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November 1, 1886
The Wheeling Daily Register - submitted by: Dena WhitesellA correspondent of the Greenbrier Independent, writing from Big Clear Creek, Greenbier county, under date of the 20th instant, says. "We had quite a row on Mill Creek Mountain. A United States officer came on the mountain on the 18th and summoned Joe Zopp, Joe Smith,Claut Zopp and Marsh (Allen) McClung as a guard, to take Ben Manning, at the Persinger Place, about five miles down the river. They captured him after a hard struggle. They fired two shots at him; then he surrendered. They started with him to Fayetteville jail." The correspondent adds: 'Since writing the above, the guard in the Ben Manninng case have returned They got him as far as Sewell Station; there he escaped. There is a reward of two hundred dollars for him for felony. Manning is a hard case.
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