Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1859-01-26

the promise you have made me, and prove true
to it. for il you do rot it will ruin me forever
/ o, Susan, do have feeling for me, ask oil you
in the name of God, for if can't have You |
care not how soon / am out of this world OF
/ trouble Pfor my enjoyment and happiness will
I be blasted forever. U, do not lead me thus far
sand then quit me, ask OF you. l will have
7 you, Susan, any day when you will me. Now,
will you go with me right off, within few
DAYS, ask you, and We will be married If you
will. | will always use you well IT you will go
/ with me.
will tell you way we can do, and the folks
will not mistruSt anything about 1t at all. DO
/ right by me, / ask you Susan, and you shall
have a good house. and be free from the control
/ of your folks, for they will never De willing for
any of you to have body that you know, II
they can helpit Remember me as true lover.
Let all old affairs pass away, and all things be-
come new, and all things right. Forgive and
be forgiven. Yours truly; please answer this
| and hand ii to me. JONATHAN WALES
The following lines were written after the sig.
nature:
30, how l wish you had gone home with me
that night from the school house. How much
different this affair would have been than it is
now. Your not going hurt my feelings very
much"
BY this time both families had been led to
fear that he intended violence, and OH Sunday
afternoon last Mas Whiting, while in church,
was so annoyed by his appearance and the man
ncr in which he watched her daughter, that she
left the church accompanied by her.
Last Monday evening surprise party was
given at the house of Mr.. Nathaniel Halves,
abont l0O'yards from her fathers house, and she
was anxious to attend, but her mother had
premonitiOn of trouble or danger, and refused
her consent. She finally granted it on condition
that she would ride home with her uncle, Mr..
w. Whiting, who neighbOr, and was 10
attend with his adopted daughter Anne She
went. and Wales also at the party lie APP
peared gayer than usual, and laughed and play
ed with the rest, but was noticed to Hoep his
eyes riveted on her. At about half past IL
O'Clock she left the house in company with 4
young man named Ephriam Toilet. They had
scarcely proceeded fifty rods, and We're nearly
opposite the house of James Mcpherson, when
Wales, having crossed field from the house Of
Mr. Halves, came up behind them. They turned
little one side 10 allow him TO pass, but he de-
liberately walked up TO her, and, raising the
pistol, discharged one barrel, with the muZ-
zle nearly touching her right temple. H.. in
Stantly climbed over the fence, aud disappeared
over hill by the roadside. The young man
with her felt her lean on his shoulder and then
drop. He much frightened, and ran to the
house for aid
Mr.. Willard Whiting had gone home quite
early without his adopted daughter, and Mrs. w.
becoming alarmed at her temperance, start
ed for Mr.. HAYES; when nearly there, she met
Susan and Mr. Follett and soon Anne, having
retracinG her steps, when she heard report and
saw the flash of pistol. She supposed it was
fired in sport, but soon came on the body OF
her ncicc, who was inSCnSible, the blood flowing
DrOfuSclv from her wound. Toilet, her COM
paniOu, was frantic with fright and grief As
Si>tance camc, and the wounded girl was
removed to the house. She never spoke
covered her senses afterwards. DR.. King,
Skiliul physician, was promptly called, but only
to see her life ebb out with its purple food
IL .Nf.F4l
her friends, almost laid PROSTATE by the blow,
with agony Of grief
Early yesterday morning, a party consisting
Of Messrs. Milan Cook, Herman Miller and
Joseph II. WadSwOrth, proceeded 10 trace the
fuotste of Wales, who, it was anticipated, had
committed suicide The father had been pre-
viously advised OF the murder, and had
pressed the hone and prayer that mis- might
be found dead. They tracked him for about
mile through swamps and pasture, TO Bald
Hill, where they found the body, at eight o'clock,
in piece of young woodland, flooded with
blood, and with the pistol lying n his feet. lie
had removed his clothing sufficiently TO place
the muzzle of the pistol directly to his body
without injuring the clothing, and had thus dis
charged it Just below the pit OF his stomach
He had evidently worn poorer suit of clothes
than usual to the party, to be prepared for the
! event. His boots were filed with blood and
his clothes completely wet with it. The body
was taken to Mr.. Wales house. and laid out
IN MS laSOIitc suit OF biaCk- lie looked per-
| fcctly natural, and wore a smile even in death.
Miss Whiting leaves four sisters and two
brothers She was amiable young lady, and
much beloved. She will be buried on Thurs
day, at franklin Center, the funeral exercises
taking place at II o'clock, at The Union Baptist
/ CRev. Mr. ThaycT'>) Chnrch.
Thus has the hand of death, in its mystic
rious way, entered into two family circles and
removed two idols from the affairs Of affection.
Not only the grief stricken parents the weep
/ ing brothers and sobbing sisters, and the dig
consulate relatives of the deceased, feel the be-
rcavement occasioned by their loss, but
whole town is interested and all its people excit-
ed on the topic, some of them regarding it even
almost superStitiously. a singular coincidence
in regard to the sad affair is the fact that for
some months past aged relative of the de.
ceased young lady has frequently expressed her
almost certain fear that something dreadful"
was to happen to her family, (which they would
never get over" How fatally her prediction
has been realized!
young IMAM named John WOodhouse Hear,
son of Mr.. Heart, formerly of the Charleston
HeTcury, came to his death at Washington, on