Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1893-06-20
IT WAS AN ALL-NIGHT SIEGE.
One Man, Armed With n Revolver, Holds
Hundred Men at Bay.

One Man. Armed With n Revolver, Holds n
Hundred Men at Bay.
srecial TO the New York w.rld
P!rTsBuRG, Pa, June l9.--With fifteen bullet
wounds in his body ". p. pysart. who says he
is employed al u clerk for the PENNSYLVANIA
railroad at 233 South 4th street. Phadel-
phia, was brought to the Allegheny county Jail
late this afternoon.
Dwarf appears to be in Q half stupor. He
ia about thirtv-three years and five feet six
inches tall. He wears the remnants of good
suit of clothes. which is filled with bullet holes.
Ii. his pocket found IL Pullman sleeping
Car ticket from Altoona to Pittsburs.
Dysart was brought to tho Jail BY Constable
Shoop of Springdalo. Last night he was dis
covered in the house of Christian Mardorf, at
Cheswick a small settlement on the West Penn
sylvania division of the Pennsylvania railroad,
fourteen miles from Plttsburg. The occupants
of the house rushed out and gave the alarm.
Neighbors came to the scene armed with guns.
Dysart fired u shot from revolver INTO the
crowd. The villagers reiterated from the house.
firing into the room where Dysart had been
seen.
Messengers we're sent to summon help from
near BY towns along the railroad. At mid
night 100 men. armed with shot2uus, Win
chester rifles and revolvers, were on the scene.
Dysart appeared to be well supplied with
ammunition. Time and again he scattered the
IL
o'clock he came to one of the windows and
threw out bedtick, with the evident intention
of Jumping out. At the same time he opened
fire on several men standing beneath the win
dow. But for the fact that most of the bullets
struck cornce aud glanced off there would
most likely be charge OF murder against him
today.
Ali night the siege was kept up by the crowd
and the firing continued on both Sides. Dysart
was game. A ball from a Winchester rifle al
most tore out one OF his eyes, while a load OF
/ shu. from gun penetrated his left arm. badly
! lacerating it. Wounded and covered with blood
/ he still detied the crowd.
/ The siege was kept up until o'clock this
morning. Several times the man attempted tt
escape by cimbing,down rope Of bed spreads
which he had made but "a ball from ri1t
would cause him to beat hasty retreat.
At aybreak the men forced open the door
and overpowered the prisoner. He was yer.
roughly handled, aud but for the counsel o
several cooler heads he would have beei
lynched 1t is clailued that a lot of jewelr.
belonging to the Mardorf family was found OF
his person. II such is the case it was takei
from him before he was brought to the city.
Dysart eau give little information concern
ing himself. lie denies being in the hons
for the purpose of robbery. To Warden Nc
Aleese he said:
Il WAS on my way to the worlds fair an
stopped off to see my brother. i. b. Dvsart, a
Upton, Blair county, near Altoona. l starte
from there for Pittsburg. How l got to Che'
wick and into the house do not know, as tn
town is on u branch road.
he says he is not y drinking man. DR.. Move
dressed his wounds and found fifteen bulle
holes None of them is in vital part. HI
physician saws that Dysart's mind is in n stat
, Of come, and that it will be several days bt
, fore he can tell much about himself.