Milford chronicle., 1927-12-02
ROBBERS STILL AT
WORK in MARYLAND
AND VIRGINIA
BurguIaries Continue NOtwith.
standing Arrest Of Supposed
Covered Wagon Gang.
SIX OVER WEEKEND
Thefts In Each Case Resembled
Those In Which Supposed
Leaders Were Implicated.

Despite the fact that two alleged
members of the Covered Wagon"
gang are being held in Wilmington,
nine burglaries, each of them SINH
lar in circumstances to those Of the
other robberies on the Peninsula,
have been committed since their
arrest. Six were reported in Wor-
cester and Accomac counties last
Friday and Saturday nights, one of
which was a station and another a
pOstofice.
Officers, both of Maryland and
Virginia, are fully convinced that
the ring-leaders of the gang are still
at large, making their headquarters
in one of the many swampy fast
holds that exist.
They are not prepared to credit
Edward Taylor, aged II years, and
Fulton Harrington, aged IS, the two
Salisbury boys arrested at Bear Sta
ton on November 10 by the Will
mington police, with being either
brainy or bold enough to direct such
a gang. The officers of this section
are inclined to believe that these
two youths were merely members of
the gang who branched off to begin
operation in Talbot county, and
thence made their way towards Will
mington when officers got hot on
their trail.
Worcester County and Virginia
authorities have instituted an inten-
sive search for the gang of thieves
since they broke into and robbed
the six places on Friday and Satur-
day nights.
On Friday night, the Pennsylvania
railroad station at Keller, Va, was
entered and the ticket cash drawer
robbed of over 500. Benjamin's
store at Exmore, Va, was next Wis
tied and robbed of about $40 in cash.
This was the second visit of the
robbers there within the past two
weeks.
On Saturday night and Sunday
morning, two stores at Onancock,
Va, were robbed. One was the On
ancock Grocery store, owned by H.
R. Bogg and A. H. Revell, which was
robbed of SIS in cash and consider
able clothing. The other place was
the J. M. Watson store, where SIS
in cash and other articles of value
were stolen. The United States
postoffice, located in a store at
Franklin City, Va, near the Mary
land Virginia state line was also
entered but nothing of value was re-
ported stolen. The lone robbery in
Worcester County over the weekend
was at Georges Landing, south of
Stockton, where a mercantile store
was robbed of considerable cash, the
exact amount of which was not dis
closed.
The robberies over the weekend
in Accomac county make over 80
burglaries which have been commit
ted Their during the past eight
weeks. Ten of the robberies have
occurred in Onancock, Va.
Entrances in all of the places yet
visited by the band of thieves seems
to follow aong the same line, the
Accomac county sheriff told Worces-
ter county officials Sunday. In prac-
tically all of the cases the thieves
break out panes of glass from win
dows or doors and unfasten the
locks or catches. Another habit
which the authorities attach impor-
lance to is the fact that most of the
robberies have been committed be-
fore the midnight hour, leading Off
Gals to believe that the members of
the band of thieves cover up their
tracks by early-to-bed alibis in their
communities.