The Roanoke times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1897-1977, 1897-09-26

Thos. J.. Feltz and Alien Brown, of the
Baldwin detective agency were on the
looG out for the parties who blew open
the tannery safe at the Narrnws an ac-
count OF which was published in The
Times. they were notified by wire from
Pembroke that four. suspicious characters
were aboard freight trLin gciug west
and to look out for them. The dispatch
also conveyed the information that these
men had been hiding around Pembroke
and were carrying considerable ewelry
AS the train passed the Narrows the
detectives boarded it and soon found n
white man and IL negro or the brake stem
of coke car. They were made to get
down into the car and Mr.. FeltZ turned
them over to Brown while he went In
search of the other two. whom he. found
two cars ahead. Mr., Feltz put them un-
der arrest and relieved them of their lew
clry and weapons. About this time
Brown came climbing over the cars with
his head badly beatt and he was shot in
the abdomen. He had been set upon by
the two rulinns and beaten over. the head
with knucks. His arms were AIKEN from
him and it was with his own pistol that
he was shot, the ball entering the lower
part of the abdomen. He was badly in
jured and the bullet has not yet been
found. The wounded man could not be
removed yesterday as his injuries were SO
serious.
Feltz then left the two men last arrest
ed with Mr.. Brown and hurried back to
the car occupied by the white man and
the negro, but they were nowhere to he
seen, so. he climbed over the car and while
in the act OF doing soswas shot through
the thigh. The.bnll entered the front side
nj. the left leg. striking the bone. 1t was
INV, L.
wound, after passing through seven inches
of flesh. The ball passed through his
underclothes, but dropped down between
them and his pants.
The men were sitting on the brake step
and both shooting at him between the
bars of the coke Car. He could only see
the top of their heads and the unsteady
motion OF the train rendered his aim in
accurate or he might have killed them
both. IS He shot ut the white man, who
jumped from the train, which was run
ming at the rate OF thirty miles an hour
The negro held his posi- and fired five
shots at Feltz, who in turn emptied his
revolver Mt his assailant FeltZ then
reached for another pistol and charged
upon the desperate, who jumped from the
train.
After running about a mile both de.
tectives jumped off, together with one of
the men whom they had captured. Feltz
left Brown on the. tracl; and walked to
Zurich, where he waved fright and
started back for the scene of the shoot
ing. He rode on the engine and found
the negro who shot him still sitting he.
side the track. When Feltz started to-
ward him he jumped up and ran into the
mountains with the detectives chasing,
but his, injured leg prevented his going
far and the negro made his escape. Mr..
Feitz walked back about half II mile and
caught train for Narrows.
Drs. Cowan, OF Rndford. and Fox, OF
Bluefeld, were wired for but they could
nft AXE any statement as to he extent
of Browns injuries
The white man was recently under ar
rest in Roanoke and was fined here for
vagrancy. The negro is said to have re-
Gently escaped the gallows at WEIGH,
w. Va.
Mr.. Feltz was in the city yesterday en-
roulette his home in. Pulaski, where he
Will remain until his leg is we'll He is
fortunate to have..escaped with his life.
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