest. all Of which may
be unjust TO John ~ far as it bears on Halls
release. Two women came over from Ken
lucky Saturday. They say that Halls release
believes rescue will be attempted II the Pc
tition fails. A man from Kentucky also
brought significant news.
Claib. Jones 10 . mortal enemy Of Wright and
Hall and long and bloody feud was fought
between them. Claib. was in Jail on charge Of
released three days ago on q bond Of Oh, 900,
and this man says his bondsman II no other man
than Bill Hall, Talt's brother. Claib. hes .
gatling gun. o cannon and desperate following
Of his own, and the conclusion Ia irresistible that
Tails brother has bailed Claib. out on condition
hat 1oSh ak.n l. II.
OF this Jail. Inasmuch as the Ksntuckians say
that they mean to have Talt II they have 70
burn the town and batter down the jail many
actually believe that such a coalition has been
made. Chib. got his guns in rather nm odd
way. He was jsiler once at Hindman, ovor in
Kentucky. He bad some bad prisoners Of hts
own, who were about to be rescued, and the
governor sent him . cannon and gatlinG gun.
When ClAib threw Cd the robes Of office he
impressed the guns into service for his own war.
1t 70 said that the Kentuckians know the exact
number Of the guard and. who they are person
detachments sleep and how many are In each,
and where the pickets are posted, 30 changes
are made constantly. During the last day or
two three or four strange men have been seen
on the bill tops about the town and moving
mysteriously about through the woods and
cornields, and an unsuccessful attempt was
made Saturday to capture them. That night q
picket halted three men, supposed to be the
same ones, and they dropped TO their knees,
crawled through . fence and scuttled away
through a cornhsld. These men are undoubta-
BILE spies sent over to stady the situation. II
is said, too, that Hall has friends right here in
town who give information about the guard
II is claimed that Halls Jealous friends are
forging names to the petition over in Kentucky.
The lists are not shown with great openness,
and one Of the guards who saw one says that
the signers were men Of little advantage to any
community. One member Of the guard signed
the petition, and the feeling among the rest was
30 strong that he was forced to resign.
The guard will be increased when the Anal
word comes from the governor. Many Of them
are new to such duty. and for them the nights
are u tremor Of excitement. The strain Of the
watch makes the senses abnormally acute.
One man, . distinguished young virginian,
claims that on his first watch he heard every
football Of a cat walking in tho sand . hundred
yards away.