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Lewis C) ConricSty Captured!Hartushuho, June 8.These desperadoes for some time past had become so presumptuous and fortunate with all, in their depreciations through the country, us to flatter tm.m-selves probably, that the day of retribution would never overtake them. In the latter part of last week, we are credibly informed, a waggon loaded with sundry store goods, was robbed near Potter’s Mills in Centre county, which induced the owner, with eight or ten hardy sons of that neighborhood, to go in quest of the robbers. After traversing several of the neighboring mountains, they crossed over to Sinc.-mahoning creek, in Clearfield county, where resided the mother of Lewis ; and on Sunday morning last, while approaching the cabin of her residence, they observed several men amusing themselves, at shooting ; when the party discovered themselves, they were threatened with being shot if they attempted to approach the cabin, but the requisite measures had been already taken by the party to prevent escape, and they now began to circumscribe the premises, which produced a shot from Connelly, without cMcct, when several others followed on both sides, and ended with, it is supposed, mortally wounding, Connelly. Lewis is also severely wounded, one arm literally shattered to pieces, and a severe wound in his thigh. Our informant supposes that Connelly could not sur vive long ; and taking into consideration the extreme heat of the weather and his distance from any surgical aid, it is highly probable that Lewis’s career of villainy likewise is nearly com pletcd. Our readers may rely on the authenticity of the above.Since the above was in type we have received the Bellefonte Patriot, on the margin of which is endorsed “Connelly is killed in the attempt to take him —Lewis mortally wounded, supposed, —he is now in our jail.”
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Gettysburg Adams Centinel
Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, US
Wed, Jul 12, 1820
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