The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1869-01-06

| MURDER IN SABELL SOONti w
COPY from the Mason County, Jour
nal the details of the late horrible muir
der in Cabell county, w. Va.
We have received the following par
ticulars of the killing of Wilson b.
Moore, late Sheriff of Cabell county,
which our readers may rely upon as cor
rect:
On Sunday morning the 18th ult., in
COMPANY with James Shelton, the de-
ceased left Barboursville, his residence
in said county, to see a man named
Charles West, who1ived about two miles
distant, near the Ohio river in the same
county, in reference to a report which
the latter had circulated about the de-
ceased and lady who lived in Ohio,
and to whom the deceased (being wild.
ower) was paying attentions. AS stated
at the time, the deceased considered
the report slanderous and unjust to the
lady, and desired the same to be cleared
up. Upon reaching old man Vests
house Shelton an deceased passed on to
Harvie Clark's house who lived on the
Ohio river about quarter of a mile be-
yond Vests house. After remaining
there q short time, Moore proceeded to
Vests alone. After he had been gone a
short time, Clark called out Shelton
from the house stating that they were
fighting at Vests house. Shelton i'm
mediately ran up to where they were,
and found Moore alone engage in a ter
rible struggle with old man West, his
three sons and wife, Mrs. West had
struck Moore on the head with hoe
while engaged in struggle with her
son, inflcting deep wound, penetra-
ting almost if not to the skull. There
were other cuts about Moore's head.
Old man West was struck on the head
and knocked down by Moore. His in
juries were considered serious at first,
but he is now recovering. None of the
others were hurt. Shelton upon arriv-
ing at the scene of conflict, Immediately
separated the combatants and took
Moore back to Clark's. AS they pro-
ceeded down the lane to Clark's, some
one of the Vests, either Bushrod or
Steve, shouted that Shelton need not
take Moore away as they intended to
kill him before he left the place and i'm
mediately one of them fired a gun at
them, without effect however. After
Moores wounds had been dressed at
Clark's house, he proposed to Shelton to
90 back home to Barboursville, which
they proceeded to do. And on their
way home as they were passing Vests
house which was on their road to Bar
boursylle-Steve West said to Moore
among other insulting things, that he
was a son of b-h, ID coward
and liar, and dared him to come over
the fence. Moore made an Intellectual at
tempt to get over the fence, but Shelton
called upon West to be quiet and not at
tempt to renew the quarrel as he and
Moore were going home. A man named
Bartlett was also then along with
Moore and Shelton. Steve West did not
mind Shelton, however, but repeated
the language used, and Moore, burning
under the insults and taunts of West
and being of an impulsive and fearless
nature, bounded over the fence with re-
volver in hand. West was standing be.
hind the corner of his log house-the
logs not having been sawed off stuck
out beyond the house,-with musket
in his hand at the time. AS Moore
touched the ground inside the fence,
Steve West fired musket loaded with
heavy shot at him, seven balls of which
penetrated his lungs. Without saying
a word, Moore leveled his revolver and
fired twice at West, the first entering
one of the corners of logs behind which
he was standing, directly in front of his
breast. The second time Moore shot,
his hand dropped toward the ground,
the ball entered the ground a few feet
in front of him, he turned slowly
around, put one foot over the fence,
which was only three rails high, and
fell forward heavily upon the ground.
Shelton and Bartlett went to him but
he was dead. He never spoke after he
was shot. Bushrod West was present
with his brother and shouted to him to
shoot.
This is substantially the evidence as
elected before Esquire Rodgers at the
examination of Stephen and Bushrod
West, whe was arrested on the 18th
inst, charged with the murder of
Moore. The examination after being
protracted through two days resulted
in committing the parties to Jail, to
await trial at the next term of the Cir
cult Court.
L. T. Moore, of Kentucky, and 7. B..
Kline appeared in behalf of the State,
and o. S. Collier for prisoners.