Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1862-04-10

consumed, together With several horses
and other property. Some time after this,
man called at VIM. Rayrs, at Rayra
Cross Roads. in Beaver county, and traded
horses with him. Rayl, suspeoting that
the horse had been stolen, and having
heard that Mr.. Sheets had lost QUE, got
his father-in-law, John Ausley, to take the
horse up'to Sheets. Ansly took the horse
up but Sheets could not fully recognize
nlm' as his maize and tail had been crop
ped OF, so as to change his looks consider
ably. He then started for home, and for
some reason took the horse with him he
did not, however, go farther than Darling
ton that day, but stopped there all night.
In conversing during the evening. he rave
description of the person of whom Ravl
had got the horse, aud was told that that
person must be Eli Sheets, who lived about
two miles southeast of town. The NEXT
morning he started to go to Eli Sheets, to
see IT he was the man. He was met bv
man within thirty rods of Sheets, of whom
he inquired the way. This was the las.
that was seen of him, until he was found
dead about half a mile from Sheets
house, His body had been pierced with
six balls, and from the cuts and bruises on
his head, it is thought he had also been
beaten with club. When found his head
was about half buried in the mud. The
position in which he lay, and the paucity
Of blood visible. pointed to the fact, that
he had been murdered elsewhere, and then
conveyed to where he was found. The
horse was found laying dead, near to
Ansly, pierced with two balls, and from
appearances it had struggled around con-
slderably after it had been shot, and had
tramped on the legs of the deceased. He
was tracked back to Eli Sheets stable, and
there blood was found. Some of the neigh.
bors also. had heard several shots fired in
that direction, and some blood is said to
have been found on Sheets clothes. Upon
the strength of this evidence, Sheets was
arrested at his plough, and examined be-
fore justice of the peace, aud a mittimus
issued for his commitment to jail. Two
constables took charge of him, and took
him to hotel, and locked him up in n
room, intending to guard him until morn
ing. They were sitting about four feet
from him, and he was standing before the
fire, with his back to it, and his face to.
wards tho window that was near by, appa-
rently in drOwsy mood, when in the
twinkling of an eye, aud with the agility
of deer, he made one leap going clear
through the window, carrying the sash aud
glass with him, and thus escaped.
Nothing was heard of him until his ar
rest on Saturday as above stated.
B8~ "A GUERRILLA SHor.-Yesterday
morning as the Though train from the
east, over the 3. & o. Il. r., was coming
this way between Benton's Ferry and Tex
asStatiou, some ofthe train men discov-
cred the dead body of man, apparently
about forty years of age, lying by the side
Of the track. Inquiry developed the fact
that the body was that of a man named
Barker, who is known to have been ac-
lively Engaged in guerilla operations in
the vicinity of the celebrated RICHTER
neighborhOod, in Marion county, and he is
supposed to have been shot on Tuesday
afternoon by some Federal soldiers while
in pursuit of the gang of guerrillas, of
when he was an active member.
The dead man presented most CHASTITY
sight He was lying in a pool of his own
blood, not having been disturbed since he
received the fatal shot.
P.S.-Since writing the above NE have
the following version of the affair: Two
more secessionists belonging on the Valley
River, in the upper end of Marion county,
were shot on Tuesday by detachment of
Capt. Showalter's company. Their names
were Sack Barker and Levi Ashcraft. We
did not converse with any one who ap-
peared to be entirely familiar with the cir
cumstNnCe, but learned that lot of guer-
rillas Supposed to belong to the same
gang from which Riblet and Conaway were
captured) had taken prisoners couple of
young men, soldiers in Capt. Showalter's
company, and that their comrades in res.
cuing them had captured tue two guerril-
las above named, and killed them, on their
attempting to escape. This took place near
Texas on the B. s. o. R. R.. The bodies
were at that place yesterday as the train
West passed. Barker kept still-hOuse,
and is said to have been hardened viii
lain, and is charged with harboring Jobu
RICHTER and his crew.
D9-GovERNMEST CLAINs.-Messrs. Har.
vey, Collins 4 Brace, the long established
have Appointed the Messrs. Carr Bros. thei
agents in this city to oversee and contro
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