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Fight With Outlaws

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Parent Issue
Day
19
Month
January
Year
1894
Copyright
Public Domain
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Weston, W. Va.. Jan. 15.- ' tion was received here Sunday i doon of the apprehension of Calvert j and Hennon Fleming, two notorious I outlaws, for whom the state of Virginia j offers a reward of 2,000 and the county of Wise 800. They are charged with having ! mitted 'five different murders and eeveral highway robberies, are also alleged against them. The Fleming brothera have been fugitives from justice for a long time. They suceessfully evaded the offioers of the law and made their way overiand to Boggs, in this state, in the rnountains of West Virginia. They believed themselves to be safe. On Saturday evening, about 4 p. m., they stopped at the store of John Boggs, about nine miles t'rom Cowen. a station on the West Virginia and Pittsburg railroad, in which store the postoffice for the village was kept. The outlaws had been traced to this neighborhood by four officeers from Virginia who are Beeking their arrest. While the Fleinings, who were going under different . aliases, were engaged in making purchases at the store, the officers came in and readily identified them. They dernanded an immediate surrender, but the desperadoes resiated arrest and pened fire upon their pursuers. Shots ■were returned and a fierce conflict for life ensued. Calvert Fleming was killed ontright and his brother Hennon was mortally wounded. with three shots in his lef t breast. He is still alive, but cannot recover. Two of the oflïcers, John H. Branham and "Doe" Swannell were seriously wounded. The injuries of the former are considered fatal, he being shot through the left lung and right ehoulder. "Doe" Swánnell is shot through the neck below the ear. His condition is doubtful. A ulerk in the store was also shot in the struggle, but is not thought to be dangerously hnrt. Calvert Fleming is one of the men implicated in the ïnurder of Mullens and others at Pound Gap, Va., in 1892. Before lie died he requested that bis remains be convej'ed to his home at Norton, Va. All preparations. however, have been made t.o bury him at Bogcs.

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Ann Arbor Argus
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