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(Continued from Pape One.)they came upon Rose he opened fire and the posse retreated. They at once secured arms and a brace of bloodhounds and resumed the hi nt. IP was pursued to near the edge of the count:r. where he swam the Little Kanawha, river about an hour and i half before the pursuer? reached that point. Bloody clothes found along the trail indicate that the shot through his left hand, self-inflicted when he killed the chief at Gassaway. is giving him much trouble.“Griffith was first seen at Ayers and later at Annamoria.h. Calhoun county, and was also surrounded in the woods at Alahone where lie eluded the posse and got ahead of it. The fugitive iswanted on a number of charges. Untilthe shooting took place at GassawavGriffith had been lost track of fur two*or more weeks following a hunt for him by a posse in Wirt county after the shooting of Goff, who had beensent with another officer to arrestGriffith on a charge of breaking jailat Cairo, where he was held for forgery and giving a bad check in payment- for an automobile purchased there.“No reward bad been offered for the fugitive bj Wirt county. and the search was soon dropped The Iasi heald of him was when he was sai i to have been seen on a freight train going east from Cairo some two or more weeks age“The citizens of the counties he has traversed since killing Chief Thompson have been much * veiled on learning of the presence of Griffith there. The posse, starting with but a fewmen at Gassawav, has been enlarged day after day by the enlistment of citizens of the country passedthrough“The posse -it lt;'rest mi las* mg hiwas having a difficult time finding accommodations both for mods and sleeping quarters.”
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Charleston Mail
Charleston, West Virginia, US
Sat, May 08, 1915
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