The Clarksburg telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1874-1926, 1901-05-31
BOLD HOLD-UP
BY HIGHWAYMAN.
Saturday Night at Point Comfort
by a Natural Gas Light one
Man FLASHED guns into
faces of two men.
Went Through Their Clothes,
secured SO or s4tn Cash, agoId
Watch and other articles from
one Victim-o Other Dropped
hismoney over fence

one man all by his lonesome held
up two other men at midnight Satur-
day beneath the fare of a natural gas
light on the public highway In Point
Comfort.
Charles Weisenberger and a fellow
workman named Carder, millwrights
employed at the standard Milling
Company's building in Glen Elk, at
tended the theater Saturday night
and started to their boarding house.
Mrs. Edward Atkins home, In Point
Comfort at midnight. AS they arriv-
ed at the natural gas light just east OF
their boarding house, stranger step
ned In front Of them and flashing two
guns in their faces commanded them
to throw up their hands. They regard
ed It a Joke and failed to comply. he
told them a second time to hold up
their hands, and they replied, do
YOU mean it 2" With an oath he In
formed them that he did and up went
their hands swift as arrows Inc
htghwayman then deliberately search
ed them, beginning with Weisenoer-
ger. The robber secured between 50
and "a from him, and a $35 gold watch,
Docket knife, rule and other articles.
Then, he turned his attention to
Carder, but Carder had his hand on
his pocket book, when commanded to
hold up his hands and as he complied
dexterously dropped it over the fence
into james f. Aliens yard, where he
found It later. 1t contained 80 or 81.
While the robbery was in progress
the highwayman found a bottle OF
whiskey on Carder's person. Carder
asked him not to take it, as he needed
It for medical purposes, but the thiet
replied, 81 like good whiskey TOO
About that time Harry Coon and
Patrick Murphy, deliveryman for D.
W. Jacobs, approached on their way
home and stopped, thinking the three
men had stopped to have drink. Iney
had no sooner stopped than the roooer
said erufiy, "CoonY and Shorty, go on
we have no use for you" and they went
on home, not cognizant Of the fact that
a hold-up was in progress.
After the highwayman left them
Weisenberger and Carder went on To-
ward home. At the gate Carder said
he would follow the robber and start
ed back down the pike but was not
gone long. He staid around the house
all Sunday and went to bed as usual
Sunday night but got up at O'Clock
that night and left, leaving behind an
unpaid bill for one weeks beard. he
has not been seen since.
Other parties saw three men near
athe place OF the hold-up few minutes
before it occurred, and it is believed
the highwaymanh had two confederates'
The robber and two others we're seen
to cross the lower part of Aliens back
yard and approach the wooden mills
where they passed from observation
Murphy says he has seen the high,
waylnan around ClarRSnuTR seEelai
times, and, though he does not know
him, he could identify him, If he were
to see him. The fact that the roboer
called Coon and Murphy by their
nick.names is evidence that the rob
Der is somewhat familiar with these
haunts.
Mr.. Weisenbergerhails from Lexing-
ton, Kentucky, and had been here only
three weeks. Carder was from Ten
nessee and had been here a week,
weiseuberger was strictly sober that
night, while Carder had been drink
ing some. Carder's hasty departure
lends color to the assertion that he
may have been in collision with the
hiRhwayman to rob Weisenberger.
A night or two before this hold-up
Claude Pritchard was held-up on the
Milford road in front Of Leroy Rollins
home In the same manner and robbed
of 1925.