Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1858-02-08
1==e155 T4yedg in Kuaanoha co.-A Wife
y, n ,,nD Murdered By Her Hus5aad.-The

1=-,5ie Trugedy in Yanaeoha CD Wifi
, n" I'm Murdered By Her Husband.-The
", ,;.aI.rs of a most horrible murder on Coal
P s- in Kanawha county, reached this city on
w., .s,I,r evening. The body of Mrs. Mary S.
- was found, aftcra dilligent search by the
In. ..hLo,s in the river with a rope tied about
w. neck and heavy stone attached to the other
=, Her shoes and stockings were not tied
s.'. and her dress appeared to have been thrown
. ~, the body and tied on by the rope after
dsah.
4 corOncr's jury was Immediately summoned
a the result was verdict that she came to
=, death by the hands of her husband, Preston
rgriey, who was Immediately arrested. The
v,n,wha Republican, received yesterday, says
t,t Turley made 10 attempt to escape no doubt
sting quite sa,ifcd that he had placed the
tody in too secure place to be found, indeed
4. had put out an advertisement offering re-
v,ra of $50 for any one that would find his
rite dead OF alive. She was highly esteemed
lv her ncighbOrs-and was of an excellent fam
il in Putnam county, by the name of West. :
From the time she was missing, great excite
m.at prevailed in the neighborhood, and cspe-
cf.Iy during the inquest of the Jury. Any de-
eiied movement toward Lynching of the hus-
band in custody would probably have been car
ned by the large crowd present. Suspicion
had from the beginning attached to Turley, for
numbering his wife.
Pres s Turlcy had, for several years been
preacher in the Baptist Church-and enjoyed
The confidence Of his acquaintances, but about
tro years ago. he got out of the Church, com
mencetl grocery, and selling liquor, and drink
ing it to excess, gambling and keeping bad
women; his virtuous wife was in the way,
and We have the result of his fall and his short
but rapid career of vice and crime. Since he
has been in Jail, he has confessed that he put
the bOly of his wife in the river, but that he
dbl not kill her-that she committed suicide by
hanging herself where lie found her in her room
on the night of her disappearance. They had
three small children.
4 Farmer Goes oe Bust-on Friday last,
farmer from somewhere off the bottoms ada.
cent 10 McMahon's creek, named Jedediah Max.
we'll came to town with twenty-five bushels of
barley lie pocketed the proceeds, put up his
horses, and stepped his senses in obliviousness.
He wandered over the city during most of the
day, drinking and showing the money he had
received for his grain. Towards evening he
disappeared His friends in the country, alarm
ed at his non-arrival as was expected in the
evening" came to town on Saturday morning in
sssrch of him. The horses and wagon were
found without much difficulty, but Jedediah
was lost in the fogative" One of his friends
started homeward with the team, and another
remained toexpIore the city for the lost Jedediah.
Towards evening the object of the protracted
hunt was discovered in n little shanty in East
Wheeling, where he had been taken in (out OF
PITY by u strange woman and doubtful man.
lie was very druuk-his money was gone, his
clothes were torn, and Jcdcdiah was most efFec-
tually used up. He was taken home in the
the evening, vowing rs he had often done be
fore, that he had taken last, grand, farewell
spree-that never moro should an enemy go in
70 his mouth to steal away his brains.
An Irish Ia,6r0gliO.-Ald. Hamilton's office
vas the scene of a garrulous trial among the
Irish women of the LIST Ward on Saturday ev-
ening. A young Irish girl had called another
some hard names. There were several wit
nesSes, each with several tongues telling sever.
a different tales The merrimcnt of the spec
htOrs was limited, and the magistrate was
sorely puzzled in sitting and reducing tho in.
'ongruOus mass of .'cusses" elected in the case
The matter was disposed of by the imposition
OF a line upon the offending party.
-deeiieat-Aa aged and infirm woman named
Mrs Paytoa, stumbled into sewer at the corne,
Of Main and Quincy streets, on Saturday night
I'st She was so severely stunned by the fall
'a't she was unable to extricate herself, but be
ING assisted to her feet she was found only te
have received few slight bruises upon tn,
lace and head.
Washing A,cGy,-Graduallv for some years
ne never ceasing current of the Ohio river ha.
Oeen encroaching upon the eastern bank below
l'' city. fine broad wagon road once ran
a0ng tie bank, but it has been absorbed ii
ue NAV Of the current In many places tn,
''aa Is undermined and entirely washed away
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