The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1894-10-18

corrigible thief and the head of band Of
marauders who made their headquarters
In the Welsh and Ephrata mountains of
Lancaster county, Pa. When he was in
the Eastern penitentiary, he professed re-
ligion and was pardoned out at the in
stance of influential philanthropists who
believed his professions of reform. Then
he started out as an evangelist and made
many friends. He went back to Lancaster
county to convert his old followers. 1t
seems, however, that they converted him,
for he soon fell into his old thieving prac-
tices while cloaking his operations under
the mask of eyangelistic work. Now his
gang has again been broken up and Abe
himself sentenced to II years in prison.
Abe Buzzard was born in the wilds of
the Welsh mountains in 1859. There were
seven boys in the family, and with Abe as
their leader they left home and sought .
life in the hills. AS they grew in years Sc
they grew in crime, and by tho time abb
was old enough to vote he was the leader
of gang of outlaws that was the terror
of the Welsh mountains.
His depredatjons became so bold that
the authorities of Lancaster county finally
placed a reward upon his head of SIS, 900.
At one time posse of deputies from Vic
toria succeeded in cornering Abe and
Lew Crawford, one of his trusty lieuten-
ants. They caught Crawford, but Abe
filed John Hull, the leader of the posse, full
of buckshot and escaped. Luckily for Abe,
Hull did not die of his serious wounds.
But it was not until 1889 that the dar
ing outlaw was captured in the streets OF
Ephrata. He was then locked up in the
Lancaster Jail on ID years sentence fol
robbery His brother Ike received the
same sentence, but neither staid in Jail
very long. By means of pet canary bird,
which Abe trained to carry notes between
lke's cell and his, an escape was planned
and successfully executed. Ike was recap
tured, but Abe managed to keep clear OF
the hungry officers of the law who sought
him. He returned to his mountain haunts
and found that most of his old gang was
scattered. But it didn't take him long tt
organize another one and resume business
at the old stand.
But his career was finally wound NJ
when he was sentenced to long impris
onment for horse stealing, and it was dur
ing this imprisonment that he became con
verted and waa pardcned.
The Sword of Wolfe.
Canada is congratulating herself upon
having secured a relic of the glorious
opening page in her history as a British
colony-namely, the sword worn by
General Wolfe at the capture of Quo
pCo LII L tcV. VI d CcubuIy tue
sword lay few feet under the ground
on the heights of Abraham, where
Wolfe fell mortally wounded, and even
tually found its way into the hands of a
Toronto gentleman, Major Dunn, who
used it in the charge of Balaklava. 1t
has now been purchased in London from
Major Dunn's descendants by the Hon.
J. O. Patterson, Canadian minister of
militia, in his private capacity, togeth-
er with the medals which Major Dunn
received for his services in the Crimea
and elsewhere. 1t is significant of the
change which times have brought in the
| relations between the French and Eng
lish on the North American continent
that French Canadian papers such as La
Minerve of Montreal are asking that the
sword may be placed with honor in the
dominion parliament at Ottawa, which
English journals are reoiprocating with
the wish that the sword of the gallant
French commander, Montcalm, should
] now be sought for and placed in the
same casket as the sword Of General
Wolfe to emphasize the union of two
races under one flag. Chroni-
ole