2 THE OENTRE DEMOCRAT, BELLEFONTE, PA., MARCH 27, | 002. DUR HISTORICAL REVIEW continued from page 1. way. A few months later he enlisted in William N. Irvin's company of light artillery under the name of Armstrong Lewis. This company went 10 Carlisle, where Lewis made an attempt through a lawyer to be relieved on the plea of being under age, but the effort proved | unsuccessful. This affair led to an ex: posure of his previous conduct, and | being tried by a court martial, David | | he found six or eight hunters enjoying | themselves in a rather hilarious manner | | I also fed some to my hogs ; | healthy and gave them a good appetite, | helping them to fatten, I the | was found guilty of desertion and sen: tenced to be shot. His mother, to whom he had written, went to Carlisle, and through her importunities and the kind interposition of Gen. Wilkinson, his sen. tence was commuted to imprisonment in the guard house. From this he managed to escape, and having knowl- edge of a cave not far from Carlisle, he concealed himself in a part of it called until mid. s00n ‘the devil's dining-room,” night, when he emerged from his hiding place and a stealthy journey t y his moth. er's house in Centre county, where he remained for some time. Oa one of his occasional visits to Belle. foute he formed the acquaintance of a who Yer- LJ mont, and engage in a counterfeit money tin peddler or “Yankee cartman,’’ persuaded him to go to Burlington, enterprise, in which he succeeded well. Having an ambition to extend 1 1 ness, he started on atnp t He wa swimmingly, as he expre and Pennsylvania Empire state when, in moment, he passed lington notes in which he Root, a bottle of wine who cess of Govern The being dis worthless covered and confined in the he made ance of th young woman intimate frien had become frequeutly a« lewis n )w assume Van Buren and his Melinda. They w Albany, where thet The next that i spouse joined an oath declared a dividend every Sunday gave his midnight severe paniqus, me valuable laces whic bad abstracted in a store fr bag of Mrs. Joho Js New York with his to New B small acob wile ar he rented a nswick, where bouse in which his wife weeks later From th ton, gambli to Phi pocketpi A militar being in pro ceived the idea of some n Alex, Smyt! casion was little else than * the pothing, and Lewis for Pennsyl he the counterfeit money trade in Cumberiacrd Bedford, counties, and lodged tke trial, found clamations expedition started vania, where again engaged in Somerset and other border until be was arrested one day At came on, he was in the Bedford prison which soon f dealing in to gu ty money and sentenced prisonment in the but after ser counterfeit ten years’ im western penitentiary, ving about pardoned by Gov. Findlay. Returning to Bedford he tried to recover some of the a year he was money which he bad formerly deposited in a bank, but the bank officers refusing to honor his check he was again reduced to distress, It was on this occasion that lewis first met Connelly, whose real pame was Rumbaugh, and another man named Hanson, A Mr. McClelland hap- pened at this juncture of time to stop in Bedford. He was on his way from Pitts. burg to Philadelphia, and It was noised around that he had a large sum of money in his possession. Lewis and his two friends determined upon capturing the prize, and concealing themselves at a point where the road passed through a dense forest they surprised and robbed Mr. McClelland of his money, amounting to $2,000. The party, after enjoining strict silence on their victim, took up | thelr march for a rustic cabin they had built in an obscure and rugged gorge of “Sideling Hill." The next thing for the highwaymen to do was to get away with their plunder and guard against pursait, Hanson and Connelly wanted to kill Mr, McClelland, contending that ‘dead men tell no tales,” but Lewis interposed and prevented this heinous crime. He sald he would vever kill unless in selfs defense, claiming that this feeling in him their permission. They then passed out, | saying they would be back in a short time, but Mr. McClelland, feeling con- | vinced that this was only a ruse to make | good their own escape, waited until they | were out of sight, when he cautiously | slipped through the door and passed around to the rear of the cabin. Espy- ing his horse concealed in the thick un- derbrush but a short distance away, he promptly mounted the animal, and fol. | lowing a ravine so as to avoid the rob- | bers, was fortunate enough, after riding a few hours, to reach Reamer’s tavern, in that day a famous stopping place, on the eastern slope of the mountain, Here considering the fact that it was Sunday, but as soon as they informed of had befallen were what the newcomer, hunters started in pursuit, and not many | hours later intercepted the fleeing high- | When the away by running, the hunters fired upon waymen, latter tried to get them, killing Hanson and wounding Lewis, who was captured with Connelly and cenveyed to the jail in Bedford bor. ough. Connelly and Lewis soon made their several escape, releasing at the same time other prisoners, and then took a course through Adams and York coun- iy While attempting ties into Cumberlar shore, to burglarize the house of a Mr. Be Lewis was again arrested and taken to x the Carlisle jail, but this not being deem ed secure transferred to the one he SOurg. his escape, and he was From this 1 rison be and others hud i ing Gag E ewhere In the meantime | Wm mond, Kaithaus they obtaines Walker, am 1asa guide And iter of Bald Hanna, John and Peter Body also joines m July 29th M panions ost 1 the great hus Koons, chee and way and during ye night had to camp, ot the followed a run, probab rather roost, n irees in woods Next day they y Medick's to Sinnemaboning is intersection with the Finding that Lewis had not been at mother’s house, his they resumed the pur. suit to Shepherds, where two men an swering the description of lewis and inelley bad breakfasted leaving place they met a man named Brooks, Las who informed them that Lewis and ane other man had passed that way. Brooks took the pursuers to from they could see the persons who were shooting an eminence which, unperceived themselves, mark them McGhee once made for the fu; Among were lewis and Connelly and bis party at ened to shoot A conflict ensued in which Lewis, being shot twice, was brought ground and captured after to the Connelly reach ed the brink of the stream, and when in | the act of plunging in was struck in the abdomen, the wound being so large that | the entrails protruded and caused his |, death on the 2d day of August, before the party arrived at their destination. | \" iM Lewis was conveyed to the Bellefonte | jail, where, refusing to have his arm am. putated, he died on the 12th of August, 1520. His remams were buriea in the Baptist cemetery at Milesburg. Before his death he made a confession, from a printed copy of which a portion of the foregoing information was gleaned. Lewis’ moter, who was known by the | early settlers as “Granny Leathers,” | previous to going to Sinnemaboning, bad found her way to Clearfield apd occupied a small building on the east bank of the Susquehanna, which was afterwards used by A. B, Reed, Haq, as a spring house, but was destroyed by fire in 1830, She was represented as a mild and kind old lady, and it was a matter of regret that the closing years of her life were clouded by the sad end of her wayward son, In the summer of 1893 it was rumored around that David Lewis, during the lat ter part of his life, bad concealed $62, 000 of his ill-gotten gains in a cave near “Wolf Rocks,” in a wild glen six or tives, who threat. | if they were fired upon, | none was found. This result might have been anticipated, for it is evident that Lewis never visited that locality, and the story about the great treasure being hid- den there has no more foundation in fact than there is in ‘‘the baseless fabric of a vision,” 8S. B. 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