The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1867-06-06
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ARRESTED FOR MURDER

ARRESTED FOR MURDER
Supposed Prisoner in Jail
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THE FUEL PARTICULARS
Last evening, a few minutes aftel
seven o'clock, John Scarborough, City
Sergeant, received the following dis
patch:
PkRKERsBURe, WA, james, 1867.
Chief Of Police h t@ 81 II 7
Arrest mani namen Aaron, q Jew
peddler, charged with the murder OF
Lenthal here this forenoon. Aaron has
a dark complexion, black eyes, black
hair and mustache, straight, about five
feet eight inches or ten inches in hight;
wears a black slouch hat and alpaca
coat. Supposed to be on boat. Watch
at Bellaire and Moundsville. Answer
when you make arrest.
JOHN A. HUTCHINSON,
Prosecuting Attorney. i
Sergeant Scarborough Immediately set
himself to work and within half an
hour arrested the described man and
lodged him in Jail, when he sent the
folloyp;n1 .liSnafcb.
WHEELING, June 5, 1867.
John 4. Hutchinson, Prosecuting attorney:
Aaron arrested and lodged in Jail.
What shall do with him
JOHN SCARBOROUGH.
At half-past nine o'clock the Sergeant
received the following dispatch:
PARKERsBURG, June 5.
Chief of Police:
Hold him. We will send for him to-
morrow. JOHN A. HUTCHINSON,
Prosecuting Attorney.
When Sergeant Scarborough received
the FIRST dispatch (about seven o'clock)
directing him to watch for the boat and
to 60 to Bellaire and Moundsville, he
started for the Baltimore train, but be-
fore arriving at the depot he was led to
believe that the man was in the city,
and within fifteen minutes he found
him in the second story of the
house occupied by James Haley, on
John street, where Aaron has room
rented, and where his family-a wife
and three children-reside. Aaron was
eating his supper when arrested, and
the cause of his arrest was not made
known to him while he was at his home.
He asked the Sergeant ifhe could finish
his meal, and being answered in the af
frmative, he sat down, but could only
eat tw0|or three mouthsfull. He then
arose from the table to start, but SEEM
ed very much embarrassed, and very
anxious to know the cause Of his arrest.
The Sergeant thought it advisable not to
tell him before his family, and told him
he would inform him after little.
After he had been safely lodged in Jail,
Sergeant Scarborough told him he had
been arrested on charge of numbering
man named Lenthal, in Parkersburg.
Aaron simply replied, 81 believe l am
innocent
When arrested, Aaron was. somewhat
intoxicated. On his right cheek is
spot that has the appearance ofa blow,
but hs says he scratched it himself. He
answers the description of the dis
patch precisely, but he certainly has
not the appearance of a murderer. On
visiting him at the Jail last night about
ten O'Clock, he seemed very much col
lected. If he murdered the Par
kersburg man he has very innocent
way of showing it. He talked freely
and answered questions promptly. He
said he had been at Parkersburg for
few weeks past, and that he left there
Tuesday afternoon at two o'clock on
the steamer Bayard and arrived here at
ten o'clock yesterday. He said he knew
a man in Parkersburg named Lenthal;
that he was saloon-keeper, and that he
saw him just before he left there in a
clothing store. He seemed rather re-
lieved when Sergeant Scarborough as
sured him he was arrested for murder.
The prisoner has resided in this city
several months, coming from New York
here. He has been away from the city
a large portion of the time, ostensibly
peddling. He has very few acquain-
tances here.
We wish to call attention to the stime
made" in this arrest: Sergeant Scar
9roqgh meyer saw this man before he
arrested him. and within thirty minutes
after he received the descriptive dis
patch he had the man in Jail, finding
him in a private house, and not where
he was directed to look. We think this
"timen is hard to beat. 80