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, DESPERADO SURROUNDEDW. H GRIFFITH. WANTED FOR SEVERAL MIRDERS, IS BROIGHT TO BAYIn Heavily Armed and Will Be Taken With IHffirulU — Bloodhounds Aid.I- h to lh* Intelligencer|| PARK Bits BURG, W. Vi. May 7.— Surrounded tonight In a wood near I Creaton. Wirt county. by a bcarlly ! armed po**r of 21M) mm with blood-• hound*. W. II. Griffith, alia* F. 8 I Roan. wanted for killing two men an.I •wounding another who had attemptedto make hi* arreat on a chance of forgery. U believed to be prepurinjc for a last stand Griffith. hltneif well armed. durliiK hi* cha*o through Braxton. Ritchie. Calhoun and Wirt coun- _ tie*. waa wounded iwltr but I* yet jf defiant A reward of $900 offered byi1 (the atate and countle* i„ which he I (ha* oierated 1* offered for hi* arr**t. ! , Griffith wan flr*t arretted on the I j foregoing char tee at Athene. O.. a t i month ago. when he waa lodged In Ihej \ |( alro, Ritchie county JaU. pending ar-. i i raignmeut. Breaking out of th*r* the' | “m* night. Griffith made hi* way to I hla home in Wirt county, where he I fatally abut Jeff Gough. «perlal con-• atahle. when he went to hi* home to •rreut him. Hunted by a p«**e for1 several day*. Griffith waa not heard : of again until wh«u Chief of Police G. iO. Thom peon, of lt;;a**away. Braxton i county, attempted to arreat him for | forking • note for 97.00 under the• name of F. 8. Rose, a merchant of lt;alhoun county Thompson *»« killed nud hi* deputy wounded. ihU taking place a week aroHunted under the name of Roue. It wa* not known until the fugitive mad* hla way Into count lea where known that he wa* the man who had killed Couch. The ahenff* of the countle* i traremed by Griffith »lnr* nhnntlng \ . Thompson have pnrtlrlpated In the ' ihunt. Griffith ha* re*!d«d at Creaton for aeveral year*, and 1* known to | have friend* there who will a**lax him. thi* making hi* capture more difficult. The wood in which the fugj. | tlve 1* nummnded 1* rough and rug- l d. and U located tie tween the Wot rk and Spring creek*, near Crw*tonPori
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Wheeling Intelligencer
Wheeling, West Virginia, US
Sat, May 08, 1915
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