The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1869-08-12
TERRIBLE TRAGEDY AT CLEVE
LAND,
A son Mistaken for q burglar.
Shot BY his Father ana Instantly
Killed,

Cleveland, usually q very peaceful
and quiet city, lust now abounds In
crime OF very grave character. One
day this week we published the &C.
count Of a man stabblng his wife and
her paramour, and the mail to-day
brings the killing Of ason by his father.
The following is the account which The
Leader gives the affair:
AT halt.pAst twelve O'Clock on Sun.
day night ono OF the most terrible TRACE.
dies that has ever occurred In this city
took place at the Lake View House,
corner OF Summit and Seneca streets, ,
The proprietor Of the establishment,
Phillip Gllmartin, shot and Instantly
killed his son Thomas. The son and o
man named Clark, alias Penny, came
to the house about midnight and an.
piled for admittauoe. The father, either
too drunk TO understand or unwilling
to admit them, took no notice oftheir re-
quest, but went back Into his bed room,
seized his rifle, came out and fred
through the window Ut one standing In
front OF II, and who happened 10 be bis
son, Instantly killing him. The ball
entered the head above and at the left
OF the eye, piercing nearly through the
soul on the opposite side. His coming
TO the house at that time OF night was
unusual. and there was q cause for his
1Ather's alarm, as every witness testi.
he'd that he slept In the house but two
or three times during month, but
spent his nights with q woman known
in police circles as "EnRlIsh Jenny"
Although an important witness, her
testimony was moi heard, as she, when
the time came for her hearing, was no.
where 10 be found. Her story was told,
though, TO others before the Inuuest, in
which she stated that she was with Tom
on the bank OF the lake Sunday even.
Ing, and entreated him to go home with
her, for she WAS afraid he would go up 10
the Haymarket. He pushed her away,
and said that she would not see him
I'LL near morning, as ho "had a OBJ 10
do that night" His 'iobs" are well
known to tho public, for they have sui.
ferred much from him. The girl says
she watched for him Til morning, nd
then went TO his mothers house md
found him dead. She clung to the body
notwithstanding the commands and
remonstranCes OF the relatives, until
nearly noon, moaning and sobblng
continually. She is large woman OF
elegant form and bearing, fair complex.
lon, light hair, deep blue ayes, regular
and symmetrical features, and even
when over the body OF her dead lover,
scantlly and untidily dressed, she had
q peculiar beauty which was attractive,
The father, and murderer, is an old
sin. .burdened man: tall but quite bend.
ed In form. Hesays he loved his child,
and through his whole testimony, ex-
cited and almost Insane, he kept ex-
pressing himself as willing to die;
telling all who looked at him that he
did not mean TO shoot his own son,
DO ye think he said. 'l'd shoot my
own by on purpose? The by I've
Travelled with far and near, whom l
brought across the main sea, from the
Ould country, and to whom I'd Ri'
the las penny 'orlh o. bread / had In
the world The poor old man broke
down In sobs and was led out, stagger-
ing from grlet.
Early Monday morning, J. NJ. Jones,
ESQ prosecuting attorney, and his AS
sIstant II. 3. DsWolf, Esq, went TO the
house to examine into the facts con-
cerning the homicide. They spent u
couple OF hours In investigating the
case, and examined every thing calcu-
lated 10 throw light upon the affair. A
Jury was summoned, and after hearing
the evidence, they gave In their verdict
that the deceased, Thomas GIlmarLin,
came TO his death from a gunshot from
the hands OF his father, Phillip Gllmar-
TIN, discharged with no malicious inten.
tion OF the father to kill his son.