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THE MOUNTAIN HUNT.°’c,.“ck. when the prelim in:»fensure Thi *a^'WT «[ Litntantot Kelntyra Tracksd 1Hi* L»!r and Oapttred-PUteU fcr Bedj#l~ low* and Children Alnct Icnn mtnbls—A Dario* Actexamination will occur. The taken to jail yesterday aftcrooo . ne u me* uf L,eu,e t McIntyre. He says he think, it very wrong to kill « man who was doing his duty a. d obeying orders. He f ’well and ieoTOwiuingooo intellect natural!', fornlSj Sd J2U* * -Perhaps this U the beginning of the a.'-«which h hV*. 'Ve.r k*25'\' but U b » aad instance of Kiisiuon m ucorgia, and TK.Ut“,oml »■}’ »*.warmly discussed by the press all over aJS^SSuSa^^u Sn,ted. **»*«■ country. Lieutenant Mclntyie. a gal- T?1 if U.,e f?®**®* !» »*m-.ffcjSjX-pH~.ro ...........juriMlictioii appre- v» »h« night ot me 10th of February. • sunny 1W7, there occurred at Frog mountain, in I “ Sn,n‘ ™!!t Pounty; Ga , * *««edy which e racks created a great sensation in Georgia, andMr-.... vu Vsrnilv Li «•______*1..nonlie’astem countiesnds the against the revenue laws, who had defied !^Li'n!Tner “ver to ***• *,aIe officials, m id I ant theeffiirtaof special deputies to bring them *?*”.whcre two couita have jurisdiction, thought within the reach of the courts. Gu the S nAi ln prisoner has prioritysen days- night of the loth an attack was madeon the of nRhl in proceedings against him.%*£ ®TATE SUNDAY SCHOOLCONVBNTIONMr. Z. ravines of the wildest portion of that wild ----------w roll- **«?-. The approach was beset by danger ad not V kV .! °f «*rfec* Peace, but when th* mat go inhabitants were aroused by what thev Seven- d«®“«d wrongs at the hand, of revenue . record officer. the march was perilous to a degree k tnuis- *h*t might make a veteran feel nervous.•ry thing Lieutenant McIntyre followed the revenue detectives who were leading the way untilshades of a black and fearful night and by its natural seclusion.About this house there occurred a brief but tierce tight, in which a number of ronun Uinoem attacked the troops. After ehan bring on both sides, the assailants fie I aim esraned under the cover of night. They left blood marks behind them, and aoti the gang are supposed to have been tally wounded. Lieutenant McIntyre shot down never to rise again. The mountaineers were pursued, but no satisfactory results were ever accomplished.The United States authorities took the “alter in hand and sent a company to keep order in the mountains and also to tty and find means to catch and convict the guilty parties. Governor Col,mitt showed a strong desire to do his duty into the difficulty and a fall report of all theffssRsassKki fastIgbt, en-I rout.lt;TSof tho much human“.-S33familyhosplta- ed. Rewardswere offcredby the state for the .I.*. capture of tho murderers nf li*.,alters in exciting ring the he house rad sand m takencarpets1 pate lilt down smallerne icciing was Gradually, however, toe matter lulled. Several arrests were made, but all of them proved to he worth very little. The Jones family went to North Carolina, where they seem to liave hidden in the dark corners of mountains as wild as those they left. The public seems to have almost forgotten the affair.is avftrs?: p sassrjssasiraa jhlJones, the man who resided in the house near which McIntyre was killed, was the man who slew him. Several ineffectualefforts were made to effect his capture. Itf t,-» I, A l.-.l __ascertained that ed from Northras srarss1iL-is -----------i few milesUA iucr uoine. a. iew months Tom Jones, the brother of Ayres Jones, arrested in Tm.nmoM .ml •- i*.ville formonths es,Knox-•casco miu carneo to Knox-j^ssttx-jasittsaficials here sus|ccted that he might know day to something of the murder. Colonel Farrow, does me ,1,e diatnchattpmey, went to Knoxville and ligentlv jyPg ,n sll'wing cause why he shouldsorghum r f.Tf.-.irawait —air. has been » Iaffair. Fromrii/.-innin.iAtlanta • j«i uciw ever si full investigation ofby Marshal |‘■ur. Colonel tThursday. Mr. J. A. Findley ..... „r. j.*Pec,.al deputies, received from Marshal FlU«imons a warrant for the nrrc ‘ of Jono. Friday they started on the:, search for hint. Going to Gainesville they proceeded thence to Dnhloncga on bora, tiack. From there the way was trulv oi then she «* difficulty and danger. The *d«, door to ,,fa meant business, however.Iiall and went ahead with a vim. They were « ed yards fast, for if the obice; „f iorroct I ''•?'* “P h®6 known the whole crnim ind tliev “b™* have been aroused in nrrjudi.-;ly Ive'a *«*«“* them and the already dangeron into the P^jcct might have been made doubly dilli branch, f.u,l» lfJjot impoasible of successful exeeu- fCT were mounted on superb homosle rapid progress through a section i saucer, !'*?. u‘° »»u!'Uin passes of Swiirerla. d te in the jj'jjjj^P1* With the gloom tlmt'T^oranwit and a , tacc of the earth where itice with 1 *’ forbidding. Aa they neared Frog yed me thev impera^idseveral men whomWlien ‘ 'uej_ Plt;w* moved swiftlyon to execute their mission. When within six ,» of ,w»'c.r« they knew Jones lived the 1 atep ..,n r1® roughest of mountainte up P“,h5and ,he *or-es no longer found a _.j that *‘|,rB ‘o* d-ng on the loose stones that bordered Hows on ft*JV. S’0** of '!'}• forbidding region, fcotton ieiLUlle?„dU!Vount®d' and takingit They °1'1^ two men witli them as guides tbiS■he need■ ■KEIIUUU. Iw M.JSi asasrsgf'Shev oll*T lwo m®n with them as mrides''thev 1 °,r lir h°n*' *nt Pro«®d®d °n their..r need “wm now about dark, 8unday-.on, Ion, SJSSJi, ,TSf ■'Wrf lo th“Hi”* ?!, ? pl«™. A .Ire,»t«n,I J'1“»* for boun ud iji^f “HTgloom and danger in its tr^n?' .a .........‘a,^..to 5°* out of the surroundings,i though '*£• deputies had desired it, andind fish- / f“taj* Possible. After a roughut thev “4S'?.?09 journey of six miles and sev-quih-iI era* f4*18 ,n tb® uncertain path they ntocsL Sting ai 10 o’®10** at night, in front or t honse of J Ayres Joma, the man wl.o had defied any number of deputies v ta.keh,fn ol,t «f his mountain retreau No time was to be lost. Both ;?“i0,J1?nd f'O'll'y ™brl .Roiroit ,ber Rhes door of the rode lionse and it gave in In-iss aspsi'wa:SS* XK7 S synoth- bo““d and handcuffed him. In I. id she'd bed iayararolver and within reach was want it ■ft1 T- “■»cm I P be«n less sadden there wnnld have mddis ^ * “ore thrilling scene Jones was in ilh my fb* “Mai of hia family, a wife and ninen. Im c,ldren. He took his capture with a lt;«sw that reached absolute indifference.If tho way to the desperado's homeand dangerous doubly so was ...v •« *he horses. The officers took their^t“jessaas?ftstMe behind them. II.-rodedifficult acuffed «, ut and made hother. Thetheof ureal, milre.,bJ Hay brrek. They a.ntal - far M I*°«ible out of the wilds with their nnsoner. When day came they were still deep in the woods and mountains. It was evident that Jones extwcied rescue from some of his friends. He lookedhim nearer and nearer to thick“,uu«.n mm n settlements hueved that helosing hope. In the oon..to his captors he told son ___wild life in the mountains. He savs he raises enough Irish iwtatoes and rye to live on. Not a hundretl yards from the house he has a distillery, it is said ■ from tliis he is accused of hav...* •^rt and twelve gailonSwhisky at once with which be want to —organton, the county site of Fannin He offered bis liquor publicly for sale, and de-fbSTiiS 'vB. lire prered Jl hi. d.ya in th. wild, oi th- nniu. jndrey b. bill.brer.i,bin « mile of bu borne, ne lire, on • .mill “T. ■’“‘.Hver, Iron, .bleb benie time ago, and to settle it he pro-'-®d 'kat they should fight a iei. The ground was steppe.1 off and all c preliminaries were arranged, but some-w-ing happened to prevent this unnaturalofficer, were after him. A few days ago lSrer ii.! 4;ndei5®n intercepted-a letter which Tom Jones badwritten to some friends in themountains that they had better come down and rescue him from his imprisonment.jftisAjK,usarjiterally untonclied by modern civiiixatremarkable evidenre^of his‘‘badl7^fa habits was shown in the fact that he had neverTheL, ■■ — IWIIIUUbie captors carried 10 «a‘n«»iIle. They reached thereWednesday afternoon, and be begged ,k*m ro take him out and let him look at Urn engine*_ For half an hour he seemedTit L61 . . . al‘ an nour ne seeidelighted with the movement of these cu-At 3 o’clock in the afternoon be was earned bef.«e Commissioner Smyth to answer the charge of resisting an officer andhe isPchatfed with under th?‘u“ted SmtraS«iraiSsflSd£E!current in his veins. HU long straight black hair is parted in the mlddTe*II J? VS* 'l111 bHstlin., reddLHiSAAB 13SSE sinervous. He was dremed in mic bick-woods style Jeans rents, thick green woollen shirt and heavy brogana made UP -,moal .of Li* outfit He (uamseemed perfecUy at ease in the 1 such presence of the authorities. He was repre Powi ratrfbyOreuyllAU-nsbAwblle Ib.di.. ,hM' .ppnnd Br dM ..........Tb. ere, wreoKMdyootb.putof tba Im iIf if
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Atlanta Weekly Constitution
Atlanta, Georgia, US
Tue, Apr 08, 1879
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