The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1868-11-28

when the forests change their gar.
ments, down to dull, chill November.
Alas, that love should never run
smooth, in an even current; but love
never did and never will, so they say
She responded, all unknown to the
wealthy dad, and he replied. Thus af,
fairs progressed until Horace announced
last week that he was off for Texas
right away, and couldn't stop for trities
like an affianced.
Then it was that the girl of the pc
riod made up mind and bundle. She
would follow him-yes, she would fol
low him to the uttermost parts OF the
earth. Being of age, and no longer the
slave of parental control, Miss Mary, on
Saturday night last, having habili-
mented herself becomingly, deserted
the palatial mansion on Clay street,
and, casting behind her wealth, society
and friends, sought the office of gen.
tleman on Broad street, whom she i'm
portuned to buy her ticket to New
York. This gentleman, who is the pink
of propriety, refused, and Miss Mary
sought elsewhere and found the ready
MEANS.
At all events she procured passage on
the cars and embarked on the 81 o'clock
train, which carried her northward at
the rate of twenty or thirty miles an
hour, if not as speedily as her heart de-
sired. On the train, between Richmond
and Acquia Creek, she was observed to
weep bitterly by the conductor, to
whom she related her tale of woe and
distress.
Her departure created, of course, a
hubbub in the mansion on Clay street,
aud amid the wringi2g of hands and
lond expressions of distress, the tele-
graph was invoked, and parties sent in
hot pursuit. 1t was surmised that
young Ford, instead of going off to
Texas "right away" as he announced,
had put for New York, there to meet his
Mary, and thither the detectives direct
ed their steps.
The upshot of the matter is, to make
a long story short, that Miss Mary has
been heard from; that she is now in
Philadelphia, and that upon the whole,
there isa very sorry family history con-
nected with the case, which it is not
VII w iO'Soi'
AN EXPLANATION.
The explanation given by Miss
Grants family of her absence from the
city is that she had expressed a wish to
visit Miss Duncan, the daughter of her
fathers correspondent in Philadelphia,
and that the family withheld their con-
sent. She determined to 60, and left
last Saturday night week, on the Rich
mond, fredericksburg Il Potomac rail
road train. Her father received dis
patch on Monday, stating that she was
at Duncan's sick. Mrs. Grant and her
brother James went to Philadelphia,
and, as soon as she was. able to travel,
brought her home. Her family knew
where she started to go.
THE INQUEST.
The coroner, DR.. Little, was immedi-
ately notified of the shooting, and re-
paired to the office where Mr.. Pollard's
body was laid. He had the clothing re-
moved from the upper part of it and
ascertained that eleven buckshot had
entered the right side of his body. One
took effect on the upper part of his
face, entering between the head of the
lower jaw-bOne and the prominence of
the cheek bone: one entered the neck,
and, it is supposed, divided the carotid
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of the shoulder and passed diagonally
downwards and towards the left side,
passing through the lungs and heart,
lodged under the skin in the left side of
his chest, and were cut ost; three more
entered the right shoulder blade and
lodged in the chest and one entered the
chest in the left side just below the
shoulder blade. 1t is thought that either
of the wounds was sufficient to have
caused death.
DR.. Little proceeded at once to Lave
jury summoned and hold an inquest.
After the examination of several wit
nesses, the jury found that Mr.. Pollard
had come to his death by the hand of
some person or persons unknown. At
last accounts young Grant was still in
custody.