The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1899-03-30
BOLD BANDITS BACGED.
They Had Robbed the Carbondale
Traction Company's Office.
ONE OF THE ROBBERS SHOT DEAD

Two Others In the Lackawanna hos.
pital and Two In Jail-Thc Captures
Effected by Citizens, Led by Noted
Hunter and Trapper.
Scranton, Pa, March 2S.-Five OF the
gang Of six crooks thai robbed the Car
bondale Traction companys station at
Mayfeld yesterday morning have been
brought to earth. One of them is dead.
two are in the Lackawnnna hospital in
this city, and two are in the Carbondaie
Jail.
After sandbagging Fireman Patrick
Dempsey and Engineer Frank Coggns
and shooting Night Clerk W. y. Breck-
enridgc in the foot they made off with
the cash box, containing over $1,000,
and headed towards Carbondalc. with
posse in pursuit.
The next heard Of them was at Forest
City, on the line of the jefferson branch
Of the Erie road. They We're aboard
box car on Conductor "Sig" Robbin,'
northhound train and when ordered to
get off drew revolvcrs and referred to
them as first class tickets" At Union
uuP wv ItuIltu litIll lil.
operator OF the Mayfeld affair, and s2in-
up his passengers as the perpetrators OF
the daring decd telcgraphcd ahead Il"
Mount Ararat for assistance to captur"
them. big Bilr' Leach. noted huntr~
and trappcr. who keeps summer hotel
not far from the station. was aroused.
and summoning as many Of the ncr h
bors as the time would allow formed Il
posse to cf'cct the capture.
When the train stopped the robbers
saw the crowd at the station and jump.
cd ont on the opposite sid" and started
down the tracks. Leach, who had ~
Winchester repeating rifle, and Miller
Jesse Vail, who had a revolver, ran
around the cnGn" and called upon tn"
robbers to surrender. TIL" answer was
vollev or bullets. Leach and Vail
returned the fire. The robbers stood and
| sent back another yollcy. Lcach's rife
cracked three tines and three robbers
bit the dust. The remaining three fled,
one going down the railroad and tw"
making for the woods. a fourth shot
| from I.cach's rifle winged the man on the
tracks, but he picked himself up M
continued his flight A hnh shot "
sent at random in the woods in th
rection in which the other two Z
disappeared.
| When the crowd came from behn
train they found Leach and Vail u
and three Of the robbers lying OH
ground n hundred feet away. One
them was pierced through the Brain h
a rifle ball. The second, boy no
over 1S years Of age. had bullet hoj
clear through his body, extending frol"
Just above the heart to the middle OF the
back and passing through the left lung.
The third had his right arm shattered
below the elbow.
The dead man was turned over to Z,
local undertaken. The wounded meu
were brought to the Lnckawnnna ho'-
pitnl in this city. The hoy gave his nam"
as James Kelly and his home as Ashley.
Pa. He says he has no relatives. The
other gives the name Of .Inu.cs Cum
mings. and claims to come from l.ogana
port, Ind. Both claim they do not know
the name Of tht dead man.
A posse headed by Constable Michael
Moran came in ut noon with two robbers
who escaped into the woods. They were
captured after long chase II few miles
this side OF SusQuchanna. They refuse
to talk. 1t is supposed they hid thu
stolen money in the woods.
All of them were well dressed, cncn
having on white collar. They are evi-
IDENTITY professional crooks. and not or
dinary tramp thieves.