Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1863-07-22
Daily gnteIltgeufer
Wednesday Morning, July %, 1868.


B@CHARaED WITH ABUSING FEMALE
PRGsoNER=ExAH1NATIo OF JAInoR JONES.
Yesterday Capt. W.. G, Thorpe, COM
mander of this post, swore out warrant,
charging Lewis Jones, the jailOr, with wan
toniy naltreating United States prisoner
named Maggie Reed. The examination
took place before Alderman Dulty at o.
3 clock yesterday afternoon, when the fol-
lowing facts were elected h..af
Miss Reed, who is rather a sprightly
young woma9, and looks as if she could
take care OF herself under most circum :
stances, was arrested 10 Buckhaunon, Up
sher county, couple of months ago, for
manufacturing and assisting to fling to the
breeze rebel flag, and was sent here by
order of Gen. Averill, aud has since been
confined IN the county Jail.
Miss Reed testified that on Monday even
ing a drunken woman was put in the same
cell with her the drunken woman made
several humorous speeches at which the
witness laughed, Mrs Jones, the jailor's
wife, aud the jailor's, daugbtercame to her
and told her thai, she had been making a
noise and must prepare to goSO cell, Wit
ness being at the time, confined in the
debtors room. Witness refused; when Mr..
j. came himself. Witness picked'up piece
ola board and made as if to assault Jones,
when Jones snapped pistol at her three
times, hit her, kicked lRer aud took her by
the hair of the head and dragged her down
to cell, when he sent for cowhide and
struck her several times on the back.
Capt Fordyce and his wife, who were
inmates ofthejail at the time, corroborated,
in part, the evidence of Miss Reed.
, Capt. Thorpe testified that he was sent
for on Monday evening and upon repairing
to the Jail, in company with Capt Moore,
found Miss Reed in a cell very much ex-
hausted and evidently suffering from the
severe treatment she had received. He
found confusion upon her head which
she said had been produced by blow from
the butt end of Mr.. Jones' pistol. Captain
Thorpe sent for DR.. FrisselI who came and
examinedthe stripes upon Miss Reeds back
anu hISO lue WOuuu upon ueH ueau'
Capt. Moore. Quartermastera at this point,
who accompanied Capt Thorpe to the Jail,
corroborsted the testimony of the latter
gentleman.
DR.. Frissell testified that he examined
Miss Reed aud found a confusion upon her
head and three stripes upon Der back
Miss Reed also complained of wound up,
on her lie.
Miss Maggie Jones, the jailor's daughter,
and Amanda Wiuesburgh, both testified
that they had repeatedly beard NJ IS Reed
using abusivelauguage to the jaiIor and
his te--language too gross to be repeat
ed by lady even upon witnes IS Stand
That she had been treated better than any
of the rest of the prisoners. and was never
satisfied On the evening in question and
upon other occasions she yelled for JEFF
Davis, md sang rebel songs from which she
refused to desist.
AID Dnlty said that the jaiIor had right
to usea sufficient amount of severity to pre-
serve order in the Jail, but in this case he
thought that undue punishment had been
administered. He would therefore hold
Mr.. Jones to bail in the sum of two hun
bred dollars to answer an indictment before
the next term of the Circuit Court.