The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1867-06-07

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ing, On account of the arrest and i'm
prisonment in this city Of q man named
Julius Aaron, charged with the murder
of man in Petersburg named Liei.
lenthal on Wednesday morning. Ser
geant Scarborough still holds the prison
er. The following dispatches have been
received and sent since our last issue.
The following one was received on
Wednesday night at about twelve
o'clock: -'t ysi1r 30
PARKERsBURa, w. Va, June s, 1867.
Chief Of Police: ..4.l
What boat or train did you arrest Ju-
Illus Aaron on 7 Let me know.
JOHN HUTCHINSON, Jr.
The following answer was returned
yesterday morning at z o'clock
WHEELING, June 6.
John A. Hutchinson, Jr.: at-,-. 81.
Aaron says he left Parkersburg on the
steamer Bayard on Tuesday afternoon
at two o'clock. arrested him at his
own house. JOHN SCARBOROUGH,
City Sergeant.
At ten o'clock yesterday forenoon the
Sergeant received the following:
PARKERsBURG, June 6.
To John Scarborough:
Have sent for him. Keep him.
J. A. HUTCHINSON, JR.
1t is probable that the prisoner will
be taken to Parkersburg to-day. So
LATER.
Sergeant Scarborough visited the
steamer Bayard last night at nine
o'clock, when she landed on her way
down to Parkersburg. The saloon
keeper on board this boat informed
him that Aaron came up on the Bayard
from Parkersburg on Wednesday, and
that he came to him and wanted him
(the saloon.keeper) to "chalk his hat"
as he was out of money. He was an
acquaintance of Aaron's. He says that
Aaron kept out of the way as much as
he could, and his name does not appear
upon the register of the boat for that
reason. 1861.
The following account of the murder
for which Aaron was arrested We take
from the Parkersburg Times of yester-
day:
Before daylight yesterday morning,
Mr.. Joseph .Lillienthal, a German pro-
prietor of saloon, on Market, below
Harriet street, Parkersburg, was bru-
tally murdered in his house where he
was sleeping alone.
When found, his skull was fractured
in several places, and his throat was
cut, evidently at single blow, from
ear to ear, and the spinal column near
ly severed. The knife with which the
cutting was first supposed to have been
done, was case knife usedibyEMr. Lilli-
enthal, to cut dried beef and cheese. 1t
was, however too small for such heavy
duty, but was left lying near the body,
covered with blood. The other wounds,
nine in number, were apparently in
licted with hatehet, cleaver, or other
heavy, sharp instrument. Blood had
spirited from the wounds upon the wall
and up to the ceiling. DR.. Coles and
DR.. Davis, who made the examination,
pronounced either of the three frac-
lures of the skull sufficient to cause
death. In addition to these, there were
several scalp wounds. A clean cut
through and across the forehead into
the brain, presented terrible appear.
ance. The saloon was stripped OF all
valuables, two gold watches, all the
money and clething-an empty rocket
book was left upon the table.
Mr.. Justrce Taggart summoned a
Coroner's Jury, who inspected the body
and the scene of the murder, with the
assistance of Dr.. Coles. A number OF
| witnesses were examined with the view
of unraveling the mystery of the fear
full tragedy.
A colored woman testified that she
was in the saloon with colored man
of the name of Taylor Morgan, about
9 o'clock on the night previous, and
that Taylor remarked to her that this
would be a good place to make raid
IOT luOucyy Do Ouoio Wao uue ohS A'e.n
He also requested her to procure for
him some chloroform, saying that she
knew everybody and he did not. This
evidence seemed to be an after-thought
of the woman, who said nothing OF it
when first examined, and her entire
manner was not calculated to inspire
confidence. ."
A young man testified that he saw
man who was either bare-headed or
wearing a cap, pass out of the back
door of the saloon up the bank to Har-
riet street, about three o'clock A. NJ.
Several persons in the neighborhood
heard terrible cries and the noise of a
scuffle during the night, but supposing
it to be a family quarrel which some
times occurs in that vicinity, did not
answer the call of the deceased for help.
The hasp of the lock Oh the back
door was found to be wrenehed off and
the screws lying on the floor: Traces
of blood were plainly seen in the morn
ing from the back door to and upon
Harriet street.
The murder was evidently committed
| in the front room or bar-rOom-the de-
ceased having apparently got up in his