The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1865-09-05
The Harrison County Ialiaseats :
Full History Of the Cad.
EDITORS OF REGISTER:

Circuit Court of Harrison coity for
horse stealing
These cases have attracted unhal in
terest, not only on account of tlFormer
character of the men, whose Iines it
has been attempted by thisprocd dling to
link With the disgraceful criindf COM
| mon theft, but the public is anxtns and
deeply interested to know howhr this
new and monstrous doctrineof Astruc
tive crime is to be stretched, Ind for
what purposes of wrolg it may used,
in a country profcssedly governeby law.
To enable your readers to get torrect
knowledge of the history of thei cases,
the record is sent and they are riuested
to read it carefully, together 3th the
additional facts stated, rs par of the
history, and the comments which have
deemed it not improper to make.
The State of West Virginia,
| VS..
| William P. Cooper. Uriel N.
| Turner, Samuel Al. Sommers, auou.t Ia tab5
Hugh H. Lee, Rem c. Da- hfusa foT 1s,uy i'''
Wis Robert Cowan, John 1T T
| C0wan, William Smith VIII
| liam L. Corley, Albert Bog
| CESS and James A. HOrner. J
Upon separate Bench warrais issued
on the l4th day of June 1865, byThonlas
w. Harrison, Judge of the Circli Court
of Harrison County, upon presttments
| found by the Grand Jury for the larceny
of certain horses and other propety, the
goods and chattels Of Vim. M. Lat. Isaac
| +. Smith, Martin Sheets, Aaron CSmith,
Aaron Vincent, Marion T. Vinee,t aud
Isaac d. Ross, rs mentioned in tie said
warrants; and in each of the sad war
rants the same property is deSIbed as
the subject of the Larceny.
The prisoners were this day brought
before me A Werninger, % Justicl OF Clark
Township, with j. B. Wright, Justice
of Coal Township ,and ConrOd Ross; 4
Justice of Clay Township, who b request
sat upon the trial of these case as asso-
ciate Justices: and the warrant having
been returned with the following asndorse-
| ment, Executed the within warrant on
w. P. Cooper, and brought him before A.
Werninger, a Justice of Harrison County,
on the I'd day ofAugust 1865. P. Fl. Good
win d. s. for D. w. Robinson H. c."
with like return upon each of tie other
warrants. ~
A.P. Davisson, States AttorBy, was
nrasent to nrosecute tbe casesk as also
were Caoroe n Lee Iobn.J Davis. Ben.
;amin % W;is0n aud CaIeh Rosoess Az
Jcnmnse, J fnr ths accnsed
0 t. was ~ oareed between the Prosecutinp
Attornsv a1I tbe counsel for tbadefense' q
that all these cases sbould be tIken np
and disposed of together. 1
II was further agreed between the
counsel for the defense and the hosecut-
iup ATTORNEY. that the evidence taken
on Yesterday in the case against G. d.
Camden shall be considered as evidence
in all of these cases.
II ia admitted bv the paTtics ,hecused,
that Razin c. Davis -waa IN he rebel
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Ina. Innss nr ro;d M1' nnder t%a c"nm.nd Of n Gan.
oU orai Imhndon ond tbot ba vas mot in the
Tonntv on % Of Harrison % at nat time
Thai n M Tnrner was AN ordnance
oflcer in tho rebel arnv in March ls65
and not iu the said army at the time of
the Jones' raid, but had been before.
That s. M Sommers was a CAPTAIN ami
A O. NJ in the rebel army under General
Lee in 1864.
That James A. Horner. VIM. l.. Corley
and William Smith had some connexion
with the rebel army in 1864.
That Hugh Fl. Lee had been discharged
from the rebel army in 1862. and was not
iu the service, either civil on military at
the time of the Jones raid.
That Rezin c. Davis was residing at
his home in the town of Clarksburg at
the time of the Jones raid, and about a
month afterwards in Jnne 1862 was
sent across the lines by a military officer
of the United States army.
That Albert Boggess had been IN the