Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1858-11-20
horrible Murder in MonongaIia Co.

i On Monday night, horrible muruei
was committed few miles from Morgan
town, on The person OF Louisa Sspp, wife
of Jos. B. Sapp. Some Of the neighbors,
who were a, Mrs. SApp's left her about
dark in good health. About 8 o'clock
her husband went home, and little while
aflerwsrd went 10 neighbofs house and
asked them TO come and see his wife die.
They went there, and found her in bed,
dead. Sapp said he "came home and
she was silrng by the fire with her
clothes off, ready 10 60 TO bed, nursing
the child that lie had no supper, and she
said that she was not able 10 get him any,
but told him where the vlciuais were, and
while he was getting them, he heard her
cry out, GLORY 10 God am going to
see my Jesus - She then jumped up
and threw her baby away from her and
fell forward into the fire place. That he
picked her up and she grabbed him by the
shirt and lore two buttons off, and then
grabbed her hands in a handkerchief
around her neck, and held on 10 II so hard
that he could scarcely get her hands
loose. He then laid her on the bed and
wen. for The neighbours SapP was in
bad repnle from many causes, but esP"cl-
ally from having paid too much attention
to young woman in the neighborhood,
during his wife's life. He was charged
with his wiie'S murder, and arrested on
Friday last. An examination of the case
was had before Esquire Kramer on Salur-
day, and he was committed 10 jrll 10 an
swer for the murder. On Sunday he sent
for the Commonwealth Attorney and
told him he did not xii his wife, bat he
knew who did: lie said that he "went
10 Mrs. Snow lens TO sleep, on Thursday
night last and alter he had been in bed
awhile Sarah Snowden (lhe young wo-
man with whom he had been 20 intimate
came 10 his bedside, and told him that on
Monday afternoon she took some grapes
out Of a ar and put two lIltle Jumps OF ar.
senic in them, and sent them TO his wife
and she ate them" On this, warrants
were issued for the arrest of Mrs. Snow
den and her daughter, who were rXamln
ed on Monday, but there was no evidence
against them on HE contrary, they
showed concusively that he did not sleep
up stairs on the night mentioned, lhalI
Mrs. Snowden took nothing with her
when she went to Mrs. SapP's that day,
and the physicians who made The post
mortem examination testified that she
could not have died Of poison, as they had
examined her stomach, and found no ira
ces of il. On the contrary, they found al
severe brui>e on her head and breast, and
good deal of di>coloralion about her
face and neck. The women were dis
charged from custody but from present
appearances, it was foul and deliberate
murder, perpeira'ed BY SaPP on his wife.
-Uwksbug Register.
THE Murderer attempts to commit
SUicide.-On the ooh nit, Joseph b.
Sapp. committed 10 the Jail of Monongaha
County, Va, on a charge of numbering
his wife, attempted to end his existence
by cutting his ihroa,. After he bad eaten
his dinner, he sharpened the case knife,
which he had al dinner, on the stove, and
then made wound about 4 inches long
around The throat. lie cut the leaders
and wounded the winIpipe, hut did nol|
seriously iniure himself. The wound
was sewe1 up and dressed by physician
and is not considered verv dangerous.
"A Faiher UaikS into The Udter with
Il Chid in his 3rmS.-The ST. Louis
Republican Of HE 3lsl records The follow
irg:
One Of the most aw FIJI results Of sleep
walking of which We have heard for a
long time transPircd a; the Upper Ferry
Landing during the night preceding yes
rerdsy. Friday evening farmer named
John Bray, from Indiana, who was re-
moving 10 some point on The Missouri
river. will, his wife, falher-in-law, and
Tour children, came in en- the Ohio and
Mississippi Railroad. Being in straileu-
ed Circumstances, the family obtained per-
mission 10 stop for the night in a small
room on the Ferry dock, at the foot ni
Carr street. Between twelve and one
o'clock in the nigh, Bray arose, IN his
Steep, and taking his youngest child, aged
three years, in his arms, actually walked
from The room he used INTO The water.
The pileous, wsiling cries Of the child,
and the loud calls OF The father for help,
soon drew number of persons 10 the
melancholy scene from the adjacent places
on the levee. The frantic grief Of the
family parrook Of the incOherence and
wiIdness of the maniac. and is described
to be Of The most heart-Iending descrlp-
ton. Before ingenuity could resolve on
any means of rescung the drowning ob
iecls, both had sunk, to be seen no more
alive.