The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1867-05-16

a L 10. 1901.
motion TO strike me. Ipointed the pis
tol at her. and she called TO me not t'
shoot. Mr.. DinsmOre then came in tn,
room and picked up chair and rushed
at me to strike me. He was between
Babe and myself, one of us being beforr
him and one behind him.
saw Nancy Dinsmore standing II
the door leading from the bedroom Il
the hall. do not know how long shC
was there. When she left the room sh(
left the door open after her. When Mr.
DinsmOre went to strike me with thG
chair, l ran out OF the bedroom anC
across the hall into the parlor and shuI
the door after l entered it. was in the
ParloF few seconds and bethough1
| myself that it would not do 10 leave
Babe and Mr.. Dinsmore alone. I open.
ed the door and crossed the hall and
entered the bedroom again, Mr.. Dins
more Immediately came at me and
caught the pistol, when we began tC
scutlie, low bent down.
| Mr.. DinSmOre was Mt my left side
lie had hold of the pistol by the butt
and muZZle. In the scufHle, l caught
the pistol and discharged it. 1 dis
charged it second time, when Mr.
Dinsmore Immediately let go his hold
on the pistol and went ont in the hall
| thought perhaps he had gone to get
his gun and would return and shoot us
both. got hold of Babe and pushed
him out of the room. After we were
both in the kitchen, wentto the bed.
room window and looked in, but the
room was empty. 1 told Babe to run
for his life as Mr.. Dinsmore had gone
after his gun.
When 1 fired the pistol Mr.. DInsmore
and l were scutlling. l thought the
balls were passing into the floor and
that by firing it would cause Mr.. DinS-
more to cease to resist.
GUILTY TERRoRs-FLIGHT.
We left the house the same way we
entered. We took up across the orchard
toward the Middletown road. After l
got over the fence into the road l was
SO much excited and SO weak that fell
down every few steps. felt II severe
pain in the thumb of my left hand and
told Babe thought had shot the end
of my thumb oil, but found on exam
lining it 1 had not. 1 suppose my
thumb was very close to the chamber
Ofthe barrel of the pistol as my thumb
had a blood blister on it and the end of
it looked like 1t had been burned.
Showed the blOod-blister to Revs.
Dodge and Sinsabaugh and others.
When Babe and 1 got to the road, I
told him felt very bad-felt like faint
ing. fell down several times
coming down the hill towards
Miller's. Babe wanted to go to
the woods. l told him to go ahead and
never mind the woods. We came the
same road we went. After we had run
about three miles we slackened our
pace to get breath. asked Babe if he
had lost anything by which we could
be identified. He said he had not. 1
asked him if he had lost butterfly of
his collar. (Tte fly had bosom pin in
it, He said he had not lost it, and
turned around and showed it to me.
asked him what that noise was like the
falling of glass. Hesaid he had thrown
a stone at Mr.. Dinsmore and it must
have hit IL window. Says I, "Why,
Babe, you might have killed me on the
spot?" Babe said Mr.. DinsmOre had
knocked him down and that his hat had
fell off his head, and he was afraid Mr..
DinsmOre would know him. He took
off his hat and asked me if L could re-
c0gnize him. 1 told him L could not.
He then said something about me
naming him ut Mr.. DinSmOre'S-that I
ought not to have done it. He then
asked me how many loads the pistol
had in it. l told him it had four loads
in it. Says lie, "If they follow us, do
fend yourself as long as there is load
iu the pistol. Kill before we will he
captured. After the loads are all shot
out of the pistol we will take to the
Creek rond until we came TO the farm
of Samuel Morgan. The farm is well
known as the old CuudalEplace. There
Is tenant house on the place, fronting
on the road. The house is about mid
way between Aaron Miller's and the
residence of Samuel Morgan. There is
a race running to the grist and saw mill
of William b. Cundall. It runs very
close to the road. At that place we
crossed the fence between the race
and the road. Then crossing the
back of Mr.. Cundalrs house
SO as not to alarm the dogs. We
crossed the bridge at the same saw
mill (Cundall's saw mill) and kept the
road until we came to BOon's woods.
We then crossed over the fence into the
woods for the purpose OF resting; but
we did not rest. We went on up through
the woods until we came to small run
that flows down through. the woods.
told Babe we had better wash
the black of ourselves there.
ourselves. We did not light the dark
lantern there. We thought some one
might see the light, it being so close TO
the road. After we gol through wash
ing we dried ourselves of with pock-
ct handkerchief, when we put on our
coats and started again.
Babe said he knew Mr.. Dinsmore had
plenty of money or he would not have
resisted us SO hard. He proposed to
me before we went to Mr.. Dinsmore's
that we should knock Mr.. Dinsmore
down and tie him and then tell him il
he did not give us twelve thousand dol
lars we would burn his house over his
head, and said we ought to have got
some small rope to tie Mr.. DinsmOre
with. told him he could get some
thing there to tie him if he wanted I o
do it that way. After that he asked me
what the law would make that. l told
him knew nothing about the law
but supposed We would be indicted
for an attempt Of burglary, with the in
tent to kill, five was arrested. Babe
me to "stick to" him. told him
would; and if was. arrested wanted
him to ''stick to" me. He said he
would. He told me that he had
heard Mr.. Dinsmore say during
the scu1lle that he was shot.
asked him what Mr.. Dinsmore had
said. He replied he had heard Mr..
Dinsmore exclaim so, my! l am
shotT or 80, my God! am shot ~
He did not know which. I told Babe /
would not have killed him for the
world. lie said he did not think had
killed Mr.. Dinsmore. He thought l
had shot him in the leg, and he hoped
1 had for it would keep Mr.. Dinsmore
/ n the hOuSa So that hn pOU1d mt FeCOP-
nize us. Babe said he thought Mr..
DInsmore had thought he was shot,
when he, Babe, had cut him. asked
him II he mad cut him and ho said he
thought he had. Babe said that "Jim''-
meaning james M9ntgomeryIcouldn't
call us towards alLer aiL mat: de said 1t
knew OF, and that there would be n
'sbig fuss kicked up" the next morning
nhn1t IL ! told him NOT To anY any.