Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1899-04-01
BOLD BANDITS BAGGED.
They Had Robbed the carbondale
Traction Company's Office.
sNB OF THE ROBBERS SHOT DEAD

Two Others In the LaclSnwanna los
pItai and Two In Jali--Tho Captures
Effected by Citizens, Led by Noted
Hunter and Trnpper.
Scranton, Pa, March 2S.-Five of the
gang Of six crooks that robbed the Car
bondalc Traction company's station at
Mayfcd yesterday morning have been
brought to earth One OF them is dead,
two are in the Lackawnnna hospital III
this city, and two arc in the Carbonate
Jail.
After sandbngging Fireman Patrick
Dempsey and Engineer Frnnk Coggins
and shooting Night Clerk w. 7. Breck-
cnridge in the foot they made off with
the cash box, containing over $1,000,
and headed towards Carbondalc, with Il
posse in pursuit.
The next heard OF them was at Forest
City, on the line of the Jefferson branch
Of the Erie road. They were aboard
a box cur OH Conductor "Sig" Robbins
northbound train and when ordered to
got off drew reviewers and referred to
them as first clnss tickets" At Union
dale the conductor learned from the
operator Of the Mayficld affair, and sizing
up his passengers rs the perpetrators OF
the during deed telcgrnphed ahead To
Mount Ararat for assistance to capture
them big Bill Leach, noted hunter
and trapper, who keeps a summer hotel
not far from the station, was aroused,
and summonn: as many Of the neigh
bors as the time would allow formed n
posse to effect the capture.
When the train stopped the robbers
saw the crowd ut the station and jump
cd ont on the opposite side and started
down the tracks. Leach. who had n
Winchester repeating rife, and Miller
Jesse Vail. who had revolver, ran
around the engine and called upon the
robbers to surrender. The answer was
vOley of bullets. Leach and Vail
returned the fire. The robbers stood and
sent back another volley. Lcach's rifle
cracked three times and three robbers
bit the dust. The remaining three fled,
one going down thc rnilrond and two
making for the woods. a fourth shot
from Lcach's rifle winged the man on the
tracks, but he picked himself up and
continued his flight. a fifth shot was
gent ut random in the woods III the d.
rection in which the other two fugitives
disappeared.
When the crowd came from behind the
train they found Leach and Vail unhurt
and three OF the robbers lying on the
ground hundred feet away. One Of
them was pierced through the brain by
a rifle ball The second, boy not
over IS years of age, had bullet hole
clear through his body, extending from
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 Il
local undertaken. The wounded men
were brought to the Lackaw wanna hos
pital in this city. The hoy gave his name
as james Kelly and his home us Ashley,
pn. He says be has no relatives. The
other gives the name OF james Cum
mings. and claims to come from LoganS.
port. Ind. Both claim they do not know
the name OF the dead man.
a posse headed by Constable Michael
Moran came in mt noon with two robbers
who escaped into the woods. They were
captured after long chase Il few miles
this side Of Susquehanna. They refuse
to talk 1t is supposed they hid the
stolen money in the woods.
All of them were we'll dressed, eacn
having OH n white collar. They are evil
IDENTIFY professional crooks, and not or
binary tramp thieves.