Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1857-11-24
The Washington County Horror.
Trial of Zone. for the Murder of White

of the Pittsburgh Gazctte, we extract tue l"l-
lowing:
The evidence elected ON the part Of the Com
monwealth, if it is to be believed, is of the most
convincing character. The examination of the
Allisons Hugh b., James G., and Archibald, to
whose house Mrs. White fed on the night of the
murder was only to the circumstances and de-
tail of the fact Of her coming to them; and TO
the fact of their going with her back to her
house and finding her husband perfectly dead.
The description of the scene in the bed room
where the murdered man was lying when they
went in is pitiful, and such as would not graft
f. the tastes or feelings of the majority OF our
readers if we were to give it in detail. Suffice
it to say that there, i'll the bed, lay the murder
ed man, the axe with which the crime had been
pcrpetrated lying by, with the marks of the
| bloody hands still upon the helvc and the blood
! vet upon the blade: there was the truHdie bed
with the children unharmed in it, and ono of
them crying for papa"
The testimony of the woman called Margaret
Tuten, is however, the most important Jones
made confession to her which she relates in
Court.
Am ACQUAINTED with WIN. Jones: have known
him for some time; the prisoner is the man; saw
him last the Saturday night after the Wilson
murder; live about threcquarters OF mile be-
| low Hickory; saw him the morning White was
murdered at my fathers abOnt four o'clock; he
raped t the door; | asked who was there, and
he replied "a friend; got up, went to the door,
and opened il; bid him good morning, and said,
"You are up carly; he said Henry rye aud
me hare got into n bnd scrdpe, and l have come
| to bid yOu good bye forever; he said would
! hear of the scrape when would not see him;
bid him good bye and he started across the fields
above our house; saw him at BalouS, Saturday
after the murder; Mrs Ballou came after me and
said that her father was crazy; they wanted
Isaac to 20 and stay with him; Mrs. Ballonis
daughter of VIM. Jones, Sr.; when Mrs. Ballou
came my mother asked her II William Jones,
Jr, was with her, to which she replied, with an
oath that he was not; started with her and met
| VILLAIN sitting on mill stone above our spring.
did not speak to him until got into the held;
he asked me If was married yet; told him l
was not and would not be for a quarter, Tor
there were more married now than Kept goou
| houses; we went to Ballou's house. This was
about ten O'Clock at night. We staid there until
two or three o'clock i'll the morning; when we
went in, Isaac was lying on two chairs; laid my
baby on the bed; Jones said he would not lie
down as he was afraid the officers would arrest
him for the Wilson murder; be said the officers
were after him at his fathers house the Friday
night before that; that his father hid him under
the floor, and that il the officers had been sharp
they might have heard his heart beat; Mrs Bal
lou and William remained up during the night;
Jones said that he vas afraid this White muir
der would come out on him, and if it did he
would have to hang; | said Il hope, William,
you were not in that murder; he replied, eyes,
II am the one int murdered ITAite'; he said he
murdered him, that Fire robbed the house, md
Charlotte and 4HGClisOn stood IN the OrchGrd.--
Before this conversation he asked me if would
not go to Canada with him; told him no, that
could not leave NIcKinlcyS child and take his,
or leave his and take McKinley's; after / told
him hoped he was not in the White murder,
he said if / would hold up my hand and swear
before Almighty God never to reveal the secret,
he would tell me all about it; William and Mrs
I'allou sat by the fire all night and swOre bitter
oathS that they would kill the first man that en-
tered the house, William left between two and
three o'clock in the morning; said he could not
! go by himself big black dog with no head
trotted before him. Isaac then started with him
through the woods until daylight; told us all
abonI being afraid nf- tho dnsi William said lie
was going to his fathers, to get his old clothes
| to 90 to Canada; said he would return TO Hick-
! Ory before going to Canada; he was arrested the
next daY; this conversation was on Saturday
night after the Wilson murder; William Jones
| is the father of my youngest child; he wrote INC
! eight letters altogether; promised to- marry me;
did not hear that Jones was married until the
! Monday after his arrest for the White murder;
! John Woods first told me William was married.
! CroSs-eXamined by Mr.. Hopkius-lsaac Bal
lou got up from the chairs after ne went in and
crawled into bed; it was between ten and eleven
o'clock, think; William, Katy and sat at the
T! fire together for about half an hour, until my
child got awake when laid down with the child
on the bed, he told me he wouid have to go Ia
Canada for fear the White murder would be
found out on him. and then he would have to
| hang; while telling me hc spoke low, we just
whispered; VIC had not been whispering all the
evening; we commenced whispering when Mrs
Bailou went back to the bed; the room l sup
pose is ten feet square, there are three rooms in
nv fathers house; one is Il Kitchen and Occu-
pied an adjoining room-no door between, but
an opening for door; there is door TO faith
er's room from the kitchen; the outs; e door
opens into the liitchen when he CAME Ia, knock
ed two or three times; no one heard hia except
myself we do not lock Our doors; W. id not
stand there over ten minutes; first heart of the
White murder about three o'clock of the day
it was committed; father told me at home, in the
presence of mother; said it was a most dread
fnl thing; never told about Jones having been at
the house until last court in Washington. when
informed Mr.. Carter, the constable; was eX-
amined before Justice Brice last May-not on
the White murder, but in regard to the BallouS;
was examined in relation to conversation had
with defendant but in consequence of my oath
l thought it would not be right to tell it; was
under oath before Justice Brice; was asked in re-
lation to the conversation had with Jones that
night, and told all of it but that part concern
ing the White murder; was asked if that was
all knew about it, and replied that it was; this
was after heard Jones was married; told Car
ter and Koontz the first day of last court that