The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1892-11-29
THREE WE'RE SHOT.

70 D. - and bloody battle occurred at
~ just over the line i'll Gordon
Il \ CNJMt night at 10 o'clock and the re-
IS a # n, ii; MeGinnis, 1 Of Gordon do n
Jim s8s 1es4, one of the three men recently
arrested for TIE bold robbery of the store
and poStoilice at Little Row last Tuesday
night and who was carried to Calhoun and
lodged IL jail after his incarceration, made
some very startling confessions. He owned
to having committed and having aided i'll
several train robberies. He said he knew
all about the Piedmont robbery, the East
Rome robbery IL year ago, and the attempt
to rob the Western and Atlantic train ut
AdalrSvlllc Il few weeks ago. Besides HIM
self Henry Leafs and Ben Marrow, who
were i'll Jail, he named VIII Marrow and
Chester Scott as accomplices III the robber-
les, and last night Sheriff McGinnis went
down from Calhoun to Ilainvillc and there
collected posse to arrest Scott and Mar
row.
open that door," demanded Sheriff Nc
Ginnis
IAN right. Wen open it, came the reply,
and as the door, swung back on the hinges
a binding volley was poured into the parity
outside. The sheriff dropped TO the earth
his arms and breast filed with small shot.
Floyd received a load of shot in his arm and
hand and johnson received a fearful wound
in his thigh The door was Immediately
closed and locked and rushing to the 'front.'
door they opened IT ana Glf't anOlHeF FOllcN
at the other party of beseiSers. The PARTY
scattered from the front door and ran
around to their wounded friends, and at this
interval Marrow and Scott leaped out OF
the front door and escaped to the woods.
About O'Clock this morning the crowd
discovered a man trying to escape from the
house and arrested him. He proved to he
Joe Marrow and said he had just returned
from carrying his brother VIII two miles
away on mule He was held until about
~, 1,,vI ,In m
house ard found nobody but John Marrow;
another brother, and some women ana
children.
Officer Lindsey returned to Rome early
this morning with the two Marrow boys ana
lodged them in jail.
The story OF Jim Green, who is in jail as
Calhoun. is that the Marrow gang has been
organized for several years and that 1t was
modelled after the stlye Of the james and
Dalton gangs of the west. He says that Ia
was members of his gang who held mp the
East Tennessee train Just out Of East Rome
a wear ago and secured $50 from the eI-
press messenger, Ross Simms The Fled.
mont robbery came next which occurre0
about two months ago. The gang then went
for the Western and Atlantic train at
Adairsville two weeks ago, and the story OF
their failure to rob the express is still fresh
in the mind of The Constitutions readers.
Other Arrests Made.
Calhoun, Ga, November 27.-(Special =
ABOUT 0aYllSnS InlS mOruluS ChtS'cI t1Ootel
one of the outlaws who fired on Sheriff
McGinnis and his posse at Plalnyllle, was
captured at the home of his father-ln-law
John Boyd, near Plainville.
A posse had been on the lookout for him
Saturday and late last night it was learn
ed that he had left the hills near his fathers
place and gone to the home of old man
Boyd.
x party headed by an East Tennessee,
Virginia and Georgia section boss named
Calvin Giles, surrounded Boyd's house at
about midnight and at daylight Scott came
out and gave himself up. saying he had
been persuaded to do so by his father-in-
law. Scott turned over to Giles two long
frontier army pistols.
Giles and his party carried Scott to his
home and allowed him to eat breakfast with
his wife and children, and after he had
changed his suit they proceeded with him
to this place and lodged him in jail
A crowd of excited citizens followed Scott
to the iail The door was opened and Jalier
Simpson and Mr.. Bud Turner conducted
Scott inside the hall In the jail IS a
lunatic named TetheroW. This individual
did not like the looks of things, and he
snatched I'D n bucket of water and dashed
il on the prisoner and officers. This pro
duced q scramble inside, which the excited
crowd outside took for hight and IN an
instant Il dozen weapons We're discharged,
and the crowd made violent efforts to enter
the iail hall Another prisoner IN the hall
struck Tetherow on the head with lump
of coal and knocked him down Scott vas
then locked in a cell alongside OF ben Nor
row and Jim Green. 49, xx-.,,
ham and posse brought in old man George
Morrow, the father Of the Morrow boys.
He was found at farmhouse In Ory Val"
ley. .h.s
late telegram from Rmne says thas
Dr. Ratty has examined the WOUNDS OK
Eyl.a - ~ and he caIDOk lTSs