The Republican., 1899-04-27
ASSAULTED AND ROBBED.
Jonn r. hartley, of Bayard, Relieved OF
S%OS in Cash. IA Watch ana Other
Articles.

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S*OS in Cash. IA Watch and Other
| Articles.
Sunday night, about o'clock. John
r. Bartley, aged about 60 years, a
| morse dealer, of Bayard, West Va,
while riding along the road from
Homecoming to his home at Bayard, w.
Va, was held up and robbed. Mr..
hartley was within two miles of his
home. Two men who were sitting.
along the road stopped him and
ordered him to dismount. One had
a revolver. He was pulled from his
morse and thrown TO the ground. in
Jurlng his arm and side. The men
took from him $20S in cash, glasses
with case, match box, bill book and
purse. They then allowed Mr.. Bart
ley to mount his horse and proceed.
The robbery occurred in Garrett conn
ty, near the West Virginia line
and Mr.. BARLEY is confident that the
outlaws were colored. His son, f. w.
Bartley, upon being informed of the
<r0bbery-joiU etU oIl0o for OuIxIunc, ar
f'fsSiIg here at 1 o'clock Monday morn
ing. He informed Sheriff w. Perry
Lee, who Immediately went to
Cumberland in the hope of capturing
the thieves, as Mr.. BARLEY informed
him that they had boarded train No
4 at Piedmont Sunday night, having
arrived at that place on IL freight
train over the West Virginia Central
Railway from Bayard The sheriff
was unable to locate the men and re-
turned home on the evening train.
not, however, before he had made
every effort to do so.
Tuesday mornings Cumberland
Ne9OS, concerning the above says:
Yesterday morning after the arrival
OF train No. 10, two strange colored
men were seen crossing the railroad
at Baltimore street. One carried a
black satchel. Officer O'Neil arrested
them about $50 a. III. as suspicious
characters, after one had traded a
watch at a jewelry store here. The
man had in the meantime gotten rid
of the satchel. He was searched at
the police station. A revolver and
TWO keys were found on him, one key
with long chain attached. The
other colored man was let go, moth
ing discriminating having been found
on him. In the meantime, a one
armed colored man who had been
made custodian of the satchel, hear
ing of the original pOssessOr's arrest,
let out the secret as to its disposition.
Deputies Mcdonald and Aldon and
Special Officer Apple went down the
canal three miles and found the
satchel. 1t had been buried. The
satchel is now at the sheriff's office.
1t is cheap oilcloth affair and con
talns the following articles:
Six knives and forks, 1 gold berry
spoon, l pickle fork, bronze clock
studded with rhine-stones, 1 pair
pearl opera glasses with case, pair
ebony opera glasses, new nickle
plated watches, / old watch, . silver
cups, two mouth organs, pair of
espoons, q. / centre piece, Z Sugar
spoons, gold bowl, saft Gnoons, gold
plated necllties, 5 collars, 1 stogie,
small blank tablet, patent medicine
almanac, silk muller, 1 sponge,
small piece of chamOis, silver butter
dish, / bonbon dish, 2 handkerchiefs.
The probabilities are from the dra-
peries and doylies found that some
show window was robbed. Young
Mr.. BARLEY, who is here, cannot
identify the colored man as a person
whom he might have seen about Bay
ard. If he had nothing to do with
the robbery of his father he certainly
must have been mixed up in some
other robbery. The prisoner says he
came in on No. 10. He could hardly
have committed the BARLEY robbery
and reached here on that train. He
could have made No. easily, how
ever, and it may be that he arrived
on that train.