Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1853-07-06
Extraordinary Case of ciroumstantial

The New Orleans Delta of the 10th inst. pub
fishes the following extract from letter dated
Jackson, La, June 9Th, which affords remarkable
circumstantial evidence of a robbery and murder
in that vicinity.
con Monday evening last the body or rather the
skeleton, Of a man was found about four miles
east of here, not more than fifty PAGES from the
Clinton road, and near it was quantity of mer-
chandize-a pedlar's stock, in a somewhat DANA
ged condition. There no clue to the name
place ofresidence of the deceased, but fractured
skull, and heavy club near by, told plainly
ow he met his death.
saw the remains on Wednesday night, and at
tended as one of the jury an inquest on Thursday
morning. The Cuba section of small beech
Sapling+was our sole clue TO tie murderer or
murderers but it may, ultimately, prove as fatallo
him or them, as it had maniestlY been 10 the poor
pedlar. We ascertained where and how il had
been cut, some thirty forty PAGES (from TIE road)
beyond where the victim lay; and at the distance
OF about sixty PAGES from the body, in the same d.
recton, we found where horse had stood for some
time, hitched TO saping; showing concluSively
that the deceased he'd been waylaid by the person
or persons who had killed him, that the club had
been cut for the especial purpose OF his deStruc-
ton.
Close by where the horse had stood, we found
another bundle Of goods, tied up in a form conve-
nient to be carried in the hand, and which we sup
posed to have been left from hurry or fright, at the
moment of departure. We aScertained that the
horse had small feet that he was unShod, nd that
he was either small horse, enc that is techni-
cally termed close in the couple, and evidence
subsequently elected proving that horse rode by
one of the assumed murderers-the other being
afoot-was small footed, unshod, and close in the
couple. TWAS also manifest that the cl Id found
had been cut by left-hnnded person, and it is
asserted that Il suspected foot pad is efl-handed.
Sufficient evidence ELECTED before the jury
of inquest TO warrant presumption that Dan
Houston, of this parish, and a man named Aiken
or Eagan. profeSsed brickayer, were the mur-
derers, and writs were issued for their apprehen-
sion. Houston was arrested, examined and COM
mited TO prison. The other man is at large.
1t was aScertaued yesterday that the name of the
murdered man Lewis Gimbel, and that e was
of German or Polish birth. 1t is thought he had
family in New Orleans. The Evidence agais st
the accused is altogether circumstantial, and
would be far from conclusive, but for their noto-
riously bad character. Houston, unfortunately
for himself, undertook 10 prove an aib, and fail
ed, the testimony of his witness, half sister, be-
ing fatty contIadicted by that of two respectable
witnesses introduced by the State.
There is singular fact (but not introduced in
the examination,) going to prove that two persons
must have been concerned in this murder. Beech
wood, even wien quite young, is so ligid and un.
bending, that one man could not have cut the club
IN the manner it was cut, and the inference is,
that one of the parties implicated, bent the saping
and held il at curve, whilst the other cut it off
" ith his knife. ..r