The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1905-09-09

An organized gang of highway
men, robbers and desperadoes have
been run down and are now IN jail
awaiting hearing on charges that
send them all to, the peniten-
P~tislTy toT number; of years; 8 .
The members of the gang are
James and Buck Kendall, of Adams
tonS G.. e. Moore and Dick Hays.
Of Enmberpsoft. and Patty Sullivan.
of Wheeling doore and Sullivan
appear to be the leaders.
The arrest of the gang was largely
the result of detective work by Con-
stable c. Guy Merritt. who with
Deputy Sheriff John, n. Knox, Con-
stable Lee Coffnran and Officer T. L..
Powell, made the arrests.
With the exception of James
Kendall they are the parties, who
were detected early Friday morning
&c WiIs0nburg. boxing $50 worth. of
copper Wire for shipment, which
hey had stolen from the Fairmont
Coal Company, full account of
which appeared in Friday's-i issue of
the Telegram, and they will have to
answer that charge, as well as an
other far more serious, that of burg
1urizing a Baltimore & Ohio railroad
The latter burglary was one of the
boldesti and most cleyerly executed
within recent years here and occur,
red last Sunday morning at an early
hour
a fast though freight, one of the
97's. west, was boarded here by them
shortly after midnight and before
ithe train had reached Wilsonburg..
four miles west of the city, they had
9fokeniinto a freight car loaded with
merchandise, and depleted it of q
large amount of its contents b.
iirowing the merchandise out Of
the do0E9alDng the track. then jump
ing off the train as it went up the
grade west Of WiIs1nburg and re-
turninea along the track and gather
ing up the stolen goods.
1.-The burglary was soon discovered
and the proper. officials notified.
Local officers began to,look into the
matter and Monday it was reported
that fellows were carrying around
two bags filed with shoes, trying t"
sell them, and later it was discover
ed that they had offered to sell an
Assyrian merchant in Point Com
fort. nine pairs of Bannister shoes
I for $3.50. Mr.. Merritt got de-
scription of the fellows and from it
James Kendall was placed under ar
rest and Jailed. Later he confess
ed and fzpeached'E on his confeder
ates in crime.
Warrants were then issued by JUS
tice s. w. Gordon against the other
four fellows, but they committed the
burglary at WilsonbHrg, before the
officers fairly got into action, al
Though they had them located and
were preparing to swoop down on
Ths peculiar part of the burglary
ut WiIsonburg was that they were
mounted. and there was loss to ac-
connt for the horses; but it was
learned before the day was over that
they had hired them from livery
barn here and returned them after
being discovered by James Morris
and Thomas Francis. the latter of
whom one of them drew a gun on.
when he approached them.
BY a little more detective work it
wns learned they had divided them.
selves into two parties, Hays and
Sullivan going to Wilsonburg, and
Moore and Buck Kendall to camp
along the West Fork river just above
Mines1 ford,7 where they had built
a rendezvous among the powders.
The posse of officers started out
In the afternoon and had them all
under arrest by $3.50 O'Clock and
Ssafely iTI ail an hour or so later.
No difficulty was experienced in
sting the two at Wilsonburg, but
e9citing incident occurred at the
amIk The officers took the des.
,5eradoes there by surprise and they
were unprepared to make resistance
although Moore. when commanded
to throw up his hands, Jumped back
4ond with am oath declared he; could
shoot too and would not be taken
alive. s He made an effort to get a
gun, but Officer Powell swas too
mick fer-hiI1s and got the drop first,
shooting him ir,spelfe f1eshy part of
the left leg, inficting an ugly but
not dangerous wound, the ball de-
4.