The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1857-05-13
HORRIBLE MURDER.

loAeA" Siip AOW th0 W uSutuStOu, o.,
Tribune Office, announcing that most
horrible double murder had been COM
mitted in Allegheny county, by person
or persons from the vicinity of Washing
ton. One of the persons was named
Jones, and had recently broke Jail at
Washington. The persons murdered were
George Wilson, an old man, and his sister.
From what we could learn, on Friday,
it appears that a farmer, a native ws be-
lieve of that township, named George
Wilson, aged over seventy years, resided
in a log house on "Gamble's place, near
the river, with his sister, Elizabeth Nc
Master, very aged widow woman. On
Friday morning they were found in the
house brutally murdered-the man having
been stabbed some half-dozen times in the
abdomen and breast, apparently as he
was getting out of bed-the woman lay
on the floor, her skull crushed in with a
club or other heavy weapon, and her brains
scattered about the room.
Mr.. Wilson was respectable man, but
known as close and economical in his ex-
penditures, and was supposed to have had
some money-from six to twelve hundred
dollars-in the house, which was taken by
the robbers.
The first news of the murder was
brought to McKeesport by q woman
named Charlotte Jones' a niece of the
murdered persons, who came there early
in the morning in skiff, and stated she
had visited the house and seen the bodies.
Many persons went up to the house at
Once-and the woman Jones left this city
after, on the steamer Bayard; she got of,
however: at Port Perry, but few miles
below, aud went up the river to Monon-
gahela city, within an hour afterwards, on
the steamer Luzerne. Why she should
be thus eccentric in her travels, we cannot
understand.
These circumstances and reports, ad-
ded to her reputation, aud her sudden
fight, render it important she should be
secured--especially as it is believed the
murder was committed by the same gang
who so recently murdered Mr.. Samuel H.
White, in Washington county, under cir
cumstances so similar.
This Charlotte Jones has since been
arrested, and has implicated other per-
sons.
| LArHR.-1tis is now the opinion that Bill
Jones & Co., the rnurdercrs of George
Wilson and sister, are likewise the MUIR
derers of Samuel H. White. Charlotte
Jones has made some two OF three con
fessions, and in her last asseverstes en-.
phatically that her brother was the muir
derer in both cases. The very latest item
is the following from the Washington
(Pa.) Reporter:
William Jones returned home from the
neighborhood of Hickory on Monday
morning after the murder of Mr.. White
and that his clothes were all bloody; thai
he concealed them in the house for few
!. days, and then burnt them in brush
heap above the house.
From all that we have read in the con
E fessions or rather recitals of Charlotte
Jones, We gather that she is q woman o
the worst possible character, and very
heavy discount, is allowable on what sh,
g states
i Still LATER.-The Pittsburg paper
of yesterday furnish US something NOR
: about the recent murders. Two of tn,
party implicated, Henry Fife ani Monro
Stewart, had hearing before Mayo
e Weaver. The evidence of q Mr.. Wolf
proprietor of the McKeesport hotel, cor
roborated that of Charlotte Jones in al
E most every point:
Concerning the WHITE MURDER, W
find the following new theory:
Sometime during the day upon whicl
Mr. White was murdered in his house nea
Cross Greek, Washington comfy, thougl
e the fact was not bruited abroad at the time
: man named Levi Baldwin, of Washington
t county, was arrested near the residence o
:. Judge McKeever, about seven or eigh
g miles from Whites residence, by two gen
l. tlemen-Major Hanna and James Loont
having been suspected of having beel
: implicated in the murder, from several sus
picious circumstances at the time.
: He was taken to the town of Washing
g ton, but the authorities found no ground
T of suspicion sufficient to hold him in Gus
!" tody, and he was discharged. Some wo
: men who were washing clothes in the vicin
q ity where he was arrested, observed him
u short time previously near a stump no
e far from Judge McKeever's, apparently
e concealing something. Nothing wa
y thought of the matter at the time, howev
J. er, and here it rested until last Sunday
y when, as we learn from a gentleman VIII
II arrived from Washington yesterday
l. little boy while playing near tn
l. stump referred to, found underneath q shir
(which was stained with blood. He con
veyed it to the house Of his parents, wher
it was examined. 1t appeared as thong
there had been an attempt made to burn il
;, as it was singed in different places.
was afterwards recognized by Mr..
!. Cheeser, who had made it, as the proper
= ty of Levi Baldwin, and it was identi6e
! as belonging to him by a woman VIII
: washed his clothes.