The morning times., 1896-06-25

1No CouHterieitcTS, three uOOi1sH inerS,
two postotfice ro,'bers, and two men who
have fought Unc.e Sans revenue Officers,
reached Washington last night. They are
F, on their way to Albany, from StatesvilIe,
! n. c., and when they reach their desstna-
ton they Will disappear from the world
for various lengths of time.
The party arrived on the $40 train, over
The Southern Railway, and spent last nigat
at one OF the District hotels, commonly
called the Sixth precinct station. The
| men arein chargc OF Marshal F. J. AIlsoB,
| OF the Western District of North Carolina,
and withhtin are DeputiesC C. II. Armiield,N N
y. Calvert and Edgar Allison, themarshars
son. Arrangements had been made by the
local officials for caring for the prisoners
and the patrol wagons of the First and
sixth precincts We're in waiting when the
| Train rolled in.
With clanking chains and rafting hand
cuffs the heavily manacled men stepped
! from the train and into the waiting wagons,
and We're rolled away TO the station. As
| tney filed into Lieut.. Keliey's station and
passed under the b,E white light they
| looked curiously at the wd and the brass
buttoned Officers who stood in line to guard
| them.
ARE MEN OF THE MOUNTAINS.
The prisoners are tall. finely formed
men, with the swing OF the mountains in
their square powerful shoulders and the
tan-ot the hot Southern sun on their faces.
They were taken at Gnce to the cells in
| the Fear, where their chains and handcufrs
We're removed and they We're made COM
Portable for the night. and provided with
hot supper. Marshall Allison and his
deputies, after seeing their charges safe
for the night, went at once to the st.
James Hotel, where their own sumner was
awaiting them.
Later tie marshal sat i'll the lobby and
ohatted pleasantly aboGt his prisoners
10 The Times. Tie marshal is u gentle
man of the old Southern school, with a
soft. pleasant voice and peculiar Southern
accent.
Yes he said, I'VE have quite a num-
her this time. Nine in all. six white nd
three colored men. There was one more
when we started. but unfortunately he
escaped. II is the first titne n man in my
charge ever got AWAY. and 1 have had
good many prisoners. but this fellow
was very clever.
His maine was Matthew Galloway, sent
sent up for eighteen months for robbing
government warehouse. He took French
leave at Greentoro: slipped the handouts
over his hands and jumped from the train
just as we pulled into the station. There
was right smart crowd about. being con-
vention week, and in the darkness he got
away.
That HAN lad the smallest hands OF
any criminal I ever had in charge.
FOUR BROTHERS SENT UP.
I'VE have one fellow in the party who
VIII be separated from his family for some
time. He is only sentenced IL four years.
But his three brothers got ten years each
in the State penitentiary and they Will
mat Goo r, f0,a EIa Isln
to the Waggoner family. They are bad
people in WataDga county.
They robbed the pustoffice at Valley
Cruces and were caught. The men and
their plunder were taken to Boobe, and
given preliminary hearing before United
States Commissioner BrieD. TIE evidence
against them was locked up in the CON-
missoner's store, and that night the store
was set on fire and burned. The crime
was traced In the same family, and those
not already behind the bars were soon
placed there. On the charge OF robbipg
the pnstnffice, Tiee Waggoner was con-
victed. and I have him along now. The
others were tried before the State courts
OH a charge II arson and waggoner's three
brothers received ten years each.
A man named Waycaster, who had put
them up to the Job. was also convicted and
sentenced to twenty years"
his other prisoners. mentioning Harvey
Church, a tail. fine looking man, WHO was
being taken up to serve sentence OF
eighteen months. Church, he said, WIS
partner of Galloway. who had escaped.
They hal broken into a government ware
house stored with whisky, and afterward
burned the building.
George Hunt. 4 tall ma efficiently formed
colored man is one of the NEST in interesting
trfl 10 vviH
for the government for fifteen months be-
cause he made and sold whisky. which did
not have the govern,ncnt's stamp on the
barrel Hunt did not seem to be cast
down Ivy his prospective imprisonment
FOR VARIOUS CRIMES.
He is very black, with big, soft. brown
eyes, and chiidiike expression of counten-
nancc-altogether different from the gen.
eral conception of u moonshner.
Turner Holderby, another oolored men,
Der of the band, will stay at Albany for
three years. He stopped mailcarrier
one night in the mountains. near Green
boro, and attempted TO rifle the Iouch.
but was frightened AWAY before he could
get at the registered packages.
James Maynard and James Robinson
thought they had an easy way of getting
rich when they started in to counterfeit
Uncle Sans silver dollars. But one night
the officers swooped down and caught
them red handed and now they will not
see their homes in Charlotte for eighteen
months.
Robert Downs built little still up in
the mountains near Charlotte and would |
have grown rich in short order had the |
revenues not caught him. They came |
down i'll n body one night and broke up |
the still and spilled the whisky out on the |
grass.
Andy Hurley and Joe Luther We're with |
Downs that night and in the fight that |
they were captured with their |
friend. Downs will not get another drink |
for fifteen months, and the men who |
fought for him will not have another |
chance for the next two years.
These" concluded the marshal, "are !
all the men have with me this time, but
I'm going back right soon to catch that |
fellow who got away at Greepboro."
The party will leave at O'Clock this |
morning for New York and hope to reach |
Albany before bed time.
IL. L.