Friday, January 31, 2020
The Sports Nut Bar
The Covered Wagon Gang
"Robert
Harrington, of Salisbury, and Edward Tingle, of Delmar. were arrested by Chief
of Police William R. Purnell after a seven-mile chase on the Snow Hlll-Salisbury
Road exactly 25 minutes after they had broken into a store of Roy Morris of Whiton,
In Wicomico county. Mrs. Morris heard the alleged burglars and called her husband.
He Immediately got up and fired several shots toward them In the dark and
scared them away. Chief of Police William R. Purnell, of Snow Hill, was called
and apprehended them 25 minutes later.
It
Is said that these men were members of the "Covered Wagon Gang" which
Invaded Delaware and the Eastern Shore of Maryland two years ago. Both of them
have records and have served time In the New Castle work house. It was also
stated."
Above
from The Wilmington News Journal 27 March 1931
The
Covered Wagon Gang was active in 1927. They
were called the covered Wagon Gang because in the initial robberies they drove
a strange automobile truck covered with white canvas not unlike the covered wagons
of frontier days.
The
only people arrested for being in the gang were (Robert) Fulton Harrington 18 year old, son
of a farmer in Salisbury Maryland, and Edward Tingle 17 year old, son of a mill
owner in Salisbury Maryland. There was suspicion
of a third member who would case the business before it was held up but he was
never captured. The gang was blamed for
about every unsolved robbery that took
place on Delmarva in 1927. Numerous
train station attempted safe break-ins were suspected. Over 60 businesses that were robbed from
Exmore Virginia to Wilmington Delaware and blamed on them. They were suspected of killing James Owen
Clare, a filling station attendant in Wilmington, who was robbed of eight
dollars then shot. Yet when they were
caught and tried in Delaware there were only two charges of robbery bought against
them.
The
two young white men were caught because criminals are stupid. In their case while robbing the J
R Walker Bros store in Bear Station (outside of Wilmington) Fulton Harrington
dropped his driver’s license and registration which gave Delaware Detectives George
D Sutton and William J Warren a name and a car description. The two were found at a boarding house in
Wilmington with stolen goods in one room and them in the other.
The two were tried and given three years in the New
Castle Workhouse. They avoided receiving
any lashes on the whipping post due to their young age. As we can see from the newspaper article
after they got out of the workhouse they returned to their evil ways.
1991 The State Line Plaza Shopping Center opens
October 1991 The State Line Plaza Shopping Center opens
Army Deserters
Under the heading of random information for family tree search information, the Army maintains a web site for deserters on which there are 1050 names listed. The time they have deserted range from one month to 68 years. Arthur Scott Jr was listed as a deserter in 1951 so he has been wanted for 68 years. If he was 20 when he enlisted he would be 88 today. The web address is http://fugitives.army.mil/deserters.aspx
Thursday, January 30, 2020
1991 Delmar Home Coming Queen Candidates
Amy Short, Melanie Veileux, Stephanie Porter, Jenny Kowalski and Nicki Adams
Tuesday, January 28, 2020
Dora Williams 1900
Miss Dora Elizabeth
Williams, who has been here In Cape Charles several weeks visiting her sister,
Mrs. A. P. Trader, wife of Engineer Trader, will leave Monday for her home, In
Delmar. The young lady Is quite popular here and her departure causes many
regrets. She goes to her home to be united in matrimony with Mr. Maloye Pusey,
of that place. The wedding will occur in the Delmar M. E. Church Wednesday,
February 21, 1900.
Above from the
Norfolk Virginia Virginian-Pilot 18 Feb 1900
Monday, January 27, 2020
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