Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1897-04-13


| Charleston house, could not he found
q number of other citizens reported
servants missing. and the morning of
the 21st the following startling article
| appeared in the Charleston News:
"Boldand SuccessfulBa Bank Robbery
Two hundred thousand dollars in gold.
i silver and bank notes taken from the
vaults of the Charleston bank.
Successful Jail Delivery. Plunket
and Cobb, the murderers of Planter Os.
borne, who We're to have suffered the
penalty OF their crimes this day, re-
leased from their cell, and Jailer How
ard found bound and gagged in their
stead.
mo Less Than Eighteen Negro Men
the property CT leading citizens, report
ed missing
Then followed a long statement of the
circumstances as narrated, and the arti-
Gle concluded as follows:
Many of our citizens probably
noticed the schooner of Il dark green
hue, that lay anchored in the Ashley
river since the night of the 18th.
| Thatshe wasa SLAYER no one doubted.
as 40 negroes were taken from her hold
and sold in this market on the 10Th.
That she was a pirate, now seems
equally certain, as her captain, whowas
man of stalwart frame, with an inn
I, mense black beard, but whose name is
yet unknown, as it was not ascertained
by the firm who sold the negroes (the
captains of subsequently, desiring to
4 have their identity unknown) was UNI
doubtedly the manager of both the
bank robbery and Jail delivery.
ut is also believed that either he or
his agent, in some manner, enticed the
missing negroes aboard the SLAYER and
sailed with them, in which event the
schooner will probably land at some
port on this coast and offer them for
sale, keeping them tongue-tied by terror
until their object is effected.
"The name of the schooner, as dis
played by bold, white letters on her
stern, was The Ranger
"a couple of merchants from Will
mington, who are yet here, viewed the
Ranger when lying in the river, and
! state that the schooner is the exact
! counterpart in all respects but the
color of the paint that covers her
frame and the name on her stern of
the Clara Belle, whose captain, Angus
i Bruce, murdered John Lloyd, of Vii.
mington, on the night of the thirty
! first of May last.
"Nlr. Murchison, one of the mer.
| chants alluded to, asserts that the Clara
i Belle often, in past days, has lain at his
dock. loading and unloading acargo-hc
! further asserts that Bruce is man of
i stalwart, powerful frame, which would
tally with the description of the captain
of the Ranger, whose beard may be q
! false one.
Most of the crew of the Clara Belle,
i states Mr.. Murchison, were left at Will
mington on the night of the fight from
! that port. they being ashore at that
/ time.
''But be he who he may, this Black
/ Beard seems destined to become curse
/ to this coast unless speedily appre-
hended, or himself and craft sent to the
/, bottom of the sea.
'Many who read this article will re-
call the SLAYER and freebooter Nancy,
.h'lt lounaerea ana went down with all
her crew off this coast some two years
since.
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'ii"' 1,hs us bruce ''iis! BLACK l'eard, as
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