Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1857-11-04
WEDNESDAY MORNING, NOV. 4, 1851.
THE DAILY INTELLIGENCER
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The SunJEsb Trage1y-Additional Partisu-
lars-Ws have been kindly furnished with some
additional and more reliable information in ref
erence to the recent fiendish murder at Sunfish,
"a deed that has thrilled with horror the entire
community in which it was perpetrated The
facts VIII CHI tend to fasten guilt upon Swain and
Morrison, are about rs follows; Miss Allen lived
with man named Ross, as domestic. The
accused boarded there On the Saturday pre-
Ccding her disappearance, Miss Allen left Ross
house on account, as she stated at the time, of
having received certain indecent proposals from
Swain and his companion. She went to her IA
theirs house and stated her reasons for having
left her place, adding at the same time, that if
the two young men came there ON the following
day, she desired that they should not be en-
couraged to remain. On Sunday morning Miss
Allen started in company with several other girls
to go to singing school few miles distant, but
had not gone far when she turned back, alleging
as n reason that she feared she might be over
taken by Swain and Morrison.
She then started for the house of Mr.. Fore
man, and upon arriving at fruit orchard con-
ceeded to gather some apples Soon Mr.. Fore
man came along and greeted her in friendly
manner, inviting her to come up to his house.
She repIied she would do so when she had Sc
lected some apples, Mr.. F. then proceeded to-
wards his house, leaving the girl alone. As he
was leaving the orchard he saw two men sitting
near a large chestnut tree u short distance off,
and from their dress and general appearance he
thinks Swain and Morrison were the PARTIES
The corpse Of the murdered girl was found in a
hollow near where thee men were seen.
In addition TO this, the young men, who are
separately confined, and no communication al
lowed between them, tell conflicting stories in
regard to their whereabouts on the Sunday Ct
the murder. Spots of blood were found upon
SWANS shirt bosom, which suspicious fact he
explains by stating that on the Sunday of the
girls disappearance he went hunting, by him
self, and having killed number of squirrels,
threw them over his shoulder, and the blood up
on his shirt was from the gun,shOt wounds;
while upon the other hand, Morrison states since
his arrest, that he and Swain were out gather.
ing chesnuts during the entire day of the Sun
day in question.
The long absence of the girl created no seri-
GUS apprehensions for her safety, as she had
several near relatives residing within five six
miles, and her parents supposed she had gone
to visit some one of them, as she was in the
habit of doing When the search commenced,
however, on Friday morning, and the people
began to express alarm, young man named
Wilson disappeared rather suddenly from the
community, and as no one knew the reason of
his departure, suspicion was aroused, and a
warrant was issued for his arrest. He had not
been apprehendcd at last accounts.
The idencc, so far, against all the parties is
altogether circumstantia and unless something
additional should develop itself, there will be
great difficulty in fastening the guilt upon any
of the suspected. Swain and Morrison are to
have preliminary examination to-day, when
evidence corresponding mainly with the facts
stated above, is expected to be elected, which
will be amply sufficient to commit them for q
further hearing. Miss Allen is about seventeen
years of age, was daughter of poor and re-
spectacle parents, and always bore good char
acter. We hope that the fiends in human shape
who could outrage and then murder an innocent
and defenceless girl may be speedily brought to
justice and made to suffer the penalty OF
the law.