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Kramer 10, money borrowed, which left yet in my hands but 5.00.
Ulrich’s watch I sold first to Joseph Schmidt, who returned it to me
because it would not run well; then to a negro for $2.50 as also the

’ chain for 1.00.

I will here state that on the trip to Wheeling Aloys Ulrich ad-
vanced my fare on the boat on my promise, when arrived, to pay him
back.

Aycust Ist 1867, 1 found myself indebted still to Shafer, the cab-
inet maker $41.00. raiccamcnilete [_resusiel nark—awdesLoseph
Deris fort meourch, butmy wife falling dangerously ill, my
FrcerCeneerrs aoe my Wages Were as nothing, to make them
less. Durige thisusickness I lost mach time t ork in my ef-
FO Lb Satelite Li Fiat”! ¢.

On her recovery I was in debt over $200, of which I told her not
one word. I owed D. Schafer $41, to Williams the tailor 845, to
Kramer 865, to John Kaltnecker $10, to Henry Kramer 810, to
Buhler 15, to Dr. Koch 15, about $10 to the dru gist, and 4 num-
her of smaller sums needless to mention, and by all i was pushed for
payment, which it was always my business to meet whenever I got
any money.

Une night when T was needing money worst, Rudolph Tsator told
me he had sold a horse for cash, when I made up my mind at once
to kill him on the next day. J_preten to be unwell, and pnable
to go to work, took my hatch SR ee nea
OME ae 10 o’cluck. He was just weighing some butter, sien
exchanging some words with him, by one blow of my hatchet, he
was felled to the groand, and1 struck other blows, and thrust his

love down his throat. By this murder I got $63.00, out of which
f paid Wm. Kramer $51.00 of rent, to De. L. Davis $10.00. These
payments however, were not inade the same day. I had now
hone of the T'sutor money left, the other amounts paid having come
out of ny wages.

De L. Davis, the constable had still 28.00 of a claim of Williams,
the tailor to collect from me. To meet this sum, knowing that
Bohler had from Fa e, I copsidered I would
draw 25.00 i : yi
Ifohter, Whose money [ ha wanted it badly,
having bought outa tavern. I now thoaght to myself, the coal
man Major White at all events must have plenty of money. I took
my hatchet, went to his office at 8 o’clock at night, called for my
bill, and whilst he was reccipting it, I struck at hisright temple with
my hatchet, but thanks to God Almighty for so diverting my arm; I
struck himon the neck instead of the head, thus enabling him to cry for
help. 1 do not know how many wounda I gave him, recollecting only
that some body had oponed the door and that I was runuing away,
first to change my clothes, then to fly the country.

But God had otherwise ordered it, For scarcely was | at the door

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ot my own house, when the Police arrested ine and took me to prison,

At first [ resolved to deny my crimes, and several persons who
came to see me urged inc to confess them in vain.

Then Father Parke also visited me, telling me that the people be-
lieved 1 must have money lent out, or otherwise, and that if [ had
moncy, 1 should own to it, that legal advice might be had, and my
debts be paid. I denicd that Lhad money, and refused to have le-
gal defense, and [ spoke the trath. 1 asked fur my German prayer
book, and the next day, after a night of torture and grief L asked to
see Father Parkeagain. My mind was now made up to tell the
whole truth, and submit todeath, of my own free will and accord, in
the presence of Father Parke, Thomas Murphy and J. IL. Diss De-
bar, who acted as interpreter, I confessed that L was guilty of the
murder of Joseph Lilicuthal and Rudolph ‘T'sutor in Parkersburg,
and of Aloys Ulrich, near Wheeling, and that Lhad attacked the
fourth man, Major White, with the intention also to kill, and this
sume confession I made in words and in writing to the Judge and
Court. Since then my mind has had some case, but the confession
then made, was only part of my guilt. Towed it to God and man
to proclaim the whole truth, as best I could call itto mind. As my
life will show, lL have robbed and wronged my fellow creatures hor-
ribly in their property and character and life, whilst upon my inno-
cent and unsuspecting wife and child, [ have inflicted the most griev-
ous injury.

In all my wickedness in Germany or in) America, 1 have had no
vne to blame but myself. 1 resisted my parents and my own con-
conscience, and tuck counsel but of my own passions and vice.

1 kept my own secrets and have had no accomplices. In the mur-
ders [ have committed I was moved only by the passion to steal,
which Thad cultivated from my carly youth. I need not have been
so bad a man and boy if L had chosen. .

In allowing this revelation of my misdeeds to go to print, I do so
to vindiczte all who have suffered suspicion on my account, secondl
to raise incans to pay my debts and tu aid my wife and child.

JOSEPIL EISELE.
- Parkersburg jail, January, 1868.

SUPPLEMENTARY.
ROME.

I omitted to relate that when I entered the service of Dr. Major
Posart at Rome, he told me that he had dismissed my pretdecessor
for stealing the amount of several dollars from him. Ie merely
sent him off with the warning not to do so any more, and to consid-
er what a grievous punishment he could bring upon hin by denounc-

ing him for the offence. So he dismissed him without any scandal,
and as the man’s term of service had just expired, he returned to
his native country.

At that time lodgings were scarce in Rome, and Dr. Posart’s ap-
partments were 80 small that he could display but little furniture,
and had to keep most of the things brought with him from Macerata,
in large trunks or boxes. One of these contained a large number of
surgical instruments in smaller cascs, and I thought that I could
now safely take some of them, and when the boxes would be opened
the theft would be charged to the former servant. I therefore took
a lot of those instruments, some fine linen clothing, and several oth-
er articles out of the boxes, und sold them about as well as I could.
I told the Italians the goods had belonged to an assistant Surgeon
of the first regiment who had left the service, and had not enough
funds to take him home, and [ was believed, and lived in high hopes,
thinking that every thing would be laid upon my predecessor, in
which it turned out that I was not mistaken.

‘'wo months afterwards I rented 11 rooms for Dr. Posart; we
moved into the house and I had to unpack the boxes, and distribute
the contents into the bureaus and closets we had bought. All of
this I did in presence of the Doctor’s wife, and when we reached
the instrument cases she discovered that many objects were missing,
and remarked that the rascal, my predecessor, had robbed them of
much more than they were aware of, and 1 was glad suspicion did
not attach tome. When the Doctor who had been out of the house
returned home and learned the circumstance from his wife, he was
much aggrieved, but said it could not be helped now as tho thief
was far away. I just then stood right by his side, and thought to
myself, “if he only knew that the thief is still in the house.” But
I was not uneasy at all, every thing went on smoothly and I enjoyed
every confidence. I performed my service faithfully, nor did I steal
anything more untill the first of May, 1856, when Stauner the for-
mer servant, now suspected of my own thefts, returned from Bavar-
ica, his home, and enlisted again. He had scarcely taken up his
quarters, when he was arrested and examined by the military au-
thorities. Of course he denied everything, because he was really
innocent. I kept informed of all the proceedings and felt deeply
sorry to sec him suffer innocently for my sake. On the 2nd of
June he was convicted by the Court martial and sentenced to beshot
according to the military Code of that country. My remorse left
me no peace after this, and so I went to my room and wrote a Jet-
ter to the Court denouncing myself as the guilty party, then I went
to the Doctor’s room, broke open his desk, took the money, about
$250, and left the house. Next day at 5 o’clock in the morning I
went to see a ILungarian who spoke German, whom I knew to be very
hostile to the Papal government, and told him that I wanted to de-
sert tho service. At this he was very much pleased, said he wish-

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and provide me with a passport. Iremained concealed with him
until the 13th June, when I began to feel very uneasy about getting
away. ‘The city proper is surrounded by a wall, every gate of which
was closed at night and guarded during the day by squads from my
own regiment by whom I was well known, and every person going
in and out was closely observed by the officer commanding the post.
At last on the 13th of June at4 o'clock A. M.,my ILungarian friend
whose name was Stephen Perski, took me out ina two horse car-
riage through the gate of San Pictro, as far as Montrosa, where he
cordially shook my hand and wished mea safe journcy, and then re-
turned to Rome, while I pursued my way homeward through Switzer-
land and got through in safety.

BIBERACH.

When at this place, I was being led from the jail to the Court house
(see page 26) my attorney Mr. Goll of Biberach joined me and in-
formed me that Dr. Posart from Rome was in town, at which I was
quite frightened, for I felt much ashamed. In the Court room, be-
ing asked by the Prosecutor whether 1 required to have my case sub-
mitted to Jury, replied that I waived the Jury and left the decision
to the Court. After a formal trial the Judges pronounced my sen-
tence, and the the audience immediately dispersed. Just then Dr.
Posart approached and tapping me on the shoulder, remarked that I
probably never thought of meeting him again when I left Rome. l
now implored his pardon for the wrong {had done him, which he
readily granted, saying that he much preferred to have me steal his
monoy under the circumstances, thereby saving the life of an inno-
cent man. He informed me also that he had indemnified the other
man for what he had suffered on my account, and that the latter had
returned home to Bavaria. After which the Doctor bid me farewell
and I was remanded to the District jail previous to my transfer to the
penitentiary.

JOSEPH EISELE.

Parkersburg jail, January 1868.

TSUTOR.

The Physicians who made the Post-mortem examination of the
body of I'sutor, insisting that some ofthe wounds must have been in-
flicted with a sharp poiuted knife, Eiscle was requested on the 25th
February to state the facts in detail, when he replicd in writing:

In regard to the wounds J inflicted upon the deceased, I can gay noth:
ing else than what I have previously written. Jt is entirely accord-
ing to the truth, and all the physicians whe said it was done with an-
other inatrumentare mistaken. 1 would not conceal it, had Lused
any other instrument, for it would retaain al the same for me.

LIFE OF JOSEPH EISELE

IN AMERICA.

As already narrated, I reached New York on the 29th of September
1865, after a short voyage of 14 days. My first thought was to
change my name to prevent detection, and the discovery of my bad
life in Germany. I assumed accordingly the Lanier John Schafer,
and now found that I still had $50 in gold left. In New York I fell
in with an old acquaintance who hadgerved with me in the peniten-
tiary at Stuttgart, and who telling me he had letters of recommenda-
tion from business men in Germany for Wheeling, it was agreed, af-
ter a few days to set out for that city. In New York I had been
cheated somewhat, like other emigrants, and having now to pay the

assages for both of us, there were left me on landing in Wheeling
a six dollars, currency. ButI soon found friends who cared for me
and got 0 aaa ci ahtselaciory, where after
two days I fétPSick and took to bed at Lutz's hotel. ‘ Whilst in this
sickness I made the acquaintance of Joseph Deris, who was then do-
ing the fine joinery work at the Bishop’s Convent, outside of Wheel-
ing. It was he who had the kindness to have me taken to the Hospital
of the Sisters of mercy in North Wheeling, where under the atten-.
tive care of the good Sisters, I recovered in a couple of weeks.—
Then I went to work as a journeyman carpenter with Deris at the
Convent, which stands about two miles from Wheeling. I labored
at this job from November 1865 to April 1866 and carned about
$270,00, which I spent as follows: Board $120, hospital fees $12,
Clothes $21,00 washing $4.00, four shirts $6.00, Tgols $40.00,
Orphans fair 1.50. After which I had sixty-five dollars Icft, with
which I started for Parkersburgin company of Mr. Deris, who was
now done the Convent work at Wheeling.

I must here say, that whilst working at the Convent near Wheel-
ing, I had plenty of time and chance to be converted; for many a
time when I would hear the Virgins consecrated to God, praying so
devoutly, I would think to myself how happy they are; and to say
the truth, [ enviel them their peace of mind. Sometimes I would

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think of Eternity; of an everlasting reward or punishment, and of
the necessity of conversion, but as soon as { wanted to make a good
resolution, the Devil dazzled me with the lusts of this world, and con-
quered me. In like manner at church on Sunday, 1 would pray.
During this tine however, I kept my hands from stealing.
In Parkersburg iny/first theftyags from Joseph Desi daniel
Shafer’s boarding houst, out of whose valise 1 took a twenty dollar
vole piece, Tor which [ got $23.00 in currency. ‘This happened
whilst Deris and myself were boacding at Shafer a, in April or May
of 1866. My first work in Parkersburg was for Farther l’arke, where
1 earned $72.00, and left for higher wages. In June 18661] entered
the employment of cabinet-maker Shafer, for whom L worked ’till
August 1867, with little interruption. In August 1867 Lapain got
ort under Deris on the new church, whePe eres en il Sh
{t was whilst in Shafer’s employ, in the Oc-
tober 1866 that 1 first met my wife, Hildegard Arinbruster, who was
then fresh from Germany, and whom I had never seen before. Ae
a single man I had led rather a retired life, feeling best when aione,
and finding no pleasure ‘when others were gay and mirthful. My
conscience tortured me day and night, and now in this prison, I feel
happier than I ever felt before, having confessed all wy sins, and
hoping that God-alinighty will hear my prayer.

n April 1867 I asked my wife to marry me. She refused, but I
entreated her again and again. and othery persuaded her, when at
last she gave her consent. I had now but $60.00, which was de-
posited with Danicl Shafer, my boarding-master. ‘To my wife I said
I had $100.06, lest she should retract her promise, and she believed
me. ‘To others also I had made out that I had money on deposit,
whereas all I had was sixty dollars. Our maryjgget lace the
13th May 1867, and my whole study now was to prevent my wife
APO Teo reTing the deception. From Robt. Mosemann, a tellow-
border at Shafer’s, I took $35.00 in currency, and 5 five Frank
pieces in Silver, which I threw in the river, fearing detection if I
should try to changethem. Shortly after my marriage I heared that
Charles, the brother of Robt. Mosetnann was suspicioned of the theft,
and I was right glad of it. My next thoaght was to go to house-
keeping, when renting rooms of Kramer, and purchasing the articles
most necded, I found my debts about as follows: D. Shafer, for fur-
niture $74.00, Williams, the tailor, for wedding suit $45, making
$119 of debts, of which my wife knew nothing. And many things
were still wanting to our household. I still held out the belief that I
had money on deposit with Shafer.

Thad been married but a short time, when my wife fell sick.—
I did all in my power not to lose her, stopping in with her several
days, and thus unable to earn wages, seeing my indebtness ever in-
creasing, I now knew not what shift to make, when the awful thought

struck me to murder Joseph Lilienthal.

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mers beer Saloon, took $10 in money and some eigars. I weut
home again telling my wife it was of no use to watch any more at
Shafer’s store.

Passing a few nights at home, I again started out, about 2 o’clock
one morning ({ forget the date) and supposing Father Parke had
some money in his office, [ raised his window, forced open his writin
case, searched every thing, finding no money but 2 razors, which 1
took with me.

My creditors were always pushing me for money, which I kept on
paying, hardly retaining enough to supply us with food, and so L was
always studying how to raise cash to pay my debts. About this
timo the thought seized me to murder Aloys Ulrich, he having told
me of his having 400 Francs, which [ thought would nearly cover
my debts. But as Metzler kept his moncy,1 proposed to Ulrich to
draw itand go with me to Wheeling, where | could get him a better
situation, and he would be better off every way. ‘Io this Ulrich
readily ugreed, when warning him to keep the matter secret, [ ap-
pointed the day to lenve. ‘To deceive my wife [ told her I would see
if I could not do better in Wheeling, to ot

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posit, atl of which was a lic; my true intent being to ki
mpanion.

We reached Wheeling at 3 o'clock in the morning by the packet
Express; left our things on board, and proceeded in the direction of
the Convent, follywing the Hempfield R. R. track. It being still
dark when we had passed the tunnel, I stopped a little, drew out m
hatchet, struck Ulrich on the right temple, felling him to the earth,
and although he showed no signs of life, L struck him still other blows
upon the head. I then rifled his pockets of 110 Gold Francs, $10
in currency, his Silver Watch and chain, hid his body in a stone cul-
vert, and throwing my hatchet away, (it being the same I had used tu
kill Lilienthal) I started back to the boat.

My carpet bag and Ulrich’s trunk I had taken to the Pemberton
house, where I washed and changed clothes, and then went to visit
my friends. Next morning Ulrich’s trunk was taken to Lutz's store
where I sold the contents for six dollars.

My next thought was to mash up Lilienthal’s watch, which waa
atill in my possession, and presenting it to a watch-maker , for sale,
I gave out it had got run over by a wagon whecl. Ile refused to
buy it. Another watch-maker on Main street also refused, but di-
rected me toa German gold-smith to whom I sold it for $26.00.

I next turned Ulrich’s gold into currency, getting $25.00 moro or
less.

I had now $67.00 and Ulrich’s watch and chain. Ofthis monoy
only $30 were left me on quitting Wheeling, where 1 stayed a few
days, spending freely, and the following sums Were paid at my return
to Parkersburg, viz: Kramer $10, to Wm. Kramer 5 rent, to Llenry

my poor

I would now, time after time, especially towards the dawn of morn-
ing, go up to his house, and as often return home, awe stricken. At
last the devil pushed me forward, and one morning at 4 o'clock I went
up again to his house. ‘l'o lull my wife’s fears I again told her a lie.
l told her Shafer wanted me to watch some man, suspected of tak-
ing things out of his ware-room. But my wife refused her consent
to my being out at night. Iler prayers were useless. I reminded
ler that we wero not very well off, that I was paid for it, and that
[ ought not to fail making all the wages I could, and so she would
reluctantly let me go. ‘Ihen would I sally out, taking my hatchet
in my pocket with me each time, ’till the day I committed the awful
crime. But to describe it now the heart fails me, on ny knees | im-
plore God to grant me aid to conceal nothing of my horrid murders.

At + o'clock that fatal morning, I again started out, telling my wife
| was wanted at Shafer’s, in reality I went to Lilienthal’s house,
rapped atthe back door, roused him from sleep, and being asked who
it was, I told him my name and that I wanted a bottle of wine. Up-
on which he opened the door giving admittance, and when he was
about lighting the candle, taking my hatchet I knocked it into his
head. But he was not dead, crying out Oh! John! [ struck him an-
other blow and there he lay felled to the ground, without signs of life.

‘Taking o knife I tried to cut his throat, but it being to dull 1 used
my hatchet, leaving the knife on tho floor. In his pockets I found a
pocket book with 814.00 in it, which with his gold watch anda ring
{ took with me, going out again bythe back door and returning
home. I gotno blood stains except below the knee of the right leg,
which I washed off, as also my hatchet, before coming home. I told
my wife that I found the people all up, and would not be wanted to
watch that man any more, at which she expressed herself very well
pleased, begging me again not to go out any more of nights, because
some body might hurt me. ‘To which I answered that no one would
do meany harm. She being satisfied, I lit the fire and breukfast
was cooked, after which I went to the shop, until dinner time, by
which hour the news of the murder was spread all over town.

Un coming home for dinner my wife again warned me against go-
ing out at nights, for said she, suppose somebody had seen you out
this morning, suspicion might settle upon you.

For aweek after this Lspent my nights at home, after which I

again said I must watch that man for Shafer. My wife would not

hear to it; out I went again and again, seeking to find out where I
could get money,

One night I zot up telling my wife that Shafer was himself on
the watch, waiting for me to come at midnight, and promising me
one day’s wages for each time I would mount guard. She altogether
opposed ny going, saying, Shafer should do his own watching.—
But all her entreaties were of no use. I did leave at midnight, and
proceeding down Market street, forced open the door of Henry Kra-

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| knew the spot. Right by the Sayre place. My infor-
mant’s voice intrigued me. The fellow was a bear for
details.

“Who are you?” I asked, and to this day | cannot remem-
ber the name he gave me. He had just been driving by.

“Who is the dead officer?” I inquired, knowing none of
my deputies had been down that way.

“Badge on his suspenders says deputy sheriff, Kana-
wha County ... couple of letters in his pocket addressed to
Roy Shamblin.. .”

| thanked the unknown voice, broke the connection, and
put in a call for Sheriff R. Carl Andrews of Kanawha
County, at the courthouse in Charleston, forty-two miles
south of Ripley.

When I got Sheriff Andrews on the wire, a few seconds
of death-like silence followed my breaking the news to him
of the murder of Roy Shamblin, who had for years been
the life of our state sheriffs’ conventions. Then came from
Andrews, in a choking voice:

“Deputies Shamblin and George Dudley started up Route
21 for the Moundsville State Prison at four o'clock this
afternoon with a prisoner, Ralph Harper, who was to do
a stretch of twenty-five years. Harper's a tough egg. His
gang must have waylaid my boys and liberated Harper.
But we'll get them. Hold the wire a minute—”

In a few minutes Sheriff Andrews was back on the wire.

“I've notified Governor H. G. Kump and his State Police,

Mrs. Louise Frazier. She gave the kiss which
was followed by a series of fateful events that
ended in the snuffing out of three lives

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Creen came into prominence when he cut’ ’

the throat of Leo Frank, central figure in’

one of Georgia’s most sensational mur. :

der cases, the killing of Mary F iy
Frank was found guilty and "aenraueed Ue

hang. -His sentence was commuted by the”

then Governor John Slat Frank’s life

- was miraculously saved ‘after: Creen’s at-

tack;, but six weeks later he was taken
from prison by a mob and lynched. Creen’
spent: seven rene in solitary,,confinement
for his attack. oa

AUGUST 1
OKLAHOMA CITY,» Oxta—Charles

_Urschel, the kidnapped oil’millionaire, has

been released by his captors after being
held for nine days. It is‘reported that a
ransom of $100,000 was paid.

COFFEYVILLE, Kansas—Bandits with
machine guns carried off the safe of the
State Bank of Weir, from the town of
that name near here. They imprisoned
fifteen citizens including the night mar-
shal, and the night telephone operator,

’ “before seizing their loot,

NEW ROCHELLE, N. Y.—Charles
Harper and Leo Frazier, both of West
Virginia, are being held here for question-
ing in regard to the shooting in Charles-

blin and Ralph Harper.

AUGUST 3
CHICAGO, I:u-Chief of Police
Charles: A. Wheeler of. Bridgeport, Con-
necticut, was elected president of the In-

ternational Association. of Police Chiefs

today at’ the final session of the organiza-

tion.

LOS, ANGELES, Cauir.—With the ar-
rest of four men, the sheriff's office here
announced that it believed several daring
mail robberies in Southern ‘California

would be explained. Two of the arrested

men were James F. Burke a former aid to.

the late “Legs” Diamond, and John T.
Casey, an alleged paroled Illinois convict.

AUGUST 5

NEW YORK, N. Y—Henry F. San-
born, General Eastern Agent of the St.

Louis and San Fraancisco Railroad, was .

found today shot to death and buried
in a shallow ‘grave on Long Island. His
murder is a mystery.

GASTONIA, N. C.—The puzzling ques-
tion-of a man’t guilt or innocence remains
unanswered here as discussion of the ex-
ecution: yesterday of Clay Fogelman for
murder continues. He died protesting his
innocence, and there are strong reasons
for believing he was speaking the truth.

MARSHFIELD, Wis.—Special Police
Officer Fred Beell, former world’s middle-
weight wrestling champion, was shot and

killed early today when he interrupted a:

robbery at the plant of the Marshfield
Brewery Company. The bandits escaped
in Beell’s car. :

AUGUST 6
ATLANTA, Ga—Chief. T. 0. Sturdi-
vant announced that William R. Delenski,
a suspect in the Ottley kidnapping case,
had been extradited from San Antonio,
Texas.

CHICAGO, Inu—Paul Maxim, escaped
25-year-old Ohio convict, was’ picked up
here after -five years of freedom. He
had--worked himself up to the position
of-advertising director. of a large paint
com .. He blames a girl for tipping .
off the police. aig all

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» AUGUST. eee
_ LOUISVILLE, ‘Ky—Fourteen’ slayings

most’ of them .attributed’ to ‘week-en
, quarrels over: the recent» primary: elections, -

occurred in:thé mountain counties during
Saturday and’ Sunday. Ay

AUGUST 8

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The accused were being taken to Birming-
ham for safekeeping.

AUGUST 14.
BOSTON, Mass.—Sixteen convicts are

wsaid to be at large after a‘ jail-break fol-
owing a riot at the Suffolk County House ~

of- Correction on Deer Island in Boston

GREENWOOD, Miss—A\ death-bed # Harbor.

statement by Dr. ‘Preston Kennedy ac-
cusing an associate woman physician of

poisoning him, was discovered today by

District. Attorney Jordan.. Dr, Kenned,
died Sunday, presumably from poisoned
whisky. a PSUs

: authorities

CHICAGO, Inw—Federal .
here have arrested Louis Stacy, charging
him with knowledge of the participants
in the: Kansas City Union Station massa-
cre. They state they have learned the
identity of the gunmen who killed four
officers and convict Nash.

ALBANY, N. Y—A warrant for the
arrest of Manny Strewl, a beer. agent, on
a charge of kidnapping John J. O’Con-
nell, Jr., was issued this afternoon.

' CINCINNATI, Ox10—In spite of the

fact the relatives and friends of the slain

27-year-old society youth, Oliver Bailey,
believe he was killed by kidnappers,
police here are searching ‘for. a woman in
connection with the ‘murder. :

CARLISLE, Pa—M. M. McCreight, 40
years old, was sentenced to from ten to
twenty years in the penitentiary for kid-
napping Robert Brown, an automobile
salesman. McCreight and another man
are said to have abducted Brown in order

_ to get; possession of his car.

AUGUST 10
‘ OKLAHOMA CITY, Oxta—A total of
$199,620. was. the amount of the, ransgm
paid for the release of Charles Urschel, it
was disclosed today. This is believed to

be the largest sum ever paid to kidnappers

to obtain. the release of their victim,

" TOPEKA, Kans —The forgeries of Kan-
sas Municipal Bonds have now been esti-
mated at ath vag $800,000, one. of
the biggest swindles in history. The men
are in jail, and three banks have been

- forced to close, as a result of the whole-

sale fraud. re

AUGUST 11

| JONESBORO, Int—Five young miners

have been found guilty of the murder of
Laverne. Miller; 14-year-old’. schoolgirl.
Four! were sentenced for life and one: for

forty years. The killing was the result,

ofa”mine feud.

‘ AUGUST 12. .
NEW YORK, N. Y—Morris Saskowitz,
proprietor. of .a garage, was ambushed at
his home in Brooklyn, and shot to death.
No motive for the slaying has been un-
covered. . ‘ 4 PEeGRERIGS,

KANSAS CITY, Mo-—Three night-club

operators were slain in'a mid-town apart-

ment here today. _Two-.of them. were
killed by. Sheriff Thomas B. Bash who

happened. to poms by. when they. were. put-.

ting the third man on the spot.

AUGUST 13
TUSCALOOSA, Ata—Masked men,

bent-on avenging the assault/and murder

of a white girl, took three colored youths
from armed deputies on a lonely road
twenty-four miles from Birmingham: early
this: morning. d
of the Negroeswere found riddled” with

wh igi BOLE siti: be WAR ae

' bullets.,’ The fate of the:third.is-unknown,

WASHINGTON, D. C.—Agents of the.
partment of Justice believe that in -

aYresting the escaped Kansas convict Har-

.vey Bailey, they have caught one of the

ring-leaders of the Urschel kidnapping.

Captefred with him were R.G.Shannon and -

his wife;their son Arman Shannon and
his wife Oleta; and Earl Brown, father
of Oleta.

BIRMINGHAM, Ata.—The body of
Elmore Clark, the last of the three young
Negroes accused of killing an 18-year-old
white girl, has been found tied to a tree

and riddled with bullets. A Grand Jury -

has been summoned to investigate the
lynching.

SAN FRANCISCO, ‘Catir—Police here
accuse the father of a one-month-old child
of killing it by slashing its throat, be-
cause of deformities in the child’s body.

The arrest of the man is causing much dis- |

cussion as to the justification of the mo-
tive,

FLINT, Micu.—Balfe MacDonald was
today sentenced to from ten to fifteen
years in prison for the murder of his
widowed mother.

ST. LOUIS, Mo.—Police here believe '

that in the arrest of a Negro ex-convict,
they have discovered the identity of The
Phantom Marauder who has been terror-
izing this city. Chief of Detectives Kaiser

stated that the suspect has admitted as-..
saulting nine women within the last few

weeks, :

AUGUST 15

SALEM, Mass.—Mrs. Jessie Costello
was found innocent of the murder of her
husband, William J. Costello, by a jury
here today, and set free. This climaxed
one of the most fascinating mystery death
cases in New England in a decade.

MOUNT. ARLINGTON, N. J.—The

_ body of Miss Anna Ulm, secretary to a

Later the bodies: of two |
- ins a‘ decoy package, by means of which _

New York doctor, was found lashed to a
tree trunk near here. She had been beaten
to.death. The slaying is baffling the police
of two states.

HAMPTON FALLS, N. H—A murder,
in which ‘the victim was probably dis-
membered while she was still alive,
wrapped in paper and tossed from an auto-
mobile, .was uncovered here. yesterday.
The identity of the victim is unknown
and,. the killing having occurred weeks
ago, is proving baffling to the police. A
handbag, found near by, contained a wed-
ding ring inscribed “L. D. to L. P. D.”

‘ROCKFORD, Itt—Matches, a wash
basin and a quart of gasoline, were re-
sponsible for the bringing in of Mrs. Earl
Hanson for questioning in regard to the
killing of her husband. Earl Hanson was
burned to death in his automobile after
it. has ‘been fired by a person or persons

- unknown.

CHICAGO, Inu—Members of the Fac-
‘tor kidnap ring. though surrounded by 300
Federal, State and City officers, eluded. the
posse, and made off with $50,000 contained

the officers. had hoped to trap them.

—_ ms

f in a 5 e + e ‘ ia
FRAZIER, Le@, white, hanged WVSP (Jackson) November 24, 1933

POSE Genie 1 ini 18 re

The highway where the county car crashed
and was overtaken by masked gun-men.
The automobile in the picture is. parked at
exact spot where the Deputy Sheriff was
fatally shot

HE telephone at my elbow in our office in the
Jackson County court house at Ripley, West Vir-
ginia, rang shrilly. | took the receiver from the hook.

“| There’s a deputy sheriff shot to death in a

”

machine .
Those were the words that came over the wire at quitting
time that bright afternoon of July 25th, 1933, just as I was
about to leave for my farm at Ravenswood, on the Ohio

River, to look over the tobacco crop. Before | could catch

| my breath, the voice went on...
“Another deputy is wounded and they’re taking him
| into Ripley...”

Right there I interrupted the unknown voice and began
to ask questions.

“Where are you talking from?” I demanded.

“... Kenna...”

Kenna was a village in the southern part of Jackson
County on U. S. Highway No. 21, running south from Rip-
ley to Charleston, our state capital. Charleston is in the
adjoining county of Kanawha.

“Where was the shooting?” | asked, anxious to know if
it was in a place in which | had jurisdiction.

“| In Jackson County, just north of the Kanawha

Vi e e
West irginia
County line. The officers’ car is wrecked against a guard

As told to
rail by a clearing. There’s a white school house on the

FRANK ii WARD east side of the road, and a swinging foot-bridge on the
e other side...”
36

| Jackson County

MASTER DETECTIVE,
April, 1934

] knew the spot.
mant’s voice intris
details.

“Who are you?”
ber the name he g

“Who is the dea
my deputies had b

“. . Badge on f
wha County .. . cc
Roy Shamblin ...

I thanked the ui
put in a call for
County, at the co
south of Ripley.

When I got She
of death-like silenc
of the murder of
the life of our stat
Andrews, in a cho

“Deputies Sham!
21 for the Mounc
afternoon with a
a stretch of twent:
gang must have \
But we'll get ther

In a few minute

“T’ve notified Gr

Sheriff Carl J. Knotts of Jackson County,

Knotts,” he said, “and I’m off for the white school house.
Meet you there.”

The crime had been committed in my county, but the
victim was a Kanawha County deputy, so both Andrews
and | had a deep interest in its solution.

WAS so much closer to the murder scene that I figured

I'd wait to see the injured deputy before starting. Our
State Police at Ripley went on ahead, and | drove over to
our hospital. In a few minutes a traveling man rolled up
in his car, and he and I helped Deputy Dudley up the steps.
The doctors and nurses were all for putting him to bed—
he had been shot through the arm—but Dudley would have
none of that. Roy Shamblin was his pal. Roy had been
slain. Dudley wanted vengeance, -and to be in on the
hunt.

Between twinges of pain, George Dudley jerked out a
story that held me breathless and launched one of the
greatest man-hunts in the history of West Virginia.

co-author of. this story.

He was the first to hear the tragic news of the killing of Deputy
Shamblin and followed the investigation to the end

During the previous January, Ralph Harper, a
youth of nineteen with a bad record, and John
Newell, had held up and robbed the Thom McAn
shoe store on Capitol Street in Charleston. They
were atrested and indicted, but both escaped
from the city jail before trial. Newell was re-
captured almost immediately and given twenty
years at Moundsville, which he is now serving.

Harper, however, eluded the law until early
in July, Then, through an anonymous tip, offi-
cers were sent to a place near Staunton, Virginia,
where Harper was found in hiding. The very
morning of the day Shamblin was killed, Harper
had been sentenced by Intermediate Judge Henry
K. Black. Ordinarily, guards come from the
penitentiary for a prisoner, but because three
convicts there were wanted as witnesses in crimi-
nal trials on the Kanawha County court docket,
Deputies Shamblin and Dudley had volunteered
to take Harper along on their trip after the
witnesses.

‘The hour of departure had been kept secret
because of the desperate character of the Harper
gang. At four o’clock Dudley had driven his car
up to the jail entrance, and Shamblin and Harper
emerged from the jail, shackled to each other.

on the starter.

They got into the rear seat, and Dudley stepped

(Above) From this foot-bridge three boys witnessed ithe -battle and slayi
as the gun-men had fied, they flagged a car an eat the news to § Sherif: K

Just then a yot
officers’ car from |
had been waiting,
Harper good-bye.
a few minutes of
prisoner and the :
to pick his way 1
streets, and on to

F there were an\
prisoner and his
low tones that thi
“How did your
ing?” Shamblin
traffic lights fadec
the broad, twistir
Harper shook |
late his handcuffs
obligingly lit a r
was Roy; that bc
An_ hour pass
whizzed through
a big machine, th
able distance bel
impatiently soun:
Deputy Dudle:
road to allow pk
the rear-vision 7

‘Because Louise Loved Two Cons (Continued from Page 12)

owed down, too, and maintained the
ume distance between the cars.
Shamblin said,:‘‘Let’s go! It’s a fol-
wl?

And the chase was on,

Around hairpin mountain bends
\ey careened, through low gulleys and
ross high hills, and always the dark
dan behind crept closer.

Shamblin had his-gun out, in his
ght hand. Harper, still manacled to
iamblin, had managed: to wriggle
»wn to the floor.

The sedan came closer, closer, closer.
shot forward as though to pass.
That was when the first bullet
aacked against the deputies’ car.
The officers hunched lower in their
ats. Out of the corner of his eye
udley saw the men. They were
asked. He saw their guns, two of
em, thrust out the windows.

A shot splintered Dudley’s steering-
heel. He let go for: an _ instant,
abbed on again. Py

Shots poured into the car’s body.
ith one hand on the wheel Dudley
‘ew his gun. He could hear Shamblin
‘e. He fired, too, right at the other
r as it drew alongside.

Guns roared back at him. Glass
lintered; a bullet had shot across
s shoulder into the windshield.
Dudley hunched lower. His tongue
id over scraps of broken glass; he
sted blood on his lips.:

HEN something struck his arm and
knocked his hand off the steering-
heel. He knew that he had been hit.
ie car slammed into.a turn. He felt
skid, sickeningly, the way an air-
ane drops from under you in bumpy
eather. He fought for control but
st it.
His car leaped sideways and the
-ering-wheel spun madly. He flung
‘ arm over his face. From a long
ay off he heard the crash.
Then it was still. .,
Dimly, after what seemed hours, he
‘ard someone say} “That'll take care
you.” Then he felt himself being
agged from the car, across weeds.
2 was rolling suddenly down a hill-

je into a ditch, with a blue sky ~

‘erhead.
Then he heard more shots, from a
ng way off.

Deputy Shamblin was dead.
Deputy Dudley was near death.
Ralph Harper was missing.
That was the news which flashed
to Charleston. And the whole State
as aroused.
Already the alarm was out. Block-
es had been thrown across the roads.
sscriptions were on the wire. Every
lice officer in that part of the State
vung into action. —
Sheriff Knotts gave the alarm from
pley. Sheriff R. C. Andrews: at
iarleston raced out with Chief Brit-
a and Captain Brown of the Charles-
a police. Captain H. A. Brown and
s State Police troopers roared up in
eir cars.
The wreckage of Dudley’s car lay
st north of the town of Kenna and
uth of Ripley.
After the injured and dead were re-
ved, the officers went to work. Ser-
ant Mack B. Streagle and Corporal
T. Sites of the State Police ex-
lined the car. Sheriffs Knotts and
idrews hunted witnesses. Others
sre with Dudley in the hospital,
iiting to hear his story; others direct-
3 the blockade, still others searching,
‘eady, through the underworld for
ends of Ralph Harper.
Mrs. Martha Sayre was one witness
eriff Knotts found. She had seen
erything. She told him about the

racing cars, about the shooting. She
had been standing inside her home,
100 feet from the scene of the mur-
der, when it happened. -

“They kept shooting,” she said. “I
saw one man thrown over the em-
bankment and then two men pulled

. somebody out of the back seat and

carried him to their car.. They turned
around and drove away south toward
Charleston.”

Sergeant Warren remembered a wo-
man kissing a man good-by, almost as
if she knew he was going off ‘into
grave danger and possible death. .

Sergeant Warren said, “The woman
in gray. Louise Frazier. She lives in
Charleston.”

So another order flashed back to
Charleston. Find Louise Frazier, the

His body was still warm. Coroner
F. X. Schurer fixed the time of death
at approximately the same time as the
shooting on the highway. Harper had
been shot once. The bullet had en-
tered his chest from the front. He had
died slowly, not immediately.

And, to all intents and appearances,
he had died from a bullet fired by his
rescuers, a bullet which accidentally
had killed him.

Obviously, in their wild running gun
battle with the police, his friends had
hit their pal, Ralph Harper. They had
dragged him away, hoping his wound
was superficial. But when he died they
abandoned his body and fled.

Well, thought Sergeant Warren
grimly, Ralph Harper had paid his
debt to Society.

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woman in gray. Pick- her up as an
accessory to murder. Intensify the
blockade around Charleston.

The blockade at the entrances to
Charleston was effective. It stopped
all cars. It got nothing.

The killers had turned off. Where?

“Try Huntington,” said Captain Arch
Brown. “Harper’s home town.”

So the cops went there and sur-
rounded the Harper home. It was
dark, deserted. They left a stakeout,
figuring it wouldn’t be worth much
since Harper and his pals would be
far too smart to go there.

They searched Huntington. A block
from the Harper home they found a
black sedan parked in an alley.

They jerked open the door.

A man tumbled out onto the pave-
ment. He was dead.

Sergeant Warren gasped. “That’s
Ralph Harper!”

Ralph Harper? Dead?

The question now was not to find

- Ralph Harper nor to solve his mystery.

The problem was to find the three who
had murdered Deputy Shamblin.

The police questioned everybody ‘in
the neighborhood where the car was
found. Most of all they questioned
Ralph Harper’s father, since the car
was found so close to his home. But
he knew nothing.

Neither did anybody else near by.
The three killers had disappeared.

Finger-print men went to work on
the car. They found only unidentifi-
able smudges. The Auto Bureau soon
established that this car was stolen.

Dudley was on the road to recovery,
but he could tell little.

The three men had disappeared.

And so had Louise Frazier.

The woman in gray had left home.
She was in none of her known haunts.
Even Sergeant Warren was baffled.

“Sure, I tailed her once,” he said

helplessly. “I know where she used to
hang out. But she isn’t there now.”

He put out the word to the shady
men and women of the underworld.
He pulled in cheap broads from the
honky-tonks and he asked them,
“Where is Louise, the woman in gray?”

But, while he worked, Sergeant War-
ren wondered.

Louise Frazier looked like class, to
begin with. Honky-tonks? Uh-uh.

And what was she doing with a
cheap hoodlum like Harper in the first
place—a woman of her class?

The Sergeant decided to go deeper
into her life. He talked to her friends,
her neighbors, her former schoolmates
—to everybody who ever had known
the lovely young woman.

And he found a strange story.

While she was still a girl, she had
married a man named Leo Frazier. He
had become involved with the wrong
kind of companions and soon he had
been in trouble with the law. The law
sent him away to the penitentiary.

Louise was embittered. She swore
off men.

Then she met Ralph Harper, nine-
teen, good-looking, straight. She fell
in love with him. She hesitated to tell
him that she already was married to a
convict. But she did.

He told her it didn’t matter. He
loved her.

And, for some unaccountable reason,
Ralph Harper stuck up a store.

Once more Louise had become en-
tangled with a wrong man.

She didn’t know it at first. That
was why he had risked so much to
break jail before he was identified.
Because he was afraid a second blow
such as this would kill Louise Frazier.

Instead it had killed him. His iden-
tity had been exposed, his recapture
effected because a man named Leo...

A man named Leo...

Sergeant Warren went to the files of
convicted criminals. He dug out the
picture of a man who had been sent’ to
the Moundsville penitentiary and who,
he discovered, had been released re-
cently. This was the man who had
been married to Louise Frazier.

And he looked like Leo, the informer
who had been responsible for Harper’s
— after he broke jail! But was

Warren got busy with his under-
world contacts then. He visited, again,
a small areaway, and talked to the
man who first had told him about Leo.

Who, he asked, had Leo Frazier been
thick with before the attempted de-
liverance of Ralph Harper? What had
Frazier been doing? What was his
game, his way of making a living?

HE stool didn’t know. He wasn’t

sure what Frazier did. But Leo had
been planning something, the stool
said. Frazier and his crony, Henry
Cano, and some other guy kept their
heads together through long nights and
whispered and muttered among them-
selves. This other guy—he was some-
body from Huntington named Charles.

Someone from Huntington named
Charles. Charles Harper!

Charles Harper, brother of the dead
prisoner! And Leo Frazier, who hated
the prisoner and who had been respon-
sible for putting him back in jail. And
Henry Cano, for the third man in the
car.

Sergeant Warren was beginning to
see the makings of a double-cross. To
be sure of it he asked for the report
made on the condition of Deputy Dud-
ley’s car, made after the examination
by State Troopers Streagle and Sites.

Several spent bullets and bullet-
holes had been found in Dudley’s car,
the State Troopers said. All of these

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street,
Then he was gone,
Sergeant Warren went looking for

In the smoke-filled Court Street dive
he lounged, watching every man who
entered. He knew most of them; he
knew that the mysterious Leo wasn’t
there. The Sergeant waited an hour
and a half,

The door opened and a squat,
swarthy man came in. The bartender

T= man called Leg looked quickly,
Sharply around the room. He saw the
Sergeant. He did not hesitate, Pur-

Posefully he strode over to the cop. He >

planted himself in front of the Ser-

a cigarette. Then he said, “Ralph’s
real name is Harper, Ralph Harper,
His folks live in Huntington. - Right
now he’s hiding out near. Staunton,
Virginia.” ;

Warren asked, “What do you want

Deputy Sheriff Roy Shamblin: He
didn’t see the forewarning of death
in a girl’s wish for a last good-by

He turned on his heel and strode
t of the joint, ‘

Ralph Harper—was he really the

inted man? And who was this Leo,
tgeant Warren wondered. What did
ae against Harper? Why had he
ed? .

At Headquarters he told Captain
dwn what he had learned. ‘Both
re skeptical. Leo wasn’t a regular
ol. Probably he was just somebody

a grudge against an innocent man
ned Ralph Harper, they thought.
till, they couldn’t overlook this tip.
‘per might be Wilkinson at that.

o they went to work on it. The
anton police didn’t “know of any
per, or any Wilkinson. A family
‘ed Harper did live in Huntington,

He didn’t know anybody named
‘inson and he didn’t know any-
"in Staunton,

le tip looked phony. But the
‘leston police had no other leads,
ley put a watch on the Harper
> in Huntington, They settled
1 to wait for a communication be-

TAS NM tea is

looked carefully up and down the

walked, in her alwa
in -her every gesture.
she visit. a punk heist-

ys _—— gray suits,
She got into a

ended on Staunton and
tted that his

w her blue coupe mov.
ffic.

ut of the alley and made
t and eased up behind
‘ough the busi-
Ys keeping two cars

thing else. He

e had so fool-

ail, why he had
ly.

reveal why h
'Yy escaped from j
d his life so need]

HE Charleston Police mi
seen why when

ness district, alwa

d the Sergeant sud-

out after her again.
She led him to H
man gone wrong.
The name she si ed on the visitors’
S tried to talk to
g to her learn more
€ scorned them.
fined to be in love

about her. But sh
She was too re

ind out who s

left Headquart

flew, her trim
ping in the wind
yelled at her,

out in pursuit,

ahead he said to
Vv. What if she
ay in jail? What
m? So what?”

gz to the jail day
the sunrise. She
moll. She looked
in the way she

men watched her jin the
yard kissing the man

't look like a gang

class. Class was Shamblin shoved

A pitched gun battle took pis

here, Just north Of Kenna, West Vir-saemd

ginia. The car marks the spot wher
Deputy Dudley plunged off: the road

Ralph Harper into the car and quickly
climbed in after him. The motor -
roared, the car Moved ahead. The ¥

Dudley was driving. In his rear-
view mirror he could see a dark sedan,
Three men were in it.

He said to Deputy Shamblin, “{ 4
ink we're being tailed, Roy. Take a
look,” * ‘

Shamblin saw the sedan, less than a
quarter of a mile behind. He Said,
“Step on it once, Dud. See what that
does.”

Dudley pressed the accelerator to
the floorboard. The speedometer needle
shot to 60, then 70.

Shamblin saw the sedan come ’round ;
the last curve, closer than before, 7
“Slow down,” he said. “Maybe they’ll :

Pass. If they don’t—”

Dudley took his foot off the acceler-
ator. The needle dropped back to 35.

The Pursuing car slowed down, too,
and maintained the same distance be-
tween the cars.

Shamblin Said, “Let’s go! It’s fol-
low!”

And the chase was on,

Around hairpin mountain bends
ey careened, through low gullies and
across high hills, and always the dark
sedan behind crept closer. , ‘

Shamblin had his gun out, in his
right hand, Harper, still manacled to
Shamblin, had managed to wriggle
down to the floor.

The sedan came closer, closer, closer.
It shot forward as though to pass,

That was when the first bullet
smacked against the deputies’ car,

Shots poured into the car’s body.
With one hand on the wheel Dudley
drew his gun. He could hear Shamblin
fire. He fired too, right at the other
car as it drew alongside.

Guns roared back at him, Glass
splintered; a bullet had shot across
his shoulder into the windshield.

(Continued on Page 85)

Epon eee

ons $e
ad

came from the outside, through win-
dows, except one. And that one was
the one which had entered Ralph
Harper’s chest, wounded him fatally,
and come out again, to find its way
into the upholstery of the car.

That bullet, Streagle and Sites said,
had been fired from within the car,
from the front seat toward the back.
It wasn’t the same caliber as those
fired by the officers. But it matched
those fired by the men after Harper.
That meant the prisoner had been slain
by one of his deliverers!

Sergeant Warren knew, then, that
his theory was correct. He went to
Chief Britton.

He said, “Pick up this Leo Frazier,
Louise’s husband. He engineered the
deal and he killed Shamblin and Har-
per, too.”

“What makes you think so?” asked
Britton.

Warren said, “I don’t think—I know.
And I’ll tell you why he did it. Not
to free Harper but to kill him. Har-
per’s murder was intentional. I'll tell
you why...

Leo Frazier, the Sergeant believed,
had been in love with Louise, his wife,
and had been waiting for his release,
to be with her again. When the re-
lease came, however, Frazier found
that Louise was in love with Harper.

If that other man were out of the
way, Frazier reasoned, Louise might
go back to him. Particularly if that
other man turned out to be a criminal
also. So Frazier went to work on Har-
per, persuaded or coerced him into
pulling a robbery, saw him captured.

The Riddle

Ashamed, Sun Leung at length said:

“Sometimes my nephew, Leon Ling,
he velly bad boy.”

Captain Carey hurried to press home
the point.

“Bad with women?” he asked, “fond
of women? Fond—of white girls?”

(Sun Leung shrugged. “Yes,” he said
in almost a whisper, “bad with girls.”

“Where is Chon Sing?” asked Carey,
on a new: tack.

“No savee. For long time now no
see Chon Sing.”

“When did you see him last?”

“No savee right off now.”

Ce. CAREY took the Chinese
by the front of his silken shirt. He
spoke directly, most earnestly.

“Sun Leung, this is important. Try
to think hard. Have you ever seen a
young white girl, about twenty, a girl
whose name was Elsie Sigel, come here
to visit these boys? One or both? Say,
perhaps, come here to teach them En-
glish? Now rack your brains—”

Sun Leung raised his_ shoulders.
“Never see. But me know Missy Sigel.
She teach old Chu Gain English at the
Mission House downtown. She friend
old Chu Gain and—”

Captain Carey tensed. This was what
he had half-believed all along. Chu
Gain had some connection with this.
Chu Gain had money, wanted to mar-
ry, could arrange things. Chu Gain
was close to the mystery of the girl’s
disappearance. And now. Sun Leung,
who should be in the know, seemed
trembling on the edge of saying some-
thing. Captain Carey. ventured a lead:

“Old Chu Gain liked his English
teacher pretty well, didn’t he? Old
Chu Gain wanted to marry the girl,
didn’t he?”

Again Sun Leung shrugged his
shoulders.

“Well,” he said, “well, perhaps it is
true as you say. Old Chu Gain, he
called Missy Sigel ‘Dear one.’ And
he—he published the advertisement.
He—”

“What advertisement?” asked Carey.

“Why, the advertisement asking
Missy to come home.”

Here was something else Captain

ip -13

And, when Harper escaped, Frazier en-
gineered, personally, Harper’s recap-
ture.

But that plan didn’t work. For in-
stead of leaving Harper and returning
to her husband, Louise Frazier had re-
mained constant to her second love.

If Frazier was to get his wife back,
Harper had to be dead. And so Leo
Frazier put into operation a daring,
fantastic, weird plot to murder Harper.
That plot involved getting the help of
others, of Louise and Harper’s brother,
Charles, by convincing them that Leo’s
intentions were to help Ralph.

It worked. Harper was murdered
by Leo Frazier.

At least, so Sergeant Warren be-
lieved and explained to Chief Britton.

Britton said, “How about the girl?”

“I don’t know,” said Warren. “You
saw her in the jail yard that day, didn’t
you?”

Britton nodded.

“That wasn’t faked,” said the Ser-
geant. “That was real. Louise Frazier
might have been involved in the es-
cape plot but she did not know that
Harper was to be killed.”

“So,” said Britton, “you may be
right, but how do we capture them?”

“This way,” said Warren. ‘Publish
the story that Ralph Harper was killed
intentionally. Then two people will
come in voluntarily. Louise Frazier
and Charles Harper. They were
double-crossed. They will want ven-
geance,”

The story was published. For sev-
eral days nothing happened. Then
finally the woman in gray returned to

Headquarters. This time she had her
own story to tell. It corroborated War-
ren’s theory. ie Rs i

“Why did you wait until today to
come in?” Warren asked.

“Because,” Louise Frazier said, “I
want to see that man punished—the
one who killed Ralph. I wanted to be
able to tell you where they may be

She did tell the Sergeant. Rapidly
Leo Frazier and Henry Cano were ar-
rested. Charles Harper surrendered.

They told the truth. Leo Frazier

even admitted to the prosecutor that

his sole motive in planning the de-
liverance was to slay Ralph Harper.
Frazier also claimed that he and he
alone fired the shots that killed Deputy
Shamblin.

Leo Frazier convinced a jury of his
guilt. He was sentenced to be hanged
for the murder of Deputy Shamblin,
and in January, 1934, he ended his life
on the gallows.

Henry Cano and Charles Harper
were tried separately. Both were
found guilty and both were given life
sentences. 4

And Louise Frazier, who had aided
and abetted the deliverance plot be-
lieving her lover would be freed, was
ued guilty as an accessory before the
act.

She. was given a sentence of fif-
teen years. Today Louise Frazier is
free on parole, most of her life behind
her.

Turn to Page 36 for another picture
with this story.

of Elsie Sigel (Continued from Page 15)

Carey would have to find out about.
But later.

“And Chu Gain was pretty sweet on
Miss Sigel, you say?”

“Me no say. Just tell you what other
people, they say. Me just look—see
Missy Sigel and Chu Gain together,
plenty times.”

Captain Carey stood up. The coroner
had arrived and was in the room
across the hall. He would take charge
of things over there, so Captain Carey
could leave, to start the machinery of
his office going in various directions.
Many directions—

Back at Headquarters, Captain Carey
shut himself into his office and gave
notice he was not to be disturbed ex-
cept for something most important.
Then, at his desk, he drew out of a
little drawer a small notebook, turned
its pages slowly till he found the name
he wanted. He picked up his phone,
called a number.

“Hello. Ah Sing? This is Captain
Carey speaking. Something big has
just broken. I want you to come right
over. You’ll be able to help us out.”

In ten minutes one of those intelli-
gent, unobtrusive, most anonymous
aids used by the police in almost every
city of the world was entering Carey’s
office. Some call these gentry stool-
pigeons, some secret agents. In this
case, from the respectful manner in
which Captain Carey spoke to the
Americanized Chinaman he had sum-
moned, obviously the caller was a man
of intelligence and dependability. His
“nip-nose” glasses, style of 1909, gave
him a scholarly look. His American
suit, trim, well pressed; his open and
rather judicial eye, all combined to
indicate poise, sophistication, judg-
ment. And when he spoke, his English
was as good as that of any American.

“Ah Sing,” said Carey without pre-
amble, “I want you to tell me what
you have heard. Then I want you to
mix around and pick up all the infor-
mation you can get.

“The body of Elsie Sigel, daughter
of a good American family, has just
been discovered in a room over Sun
Leung’s restaurant up on Eighth Av-
enue. We don’t know yet which of two

men she went there with. But you
probably know as much about it as I
do. Tell me this now—what is said
about Elsie Sigel and her pupils in
Chinatown? Have you heard?”

For a moment Ah Sing looked at his
shoes, considering. Then he raised his
head, to speak in low and convincing
tones. 5

“They say old Chu Gain liked the
young lady very much. He was her
first pupil. He has often entertained
her at his restaurant. He has often
visited her at her house. It is well
known on Mott Street that Chu Gain
has how become a wealthy man and
has, for some time, craved a wife. Per-
haps—quite possibly—a white wife.”

“But, Ah Sing, the body was found
in another man’s place. In Chon Sing’s
or Leon Ling’s. What have you heard
about them and their English teacher,
Miss Sigel?”

“I’m not sure. Some say it was Chon
Sing who desired her, some say Leon
Ling, his roommate. But old Chu

“Ah Sing, if the wind lay that way,
why wasn’t the body found at Chu
Gain’s, then?”

Az® SING raised his eyes in quiet
emphasis. ‘i

“Old Chu Gain is a powerful man
on Mott. Street. When Chu Gain says,
‘Go! Fetch! Carry!’ there are people
to do what he tells them. Before now,
have not men paid for removing people
whose presence they considered in-
convenient? Moreover it is well known
that one or both of these boys are
members of the powerful Hip Sing
Tong. They would, therefore, have
better ways of arranging—”

Captain Carey interrupted bruskly.

“But this doesn’t fit in with the facts,
Ah Sing. That’s almost too fantastic.”

Ah Sing shrugged again.

“Have you never heard,” he asked,
“that all is sometimes not smooth in

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upon more than one China boy. She
had invited many to her house, she
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MAN must have a lot at stake
before he deliberately, wilfully

. risks his life against great odds,

it was what the police of Charles.
7est Virginia, thought when Ralph
ason broke jail.

they couldn’t figure out what it
They couldn’t’ see why Ralph
ason should take the chances he
or the little that was at stake.
ison probably would have been
‘d probation, or at least a mild
ce. Instead of waiting for that,
d crashed out of the Charleston
lodged a hail of bullets and
ed away on a wild, breakneck
ide, risking death a dozen times.
police couldn’t figure it. After

‘son had made good his escape °

sathered in the office of Chief
ice John Britton and discussed
to recapture him.

ething hot was up, they knew.
iing big, to make Ralph Wilkin-
ké a chance like that. So they
it over, Chief Britton, Captain
3rown, big, bluff Detective Ser-
L. B. Warren ‘and the rest of

’ didn’t dream, then, just what
» Just how hot Ralph Wilkin-

son was,
would be

man in

ten into

Ralph Wilkinson and his partner had
been arrested earlier that same day,
January 30, 1933, after they held up

just how much red blood
spilled because:of the wo-
gray before this case was writ-

history,

a shoe store on
Charleston.

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brought Wil i
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half turned to
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onto his bent: back.

floor. The tra
hand and cl

bars.

Rough hands quickly were clamped
across the Jailer’s mouth. °
And ‘an instant later Ralph Wilkin-

son was gone.
He had climbed

Captain Arch Bro

_ of stairs in long,

joined the chase,

Capitol Avenue. in

the cell, stepped inside,
close the door. gray. ‘
& black shadow catapulted

attered against the cell

sailing leaps, skidded
across a deserted courtroom, flung open
a window and leaped out into the night.

Half a dozen cops chased him. Three
of them manned a squad car. Soon
wn and Chief Britton

Desk Sergeant Adam Bird reached

Louise Frazier, left, found she
must choose between these two
men—Leo Frazier, right, and
Ralph Harper, pictured below

Charleston, West Virginia, Officials Had to Un-
cover a Strange Story Before They Could Learn
The Mystery of the Woman in Gray and the
Motive Which Led to the Death of Three Men

son so hot?

Captain Brown said, “He took an
awful gamble, breaking jail that way.”
No one even could venture a guess.
They didn’t dream about the woman in

his dinner,

He crashed to the

down three flights

nothing happened.

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Ralph Wilkinson’s whereabouts would
be valued highly by the police.

“We've got to find that boy,” Chief
Britton told his men.

“Something’s going to pop if we
don’t. Well, get to work.”

Routine ground on. The fliers went
‘out. Stool-pigeons were contacted. But

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round a.corner and leap into a taxi-
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He got away clean.

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as they discussed it later, was Wilkin-

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Passed without result—and still the
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appen, waited for some explanation
of why Ralph Wilkinson couldn't af-

ford to stay in jail or, perhaps, stand

investigation. ‘

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behind prison bars for Wilkinson,

Detective Sergeant Warren didn’t
know that, either, when he first heard
about Leo. Else he would have done
other than he actually did—and others
besides Wilkinson might have been
alive today.

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sidled up to Warren in an areaway,
told Sergeant Warren about Leo. The
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couldn’t see the stoolie’s face,

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the joint in the Court Street section
where I sent you once before. Re-

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is very evident from the statutes in force
now relating to the finding of indictments
and to trial thereon. Section 1 of chapter
158 of the Code of 1891 in express terms
permits the finding of an indictment without
an examination. Its last clause reads: ‘And
the indictment may be found in the first in-
stance, whether the accused has been ex-
amined or committed by a justice or not.’
Now, the indictment having been found, the
next step is to proceed to trial. This is ap-
parent from section 1 of chapter 159 of the
Code of 1891, the first sentence of which
reads: ‘When an indictment is found in the
circuit court of any county against a person
for a felony, the accused, if in custody, or if
he appear in discharge of his recognizance,
or voluntarily, shall, unless good ground be
shown for a continuance, be tried at the
same term.’ These two provisions of sec-
tion 1 of chapters 158 and 159 of the Code,
as read, seem to me to be conclusive against
the claim that no trial can occur until after
preliminary examination. There was no er-
ror in refusing prisoners’ motion for a pre
liminary examination. I have not referred
to the Virginia cases, because the Virginia
statutes differ essentially from ours. Vir-
ginia has no statute.like the last clause of
section 1 of chapter 158, permitting an in-
dictment to be found without an examina-
tion. That provision first appears as Vir-
giniailaw in the Code of West Virginia of
1868+ .

“Complaint is also made of the invitation
to the defendant Mooney to put on a mask.
This is assigned as another ground for a
new trial. This is analagous, I think, to the
case of asking a prisoner to stand up, or ex-
pose his person. Such requests he may com-
ply with or not, as he may see fit. If he
declines, or voluntarily complies, no error re-
sults from the question. Mooney might have
been asked, when testifying, to put the mask
on, and the simple interrogatory would not
have been error. So I think, in argument,
when, in connection with the reference to
the mask, counsel says, ‘And I invite him to
put it on,’ it was not going beyond the limits
of permissible argument.

“Objection is also made to certain state-
ments during the argument, and the making
of these statements is alleged as ground for
a new trial. In Arnold v. Com. (Ky.) 55 S.
W. 804, counsel used very much such argu-
ment as complained of in this case. In his
opening the prosecuting attorney said: ‘He
did not desire to have any man’s blood on his
hands: asked the jury to perform their full
duty, lest some one else’s blood might rest
on their hands in case of a too lax adminis-
tration of the law.’ The court sald it was
eminently proper to call the jury's attention
to the responsibilities resting upon them, and
to the duties they, as members of a tribunal
created by law to ascertain the facts from
evidence, are required to perform. And in this

“(W. Va.

pealed to the jury for a substantial penalty,
in order to suppress lawlessness, repeating
a conversation he had with a resident of an-
other county, in which he was told that in
that county only two murders had been com-
mitted in fifty years, and that the men who
had committed them were hung by the neck,
and that this had the effect to completely
stamp out the commission of murder in that
county.’ The repetition of this conversation
by counsel was condemned by the court, but
was held not to constitute reversible error.
This holding of the Kentucky court is muck
jike the holdings of our own court in Shawn's
Case, 40 W. Va. 1, 20 S. E. 873. Here coun
sel said to the jury: ‘If you sentence hin
to the penitentiary for life, it won’t be five
years till he will be let out again to enter
upon a new course of crime.’ Apropos of.
this remark, and as a comment thereon, ou!
supreme court says: “Ihe choice between
two modes of punishment, in case the jury
find the case to be murder in the first de-
gree, is absolutely with the jury, and it is
difficult to limit the considerations which
shall govern a jury, if deducible from the
nature of the crime and its perpetrator as
manifested by the evidence.’ In view of the
Kentucky decision and the observations of
our own supreme court, it was not, in my
judgment, error for counsel in argument to
say: ‘Let him off to murder some other
James Hervey; * * * to turn loose on
society some murderers like these. * +
This is simply a case of murder, with the
death penalty. * * * In behalf of Hen-
ry Hervey, speaking for him and the state.
I demand of you a verdict of murder in the
first degree. There was evidence upon
which these statements and appeals could be
predicated. Nor do I think it was error to
allude to the pride, courage, and manhood
of the jurors, as counsel seemed to do in the
use of the sentences: ‘It is an evidence of
the weakness of the men who were on the
jury. * * * It would bea reflection upon
your strength of character.’ These allusions
to the jurors. are matters more of taste of
propriety than anything else. Nothing sever:
er can be said of them, I think, than that
they may not have been in good taste. Our
supreme court further says in Shawn's Case
that: ‘Where a criminal trial is fair in other
respects, a conviction will not be set aside
for improper remarks of counsel, where the
verdict of conviction is plainly warranted by
the evidence, and no other verdict could have
been found without misconduct of the jury.
In my judgment, this is a case where —
evidence so justifies the verdict returnes
that, had the jury found any other verdict.
they would have been guilty of miscondixt
If the evidence so warrants the verdict. jm
proper arguments will not be regarded as 5
any way instrumental in securing it. It W*
be regarded as the verdict of jurors con
vinced by the testimony, and forced to ren

case counsel, in closing his argument, ‘ap-

der it because the testimony demanded !*

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And of this sort is, I think, the verdict ren-
dered in the case.” E
In the circuit court Judge Thayer Melvin
filed the following opinion:
“At the April term, 1900, of the criminal
court of Ohio county, the defendants were
convicted of the crime of murder in the first
degree. Subsequently they moved for a new
trial, and, the motion having been overruled,
and judgment rendered upon the verdict,
they applied for and obtained a writ of error
from this court. Several grounds of error
are alleged:
“1. The indictment was preferred on March
5, 1900. The defendants were then in cus-
tody, but had not been examined by a justice
touching the felony charged. Before the
trial came on, they insisted, by plea and oth-
erwise, upon being remanded for such ex-
amination. This was refused. A reversal is
sought because of such refusal. No consti-
tutional right or privilege is invoked. It is
argued, however, that the statute (Code, ec.
158, § 1) makes necessary such examination.
It reads in part: ‘The trial of a person on
a charge of felony shall always be by indict-
ment; and the indictment may be found in
the first instance, whether the accused has
been examined or committed by a justice or
not.’ Differing constructions have been pla-
ced upon the latter clause. By the defend-
ants it is claimed that the right to a prelim-
Inary hearing is here implied, that the effect
is merely to allow it to follow the indictment;
by the state that, after indictment is found,
no further preliminary investigation is re-
quired in any event. There does not appear
to be any enactment bearing directly upon
the question. Other provisions are believed,
however, to have a controlling influence.
Chapter 156, entitled ‘Arrest, commitment
and bail,’ contemplates such an examination.
But this relates to a period anteceding af-
firmative action by the grand jury. The title
of the chapter and the arrangement of chap-
ters so indicate, and the reading of certain of
the sections makes {t clear. No directions
looking to such proceedings have been point-
ed out or observed. On the contrary, a dif-
ferent procedure seems to be prescribed.
Section 14 of chapter 158, relating to indict-
ments and process thereon, makes it the duty
of the court to issue a capias for the arrest
of a person indicted for a felony, and not in
custody, and the officer making the arrest is
Tequired, not to deliver to a justice for a
judicial inquiry, but to such court, if sitting,
or to the jailer of the county. Section 18.
And under section 1 of chapter 159 the ac-
cused, if he is in custody, or voluntarily ap-
Pears, is to be tried at the same term at
which the indictment is presented, unless
Cause is shown for a continuance. These
Serve to make apparent the legislative inten-
ton. Read with the quoted clause, they
show that no judicial inquiry by an inferior
tribunal is contemplated or warranted after

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MOONEY. 639

had before. It is not seen that this Inter
pretation takes away or affects injuriously
any right belonging to an accused person.
The practice is within the control of the law-
making power in criminal as in civil cases,
the only limitations being those contained in
the constitution. See Jones vy. Com., 86 Va.
661, 10 S. B. 1005. Nor is it clear that any
substantial advantage would have accrued
to the plaintiffs in error if their plea had
been sustained. They had needed informa-
tion of the charge, and had the aid of coun-
sel before and at the trial. It is said, how-
ever, that they would have had the oppor-
tunity of hearing in advance the testimony
for the state, and thus have been better en-
abled to make their defense. But is this
certain? An indictment might well be held
to furnish evidence of probable cause to be
lieve the accused guilty, and to require him
to be held to court; and such probable cause
is the only matter for the determination of
the justice. And there is no rule requiring
the production of all the testimony for the
prosecution at a preliminary investigation.
In any view, prejudicial error is not per-
ceived.

“2. ‘The record sets forth some of the re
marks of counsel to the jury in the closing
argument for the state, which remarks, it is
insisted, were not only improper, but hurtful
to the defendants. The judge who presided
has certified, however, that no objection was
interposed on this account before the retire-
ment of the jury. Clearly, if the language
used was deemed improper, the attention of
the court should have been promptly invited
to the fact, and its interposition sought.
Failing that, or a request for an instruction
having reference to the irregularity, if ir-
regularity there was, it was not to be consid-
ered on the motion to set aside. State v.
Chisnell, 36 W. Va. 660, 15 S. E. 412; Landers
v. Railroad Co., 46 W. Va. 492, 33 S. E. 296.
Besides, the evidence has not been certified,
and it is impossible to say that the remarks
were unjustifiable. To warrant a reversal,
this must appear. State v. Shawn, 40 W. Va.
1, 20 S. FE. 873; State v. Allen, 45 W. Va. 74,
30 S. E. 209. The same counsel, during his
argument, requested one of the defendants
(Mooney) to place the handkerchief found in
his possession when arrested over his face,
and to stand up in the presence of the jury,
—this, to afford an opportunity of determin-
ing to what extent witnesses could identify
one with covered features, one or more hay-
ing testified that, while the face of the man
who did the felonious shooting was thus
covered, he ‘looked to be the defendant
Mooney.’ A colloquy ensued, the named de-
fendant signifying his assent if his counsel
so directed, the counsel saying that he would
object to the request, and except, and then
have the defendant comply. Thereupon the
court advised him that he need not do so,
and the request was withdrawn, the defend-

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656 39 SOUTHEASTERN REPORTER,

where a special judge has tried a case, and
no objection was made on the trial to his
authority, and the record is silent as to the
mode of his appointment or election, no ob-
jection to his authority can be raised in the
appellate court for the first time, provided
that by law he could have been elected, as
the appellate court will presume that he was
legally elected. State v. Lowe, 21 W. Va.
782: Jarrell v. French, 43 W. Va. 457, 27 S.
k. 263; Winans v. Winans, 22 W. Va. 678.
’ Such is the general law laid down, under
many authorities, in 11 Enc. Pl. & Prac. 793.
No objection to the authority of the judge
was made in the trial court. Therefore,
though the record does not show the resigna-
tion or other reason far nonservice of the
judges antecedently elected, yet we will pre-
sume that such a state of things existed as
to warrant the election of Couch, on account
of either the resignation or absence of the
other judges. It is true that section 11, ¢.
412, Code 1899, does require that, if the reg-
ular judge is present, he must order the elec-
tion of a special judge and give the reasons
therefor; but here the record states that he
was absent, and gives that as a reason for
the election of a special judge, and when the
regnlar judge is absent it is only necessary
to say so on the record to warrant an elec-
tion of a special judge, if, indeed, it be nec-
essary to make such statement at all. The
statute does not demand that the facts be
stated of record to warrant the election of a
second or third special judge. But the fur-
ther position is taken that the election of
Couch is utterly void, on the theory that Mc-
Clintic had been already elected special judge,
and that under no circumstances whatever
could there be an election of another special
judge at the same term. We cannot accept
this construction of the statute. It is true
that the statute does declare that a special
judge may be elected, to hold the court “dur-
ing the absence of. or for the trial of the
cause in which, the judge cannot preside.”
This is a remedial statute. The language
quoted means that whenever the judge is
absent a special judge may be elected to act
while he is absent. That is the warrant for
an election. The record states the fact of
the absence of the regular judge as a reason
for Couch’s election. The statute intends
that the court shall go on and business be
dispatched notwithstanding the absence of
the regular judge; and I ask, why should the
court and business be stopped by the absence
from death, sickness, or resignation of a spe-
cial judge any more than from the absence
of the regular judge? The statute does not
limit the number of elections of special
judges. According to this contention, if the
regular and first elected special judge be both
absent, the court must stop. Neither the let-
ter nor the spirit of this remedial statute
calls for a construction productive of such

great inconvenience and public Injury.
A fourth noint made against the judgment

(W.Va.

is that the defendant is not shown by the
record to have been present in court when
a motion to set aside the judgment was mate
in the criminal court. The record says, oD
the 23d day of February: ‘This day came
the defendant, and moved the court to set
aside the verdict heretofore entered in th's
case, on the grounds that said verdict is con
trary to the law and the evidence and said
judgment is contrary to said verdict.” Now,
as held in Lawrence’s Case, 30 Grat. Se
approved in State v. Parsons, 389 W. Va. 464,
19 S. E. 876, it is necessary that a prisoner
accused of felony shall be present in his owo
proper person from the inception of the trial
to the final judgment, inclusive, when any-
thing is done affecting him, and the recerd
must show his presence, and he must t+
present, when action is had on a motion tor
a new trial; but as held in the Lawrenr
Case, and also in State v. Cross, 44.W. Vas
331, 29 S. E. 527, if it may be inferred from
the record that he was present, that is suf
cient, though the record does not formally
state that he was present. The record here
states that the defendant came into court
and made this motion; definitely so states;
affirmatively so states. Presumably it was
in proper person. The record does not s4y¥
that he appeared by attorney. Moreover, ©@
a prior day of the term, as the record shows
the prisoner was in -person present at tht
rendition of the verdict, and made a motio®
to set aside the verdict and grant 4 new trial;
and the court overruled it, and rendered fins!
judgment upon the verdict. Eight dar*
thereafter the accused, as it seems. concel¥
ing that the recommendation of the jury of
merey rendered the judgment erropevUk
made the motion to set aside the verdict.
This was after the motion for a new trial
had been made and overruled, and final jude
ment passed. Therefore, so far as the mo
tion for a new trial is concerned, there «3
be nothing in the point, because on a forme?
day Newman was personally present wha
a new trial was refused. State v. ParseD®
supra. But it is claimed that there wis &
motion to set aside the judgment which bed
been rendered eight days before on the ground
that it was not warranted by the ver
The language above quoted from the record
will not, if strictly construed, by its letter im
port any motion to set aside the judgment
put only the verdict. But say that there *#*
a motion to set aside the judgment. It ba
extremely doubtful whether we should csr
the requirement of the presence of the =
cused so. far as to hold that, after the trial
has closed and a final judgment Teen Ve
dered, the accused must be personally presemt
when he makes a motion to set aside that
final judgment. Be this as it may, as stati
above, the record sufficiently shows the pre
ence of the accused. Finding no error, #®
affirm the judgment of the criminal court.
Though it is not mecessary, because ¢
yerdict is a, finality, yet I will. say that te

W.Va.)

yerdict is right. Newman called Shea a God-
damned liar, when Shea struck at Newman
with a small railroad lantern, and: Newman
jumped back, drew a pistol, and fired five
shots at Shea; three of them striking him,
Where was the emergency of life or limb to
justify such quick recourse to a most deadly
weapon, and to justify five shots? Could
pot Newman have retreated? The law of
eelf-defense required it, especially when he
had brought the trouble upon himself by such
opprobrious language. ‘There was DO stress
of life or limb to justify Newman's actions.
Affirmed.

STATE v. MOONEY et al.

(Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virginia.
Sept. 7, 1901.)

CRIMINAL LAW—PRELIMINARY EXAMINATION

—REMARKS OF COUNSEL—OBJECTIONS.

1. Where an indictment for felony is found,
the accused is not entitled to a preliminary
examination before a justice before trial.

¥.The syllabi in State v.. Shawn, 20 S. E.
873. 40 W. Va. 1, Landers v. Railroad Co., 33
S$. E. 296, 46 W. Va. 492, and State v. Allen,
3u S. BE. 209, 45 W. Va. 74, as to remarks of
cuunsel to a jury, are reaffirmed.

(Syllabus by the Court.)

Error to circuit court, Ohio county; Thayer
Melvin, Judge.

John Mooney and Frank Friday were con-
victed of murder, and bring error. Aflirmed.

W. W. Arnett, for plaintiffs in error. R.
H. Freer. Atty. Gen., Alex. Dulin, and John
A. Howard, for the State.

BRANNON, P. ‘The evidence in this case
is not certified, but it appears that James
Hervey was shot and killed 1st of March,
1900, by a man whose face was covered with
a red handkerchief. John Mooney and
Frank Friday were jointly indicted for the
murder of Hervey, and were sentenced to
death in the eriminal court uf Ohio county,
and, their sentence having been affirmed by
the circuit court of that county, they have
brought a writ of error in this court. I do
hot think that J ean improve upon the opin-
ions delivered in those courts in the case,
and [ do not think it necessary to do more
than insert the opinions of the judges of
those courts delivered in the case.

Judge T. J. Hugus, of the criminal court,
filed the following opinion:

“The prisoners, on being arraigned upon
the indictment found against them, moved
the court to send them before a justice for
Preliminary examination. This motion was
Tefused, and that ruling is now assigned as
& ground for a new trial. Thelr claiin to a
Preliminary examination previous to trial
seems to rest on a statute passed by the
legislatuve of this state on the 3d day of
April, 1873. This act provided: ‘Before

STATE y. MOONEY. 657

before a circuit court, he shall be examined
before the county court, unless he waives
such examination by his assent entered of
record.’ Acts 1872-73, ¢. 90. This act con-
tinued in force until the 23d day of Devem-
ber, 1875, on which day it was repealed by
chapter 92 of the Acts of 1875. During its
brief existence, it came before the supreme
court for consideration in four cases, viz.:
Buskirk v. Judge, 7 W. Va. 91; State v.
Stewart, Id. 731; State v. Abbot. S W. Va.
746; and State v. Strauder, Id. G86. In this
last one, yet generally remembered in this
county, the act in question saved Strauder
from the gallows. Nothing, however. was
decided in any of these cases tending to
throw any light on the ruling under consid-
eration further than to show, as was decided
in the Strauder Case, that no one could be
tried for a felony, while the act was in
force, without a preliminary examination,
if one was demanded. The act providing
for an examination before trial by the coun-
ty court did not in terms repeal any other
statutory provision, nor did it do so by impli-
cation. It simply provided for a special er
additional examination, before trial. of all
felonies. Such examination was to take
place before the county court. then a recently
created tribunal. Its repeal in two years
after enactment put an end to this special
preliminary examination before the county
court, and left the law as to examination,
indictment, and trial as it was before the
enactment, and substantially, if not identi-
cally, as it is now. Not only has the statute
providing for such preliminary examination
been repealed, but the county court, which
had exclusive jurisdiction to hold it, has
been abolished. This, then, would seem to
end, so far as that statute and the county
court are concerned, all possible contention
that a preliminary examination is a legal
prerequisite to a trial now. And such a con-
tention cannot be based upon our present
statute, which is chapter 156 of the Code of
1891, relating to ‘arrest, commitment, and
bail.’ This chapter is identical with chap-
ter 156 of the Code of 1868, except that there
is omitted from it section 19, permitting cer-
tain misdemeanors, like assault and battery,
to be settled by the parties themselves. and
not to be prosecuted to indictment and trial
when so settled. Chapter 156 of the Code
was not repealed, expressly or by. implica-
tion. by the act of 1878, providing for spe-
cial examination by the county court. ‘The
arrest, commitment, and bail. and examina-
tion before a justice, provided for in chapter
15G of the Code of 1868, continued in foree
during the existence of that special statute,
as it had before and does to-day in the same
chapter in the Code of 1891. There is, then,
certainly no law now requiring preliminary
examination before trial. On the other
hand, however, there is express statutory
authority for proceeding to indictment and

any person charged with a felony is tried
39 S.E.—42

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having been so requested. It is umneces-
poo to Fn over all the grounds traversed by
counsel in the recent oral discussion. The
principle already alluded to is deemed de-
cisive. While the propriety of the request
is more than doubted, it is not seen that the
defendant, under the circumstances, was
prejudiced by what occurred. But, were it
otherwise, the court should have been asked
to set the jury right by an instruction elim-

consideration. This was not done. Instead,
the defendant remained silent, excepting, it
is true, but not to any ruling of the court.
It was not asked to interfere in any manner,
and its voluntary intimation of opinion was
not unfavorable to the defense. This being
so, the point could not avail on the motion to
e.

ee motion was made on the 16th of
April, 1900, and was argued and submitted
five days thereafter. There was no reserva-
tion except as to affidavits of newly-discov-
ered evidence. On May 18th—the day on
which the motion was decided—certain affi-
davits were offered; notably one made by
the two defendants charging misconduct be-
fore or during the trial (dates not being
given) against the assistant counsel for the
state and the sheriff of the county, by which,
as ayverred, a fair and impartial trial was
prevented. It is unnecessary to quote at
length. This affidavit tends to show at-
tempts to influence witnesses by intimidation
and otherwise; and it is charged that the
arrest of certain persons, whose names are
given, for supposed complicity in the offense,
was brought about by the counsel solely for
the purpose of discrediting them as witnesses
for the defense. Other matters are alleged,
but the most material are those noted. Ob-
jection being made to the filing, the affidavit
was rejected, and the rejection is assigned
as ground of error. I am of opinion there
was no error. First. The affidavit was not
in time. It was not offered until nearly a
month after the right to file the same had
ceased to exist. No leave to file was asked,
no excuse for the delay suggested. Its con-
sideration would have been the result of
grace and favor merely. But there is more.
For aught that is disclosed, whatever of fact
existed was known to the affiants before the
case went to the jury. That was the time
to make the complaint. Undue delay is gen-
erally fatal. It will not serve to hold back
information of misconduct affecting the ad-
ministration of justice for use only in the
event of an adverse finding. Here it must
be assumed that everything set up was with-
in the knowledge of the affiants before the
jury had the case. And, if 80, whatever
right was theirs was lost by their own neg-
lect. Flesher v. Hale, 22 W. Va. 40, is in
point. That case related to jurors, it is true,
but no different principle applies when mis-
conduct of counsel is alleged. Second. The

39 SOUTHEASTERN REPORTER. (W. Va.

upon information and belief, and there was
no supporting evidence. . The names of the
informants were withheld, the source of in-
formation concealed. It was the plain duty
of the affiants to advise the court of all par-
ticulars known to them. Something more
tangible than hearsay allegations is required.
14 Enc. Pl. & Prac. 905. Third. It is certl-
fied by the trial judge that so much as relates
to the intimidation of witnesses was shown
by the evidence adduced on the trial to be
untrue. In the absence of any formal cer-
tificate of evidence, this must be taken iu
contradiction. Certainly, its effect is to dis-
credit the affiants as witnesses in this behalf.
Without going so far as to hold that the raed
supported statement of one convicted of +a
ony is not in any case to be received, it is ri
be said that in this instance, largely on eid
count of the nature of the charges, the lapse
of time, and the absence of specific wit
ments of fact, corroborative evidence was
essential. No mention was made of such
evidence. No request looking to its procure
ment for use at another time was prefaxred
The paper itself was offered as making the
case of the affiants. It was not the best
“evidence of which the matter was suscepth
ble, and was properly held insufficient.
Having reached this conclusion, it is unnec-
essary to consider objections directed —
particularly to different portions of the a
davit. The record shows other exceptions,
but as to them it will suffice to say that ve
ror is not apparent. The Judgment of rs
criminal court of Ohio‘ county is- affirmed.
We can find nothing in the record of a
case, solemn as the judgment is, to warran
this court in annulling a sentence which +8
must take to be based on a verdict ae
warranted by the evidence, and to be se
result of a fair trial. he matters allege 4
against this conviction are unsubstantial, ev
should not be allowed to defeat the p Z >
demands of public criminal justice. gar
fore we must affirm the judgment of t
circuit court of Ohio county in this case.

A second brief for the prisoners, geting
ed since the foregoing opinion was pi oo
lays particular stress upon the cage
that the assistant prosecuting attorney ote
sheriff suppressed evidence favorable a
prisoners by intimidating witnesses. ; .
brief seems to call for an analysis ° ne
affidavit made by the prisoners 1n le ag
of that point. That affidavit is ja dae 9
adequate. Clearly, a new trial canno cabs
had for the suppression of evidence, or
it appear that evidence was suppressed, ah
what that evidence was, and that it es
material, and that it could be procured =
another trial. A new trial cannot be oe
upon,the mere hope or expectation ay a
dence can be produced on another
There must be some stable Fe Ie ak
believe that such inaterial evidence tk
aud will be produced, and that it will cc

charges (many of them vague) were made

W. Va.)

for a different verdict. State v. Madison, 48
W. Va. —-, 38 S. E. 492. The affidavit does
not comply with the principle governing ap-
plications for a new trial on newly-discover-
ed evidence, which are on like basis with
applications for new trial based on suppres-
sion of evidence. Roderick v. Railroad Co.,
7 W. Va. 54, holds that, to get a new trial
on new evidence, the party must state that
he had conversed with the witness proposed,
and must detail the testimony that witness
will give. Strader vy. Goff, 6 W. Va. 257,
says that there must be an affidavit of the
informant, and that an affidavit of the party
or a third person will not do. Brown vy.
Speyers, 20 Grat. 206, requires the affidavit
of the new witness as to his evidence, or,
if that is impracticable, the affidavit of per-
sons who have conversed with that witness,
“stating the facts he will testify. Now, this
affidavit says that the prisoners “are in-
formed and positively believe that the as-
sistant prosecuting attorney and sheriff pro-
cured the arrest of Reilly, Lynch, and Con-
hers on the charge of being accessories
before the fact in the murder in order to im-
pair and destroy the effect of their evidence.”
Is it possible that the mere fact of the ar-
rest, at the instance of public officers, who
are conservators of the peace, shall call upon
a court to grant a new trial upon the mere
pretense that such arrest was for the pur-
pose of intimidating witnesses without ade-
quate evidence of such intent? The affidavit
does not state what evidence those parties
would give, which is a serious defect. If
We nay infer from it that they were expect-
ed to testify that they saw the prisoners in
Wheeling on the night of the murder, about
8 o’clock,—less than 30 minutes before the
murder occurred at a distance of 51%4 miles
from Wheeling,—then it appears that Reilly
and Lynch did so state on the trial. Their
evidence was not suppressed. Are we to
Say that the mere arrest broke the effect
of their evidence? How do we know that?
Are we to say that the arrest in the admin-
istration of criminal justice of a person who
happens to be a witness impairs his evi-
dence, and calls for a new trial? The affi-
davit does not intimate any other evidence
Which these parties were expected to give.
Conntrs did not testify. Why he did not
we do not know. What evidence would he
give? We do not know. His affidavit as
to what evidence he would give is not filed.
Not a man who heard: Conners say what he
knew about the case, if anything, is vouched
for his expected evidence. The prisoners do
hot say that they knew he would give any
Particular evidence. Are we to guess that
he would give evidence favorable ‘to the
Prisoners’ ‘The aftidavit says further that
the assistant prosecuting attorney, “as affi-
ants believe, for the express purpose of in-
timidating witnesses for the defense,” de-
clared, “as atliants are informed and believe,
{n the presence of said witnesses, that any

HARPER y. HARPER. 661

person who should testify that affiants were
in the city at 8 o'clock p. m. onthe night
of said homicide” he (the assistant prosecut-
ing attorney) would have arrested, and that
this intimidated said witnesses. It does not
appear who so informed the prisoners. It
did not intimidate two of thein, for-they
‘gave that evidence; and as to Conners we
have no reliable statement as to what he
would say on another trial, no ground on
which to base any confidence as to his evi-
dence. Authorities above cited hold this in-
adequate. In addition, this intimidation was
denied, as stated above by Judge Melvin.
The affidavit states that the sheriff, as ath-
ants are informed and believe, summoned
Wingerter for the defendants, and that said
sheriff told Wingerter that he was expected
to testify that he saw the prisoners in Wheel-
ing at 8 o’clock of the night of the murder,
and that the sheriff “then talked to said
witness in a way and to the effect that was
prejudicial to the affiants.” Now, the party
who induced the prisoners to believe that
the sheriff so talked to Wingerter in a way
prejudicial to the prisoners is not named.

What did the sheriff say to Wingerter that
was prejudicial? We do not know from

this affidavit. Wingerter testified on the tri-

al that he did see‘the prisoners, but whether

on the night of the murder or some other

night he could not say. The affidavit avers

that he could and would have testified that

he saw the prisoners op the night of the

murder in Reilly’s saloon. Are we to say,
without evidence of the fact from Wingerter
or anybody else, that Wingerter would tes-
tify on another trial that he saw the prison-

ers in Reilly’s saloon on the night of the
murder, in the face of his own evidence that

he could not say that he saw them there

on that night? Wingerter did not say. so,
The prisoners did not hear him Say so. We
are asked to assume that the sheriff kept

him from saying so by talk “in a way and
to the effect that was prejudicial” to the
prisoners, when we do not know what that

talk was. We are asked to annul this yver-
dict on these vague, general, weak, and in-
conclusive statements and surmises, resting
on no solid basis.

HARPER vy. HARPER.

(Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virginia.

Sept. 7, 1901.)

CRIMINAL LAW —EXAMINATION BEFORE JUS-

TICE—MALICIOUS PROSECUTION—

PROBABLE CAUSE.

1. Under section 12, ¢. 156, Code, it is the

duty of any justice before whom any person is

brought for an offense, if demanded by such

person, as soon as may be to examine on oath,

in the presence of the accused, the witnesses

for as well as those against him.

_2. In an action for malicious prosecution, the

discharge, by a justice, of the plaintiff, who

has been arrested and brought before him for

examination, or the refusal of the grand jury

to indict him, is prima facie evidence of a

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The Mexican’s head jerked up in
sharp surprise. It was his first sign
of emotion since his arrest. “Mur-
dered? But who—?”

Andrews reflected that if the
young Mexican was guilty he was
certainly a remarkable actor. The
gesture seemed sincere, perfectly
timed.

Deputy Dudley entered the office
with a machine gun in his arm.
“This,” he said eyeing Cano coldly,
“was found in his barn.”

Andrews whirled on the youth.
“What are you doing with that?
It’s against the law—”’

“It’s Leo’s,” Cano burst out, and
immediately regretted his speech.

“So you admit knowing Leo Fra-
zier,” Andrews grinned. “It’s about
time. Well, having his gun is
enough for us to hold you on ..
until we get Frazier and see what
he has to say.”

Cano was lodged in the Kanawha

‘County jail pending further inves-

tigation.

N July 30th, Andrews received a

y phone call from the police in
New Rochelle, New York. Detective
Captain Vinvent Lewis was on the
wire. “Just picked up two fellows
you’ve been looking for,” he said.
“Charles Harper and Leo Frazier.”

“Good work,’ Andrews grinned
in sudden elation. “What have they
got to say for themselves?”

“They claim they don’t know
what it’s all about,” Lewis explain-
ed. “We found them acting. suspi-
ciously around a filling station and
figured they were fixing to stage
a holdup.”

Andrews moved quickly. He con-
ferred with Governor Kump imme-
diately, who signed an exiradition
request for the two men. Seven offi-
cers armed with sub-machine guns,
riot guns and all the paraphernalia
necessary to forestall] any further
rescue attempts, went aiter the

HUMAN
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But what I was hiding, what I
was dumping—that’s what was
worth money. Big money. I was
hiding a gun the police were
searching for. I was holding a small,
fat envelope filled with white
powder which was waiting to bring
happiness and forgetfulness to
hundreds of cocaine sniffers.

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HUMAN FACTS FROM POLICE FILES

pair and returned them without
mishap to West Virginia.

Andrews, Dudley and others be-
gan questioning them. At first they
denied. everything. But the wily
sheriff saw that Charles Harper
was the weaker of the two and de-
cided he would break faster. The
two were separated, and the grilling
of Harper was redoubled.

Taking a long shot, Andrews
said: “Harper, we know you were
driving the murder car even though
you were wearing a mask. Why
don’t you confess and make it
easier on yourself?”

“Easier?” he asked uneasily.
“What do you mean?”

-“It won’t be so easy for you if
you are convicted of the murder of
your brother.”

“Murder? It was an accident—”
He cut his speech off quickly but
the damaging words had already
slipped out. :

Andrews took quick advantage of
them. “Maybe Leo told you it was
an accident, but he deliberately
murdered your brother. Deputy
Dudley saw him do it.”

Harper was incredulous, but it
loosened his tongue. He said, “Leo
Frazier did all the shooting. But
he told me Ralph’s death was an
accident.”

“And you didn’t use a gun at
all?”
_ “J drove the car. That’s all,” Har-
per said wearily. “If I’d known any-
body was going to get hurt, I would-
n’t have agreed to rescue Ralph.”
His confession implicated Henry
Cano as being the third member
of the party.

Frazier was faced with Harper’s .

confession but even this failed to
move the iron-nerved ex-convict.
He continued to protest his inno-
cence.

On August 7th; 1933, the grand
jury in Ripley met under Circuit
Court Judge Lewis H. Miller and
promptly indicted Harper, Frazier
and Cano, who had by now admit-
ted being in the death car, for first
degree murder. Louise Frazier was
indicted as accessory before the

fact in the murder of Shamblin.

The trial began on August 15th
before Judge Miller. Charles Har-
p was tried first. He told the story
of the shooting insisting that he
drove the sedan but took no part
in the actual gunplay. Witnesses
for the state were Cano and Louise
Frazier. Cano told of Harper’s driv-
ing the car but couldn’t remember
whether or not he had fired any
shots. Louise told of watching the
Kanawha County jail until Harpe.
appeared, and how she had _ hur-
ried then to see Charles Harper.
She told how her husband and
Cano, both armed, were quickly as-
sembled and plans hastily formu-
lated for the rescue.

Prosecutor Watts of Kanawha
County and Prosecutor C. W. Staats
of Jackson County asked for the
death penalty. But Harper’s youth
and the fact that the state could

‘not prove that he had fired any

shots saved him from the hang-
man’s noose. On August 19th, he
was sentenced to life imprisonment.

Cano’s trial] began immediately
after Harper’s was finished. He
pleaded that he didn’t know what
was going on, and when he did
find out, he said, the others would-
n’t let him out of the plot. But it
was Frazier who saved him in a
startling statement: “I killed Dep-
uty Shamblin. I did it in self-de-
fense. I joined the affair with only
one purpose—in order to kill Ralph
Harper.”

The jury disagreed on Cano’s
punishment and he was tried again.
On August 30th, he received a life
sentence for his part in the crime.

Leo Frazier’s trial was swift and
his own admissions were the
strongest evidence against him. He
was sentenced to death by hang-
ing.

Louise Frazier—whose kiss had
meant the slaying of a law officer,
the murder of the man she loved,
and the final hanging of her hus-
band—changed her plea of not
guilty to guilty and was given 15
years behind bars for her part in
the rescue plan that became a plot
of murder. ;

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ning. When I met Len, and
he’d taken me out a couple of
times, and then the night he show-
ed up in my apartment, looking
a little nervous. . ;
_ It was a nice little place, my
apartment. Nothing elegant, but
clean and fairly modern and com-
fortably furnished, and just a lit-
tle bit more than I could afford at

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the time on my salary as private
secretary.

There was I, that night, sitting:
in the chair and wondering what
had made Len stop by. And there
was Len, the rising young lawyer,
sitting on the sofa, looking like he
didn’t know whether the water was
too cold for swimming or not.

I still didn’t know why he’d come.
It wasn’t for the drink, that was

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done « I left there with 2nother fellow and two women for Louisville and stay-
ed three days where we left the women and came back «:p the river to Cincin-
nati and stayed four davs, then up the rive: to Ravenswood and there out in
the country to my uncle's, drinking and cutting np. This was about the 14th
of September, 1864. I went to the Boises Still-house on the 15th of the same
month and got drunk shertly after I got there, and drank all day. That night
I stayed with 3 woman and next morni ng I returned to the Still-house and
drank all day. In the evening Boise went to Grogan's house, Shortly after
dark Grogan caine to the still-house with his gin in hishand. I was bringing
a bucket of water in at the time and es he came un I said: "Hello, where are
you going with your gun at this time of night? Il want to see Boise a little
while. He and Bolee went out and was talking, but I don't know what they.
Said. I lay down an? went to Sleep while they were talking until Grogan came
in and told me to get up and have something to drink, at the same time Iwas
so drunk I could hardly stand, I got up and drank with him. Then he said let
uS go and take Deem's to Parkersburg. I asked who is he or what is he? His
answer was "He is # damned Rebel and has been carrying news to the Southern
army". Boise then said WE WILL go, so he, Boise went to the house for his
Own gun and soon returned with it. Boise Says tome, let us go it is nothing
but fun. I told him I would not go. The Boise told me about Deem's turning
his hogs in his orchard to destroy his apples. Then Grogan said Deem's had
poisoned his hcgs (Grogans), We took something more to drink and then all
Started for Deem's house but had gone but a short distance when Boise fell
in a creek, and in looking for him I also fell in. We then went back to the
still-house and took off our clothes and hung them up to dry. While we were
doing this Grogan came back with both gins, he told Boise to give us some~
thing to drink, but he drank none himself. We Stayed at the still house until
our Clothes dried which was about 10 o'clock, Grogan and Boise went behind
the still-house where Bolse swore Grogan never to tell something, but I don't
know what it was. Boise then put on our clothes and Grogan called for some-
thing to drink, we drank and then started and the first thing I knew Grogan
was laying down a fence for Boise and I to get over. We got over and went
up the bottom near to the house and Stopped. Grogan said for me to go to one
door and Boise to go to the other. We done as we were directed. When I
went In I suppose J called tor Mr. Deem and said I wanted him to go to Park~
ersburg. He wes in bed but got up and asked me what J wanted. I sald we
want you to yo to Parkersburg, Boise then came in at the other door when
Deem says You are not going to hurt me are you. [told him he should not be
hurt if I could help it, not a hair of his head should be harmed. Mrs. Deem
then said There is Bolce, He said Don't call me Baice or dam you I'll shoot
you. Then sald tome, Ihave got a notion to shoat yor. for taking his part.
Boise then bursted a cap at me or Mr. Deem or his wife. By that time Mr,
Deem was ready to go, I then asked him it }o was a rebel, when his wife
spoke up and sald no, he is a qood Union man, Then I told her he should
not be hurt if I could help it, and that we wore only going to take him to
Parkersburg. Woe then sterted ont of the house and wont out the gate and
there was Grogan. Mr. Doom spoke to him and ssid, good evening Daniel,
Grogan said Don't speak tome. Mr. Deem walked on and asked what we
were going to do with him. Grogan said don't ask me that, you know very
well what Iam going to do with yore Mr. Deem said nothing but walked on,

I went to Pittsburgh after that and enlisted in the fourth Pa. Cavalry,
from there to Bull Run, from there to Antietam, where I was badly wounded
and sent to the Hospital at Baltimore. I was there about three months, then
went back to my regiment. I was then detailed as Kelly's orderly until I had
been in thirteen months, was then discharged at Pittsburgh. I then went to
Clarksburg and enlisted under Capt. Bowen, 3rd. Va. Cavalry. Stayed at
Clarksburg some time, then went to Weston and stayed through the winter,
scouting. Then we joined the balance of our company and went from there to
Beverly, where we stayed two days and then went to Greenbrier Bridge. Got
there about one o'clock at night, put our horses in the bridge, built a fire
and stayed until morning, then left for Hillsboro about seven miles distant,
and had a fight capturing some of the enemy, then returned to Elk River. That
night the rebels came upon us and captured five of our boys and our first
Lieut. We then went down to Beverly, from there to Buckhannon, from there
to Bull Town, where we stayed until spring, then I was detailed to carry the
mail from Bull Town to Weston. Carried the mail about two months, we then
went to Weston, from there to Clarksburg and had a fight below there and
had three men wounded and one killed.

The rebels were at Weston and we went to attack them but they retreat-
ed. We stayed at Weston a short time and then went up to Buckhannon, from
there to Webster, from there to Warm Springs, Va., where we stayed until
the fight at Droop Mountain, and was engaged in that fight, from there we
went to Rocky Gap where we had another fight, then fell back to Beverly in
the valley, then around by Parkersburg to Charleston, Kanawha, and from
there we went on the Lynchburg Raid on through to Droop Mountain where we
had another fight and from there to Wytheville, and had a fight there, then
we went to Staunton and fell back to Meadow Bluffs, where we stayed a short
time, then started on the raid. I took the small pox but stayed with the reg-
iment. Went on to Lynchburg where we had a fight, thenretreated to Charles-
ton, and recruited up, then to Parkersburg where we stayed two days, then
went to Martinsburg on the cars, then to Snicker's Ferry and had a fight, then
back to Winchester where we had another fight in which I received a wound
on the head from a sabre. Was then detailed to go to Tennesse with Gen.
Thomas. Came down the valley to Charleston and took the boat and went
down the Ohio river to the mouth of the Cumberland, then up said river to
Nashville, and marched from there to Murfreesboro where we had a fight.
From there we went to Chicamauga and had another fight and I got wounded,
from there to Chattanooga and stayed fourteen days, during which time Igot
well, from there to Lookout Mountain and had a fight but I was not in it. Had
another fight at Mission Ridge, from there to Tunnel Hill and had another
fight, then came back to Chattanooga, from there to Nashville, from there to
Louisville, from there to Cincinnati, from there to Gallopolis, from there.to
Parkersburg from there to Clarksburg, from there to Grafton, from there to
Wheeling where I was mustered out.

I then came home on the 28th day of July and stayed about ten days
then went on the river. I went to Cincinnati and commenced drinking, then
came back up the river as far as Ravenswood, got off and commenced drink-
ing, from there I went out in the country to my uncle's and stayed some time,
drinking and going with bad women and doing everything I should not have

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days at a house of ill fame and led an awful life. We left Louisville and went
to Cana with two women who we passed off as our sisters until we came to
St. Louis, where we kept them about twenty days, drinking, gambling and do-
ing everything that was bad. We then got the women drunk and left them,
promising that we would return but we never did.

We left St. Louis and went thirty miles to a little town (I disremember
the name of) where we stayed about fourteen days, and drunk all the time.
From there we went to Yellowstone, where we stayed four days, when the
women came to us. We all Stayed here two days, then we took them to New
Haven, Mo. and stayed with them a few days, when we left them and never
Saw them again. We then went to Cana, from there to Louisville, from there
to Nashville where we stayed three weeks at another house ofill-fame, drink-
ing pretty hard, we had two women with us. We left Nashville and went back
to Louisville where we stayed a day and a night, and then took a boat from
there and went through to Parkersburg, where wetook the cars and went to
Harper's Ferry, where we stayed two weeks drinking all the time. We still
had our women with us. From there we went to Grafton, from there to Mounds-
ville, where we arrived in the morning and left the same evening for Covington,
Ky. where we stayed two weeks. Here I enlisted in the regular army, when
the woman that I had with me came and swore that I was her brother and not
of age, and then they released me.

We then left and went to Louisville where we stayed about a month. I
was very wild, drinking all the time and going to balls, theatres, shows, etc.

We all left there and went down the Cumberland river to the mouth, then
back to Kendleton, Ind. where we stayed a few days, there we left the women
and went to Louisville and stayed two days, then took a boat to St. Marys and
from there I went home for the first time since I left on the 15th of Dec. 1854.
I stayed at home a short time and then started to school but only went one
quarter, then went on the river,

I got on a boat at Clark's landing and went to Cincinnati then back home
and lived with an uncle of mine named Outward. Stayed with him about nine
months, farming and did very well, not drinking any during that time. But we
fell out. I left him and went to live with Mr. Pickens, and stayed five or six
months but got to drinking and going to bad places all the time Iwas with him.
One night his stepson and me was drinking and got into a row and he (Mr.
Pickens ) accused us of shooting in at the window at him. He had us arrested
the next day but could do nothing with us. I left him and went to Newport,
Ohio, but was not there long when I enlisted in the three month's service in
the 10th Ohio infantry. Enlisted June 16th 1861. Left Camp Putnam for Park-
ersburg from there to Clarksburg where we camped for some time, from there
we went to Weston, from there to Bull Town, from there to Sutton, from there
to Summersville, from there to Cross Lanes where we had a fight some time in
July, 1861. My regiment was in it andI was wounded in the mouth. Our Col-
onel was wounded at the same. Stayed with my regiment until we were mus-
tered out which was about the 20th of Sept. at Marietta.

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Grogan took his gun and shot him. This was about one hundred yards from
the house. He fell and never moved. Boice then fired his gun off. Boice
@ said that is one of the best things you ever done, old man. We then went
down to Grogan's house. Grogan got some liquor, and we took a drink, then
Grogan went away and was gone a good while, but came back with a horse
saddled and bridled and told me I had to leave. I told him I had done nothing
to leave for. He then said you shall leave. Boice said make him go but get
a coat for him to put on so they will not know him. Grogan said to give him
some money to go with, so he will have no excuse. I told them that I had
| plenty of money of my own and thatI didn't want theirs, but they saidI should
have it, and would have to go, so they put two or three bottles of liquor in
| my pockets, then put me on the horse. I then left and went down to Belleville
| and stayed the balance of the night, and crossed the river the next morning
and went to Cooleville and stayed one night, and left the next day at one
o'clock. Iwas arrested by Capt. Logston and taken to his house, then to
| Parkersburg.
|

This was on the 19th of September, 1864. I was lodged in jail to await
my trial, which came off in October, and was convicted and sentenced to be
hung on the 6th of Jan. 1865. But got a writ of error. Boise and I let it run
within two days of our execution before we done anything, then wa: sent to
Morgantown and had it put off until the 4th of July, 1865.

! They would have nothing to do with it, saying the Court of Wood Co.

4 had not erred. We was sentenced again at the October term to be hung on the
24th of November, 1865. But got lawyer Jackson to have it sent up to the
Court of Appeals. It was then put off until the 9th of January 1866. I broke
| jail on the 23rd day of November and went home, and only stayed long enough

to eat my breakfast, and left for Weston, from there to Bull Run and there to
Sutton, from there to Buchannon and from there to Beverly.

I was arrested this side of Beverly, but they could not prove it was me,
and they had to let me go. I went to Lewisburg and then to Lynchburg, from
there to Red River, then down to Charleston, from there to Gallopolis, from
there to Parkersburg where I stayed one day and one night at the Virginia
House, then went to Cincinnati, then back to Parkersburg where I stayed two
days and nights at the Swann House, then to Moundsville on a boat, from
there to Grafton, from there to Webster, there I took the hack and went to
Phillipi, from there to Beverly, from there to Mingo Flats, then around Lynch-
burg to Charleston, from there to St. Louis and back to Louisville, from there
to Cincinnati, from there to Gallopolis where I shipped on a boat that run
from Malden to Cincinnati. I stayed on her a short time and then went from
Cincinnati to St. Louis, then to Louisville where I was arrested and enone
to Charleston, from there I was brought to Parkersburg.

I was brought back on the 10th of March, 1866. I will here mention my

treatment while I was in jail at Parkersburg. When I was first put in under
@ Rider I was treated very badly, locked up most of the time where I could see
‘ No one and sometimes got two meals a day and sometimes only one and the
coldest days without fire. I was here one year when Taggart took charge of
the jail. He acted the gentleman very much at first. but when I was brought

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Hudson, William. no race given, no age given, serbencedto_te (4: Ke.)
hanged at Franklin, VA (Pendleton Co.) on 18 Dec. 1846.

"The trial of Wm. Hudson,. charged with the murder of his
wife, two children, and his sister in law, last May, came
on at the last term of the Superior Court for Pendleton
county, convened in Franklin on the 2d inst. Judge Smith
presiding. A true bill for murder had been found against
him by the Grand Jury in three several indictments; but

he was arraigned and tried alone upon the indictment for
the murder of his wife. Upon being arraigned at the par,
the prisoner was asked by the Judge if he had counsel, and
upon his replying in the negative, the Hon. I.5. Perrys
backer was requested to defend him. The evidence was
direct and positive, being the prisoner's own confession
of the horrid and unnatural deed. He was most ably de-
fended by his counsel, who was assisted by Col. A.S. Gray
and John C. Woodson, Esq. The prosecution devolved on Col.
John Kenney, attorney for the Commonwealth, who acquitted
himself with more than his accustomed ability. The only
defense set up was the usual one-- insanity-- urged now

so frequently in cases of shocking murder. The jury,
(which we are pleased to learn was an intelligent one)
after hearing the evidence and the able and eloquent
arguments of the counsel in defense and for the prosecution,
retired, and in a few minutes returned the fearful verdict
of guilty of murder in the FIRST DEGREE!

The prisoner was then remanded to jail, and on Monday had
sentence of death passed on him by Judge Smith in a most
touching manner. Hudson is to be hung near Franklin, on
the 18th of December next. And thus will terminate the
existence of one of the greatest monsters (if he is a sane
man, and there was no evidence to prove that he ever labored
under derangement) we have almost ever seen. A man who,
without provocation, imbrued his hands in the blood of his
own innocent, unoffending offspring! and they too young and
too feeble to offer any resistance to their demoniac
father. (Richmond Enquirer, Sat. 17 Oct. 1846, p.2; from
Rockingham Register).

It is harder still because Horn
had the Frontier habit of exaggera-
tion and he may have inspired much
of his awesome reputation by his
own boasting.

His downfall, which divides opin-
ion to this day in and out of Wyo-
ming, began early in 1901. Two
families of homesteaders, the Millers
and the Nickells, had ceased to be
friendly, and when Jim Miller
stabbed Kels Nickell dislike turned
to hatred. Nickell, however, sur-
vived. His fourteen-year-old son
Willie was less lucky, for he was
ambushed and shot not far from
home.

There had been local hostility to
@..:; Nickell, for he had introduced
Sheep to a cattle range and Wyo-
ming’s feelings about sheepmen
lasted longer than those in other

states: the last major clash occurred
as late as 1909. However, at the
inquest, there was no evidence
against the most likely suspects, the
Millers, who seemed anxious to
place the blame on Tom Horn. In
his job he was everybody’s prime
suspect. The boy had been big for
his age, the light was dim at dawn.
Perhaps Horn, acting for the cattle
bosses, had shot the boy mistaking
him for his father.

The evidence was nil and the case
against Horn was too feeble to be
brought to court; moreover, a lady
friend of his, Glendolene Kimmell,
who had been ‘born and reared
midst the comforts and refinements
of civilization’, as she wrote in her
excellent statement on his behalf
after his death, was quite prepared
to state that the Millers wanted

above, left

Sam Bass was born in Indiana, as the
song about him begins. Here he is aged
sixteen.

above
Getting the drop, as pictured by Frederic
Remington.

suspicion thrown onto Tom: they
told her so.

It seemed, however, as if the
case would be closed from lack of
hard facts when on to the scene
came the sinister Joe Lafors, cur--
rently a deputy US marshal but
famous as a stock detective. He
began trying to crack the case.

105

opposite
Tom Horn, executed in
murder of a youth, was probably framed.
He is holding the rope which is said to
have hanged him.

below

Jefferson Randolph ‘Soapy’ Smith was a
master con-man in Colorado and at
Skagway in Alaska. His nickname came
from his trick of selling shaving-soap
sticks apparently laden with paper
money.

To gain his confidence, Lafors
told Horn about an opening in
Montana as a stock detective. Tom
got as far as Omaha, Nebraska,
where, breaking his journey, he got
drunk and, as always, changed from
a quiet citizen to a braggart. He lost
his belongings and had to return.
While collecting things together at
his friend John Coble’s ranch, he
had a note from Lafors asking if he
would meet him in Cheyenne.

Horn broke his journey back at
Laramie and once again got drunk,
so that when he met Lafors in

Cheyenne he was drunker than ever.

By the time Lafors had managed to
get him to the marshal’s office, he
was scarcely able to move and not
much better at talking. But talk he
did to deadly effect, for he described
in considerable and boastful detail
how he had killed young Willie,
while a hidden stenographer took
it all down. For this ‘confession’ he
was arrested, tried and convicted,
plead as he might that he had merely
been bragging and that the stenog-
rapher had rigged the evidence.
-His friends vainly tried to save
him, but his own words hanged him
on 20 November 1902, aged forty-
three. It was reported that he died
without squealing, to the relief of
many respectable citizens, but the
chances are he had nothing to squeal
about and that he was ‘railroaded’ to
the gallows. He was too experienced
a bounty hunter to make sucha mis-
take, besides it is hard not to believe
Glendolene Kimmell’slong account.
No doubt as a hired gun there were
plenty of questionable events in his
life, but not the one that ended it.
Unless new evidence comes to
light, however, the case stays open,
stll hotly debated in Wyoming.

Billy the Kid
Arguments still rage over Billy the
Kid, too. He has already been
featured for his part in the Lincoln
County War, but the most dramatic
moments for him were yet to come.
Fortunately, the real Billy is be-
ginning to emerge strongly, even
his boyhood, thanks to specialists
like Robert Mullin and Waldo
Koop, following in the footsteps of
the great historian of the Lincoln
County War, namely Colonel
Maurice Fulton.

Mullin has conclusively proved in
his monograph, The Boyhood of
Billy the Kid, that the notorious
outlaw’s early years were singularly
quiet. It needed circumstances to
cause any lethal qualities to erupt.
Popular novels, rushed into print as
soon as he died, followed newspaper
articles of his own day in ‘improving’
Billy’s life, and Pat Garrett’s The
Authentic Life of Billy the Kid
(1882), ghosted by one Ashman
Upson, was little better. So thou-
sands believed that twelve-year-old

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above

John Selman, killer of Wes Hardin,
shot his man from behind. The jury
acquitted him of the murder that it was.

right

Clay Allison was violent enough to
terrify most men on the Frontier.

104

people’s) money than some out-
laws, but the result was the same as
it was with most others. In his case,
the Texas Rangers ran him to
ground at Round Rock in 1878 after
one of his gang had betrayed him.
After being wounded by a Ranger’s
bullet and captured the next day in
the brush, he died on his twenty-
seventh birthday.

Tom Horn

Bass’s story is a straightforward
case of a youngster going to the bad,
but Tom Horn’s remains contro-
versial to this day. His early life
before he became a hired gun was an
action-packed one, for he served asa
scout in the Apache Wars under
the great Chief of Scouts Al Sieber,
who composed a glowing testimonial
about him when he later fell into
deep trouble. Wrote the once legen-
dary and now too little-known
Sieber: ‘A more faithful or better
worker or a more honorable man I
never met in my life... I can never
believe that the jolly, jovial, honor-
able and whole-souled Tom Horn I
knew was a low-down miserable
murderer.’

So what happened to turn a
youthful hero who could speak
Apache and was a notable leader of
Apache scouts into — so his enemies
said — a despicable killer?

Perhaps after the excitement of
the Apache wars it was hard to
settle down to mining, his first
occupation after they ended. He
became a Pinkerton detective, then,
probably, a range detective, which
must have been easy work for one
used to tracking Apaches in the
desert. He was in the Spanish-
American War, but invalided out
with fever, then he returned to
Wyoming, where he had first worked
in 1894. He became a ‘stock detec-
tive’, which might be interpreted
by neutrals as a hired gun and by
enemies as a thief killer. He was
approved of by the cattle barons, for
whom he represented a one-man
invasion, a small-scale version of
their botched efforts in the Johnson
County War, and he was clearly well
paid for his services, but whereas in
the ‘war’ it is easy to take sides and
support the little men of Johnson
County, what happened later is
harder to determine.

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and bred in our beautiful and thriving valley, through which the

Great Kanawha winds its tireless way, became acquainted with
"and married a Miss Hess, of Kentucky.

‘The two began life on Davis’ creck, (one of the tributaries of
the Kanawha, about four miles below Charleston), A year later as
a fruit of their marriage a little girl, made her adveit into this
wicked world, whom they named Alice.

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child, until at the age of fifteen years, she had’ developed into- a
pretty young woman, with curly, blonde hair, bright, blue eyes,
fair complexion and a well rounded figure. Added to her other
charms, was one bestowed upon her, far surpassing all others, that
of modesty, the greatest, that God can give to woman. Her
mother dying when she was but eight years of aye, left to her
care three smaller children,

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“sister, who was lying upon a bed of fever, a calamity befell her,

that will forever hover over her, a dark and cheerless cloud through

.: which the bright sunshine of happiness can never penetrate and dis-
“pel. It was on her return from Charleston, as she was hurrying
‘home with a light heort, joyful in the knowledve that she would

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“what was going on, he sprang forward to rescue’ the girl, but
the brute standing over his helpless victim, with the knife in one
hand, cursed him and made as though to draw a pistol. “Phe weald
-be rescuer, fearing for his own life, ran for assistance, and Ga Te-.
“turning found the fiend still with his victin in his clutches, and had
“to be literally dragged from her, He reminded one of some wild
‘beast, who once having gotten a taste of-blood was furious and
“erazed. He fought, he scratched and“used languaze so foul and
vile, as rarely passes-the lips of man. — But he was now in strong
; : eee 3b “hands, was dragged away and hurried ‘across the bridge into
J ase Sere eRe ane - Charleston and was landed in jail. Had not the officer having himin
ha nh et ro ES “charge acted so promptly, he would have in ten minutes been
all Laue aa -dangling from the. bridge, a warning to all such wretches of his
enish Pe ESO Ge stamp; for a crowd was rapidly forming, and one man had been
Mn Sagem epee et ‘detailed to procure a rope for that purpose, fo8
eo VG ‘ hee ws Le “= After he had been in jail about two weeks, he sent a letter to. |
ae test seg “one of the daily papers for publication, exhorting his former com-
“panions, and all other young negroes, t6-mend their ways, and pay
“more attention to the laws of city and state, and above all things to”
/- -obey their mother’s injunctions, -Disobedience, he said, was what
et 6 us -f<8)-Shad put him where he was—in jail, waiting his day of execution, .
Se Gy) t? ye0'2 Strenuous efforts were made by his.friends, for a commutation of —
adhe ss ES BBte ARs Pe eee ‘+ sentence to. life imprisonment. .But Gov. Fleming turned a deaf = <>
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his chin and neck. ‘The evidence proved him _ to be only fifteen
_ years of age, though such a horrible deed as his is worthy of alife |
i of crime. His morther is living, and the scene between -them
a > “when he first entered the court room yesterday, was touching. He
fell upon his knees at her side and wept like a child. He has never
been a worthy son, and his brother Cicero killed a young boy some
time ago, in Nutter’s grocery store with a pistol. .

His VICTIM.

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Miss Alice Bailey is a pretty girl of only fourteen years of age,
though well developed. She has blue eyes and short hight harr,
and ashy manner. She is an orphan, and the day the crime was

committed she was returning frora Charleston with medicine for
her sick sister. Her face is terribly strached, her eyes are swollen
and her throat bears the mark yet of the brutes’ fingers and knife.
‘Through the entire trial she sat almost motionless between two of
her girl friends, looking down, and only now and then glancing
frightevedly around the room. i

THE KNIFE

Used by Johnson to force Miss Bailey into subjection, was seen in 3
cy Sq ire Silman's office by a Star representative. It is a villanious

car: fee looking affair with a blade fully four inches long. It is on the
order of a hunting-knife; and is almost new.

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the course of jurtice seemed ‘threatening and imminent. On the 8th
day of April you, Sim Johnson, were indicted for this offense, by
the grand jury of this county, then in session, and on the same
day brought into court and your trail set for the following Friday.
Upon your statement made in open court, that you were without:
means with which to employ counsel, the court from among its
sworn oflicers, assigned two. intell igent and capable attorneys to
conduct your defense.

On April ro a jury was empannelled and after hearing all the
evidence in the case returned into court on Saturday with, a verdict
against you of ‘Guilty as charged in the indictment.’’ That your
trial was a fair one cannot be questioned. Not a single exception

to the rulings of the court was taken during the hearing of the

case. “Phat your case was ably and fairly presented to the j jury by
your counsel it is the pleasure.of this court to ‘certify. The evi-
dence in this case was that on Tuesday afternoon, the 7th of this

month, about 5 o'clock, Alice Bailey, a young woe girl, had »
started from Charleston to her home on Davis creck, and that
while going along the road bed of the C. & O. railway in the di

rection of her home she was overtaken by you, accosted with
an indecent proposal, which she rejected, and asked yon to let her
go on home with medicine she had for her sick sister. You seized
hold of her and dragged her over the embankinént towards the
river and there accomplished your hellish purpose by the use of
force and violence, armed with and exhibiting at the time, a dead-.
ly weapon. The ground on the track and over which you passed,
bore evidence of the struggle. Not content with once gratifying
your lust you were endeavoring to perpetrate a second outrage
when interrupted and prevented from so doing. When -first seen
by another person than the girl assaulted you had your left knee
on your victim’s breast, your left hand clutched her throat, your
right hand raised in the attitude of striking with a murderous
Jooking knife grasped therein. Your pantaloons were down over
yous feet and your nakedness exposed, your victim beneath you
with her clothing soiled, torn and rent, her body exposed from here
Waist down, struggling and resisting as best she could, while from
her throat and lips came a gurgling sound as of a person in the

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and Judge Bnyder proces:

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give why sentence
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when he was asked if he
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nee of the Court

wning—-4 Dramatic Scene

being unde aystood that \
Sim Johnson, conde nme:
hers who were found’ ¢ stil
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brougat into court, al! loo
on the qué vive, Vd uring

aged about 4

had ben committed almost
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discussed, and it became
girl, just verging inte wow
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throes of strangulation. 'Phis strangling and gurzline sound, as
the witness testified, had attracted his attention while walkin
along the railroad track sume qoor 50 yards distant. When told

=tod le “sthe girl alone your answer was an oath and a th rent ac.
& y

companied by the droppiig of the knife and a motion as though
to draw a pistol. While your victim struggled with you, and in
the very presence é of the witness, you strack her with your clenched
fist hree times in the face, and when she gave evidence in the case
she bore upon her petson the marks of the blaws and. the punish-
ment you had inflicted. In all the evidence in the case not one
single mitigating circumstance appeared, but from the bs Zinuing to
the end he whole occurrence was marked with a brutatity sé]
eharacterizing crimies even of this character. Phe youn,

i » girl
whom you assaulicd ts net yet 15 years “old, Sie Fs coin chy in
person and mudest in beiavior, and while walking in the hambler

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paths of life, she has been respected by those who Luew “her best,
her neighbors and acquaintances, for her good Character and stain-
less virtue. — If it is possible to do so by force fe bhavers bed ter
of her virtue, the brightest jewel of her “womenlicods. Pree otitis
time on you have placed upon her a mark that cau only be hidden
inthe grave. For this crime the law fortcits your dife: ‘Tiic court
has no discretion in the premises. [Here the stitute was qaoted |
Young in years, yoa are to be cut off on the very thicshald of your
manhood.

In this case your punishment is pot for reformation bat it ends ¢

your existence and should be a warning to evil ducrs who may life
after you. Your conduct has shown that thus far in life you have
been careless and indifferent a§ to the CONSEGIChCes G: your acts
and utterly regardless oi the rights and feelings of others. ‘There
Is ONE person, “however, in all the world:to whotu your life is pre-
cious. For her who brought yeu into life, and who

sat beside you in the dock “during this trial and-

showed that love and devotion which only a mother can feel for
an erring and wayward son, this court has the profouadest sympa-
thy. Tecan but express the seth that she may have con: olation in
the knowledge that she hus tricd to bring you up in the right w ay.

Jubnson, your time on earth is short, You will soon atone for

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+eath made up his mind to sell out and leave. all of whom, doubtless, are dead. While
Aared His zocds were advertised to be sold on in jail Turley professed
arth yaday, January 23, pn the ete 4 SINCERE REPENTANCE
’ Wednesday night, while - maddene Se eg ; . ,
with liquor, he choked his wife to death, patel the Preskerar hy, Ber. “, ny
a ‘of F epigtenae™ up q her ana ped aera J. L, Clark, of the Methodist church,
a eA: \ fos: Hier wudie,, dragged her body to the and Rev. T. L. Smith, of the Episcopal
it one Sorter te river and We Fag dog Bd on, y stone, church, who also accompanied him
j yurch, fe hed she : irate Saat 7 of ae rr ur ad to the gallows. Once after he had been
sain € Cam at the Forks of Coal. Her dis. ;
Mary

appearance was soon noted and, although SeHtenced he succeed
it he claimed that she had

most the entire neighborhood believed he opened the door,
Pal : that she had either bee

n murdered or 1 4 corn-field and brier thicket near
on E had committed Suicide, and started in bee ipl a R. Delaney’s residence,
aga ; ; Search of her. Her body: was found sh ‘back so > few hours later and
oh sod about 12 o'clock on the following Mon- cotineat d thet hate he was executed it is
er ; day night. When found she had on only vo seas Sealy
: 7 pam : HER NIGHT CLOTHING ; 6,000 PeorLe were PRESENT,

ae and a pair of Stockings and shoes. A Ezekiel Mays, father of B, ¥. Mays, of
with horrible wound, four inches in length the Srar office, was conducting both the
some wis on one of her temples and other Me and lower ferries at the time and
by his wounds and bruises were found on her kno ving that it would be impossible to
ica his ody. Turley had sat on the hillside in ferry the immense th
ness as

@ laurel thicket, watching the

searching @ pontoon bridge of flat :
party draz the river, for several. days, lower ferry, charging five cents to crogs ° >’
Vt He had a Enife with him. his intention each way. from which he realized 225,
\), being, be szid, to kill himself if his While many crossed without paying,
{ wife's body was found. but when that OWing to Mr. Mays’ inability to. collect
—— j event occurred he was at his father’s fast enough. He also took in about $40
conntey j house, sleeping in the fame room with at the upper ferry. Turley made an ad-
eataly. f his father and mother, his little childeun dress irom the scaffold, three-quarters of
Sg aa, i being in bed with him’ where he was ar- 40 hour in length, whi
pat was t
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boats at the -

chis said to have
Tested shortly afterward, His firstwerds been one of the most
by the

; ¢ impressive ever
i were: *‘ Whiskey has brought me to this.’ deliver ed by By oe on any occasion.
ided to 4 When put on trial he entered a plea of His three children and his father were
iii. i. not guilty and he

Was vigorously de. With him and he embraced them and
oe Ale. f fended by Hon. Davia MeComex, J. bade all an affectionate adieu. He lined
andl on: fi Green Newman and Col. 8. A. Miller, the hymn:
“hortly i

lhe prosecution was repregented by An- ‘Tis religion that can give,
- about y

drew Parks, John L. Moseley and James Tia yeligion cane ie shasta
» piver, 4 ., Hoge, and , ,, solid comfert when we die,
they led JUDGE GEORGE W. SUMMERS asked the throng to join him and
saneces at Was onthe bench, A large number of HINSELF LED THE SINGING. ‘
aud bad | Witnesses were examined and the case With a smile on his face, but with
parts. is. was given to the jury on June 2nd. Ten tears coursing down - his cheeks,
aud be days later a verdict of “‘guilty’’ was re. he stepped on the fatal trap
eparate. : turned. The sentence passed upon him and after asking Sheriff John Slack, Sr, -
agreed f by Judge Summers will long be Temem- to ‘draw the Tope a little tighter,’ Said: |
her per- i bered. Lhe judge reviewed the prison- “Lord Jesus, receive my Spirit. Lord
Torley . er’s past life and crime in eloguent bot Je— and the drop fell. "After hanging
divorce, Pe forcible language and closed by most forty minutes his body was ent down and
loawever, pe earnestly commending him to the mercy was sent to hig father’s heme on Coal
sin and a dea of God. The Jury was composed of Tiver where it was buried the followin;
eution of i Jesse Riley, foreman 3 John M: Surford, day, some three hundred People attend-
sted to eB. Ssmuel James, Hugh W, Lavender, ing. He came of a highly respected
tobe}; | ee Thompson M, Gwinn, J. 7, Copenhaver, family and it is a curious coincidence
oun Selbe, Hiram Samples, Philip that one of hig brothers, J. D. Turley,
be: sues Wintz, James Mf. Burford, Marshall P. Was on the

jury that found Kampf
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‘ With a Brief Aecount of Other Legal Executions

in Kanawha County...

“BY JOHN G NEALE!”

THE CHARLESTON DAILY AND WEEKLY STAR.

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Miller’s property, now occupied by J. H.
Goddard, where Mrs. Kampf died in
{¢ was common talk in the neirh-

ood that she was brutally treated by
ner husband and when she was laid in
er cottin and he was asked to step into
the room and see her, he replied that he

“DIDN'T WANT TO SEE HER, ANY MORE.’?

ite was always disagreeable about
his home and as his children
grew up the trouble between them in-
creased until they finally separated.
Common ramor said that Mary was
criminally intimate with one or more
colored men while living on the soath

is, Her father did all he conld to
break up this intimacy and used no
itle, means to accomplish his end.
treatment she wonld not brook and
‘ters went from bad to worse until
they moved to Dr. Carr’s place where the
terrible tragedy began, the last act of
which took place on Friday, March 7.
Kampf was the

FIRST MAN LEGALLY EXECUTED

in Kanawha county since the state of
West Virginia was formed and the
fifth in the history of the county. Two
negroes, named Abram and Isaac, were
executed in December, 1803, for the
murder of a slave trader. it was de-
veloped afterwards that Abram was in-
nocent of the crime. ‘he execution
took place in the woods in what is now
the back part of the city. ‘he gallows was
of the rudest construction and consisted
of a stout pole placed against two trees
standing about fifteen feet apart and sup-
ported by forks, cut from other saplings,
to the height of about 12 feet from the
ground, The condemned men were driven
under itin a cart,. the ropes were ad-
justed and the cart was driven from
underthem. ‘he second execution was
that of a colored man named Lewis

‘Uel, the property of Luke Wilcox, who

was hanged on Cox’s hill on Friday,
August 30, 1850, for an alleged rape on

- the person of Becky Skyles, who after-

wards married Thomas Lee. Lee met
with a violent death on Campbell’s
creek bridge on the night of December
24th, 1875, at. the hands of John W.
Dawson and Rufus Estep, who were
lynched exactly one month later, at the
scene Of their crime, together with
Mhoman Titnwed wlrey srittardenmch UU a ert
Fite, a galurad erg pea teeny aot tite hia,
on thy ptternoag of the saine day, “the

woman who wasthecause of Uel’s death
is now said to be living with a eolored
man near Black Hawk hollow. The fourth
man to saifer death on the gallows was

REY. PRESTON S. TURLEY,
who was hanged near the mouth of
Ferry branch, opposite this city, on Fri-
day, September 17, 1858. He was at one
time a minister of the Baptist church,
but fell into bad ways, which at last re-
sulted in the murder of his wife, Mary
Susan Turley, on Wednesday nicht,
January 21, of that year. He was born
on Jaly 20, 1822, at Lock No. 5, on Coal
river, and was married to his wife, form-
erlya Miss West, of Teays Valley. on
January 29, 1847. Some years afterward
he suspected her of unfaithfulness and
himself became intimate with a woman
named Mary Ann Dunlap. After some
time he took the Dunlap girl home with
him and she resided at his house for some
time. She was kindly treated by his
wife and this tended to strengthen his
suspicion of bis wife’s unfaithfulness as
he thought she ought to have left or to
have driven the Dunlap girl away.
Finally they

AGREED TO DISAGREE.
He was to sell out and leave the couutry
and his wife was to go her way. In the
meantime they carried on riotously.
She once started to the river with the in-
tention of drowning herself, but was
overtaken and brought back by the
neighbors. Afterwards they decided to
live together and Turley sent the Dun-
lap girl home, but he again became dis-
satisfied with his family relations and re-
newed his intimacy with her. Shortly
afterwards he moved to a house about
three-fourths of a mile from the river,
where, to use his own language, they led
a *‘life of wickedness,” giving dances at
which ‘bad men, bad women and bad
whiskey’ played prominent parts.
There he began selling whiskey and he
and his wife again agreed to separate.
He applied for a divorce and she agreed
to make no defense, but his father per-
suaded her to change hermind. Turley
withdrew his application for a divorce,
and things went on as usnal. However,
he soon became dissatisfied again and
began drinking with the intention of
killing himself, saying he wanted to
“drink himeelf to death aad zote hell,”
Flin wife teied tr : :
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i V (ENN A lu’. VA.
EISLE, Joseph, white, hanged Parkersburg, West Virginia,
3/6/1868. | te yf —

Atthe time the withts Pretace was written, the “Life of Joseph Elsele” was
Intended toa be pahlished separately from the introductory aecount ef
tin suuarders, (rini.«&ke. But the prisuner having since made other
arrnaugements, his’ Life™ sad letters written by himselfare
herewlth presented, com meucing page 22.

LIFE AND CRIMES
JOSEPH RISE 1, ALIAS JOHN SCHARER,

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PUBLISHED FOR THE BENEFIT OF HIS WIFE AND ‘CHOD, |

: Entered according to an Act of Congress tn sai ve year 1868, by Hildegard Armbruster, ia “grr e

NaTHAN, a slave,
Tyler Co,, Va. (Now W. Va.) “heriff attests that
Nathan, sieve ‘of Patrick Wilson, was hanged on

January 5, 1821, for the murder of his master,

"as tried with Ellis, another slave on Oct, 14,

1820, and Ellis had been executed in Nov. 1820,
but, Clerk XEXAZEAKK certified that Nathan' Ss
execution had been postponed to 1-5-1821. Clerk

Estate comp. on 11-8-1821

77a 1821

Tyler County, Va. (Now W. Va.), - The sheriff
attested that sllis, the slave of Patrick wil-
son, was hanged on Nov. 17, 1820, for the mur-.|
der of his master, Valued at 3375.00, Slave
Nathan also condemngd but his execution was
delayed until Jan., 1821, Estate compensated
for both on 11-8-1821,

was David Hickman,
for $300 for Nathan.
A rchives of Va., Aud, Rec

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ELLIS, a slave

arcaives of Virginia, Baditor' s Recrods, 1821

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4330 Bell Street
Kensas City, Missouri 6111

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NAME PLAGE — CITY OR COUNTY . DOE & MEANS
“ROBERT FORD ”, YA. SP (HARRISON COUNTY Y HANGED 1-29-1926 7
008 OR AGE *| RACE OCCUPATION ae RESIDENCE . GEN
25 | Black Coal Miner . Lumberport, °
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CRIME DATE OTHER © iad ¥
Murder 5-16-1925
\ VICTIM AGE 62 RACE METHOD
black Shot with revolver,
Edward Woody:

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“) MOTIVE

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| ae "Moundsville, 1-29-1926-seorge Ford, 25-year-old Harrison County colored man, who is bo hang at the
| penitentiary this evening at 5 o'clock for the murder of Edward Woody at Lumberport last year, ate
} a hearty dinner of roast chicken at noon today and ordered another meal of ham and kard boiled eggs
i: #8 for f6tclock, Alt hope of-a reprieve from tovernor tore hasbeen given up—by Ford-who-ts-resigned-

to his fate." CLARKSBURG DAILY TELM RAPH, 1-29-1926,

%., “Robert Ford, 2heyear-old Clarksburg folored man, expiated the murder of Edward Woody, his colored eR ee
/<” friend, last summer on the prison gallows Friday, Towering over guards who adjusted thedraps and

noose, Ford showed absolutely no emotion nor concern, He walked calmly to the scaffold unassisted
PO Nae - nd mumbled a few unintelligible words as the black cowl was adjusted over his head, He was pro-
Be tre eh og nounced dead XRXKXKHXKK twelve minutes after falling through the trap. At 4M 4 o'clock, an hour
ae before his execution, Ford ordered ham and eggs which he ate with great relish, Having been con-
victed during his stay in the death cell, he accepted his fate stoically, expressing his faith in — 3
his Maker to those who watched him consume his last meal, The body well be buried in Moundsville.

Ford having instructed the wish that Father MJ. Coghtan dispose of his remains,—_ford-—was—eon

HGRAPH, Clarksburg, We. Vaey

aint —Jan—s—30,—1926
isi Suh 7 4 “Waite Ivy s7cv

Indicted on 6-3-1925; Sentenced on 6-30-1995; Tried on 6-17-1925

~. "Sitting in the sheriff's office at the Harrison County Jail Satruday evening, Robert Ford, 2h,
< ored, a-coal-miner—o mbria—mine—nea : n detail of how he shot and killed
Edward Woody, 62, colored, also a miner at Cambria, Saturday morning, XHKEX The slayer, a stockily
ix feet tall, and weizhing 220 pounds, made bo attempt whatever to deny that ; :

he killed Woody, He tbld his s tory as coolly and as placidly as though he had been picking a ees
cotton in his native state of 4labama, where he was born and reared to young maniiood, "Woody : -

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a=. Ss, weevils

thought I was familiar with his wife," he started out," He kept accusing me and tetling other —— : Re |
people that I was intimate with her, But honest I never had a thing to do with that woman. Well, hes Sipe eter

last night (meaning Friday, 5-15), “oody, he came down the raitroad-and-kept— holtering!_end—— Rei el
shoutihg down at my house én he passed, Woody had a butcher knife then and when I asked him why
he was making so much noise he got awful midp He toid-methathe-was-going to_kill_me if it _were_
the last thing he ever did, Well, I started down the railroad tracks this morning {meaning aa ihe
i si r interrupte Se sik
atvurda - a. ry et
"How nate tines did you shoot him?" the coroner asked, "I don't remember exactly, but I emptied
: —my-guns—My—mind—was—so—hieh then_that I don't know what all happened, I didn't see whether or
. ‘ not Woody had the butcher knife or was armed," Ford continued to tell how he fled over the hills
after the killing and said he was captured by state police officers from the Haywood headauarters es i
ng denarats aveant edb dy ad me 5 d only receding October and his ae ue :
d ested h Woo ad heen married only p ed
tone a va i ie j aw her, James Foreman, colored, of Cambria, who is
APALAUS i Foreman told them
id to have seen the shooting, kept guard over the body, The officers say
pes ; he could defarmine, opened fire on Woody without exchanging words with him,"

CLARKSBURG TELEGRAM, Clarksburg, %% Vasey 5-17-1925«

‘woody actually 52. - KARXXXXKKAXHKAKXXMHRXY Robey was hom :
a! At tat at prosecution said Ford met Woody and Foreman walkin g along a path and, wihtout

er on to attentions

; exesvenaneing a word, opened fire with revolver, “4 oH
A bee: a avihe to Nrse Woody 30-years-old, These objections had occurred at home of James Densley
| of AS sana 2) e

had brot + oF nd obtained
at Cambria and Densley tad broken up the-spates Ford then-went to home of Donal Ross a

ttorney James F, Cann
hooting returned gun to Dolan Ross and fled, Defense a }
hand er oe. af : rderoie attack on him at Densley home, Said Woody

had grabbed a butcherknife and threatened life of Ford and Tehsley had stopped trouble, Defense

Slave ELLIS, hanged Tyler Co., We Vaey 11-17-1820; and Slave NATHAN, “anged Tyler
County, W. Vas, January 5, 1821, |

The following is undoubtedly the case:
"ANOTHER, = On Saturday night last a gentleman, whose name we could not learn,
was descending the Ohio river with five slaves, consisting of two men, a boy, and
two young females, which he purchased for the purpose of cultivating a farm in the
Myssouri Territory, was murdered and robbed by the two men. The alarm was given the
next morning by the three remaining slaves, and the citizens immediately turned out
in pursuit of them. On Tuewday they were in close pursuit, and it was expected the
murderers would be overtaken. The mrder was committed near the mouth of FISH
CREEK, The remaining slaves say their master had with him $500 in specie, and five
hundred in bank notes, The murderers took with them all his money and clothes, They
were purchased out of jail - one of them at Winchester, Va. The above account may
not be entirely correct, for when we heard the news from the neighbors we were tra-
velling ingreat haste down the Ohio river, and had only time to make partial en-
quiries, - CLARKSBURG, VIRGINIA, October 7,"
RALEIGH REGISTER AND NORTH CAROLINA GAZETTE, O,tober20, 1820 (32h)

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THE TRIAL, CONVICTION AND
EXECUTION OF THE MURDERERS

WITH A MEMOIR AND CONFESSION OF
|| —MORTIMER W. GIBBONY—

by L.£.Woug ‘las

th PARKERSBURG, W.VA, “= 1957 —

“MW COVER, DESIGN BY KW. CLEND a

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- BAILY T Aug. 20, 1926,

ws line to Meadowbrook stop and then went across fields to Gypsy to home of William Spencer (the pri-

. fifth grade school work," CBARKSBURG DAILY TELEGRAPH. Auge 18, 1926, ;
! Shaw was a grocery clerk at Lambert's Run, Crime on 3-10-1926, His parents lived in “labama and
he was the seventh child in a family of 13, On night of murder, he was burglarizing store when

* TRLEG RAM )-15-26.
- Was coal miner from Viropa near Shinnstown, Was arrested late on PM ofMay 9, 1926, near Haywood

: Son County Jail who promised to obtain and give information as to identity of Killer if released

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NAME . : PEACE —- CITY OR COUNTY - - DOE & MEANS
Philip Euman “We Vae SP (Harrison County) Hanged 8-20-1926
OOB OR AGE RACE OCCUPATION RESIOENCE Viropa near GEN
18 | Black Coal miner Shinnstown
RECORD ee .
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10: 30. PM
CRIME A HE
Murder onT™ -10-1926 stbeis
VICTIM AGE 20 RACE METHOD
Charles Shaw Krikex | ‘HITe
MOTIVE =

SYNOPSIS H

Believed by man to have the mind of 10-year-old child, Following his conviction, his friends and

DAILY TELFGRAPH, July 28, 1926

Crime at Ziesing. Alienists examining said to Gov, G
: ° ; e Gore that KHMAAX*XXXKXHK ",,.Euman has th -
age mind of any working man and that his mental state equals that of men who ia Bene fouls dae

Shaw came in and surprised. He drew a rdvolver and shot Shaw down. Escaped but captured a month
€ av trial, For last meal, chose fried chicken and watermelon, CLARKSBU

P Bake in ‘he ae re i ph ’ ; ba
A number of black convicts in room adjoining death chamber sang spirituals as he went to death,

aw tried to preve obbery frocery store a ar si S Wes F
at Ziesing. Shaw employed at store. Shot through lung, bullet lodging inspine, [n hospital not
%y 7 ag or Or ree rg s oe as a 2 ad ye . ? a s s n wr

oreary ond

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2 OT OWITeG . 24 tye ‘ F ay ¥
son and Jack Gardella, had stopped by store and were sitting on counter converseing with Shaw
i ver seen before, entered, drew oun and ordered them all to
throwxup hands, Ordered Shaw to open cashdrawer and give him money, Shew replied he could not
do that. Sahw's wife and infant daughter and in-laws in adjoining living quarters, Collins
entered store at rear and bandit ordered him to throw up hands also, Collins dodged behind door
and Euman followed, ordering to return to store. Shaw grabbed gun in store but before he could
release safety catch, Euman shot twice at close range. Fuman fled and doctor and police called.
Murderer described as being of light complexion, small of stature, wearing licht overcoat and
hat with a drak suit and black necktie, CLARKSBURG TEIEGRAMY=11=26, Shaw dted-on eth

while attempting to board a freight train, ‘as arrested on tip from prisoner being held in Harri-

himself, Made complete confession shortly after arrest. Admitted shooting but claimed that Shaw

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of witnesses was to contrary. He had fired two shots and only one struck Shaw and officers believed

soner who had turned him in) and had wound dressed there, His wound had bled profusely and officers
Wane able to folttow trait of vivod to typsy. _tiaimed to-have remrined in ftetts-andoods-in vict=
shooting and that both white and black

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™ a - 2 la rhon A ban nad me 2
and Clarksburg in 1918, Then went to Logan County where he was employed in mines, Then returned to
i j j s emloyed by Consolidation Coal Company at it s Riverside
mines “After confession called for his brother who lived in Northview, Said mother and other rela-
tives were still in Alabama, Had expressed his clothing to slabama shortly before shooting and was
preparing to return there, CLARKSBUR? TELEGRAM 5-10-1926,

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‘* murder by Sheriff
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FRAZIER, Leo, wh, hanged
WVSP (Jackson)
November 26, 1933.

Calendar of News Events.
(July 23rd to August 15th)

Wealthy Oklahoma
Oil Man Seized for

Ransom
JULY 23

OKLAHOMA CITY, Oxta.—Charles F.
Urschel was seized and carried off last night
by two machine gun-men. He is being held
for ransom. Urschel is a wealthy oil man
prominent in Oklahoma City activities. His
family is said to be in contact with the kid-
nappers, but the amount of ransom demanded
has not been made public.

CHICAGO, Itt.—The Olympic Golf and
Country Club, near here, was held up by
five masked robbers early today, and $44,000
in money and jewels was taken from the

-eighty-two guests and eleven employees.

PHILADELPHIA, Pa.—Frank A. McClatchy, real estate
broker, died here today from wounds received when he fought
off two kidnappers who attempted to abduct him.. Depart-
ment of Justice agents are aiding the local officials in their

hunt for the murderers.

CHICAGO, I1u.—John Levick, a policeman, was shot to
death here in Judge Holthrop’s court on the fifth floor of the
Criminal Court building, when two gun-men attempted to
escape. Pandemonium reigned. One of the gun-men fell

mortally wounded; the other was captured.
JULY 24

DEXTER, Iowa—Three members of the
notorious Barrows Brothers gang, of Mis-
souri, shot their way out of a surrounding
posse with machine guns near here. Two
other members, identified as Marion Barrows
and -his: wife Blanche, were left behind,
critically wounded.

CHICAGO, Inu.—A squad of 300 police-
men are engaged in an intensive manhunt,
for the automobile thieves whocallously
shot down police officers, John Skopek and
Elmer Ostling, yesterday. One of the fugi-
tives is believed to have been wounded.

SAN DIEGO, Cauir.—The entire San
Diego police are today searching for clues
that will solve the riddle of the killing of

Dalbert Aposhian, whose mutilated body

was found in.San Diego Bay, after he had
been missiig a week. The county physician
stated that the youngster had been killed by
“multiple mutilating operations.”

s Bas

Charles F. Urschel, multi-
millionaire oil man, who was
kidnapped from his home in
Oklahoma City, and who was

released only on payment of

the largest ransom ever de-
manded

CHARLESTON, W. Va.—In a plot to rescue a convicted

Japanese Plot to Kill
Charlie Chaplin
Revealed

JULY 25

TOKYO, Japan—A witness at the trial of
ten naval officers for the murder of Premier
Tsuyoshi Inukai on May 15th, 1932, testified
here today that the plan of the conspirators
had included the killing of Charlie Chaplin,
the film comedian, in the hope that his taking-
off would precipitate a war between the
United States and Japan. The plot was
hatched by a group of young militarists
banded together as the Blood Brotherhood;
its object being to rehabilitate the Japanese
spirit by military activity.

WASHINGTON, D. C.—A far-reaching
plan to curb the competition of prison labor

with private industry is being worked out by the National
Industrial Recovery Administration.

MILWAUKEE, Wis.—Roger Touhy, Chicago gang leader,
and three of his mob were arrested here yesterday afternoon
on Federal warrants charging them with being implicated in
the kidnapping of William Hamm, Jr., St. Paul, Minnesota,
brewer. .Those arrested with Touhy were Willie Sharkey,
Edward McFadden and Gustave (“Gloomy Gus”) Schaefer.

robber, while in the hands of the law, four gun-men killed a

Charles Chaplin,principal fig-
ure in a Japanese murder plot,
by means of which a group
of young militarists hoped to
foment war between Japan
and the United States

deputy-sheriff, a

nd wounded another. The robber was killed in
the battle.

NEW YORK, N. Y.—Dr. E. Warren
Sylla, a wealthy dentist residing at 21 East
90th Street, was found this morning by his
colored maid, Laura Hughes, lying murdered
on his bedroom floor.

JULY 26

VIEGE, SwrrzerLanp—Heinrich Walther
was found guilty here today of murdering
Miss Jerane Ibershoff, of Cleveland, Ohio, a
student of Smith College. Miss Ibershoff
was bicycling through Switzerland when
attacked. Walther received fifteen years in
jail, the maximum penalty.

CHICAGO, Inu.—Mrs. Vera Carl, 37,
accused of plotting the death of her husband
for his insurance money, was found guilty by
a jury here and (Continued on page 111)

Ralph Harper, the man who received
the fatal kiss,-which led to his murder

Deputy Shamblin was born and raised
in our county that the grand jury acted
so swiftly. Or, it may have been_the
appearance of wounded Deputy Dud-
ley, his arm in a sling.

At any rate, the grand jury speedily
indicted Frazier, Cano and Charles
Harper for first degree murder, and
Mrs. Frazier as an accessory before the
fact, in the slaying of Shamblin.

The next day the quartet were
brought to Ripley for arraignment.
The time of their departure from
Charleston was kept a strict secret, we
merely being informed that they would
arrive some time during the day, and
it was not until 3:30 o’clock that three
automobiles carrying the prisoners and
their guards drew up at our court house.
They were quickly unloaded and hur-
ried to the court room.

ANO, the first to climb from a ma-

chine, walked briskly up the steps
between two deputies, staring directly
into cameras which clicked along the
walk. Harper and Frazier held their
shackled arms before their faces, foil-
ing efforts to photograph them.

Mrs. Frazier followed closely behind
her husband and, when she saw the
camera men, ducked behind the back of
her two escorts, and then grinned at
the chagrined photographers. She wore
a gray dress of some summery material
with a touch of white. and black ties.

A large crowd, mainly people of Rip-
ley and vicinity, had stood about the
court house through most of a dismal,
misty day until the prisoners arrived.
Then they stampeded to the court room,
where the prisoners pleaded not guilty.

Pleas for time to prepare a defense
were denied by Judge Miller, and
Charles Harper was ordered to trial on
August 15th. Out of a panel of twenty
prospective jurors, twelve were chosen
—eight farmers, a merchant, a laborer,
a school teacher and a bricklayer.

Louise Frazier was the ace witness
for the State in the trial of the brother

The Master Detective

of her slain lover. She told of being
present at the trial of Ralph Harper in
Charleston, and of waiting in an auto-
mobile across the street icin the jail
until Deputies Dudley and Shamblin
emerged with the prisoner.

“Cano and I went to a home in the
Edgewood section where we found
Charles Harper seated on the porch.”
she said. “We told him his brother had
started for Moundsville. My husband
came out of the house, the three men
got guns, entered a machine and
whizzed out of sight.”

As the men prepared to leave, Mrs.
Frazier testified, she heard Charles
Harper say, “I will help my_ brother
this time, and after that he will listen
to me.”

Cano, appearing also as a witness for
the state, supported Mrs. Frazier’s
story, and added: “We went to the Sis-
sonville road, stopped to get gasoline,
and then sped on after the county car.
We caught up with the county car.
cannot say whether the defendant, who
was driving, fired any shots.”

DEFENSE attorneys startled the
packed court room when they chose
to rest without offering a single witness
other than Charles Harper, who denied
he had a pistol along. It took only nine-
teen minutes for Harper’s counsel to
present his defense—based wholly on
arguments that Harper should not be
liable to a death sentence because he
was unarmed. Prosecutor Watts of
Kanawha County, and Prosecutor C.
\W. Staats of our county, insisted that
Frazier, Harper and Cano were equally
guilty.

The jury received the case at noon
on August 19th, and three hours later
was back with a verdict that saved
Harper from hanging, but sent him to
Moundsville for life.

While the Harper jury was out, a
jury to try Cano had been empaneled,
and before the day was over introduc-
tion of evidence commenced. His
counsel conceded that he was in the
gangsters’ machine, but argued that
Cano was unaware of his companions’
intentions, and that when he became
cognizant, he tried to back out, and
Frazier and Harper wouldn't let him.

Chan Johnson of Charleston testified
for the State that on the night of the
slaying he saw Cano give his wife a
package with instructions to “throw it
into the river.” He later found the
package on the river bank and it con-
tained a revolver, subsequently identi-
fied by Sheriff Andrews as a pistol car-
tied by the slain deputy, Shamblin.

Leo Frazier took the witness stand
in behalf of Cano and, with a smile on
his lips, signed his own death warrant
when he testified, “Henry Cano did not
kill Roy Shamblin. I fired the shot
that killed Shamblin.”

In spite of Frazier’s testimony, eight
men on the Cano jury held out for
first degree murder with no recommen-
dation of mercy, and when the other
four members insisted on life imprison-
ment, a mistrial was recorded.

While the Cano jury was deliberat-
ing, Frazier was placed on trial. The
high light in the case against him was

a sworn statement given Kanawha
County authorities, in which Frazier
took full responsibility for the slaying
of both Shamblin and Ralph Harper.

Frazier testified that his only object
in joining in the hold-up was to kill
Ralph i o When _ his attorney
asked why he wanted to slay Harper,
Judge Miller would not permit Fra-
zier to answer. His first three shots,
he said, were fired at Harper, who
crumpled in the rear seat beside his
handcuffed guard at the first shot.
Frazier then was forced to kill Sham-
blin in self-defense, he testified.

THE jury deliberated one hour and a

half, and then brought in a verdict
of first degree murder, without mercy.
Judge Miller sentenced Frazier to be
hanged Nov 24th. It was the first death
verdict in Jackson County in thirty-
six years.

Cano went on trial again on August
30th and the jury agreed on a verdict
that sent him to prison for life.

A few minutes later, Mrs. Frazier
sent word from jail to Judge Miller
that she would like to change her plea.
The court ordered the woman brought
in, and she pleaded guilty to being an
accessory before the fact in the mur-
der of Deputy Shamblin. She was
given fifteen years at Moundsville.

On the night of August 13th—less
than six weeks after Roy Shamblin’s
murder—Cano and Mrs. Frazier joined
Charles Harper and Frazier in the
Moundsville prison.

Charles Harper maintained that
throughout his week’s flight with Fra-
zier he had no knowledge that his fel-
low fugitive had deliberately killed his
brother. Not knowing of the affair be-
tween Ralph and Mrs. Frazier, he
thought Dudley or Shamblin had
killed Ralph, or that he had been shot
by accident.

Henry Cano. He received a life sen-
tence for his part in the shooting of
Deputy Sheriff Shamblin

April, 1934

How ¥

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By Charles Waggoner

Who Made a Special Investigation
of This Case

deliberately, wilfully’ risks his life against
great odds.

That was what the police of Charleston, West
Virginia, thought when Ralph Wilkinson broke jail.

But they couldn’t figure out what it was. They
couldn’t see why Ralph Wilkinson should take the
chances he did for the little that was at stake.
Wilkinson probably would have been granted pro-
bation, or at least a mild sentence. Instead of wait-
ing for that, he had crashed out of the Charleston
jail, dodged a hail of bullets and careened away
on a wild, breakneck auto ride, risking death a
dozen times.

The police couldn’t figure it. After Wilkinson had
made good his escape they gathered in the office of
Chief of Police John Britton and discussed plans
to recapture him. ;

Something hot was up, they knew. Something
big, to make Ralph Wilkinson take a chance like
that. So they talked it over, Chief Britton, Cap-
tain Arch Brown, big, bluff Detective Sergeant L.

. B. Warren and the rest of them.

They didn’t dream, then, just what was up. Just
how hot Ralph Wilkinson was, just how much red
blood would be spilled because of the woman in
gray before this case was written into history.

Ralph Wilkinson and his partner had been ar-
rested earlier that same day, January 30, 1933, after
they held up a shoe store on Capitol Avenue in
Charleston,

A MAN must have a lot at stake before he

ID—12

Duet

Louise Frazier and the men, Leo
Frazier, right, and Ralph Harper,
below, who died for love of her

Three Men Were to Die When This Charles
ton, West Virginia, Girl, Forgetful of He
First Love, Was Too Faithful to the Secon

That evening Jailer Hudson Lightner brought
Wilkinson his dinner.

He unlocked the cell, stepped inside, half turned
to close the door.

A flailing black shadow catapulted onto his bent
back. He crashed to the floor. The tray of food
ri from his hand and clattered against the cell

ars.

Rough hands quickly were clamped across the.

Jailer’s mouth.

And an instant later Ralph Wilkinson was gone.

He had climbed down three flights of stairs in
long, sailing leaps, skidded across a deserted
courtroom, flung open a window and leaped out into
the night.

Half a dozen cops chased him. Three of them
manned a squad car. Soon Captain Arch Brown
and Chief Britton joined the chase.

Desk Sergeant Adam Bird reached the sidewalk
in time to see Wilkinson round a corner and leap
into a taxicab. Bird commandeered a private car.
But traffic breaks helped Wilkinson. He got away
clean.

But why, ‘demanded Chief Britton as they dis-
cussed it later, was Wilkinson so, hot?

Captain Brown said, “He took'an awful gamble,
breaking jail that way.”

No one even could venture a guess. They didn’t
dream about the woman in gray. .

The search for Wilkinson, they decided, must
settle down slowly into the well-worn grooves of

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police routine. A description would be assemble
printed on fliers, distributed throughout sever
states. Ordinary sources of police information
stool-pigeons—would be tapped. The underwor!
grapevine was to hear that a tip to Ralph Wilkir
son’s whereabouts would be valued highly by tl
police.

“We've got to find that boy,” Chief Britton to!
his men.

“Something’s going to pop if we don’t. Well, x
to work.”

Routine ground on. The fliers went out. Stool
pigeons were contacted. But nothing happened.

Night after night, day after day passed without
result—and still the police waited for somethin
big to happen, waited for some explanation of wh
Ralph Wilkinson couldn’t afford to stay in jail o
perhaps, stand investigation.

They didn’t know that death waited behind priso:
bars for Wilkinson. .

[DETECTIVE SERGEANT WARREN didn’t knov

that, either, when he first heard about Lec
Else he would have done other than he actuall:
did—and others besides Wilkinson might have bee:
alive today.

A stool, a small, shadowy figure who sidled up t
Warren in an areaway, told Sergeant Warren abou
Leo. The night was moonless; the Sergeant couldn’
see the stoolie’s face.

The stoolie said nervously, “Go to the joint in thc

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surt Street section where I sent you once before.
‘member?”

‘Vien?

‘Ask for Leo.”

t of the areaway slowly, looked careiully up and
wn the street.

Then he was gone.

Sergeant Warren went looking for Leo.

' THE smoke-filled Court Street dive he lounged,

watching every man who entered. He knew most
them; he knew that the mysterious Leo wasn’t

ere. The Sergeant waited an hour and a half.

The door opened and a squat, swarthy man came
The bartender said, ‘fHello, Leo.”

The man called Leo looked quickly, sharply

ound the room. He saw the Sergeant. He did

t hesitate. Purposefully he strode over to the cop.

» planted himself in front of the Sergeant and

vod there, expectantly.

Sergeant Warren said, “Did you have some in-

‘mation for me about Ralph?”

The man said, “Yes.”

‘What’ve you got?”

Leo struck a match and watched it burn care-

lly. He raised it and lighted a cigarette. Then he

d, ‘“Ralph’s real name is Harper. Ralph Harper.

s folks live in Huntington. Right now he’s hid-

s out near Staunton, Virginia.”

Warren asked, “What do you want for this infor-

ition if it pans out?”

lonelessly, Leo said, ‘“That’s my business.”

Ile turned on his heel and strode out of the joint.

talph Harper—was he really the wanted man?

Deputy Sheriff Roy Shamblin: He
didn't see the forewarning of death
in a girl's last good-by to her lover

d who was this Leo, Sergeant Warren wondered.
iat did he have against Harper? Why had he
ked?

\t Headquarters he told Captain Brown what
had learned. Both were skeptical. Leo wasn’t a
‘ular stool. Probably he was just somebody with
grudge against an innocent man named Ralph
rper, they thought.

still, they couldn’t overlook this tip. Harper
ght be Wilkinson at that. d

50 they went to work on it. The Staunton police
in’t know'‘of any Harper, or any Wilkinson. A
nily named Harper did live in Huntington.
D. Harper was the head of this family. He had
‘ee sons, one named Ralph. Ralph wasn’t at
ne, hadn’t been home for a long time, and the
her didn’t know where Ralph had gone. He
in’t know anybody named Wilkinson and he
in’t know anybody in Staunton.

Che tip looked phony. But the Charleston police
i no other leads, so they put a watch on the
rper home in Huntington. They settled down to
it for a communication between this home and
neone in Staunton, Virginia.

It came. Charles Harper, one of the sons, mailed
a letter one morning and a vigilant detective caught
a glimpse of the name and address on the envelope.
The letter was intended for, a Ralph Smith in

Staunton. . /

The cops descended on Staunton and pinched
Ralph Smith. He was Ralph Wilkinson, and he
admitted that his real name was Ralph Harper.

But he would say nothing else. He wouldn’t
reveal why he had so foolhardily escaped from jail,
why he had risked his life so needlessly.

The Charleston police might have seen why when
the lady in gray appeared.

She came to the Charleston jail as soon as Harper,
alias Wilkinson, was confined there. She came
every day.

In her eyes, her soft-spoken words, her ges-
tures, her tears, the police might have read her
story—the story of a refined, cultured girl in love
with a man gone wrong.

_ name she signed on the visitors’ list was
Louise Frazier.

Curious matrons tried to talk to her, and by
talking to her learn more about her. But she
scorned them.

She was too refined to be in love with a stickup
man, Sergeant Warren thought. Something was
wrong with the picture. Something, perhaps, that
concerned Harper’s mad escape.

One day, as she swished down the corridor and
past the door of the squad room, the Sergeant
snapped shut his notebook and said irritably, “That
doll’s been here too often. I’m gonna tail her and
find out who she is and what she wants.”

The Sergeant got up and strode to the door. He
was just in time. She left Headquarters and turned
a corner. The Sergeant followed, figuring to give
her a half-block head start.

For a moment he couldn’t spot her. But then he
saw her pert gray hat bobbing jauntily above the
sea of drabber headgear.

He set out in pursuit.

And as he plodded ahead he said to himself,
“You’re crazy. What if she does visit him every
day in jail? What if she is in love with him? So
what?”

But he couldn’t stop. 4

She had been coming to the jail day after day,
faithful as the sunrise. She didn’t look like a gang
moll. She looked like class. Class was in the way
she walked, in her always smart gray suits, in her
every gesture. ‘

Why should she visit a punk heistman?

She got into a car. The Sergeant could see her
fumbling with ignition keys. He ran back through
the crowd and got into his own car. As he pressed
the starter he saw her blue coupe moving through
the traffic.

He shot out of the alley and made the first stop-
light and eased up behind her. He followed her
through the business district, always keeping two
cars between himself and her. :

She circled and the Sergeant suddenly was inter-

A pitched gun battle for the woman in
gray took place here, just north of Ken-
na, W. Va. The car marks the spot where

Deputy Dudiey plunged off the road

ested all over again. She was up to something.
Else why would she circle, as if she were wary
of being followed?

Sergeant Warren knew she would figure-eight
her car around two blocks to find out if she was
being followed. He pulled over to the curb and
waited. Pretty soon she whizzed by and he lit out
after her again.

She led him to Huntington, where Ralph Harper
had lived. She went to Ralph Harper’s home. She
talked to a man on the porch of the house. That
man Sergeant Warren recognized as Charles Harper.

She drove to her own home, which was in
Charleston. And the next day she was back at the
jail to see Ralph Harper. Sergeant Warren knew
something was up, something big. But he didn’t
know what. :

She was in court when Ralph Harper was sen-
tenced to 25 years in Moundsville a week later, on
June 25, 1933.

And she was in the jail yard at four in the after-
noon when Ralph Harper was sent to Moundsville
—to the penitentiary he never would reach. ¥

Handcuffed to Deputy Sheriff Roy Shamblin,
Harper was led from his jail cell into the paved
yard outside the jail. From a little knot of people
she flew, her trim, gray tailored suit flapping in
the wind.

A deputy yelled at her, “Hey, you can’t—”

But he yelled too late. Already she had flung
her arms around her sweetheart’s neck. She was
kissing. him.

Half a dozen men watched her in the big gray
jail yard kissing her sweetheart who was going
to prison for 25 years. .

Finally. they had to drag her, sobbing, away.

Gruffly Deputy George Dudley said, “Let’s go,”
and opened the back door of the car. Deputy
Shamblin shoved Ralph Harper into the car and
quickly climbed in after him. The motor roared,
the car moved ahead. The woman in gray stood
silent, unmoving, watching the car as it disap-
peared into the distance.

N THE sstretch of mountain road between

Charleston and Sissonville on the way to
ao nerd Deputy Dudley first noticed the other
auto. . ‘

Dudley was driving. In his rear-view mirror he
could see a dark sedan. Three men were in it.

He said to Deputy Shamblin, “I think we’re being
tailed, Roy. Take a look.”

Shamblin saw the sedan, less than a quarter of
a mile behind. He said, “Step on it once, Dud. See
what that does.”

Dudley pressed the accelerator to the floorboard.
The speedometer needle shot to 60, then 70.

Shamblin saw the sedan come ’round the last
curve, closer than before.

“Slow down,” he said. “Maybe they’ll pass. If
they don’t—”

Dudley took his foot off the accelerator. The
needle dropped back to 35.

The pursuing car (Continued on Page 38)

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April, 1934

Frazier. They were therefore released.

Confronted with complex motives
for the hold-up that had resulted in
the murder of the prisoner, it became
desirable to locate both the missing
Charles Harper and Leo Frazier, hus-
band of the dead bandit’s sweetheart.

It became evident that although
Frazier might not have been in on the
smuggling of saws to Ralph Harper,
he undoubtedly would have jumped at
a chance to participate in the highway
delivery scheme. Frazier might even
have proposed the hold-up, figuring
that in the excitement he could termi-
nate one end of the triangle forever.

Whether Mrs. Frazier, incensed at
the murder of her lover and suspecting
her husband as the “double-crosser”
who killed him, confessed and named
the members of the gang, may never be
known. But, soon after Prosecutor J.
Blackburn Watts of Kanawha County
had informed Mrs. Frazier that Ralph
Harper was dead, he issued warrants
charging Charles Harper, Henry Cano,
a pal of the slain Harper, and Leo
Frazier, with the murder of Deputy
Shamblin.

CANO, a Mexican, who was seen loi-

tering in the court room at the time
Ralph Harper was sentenced, was ar-
rested the next morning in a police
raid on his home. A sub-machine gun
found in a near-by dwelling was iden-
tified as the property of Frazier. It
had been recently cleaned.

The Kanawha County court offered
a $500 reward for information lead-
ing to the capture of Leo Frazier or
Charles Harper, and descriptions of
the fugitives were broadcast to every
police agency in the United States.

Charles Harper was described as six
feet, two inches tall; brown hair and
eyes, and weighing 165 pounds. Fra-
zier’s height was given as five feet, six
inches; his eyes, gray, and his hair
dark brown.

We sent out 15,000 circulars carry-
ing the descriptions, pictures of the
fugitives, and the reward offer. It was
well that we did.

On July 30th, Detective Captain Vin-
cent Lewis, of the New Rochelle, New
York, police, arrested two men, clad
only in trousers, shirts and shoes, loi-
tering about a gasoline filling station
in his city. He frisked them, found
guns on both, and held them for carry-
ing concealed weapons. Two days later
our police circulars arrived at New
Rochelle, and Captain Lewis learned
that he had made a prize capture. Our
first news of the arrest came on Au-
gust Ist in a telegram from Captain
Lewis:

Have Leo Frazier and Charles
Harper under arrest charged with
carrying revolvers. Wanted by you
for murder. Case pending on our
violation,
{
Seven West Virginia officers, armed
with Governor Kump’s requisition, the
slayers having refused to waive extra-
dition, left immediately by automobile
for New Rochelle. Sub-machine guns,
riot guns and automatic pistols were

The Master Detective

taken along to provide better resis-
tance if another highway delivery were
attempted.

Meanwhile the fugitives were held in
separate parts of the city prison, Fra-
zier having been put in the women’s
section so that he could not communi-
cate with the more talkative Harper. ’

Before our officers arrived, young
Harper signed a statement in which he
admitted being present when his
brother and Deputy Shamblin were
killed, but denying that he had fired
any shots. Harper named Frazier as
the trigger man. Frazier, when he
learned of this, protested his innocence,
declaring Harper was just trying to
“get me into a jam.”

West Virginia justice moves swiftly.

On August /th—thirteen days after the,

murder—Circuit Judge Lewis H. Miller
opened the August court term at
Ripley.

“Your presence here is fraught with
serious responsibility,” said Judge Mil-
ler to the grand jury. “Seldom is an
outrageous crime committed in your
county, but now and then we are
brought to a realization that crime is
present here even as vicious and as
shocking as that existing among the
gangs in the great cities of the country.

“An incident has recently occurred in
which three men were shot down in an
automobile upon a public highway of
this county, without cause or excuse,
by a gang of criminals. And in addi-
tion, two of them were trusted and
efficient officers of the law of a sister
county and at the time engaged in the
performance of the power and the au-
thority conferred upon them by the
people of the state. They were agents
and emissaries of the people and, gen-
tlemen of the jury, they and their
families have the right to expect that
the people will uphold and protect
them in the performance of their duty.

‘T TRUST that it may not become

necessary for any citizen of this
county to be forced to apologize to the
great law-abiding citizenship of the sis-
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tion of duty on the part of the Jackson
County grand jury. I have faith and
confidence enough in the citizenship of
this county to prophesy that the swift
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people will be fully commensurate with
the commission of such crime. This is
no day for parley, nor sympathy, nor
mercy; it is a day to meet the problem
face to face and settle it in the light of
our own conscience and the highest de-
mands of the law.”

Commenting upon the gigantic scope
of crime and President Roosevelt’s ac-
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upon the people to become active
agents in preservation of the law. He
said there was too much maudlin senti-
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“Those who commit crimes have no
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upon the sympathies of the jury,” con-
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DETECTIVE

“And that woman—the one who
kissed Harper when we started off
—think she was in on this rescue
stuff?” Dudley persisted. “Think
she fingered Ralph Harper with
that big kiss of hers?” .

“It’s an angle,” Andrews ac-
knowledged. “We've got to think of
everything in a deal like this.”

The sheriff picked Shamblin’s
gun out of the car wreckage. Deft-
ly he broke open the firing cham-
ber. It was empty. Shamblin’s bul-
lets had gone somewhere. Had he
hit any of the “rescue” party? If
so, some one other than the wound-
ed Dudley would be needing a doc-
tor. ,
He thought of the prisoner.
Wounded or dead? And if the “res-
cuers” had simply wanted to mur-
der him, why had they taken him
away? If he were still alive, an-
other bullet would have finished
him off. Why had the man’s dead
body not been abandoned in the
county car? ‘

At the sheriff’s request, the state
men immediately relayed informa-
tion on the gun battle to the po-
lice. radio system along with the
descriptions of Ralph Harper and
his murderous “rescuers.” Soon dis-
patcher’s word droned out the
meager facts hourly and alert offi-
cers and citizens were watching all
roads for the big black sedan.

The teacher and the school boys
added what little they knew about
the affair. They could not be sure
that the little man had deliberate-
ly shot Harper, but agreed it had
appeared that way.

“Was the man dead?” Knotts
asked.

“J don’t think so,” the teacher
said quickly. She explained that the
gunman’s companion had rushed
forward, taken one quick glance at
the wounded man, and shouted:
“Ralph’s not dead—we’ve got to get
him to a doctor!”

“What about these handcuffs?”
another voice asked.

“We'll have to shoot them off,”

the first voice replied. This remark,
she said, was immediately followed
by the sharp report of a revolver.

She described the scene of the
two men lifting the groaning Har-
per from the rear seat of the county
car, while blood poured from his
chest, and the smashed handcuff
links dangled from his right hand.
They had carried him gently, she
said, to the black sedan.

“Then they turned the _ car
around and headed toward Charles-
ton.” she added.

The boys could add little to the

HUMAN DETECTIVE CASES

_KISS.OF DEATH--..-

descriptions of the wanted men.
One of them said he thought the
driver of the sedan, the man with
the mask, resembled Ralph Har-
per.

Andrews turned to Knotts. “Har-
per has three brothers. It could
have been one of them.”

“But would a brother have any-
thing to do with a thing like this—
a rescue party designed for mur-
der?” Knotts countered.

Andrews shrugged. “It could have
been an accident. The gunman was
probably aiming at Shamblin. Re-
member the prisoner was hand-
cuffed to him. Perhaps Shamblin
jerked suddenly and pulled the
prisoner directly into the line of
fire. It’s the only thing that makes
sense.” He shook his head gravely.
“It’s a strange business.”

The ambulance attendants re-
moved the body of the slain deputy
and sped off to the capital city.
Members of the state highway po-
lice superintended the removal of
the wrecked county car to Charles-
ton. Deputy Dudley rode in with
Sheriff Andrews who wanted to
take him to a hospital. Dudley
shook his head firmly. “I’ve had
the arm dressed. I feel okay. I’ve
got to be in on this—every step of
the way. I won’t rest until we get
every one of those cold-blooded
killers... .”

NDREWS kept in close contact

with Governor Kump who di-
rected much of the search for the
gunman from his headquarters in
the state capitol. He spent long
hours at his desk advising state po-
lice on various angles, frequently

conferring with Knotts and Dudley. |

They talked the case over from
beginning to. end analyzing each
peculiar little shred of information.
“T still can’t get that woman out
of my mind,” Dudley said. “How
she knew we were going to move
Harper today is a mystery to me.”

“J’ve thought about that, too,”
Andrews admitted. “The only way
I can figure it out is that she just
planted herself outside the jail—
and waited. She was probably all
set to wait for several days, if ne-
cessary. We played right into her
hand by moving him so promptly.”

The deputy nodded. “Think that
kiss of hers was a Judas kiss?”

“Looks like it. Of course, she
might not have been connected
with the “rescue” at all. The killers
might have followed her without
her knowing it. Maybe they used
her to identify him.”

“You mean they wanted to kill

(Continued from page 15)

Harper when they didn’t even know
what he looked like?” Dudley was
incredulous.

“Could be,” said the sheriff slow-
ly. “Nothing in this case seems to
make any sense. Remember when
Harper and his buddy broke jail.

His buddy was captured immediate-

ly; he got away for about six
months. His buddy had pals on the
outside, too—and they might have
thought Harper had something. to
do with his quick return behind
bars. Thev’re revenge crazy, those
gun-mad punks.” -

He stood up. “Let’s go see what
Harper’s cell looks like. Maybe he
left something behind that will give
us a lead.”

The two men went to Harper’s
cell and vegan a methodical search.
Their success was greater than they
expected. Hidden away beneath the
mattress were all the essentials of
a jail break: a fully loaded revolver,
hack saw blades and nitric acid.

They stared in quiet astonish-
ment at the neat collection. “Well,
YN) be. . . !” Dudley murmured.
“How do you suppose he managed
this?”

Once again the picture of a pas-
sionate kiss flashed through the
sheriff’s mind. “Only one way,” he
said grimly. “Someone—possibly. a
visitor—brought them in to him,
And,” he added, “I’ve got a pretty
good idea who it was.”

He turned from a study of the
items to face Dudley. “That wom-
an—do you ever remember seeing
her before?” :

The deputy closed his eyes as he
conjured up her vision. But there
was no recollection in his eyes as
he opened them. “I’m afraid not,”
he admitted ruefully. “I didn’t pay
much attention to Harper’s visi-

tors. At least, I don’t remember —

seeing her .before.”

The entire set-up added up into
a picture of love and planned es-.
cape. A rescue was substituted, the
sheriff decided, when the prisoner
was removed from the county jail
so soon after his trial. Bud Dudley
was positive that the gunmen in-
tended to murder Harper. Where
did murder fit into the love pic-
ture? Was the passionate embrace
and feverish kiss the mark of Ju-
das?

Eagerly, Andrews and Dudley ex-
amined the visitor’s roster, found
that one particular woman had vis-
ited him more often than. others.
She had, in fact, visited him every
day, and when permitted to do so,
twice a day. And court room at-
taches said she had been in the

courtroom
was sente)
robbery.
The °
Louise F..
“Frazier?
wrinkled a
around on
there a Le
leased from
ago?”
Dudley n«
the connec:
“T don’t
ted, “but I
‘It was ¢
to check t?
ords revea
wife was :
dug deepe
of Mrs. I
that the -
Ralph Har
the same.
More co:
as the off!
ditional] in
Frazier’s °
stant com;
there a tie
Frazier?
More th
looked like
of death.
crossed Le
A pick -i
the 26-yer
as dawn we
from West
in. Dudley
her and ic
brunette a:
administere
death.
Thoug!
hours, s}
neatly. \ _
embarrassin
shoulders a:
Silence. “Yo
stop,” she i.
not talking!
Meanwhi!
searched thr
she had driv:
yard. And wi
officers mad.
ordered the
close-mouth:
The Virgi:
car, they re
The motor :
_ proved it t:
had been st
“Doesn't
talks or no
fully. “Lei

’ about the «

Continued
police files
‘Ralph Ho:
home was i

A talk
quiet-voiced

“sons reveale:

though greai

.affair and o:

timely deat).

it even know
’ Dudley was

sheriff slow-
case seems to
nember when
dy broke jail.
ed immediate- *
for about six
ad pals on the
ey might have
something. to
return behind
e crazy, those

s go see what
ike. Maybe he
that will give

nt to Harper’s
hodical search.
--ter than they
beneath the
essentials of
jaded revolver,
a nitric acid.
uiet astonish-

lection. “Well,..--.4

y murmured.
> he managed

icture of a pas-
d through the
iy one way,” he
yne—possibly @
em in to him.
‘ve got a pretty
vas.”

a study of the
-y. “That wom-
»member seeing

d his eyes as he
ision. But there
1 in his eyes as
I’m afraid not,”
ly. “I didn’t pay
) Harper’s visi-
don’t remember

» added up into
nd planned es-.
substituted, the.
1en the prisoner
the county jail
ial. Bud Dudley
the gunmen in-
Harper. Where
o the love pic-
sionate embrace
- mark of Ju-

and Dudley ex-
~'s roster, found
voman had vis-
n than others.
..sited him every
rmitted to do so,
’ court room at-
had been in the

‘ courtroom on the very uay Harper

was sentenced fur tiic sive store
robbery.

The woman’s nam* was Mrs.
Louise Frazier.

“Frazier?” The sheritt’s forehead
wrinkled as he rolleu the name
around on his tongue. ‘“Wasn’t
there a Leo Frazier who was re-+
leased from prison just a few weeks
ago?”

Dudley nodded. “So what? What’s
the connection?”

“I don’t know,” Andrews admit-
ted, “but I’m going to find out.”
‘It was a simple enough matter
to check the files. And police rec-
ords revealed that Leo Frazier’s
wife was named Louise. Andrews
dug deeper, obtained a description
of Mrs. Louise Frazier—and knew
that the woman who had kissed
Ralph Harper farewell was one and
the same.

More complications were added
as the officers considered this ad-
ditional information. Why had Leo
Frazier’s wife been Harper’s con-
stant companion and visitor? Was
there a tie-up between Harper and
Frazier? ‘

More than ever that last kiss
looked like the double-crossing lips
of death. Had- Harper double-

_ crossed Leo Frazier?

A pick-up order was issued for

the 26-year-old woman. And just
as dawn was breaking, two officers
from West Charleston brought her
in. Dudley took one quick look at
her and identified the attractive
brunette as ‘the woman who had
administered the passionate kiss of
death.
. Though they questioned her for
hours, she parried their questions
neatly. When the questions grew
embarrassing, she shrugged her
shoulders and lapsed into a stony
silence. “You might just as well
stop,” she finally told them. “I’m
not talking!”

Meanwhile, a corps of officers
searched the. woman’s coupe which
she had driven into the courthouse
yard. And when these investigating
officers made their report, Andrews
ordered the jailor to lock up the
close-mouthed woman.

The Virginia license plates on her
car, they reported, were phonies.
The motor number on the engine
proved it to be a machine which
had been stolen in Canada.

“Doesn’t matter whether she
talks or not,” Andrews said cheer-
fully. “Let her start explaining
about the coupe.”

Continued search in the massive
police files revealed the names of

‘Ralph Harper’s relatives. Their

home was in Huntington.

A talk with the respectable,
quiet-voiced man anc one of his
sons revealed little. The Harpers,
though greatly excited about the

affair and broken up by the un-

timely death of Ralph, were shy

HUMAN FACTS FROM POLICE FILES

of information. “I swear to God,”
the father said, “I know nothing
about it. I’m as much in the dark
as you are. I only hope they get
Ralph to a doctor.”

“Where is your son, Charles?”
Andrews asked.

The man’s face was grave with
sincere concern. “I don’t know,
Sheriff, and that’s gospel truth. He
hasn’t been home in a day or two.
Think he knows anything about
this affair?”

Dudley spoke up. “The man who
drove the black sedan wore a mask.
But he was about the same size as
Ralph and walked like him. It oc-

ALL FOR LOVE

A native of Luderitz, South Africa,
evidently had no faith in women, wheth-
er they happened to be his own wife
or someone else’s. Called on the phone
to the man’s home, the police found
his wife bound hand and foot, She had
managed to roll herself over to the
phone.

At first the officers thought it was a
robbery. But the woman explained that
her husband had done this every morn-
ing for several weeks before he went
to work, and that she had finally got
tired of it and had decided to call the
police. :

The husband admitted it. But he
contended, he had only done it because
he wanted to make sure that his wife
would be faithful to him while he was
gone. e

curred to me it might have been
a brother.”

Mr. Harper’s face mirrored fear.
“T hope not,” he said, and his voice
broke. “One member of the family
in a thing like this... it is enough.”

Andrews stationed several state
men to watch the Harper home on
the chance that Charles would re-
turn. There was no direct evidence
linking him with the murder-rescue
gang, but the Kanawha County
sheriff was. overlooking no possibil-
ities.

A few hours later the telephone
awakened Andrews out of the first
sleep he had had in more than two
days. A state police officer was on
the phone. “We just found Ralph
Harper,” the man said.

“But how?”

The officer explained. “We saw
a big black sedan pull into Har-
per’s yard and we closed in at once.
Two men leaped out and made for
the woods close to the house. When
we were certain we couldn’t catch
them in the blackness—they van-
ished immediately and seemed to
be well acquainted with the area—
we examined the car.

“We found Harper in it—dead.
We called Cabel County Coroner F.

Schuler and he says there’re two

bullets in him. Powder burns

around the holes. Looks like Dud-
Jey was right when he said the
killer deliberately shot Harper and
meant to murder him.”

“Give that car a thorough going
over,” Andrews ordered. “Check up
on its registration. Chances are it’s
another stolen buggy.”

ARLY the next day Andrews

and Dudley drove to Hunting-
ton and talked with Coroner Schu-
ler about Harper’s wounds. “The
one that killed him,” the coroner
told them, “was fired into his chest
at close range. The gunman could
not have been more than a couple
of feet away.”

He showed Andrews the leaden
slugs he had taken from the body
of the murdered convict. The sher-
iff quickly compared them with
bullets fired from Shamblin’s gun.
Even with the naked eye he could
see that they were dissimilar.

“How long did he live after he
was shot?”

The coroner considered. “Not
more than an hour.”

Another interview with Harper’s
father and brother again brought
no results. They refused to believe
that Ralph had been intentionally
murdered, and could offer no clue
to his killer. “We knew little of
Ralph’s activities,” his father said
sadly, “and few of his friends.”

“How about Mrs. Frazier?” An-
drews snapped. “What was Ralph’s
tie-up with her?”

“Mrs. Frazier?” The elder Har-
per shook his head. “I never heard
of her.” Nor had the son heard
anything about the attractive mar-
ried woman.

The report on the getaway sedan
was not long in coming through. It
had been stolen, as they expected,
in Richmond.

Governor Kump stayed on in the
investigation utilizing the entire
state police force to run down hun-
dreds of tips and dozens of leads.
But still the exhaustive investiga-
tion netted them nothing. Charles
Harper’s whereabouts remained a
mystery. And a search for Leo Fra-
zier, ex-convict, revealed only that
he had disappeared from his usual
haunts. The homes of his relatives
were being surreptitiously watched,
and his description had been wide-
ly broadcast. ;

“All we’ve got is the woman,”
Andrews said. “And she won’t
talk!”

“She’s the key to the whole
story,” Deputy Dudley insisted.
“She's got to talk.”

Andrews nodded _ thoughtfully.
“We'll start digging into her past,”
he said quietly. “Into her marriage
with Frazier—into her friends—
into her family. Somewhere there’s
got to be a lead.” ’

They started digging. Among oth-
er things they learned that the
woman. had relatives in Statnton,

Virginia, and that for many yéars
it had been her home. To Staunton
went the two persistent sleuths.
“That's where-they picked up Har-
per, isn’t it?” Dudley asked. The
sheriff smiled wryly as he nodded
his head.

Louise Frazier, they discovered
quickly, was well known in the
quiet southern city. The officers
weren't long in picking up the trail
of the local gossips who gave them
an exhaustive line on the activities
of the convict’s wife.

“She took up with some young
punk after her man got sent up,”
one woman sneered. “Guess you
couldn’t blame her though. Her
man behind bars—and this other
young whelp so tall and handsome,
even if he was mean-looking.”

Andrews produced a photo of the
dead Harper. “Was this the young
man?”

The woman nodded her head.
“That’s him,” she said with con-
viction.

“Was she living with him?”

“Well, no-o-o. The way I heard
it he didn’t know she was already
married until he asked her to mar-
ry him.” ;

“And then what happened? Did
he get sore?”

“I should say not. They got
chummier than ever. And when the
police picked him up and took him
to Charleston, she piled into that
coupe of hers and went right along’
with him—tagged behind the state
car all the way they say.”

After leaving their informant,
they considered their new store of
information. “No doubt Harper got
chummier with her when he learn~
ed she was married to a con be-
cause he was a fugitive himself. It
gave them something in common,”
Andrews reasoned.

Dudley nodded. “Remember that
tip we got over the telephone about
where to find Ralph Harper? Re-
member it was a woman made that
call?”

The sheriff nodded. “I’ve been
thinking about that.”

“But why would she turn on him
when she had been so devoted?”
Dudley frowned. ‘“That’s what I
can’t figure.”

“After her husband got out—”
Andrews mused softly, ‘“—she could
have tired of her boy friend. Or Leo

could have brought. pressure to:

bear.” He shook his head and his
eyes were narrowed in thought.
“Another possibility: maybe she
didn’t change. Maybe Louise Fra-
ziernever phoned in that tip.”

“Meaning?”

“A telephone can play queer
tricks with a voice. And it wouldn't
have been too difficult for Leo him-
self to imitate a woman’s voice.
I’m not saying he did, mind you—
but it isn’t out of the realm of
possibility.”

“That would mean Louise never

HUMAN DETECTIVE CASES

turned against.‘ Harper—that the
kiss wasn't a double-cross?”

“It’s still a good riddle,” Andrews
said. “But the light is beginning
to break through.” He held up two
fingers. “Only two real possibilities
we’ve got to consider—either Louise
was the pawn of her husband, and
double-crossed Harper into a death
trap ... or she was sincere in ar-
ranging or helping to arrange what
she thought was a rescue, and her
husband took .advantage of the
confusion to commit murder. In ei-
ther case, the characters in this
little drama of plot and counter-
plot remain the same.”

“It makes sense,” Dudley agreed.
“She might have asked her hus-
band to help get Harper free. She
might have even told him she was
in love with the punk. That would
make the perfect triangle.”

“His friends would have been in
on it,” Andrews decided. “We'd bet-
ter start going after them.”

Selected as the most likely par-
ticipant in the “rescue” party was
Henry Cano, a young Mexican
hocdlum who’ was one of Harper’s
closest friends. A warrant for his
arrest was promptly issued.

The young Mexican, they found,
had disappeared!

The witnesses to Shamblin’s

2 Ke
pas

murder and Dudley’s wounding
were again interviewed, and shown
the pictures of Frazier and Cano.
After long deliberation they admit-
ted the pair might have been the

-gunmen—but refused to make a

positive statement of identification.

Police circulars describing Fra-
zier, Cano and Charles Harper were
spread over the countryside, more
than 10,000 of them. The latter’s
continued absence from his Hunt-
ington home made it look bad for
him. The relatives of all three men
were closely watched.

Henry Cano was the first to be
picked up. Detectives who were
staking out his home caught him
walking boldly in the front door
one night.

Cano ran a hand through his
coal-black hair and his black eyes
were mildly surprised as he said,
“I haven’t done anything. What is
the reason for all this?”

Persistent grilling at the sheriff’s
office failed to ruffle the slow-
speaking Mexican. He shrugged off
their questions, and blandly insist-
ed: “I don’t know what you’re talk-
ing about.”

“I suppose you don’t know that
your best friend is dead, that he
was shot while being rescued from
the law?” Andrews snapped.

lah ®

Rss, Ses he FG a —

“Must you take up horticulture for -a hobby!

“I read it
said quietly.
“And I dc
that he w
and not
The Me)
sharp surpri:
of emotion :
dered? But °
Andrews
young Mexic:
certainly a 1
gesture seen
timed.
Deputy Dv
with a mac}
“This,” he ss
“was found i:
Andrews \
“What are
It’s against t)
“It’s Leo’s,”
Immediately ;
“So you adn.
zier,” Andrews
time. Well, }
enough for us
until we get F
he has to say.
. Cano was loc
County, jail pe:.
tigation.

N July 30th
r. phone cal)

New Rochelle, \
Captain Vinven:
wire. “Just pick

you’ve been loo
“Charles Harper
- “Good work,”
in sudden elatio
got to say for
“They claim
what it’s al] -'
ed. “We fou
ciously arour
figured they w:
a holdup.”
Andrews mov:
ferred with Go.
diately, who 5:
request for the ¢
cers armed with
riot guns and a)
necessary to {o,
rescue attemp

HL
DETE

But what I \
was dumping—
worth money. ©
hiding a gun
searching for. I w
fat envelope f
powder which we
happiness and
hundreds of coca

Anything to h:
and cash on the

TRE ITT: e ag
. *y
7

ately in the rear seat,
nen approached. One
ook careful aim and
stance of a few short
not miss. The shot
viin’s forehead.
slumped. He was

ie stunned man wit-
st incredible act of
i, @ little man, turn-
ho was smiling now.
‘adly. Then he raised
ot Harper as callous-
pumped the bullets
1amblin.
his eyes and was
that the men were
body. A moment la-
ed headlong out of
e embankment. He
1¢ sharp stones and
ing.at him, to the
ravine. From a dis-
a voice saying, “and
- of him!”
ite passed before he
‘ing of the sedan’s
‘avel by the side of
‘ could tell by the
ing forward, the
\uick backing, that
eing turned to head
ston. ;
iad not yet died in
1en three school boys
diey’s aid. “We saw
8,” one of the young

‘ere standing on the

e,” another broke in, “4

fellows push you off

w any of the men?”
He shook his head

trying to clear it of the mist.

“They were strangers—same as
you.”

“The teacher is trying to flag
down a car on the highway. She
was standing in the schoolyard and
saw the whole thing, too,” one of
the boys. said. ‘

‘An hour later, the Jackson Coun-
ty Sheriff, Carl J. Knotts, arrived
simultaneously with the Kanawha
County Sheriff, R. Carl Andrews.
Sevetal officers of the West Vir-
ginia State Police pulled to a stop
at the scene a few minutes later,
followed by an ambulance, a phy-
sicilan and several] attendants.

Before a word was spoken, the
physician examined Deputy Sham-

Scene of the ferocious gun battle
in which one officer lost his life

and another was seriously wounded.

blin, and his lips were a tight, grim
line as he pronounced him dead.
He turned to Dudley who had been
assisted to the level of the high-
“way. :

As the doctor bandaged his arm,
Dudiey rapidly sketched the story
to the impatient officers surround-
ing him.

“Do you know who any of those
fellows were?” Andrews asked.

The deputy shook his head. “Must
have been friends of Harper's.” He
paused, then added: “Or, at least
I thought so—until I saw the gun-
man shoot Ralph Harper.”

“Maybe Harper stopped ‘a bullet
by mistake in the fracas. Maybe it
was one of Shamblin’s bullets,” said
the Kanawha sheriff. His keen eyes
intently ‘studied Dudley.

“I know what you're thinking,”
Dudley said quietly. “A little too
much shock. No, Sheriff, I wasn’t
seeing things. I saw the gunman
deliberately shoot Harper, and he
laughed like he was glad of what
he was doing.”

Andrews turned to Knotts. “Does-
n’t make sense that the rescue par-
ty ran all that risk just to shoot
Harper down.” ;

“I don’t get it,” Knotts admitted

es 2; BE pe Sa with a troubled frown. “It doesn’t

Deputy Shenk make sense. But if Dudley’ says it
hought:. hes was: suffering » from: happened that way ...” He shrug-
. checwhen: he his. Story. «. ged and lapsed into thoughtful

sie Oteema dg sberal silence.
coh

(Continued on page 54)
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“““ FURBISH, William “Vota "SP larsison County) i. March 17, 1911
DOB OR AGE ? ack OCCUPATION ¢ RESIDENCE GEN
2-2-1883 (28) Farm laborer _ : nr, Weston
RECORD % z ten ° :
CRIME DATE OTHER
Rape 12=2h)-1910
Pear tse i VICTIM ei AGE RACE METHOD
ak Miss Flora Anglin ho White

MOTIVE

Sex
re SYNOPSIS f
at twilliam Furbish, the Lewis County negro, convicted of criminally assaulting Miss Flora Anglin.
15 _ explated bis oine upon the scaffold at the penitentiary last evening. The drop descended at os
minutes past 5 o'clock and he was pronounced dead 12% minutes later, He was given a drop of
t about six feet and his neck was broken. Immediately after the crop, Dr. A. BY Riker, tne prison
“wae TPR onepeeats exs4 the prowpd be remain, as he nae a sacred aaty bie er me Shes a tated that

nade public atter his death, Furbish's siEhenstt: as mis to Drs Riker, was as F folLowss 'T must

2 et_ my God in peace, J am the man who committed the crime for
which I am to be hanged. Iwas in licuor or I would not have done it{}" CIARKSBURG TELFCRAM ( DAILY
March 18, 191),

Indictment returned at Weston on afternoon of Feb. 6, charing him with assaulting Miss Anglin, lO
a white person on the Sipimigiggigi form of her father about three miles from “eston on Saturday nite
Dec, 2h, He was pursued and captured early the next morning, placed in jail at ‘Weston, arraigned
~ "¥or preliminary hearing on Dec, 27, held for court, ressuued from a mob at the station that night
by Weston and Clarksburg companies of State militia ordered out by Governor, taken to Clarksburg
and—jaited there for nite and ther taken to get tary—at—Moundsvitie next—morning for safety.
Indicted on two carges: assault with es, to kill and assault with intent to commit rape,
- —GLARKSBURG—DAILY TELEGRAM, -HxKE February Ulli.
».} Furbish returned to ‘eston jail, taken from t rain and rushed down back streets and alleys” to jail
ar eee ded by N. a
"yellow negro of scarcely medium size, not being much over five feet tall and weighing not more
than 10 pounds. While apparently quiet, he showed signs of fright as he passed through the
me small crowd, His looks leave the impression he is ordinarily intelligent," TELMGRAM, 2-7-1911
a Chanze of venue to Harrison County granted and trial began on Feb. 8, At 11 o'clock AM, Miss
4+ °° ~Kynelin-went on stand, At times her voice was very low and the ordeal of telling the story of tne
eg alleged assault was aes, be Go She eet she lived on Maxwell’ s Run on rephetaads lanes tuo niles

stcloek while she was at the cel Lar “15 or 20 feet fron "hanae with lantern, Furbish, who was on phe

(oof ese sat lantern deta, he erated it, ‘her out light and cbevi grabbed her, In ensuing etrhaets. he
fs _eut off cries for help by hitting her on jaw and mouth with fist, knocking out her false teethe
? He threw her down there, but unable complete assault, dragged her more than 200 feet, used a
. knife to cub and tear her clothing off and-raped. She said he repeated and was about to rape a
‘\* third time when she, @M@M% saw a lantern some distance away and exclaimed that it was her father
coming home, When Furbish saw lantern, Mounting horse, he rode rapidly and as road was icy,
se the horse fell, he disla ating shoulder, The p rson with lantern was not her father and sne did
not hail him, Did hot know who it was. Voing into house, badly | frightened and surrfering, locked

oe. + f blinds, notified neighbors and BenNel at abarm +hren sent outs She said she had
ng s een Furbish pass that morning going from home of Jerry Stack and distance of 14 miles away to
Weston, She had known him 9 or 10 years and had seen him almostevery day. She believed he struck
T#'$th intent to kill as she had testified against him in cour a year earlier, Positively identified
Furbish as the one who made the assault, She said he had dra‘ged her to garden where rape
aoweurred.e Father also away from house. She said her younser brother had once had store near
house and Furbish had been tried for breaking into it, On another occasion she had appeared as a

against her brothers DAILY TELEGRAM, Clarksburg, VM, Vaey 2-9-1911, Furbish testified he left

a 9 he nere ne mn shing CONeL> e+ yrned

home iy after atziner Sait is vauiee on heraeback and stayed there until 7:30 (crime supposed
to have been at 4:20), Said he then went directly home, horse falling ard shoulder dislocatede
‘Heniéd having been at Anglin home or seeing her, Said he was born in “ilmington, Vae, where his
parents reside and that he came to bestow to work on the ShortlLine which he did for for years.
forked on Short Line in Clarksburg. Then went to Weston were he worked as teamster for Iive moSe
Then went to farm of Prof, G J, Stack a retired school teacher 10 years before crime, Said that

Ties he re ard: of ab ata was ae ibhdes ait trial mae he was not pupeeria ep dantigpa eweeraes

pobre nun wickd, Carbinuad to aa ore FL EMO ay TFELEY RAM 2-11-1911

he was 20-years-old on Feb, 2, IJII, Said he had not schooling ana could not read or write, Said igs

SRR:

sty, PAE RIN

he A Bal dnl

I was taken before Squire Carery and fined ten dollars.

| I left the Fanny McBurney the same day and shipped on the Rocket No.
@ 2 for St. Louis, Mo. When we arrived there I left the boat and stopped in

St. Louis about five weeks and while I was there I was put in the lock-up

| several times for drinking and fighting.
|
|
|

I took a boat from there and went up the Missouri river to St. Paul where
I stayed about seven or eight days, drinking, fighting, playing cards, etc. I
went back to St. Louis, from there to Louisville, Ky., I got a berth the same
day as brakeman on the cars which run from Louisville, Ky. to Nashville, Tenn.
From here I went to Stevenson, Alabama, from there to Chattanooga, Tenn,
from there to Knoxville, East Tenn. then back to Chattanooga, from there to
Ringgold, Ga., from there to Atlanta, Ga., then back the same route until I
got to Louisville, Ky. where I took to drin’)::g and running around. I stayed
there about two weeks, then took the cars to Seymore, Ind., from there to
Cincinnati, From there to Parkersburg, W. Va. where I stayed two or three
days, nothing transpired worthy of note, I then took passage on the Woodside
for Newport, Ohio. Got off the boat about 10 o'clock at Nevill's Run to work
on a saw mill.

The next day after I got there I was drunk and a carriage run against me
and broke my arm, I then boarded with Mrs. White for five weeks, until my
arm got well. I then started to go to school to William Sharp. I went to him
two sessions. I then went to attend a Ferry across the Ohio River at Newport.

The first day I ferried: some cattle fell overboard several times and
drowned two of the cattle. Next day I let two horses and a wagon go over-
board and lost all. Next day I started after the doctor and got caught ina
storm and blowed about ten mile up the river and did not get back until the
next day at ten o'clock.

While I was there I saw two men drowned off a boat. I was there about
two months, when I left and went across the river to Newport where I boarded
with Mr. Cree. I then went to work for Mr. Wood on a farm. I stayed with
him about one week, and then went back to the river again.

I got on a boat at Wood's landing and went to Memphis, Tenn. Hada
very hard trip, having to work day and night. I stopped there a few days and
went back up the river to Loulsville, Ky. where I stayed about two or three
days drinking and in several rows. While there two or three men were shot
and wounded. I left there and went to New Haven, Franklin Co. Mo. where
I stopped about five months, playing cards and running horses, drinking and
fighting. Always in bad company. I worked at saw mills. as a furnace man
and was drunk almost every day. When TI quit working I couldn't get my
money, and I raised a row about it, and had a fight with a man by the name
of Bramble and hurt him. I was arrested and put in jail at New Haven until
® I was tried, which was on the third day and as the trial could not be decided

! I got out by giving $150 dollars bail, and stayed there until my trial came off
| when I was convicted to six months imprisonment in the County jail. I got
out on the third day and went to _ ; and stayed several days, loaf-

it OO OE eT eee A Ee
3

| ing around town and drinking, from there I went to St. Louis, Mo. and stayed

there about eleven days, nothing happened worth mentioning. While there I
went to parties, and drinking as usual. I next went to Kendleton, Ind. and

e remained there about four days, and came near being drowned by falling off

the warf-boat, from there I went to St. Marys. I was drunk all the way up.

| All this time my parents did not know where I was.

I got to St. Marys in April 1857 and carried mail from there to Ellenboro
for two months, keeping sober during that time. I then took a notion to go on
the river again and got on a raft at St. Marys and went to Cincinnati. We
were several weeks going down and I drank and played cards all the way. We
had one raft torn to pieces and had to build over again. I stayed there one day
and then started up the river and went to Pittsburg on a boat and stayed there
a few days and went to several shows.

Did not drink and behaved very well while there. From there I started
on a coal barge for Cincinnati but didn't get there as the barge sunk about
twenty four miles above Parkersburg. As the barge sank I jumped in the river
and swam ashore.

One man was drowned and one hurt badly. I came down the Ohio on the
side of the Muskingum, and went up that river fourteen miles, then across to
Lowell on the Big Muskingum river then to Marietta and shipped on the Emma
Graham for Pittsburgh where we unloaded and reloaded, then started for Zanes-
ville, Ohio and got along very well until we came to the second locks where
in opening them J fell into the river and went under the boat and came near
drowning.

I got to Zanesville but was hurt too bad to work. Stayed there two days
then went on the cars to Cincinnati. Made two or three trips from Cincinnati
to Columbus, took the cars at the latter place and went to Cincinnati, from
there to Seymore, Ind. on the cars. Run from there to Cincinnati for two weeks.
Went from Cincinnati to Cairo. From there to Springfield, Ill. Run from there
to Cairo for three weeks. Went from there up the river to Louisville and stay-
ed one night, from there to Nashville. Made two trips and then went back to
Nashville, then got on the cars and went to Stevenson, Ala. From there to
Chattanooga, from there to Knoxville, Tenn. Run on the train ten days. Then
run from Chattanooga to Atlanta, Ga. a short time, then went to tend the ferry
over the Tennesee river and stayed about five days until I stove the old bcat
up, then ran off with three other fellows in a boat, and went down to Bridge-
port, Ala. and stayed three days where we all got into a fight and all four of
us got put in jail.
|

We raised money enough to bail one of us out and he was to try to get |
the rest of us out. He brought us a Saw and a chisel and we Sawed out and
took four others with us and went up to Chattanooga and went to drinking and
playing cards and got in a fuss and one of us got put in jail but we bailed him
@ out and then we all run off and went to Nashville and went out on the railroad

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|

where some men were chopping wood and stayed about fourteen days. I was
drunk most of the time; gambled and won all their money, then returned to
Nashville but did not stay long but went to Louisville and stayed about five

/ (lay bony

CONFESSION

I, Morvttmore W. Giotony, was born Sept. ith 1443 to the best of my
recollection, @t Goose Creek in Ritehle county. My rerents moved from that
place to Vaulkloose in Pleasants county abeat fo or yort rs after I was born and
where we resided seven yeurs and from there my father moved to French Creek
inthe same county. Tthen left home, Twas shout eleven years old.

Tleft on the 14th ef Dec. 1854 and went te Marletta where I shipped on
a boat called the Durleath for Cinclonati, from there to Nevil, I was on her
seven months. Iwi!) just say here that out of the seven I was drunk six and
fel] Sv einona. several times but thanks to a kipd providence I was saved from
a watery grave,

I leit seca outa aid shipped on the St. Cloud on the 12th of July of
the same year, hound for New Orleans. I chink we strived et our destination
about the 19th of homies: I thon made two trips on herfrom thereto Pittsburgh,
Pa. uring these trips Ihept sober as Iwas not atiowed to drink. If I had I
would have been discharged withoug my pay. I left the boat at Newport, Ohio
the latter part of the month cf Nevamber,

During all thet tiime my parents knew nsthing about me. I left home
without theie consent. Ilett on Sunday with James Benton pretending that I
was going to church.

After leaving the boat Twent to live with Mr. Pickens, a farmer who
lived about two ae 8 from 6t. Merys, Pleasarts county. I was only with him
a few days until I started to school ta Miss Eliza Chambers. I went to school
for four months. During et time Twas newer scolded or whipped; but it was
not because I did net deserve it, for Iwas a very wild and thoughtless boy.

T left school a@oout the middle of March, toak the hack atSt. Marys and
went to Ellenboro, from there to Parker shurs,, Wood county where I shipped
on the steamboat PFaonie McBurney, bound for Clncinnatl., I then ran from
there to Marietta.

Iwas on the host severe! months, ducing which time I attended a ball
at New Richmond, Ohio at Mr. Joh Henderson's, and while there I got to
drinking and had @ difficulty with a fiddler (@ ecolored man). I was dancing,
my partner, by sceliaent knocked the fiddle bow out of his hand, when he in-
sulted her, and of course I defended her and the result was that he drew a
knife and strick atmo, when I drew my kntfe and out him very badly in the
Side, he fell to the floor, I being the first to pick him un. When they saw
how bad he was hurt they were going to arrest me but I stole a march on them
and went back to the boat and hid until I got to Marietta, In a few days I
left to make another trip to Gincinnatl and after we arrived there I was arrest=
® ed and taken to the watch house on Fiith St. where I was kept two days, when

iddl ‘ Me i o (4
pened stretches of water. Extri-
ating men from there would be
\ifficult. :
Could Drop Supplies

“Tf the men are down inland, Mar-
ners (planes) can drop supplies
vermittmg them to build a camp
ind stay alive for months. Any
»ver-land rescue would be delayed
intil we can get to Little America
and build an air-strip to receive

(Please Turn to Page 2, Col. 5)

Gordon Is Hanged

For Mercer Killing!

_MOUNDSVILLE,. Jan. 3.—(®)—
Twenty-one-year-old Billy Gordon,
maintaining the silent calm he had
displayed since entering the state
penitentiary here, was hanged to-

night for the shotgun slaying of aj;

Bluefield housewife who had _ be-
friended him. —

Gordon, pale and slightly nervous
but displaying ho sign of deep
emotion, replied clearly “No sir,
I haven't,” when Warden M. E.
Ketchum asked if he had anything
to say.

The-trap was sprung at 8:53 p, m.
(EST), and 14 minutes later, at 9:07
‘p. m., he was pronounced dead by
‘Dr. R. A. Ashworth and Dr. S, F.
‘Yoho, prison .physicians.

: Gordon, a former sailor from
;Columbia, S. C., was sentenced from
; Mercer county for the murder of
'Mrs, Josephine Carr, 38, mother :of
ia Navy. buddy of Gordon, last
(April 1. |
' “Dewey Carr, husband of the slain
iwoman, was among the 40° per-
ysons who witnessed the execution,
‘described as one of the briefest in
‘recent years. It was the 80th, in the
penitentiary’s history. |

| The Rev. E. M. Flanigan, prison
chaplain, said relatives of Gordon
would claim the body.

' He said the’ black-haired boy,
with whom hé spent much of the
day, reiterated for perhaps the 50th
ee that he had no idea why he
had shot Mrs, Carr as she sat at

(Please Turn to Page 2, Col. t)

‘| Willie Willis

ELT NED

Jomsausneme

‘ wealth and size. He criticized es-

' Jican’ nomination for mayor.

Gordon had been a guest in the;

owe

service commensurate with = its|s

pecially the pollution of the riv-

er. . .
The club endorsed the candidacy
of O. C. Richardson for the Repub-

Lem Wilson, speaking in behalf
of Richardson, said, “I'd like to
see somebody in public office who
has been paying taxes instead of
eating them.”

Gordon Is Hanged |

. (Continued From Page 1) .
sewing machine in her Bluefield

home. |
Gordon told’ him, the chaplain
said, that he had been well treated}
there and was not under influence
of. drugs or narcotics at the time.

home. °

Union of Am
American Visc
fice of Comm
ray of the U. §
and a spokesn
of a
ground sessior

entatives of |

“get ac

The groups

Commissioner

The union,

bers in Sever
vania, Virgin!
filed a 30-da
9 after failur
ferences at W
quarters of t)

The union

an hour incre
not announc
‘Wage rates a

Union’ offic

cluded: Natic
iW. Payne, Ge

Gov. Meadows who granted him: Katz and As
a reprieve from hanging last Nov.| Rayon Divisi

29 to give more study to the 21-°
year-old former sailor’s case, re-
leased a brief statement earlier to-
night saying lve had refused to;
intervene again. ‘ |

“From the very full report fur-;

-nished to me by the department of!

Meadows |

probation and _ parole,” |
private |

statement said, “from

-gources and from the records of |

the court, I can find nothing which :
indicates that Gordon did not re-
ceive a fair and impartial trial.
“The supreme court of this state
itself denied him a new trial. Gor-
don has been examined. by at least
three qualified physchiatrists, and

each found him mentally respon-|

sible for his crime under the laws
of this state. |

“With the foregoing in-mind, and
in view of the seriousness of this
uncalled for and unprovoked kill-

"ing, I cannot conceive it to be my

duty under the law, or in the exer-

- else of wise executive discretion,

to afford relief to Billy Gordon.”

ti oa ;

New York: }
Meadville, P
cal 371, Fro
Davis, Local
E. Dotson,
W. Va.: Hu
tro, W. Va.,
Burchell an
of Local 10,
Company
ed: J. GC. J
G. L. Rhys,
lations; Gec
industrial re
ford, compa
ministrator.

Guy Wit

Dies at

Guy Win
employe of
Co., died '
Frame, Rt.

He was a
A. F. & A.

— Continuous Session

. (Continued From Page 1): ,
“a°clear abuse of filibuster power,

- Taft said it probably will lead to a
. complete change in Senate rules.

-Taft sald the Republicans again
will propose legislation “to reverse
some of the things which have been
done by law, regulation or decision

ry pis ila canie A ee

a a eT

IOOF lodge
Knob chur

Surviving
Kessell; si:
benville, ©
Pa., Roy a
Dunbar, ar
Ys: four da
ton, Spenc

dine, Frarr

ry +

yri@id.....'.
of Mlateruville, W, Vac,
ok, Me had tlropped
vw heeding trip.” Arte
ntyy atated death was
heart wttavk,
aween had served as
if iw Blateraville for ha
was one of the widely

jejale in the veiley, He
suaval reeord for efficl

son had gone toon hunt:
friend and the two had
The latter ater @ time
» te locate Mr, Laweon

foreed by darkness to; ,

he search returned‘ to
. He gave the alarm and
searchers went to the
rday mocning and be-
srach for Lawson that
the finding of hia body.
was a native of Duke
, & gon of Mr, and Mra.
eon, He had resided the
tton of his life in Bistera-
wife precéded him in
eare ago. .
survivor ta a brother.
son of this city.

is at Bistersville, but
© services has not been

xenville
icil Tours
‘Heeal

ye of $215 for
‘ling Held Up

Ne, gan, 3—(Special)
asminer in a report re-
y holds that councilmen
clty officials spent too
y traveling to neighbor-
and ruled traveling ex-
1218.65 illegal. The offi-
trips to Columbus to
vore tax, money and to
nd McKeesport, Pa., to
+ ape a 40llection sye
bile expense. The trips
iMegal.
re made total findings
in their report on city
fargest belng $1,101 for

od. relief-—largely —for--

digent persons.

©} monthly report of Health Commis-

Chickenpox ...s.00. 8
Diphtheria ..... dap OS
Erythema, Infectious, © ©
Influenza v.ssicscee 0 34
Measles (regular 1... ft 0
German measies.... 2 0
Men'cocus meningitis 0. 1
Bumps . ..cceeeeee @ OO
Pneumonia ..ssooree 8 O
Pollomyelitis .. 0 0
Scarlet fever .. 4 1
r~Tuberculosis™.....00 2) 4
Typhald fever ...... o 0.
— Para-typhoid fever... 0 0
Undulant fever ..... 0 ;

; wi if

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, #8455
oe, oe

sonducted °

Billy-Gor

William oH. (Billy) Gord

April -1, of? Mra.

County Lists
Contagious |
Diseases .
Whooping Cough,
Chicken Pox: Lead
Whooping ‘tough headed the list
of contagious disease reported in

December to the gity-county health
department, according to the

doxephine

sioner Dr. John Gilmore. aay
Nineteen cases were reported
while chicken pox rated secohd
with 14> The report:

Whooping cough .... 19

Tells
Program

ton, Jan, 3.— WU.) —
Designate Robert A.
)., of the Senate Labor
said tonight twat he
to the Senate floor be-
® 1 legislation to “put
mploye relations on a
te all.”
nation-wide broadcast
aft, who will be the
mber one. labor .¢xpert
eaid laws passed’ under
Denl have tipped the

es too much far of
labor.
ewe most Republicans

sald, “that they have a
rom the ple to adopt
which will... discour-
rikes which have eo seri-
rtered with the welfare
ess of the ple, :
obable Previsions
4 that his committee will
rings on the subject al-
ediately. He added, how:
the bill sent to the Sen-
will probably include
to:

ke ‘labor unions respon-
thele collective bargain-
clo; (2) discourage fore-

ons; (3) outlaw the-vec

bor boycotts, and (4) set
atten machine to ar:
sputes between labor and
ent. .

. too, that the bill might
provisions banning the
op, Umiting labor's pew:
yolm on an industry-wide
\ewing violence in labor
and eeting up ea labor

publican stering commit-

iad to say:

ng—Truman’s _remaining
‘should be ' i
ngi—He said that lowty prices would

er—"These

repealed;—p
s@ which should form
permanent program: such

iaintenance of American

rmany and Japan.”
- is essential

+Thre

Chicago Chapter of the AFRA,

8 m-|prices in 1947 .and ssid—-Ford ex-
what he and other GOP

tend to bring to the floor
ay of legislation.. Here's

that
onal Incomes taxes be re-
' 20 per cent and this
fone if the budget does
ed $34,000,000,000. There
eason why the budget

é-Fined
In J. P. Court —

Shirley Galloway, arrested on a
charge of assault and battery pre-
ferred by his wife, Gladys Gallo
way, was fined $5 and costs yester~
day by Squire John Moran. . He
made arrangements to pay. :

Raymond Huggins, 219 Olive av-
enue, Moundaville, and William
Hughes, 164 17th street, were fined
$10 each for not, having driving
Ucenses, Both paid.

Radio- Networks
‘And Artists Agree

Chicago, Jan. 3.°— (U.P) —= ~The
American Federation of Radio
Artists (AFL) and the four major
radio networks have reached agree-
ment on wage and fee increases
ranging from 20 to 30 per cent for
20,000 network employes, Raymond
Jones, executive secretary of the
said tonight. —- +
~Jones announced completion . of
the negotiations in disclosing the
new agreement for approximatelyy
600 members of the union. i.
They cover announcers, actors,
alngers and sound effects eniployes
of the National Broadcasting
company, the Columbia Broadcast-
ing-eyetem-the-Mutuel broadcast:
ing system and the Americen
Broadcasting Co, in New York,
Chicago, Los “Angeles and San
Francisco, Jones sald.

Lower Car Prices;
Ford Prediction

Detroit, Jan, I—UP—Eernest KR.
LBeeech;-executive-vice-president of
the Ford Motor company, tonight
predicted -a -downward_spirat of

pected-te-lead the way in cutting
prices of-cers. : re

Breech said Ford's immediate
objective - would-be --to_" produce
more and better cars_gnd-
lower cost,

not mean lower wages for labor.

Wellsburg Firm
Given Charter

on Dies
On. Prison: Gallows .

-’ Former Sailor Pays Penalty
For Brutal Bluefield Killing

plunged to death on the gallows of the
ville, Friday night in expiation of the b

ks at

The Carolina Bullders, Inc., of
Wellsburg, was yesterday granted
@ charter by the secretary of state.

on, 20-year-old former sailor,
tate prison at Mounds

Atat nhotgun death last

Carr, a housewife who had

befriended him,

“He mounted the gallowa,at 8:50

trap was’ eprung. He waa pro-

* Witnessing the hanging was Dew-
ey Carr, husband of the tragedy
vietim and Ray Barnett, a friend
from Bluefield. ‘.
It was announced’ that relatives
would clatm the body but it was
not indicated where burial would
be made :

The hanging followed the refusal

to intervene. Gordon had been
three times sentenced to hang
firat on October 35, then on Novems
ber 28 and then the date was
postponed until last night.
Cordon ate a hearty meal last
evening, then spent the remainder
of hia time in prayer and in read-
ing the Bible, much of the time in
compsny with Protestant prison
chaplain, De, E. M,'Planagan,
Kightieth Hanging .

Last night’e hanging was the
Ath to be held at the penitentiary,
Gordon remained calm and <ol-
lected, mounting the stepe to the
gallows unassisted, However, his
face indicated the tense feeling he

-jwas experiencing. He wore a blue

suit,
Ue. f
Dr. Flanigan offered the prayer,
then Warden M. EK, Ketchum asked
the question—'‘Have you anything

white shirt and. dark blu

‘jto say?”

Gordon replied in a clear, voice,
“No sir, I haven't.’", *

The cap was adjusted, the cur:
tain drawn and a moment later the
body of the prisoner plunged

‘ |through the trap. .

The condemned youth conferred
with the Dr. Flanagan, several
times during the day on. Fridgy.
His-last-audience-with-the- Dr, was
about an hour. before time to be
hanged.
According to Dr, Flanagan the
youth was cool and collected and
had faith that he would be taken
care-of by Providence after death.
; Selects Last Meal :
—Shortly before noon Friday the
youthful, good-looking, Navy vetere
an-made the request for his last
meal which was served at the sup-
per hour. He ordered sirloin steak,
well done, French {ried potatoes,
cole slaw, banana pudding, sweet
milk,*hot biscuits and butter.
Gordon, who was said to have
been @ well-mannered youth by
prison officials, was taken from
the death cell during the late after-
noon to the prison bath house where
he took hig fina! bath and was
given a new outtit of clothes which
la given all prisoners sentenced to
execution, i
He was taken to the death cell
Thuraday morning and took with
him the small -radio which had
beer his" constant companion. since
he entered the institution,
Bs Mistory of Crime

_The former Columbia, 8, C.,
sailor was convicted by a Mercer
county criminal court jury last
July for the shotgun slaying of
Mrs, Josephine Carr, 38-year-old
Bluefield woman, wife of Dewey
Carr, a bakery foreman,

~ The fatal shooting . occurred
April 1 about noon at the log/cabin
suburban home of the Carrs, near
Bluefield. Gordon had been viait-
nr the home for several days,
after introducing himself as a0

he had met while in service: -

He was alec-accused of eacep-
ing {n an automobile atolen from
South Carolina—and was_aaid to
have been carrying several thou-
samt uollars worth of bonds belong:
ing-to-the Carrs_at-the time of his
apprehension tn Cincinnal—Ohia
He was apprehended about 14 hours
after the fatal shooting, “___..

2°

McMechen WBA Group

{Holds Meeting Friday.

Installation of

Plans ‘for the
newly elected officers were for-
mulated at a meeting of MeMechen

The authorized capital is £100,000

Review No. 9, Women's Benefit

eaaagndptl ' , *® 6@ 88. TRek

mz and three-minutes later the] -
nounced dead at 9:07 o'clock or in| -

fourteen minutes by Drs. 5. ¥F.
“]Yoho and Robert A. Ashworth,

of Governor Clarence W. Meadows}: (-}

friend of a‘ eon of the-Carre’ whom}

tiem

OM as
‘

1.
CER Gately tha,

~ THIS" FATHER WAS

Pie MOM
Pav | in ;

N'T NERVOUS

(. &- CHESTER has an extra redson-for-being a proud father as he
visite his wife and new baby daughter in a Loe Angeles hospital. He J
Gelivered the child himself when the stork overtook the guto in

which he was racing hla wife to the hospital. (Tateraational)

The meeting was erranged by
Manager F..Lesiie Body, of the
Ohio Valley Board of Trade, and
presided over by Andrew C. M.
Hess, second vice-president of that
organization, Amongat thpse in at-
tendance were A. C, Ingersoll,
chairman of the Ohlo Valley divi-
ston of the Misslasipp! Valley a»
sociation from Cincinnati; Presi.
dent Laughlin Macleay, of the as
sociation and from St Louls;
Rosson Morrow, chairman of ‘the
Wheeling Planning commission;
R. V. Engstrom, chairman of the

mechanic, to six months in the

Lansing Line -
Trolley to
Quit Soon

Co-op Is Awaiting
Arrival of Buses

Operation of street cars on the
Lansing division of the Cooperative
Transit Co, wil} be discontinued just
as soon as new buses ire avail-
able, General Manager H. B. Me-
Cune sald yesterday. cera

The company was recently grant-
ed permission by the Ohio publie
utilities commission. to take street
cars of fthat ling, leaving Bridge-
port, Martins Ferry and Yorkville
as the only remaining communities
with trolley service.

company now has on order 31 new
38 or 40-passenger buses from the
Yellow Coach Co, of Detroit, Mack
Manufacturing Co. of Allentown,
Pa., Twin Cosch Co. of Kent, O.,
and American Car & Foundry of
Philadelphia.

The .company received 16 new
buases during the past year and
now has 75 buses {n all, with about
63-in- actual operation. The new.
buses “are--of the latest type, a
feature of which Is the automatic
gear shift. ; ——

Christmas Tree
Afire,No Damage -

A Christmas tree burning in-e
vacant lot-at—aoth and McClloch
streets, sent companies No. 3, 4, 6
and 8 there on a alarm from Box
63 last night et 7:30.--tMiremen re-
ported no damage. ‘ahha

Enter Army:-Here _
_Lt. Howard Vothreéht,~ com-

recruiting station, reports that 22
men haye—recently enlisted, and

McCune also disclosed that the|

Family in Shack Gets —
New Home, Food, Clothing °
Heasd of Family Is “Lazy,”
Says Court; Gets Six Months.
Steubenville, Q,, dan, I—(Specluby=— Branding his failure

to support hin wife and ten children ‘as ‘sheer laziness’! Judge
W. D. Downer today sentenced John Robinson, garage

Jefferson county jail.

county jail,

penters
which Samuel

for two years rent free.

was committed today.

Practice Cruise

Goldberg, Edwin N.,

Local Sailors to

— Robinson's — family - was~: found
Christmas day in an abandoned
shack without food or winter eloth-
ing and were given shelter in the

Welfare groups have showered
them with enough supplies to keept
‘jthem for months and union ear-
are repairing a house
Waterman. their
former landlord has offered them

Pending house repairs the family
is still occupying space in the jail
to which the husband and father

Theodore ¥.-Becker, Henry -A.
Harmond,
Charles F. Henderson, George L.
Melnik, Hamilton A, Morris, John
f Frank Rieck and
Phillip Selly, all members of the
Wheeling Naval Reserye, will leave
here Saturday for a training cruise:

They will board. the. USS -Wis-

City Fl Control eommission;
Austin V. Wood, publisher; W. W.
Holloway, chairman of the Wheel-
ing Steel corporation; Capt. W, E.
Need, tm eharge of the maritime
operations of Wheeling Steel;
Councilmen C. Hal Brues and
Donald Dietrich; Curtis Berry, $id-
ney Smith, City Engineer Jay
Henry, Gore H. Beall, J, A. Sigas
foose of Moundevilie; &. 1, Runner,
Carl Gustkey representing Bel-
latre; Dr, Randolph : Hershey and
Carl Jensen. ie te cae ts

Discussiona were Ilvely and In4
Norinative. Perfect harmony pre
vailed and it was unanimously de-
cided y all’ to “work for three
principal objectives: first*to heep
after the new Congress and/ see
that none ‘of the Ohio river bene-
factions in present legislation are
impaired; second, (o urge the
United States engineers to execute
all diligence in their duties of Ohio
river improvement and proteetion:
and, third, to seek all proper com:
munity cooperation from Pitts-
burgh to Ceirg, Il, In a genere!
effort to make the Ohio, by Fed-
eral, State and Jocal law, the
.power that It should be.

Falling Rock
Strikes'‘Auto -

Ray Cramer, 37, a railroad vork-
er, of 31 & Wabash st., had a nar-
row escape from injury in an aec-
cident Friday at 1:30 a. m. tn the
800 block on the Natfonal Road,

' According to the police report,
Cramer was driving west on the
National Road when his car was
hit by a fallin

hood and motor. Damage wae-esti-

Prominent. W

Saw

det

lt
ater'w,
yf th 0 ras~ eck

uthorities; Loca
, i. @ ' , ’ ee :
\Business Men Atte

en me . ‘ ' arte a
| Transportation, Flood Control &
_ And Soil-Erosion Discussed “°;; 5
__ Definite progress was made yesterday, at a lune} P
‘jing in the MeLure hotel, for continued imprevepy
utilization of the Ohio river, Wheeling's first econc§,
Outstanding inland waterways authorities and leap
business men were present, and discussed comprehed:
river as (a) means for cheap transportation,(b) flo

(e)' soll erosion problems. The rich bottom-lands"of
“Tahore areéaome of the best farming soll in the world. 1

be '

that the def

Police sald

ee
Local Lang
Now Restrg
By U.S<C
eG

» Judge Watkif
Acts in Rent?
Federal Judge Saft

entered Thursday at
and ..

Fred Habig, operat
' [market tn the
‘lyesterday reposted (ii
he received a bad-eh @
at hie place on Decenie:

}
€

rent reguiationsg,, Trvic:

shut off the gee and &
roperty in the rear 4
ine street, ne oceupleF
Gardner, Mary Mck
137 87th otrect, and
ed with the court's ér
end ‘Meputy.! Ml
AAUGHYs ew og EF
B She. fs ‘enjoined af
from ‘ontiouing eveh | u
required to ‘restore.
traced in the-rental 6
to make legal fi
. * Attorneys Noy &
ford represented the p%
ip Fleming, edminte G;
Oftice of Temporary })
fore Judge Watkins }'
would ordinarily have #
Senior Judge W..E, 185
now vacationing at' F
Springs, WeVey~".., Be
pce seemeionates> I

Passed He

A
3

the che

the Wheeling Dol &
& Trust Co, was &
“Robert Taylor’.
ow, F. Allen.” jf?)
The man who
was described as

Twenty-two More |_-~1'° nonce
-|New Trial Granted_..-

manding officer of the local~Army}

consin at Norfolk, Va., proceed to
Panama, and then go to Cubs, for
gunnery practice, Some 40 offie-
ers and 500 enlisted men will take
part in these maneuvers, and re
turn to thelr home base rometime
after Jan, 18.

George. S. Otte ~

;Undergoes Knife -

George 8. Otte, Wheeling’s veter-
the
West Virginia Theatrical Enter-

an show-man and head 9f
prise, Inc., has euccesafully under

Valley General hospital,

removed there on Deo. 36,
It le ‘report

reeponding ' satisfactorily to post-

be taken to his National goad home
for.convalescence. - verve

fold;-O- ft, 6 in, tall
pounds and had. light

Patrolmen Jack Peters and Har.

old Bryson inveatigated the unus-

gone a major operation af the. Ohio
He was

ed thet Mr, Otte Ie

operative treatment, and will econ

Hearifig Monday
On Zone:Appeal ~
Another a from the refusal

issue-@ use permit to Harry Wise-
man will be heard by-the city son-
ing commission Monday at 1:30, .
Wiseman recently made applica-
tion-for permission-to operate a
grocery etore and meat market on
Poplar avenue between Kim ‘and
Park. streets, "kis *
The application-was refused on
the grounds that @ contmereiat-on-
terprise {a prohibited tn that resi-
dential area. Ben Resnick is own

peed pore the property; a

In-State Land Suit=--—

by Circuit Judge Harold Brennan tn
the di tion eult of fhe Btate

been sent to Fort Hayes, Col

bus, Ohio, for induction, They are:

Bobble L. Adams, Moundsville;
Kenneth L. Atwell, Wheeling; Rob
ert J. Beno, St. Claireville, Ohio;
John 8. Bettem, Bens Run; Romert
Z. Connor, Whéeling; Robert: L.
William R, Gil-

Road Commission vs. Rita Kam-
mer on the-grounds that al] mem-
bers of the jury were not free
holders. ae 1 Ay
The jury brought in a verdict of
$29,160 damages, but this was ap

sel for the defense, who

that the amount was far under

actual damages sustained. °
The suit was instituted by the

pealed by O'Brien & O'Brien, Sa

Warren Rider Is- 2a.
Kiwanis Sécretary_—-*

a pa 4 TO +4 é a oe
-A_new trial_has~been granted!” Warren Rider has been elected as

secretary of the Kiwanis club, suc-
ceeding Don C. Dietrich, who after
@ decade requebted that he be re-
Ueved of that duty... * --
Willam H. Wheeler was elected
as club secretary for ancther term,
°Al C, Ringel was elected & mem-
ber of the board to suceced Rider.

Austin’ Vi. Wood, Speaks

pyeal
of Bullding Official John Bremer to

At St. James Church sia}

ty
The Ohio river ‘ta |
riajng slowly, with a
12, Warwood, at @ 149
feet, The foreceat a
to be reached -sqometi:i))
noon around 17 feet.,
Bhould that mark |
wil) be the second
to, be recorded local
wees, Oo

' *
ere

County Scho
Resume Morg:

-Ohl9_eount bite Hi
resume on y
since the -Caristmas
began December. s0tti:
schools witt_a

It. fe unde nf

West Liberty school;
crack developed in Gwe)
parts must be acer
York. An effort le Bey
make temporary reps! 4
to Supt. J. P.. Melte' |

studies Monday +94 “|
Beethoven} Soci: ;
Holds Two:Sapr

a aca

voment
\wesday
he fire
foe the
to heer
rty and
lon,

on the
mpbell,
l) take

VICK Cia, Uh, We be MOUTH, were
performed the, postmorten, Pa.
trolmen Ray Lucea and Ed Karges
and Sergeant Albert Sailor, In-
veotigating olfloers, and George
Altmeyer, undertaker, °

Gordon's Body Not
Claimed as Yet

The body of Willlam (Bill
Gordon, who Meta the
West .Virginfa’ Penitentiary Friday
night for the shotgun slaying of
Mrs. Josephine Carr of Bluefleld
(W. .Va.), remains at the Lutes
Funeral home in Moundsville un-

claimed by his family, it was ree
vealed last night at the funeral

_|home.

Prison officials had been notl-
{led that the family would claim
the body after the executlon.

According to word from_the fu-
neral home no Indication has been

-|made by the family that they want

the body shipped to South _Caro-
lina, but word may be receive

|soon.

L. R. Lutes, funeral. director, in-

dicated that unless” word Is_re-
ceived shortly, other burial ar-

jrangements must be made, ,

December Fines
Net City. $7,698

Fines and costs amounting to
$7,608 were qoliected by the city

‘lin’ December, according to ‘the

monthly report of Police Chief
Alonzo Hixenbaugh. Police made
212 arrests, 198 for general offenses
and 19 for traffic violations,

County Farm Women’s ?

Council Meets Tuesday
The Ohlo County Farm Wom-
en’s Council will meet Tuesday
morning at the Farm Bureau of-
fice, National Bank of West Vir-
ginia building, Twelfth and Main
streets.
Mrs. R. M. Lewis, president, will
de at the business session to
convene at 10 o'clock. i

Wiedebusch Estate
Valued at $14,025 _

The late Edwin W. Wiedebusch

$13,000 in real estate and $1,025

ing
in property, according

to an appraisement filed Saturday.
The estate of the\late Joseph A.

left an estate worth $14,025, includ-|.

A moeoting of the Ohio Valley
United Labor committee was held
Sunday ‘evening jn Intermediate
court room. A resolution was
adopted approving effort of the
committees to bring a peaceful end
to the clash In the beer handling
situation that had spread docally
from Pittsburgh,

Several talks werp given during
the meeting on other subjects, to
tinillarizo the membership with
projected proposed for the better.
ment of the Wheeling district and
were of an educational nature.

Minnie Nay Home
Opens 1947 Program

The 1947 program of activities
at the Minnle Nay Settlement
House, North Benwood, were
opened Sunday afternoon at the
home with the primary and junior
departments of the Sunday class
convening. 7
This afternoon at ‘four o'clock
the-Junior Neighbors meet, while

d the Girl Reserves club will hold

its sesslon’ this evening at 7
o'clock. Wednesday at 3:30
o'clock the Playmates Girls—club
convenes. The Woman's club will
meet at 7 o’clock in the evening,

‘(The Cuh Scouts, meet Thursday

afternoon at four o'clock and. the
boys will hold a program in the
evening at 7 o'clock in the recrea-
tion rooms. A recreation program
will be conducted Friday evening
at 7 o’cock for both boys and girls.
The board of directors will meet
Tuesday noon at the McMechen
Methodist church with Mrs. Wade
Kepner, chairman, presiding. The
Women’s Society of Christian serv-
ice will serve the luncheon.

Elects Officers _

The Bethlehem volunteer fire
department will hold Its annual
election of officers, Wednesday
evening, at 8 o'clock at the Bethle-
hem-firo house, it was announced
lent night by John Schaner, a
member of the board of directors.

Prior to the election, reports on
the past year's business will be
rendered by Harry Wagner, presl-
dent; ‘Lee Lazear, secretary, Wil-
liam Heintz, treasurer; Arlle Wil-
son, building: committee, and Al-
bert Weisner, fire chief. .

Frank Rader, vice president,

\joins the other officers seeking
-lreelection to their posts, while

Tom Ewing will be a candidate
for the three-year term on the
board of directors. Holdover dl-
rectors are John Schaner and Arlle
Wilson. . .
At the conclusion of the election
pons for the ensuing year will
e outlined.

Sweeney Speaks to
Old Trails Post

Harry T. Sweeney of- the Clay
Junior high school faculty.and_for:
mer commander of the Vollansbee
Legion post, will address Old ‘l'rails
post, No. 118, Américan Legion, at
noon today at the Windsof. —

Elk Minstrel
Group Meets

Fred C. Seely has called’ a
meeting of the Elks minstref! com-
mittee for Tuesday evening at the
club. The annual event will be re-
sumed after a suspension in 1942
and the dates have been set for
February 12, 18 and 14.

The second hanging of the year
at West Virginia penitentiary will
be on Friday night, January 17,
when Mark McCulley, 35, will pay
the death penaliy for the slaying
of a Mineral county deputy sheriff,
unless Governor Clarence Meadows
chooses to intervene.

The year’s second hanging, if

carried out, will be two weeks

from the day that William (Billy)

Gordon was hanged on January 3.

r will be the prison’s 8lst execu-
on.

Ackermann was appraised at
$1,680. |
Ae

McCulley murdered the Mineral

Mark McCulley, 35, Is to Die
On Pen Gallows January 17 —

county law officer when appre
hended for stealing a truck last
summer. |

Atypresent, the murderer is in
the South Hall of the prison, and’
he {is said to be holding up “pretty
well,” according to captain of the
guards Roy D. Akins.
_ The usual amount of mail from
family and friends has been re-
ceived by the condemned man
since he was brought to the institu-
tion: late in November, Adkins
said. There have n no requests
for visits from any members of his
family as yet, Adkins added.

2 » .
8 oO Be miw OD PRs 4 8

Ahepa If
New Off

Welrton — B
here Sunday
new offf[eers
tiring presid
cer,

George E.
ney, was
while other 0
lam Demos,
Stratton, secrG
es, treasurer,
of governots &
Christ Leonts
and John Same

Slot Maclf
Are Unde

New Cum
Sheriff Mike @
a ban on slo
cock county,

|
|

4number that-

ed--were—t:
has also_operg
that had. b
number of -s0cy
bar-and othey,

James A.
Rejoin La:

James A. BR
inthe Army, &
general’s offf
Robert Riley 7
served in the 4
on and from {}
December 13,8

Education
To Meet &

The newly;
committee . of
Board of Tri;
Board of Ty
tion. Dr. Frag
man of the cop
W. A; -Fritz,p
Charies H.
Cramblett, Diy
P. McHenry §
Kirwin. .*

Clerk’s Rh
In 1946 Sd

Receipts tot
all-time recore
the office off
riond Falland
Hunting and
to apn oxim

yielded $14,25¢

Ashe was led to the death house
he was calm, Hé showed no emo-
tion a¢ he heard the prison quartet
singing “In the Sweet Bye and Bye.”

As the notes of the song died,
Hyer, mounted the scaffold with
firm step. i ;

Just before the*trap was spring,
Hyer was asked if he had any last.
word to say, '

He réplied: acy Hane

“Booze got the best of me, I
admit killing my wife. I have made
seid. roads-tu sneetaneieie ites ee
and 0 ‘my lfe,

. Before going to the death cham-
ber, Hyer had talked freely. with
reporters, To them he gave. a
warning against the use of Intoxi«
catinw Manor 65 |. pe ;
“I stil} “don’t clearly; fémember
how I rnurdered my wife,” he sata:
“My mind was fogged by. the effects
| of liquor.” Pitas 4

“Mayb@é you. are a. moderate
drinker,” Hyer said to one of the
newspaper men, “That js what I
thought I was, Now you see where

I am,” ‘

4 Preachers Viste Him

Hyer was visited yesterday after-
hoon by Rev. W. C. Harold, pro-
testant chaplain of t” + pr , and
by Rey. E. G. Helmentolier, of, Dun-
DAP, ese igi» pie Pha!

A..nephew from Dubois, Pa,,
visitca Hyer tv. > In day but Kis aged
fathor and clhyer 1.) «t' vee at Duboia,
including a sister, did not see hiss,

Hyer was one of the few men to
face death at Went Virginia prison:
who had no specific requeata for a
last meal. '

“I leave that up to you,” he told
Warden A. C. fcroggins when asked
what he “artited to eat. “Give me
what you thir” best. I doen't care.”,

He. wae con?*:nned to death fol- |
lowing his conviction of beating his
wife to death in toclr restaurant ct}
Durbin, Decer-* -~ 19, 192360.. He did |
not tako an appeal an* “id not ask |
for executive clemency. During his
stay In prison he arent many hours |
readiny thé Bible, |

{1 9 Undistarbed 2+, Song.

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HYER 1S HANGED 10 .
~ PAY ROR HIS CRIME

Poeahontas’ County Slayer of
| Wife Executed at State
(Penitentiary (oe

WARNS ABOUT LIQUOR
Admitting Murder, Victim ‘Goes

_. to Gallows Calmly; Body’.
_. Given to Relatives.

' MOUNDSVILLE,: June 20.—The
body of Frank Hyer, 55 years old,
& Pocahontas county man, who was
hanged in the ‘state penitentiary.
here last night for the murder of
hia wife on December 18, 19%0,.
was turned over to relatives today.
it grobably will be taken to hie eid
homa in Pennsylvania for burial -

The hanging ocourred at -9:01,
o'clock -last night. Hyer died in-«
etantly,. When the trap was sprung
his herd was severed from his body,
The atter. Ing physician: explained
that. this waa. because of Hyer’s
more than 200 sounds of weight.
The fall taken by the condemned
man wae the regulation % feet for
all persons hanged at. the. state
prison, Ete as :

Long betore the hour set for the
hanging: Hyer appeared resigned to
his C.om. To newspaper men ear-
Her In the evening he explained his
attitude by saying, “Through God 1
have found peace.”

se commvenytontn 9 are tT te

19
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him, though she could not scream, his fingers still being pressed
into her eth At this point a ‘colored men, Wim. Armstead,
with his wife and child came along the roal, and hearing the
struggle and muffled noises, they hurried to hve they were,
‘‘Leave that girl alone,’’ exclaimed the mau, to wi hich Johnson
only replied by terrible oaths and by Peahine behind him as if
for a pistol, exclaiming at the same time that he vould kill the-
other man if he interfered. In reaching for the pistol, if he had
one, he dropped the knife which he had used in fri, ehtening her. The
colored inan was about to go to him and tear him: loose froin lis vic-
tim when his wife, overcome by the terrible sight, fainted, and he
forthwith carried her home, a considerable way down the muireoad,

- Putting his wife and family in the house, and locking the door, he

Churricd back to the scene of the outrage. In the time whics ry hve
had been gone, about ten minutes, Johnson had accomp! vie
vile parpose, and Miss Baily was seri conse ious. “Again eee rau
told Johnson to stop, and again the only answer was threats and

‘curses. Seeing he could not rescue the Poot vir] in that way the

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man ran down, ‘the. road to the railroad, where. he found officer Oug
and sevesal railroad meb.

“Por God's sake come up here quick | A nigger is trying to
kill a white girl !? he exclaimed, and led the way quic kly to the
be ac scompanied by the oflicer ‘and men. ‘The brute was attempt-

, the second time to accomplish his puipuse, but Ollicer Ong
and the men sprang upon him and. dragged him, fighting and
cursing, from her. After detailing a few of the crowd that had
already gathered; the alarm being given by the colored man’s wife,
to carry Miss Bailey home, they hurried Johnson off up. the rail-
road to the bridge. Here the crowd, who were much excited, ex-
pressed a natural desire to stretch his neck, but the police kept
them back and the negro was taken across the river and lodged in
jail,

SIM JOHNSON

Isa low set, “bullet headed" negro, with small, restless eyes and
thick lips, thin body and large esis and feet. tle has a restless
way of turning his head on one side, aud a nervous movement of

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SIM. JOHNSON, THE NEGRO.

Convicted Ly the Jury. - He Will fling for His Dastardly Crime.

Last Saturday, at 11:50 0’clock, the jury in the case of State. vs,
Sim Johnson, charged with a fiendish rape on the parson of Miss
Alice Bailey, after a retirement of twelve minutes brought ina
verdict of guilty, which under the laws of Wesi Virginia, means
death by hanging. 2 — -

This verdict is no surprise.’ The facts ‘incident to the
were known to the community. ‘The brutal, flencdisn

bts

crime
and bleed
thirsty means, to which the hegro resorted ty aceujplish his pur-
pose, aroused universal indignation, ea

Never before in the history of our county, has justice been avore
promptly administered than in this case. ‘Great cretit is dae to
Judge Snyder and our prosecuting attorneys, S. Ciiapman and
Adam Littlepage, for the rapidity and thoroughness with which the
conduct of this case, from beginning to end, has been character-
ized, “The jury too, deserve special commendation for the prompt,
honest and courageous manner in which they disposed of the ease,

The evidence of the crime was conclusive, direct and overwhelin-
ing. No loop-hole existed offering even the suspicion of a legal
doubt, The prosecuting witness, backed on every material point
by others, gave evidence not contradicted even Ly the statement
of the defendant. Great excitement prevailed. At one simac, lynch
aw was gravely threatened. But the prompt measures adopted by

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ciding right from wrong; can’t say how
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ave known the prisoner for 4or 5 years; I think:
he is sane,

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own the prisoner for 6 or 8 months: |
think he is as smart as any one.

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quainted with the prisoner; TI always consid-
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Judge Snyder, Sheriff Pickens and Attorneys Littlepage and Chap-

man saved our people from resort to extreme and unlawful mea-
sures. ‘The trial was a perfectly fair one. The court appointed
good counsel to represent the accused, and they did their daty.
Messrs. Littlepage and Chapman, while avoiding everything tend-
ing to influence an already too excited public, still discharged their
oficial duties in a manner that received universal commendation.

Johnson perpetrated the crime on the 7th day of April, 1891;

he was arrested on the same duy, indicted by the grand jury on

the Sth of same month, arraigned same day, tried on the 1oth and
rith and found guilty. Such thorough accomplishment of Jpsstic e
will always prevent riots like the late one at New Orleanis.

Cad THE CRIME, ees

‘The story of the csime is a most revolting one, in ail its details.
On Tuesday April 7. Miss Alice Baily, of Davis creek, a stream —
on the south side of the Kanawha river from Charleston, came to
this city and spent the day here shopping. About half after four
she finished, and going tothe South Side ferry, she crossed the
river, and started home along the railroad. She had gone quite
away and had just left the railroad and stepped into the road: lead -
ing to her home when she felt as if she was being followed, and
turned to see who was near her. At some distance back of her
cume Sim Johnson, the colored boy—or man. Noone else was in
siyht, but she felt no uneasiness until on looking back again she
saw the negro making rapid strides toward her, as if intent on

catching up with her. Then, for the first time, she became some-
what alarmed, and her worst fears were realized when, stepping
to her side, he spoke to her, making an insulting proposal.

“Tam not that kind of a girl,” she “answered indignantly, and
started on, when he caught her by the arm, and without giving her
time to think, dragged her off the road and drew a knife upon her.
When she fully realized his hellish purpose, she began screaming,
but with a curse, he caught her by the throat, and throw ing
her to the ground, he scratched her face and body, and tore her
clothes almost off her. With the strength of despair, she fought

All who
pressed
li Sheriff

) similar

loud in

un which

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WELTERING IN THEIR BLoop,
Will’s bowel lying out upon the bed be.
side him. Physiciang were called and
did all in their power to alleviate the
eulferings of the two unfortunates, bat
it was evident ty every one from the first
covery. Will died on the following night
and Mary a few hours later, on Sunday
morning. Kampf was arrested about an
hour after the commission of the crime
by Constable Wilson and A, J. Holdren,

but said he had cut them with a case },

knife that he had picked up from the
table. When told that both the children
would die he replied:

“DAMN ’EM, Ler Ey BE DRAD,””

His knife was found the following day
where he had hidden it carefully by the

the prosecution. The jury consisted of
di; Burditt, WT: Cart, Cyrus Carey,
Ny W, Deuley, Hp. Ewing, A. G. ij’
lespie, O, ¢. Jarrett, Joe] Leftwich, ‘}'.
U. Melton, J. F. Pauley, J.D. Turley and
Samue} White. The Case was piven
to the jury on Tuesday, December 10th,
aud on the following day a verdict was
returned of guilty of murder in the first
degree, All through the trial Kampf

‘this was over.
raled and Sentence was Passed up-
on him by Judge Guthrie on Fri-
day, December 20th. Several weeks

Inter Mtr Tayne apd Father Stenger,
UN SGHER Hitefeaags WFeltnies Inet the pegs

id
‘

ter before Goy. Fleming, Presenting it in.
its most favorable light, but the goy-

ernor did not fee] justified in interfering.
he line of defense and also the ground

upon which g commutation of Sentence

was asked was the

WEAENESS OF MIND

of the prisoner. He Was a man of a

to cheer him up bat he was in very low
Spirits most of the time. He expressed
regret that he had killed Will, and said
that he had hot intended to do 80, but
seemed to have little Tegret so far as
ary was concerned, He said

SHE HAD AcTED VERY BADLY

and had been &® source of trouble to him
from the time that she had arrived at
the earlier Years of womanhood, That

she had been in criminal] intimaey witha
@ number of men, some of them colored,

vacancy for an hour at a time and, his
cell-mate says,

UN DOUBTEDLY CON TEMPLATED SUICIDE,

almost every day. Kampf Was
2 Catholie “in his younger days,
but for years had paid no atten.
tion to religions matters, until he began
to realize that certain death was &taring
him ‘in the face, when he began to pay
het Attention fo bis foture. Welfare,

$24;

hat, in which he seemed to take great others escaped without injury. All who

pride, ‘saying that. they made witnessed the execution were impressed _
him look younger than ever and with the efficient manner in which Sheriff.

he ought to have hig photograph Pickens performed

taken with them on. _ He: walked HIS DISAGREEABLE DUTY.
Vader ee par “fe his ae) > Those who-have been Present on similar
adalat, Sinaia oa Se degasions at other places are loud in
mounted the seaffold, shook hands with their praise of the manner in which
Father Stenger, Sheriff Pickens, Mr. the affair was planned aud executed.
ote a Dr. Aultz, and then The portrait which accompanies this
stepped forwar to the trap. Spicer sketch is a fair likeness of Kampf
Miller strapped his feet together, as he appeared at his trial and was en-
his hands were fastened by Deputy graved from a sketch taken at that time
Sheriff Swinburn and Sheriff Pickens by John L. Cole. He usually wore only
adjasted he rope and put on the black- 5 moustache, but'efter being placed in
pon ash rr ae 11 Pa sioet the se ates jail his beard was allowed to grow, as it
Sprang an mpi was launched into was feared that if a razor’was given him
verity with a prayer on his lips, less he might commit suicide. Those who
than three minutes from the time he left knew him best will note a striking a:
the jail, The moment before, Father

Stenger pressed his cheek to that of S¢mblance to his features and expression.

Kampf, whispered a few KAMPF’S CRIME.

WORDS OF CONSOLATION ra a Pei which ‘peg “igre the
ia his ear and as the trap fell offered ap sgt te wire ey Pada ci ps a well te
a fervent prayer commending the soul of POS ; rit ay

: review it briefly. His daughter Mary,
ihe oo meyer the os who aged 20 and his son Will aged 19, owing
gave it. Kampf’s neck was broken by ;' : ha Se . oneal yer
the fall and he died without a straggle had Madi ie hese reatcls Sisponition
Five cogs gion pata TL Nie clon house for themselves in a little honse on
still beatin: sere. ia sr reg ant it war Dee, Carr’s property about a mile be-
beating very feebl y and twelve minntes llr fk fray pana ese onipbe
cre pe : ig fell Pres on Ae hatin short distance away On the*night of.

the attendin icians, At : : -
11:30 sd body ss takes downby Uadar FRIDAY, OCTOBER 4, 1889,
taker Barlow and placed in a handsome Kampf went home about 8 o’clock, hay-
coffin, ornamented with a Silver plate in ing worked all day for George Pfeiffer
the form of a cross, with the inscription and found oat oe the hod had
: “aT REST,” been entered in his absence an some ar-

d taken to the Catholic ch h wh ticles taken. He at once started over to-
Prieta! imrvines weve held “The fidaine ward the home of his two children, tak-
were then taken to the Catholic cemetery Han Pabese fb ea npeldes red ae
ad nie oe ar ge ere ty inches inlength, a weapon that he had
Bohnert, John Spaniol, HE. orholt, 2°" . if
Spicer. Miller and Thomas Swin. CARRIED FOR YEARS,
burn acted ds pall bearers. ‘he and upon arriving there he accused Mary
Services at the chureh were largely of having been to his house and taking
attended. He died thoroughly repent- his flat irons. This she denied and he
ant of hiscrime and as aman who wil- drew his knife and stabbed and cut her
lingly offered his life as an atonement. several times about the abdomen. Her
* While the body was hanging and shortly brother Will, who was eating supper at
' before it was pronounced that life was the time, sprang up tu defend her and
extinct, a section of the scaffcld, which was also terribly cut by his infuriated
had been insecurely fastened, gave way, ste bg sag Teer atic eons
and Drs. Aultz, Lee and Barber, Mr. went ome, hiding his knife by the side
Littlepage and Mr. Mullins were Precip- of the path as he went, and retired as
itnted to the ground. Fortunately no eesti nothing had happened, ‘ ane
S! , al t, althe ame Yieti scfahind soan arndend the
Pile Spe aTiaNAE Bagi sees Ligue tpn Pann fata :

offerins:
ecounse:
interes:
was at’
inabili*
ander
being
made
ruled
on Bu
day,
later

PAF bh}

CERT

in ie aia di

TIME FOR HIS EXECUTION ,
drew near, this interest grew upon
him and in the latter days of his
life he devoted almost his entire

time in preparing for the world beyond. |

To Father Stenger he always spoke
tenderly of his murdered children and
said on more occasions than one that he
would willingly shed every: drop of
blood in his body, if by so doing he
could bring them back to life. He prob-
ably stated his version of the case more
fnily to the reverend gentleman than to
any one else, not only becanse he had the
most
ENTIRE CONFIDENCE IN HIM,

but because he was able to converse with
him betterthan with any one else who
talked with him after the crime. Ha said
that for some time previous to the maur-
der he had missed things from his house
and found that it had been entered dur-

ing his absence. To prevent further
depredations he wedged his windows
down and fastened the doors securely.
Onretarning home on the eventful night
of October 4th he found that, notwith-
standing his precautions, the

WINDOW HAD BEEN RAISED,

the house entered and some fat irons
taken. Of course the marauder had
been Mary. He at once went over to
reprimand her, taking the knife with
him, not for the purpose of using if but
because he always carricd it. When he
arrived at her house and accused her of
taking his flat irons she sprang up
angrily, called him a liar and picked up
a hatchet, with which she attempted to
strike him. He then cut her, partly in
self defense and partly because he was
overcome by his anger. Will then
started toward him witha chair raised
over his head and he, too, fell a victim to
his father’s rage. Father Stenger says
that notwithstanding the fact that the
outside world has always considered
Kampf ‘
COLD AND UNFEELING

the estimate has been based upon a mis-
understanding of the man’s character.
In all his conversations with him he
always softened when speaking of the
children and he seemed to regret his
crime almost entirely on their aceount,
almost forgeiting himself when speaking
of them, Father Rtenzer enid in son:

MeVeH on Mbt) my TEAK euainete toed Les
e: . x .. ¢
haipt waa tally

did not believe chai

responsible for his crime and that his be-
lief was based upon a carefnl study of
the man and his mental qualifications
after he was sentenced. He seemed
to have

NO MORAL APPRECIATION

of his crime and honestly thought his
imprisonment was a sufficient punish-
ment for it. He had no hatred for lie
his children and his crime was merely
the result of irritation because he had
been unable to persuade Mary to do
right. ‘That he sincerely regretted what
he had done, both from human and from
conscientious feelings, Father Stenger
has no doubt. For several days he er-
pressed the hope that

GOD WOULD GIVE HIM STRENGTH
to walk unassisted to the gallows, as he
didn’t want to have to be carried, and
hoped to meet his fate like a man. Not-
withstanding the fact that he had the
natural antipathy to death of all per-
sons in anything like a healthy mental
and ag condition, he talked of it
calmly. His only fear seemed to be that
a howling, hooting mob would surround
the gallows, and he often expressed the

- wish that the execution would be private.

His appetite for several days previous to
his execution was not very good, owing
probably to the great strain on his mind,
but he bore up remarkably weil, every-
thing being considered, and his last
night on earth was spent as about all the
others were after his sentence,

NO “‘DEATH WATCH’’

was set and although his slumbers were
somewhat broken he spent the greater
part of the time in sleeping. He ate
rather sparingly at breakfast next morn-
ing, and was visited later by several of
his friends and acquaintances, among
them being Lewis Wehrle, who crossed
the ocean with him, his counsel, Hon. J.
M. Payne, and Father Scenger, who re-
mained with him to the last. The death
warrant was not read, as he pre-
ferred that it should not, and he ex-
presssed his thanks to Mr. Payne
for what he hady¥ done for him, in
his broken English. To Mr. Wehrle he
said that his crime was committed under
great provocation and he asked Sheriff
Pickens not to tie him like an animal
when he was taken to the gallows, as he
was able to walk and waa willing to

Me Te hath been intende4} that the»
BAA tabe Bhi GPLeF Aides, Dah
hamne tisuscit asked that it be post.

3
responsible for his crime and that his be-
lief was based upon a careful study of
the man and his mental qualifications
after he was’ sentenced. Ha seemed
to have
NO MORAL APPRECIATION

of his crime and honestly thought his
imprisonment was a sufficient punish-
ment for it. He had no hatred for
his children and his erime was merely
the result of irritation because he had
been unable to persuade Mary to do
right. That he sincerely regretted what
he kad done, both from hr 2and from
conscientious feelings, Fu wer Stenger
hasno doubt. For several days he ex.
Pressed the hope that
GOD WOULD GIVE HIM STRENGTH
to walk unassisted to the gallows, as he
didn't want to. have to be carried, and
boped to meet his fate like a man. Not-
ithstanding the fact that he had the
batural antipathy to death of all per-
8 in anything like a healthy mental
nd hysical condition, he talked of it
aim, y. His only fear seemed to be that
howling, hooting mob would surround
he wallows, and he often expressed the
inh that the execution would be private.
lis annetite for gayeral days previous to
ise on was not very good, owing
probi > the great strain on his mind,
at be pore up remarkably well, every-
hing being considered, and his last
ight on earth was Spent as about all the
hers were after hig Sentence,
NO “DEATH WATCR”’

AS set and although hig slumbers were
mewhat broken he Spent the greater
ttef the time in sleeping. He ate
ther sparingly at breakfast next morn-
&, and was visited jater by several of
# friends and acquaintances, amone
“mM being _Lewis Wehrle, who crossed
*cean with him, his counsel, Hon. J.
. Payae, and Father Scenger, who re-
The death

what he hady done for him, in
broken English, To Mr. Wehrle he
dthat h's crime was committed under
at Provecation and he asked Sheritf
AeRsS not to tie him like an animal
ra he was taken to the gallows, as he
able-to welk and way willing to
¥e hall Deep Lrrteordwsd that his
she tah: Miaka Gflwz inte, CREB
NHGselt asked that fe ba post-

partition tan oeiincomstintayn ce

“Peay pierre Pt tae

POR x

poned no longer than necessary and
11 o'clock that morning was decided up.
on as the time, in which the prisoner
expressed his satisfaction,
: HIS PAST LIFE.

Kampf was born at Offenburg, Dur-

basch, Baden, on May 18th, 1825, and

consequently was in the 65th year of his
age. He wag a son of Johann and Mary
Kampf, his mother’s maiden name hav-
ing been Kiefer, and attended school, as
is customary in Germany, until he was
16 years of age. He was a schoolmate
of Capt. George Danner, of the South
Side, and Valentine Kiefer, of this city.
As a boy he was not considered partien-
larly bright and he learned little while
at school, He was of a rather sullen,
revengeful disposition and was not gen-
erally liked by his schoolmates, It ig
said that in about 1851 or 1852 he got

into a difficulty with one of hig acquaint.

ances and used his knife with
ALMOST FATAL EFFECT.

The wounded man lingered between life
and death for seyera} days, but finally
recovered. For this Kampf was san-
tenced to two years penal servitude
and worked on the public highway for
that length of time, in the chain gang.
Capt. Danner says hae was acquainted
with the man but, has forgotten hig
name. However, he is positive that he
saw Kampf while he was working out
his sentence and Kampf when arrested
by Constable Wilson complained of the
way he was treated and said that he once
cat a man in the “old country’ and was
not treated that way. Father Stenger is
inclined to discredit this story and says
that in his conversation with Kampf the
prisoner .

DISCLAIMED ANY RECOLLECTION

of the affair. However, whether true or
false, it seems to be generally believed by
Kampf’s old acquaintances, Like all
other Germans he served three years in
the army, and on returning home was
employed by the year by Joseph Kurler,
a young married man, and worked for
him several months. One Sanday when
& number of young men were cathered
at Kuyler’s honse, spending the time in
playing games of various kinds, Kampf
and Knyler went into the cellar after

‘some wine, or something of that charac-

ter; forthe crowd. After they had heen
fons tome tina thrige onteida heean te
NURS whe thee Aid tine petapa apt

SST at a ng gt

beitvid, Fie ae, Se) ans Ns ANE eid a

finally went into the cellay voiavestigate.
They found Kuyler lying on the ground

WITH HIS NECK BROKEN,

while Kampf was, apparently, trying to
drag him ont. He explained that Kay’ ar
had fallen down the steps accidents fy,
but did not state why he had not given
the alarm. Hehad had a diffienity with
Kuyler before and although there was
no proof against him it was suspected by
many that there had been foul play.
Kuzler’s wife always held to this opin-
ion, There, as here, Kampf’s chief oe-
enpation was tending vineyards and sim.

ilar work, which he followed until the.

latter part of 1856, when he started for
America, accompanied by Lewis Wehrie,
and the two landed at New Orleans tore)
March 2nd, 1857, after a long voyage on
a sailing vessel, steam ships, at that time,
being unknown. The money for his pag-
sage was advanced by a brother of Henry
Wehrle, Sr., of this city, at Mr. Wehrle’s
request, who afterwards sent the money
back to his brother and together with
John Winter, employed Kampf for sey-
eral years. Shortly before the breaking
out of the civil war, he was engaged in
attending toa

VINEYARD AND ORCHARD

near Brownstown, owned by M. F. de-
Gruyter and when the war broke out Mr.
deGruyter went south and returning sey-
eral months later found that Kampf had
abnsed his eonfidence by taking the en-
tire produets of the vineyard to Galli-
polis and converting them into cash,
which he appropriated to his own use.
On this transaction Mr, de Gruyter con-
siders himself a loser to the amount of
31,500 to $2,000 to this day. A few years
later Kampf was living and working asa
common laborer about Campbell’s creek,
where he got acquainted with Missy Susan
Emeline Kinger, to whom he was married
on March 12, 1868. | Shortly afterwards
they removed to the farm on the south
side of Kanawha, then owned by Dr,
John P. Wale and now the property. of
Judge J. H. Ferguson, residing in a
SMALL LOG DWELLING

where Judge Ferguson’s house now
stands, and where Mary and Will,
their only children were born. The only
schooling the children received was
in the winter of 1876-77 when they -at-
tended a term taught at Pine Groye
acheol honaa by Prof, Martin HU} Ag
that tite they teed fn tha hese sg Lond,

aie 3

L would now, time after time, ospecially towards the dawn of morn-
ing, go up to his house, and as often return home, awe stricken. At
last the devil pushed me forward, and one morning at 4 o'clock I went
up again to his house. ‘To lull my wife’s fears I again told her a lie.
L told her Shafer wanted me to watch some man, suspected of tak-
ing things out of Lis ware-room. But my wife refused her consent
to ny being out at night. ILer prayers were useless. I reminded
her that we wero not very well off, that I was paid for it, and that
{ ought not to fail making all the wages I could, and so she would
reluctantly let me go. ‘hen would I sally out, taking my hatchet
in my pocket with me each time, ’till the day I committed the awful
crite. But to describe it now the heart fails me, on ny knees I im-
plore God to grant me aid to conceal nothing of my horrid murders.

At4 o'clock that fatal morning, I again started out, telling my wife
| was wanted at Shafer’s, in reality I went to Lilienthal’s house,
rapped at the back door, roused him from slecp, and being asked who
it was, [ told him my name and that I wanted a bottle of wine. Up-
on which he opened the door giving admittance, and when he was
about lighting the candle, taking my hatchet I knocked it into his
head. But he was not dead, crying out Oh! John! [ struck him an-
other blow and there he lay felled to the ground, without signs of life.

‘Taking a knife I tried to cut his throat, but it being to dull I used
my hatchet, leaving the knife on tho floor. In his pocketsI founda
pocket book with 814.00 in it, which with his gold watch and a ring
{ took with me, going out again by the back door and returning
home. I gotno blood stains except below the knee of the right leg,
which I washed off, as also my hatchet, before coming home. I told
my wife that I found the people all up, and would not be wanted to
watch that man any more, at which she expressed herself very well
pleased, begging me again not to go out any more of nights, because
gome body might hurt me. ‘To which I answered that no one would
do meany harm. She being satisfied, I lit the fire and breakfast
was cooked, after which I went to the shop, until dinner time, by
which hour the news of the murder was spread all over town.

Un coming home for dinner my wife again warned me against go-
ing out at nights, for said she, suppose somebody had seen you out
this morning, suspicion might settle upon you.

For aweek after this [spent my nights at home, after which I
again said I must watch that man for Shafer. My wife would not
hear to it; out I went again andagain, seeking to find out where l
could get money.

One night I got up telling my wife that Shafer was himself on
the watch, waiting for me to come at midnight, and promising me
one day’s wages for each time I would mount guard. She altogether
opposed my going, saying, Shafer should do his own watching.
But all ber entreaties were of no use. I did leave at midnight, and
proceeding down Market strect, forced open the door of Henry Kra-

r \ \,

LIFE OF JOSEPH EISELE

IN AMERICA.

As already narrated, I reached New York on the 29th of September
1865, after a short voyage of 14 days. My first thought was to
change my name to prevent detection, and the discovery of my bad
life in Germany. I assumed accordingly the Lai John Schafer,
and now found that I still had $50 in gold left. In New Yorx | fell
in with an old acquaintance who hadgerved with me in the peniten-
tiary at Stuttgart, and who telling me he had letters of recommenda-
tion from business men in Germany for Wheeling, it was agreed, af-
ter a few days to set out for that city. In New York I had been
cheated somewhat, like other emigrants, and having now to pay the

assages for both of us, there were left me on landing in Wheeling
Lin six dollars, currency. ButI soon found friends who cared for me
and got 0 Sr ee calpaheraactory, where after
two days I féfP8ick and took to bed at Lutz's hotel. Whilst in this
sickness I made the acquaintance of Joseph Deris, who was then do-
ing the fine joinery work at the Bishop’s Convent, outside of Wheel-
ing. It was he who had the kindness to have me taken to the Hospital
ofthe Sisters of mercy in North Wheeling, where under the atten--
tive care of the good Sisters, I recovered in a couple of weeks.—
Then I went to work as a journeyman carpenter with Deris at the
Convent, which stands about two miles from Wheeling. I labored
at this job from November 1865 to April 1866 and carned about
$270,00, which I spent as follows: Board $120, hospital fees $12,
Clothes $21,00 washing $4.00, four shirts $6.00, Tgols $40.00,
Orphans fair 1.50. After which I had sixty-five dollars left, with
which I started for Parkersburg in company of Mr. Deris, who was
now done the Convent work at Wheeling.

I must here say, that whilst working at the Convent near Wheel-
ing, I had plenty of time and chance to be converted; for many a
time when I would hear the Virgins consecrated to God, praying so
devoutly, I would think to myself how happy they are; and to Bay
the truth, [ enviel them their peace of mind. Sometimes I would

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think of Eternity; of an everiasting reward or punishment, and of
the necessity of conversion, but as soon as { wanted to make a pood
resolution, the Devil dazzled me with the lusts of tlris world, and con-
quercd me. In like manner at church on Sunday, 1 would pray.
During this tine however, I kept my hands from stealing.

In Parkersburg mats thefy yas from Joseph Dariseat Daniel
Shafer’s boarding houst,out of whose valive T took a twenty dollar
vold piee®, ror which [ got $23.00 in curreney. This happened
whilst Deris and myself were boacding at Shafer a, in April or May
of 1866. My first work in Parkersburg was for Farther ’arke, where
I earned $72.00, and left for higher wages. In June 1806] entered
the employment of cabinet-maker Shafer, for whom 1 worked ’till
August 1867, with little interruption. In August 1867 Lapain got
wore under Deris on the new church, wheteereeerTaed il Ge

It was whilst in Shafer’s employ, in the Oc-
tuber 1866 that 1 first met my wife, Ifildegard Arinbruster, who was
then fresh from Germany, and whom I had never seen before. Age
a single man I had led rather a retired life, feeling best when aione,
and finding no pleasure ‘when others were gay and mirthful. My
conscience tortured me day and night, and now in this prison, I feel
happier than I ever felt before, having confessed all wy sins, and
hoping that God-alinighty will hear my prayer.

n April 1867 I asked iny wife to marry me. She refused, but I
entreated her again and again. and others persuaded her, when at
last she gave her consent. I had now but $60.00, which was de-

osited with Danicl Shafer, my boarding-master. ‘To mg wife I said
i had $100.06, lest she should retract her promise, and she believed
me. ‘I'o others also I had made out that I had money on deposit,
whereas all I had was sixty dollars. Qur maryzjgzet lace the
13th May 1867, and my whole study now was to prevent my wife
OTT eTing the deception. From Robt. Mosermann, a tellow-
border at Shafer’s, I took $35.00 in currency, and 5 five Frank
pieces in Silver, which I threw in the river, fearing detection if I
should try to changethem. Shortly after my marriage I heared that
Charles, the brother of Robt. Mosemnann was saspicioned of the theft,
and I was right glad of it. My next thoaght was to goto house-
keeping, when renting rooms of Kramer, and purchasing the articles
most necded, I found my debts about as follows: D. Shafer, for fur-
niture $74.00, Williams, the tailor, for wedding suit $46, making
$119 of debts, of which my wife knew nothing. And many things
were still wanting to our household. I still held out the belief that I
had moncy on deposit with Shafer.

“struck me to murder Joseph Lilienthal.

- es oe

mers beer Saloon, took $10 in money and some eigars. I went
home again telling my wife it was of no use to watch any more at
Shafer’s store.

Passing a few nights at home, I again started out, about 2 o'clock
ono morning (L forget the date) and supposing Father Parke had
some money in his office, [ raised his window, forced open his writing
case, searched every thing, finding no money but 2 razors, which 1
took with me.

My creditors were always pushing me for money, which [ kept on
paying, hardly retaining enough to supply us with food, and so | was
always studying how to raise cash to pay my debts. About this
timo the thought seized me to murder Aloys Ulrich, he having told
me of his having 400 Francs, which [ thought would nearly cover
my debts. But as Metzler kept his moncy,1 proposed to Ulrich to
draw itand go with me to Wheeling, where l could get him a better
situation, and he would be better off every way. ‘To this Ulrich

posit,an of which was a lie; my true intent being to ki
mpanion.

We reached Wheeling at 3 o'clock in the morning by the packet
Express; left our things on board, and proceeded in the direction of
the Convent, follgwing the Hempfield R. R. track. It being still
dark when we had passed the tunnel, I stopped ao little, drew out my
hatchet, struck Ulrich on the right temple, felling him to the earth,
and although he showed no signs of life, L struck him still other blows
upon the head. I then rifled his pockets of 110 Gold Francs, $10
in currency, his Silver Watch and chain, hid his body in a stone cul-
vert, and throwing my hatchet away, (it being the same [ had used tu
kill Lilienthal) I started back to the boat. : :

My next thought was to mash up Lilienthal’s watch, which waa
atill in my possession, and presenting it to a watch-maker for sale,
I gave out it had got run over by a wagon wheel. Ile refused to
buy it. Another watch-maker on Main street also refused, but di-
rected me toa German gold-smith to whom I sold it for $20.00.

I next turned Ulrich’s gold into currency, getting $25.00 moro or
less.

I had now $67.00 and Ulrich’s watch and chain. Ofthis monoy
only $30 were left me on quitting Wheeling, where 1 stayed a few
days, spending freely, and the following sums ‘ere paid at my return
to Parkersburg, viz: Kramer $10, to Wm. Kramer 5 rent, to Llenry

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FROM THE COLLECTION O€ KOCER PEDELL
VIENNA YW. VA.

At the time the withta Preiace was written, the “Life of Joseph Elsele” wns
intended to be pahiished separately from the introductory aecount ef
hissuurders, (rini.«&ke, But the prisuner having since made other
arrangements, his’ Life’ sad letters written by himselfare
herewith presented, commeucing page 22.

: LIFE AND CRIMES
JUNPPH BISBLE, actas JOHN SCHARER,

THE PARKERSBURG MURDERER

WRITTEN BY HIMSELF

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PUBLISHED FOR THE BENEFIT OF HIS WIFE AND CHIT.
: Entered according to an Act of Congress tn the year 1868, by Hildegard Armbruster, ia the o

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She denied that Ford had been intimate with her but said her husband told her he did not want Ford
intheir house because Ford was a thief, It was borught out that thetr had been considerable ene
mity between them prior to killing, Ford more than 6" tall and weighted 222 pounds, Woody weighed
only 135 pounds, CLARKSBURG TELEGRAM, 6"17-1925 ~
Convicted by jury deliberating for two hours, They had quarreled at Densley's home-on nite of

May 16, Ford shot Woody nine times, CLARKSBURG TSLEGRAM( DAILY) on June 18, 1925,

Sentenced on 6-30, Deputies said afterwards that he showed signs of extreme nervousness and had
difficulty in standing and walking and being returned to jail, CLARKSBURG DAILY TELFGRAM 6-20-1925

Kramer 10, money borrowed, which left yetin my hands but 5.00.
Ulrich’s watch I sold first to Joseph Schmidt, who returned it to me
because it would not run well; then to a negro for $2.50 as also the

’ chain for 1.00.

I will here state that on the trip to Whecling Aloys Ulrich ad-

vanced my fare on the boat on my promise, when arrived, to pay him
back.

August Ist L857, [ found myself indebted still to Shafer, the cab- |

inetmauker $41.00. ‘T' late J. resu seph
Doris for the paw church, butmy wife falfing dangerously ill, my

cots again increased, and my wages were as nothing, to make them
less. Duripe this sickness I lost mach time t ork in my ef-

dee OP eT e.

On her recovery I was in debt over $200, of which I told her not
one word. I owed D. Schafer $41, to Williams the tailor 845, to
Kramer 865, to John Kaltnecker $10, to Henry Kramer 810, to
Buhler 15, to Dr. Koch 14, about $10 to the dru gist, and 4 num-
ber of smaller sums necdless to mention, and by all I was pushed for
payment, which it was always my business to meet whenever I got
any money.

Une night when I was needing money worst, Rudolph Tsator told
me he had sold a horse for cash, when I made up my mind at once
to kill him on the pie day. J preten to be unwell, and pnable
to go to work, took my hatchet’and wnt to ln s¢ on lharsda
ORME ae 10 o’cluck. He was just weighing some butter, hen
exchanging some words with him, by one blow of my hatchet, he
was felled to the groand, and1 strack other blows, and thrust his

love down his throat. By this murder I got $63.00, oat of which
f paid Wm. Kramer $51.00 of rent, to De. L. Davis $10.00. These
payments however, were not inade the same day. I had now
none of the T'sutor money left, the other amounts paid having come
out of my wages.

De L. Davis, the constable had still 28.00 of a claim of Williams,
the tailor to collectfrom me. To meet this sum, knowing that
Bohler had e, I copsidered I would

draw 25.00 i

wanted it badly,
having bought outa tavern. I now thoaght to myself, the coal
man Major White at all events must have plenty of money. I took
my hatchet, went to his office at 8 o’clock at night, called for m
bill, and whilst he was receipting it, I struck at hisright temple with
my hatchet, but thanks to God Almighty for so diverting my arm; I
struck him on the neck instead of the head, thus enabling him to ery for
help. Ido not know how many wounds I gave him, recollecting only
that some body had oponed the door and that Iwas runuing away,
first to change my clothes, then to fly the country.

But God had otherwise ordered it. For scarcely was I at the door

ewe res
> een ems as,

ems ee

pa oT

of myown house, when the Police arrested ine and took me to prison,

At first [ resolved to deny my crimes, and several persons who
came to see me urged inc to confess them in vain.

Then Father Parke also visited me, telling me that the people be-
lieved 1 must have money lent out, or otherwise, and that if [ had
money, 1 should own to it, that legal advice might be had, and my
debts be paid. I denied that | had money, and refused to have le-
gal defense, and L spoke the truth. L asked for my German prayer
book, and the next day, after a night of torture and grief L asked to
sec Father Parkeagain. My mind was now made up to tell the
whole truth, and submit to death, of my own free will and accord, in
the presence of Father Parke, Thomas Murphy and J. IL. Diss De-
bar, who acted as interpreter, I confessed that L was guilty of the
murder of Joseph Lilicuthal and Rudolph ‘I'sutor in’ Parkersburg,
and of Aloys Ulrich, near Wheeling, and that Lhad attacked the
EB. fourth man, Major White, with the intention also to kill, and. this

same confession [ made in words and in writing to the Judge and
Court. Since then ny mind has had some case, but the confession
then made, was only part of my guilt. Lowe: it to God and man
to proclaim the whole truth, as best I could call itto mind. As my
life will show, L have robbed and wronged ny fellow creatures hor-
ribly in their property and character and life, whilst upon my inno-
cent and unsuspecting wife and child, 1 have inflicted the most griev-
ous injury.

Tn all my wickedness in Germany or in’ America, 1 have had no
une to blame but myself. 1 resisted my parents and my own con-
conscience, and tuok counsel but of my own passions and vice.

1 kept my own secrets and have had no accomplices. In the mur-
lers I have committed I was moved only by the passion to steal,
which [had cultivated from my carly youth. I need not have been
so bad a man and boy if L had chosen, :

In allowing this revelation of my misdeeds to go to print, I do so
to vindicate all who have suffered suspicion on my account, second!
to raise ncans to pay my debts and to aid my wife and child.

JUSEPIL EISELE.

Parkersburg jail, January, 1868.

SUPPLEMENTARY.
ROME.

I omitted to relate that when I entered the service of Jr. Major
Posart at Rome, he told me that he had dismissed my predecessor
for stealing the amount of several dollars from him. Ie merely
sent him off with the warning not to do so any more, and to consid-
er what a grievous punishment he could bring upon hin by denounc-

ing him for the offence. So he dismissed him without any scandal,
and as the man’s term of service had just expired, he returned to
his native country.

At that time lodgings were scarce in Rome, and Dr. Posart’s ap-
partments were so small that he could display but little furniture,
and had to keep most of the things brought with him from Macerata,
in large trunks or boxes. One of these contained a large number of
surgical instruments in smaller cases, and I thought that I could
now safely take some of them, and when the boxes would be opened
the theft would be charged to the former servant. I therefore took
a lot of those instruments, some fine linen clothing, and several oth-
er articles out of the boxes, and sold them about as well as I could.
I told the Italians the goods had belonged to an assistant Surgeon
of the first regiment who had left the service, and had not enough
funds to take him home, and [ was believed, and lived in high hopes,
thinking that every thing would be laid upon my predecessor, in
which it turned out that I was not mistaken.

‘'wo months afterwards I rented 11 rooms for Dr. Posart; we
moved into the house and I had to unpack the boxes, and distribute
the contents into the bureaus and closets we had bought. All of
this I did in presence of the Doctor’s wife, and when we reached
the instrument cases she discovered that many objects were missing,
and remarked that the rascal, my predecessor, had robbed them of
much more than they were aware of, and 1 was glad suspicion did
not attach tome. When the Doctor who had been out of the house
returned home and learned the circumstance from his wife, he was
much aggrieved, but said it could not be helped now as tho thief
was far away. I just then stood right by his side, and thought to
myself, “if he only knew that the thief is still in the house.” But
I was not uneasy at all, every thing went on smoothly and I enjoyed
every confidence. I performed wy service faithfully, nor did I steal
anything more untill the first of May, 1856, when Stauner the for-
mer servant, now suspected of my own thefts, returned from Bavar-
ica, his home, and enlisted again. Hehad scarcely taken up his
quarters, when he was arrested and examined by the military au-
thorities. Of course he denied everything, because he was reall
innocent. I kept informed of all the proceedings and felt deeply
sorry to sec him suffer innocently for my sake. On the 2nd of
June he was convicted by the Court martial and sentenced to beshot
according to the military Code of that country. My remorse left
me no peace after this, and so I went to my room and wrote a Jet-
ter to the Court denouncing myself as the guilty party, then I went
to the Doctor’s room, broke open his desk, took the money, about
$250, and left the house. Next day at 5 o’clock in the morning I
went to see a Ilungarian who spoke German, whom I knew to be very
hostile to the Papal government, and told him that I wanted to de-
sort the service. At this he was very much pleased, said he wish-

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el every papal soldier would do the same, and promised to protect
and provide me witha passport. Tremaine concealed with him
until the 13th June, when I began to feel very uneasy about getting
away. ‘The city proper ia surrounded by a wall, every gate of which
was closed at night and guarded during the day by squads from ny
own regiment by whom I was well known, and every person going
in and out was closely observed by the officer commanding the post.
At last on the 13th of June at 4 o'clock A. M., my Ilungarian friend
whose name waa Stephen Perski, took me out ina two horse car-
riage through the gate of San Pictro, as far as Montrosa, where he
cordially shook my hand and wished mea safe journey, and then re-
turned to Rome, while I pursued ny way homeward through Switzer-
land and got through in safety.

BIBERACH.

When at this place, I was being led from the jail to the Court house
(see page 26) my attorney Mr. Goll of Biberach joined me and in-
formed me that Dr. Posart from Lome was in town, at which I was
quite frightened, for I felt much ashamed. In the Court room, be-
ing asked by the Prosecutor whether 1 required to have my case sub-
mitted to Jury, I replied that I waived the Jury and left the decision
to the Court. After a formal trial the Judges pronounced my sen-
tence, and the the audience immediately dispersed. Just then Dr.
Posart approached and tapping me on the shoulder, remarked that |
probably never thought of meeting him again when I left Rome. 1
now implored his pardon for the wrong { had done him, which he
readily granted, saying that he much preferred to have me steal his
money under the circumstences, thereby saving the life of an inno-
cent man. He informed me also that he had indemnified the other
man for what he had suffered on my account, and that the latter had
returned home to Bavaria. After whichthe Doctor bid me farewell
and I was remanded to the District jail previous to my transfer to the
penitentiary.

JOSEPH EISELE.

Parkersburg jail, January 1868.

TSUTOR.

The Physicians who made the Post-mortem exatnination of the
body of I'sutor, insisting that some ofthe wounds inust have been in-
flicted with a sharp pointed knife, Eisele was requested on the 25th
February to state the facts in detail, when he replicd in writing:

In regard to the wounds J inflicted upon the deceased, Lean gay noth
ing else than what I have previously written. Jt is entirely accord-
ing to the truth, and all the physicians who said it was done with an-
other inatrumentare mistaken. 1 would not Gonceal it, had Lused
any other instrument, for it would remain +]l the same for me.

dge three boys witnessed MM the gun-battle and slaying on the highway. As soon
d, they flagged a car andl sent the news to Sheriff Knotts :

y, Ralph Harper, a
4 record, and John
ed the Thom McAn
n Charleston. They

but both escaped
al. Newell was re-

and given twenty
he is now serving.
the law until early
anonymous tip, offi-
r Staunton, Virginia,
) hiding. The very
n was killed, Harper
nediate Judge Henry
irds come from the
| but because three
as witnesses in crimi-
County court docket,
dley had volunteered
their trip after the

iad been kept secret
aracter of the Harper
ey had driven his car
Shamblin and Harper
ackled to each other.
_and Dudley stepped

Just then a young woman dashed over to the
officers’ car from a near-by machine in which she
had been waiting, and asked permission to kiss
Harper good-bye. The deputies obliged, and after
a few minutes of osculation between the boyish
prisoner and the sobbing woman,. Dudley began
to pick his way through the narrow Charleston
streets, and on to U. S. Highway No. 21.

IF there were any words exchanged between the
prisoner and his sweetheart, they were in such
low tones that the officers did not overhear them.

“How did your gitl know when you were leav-
ing?” Shamblin inquired of Harper, as the city
traffic lights faded behind, and the machine took to
the broad, twisting highway.

Harper shook his head as he managed to manipu-
late his handcuffs so as to get at a cigarette. Shamblin
obligingly lit a match for his prisoner. A good scout
was Roy; that boy had a big heart.

An hour passed, and the prison-bound. party’ had
whizzed through Sissonville and entered our county, when
a big machine, that had been lumbering along at a respect-
able distance behind, began to.close the gap, the driver
impatiently sounding his horn.

Deputy Dudley started to pull. over to the side of the ‘ i i
road to allow plenty of clearance, when his eye noticed in Depety, Sect Bop fe Wie iooer aad ‘arcacked
the rear-vision mirror that the man at the wheel behind— frorn the rear, he was unable to offer any defense

een ae

The Master Detective

(Above) Deputy Sheriff George L. Dudley,
the driver of the county car. He was
shot and hurled into the ravine by the

gun-men

(Right) The courthouse in Ripley,
where the final scenes in this drama
of the fatal kiss were played

(Below) “I will help my brother this

time,” said Charles Harper (below).

But in so doing, this youth sealed his
own tragic fate

> oer

there was less than tw
handkerchief over the
“That guy chasing us is masked, Roy,’
Shamblin, as he swerve
“What do you make of that?”
“Looks like they're going to try to rescue
yelled Shamblin,

dow.
The officers’ car leaped forwar

way.

enty feet between them then—had a

lower part of his face.
’ he shouted to

d back into the middle of the high-

Harper, George,”
as he took a look out of the rear win-

“Step on it, pal, I'll watch Harper.”
d, and for a quarter of

a mile Dudley kept the gas pedal to the floor, dipping

down one mountain after anot

her at a terrific rate of

speed while the other car careened madly in pursuit.

“If we can make Ripley, the

y won't dare follow us

into town,” shouted Deputy Shamblin, leaning for-
ward with his mouth against Dudley’s ear, so he could

be heard above the noise of the motor.
“I’m giving her all she’s got,”
Just sout

around a curve
istening white school house was woven

of gr
close that it might be on a tow-rope, bounced the pur-

returned Dudley.
h of Kenna the county car slewed and skidded

and dipped into the clearing where the
into a tapestry

een leaves and dark brown trunks. Behind it, so

suing car.
Now the rustic stillness was punctured by the bang

of an automatic pistol. Dudley’s left arm dropped,
shattered, from the wheel and the machine crashed
into a post supporting guard cables. Its momentum
carried the car on until two more posts were uprooted
before it came to a halt.
Dizzy with pain, Dudley yanked out his pistol and
emptied its chambers at the pursuers, while from the

rear seat Shamblin’s gun began to speak.
Brakes screamed in raucous protes
pulled to a
men tumbled out, gleaming p!
slumped in his seat over the w

attention to t
brain Shamblin with the handcuffs.

An automatic spat

t as the big machine

stop abreast of the wrecked car, and two masked
i istols in hand. Seeing Dudley
heel, they directed their

he rear seat, where Harper was trying to

fire and Deputy Shamblin crumpled

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grotesquely into
forehead and chi
smiled at the ma
turned into a lo
from the face o:

HELPLESs in
the pistol o
stopped by the |!
Deputy Shambli
_ Just then Dep’
jerked open the
steering wheel.
one ‘said as Dud
cables, and dow:
The firing cea
there was no sou
the waving pine
motor of the m
.Four persons

Martha Sayre,
near the school
teens, who fron
with open-mout

At the shout
masked thugs, |
and rushed ove
over the prison
to me. You're
driver turn to
Ralph to a doc

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a

A revolver b
Harper was ca
dangling from

‘around, and ro:

William Tha>

| tington, the bo)
“held a hasty co

hem then—had a
face.

” he shouted to
ddle of the high-

Harper, George,”
of the rear win-
per.”

for a quarter of
the floor, dipping
a terrific rate of
madly in pursuit.
it dare follow us
blin, leaning for-
's ear, so he could

or.
ied Dudley.

lewed and skidded
clearing where the
en into a tapestry

unks. Behind it, so
»e, bounced the pur-

ictured by the bang
s left arm dropped,
‘he machine crashed
bles. Its momentum
posts were uprooted

out his pistol and
ers, while from the
speak.

as the big machine
car, and two masked
rand, Seeing Dudley
they directed their
arper was trying to

Shamblin crumpled

The Clue of the Fatal Kiss

grotesquely into a-heap, with gaping bullet wounds in his
forehead and chest. The prisoner, joyful over his release,
smiled at the masked pair in his gratefulness, but his smile
turned into a look of horror as the handkerchief dropped
from the face of the taller man.

HELPLEss in his handcuffs, Harper struggled to reach

the pistol of the slain deputy, but his efforts were
stopped by the bark of a revolver and he slouched against
Deputy Shamblin.

Just then Deputy Dudley began to stir, and the attackers
jerked open the front door and pulled him from behind the
steering wheel. “There, big boy, that’s the last of you,”
one said as Dudley was tumbled through the broken guard
cables, and down into the ravine.

The firing ceased as suddenly as it commenced, and now
there was no sound except the soughing of the wind through
the waving pines, and the patient chug-chug of the idling
motor of the murderers’ car.

‘Four persons saw what happened next. One was Mrs.

‘

Martha Sayre, who was feeding the chickens in her yard
near the school house. The others were three boys in their
teens, who from the foot-bridge had watched the tragedy
with open-mouthed amazement,

At the shout of “Harper is wounded,” from one of the
masked thugs, the driver of the murder car left his wheel
and rushed over to the county car. They saw him lean
over the prisoner and shout, “Ralph, for God’s sake speak
to me. You're free. You're going home.” They saw the
driver turn to his companions and snap, “We must get
Ralph to a doctor, quick. We'll have to break the man-
acles to unhitch him from the officer.”

A revolver barked, the handcuffs snapped apart, and
Harper was carried to the other car, a steel chain still
dangling from his wrist. Then the murder car tutned
around, and roared up the ‘hill back toward Charleston.

William Thaxton, Herman Harrison and William Whit-
tington, the boys, rushed over to Mrs. Sayre, and the four
held a hasty conference. Heavy (Continued on page 60)

Mrs. Martha Sayre,
one of the four who
witnessed the slaying
of Deputy Shamblin,
and on whose youthful
shoulders fell the re-
sponsibility for action
to obtain help

The Master Detective

The Clue of the Fatal Kiss

responsibilities had suddenly been
thrust upon a country girl in her early
twenties, and the barefooted mountain
boys, but they arose to the occasion.

Authorities must be notified, and
there was no telephone closer than
Kenna. None of them had a car. The
thing to do was to stand in the high-
way and flag the first passing motorist.
This they did, and it was the man who
telephoned me that drew up, examined
Shamblin and then roared away to-
ward Kenna.

Soon Deputy Dudley came stumbling
up the bank, blood streaming from a
wound in his arm. He tried to revive
Shamblin before he would permit Mrs.
Sayre to wash his wound, binding it
with his handkerchief and that of his
murdered pal, and accompany a_pass-
ing motorist to the Ripley hospital.

POOR Shamblin’s body was blood-
soaked when | got to the clearing, and
there were splotches of crimson on the
rear seat of the county car. Both side
windows of the left side of the machine
were shattered, as was the windshield.
The running-board bore marks of half
a dozen bullets. The rear of the car
had been punctured three times, one
of the bullets having been fired from
within the automobile, probably by
Shamblin, whose gun was empty. It
had begun to rain, and we couldn't get
anything in the way of finger-prints
from the exterior of the sedan.

While a funeral car was taking
Shamblin’s body into Ripley for the
coroner’s inquest, the man-hunt was
gathering headway. Governor Kump
had flashed orders from the Capitol
that threw the entire force of West
Virginia State Police into the search.
As soon as Sheriff Andrews got back
to his office, he instructed a telephone
operator to sound the alarm to sheriffs
in various parts of the commonwealth
and in adjacent states.

Neither Mrs. Sayre nor the boys had
been able to see the license number of
the murder car, nor were they able to
furnish descriptions of the slayers, other
than that the driver of the thugs’ car
looked a great deal like the wounded
bandit he helped remove from the
county machine.

In the cell that Harper had occupied
at Charleston, Sheriff Andrews found
evidence indicating that the desperate
battle on the highway was the sequel
to a frustrated plot to liberate Harper
from the Kanawha County Jail. Under
Harper’s cot, Andrews found a cigar
box containing a loaded revolver, six
hack-saw blades and a vial of iron-
eating nitric acid.

It looked as though an escape from
the jail had been planned for that
night, the plotters believing — that
Harper would not be taken to Mounds-
ville until the morrow. The assault on
the highway must have been a quickly
substituted plan. But by whom, since
the man they were to liberate had been
deliberately shot? Not by Harper’s
gang, surely, unless there was a double-

(Continued from page 41)

crosser among the gang’s members.

The answer seemed to lie with the
woman who had so passionately kissed
Harper good-bye as he started for
prison. Deputy Dudley identified her
as Mrs. Louise Frazier, wife of Leo
Frazier, who had been sent up some
time back for robbery. The jailer re-
ported that she had been a frequent
visitor to Harper’s cell. She had
brought Harper the new suit of clothes
he wore when sentenced that evening
and was in the court room when his sen-
tence was pronounced.

Further investigation disclosed that
a spectator had seen Harper turn and
wink at his sweetheart when he was
led away from the bench, and had
noticed Mrs. Frazier return the wink.
Was Harper’s good humor because of
his knowledge of the saws hidden in his

The man who helped to rescue Ralph
Harper from the deputy sheriffs, only
to bring about his death

cell? Was he later informed, between
kisses in the machine, of the substitu-
tion of the highway delivery plan?
Perhaps Mrs. Frazier could answer.
Orders were issued to pick her up.
Investigation disclosed that after his
escape from jail in January, 1933,
Harper had found a hiding place on a
farm near Staunton, Virginia: Search-
ing for diversion while her husband was
in prison, Mrs. Frazier had gone to

Staunton to visit relatives—the people —

with whom Harper was living.

The youth and the woman six years
his senior were instantly attracted to
one another. For several weeks Harper
kept from Louise the fact that he was
a hunted crirhinal, while she hid the
secret that she was the wife of a crook.
‘Their friendship ripened into love.
When Harper asked the woman _ to
marry him, Mrs. Frazier, in explaining
why it was impossible, revealed that

her husband was in prison. Harper
then told his secret.

Frazier, his sentence nearing com-
pletion, heard of the affair. Peculiarly
enough, soon after the husband re-
ceived his information, Charleston
police were given a tip as to Harper’s
whereabouts. When Harper was extra-
dited to’ Charleston, Louise Frazier
went back, too. Soon afterward Frazier
finished his term. He, too, returned to
Charleston and, instead of making a
scene about his wife’s affair with
Harper, sought solace with another
woman.

It wasn’t much more than two hours
after Roy Shamblin’s murder that “Mrs.
Frazier was picked up near her home
in West Charleston, seated alone in a
parked roadster. She was attired only
in beach pajamas, stockings and slip-
pers. A man’s suit of clothes was found
under the seat of the car. The road-
ster carried Virginia license plates, and

‘a check-up disclosed that the car had

been stolen in Old Dominion.

At about the same time that Mrs.
Frazier was captured in Charleston,
officers were watching the home of
Harper’s father in Huntington, fifty
miles west of Charleston. Young Harper
had not been home much since his af-
fair with Mrs. Frazier began, but we
thought his home would bear watching.

Sue the Huntington police saw
a sedan drive into an alley near the
Harper home. Two men jumped from
the car and ran. The officers jerked
open the machine doors and were con-
fronted with the body of a young man
on the rear seat, a handcuff dangling
from his wrist.

" was Ralph Harper. His pals had

brought him home, dead. Close ex-
amination of the corpse by Coroner F.
X. Schuler, of Cabell County, of which
Huntington is the county seat, revealed
that the two bullets in Harper’s body
had been fired from the front. A pow-
der burn on Harper’s outer clothing
indicated that the bullet in his chest
that caused death had been fired at
close range. Harper must have died
while on the way home, as Dr. Schuler
said he had been dead about forty-
five minutes.

The sedan in which Harper died was
the car that had crowded the county
car into the guard rail. It bore a Vir-

inia license plate; and when it was
earned that it had been stolen in
Richmond, July 23rd, interstate theft
of the automobile added the far-reach-
ing law enforcement units of the Fed-
eral government to those of the state,
counties and cities in the search for
Shamblin’s assassins.

D. D. Harper, father of the dead
prisoner, and the latter’s brother, Bax-
ter Harper, were taken to Charleston
for questioning. A_ third brother,
Charles Harper, could not be located.
The arrested men denied knowing any-
thing about the highway delivery, nor
did they appear to have any knowledge
of Ralph Harper’s affair with Louise

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back seat of the car. Dudley no-
ticed, as he drove off, that the
young woman climbed behind the
wheel of a dark coupe parked across
the street. .

“Who's the girl friend?” Dudley
asked casually as he pulled into
the string of traffic.

“Try minding your own business,”
the prisoner snapped.

They drove in silence, the power-
ful county car eating up the miles
of concrete ribbon. As they crossed
the county line, entering Jackson
County, Shamblin threw a glance
out of the back window. A hundred
yards behind a large, black sedan
kept its distance.

“J think we're being followed,”
he said calmly, and reached for
his heavy Police Special. “Step on
it. We'll see if they stick with us.”

Dudley jammed his foot down
on the gas pedal and the car shot
forward. Behind them the black
sedan speeded up. Once the sedan
pulled close enough for Dudley to
see clearly in his rear view mirror
that the driver of the pursuing car
was masked.

The occupants were undoubtedly
planning a rescue of Harper. “How,
many?” he asked quietly.

“Four,” Shamblin said.

They were outnumbered. And
handicapped by Harper’s presence.

He pressed the pedal hard against
the floorboard. Fifty. Sixty. Seventy.
Over winding roads that twisted
like snakes the two cars roared.
The peaks of West Virginia rose
high above them. As the county
car skidded around hairpin turns,
protected from just such madness
by steel-guard rails, Dudley could

see the sheer drop into the valleys.

Still he ker! the pedal squeezing
the floorbo and knew that a
single mistake in judgment meant

sudden disast:
‘The sedan stuck behind them as
though joined by a connecting rod.

AS they approached the town of
Kenna, the sedan began pull-
ing up. On the outskirts a small
stream ran parallel to the road.
Off to the side a swinging bridge
connected the highway with a
white school house on the opposite
side of the stream. Here with a
sudden burst of speed, the pursuers
pulled alongside and its occupants
started firing.

The first. bullet smashed into
Dudley’s arm. The wheel spun from
his grasp. And like a thing alive
the county car: smashed into a
guard rail, knocking out three
stakes and tearing and twisting the
wire.

Shamblin, shaken by the acci-
dent, retained sufficient presence
of mind to use his weapon. He fired
out of the rear of the car as the
sedan pulled up and two men leap-
ed out. He took ‘careful aim, firing
again and still again, but the now
struggling Harper made accuracy
impossible and the bullets did no
damage. :

Dudley lay motionless in the
front seat, paralyzed by the pain
in his arm and the terrific shock
of the crash into the railing. He
was just conscious enough to see
what was going on and completely
powerless to stop the terrible ac-
tion.

While Harper and Shamblin

fought desperately in the rear seat,
the two gunmen approached. One
of the two took careful aim and
fired. At a distance of a few short
feet he could not miss. The shot
entered Shamblin’s forehead.

The deputy slumped. He was
dead, of course.

And then the stunned man wit-
nessed the most incredible act of
all. The gunman, a little man, turn-
ed to Harper who was smiling now.
He grinned broadly. Then he raised
his gun and shot Harper as callous-
ly as he had pumped the bullets
into Deputy Shamblin.

Dudley closed his eyes and was
vaguely aware that the men were
tugging at his body. A moment la-
ter he was tossed headlong out of
the car, over the embankment. He
rolled limply, the sharp stones and
underbrush biting.at him, to the
bottom of the ravine. From a dis-

tance he heard a voice saying, “and’

that takes care of him!”

Hardly a minute passed before he
heard the grinding of the sedan’s
tires in the gravel by the side of

the highway. He could tell by the *
sound, the starting forward, the -
_ short pause, the quick backing, that

the sedan was being turned to head
back to Charleston.

The motor had not yet died in
the distance when three school boys

’ dashed to Dudley’s aid. “We saw

the whole thing,” one of the young
boys shouted.
“Yeah, we were standing on the

" swinging bridge,” another broke in.

“We saw those fellows push you off
the road.” .

“Did you know any of the men?”
asked Dudley. He shook his head

trying to clea:

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you.”
“The teacher

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Nlreet, Quinoy, Captain Wallon and
two detectives got out and rang the
A slender, red-headed woman an-
swered the door.
“We are the police,” said Captain
Fallon, “Ave you Mrs, Grasselli?"

HE nineteen-year-old girl hesitated.

“Yes,” she said, and wondered why
the policemen were looking at her
flaming hair. They had seen hair like
hers in the mortuary.

“Ts your husband here?”

“Yes, do you want to see him about
that woman he found?”

“Call him, please.”

John J. Grasselli, shipyard worker,
auxiliary air-raid policeman and newly
married husband, was haggard.

“We want to talk to you at Head-
quarters,” said Captain Fallon.

Grasselli’s dry lips croaked an an-
swer, “All right, I’ve been expecting
you.

The red-headed young wife began
to cry. “Jack, what is it?” she wailed.

He didn’t answer.

At Jleudquarters they dida't waste

‘any time on formalities.

Marion Jarvis, the waltveas from the
E:mpress night-club, wus there. So was
Patrolman William Dwyer from the
Joy Street Station,

‘vhere was a brief line-up and Miss
Jarvis and Patrolman Dwyer une
hesitatingly picked out Grasselli as the
man they had seen with the lonely
red-headed woman, the police an-
nounced, And, Captain Fallon said,
Grasselli talked then.

“T did it,” he said, according to Cape
tain Fallon. “I saw her sitting at the
table in that joint, and she was alone,
and I went over to her. When we
were put out she started for Quincy
and she had a bundle. I went
along.

"| GOT her to go with me, and we
stopped and had a drink at another
place. And she went with me to the
Quarry, but she fought when she saw
the kind of a place it was. We fell
together, and soon she stopped fighting.
I don’t know just what I did next.

"1 can't explain why 1 went back
there yesterday morning, But I went
back and pulled her body out of the

* walter and put it in the wedge between

the rocks. How did you know, Cap-
tain? T had wv feeling you knew when
tres told me to get into the automobile
ecause the newspaper photographers
were coming.”

Captain Fallon said nothing.

“But you knew,” said Grasselli.
“You knew because the sirens were
driving me nuts all last night, and
when they started again tonight I was
coming in to tell the story.”

“You can’t see over the edge of that
Quarry from the place where you said
you saw the body,” said Captain Fallon,

a didn’t think of that,” said Gras-
selli.

“There’s always something guys like
you don’t think of,” said Fallon.

Grasselli pleaded guilty on Septem-
ber 30 to murder in the second degree.
District Attorney Edmund R. Dewing
moved acceptance of this plea and
Judge Harold P, Williams sentenced
Grasselli to life in the State prison.

He Might Have Lived—In Jail (Continued from Page 39)

Dudley hunched lower. His tongue
slid over scraps of broken glass; he
tasted blood on his lips.

Then something struck his arm and
knocked his hand off. the steering-
wheel. He knew that he had been hit.
The car slammed into a turn. He felt

it skid, sickeningly, the way an air- -

plane drops from under you in bumpy
i He fought for control but
lost it.

His car leaped sideways and the

steering-wheel spun madly. ‘He
flung an arm over his face. From a
long way off he heard the crash.

Then it was still.

Dimly, after what seemed hours, he
heard someone say, “That’ll take care
of you.” Then he felt himself being
dragged from ‘the car, across weeds.
He was rolling suddenly down a hill-
side into a ditch, with a blue sky
overhead.

Then he heard more shots, from a
long way off.

Deputy Shamblin was dead.

Deputy Dudley was near death.

Ralph Harper was missing.

That was the news which flashed
into Charleston. And the whole State
was aroused.

Already the dlarm was out. Block-
ades had been thrown across the roads.
Descriptions were on the wire. Every
police officer in that part of the State
swung into action.

Sheriff Knotts gave the alarm from
Ripley. Sheriff R. C. Andrews at
Charleston raced out with Chief Brit-
ton and Captain Brown of the Charles-
ton police. Captain H. A. Brown and
his State Police troopers roared up in
their cars.

The wreckage of Dudley’s car lay
just north of the town of Kenna and
south of Ripley.

After the injured and dead were re-
moved the officers went to work. Ser-
geant Mack B. Streagle and Corporal
N. T. Sites of the State Police ex-
amined the car. Sheriff Knotts and
Andrews hunted witnesses.. Others
were with Dudley in the hospital,
waiting to hear his story; others direct-
ing the blockade, still others searching,
already, through the underworld for
friends of Ralph Harper.

Mrs. Martha Sayre was one witness
Sheriff Knotts found. She had seen
everything. She told him about the
racing cars, about the shooting. She
had been standing inside her home,
100 feet from .the scene of the mur-.
der, when it happened.

“They kept shooting,” she said. “I
saw one man thrown over the em-
bankment and then two men pulled
somebody out of the back seat and
carried him to their car. They turned
around and drove away south toward
Charleston.”

YB—1

Sergeant Warren remembered a wo-
man kissing a man good-by, almost as
if she knew he was going off into
grave danger and possible death.

Sergeant Warren said, “The woman
in gray. Louise Frazier. She lives in
Charleston.”

So another order flashed back to
Charleston. Find Louise Frazier, the
woman in gray. Pick her up as an
accessory to murder. Intensify the
blockade around Charleston.

The blockade at the entrances to
Charleston was effective. It stopped
all cars. It got nothing.

The killers had turned off. Where?

“Try Huntington,” said Captain Arch
Brown. “Harper’s home town.”

So the cops went there and sur-
rounded the Harper home. It was
dark, deserted. They left a stakeout,
figuring it wouldn‘t be worth much
since Harper and his pals would be
far too smart to go there.

They searched Huntington. A block
from the Harper home they found a
black sedan parked in an alley.

They jerked open the door.

A man tumbled out onto the pave-
ment. He was dead.

Sergeant Warren gasped. “That’s
Ralph Harper!”

Ralph Harper? Dead?

And, to all intents and appearances,
he had died from a bullet fired by his
rescuers, a bullet which accidentally
had killed him.

Well, thought Sergeant Warren
grimly, Ralph Harper had paid his
debt to Society.

yus question now was not to find
Ralph Harper nor to solve his mys-
tery. The problem was to find the three
who had murdered Deputy Shamblin.
The police questioned everybody in
the neighborhood where the car was
found. Most of all they questioned
Ralph Harper’s father, since the car
was found so close to his home. But
he knew nothing.
Neither did anybody else near by.
The three killers had disappeared.
Finger-print men went to work on
the car. They found only unidentifi-
able smudges. The Auto Bureau soon
established that this car was stolen.
Dudley was on the road to recovery,
but he could tell little.

The three men had disappeared.

And so had Louise Frazier.

The woman in gray had left home.
She was in none of her known haunts.
Even Sergeant Warren was baffled.

“Sure, I tailed her once,” he said
helplessly. “I know where she used to
hang out. But she isn’t there now.”

The Sergeant decided to go deeper
into her life. He talked to her friends,
her neighbors, her former schoolmates
—to everybody who ever had known
the lovely young woman.

And he found a strange story.

While she was still a girl, she had
married a man named Leo Frazier. He
had ‘become involved with the wrong
kind of companions and soon he had
been in trouble with the law. The law
sent him away to the penitentiary.

Louise was embittered. She swore
off men.

Then she met Ralph Harper, nine-
teen, good-looking, straight. She fell
in love with him. She hesitated to tell
him that she already was married to a
convict. But she did.

He told her it didn’t matter. He
loved her.

And for some unaccountable reason,
Ralph Harper stuck up a store.

Co more Louise had’ become en-
tangled with a wrong man.

She didn’t know it at first. That.

was why he had risked so much to
break jail before he was _ identified.
Because he was afraid a second blow
such as this would kill Louise Frazier.

Instead it had killed him. His iden-
tity had been exposed, his recapture
effected because a man named Leo...

A man named Leo...

Sergeant Warren went to the files of
convicted criminals. He dug out the
picture of a man who had been sent to
the Moundsville penitentiary and who,
he discovered, had been released re-
cently. This was the man who had
been married to Louise Frazier.

And he looked like Leo, the informer
who had been responsible for Harper’s
eageare after he broke jail! But was

e?
Warren got busy with his under-
world contacts then. He visited, again,
a small areaway, and talked to the
man who first had told him about Leo.

Who, he asked, had Leo Frazier been
thick with before the attempted de-
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Frazier been doing? What was his
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The stool didn’t know. He wasn’t
sure what Frazier did. But Leo had
been planning something, the stool
said. Frazier and his crony, Henry
Cano, and some other guy kept their
heads together through long nights and
whispered and muttered among them-
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Charles Harper, brother of the dead
prisoner! And Leo Frazier, who hated
‘the prisoner and who had been respon-
sible for putting him back in jail. And
Henry Cano, for the third man in the
car.

Several spent bullets and bullet-
holes had been found in Dudley’s car,
the State Troopers said. -All of these
came from the outside, through win-
dows, except one. And that one was
the one which had entered Ralph
Harper’s chest, wounded him fatally,
and had come out again, to find its way
into the upholstery of the car.

Sergeant Warren knew then that
his theory was correct. He went to
Chief Britton.

He said, “Pick up this Leo Frazier,
Louise’s husband. He engineered the
deal and he killed Shamblin and Har-
per, too.” —

“What makes you think so?” asked
Britton.

Warren said, “I don’t think—I know.
And I’ll tell you why he did it. Not
to free Harper but to kill him. Har-
per’s murder was intentional. I'll tell
you why...”

Leo Frazier, the Sergeant believed,

the turkey hunting was bad so he was
coming back. Supposed to be here by
the eighth.”

“The eighth is past,” said Culbreath.
“It may have no bearing, Forrest, but
did you read about the unknown per-
son that was found murdered in Tampa
Bay, just off Mangrove Point?”

The other man stared and slowly a
pallor spread over his ruddy skin.
“You don’t mean to say that—that—”

“T don’t know,” said Culbreath. “Did
your brother have a rigid forefinger on
his left hand.from some old injury?”

Forrest nodded slowly. “Yes, he did.
Why?”

Culbreath arose. “I hate to subject
you to this, old man, but I wish you’d
come down to the undertaker’s with
me. Maybe you can identify the man
we found.”

At the undertaker’s Forrest took one
startled look at the body and shrank
back in horror. “Good Heavens!” he
whispered. “That’s my brother!”

“You sure?” asked Culbreath.

“Of course I’m sure. Even that—that
horrible mangling wouldn’t fool me.
That’s George. What happened to
him?”

“He was murdered,” said Culbreath
grimly. ‘

Back in his office again with the
shaken brother of the victim, he man-
aged to get the unnerved man into
some semblance of control—enough to
furnish him with a few details of Cap-
tain Forrest’s activities.

Shaw came in, weary, discouraged.
“No soap,” he said, throwing the tiny
package containing the removable
dental bridge on the table. “I’ve seen
every dentist in Tampa and not one of
them recognizes it.” ;
‘Culbreath turned to the silent For-
rest. “Who was your brother’s den-
tist?”

“Why, McNeil, over in St. Pete.
George went to him for years,” an-
swered Forrest. “Doctor McNeil.
Why?”

“We'll soon know beyond any
doubt,” .said Culbreath.

n, Dy.

Shaw arose immediately, picked up
the dental bridge and left the office.

hid been in love with Loulse, lis wite,
and had been waiting for his release,
to be with her again. When the re-
lease came, however, Frazier found
that Louise was in love with Harper.

. gineered, personally, Harper’s recap-

ture.

Bu that plan didn’t work. For in-
stead of leaving Harper and return-
ing to her husband, Louise Frazier had
remained constant to her second love.
If Frazier was to get his wife back,
Harper had to be dead. And so Leo
Frazier put into operation a daring,
fantastic, weird plot to murder Harper.
That plot involved getting the help of
others, of Louise and Harper’s brother,
Charles, by convincing them that Leo’s
intentions were to help Ralph.
It worked. Harper was murdered
by Leo Frazier.
At least, so Sergeant Warren be-
lieved and explained to Chief Britton.
Britton said, “How about the girl?”

““T don’t know,” said Warren. “You -

saw her in the jail yard that day, didn’t
you?”

Britton nodded.

“That wasn’t faked,” said the Ser-
geant. “That was real. Louise Frazier
might have been involved in the es-
cape plot but she did not know that
Harper was to be killed.”

“So,” said Britton, “you may be

right, but how do we capture them?”

“This way,” said Warren. “Publish
the story that Ralph Harper was killed

Culbreath said to Forrest, “Are you
sure the postcard from Waycross was
in your brother’s handwriting?”

Forrest said, “Why, yes. That is—I
think it is.”

Deputy Culbreath picked up the
phone again. In the course of the next
few hours he had his answer. Way-
cross police contacted the bus driver
who had brought Captain Forrest south
on his return to Tampa. The driver
had talked to the Captain, who had
told him that the wild turkeys were
scarce and that he was returning home.
The driver was sure Forrest had left
the -bus at the Tampa Terminal. And
that was on the night of the fourth.

“Sure about that date?” asked Cul-
breath.

“That’s what the bus driver says—
and he keeps a company record. You
might check with him at your end and
see for yourself.”

Culbreath hung up. Shaw came in
then, grinning triumphantly.

“That’s Captain Forrest,” he said. “I
got the dentist in St. Pete. He declares
that the bridge is his work and was
done for Forrest. He came to the un-
dertaker’s with me and identified other
fillings he had put into the teeth of the
dead man. No questions now about
identity.”

Unquestionably, then, the dead man
was Captain Forrest. But who had
killed him? Why? And where?

Early the next morning Culbreath,
Shaw, Jacoby and Chief of Police
Woodruff set out for Mangrove’ Point.
Culbreath had provided himself with
a pair of powerful binoculars, remem-
bering the tremendous distances across
the Bay.

Culbreath drove down almost to the
water’s edge, and here the four men
got out. Jack, the old fisherman, eyed
them in shrewd appraisal.

“Be needin’ a boat?” he asked.

Culbreath nodded. “Want to take us
out to the island, Pop?” he asked, and
the old man nodded.

Once on the island he was told to
wait while the four men went directly
to the Grace shack. Grace was waiting
for them in the doorway.

a a a

Intentionally. ‘Then two people will
come in voluntarily. Louise Frazier
and Charles Harper, They — were
double-crossed. They will want ven-
geance.”

The story was published. For sev-
eral days nothing happened. Then
finally the woman in gray returned to
Headquarters. This time she had her
own story to tell. It corroborated War-
ren’s theory.

“Why did you wait until today to
come in?” Warren asked.

“Because,” Louise Frazier said, “I
want to see that man punished—the
one who killed Ralph. I wanted to be
able -to tell you where they may be
found.”

She did tell the Sergeant. Rapidly
Leo Frazier and Henry Cano were ar-
rested. Charles Harper surrendered.

They told the truth. Leo Frazier
even admitted to the prosecutor that
his sole motive in planning the de-
liverance was to slay Ralph Harper.
Frazier also claimed that he and he
alone fired the shots that killed Deputy
Shamblin. :

Leo Frazier convinced a jury of his
guilt. He was sentenced to be hanged
for the murder of Deputy Shamblin,
and in January, 1934, he ended his life
on the gallows.

Henry Cano and Charles Harper
were tried separately. Both were
found guilty and both were given life
sentences.

And Louise Frazier, who had aided
and abetted the deliverance plot be-
lieving Ralph Harper would be freed,
was found guilty as an accessory be-
fore the fact.

She was given a sentence of fif-
teen years. Today Louise Frazier is
free on parole, most of her life behind
her.

From the Tale of a Talking Clam (Continued from Page 74)

He nodded in a silent greeting, his
thin mouth compressed in obvious dis-
taste at the intrusion.

“Anything I can do for you?” he
asked.

Culbreath nodded, smiling blandly.
“Came out to check up on Captain For-
ee he offered. “Can’t seem to find

im.”

“T told you-all he’d gone t’ Georgia,
turkey huntin’,” said Grace. “He’s
supposed to be back here any day
now.”

“Yeah, I know,” acknowledged Cul-
breath. “His brother and daughter in
Tampa are worried about him, and we
thougt&t we’d check up.”

“Ain’t no reason fer ’em to worry,”
said Grace. “He’s up some’res aroun’
Waycross, like I told you.”

“I’m afraid not,” said Culbreath,
suddenly grim. “You remember that
body we fished out of the Bay? Well,
that was Cap’n Forrest.”

GPACE drew back a step, his eyes
wide, startled.

“What?” he crackled. “Thet ain’t
so! I seen that man—an’ it didn’t look
nothin’ like Cap’n—”

“No, it didn’t,” agreed Jacoby, “but

it was him. We've settled that much.”
He sized up the gangling Grace, who
seemed overcome with the news. “Tell
me, Grace, did Cap’n have any enemies
around here? Anyone who would hate
him enough to shoot him full of holes,
weigh him down and toss him to the
sharks?”
.. Grace passed an uncertain hand
through his disordered hair and the
sweat stood out on his forehead. His
‘knobby Adam’s apple bobbed with in-
ward emotion.

“Sho!” he exploded. “You folks give
me a shock. I hate to hear that. Cap’n
was a fine man.” He seemed to ponder,
his eyes abstract. “Cain’t think of no
one ’ceptin’ old Jonas White.”

“Who's he?” asked Woodruff.

“Old Jonas? He’s a fisherman ’cross
the Point. He tol’ th’ Cap’n lots of
yarns about fishin’, an’ the Cap’n, he
writ’ ’em fer the magazines. But he

never gave Old Jonas nothin’ fer tellin’

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EPUTY Sheriff Roy Shamblin

stretched his massive frame,

mopped his brow, and look-
ed at the clock on the wall of the
sheriff’s office. It was nearly four
in the afternoon. The heat on that
25th day of July pressed down like
a huge, choking fist.

The deputy rose, crushed out his '

cigarette in an ash tray, and said
to Deputy George Dudley, “About
time to start.” ‘

The silver-haired deputy nodded.
His eyes were apprehensive as he
reached for his hat. It was time
to start the long trek to the
Moundsville State Penitentiary
with the tough young thug, Ralph
Harper.

“Cheer up,” Shamblin grinned.
“It’s not that bad..No one knows
we're moving him today. Not even
Harper. No one could guess we’d
get him out of our hair so fast.
Not unless they’re. mind readers.”

Dudley smiled wryly. “I wouldn't
even put that past Harper’s tough
friends. And I don’t like the pros-
pect of running into a bunch of
their machine guns.”

“It’s a risk we’ve got to take,”
Shamblin shrugged philosophically.

The two men went back into the
cell block for their prisoner, a tall,
dark, hard-faced youth of 20 who
had been convicted six months be-
fore of robbing a Thom McAnn
shoe store in Charleston, West Vir-
ginia.

It was four o’clock exactly when
the two deputies walked out of the

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by WILL MURRAY

Kanawha County jail with their’

sullen-eyed prisoner. Harper was
manacled to Deputy Shamblin.
The trio walked down the steps
and headed for the county car
parked at the curb. As they reach-
ed. the sidewalk, a young, trim-
figured woman dashed up, threw
her arms around Harper and kiss-
ed him passionately on the lips.
Shamblin turned his head away
and choked a little. Dudley. said,
“T’ll go ahead. Don’t give them more
than a moment. ‘It may be a trick.”
Dudley climbed behind the wheel
of the car, started the motor. How
had the young woman known this
was the day they were taking Har-
per away? He frowned, and recall-
ed details of the hoodlum’s capture.
Harper and his friend had been
apprehended immediately after the
robbery in the state capital. A day
later they broke jail. Harper’s com-
panion was recaptured the next
day, but he proved more elusive.
Six months went by before the
sheriff’s office gained a clue to his
hide-out. A mysterious female voice
phoned the tip in saying that the
fugitive was hiding on a farm in
Staunton, Virginia. Quick moving
officers pounced on him and took
him so completely by surprise he
was captured without a struggle.
As he thought of this, Dudley
threw another glance at the wom-
an. His eyes were thoughtful.
Seconds later the young woman
walked away from Harper and he
and Shamblin climbed into the

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Sailor Is Scheduled to Hang
In State Prison This Evening |

‘The office of Governor Clarence W. Meadows had no
‘comment to’ make last night on the fate of_ William G.
(Billy) Gordon, 20, under sentence to hang tonight.

nee errno

Warden M. E. Ketchum. stated yesterday that Billy

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don, youthful: Columbia, S. oS sailor who. is scheduled to hang
at 9 o’clock tonight for the murder of-a Bluefield woman, was
transferred to the death house yesterday morning from his cell

in the south hall of the state prison in-Moundsville.

Jury ‘Holds.
Death Is — —
Unavoidable~

laquest Into. - -
Fatality Held

’Marshall county's first traffic
fatalit y of the year was written off
as an “‘unavoldable accident” by a
six man coroner's jury at a formal
inquest held yesterday afternoon at
the coutrhouse. In so doing they
laid no blame for the. death of Ray~-
mond B. (Buckshot) Richmond,
who, was killed ‘on the Jefferson
avenue extension, Moundsville, on
Oscar L. Sibert, driver of the car
which struck and. killed the 27-
year-old Navy veteran. :

The verdict, reached after about
delibernten read as
follows ;: °

“The jurors sworn to enquire
how. and by what means"the. sald
"| Raymond Bruce Richmond came ) to

a A oem ieee

“The warden said-that the. 20-year-.
old’ killer had little to say at the
time of his transfer.

Gordon took a small radio to the
death cell With him. It has been
with him. almost constantly since
his arrival at the institution and
has been his main, ‘source. of
pleasure...

Approximately 30 passes ‘to wit-
ness the execution have been is-
sued from the penitentiary office.,.

Gordon will make his request for
his final meal this morning ‘and it

hour tonight. In accordance with
the custom at the prison, the con-
demned man may order. anything
within reason for his final meal.

Sometime -during- the afternoon,
\prison guards will remove Gordon
from his cell ir; the death. house to
permit him.to take his last bath.
While he is absent the trap will be
tested.

Charters to
Two Wheeling

Firms Issued |

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plained, adding that those projects

will be readvertised.
-- 3 Projects Rejected
- The engineer. listed the three

streets and the rejected bids per

front foot as: ~~ a

Hale St., from Quarrier ‘St. to
Lee St., $16; Edgewood Dr., from
Washington St. W. to Swarthmore
Av., $14.83; and Goshorn St., from
Virginia St. to Lee St., $15.

Also rejected was an alternate
bid of $86.65 per. front foot for the

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Dr. from Washington St. to Swarth-
‘more Av... |
‘‘Campbell said no bids were re-
ceived on either the proposed con-
crete paving of Pleasant Rd. from
Billdon Rd. to Hickory Rd., or the
concrete paving or alternate asphalt
resurfacing of Westmoreland Rd.
from Crescent Rd. to Claire St.
Those two ,projects also will be
readvertised.

The Haynes Construction Co. sub-
mitted the only’ bid—$16.81 per
front foot—for .the concrete pav-
ing of Duffy St. from Kanawha
Blvd. to Washington St.

That bid was tabled pending con-

| sultation with state government of-

ficials.

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state has agreed -to pay $36,000
cash for the widening of Duffy St.
in addition to the amount it will
be assessed’ as an abutting prop-
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Father Testifies _|
At Gordon’s Trial s

PRINCETON, July 18—()—A. W.
Gordon, 69-year-old bar ber of
Columbia, S. C., testifjed at his son’s
murder trial today that “Billy did

not know right from wrong on
April 1.”

William Gordon,,. 21-year-old sail-|

or, is accused of having fired a shot-
gun blast on that date that killed
Mrs. Josephine Carr, at whose] -
home he was staying as a friend of
the Carrs’ son in service. - ©. "}”

The elder Gordon related - that
Billy had made frequent trips home
while in the Navy; that he had act-
ed “peculiarly,” and that he had
become suspicious ‘of his many
leaves, ros. | pe

The father testified that on three
occasions he escorted Billy back
to his ‘station at Charleston, S. C.,|
and on the third ‘instance; Gordon |
said he told his son’s superiors “for
God’s_ sake, don’t let him loose|
again.”,

Police at Cincinnati, O., where
Gordon was arrested the day after
Mrs. Carr was found dead at the
sewing machine in her home near
Bluefield, said Gordon was AWOL
from the Navy at the time of the
slaying, | :

Gordon was one of the first wit-
nesses called by the defense, which]
swore in nine persons after the|’..
state had rested its case. | wees |

VOLUNTEER

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back after breaking jail, he treated me like a dog, mor than aman, having
me chained down to the floor. I was not making any attempt to get away when
he had me chained. With hard coaxing I got him to cut the long chain from the
floor. This was on the first day of May, the day he left the jail. I was then
put ina cell by myself. After that I was treated very well, Mr. Rossisa
perfect gentleman and remembers the golden rule. I had as much liberty and
privilege as he could let me have under the circumstance and I feel myself
greatly indebted to him andhis family for their sympathies and kindness shown
me while under their care, Mrs. Ross has been like a. mother to me, giving
me everything I asked for if it could be got. They done all in their power for
me but I shall soon trouble them no more.

Before another sun rises and sets I shall have passed from this sinful
world, its cares and troubles, for a better home in heaven, where I shall rest
in peace and the friends that I have here will have spoken that last and
dreaded word FAREWELL.

I was once happy and free but now my time has ended. God has saw
fit to claim me and I must go. I don't fear death. I am willing and ready to
go, and leave all for him.

I sincerely hope that when my friends read this they will take warning
and if they are travelling the narrow road, they will return and do better.

I have a few more words to say to my parents, my dearfather and mother
who I regret to leave. They have given me good advice and tried to teach me
to do right and this day as I sit in my cell I feel sorry that I didn't listen to
them but now it is too late, but not too late to say that I am sorry for the way
I have acted.

To my brothers and sisters I heave a brothers last blessing and hope to
meet them in a better world.

MORTIMORE W. GIBBONY

My last request is that Mrs. Martha M. Wife of S. W. Ross keep this
as my last gift.

Mortimore W. Gibbony

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Hudson, William, Pendleton Co., VA

"william Hudson, of Pendleton county in this state, who murdered
hig wife and two children and maimed four others, (two of whose
lives are despaired of,) has surrendered himself up in Hardy county
to the proper authorities, and has been taken back to Pendleton
county for trial. It is one of the most horrible murders on
record. The South Branch (Hampshire County) Intelligencer says
Hudson alleges that he committed the deed while ina state of
frenzy, occasioned by improper conduct on the part of his wife.
He also declares that after committing the horrid act, he had
intended self-destruction with a razor prepared for the purpose;
but hig heart failed him and he fled. He subsequently determined
to surrender himself, to be tried by the laws of his country."

Richmond Enquirer, Fri., 22 May 1846, pe2.

me Is Hanged
- For Wife's Death

|(Continged From From Page 1.) si

-elemency, sat with & hs Bible in his hand
as he warned reporters about the —
feete of liquor.

+ “Maybe you are a moderate drinker,”
Btrer told one of them. “That is what)
J thought [ was. Now you see where

a am?

... “The convicted slayer waa visited dur-
Jng the day by W. C, Harold, Protestant
oheplate of the prison, and by the Rev.
B. G,. Helmentoiler, of Dunbar.

toh ud appeared almost * =
oa wr, eee

-. “Through God I have found peace,”

| he commented at one time,

; Had Ne Request

‘ He waa one of the lew men to face
fleath at West Virginia prieon wha had

‘mo specific requesta for a. last meal,

- “YT leave that: up to you.” he told

Warden A, C. Scroggins when asked
what he wanted to eat, “Give me

what you think beat. I don’t care.”

‘The slaying for which Hyer waa con-
fieted wae committed, on December 19,

He was convicted of firet degree mur-

der without recommendation for mercy
in the Pocahontas county circuit court
on Priday 13. and: was sentenced tm-
mediately by Judge Summers H. Sharp
to be hanged on Jume 19. No appeal
was taken from the conviction.to the
oan “gd courts.

& principal state witness at the trial
was Mra. M. J, O'Connor, mother. of |
‘the victim, Mre. Eva McGann Hyer. She

Béstified that Hyer became abusive to-
ward her daughter in the little res-
taurant operated by Hyer and his ‘wife
at Durbin and knocked her down with |
his fist. ‘Then, Mra. O’Connor -testi-
fied, he grabbed her by the hair and
dragged her to the kitchen where he
continued to best the woman with his
fist and a stick until ahe was dead.
A&A post-mortem examination of Mra
Hyer’s body showed thet several of
her ribs were broker: that both jaws
and her skull were fractured; that her
lungs were punctured and that bruises
convered her entire body.

--. Hyer, testifying as a defense witness,
denied recollection of the aleying, He
said he had been drinking heavily dure
ing the day and had no recoliection
of what occurred. |. He was’ defended
by two attorneys” appointed eG the
court. They entered a plea of tenr
pereary insanity,

Hyer stood mute as Judgé Sharp
pronounced the death sentence but at
he was being taken from the courts
room he stopped. ta shake hands with
the judge.

“Good bye Judge,’* he said “y didn’t

da it but they aaid I did.”

H yerds Hanged
Ke or Slaying Of
Wife at -at Durbin

Condemned | “Man’s Head
Is Jerked Off When. :

Trap Is Sprung at

‘Moundsville. :

Blamed Boote For.)
— Him to Kil

Most of Es Spent
in Res ading Bible in —

owt ae } Death Cell.

- sfoorerm Jung 19 |m—

Hyer, i. | Pocahontas +

mar convicted of killing his wife, wi

hanged at the state prison herd to-

night, | |

The trap was dropped at 9:01, knat-

ern | Standard time, and Hyer died al-
instantly, the body having been

decdpitated. Physiclans who mady an

examination sald the man did not have

a firm, muscular neck, and that) this:

fact, in atidition to his weight of

that "200, pounds, caused dismenaher

er. wna pata ‘te. have been ee
heatiest man ever to mount. on Acs
vais hag est Virginia.
vA gpl be ore the trap wha spring. “Hhyer,
if he had a last: megeage,

the

aliing
a meg fisted mide poace with God

: ring, the death march a prison

q could be heard oe
‘Tha Sweet Bye arid Bye.” |

. who was ¢ondemned to death
foll| wring) hig conviction’ of beating Nis
eath in thelr restaurant at
ember 19, 1030, did not

ex tive heen . During his atay
rison he spent many hours peed
ing the Bible.

| nepiew from. ‘Dubots, Pa, riaitot
in ‘the death house today but

other relatives, imetuding his | aged

father atid « sister, also of the Fenn-
syivania town, did not come here.

execution was carried out tn the

reghiation manner, with the (body

| ing seven feet, the bame distance

. opt tage hangings at the pexiten»

| Hyer spent his Inst day reading

th Bible anq sin: «warning viltttors-

Hyer
‘py [prison officals “te te one of the
neti ever to swhit. ureokes at
the penitenitiiry here: ae
newepapermen who bathed
io gene slayer asserted
4 was responsible for his ag
ment,
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Y murdered my wife,” he said. | “My
midd was fogged by the effects of
liquor and I did ae haere what J was

doing.” .\
yer, | who aia not ask: execjtive

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Met | Lows, these goods come in Sacks, Cutaways ind Frock s.
pumice price, of these goods $10.00, $12,00 and “19.00, about
sietyles to select from. .We are bound not t» carry any

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Johnson’s behavior during his incarceration, his been on the
whole, very good, He bas spent much of his time ia erying, curs-
ing, threatening, and praying at intervals. His prayers, however,

have not availed him much, for on the 16th, just as we send this

to press, we learn that he is as black at heart as when he committed
his horrible crime. He has repeatedly expressed himself, as being
perfectly satisfied with what he had done, and wants his liberty
only long enough to kill the colored man, Artisted, who was the
“principal witness against him, Judge Snyder and the young lady
_ whose life he has ruined. ‘ a
Miss Bailey has been quietly living in the city for the past six
weeks. Lately she has been the recipient.of a nainber of threat-
ening letters, warning her that if she ever appears on the street

after dark,she will be killed. These letters, of course, are from

Johnson’s friends and relatives, who in their ignorance of the law

-in the case, and their revengeful disposition, are treading on dan-

gerous ground, for through a mere accident, the name of one of
the authors of these letters has become known to several gentlemen
of the city, and it is a matter of a very short time until the entire
gang will be ferreted out and treated to a dose of tar and feathers; _

Sand most probably one or two will follow in Johnson's wake, but

“not through the courts. The young lady by her modest and retir>
ing has been manner has aroused the sympathy of a great many
men, a party formed, it is said, to specially look alter her, and if
further persecution continues, immediate and vigorous steps will be .
taken in the matter. ‘foo much gratitude can not fill the hearts of ~
fathers who have daughters and wives; brothers who have sisters —

and lovers, their sweethearts, for the promptness ‘of our police, our *~

justice, jurors, prosecuting attorneys and our judge, in bringing ©
this black-hearted devil to the scaffold, and thereby avenging one

<3. of the most horrible and brutal crimes in the history of our State.

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Sim Johnson, who was arrested on the charge of committing a
rape on Miss Bailey, of Davis creek, last night, waived exarina-
tion before Justice Silman this afternoon. ‘Nhe grand jury being
in session he was taken before it. This body, afier hearing the
evidence, indicted him for rape. Public feeling is much against |
the man, and there is talk of lynching, if the law does not lang
him. ‘The testimony is most revolting, and a sre is little syimp athy
expressed for the negro.

MONDAY APRIL 1TH _JOHNSON’S TRIAL
Mas Begun This Afternoon, But Was Not Fistshet
The trial of Sim Johnson, the colored man who was indicted

yesterday for Face committed on the person of Miss Alice Bailey,
of Davis creek, was*beguy to-day at about 2:30 o’clock. The

“court room in the city building was erowded till the floor was

in danger of falling, and gee ile were packed lke she
After cai ding the court to order, Judge Snyder had the recom
clearer! of all boys, and charged the jury. Deputy Sherif Ficider
had some dill iculty in keeping the crowd out, as the hall and stair-
ways were lined with the struggling mass, and even in the streets
acrowd had gathered about the building. When the prisoner was
first brought into the room, he cried, but soon braced hiinsel: and
sat silent awaiting the proceedings that meant so much to him,
Miss Dailey isa pretty girl of not more than fifteen years of age,
light hair and blue eyes. Jler face ts terribly seratched and turn,
and she presented a pitiful appearance in the court room. Joln-
son is & small, spare colored feliow, with a small head and eyes,
aud thick lips. He dues not look at all crazy, though cunning
enough, ‘The trial will probably not end.antil to-morrow evening,
The first witnesses are being examined as we fo to press.

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STATE PS, SIM JOHNSON,

2 eee WV em: Amstead—Was down below Charleston. Come up the
. Toad after 5 o’clock; 5 o’clock train had just passed up. After [

got up to the section house I heard a noise, like something strug-
_gling; I saw some heels flying up; I saw a woman’s feet, then I
Saw his head; I went on up further and saw the condition of both
-parties after I got up to him he had his left knee on her breast,
his left hand on her throat and a knife in his hand. f{ called him,

said Sim, get up and leave her; he said, do I owe you anything? I

-said no; he said dammed ifIcare; I wentoffand came back; the lady

was exposed; he was exposed; her under clothing was torn; her
slips was torn; one of her limbs was exposed; his privates was ex-
posed and full of sand; his nose was bleeding; he said to her, see
you have made my nose bleed; she said if you had let me alone I
would not have hurt you; he said dammed if I care and then he
Struck her.

Same place sign’ of his heels and same place the toes were in

“the sand, and one place looked like some. one had been drawn

through the sand.

I asked her if he had accomplished anything; she «aid he had;
I was 40) or 50 yards from them; she was about 30 or 40 feet from
the railroad and in sight of the road.

Cross-examination—lIt occured on this side of the railroad; my

wife was with me; I did not hear any threats until I got to him;
_have known this boy since he was a little boy; don’t know whether

he is of sound mind; no one with her; my wife is at home sick.

. Miss Bailey—He come to me and asked me if I did not want a
$1; I told him to go away; he grabbed me and choked me to
death; I did all that I could and then he accomplished his pur-
pose; I am sure he did; he tore my under clothes off of me; he had

~- me in that ‘condition about 15 minutes; when he come to me I

screamed and hollowed all I could; I never saw him before.
Cross-examination—I told him I had a little sick sister at horne.
John Foley—As they were bringing Sim over I met them; I had

a conversation with him; he told me he gave her a $1; I asked him -

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~if-he had aceoannshod what he had undertook; he said he had and

if it had not been for a colored man he would have done better;

~and would kill Armstead if he got out of tais; two or three were
~ present; he did not seem to be frightened, but seemed to be rejoiced,

I knew him 8 or sO. years aga, at ae time he seemed to be 7 or 8
Eyears old. +

> S. P. Justice--I went to where the lady. was assaulted; when I
pot there the lady had got up, and the boy had got up; I saw the ~
“pay standing with his hand in his pocket; her dress from face.
‘down was torn open; I saw the marks on her neck; I looked at the
grout dl; it looked Jike some one had been. scufiling; | saw the boy

walking after the girl, just behind her about so feet.

Midxiif--When I got in sight they both had got up; he had his
hand on ber throat; she was hollowing “Take this filow away”?
‘T told him to come away. from her; he: picked up a knife (that is
the same knife); the knife was open w hen he picked it up; he
shut it. -

Mr. Wayes--Three of us s got there at the same time; I saw this
lady and man sitting down and she was crying for hel ip; 1 atm sure
he penetrated her body.

Shit fe Rests.

EVIDENCE

Mrs. Johnson, the mother of the defendant—The boy is 14
years old; Sim has always acted like he was crazy; I don’t think
he has asound mind; his father was defective in mind; he died with
brain disease; E don't know whether he knows right from wrong,

W. oH. Davis—Have known Sim Johnson 7 or 8 years; | have
always considered lim a half idiot; while he was under my tutor-
age le h. no feeling for his fellow pupils, and when f[ called him
de to reac cae seemed to take no interest in his book.

_ 11. Wells--Have known the prisoner since 1884: for several
Gas fa was a pupil inmy school; from my way of jndgi ing I put

FOR DEFENDANT:

A TERRIBLE TRAGEDY,

The Execution, Life

ane : Crime of. Felix

Kampf, Who Was Hanged at Chuarles-
— ton, W. Va., March 7, 1890.

FROM THE CHARLESTON DAILY AND WEEKLY STAR,

Our streets were crowded on March 7th
with visitors who came to the city to
witness the execution of Felix Kampf,
and while some arrived in time to wit-
ness it, others continued to come until 2
or 2 o’clock. The scaffold was erected be-
fore daylight that morning, on the
county lot, just behind the spot where
the old court house stood, and was gazed
upon curiously by hundreds of people

during the morning. It was constructed
by Mesrs. Morgan & Rust, at their saw
millon Elk river, and the matter was
kept

A PROFOUND SECRET

both by them and Sheriff Pickens. The
exact time that the execution would take
place was kept as close as possible, but
it lenled eet thet 4 wanld be phous 44

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mated at about 2,000, was on hand, and
every available elevated space on fence,
house-top, second story windows and the -
like, was utilized. Exactly atthree min--
utes to 11 o’clock the prisoner left the
jail, preceded by the city police, and
taking the arm of Sheriff Pickens walked
with a firm step to the gallows. tle was
accompanied by Father Stenger, Deputy
Sheriffs Swinburn and Fielder, Asssist-
ant Prosecuting Atttorney Littlepage,
County Clerk C. B. Smith, Col. IJchn &.
Cunningham, A. M., Wooldredge, John
Deering, Gordon Mullins, Spicer Miller
and Drs. T. L. Barber, R. H. Lee, A. E.
Aultz, M. M. Phister and J. L. Stump,
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the crime you have committed to the laws of man and will stand at

i the judgement bar of God to answer for the great hereafter. Em-
ploy the time to elapse from this day until the day fixed for your.
e execution in making your peace with. your Creator. As before
F stated, under the verdict rendered by the jury, no discretion as to
- your punishment is left to the court, but’ the penalty imposed is
£ death. It only remains for me to say that in accordance with the
i’ verdict of the jnry and the laws of this sfate the judgment of this
iz court is that you be taken by the sheriff. of this county, to some
mage ‘convenient place within the county, on Friday, the roth day of
eee June, 1891, between the hours of ro o'clock a.m. and 1 o’clock p.
‘es in., and’there hanged by the neck until you are dead, and may
ae God have mercy on your soul,” ;
ae As soon as Judge Snyder had concluded Johnson dropped his
tes 2 little sister to the floor and started toward Judge Snyder in, as the
(- 3" spectators thought, a threatening manner. He was promptly stopped
Pe by Constable Wilson, but said he wanted tu say somet

jeri eam “

hing to the
judge and Judge Snyder told Mr. Wilson to-let him go. He ad-

“<é- vanced to within a short distance of the judge and told hia sob-
-bingly, £*You have done me wrong. ‘The witaesses lied about me.”
Judge Snyder told him he was sorry if such was the ease, but that

he had only done his duty as the law required him to do it, In
the meantime Johnson’s little sister had set Wp aimournful cry, not
knowing what. the proceedings meant, and evidently thinking that
something was wrong. Officer Foley at once picked her
Johnson, turning to him savagely, said: ~
**G—d d—n you, leave that child alone. I'l kill you,’
He started toward Mr, Foley, but was taken in charge by officers
-and quieted down. He made no further demonstration but fora time
the spectators believed that he intended a vicious attack on Judge
Snyder, Mr. Foley, or anybody else who might interfere with him.

up and

_—_—

GRAND JURY.

J. H. Huling, Foreman, John T, Dudding, David S. Smithers,

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KAMPF, Fexix

"A terrible tragedy. The execution, life and crime of
Fadix Kampf, With a brief account of other legal execu-
tions ih Kanawha County. By John C. Neale. Charleston,
We Vae The Charleston Daily and Weekly Star, 1890.

ll pages. Kampf was a man of very low intellect who, in
a frenzy, stabbed his son and daughter, 19 and 20 years

old, to death. He was hanged in Charleston, March 7,
1890," |

547 McDADE 163

Have copy of this pamphlet which will be enough to go on,
Bound in black folder, my collection,

Chow
A” s Ce bee l

Alec att LULA

SHERIFF PICKENS.

the Gallocss UEC SON ITE
Foti gt. Heury Otawe, 47 30/if50

A TERRIBLE TRA

The Execution, Life and Crime of Felix
— Kampf.

With a Brief Account of Other Legal Executions _
ces ae ‘Kanawha County.

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