The Clarksburg telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1874-1926, 1910-05-19
Scheme to Liberate Suspected
Murderer is Fooled by
Local Police.
NITRO YCERINE
OUTFIT is FOUND
WEST OF SALEM
Police inspectors of Pittsburg
and Philadelphia Here
Working on Case.

and Philadelphia Here
Working on Case.
| Four "yeggmcn' who were. arrested
and jailed here by city policemen
several.days ago have been identified
by police inspectors Of Pittsburg and
Philadelphia as notorious safe
crackers and all-areund crooks who
are: thought to be wanted for crimes
in various parts Of. the, county. They
are suspected BY local police author
tiles OF laying plot to Glow up tho
county jail with nitro-glycerine for
the purpose Of etrecting the escape
of Robert Murphy. an old man who
is accused Of numbering Mary Dodd
here several years ago.
The prisoners are known as:.,
JAMES BLACK. alias .ssNew York
Blackie,...;; an old time postofiice
burglar who has served time in state
prisons. !,
CHARLES MANNING. alias "Doo-
littie,' thought to be an ex-convict
who recently served term in the
West Virginia penitentiary for
burglary at. Wheeling.
SAMUEL KEYEs, alias "McKees-
port Sammie." crook and safe
blower.
NIKE KhLLEY, also crook and
safe blower. 10
The prisoners wera3identiiied as
fusitiyes at the county jail by Police
Inspectors George ColIng, of pitts
burg, and H. "A. Macready, of Phila-
delphia, who have been working on
the case for the last two weeks and:
who are now in the city working with
Chief Harry; Il. Brooks in gathering
information and evidence against
the prisoners. 1t fisa likely that the
men will be taken from Jail here 10
other cities to answer for various
V :.
bnrglaries and other crimes.
Surrounded House.
Acting on information that had
been sent to local police head.
quarters from the police department
Iof large city. Police Chief Brooks
Swallowed the four men in clarks.
burg not long after they arrived
here week before last. Finally the
police learned that the men we're
staying at an italian boarding house
at the foot of Clark street. Glen Elk,
near ELK creek and Sunday. May
Chief Brooks, Lieutenant Nicholas
Whyte and Policemen Michael Joyce,
London White. Louis Corwin and
Lewis Jenkins suddenly surrounded
the house and captured the four
men. While policemen surrounded
the house. Chief Brooks and Lieu.
tenant Whyte entered It with drawn
revolvers and placed all four OF the
men under arrest without having any
trouble with them or meeting with
resistance. The men were taken to
jail and held as prisoners there un-
der charges OF being suspicious
Characters pending further develop.
ments in the. case.
AS one Of the men was Suspected
of being notorious train robber and
member of a gang of train robbers.
information concerning the arrests
was not made public at the time, in
the hope that other members OF thel
gang might be apprenended. It was
learned Monday, however, that the
suspicion in this respect was not ccr-
rect. -
To Liberate Murphy.
BY means that for good reasons
are not made public at present. In
spectors Coling and Macready and
Chief Brooks received information
that the prisoners had laid plot to
blow up the county jail here with
nitro-glycerine for the purpose of lib.
Grating Robert Murphy, the old man
who YVES arrested at Fairmont re-
Gently and who was brought here
and held for the grand jury on the
charge of numbering Mrs. Mary Dodd
several years ago by throwing her
her from trestie east of the city.
1t is believed that Murphy is al
member of this robDer gang. The
plot was frustrated and the inspec.
tors. with other officers. went to a
went to a point west OF Salem one