The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1869-01-29
THE EELnoxT CoUNTYTRADGEDY
Brutal HARDER OF Girl Fourteen
Years OF Age.
The Murderer Attempts SeIr-Destruc-
tIOn.

The Murderer attempts SeII"DeStEuc"
tIOn.
From the belmont Chronicle Of Yesterday.
On last Thursday afternoon between
3 and o'clock, one ofthe most startling
and remarkable murders was commit
ted in Kirkwood township, in this cOun-
ty, that was ever perpetrated in any
| country, and has caused in the immedl-
ate neighborhood of the crime more
Intensely excited state of public feeling
than has ever before, within our knowl-
edge, existed in this section of the coun-
try. The circumstances connected with
the affair SO far as we have been able
to gather them are as follows:
The murdered girl, Louisa Fox, not
vet ii years OF age, had been living at
i Alexander Hunters, near Sewelsville,
and about two miles from her fathers
residence. Thomas Carr, the perpetra-
tor of the fiendish crime, had been for
some time digging coal for Mr.. Hunter.
Carr and the Fox family had been on
intimate terms, and while residing with
Hunter he made proposals OF marriage
TO Miss Ox,Swhich were by her declin-
ed. Carr then went to her parents and
desired them to interfere and compel
their daughter to marry him. Mrs. Fox
told him the girl was to young TO mar
rv, that he had no means to support
her, and advised him TO go to work and
save his money and at the end OF two
wears if he WAS frugal and Industrious
She would have no objection to their
marriage. This Carr received as an in
} suit and after some threats left the
house, Mr.. Fox thinking it best for the
daughter TO come home sent her little
brother for her. The girl and boy start
/ ed for home on foot but were soon joined
by Carr, who had been lying in wait
for theui. The little boy says that Carr
and his sister walked along together
talking in h subdued tone till they arrlV-
ed at the house OF their grand fnther and
there the sister and himself stopped in
10 avoid Carr. They shortly afterwards
started again for home and while on the
wuV the sister informed him that Carr
had threatened to kill her, and in mo-
. ment after they observed Carr standing
in the fence corner ahead of them, when
they came up Carr fell in company with
} his sister and walked on down the road
together, talking in low tone, he, the
, boy, following close behind them. When
thew were within Il short distance OF
I their fathers house the boy says Carr
: took hold of his sister roughly pushing
her across ditch in the road and throw
| ing her against bank, held her with
one hand and with the other took some-
thing from his coat pocket. The boy
frightened by the cries OF his sister
1 started for home as fast as he could run
for help, calling to his father as soon as
he reached the house that !om Carr
was up the road killing Louisa. The
father and boy soon returned to the
scene Ofthe unequal conflict but too late
/, to rescue the girl, as the murderer nau
consulnated his bloody purpose and was
making n hasty escape across the fields;
but what sight met his eyes as he
turned them toward the place where
his daughter lay in the gutter where
| she had been trampled by the hend
after life was extinct. Her throat and
neck cut until her head was uDjointed
from her body her breast cut in diner
hor ufnn0a0h Rnt oman.
her arms and wrist nearly severed from
) her / .dy, on which there were fourteen
Cuts or CasheS made with razor ana
her clothes torn and covered with muo,
as il she had been kicked and trampIed
after her murder.
sembled, and the girl removed to the
home of her parents, it was dark and
, too late to pursue the murderer WIN
any hope OF his arrest, and the pursuit
was deferred until next morning: He
in the meantime, as appears from state
!. nents of neighbors and his own ad-
missions, deliberately Travelled across
the neiGhbOrinE hills about two miles,
to the residence of Nathan Young where
: he borrowed gun from MRS. hounR'
whose husband was not at nome, 10
shoot a rabbit as he told her, ana then
retracinp his steps returned to the scene
of the murder, secreting himself among
! the-corn fodder and part the time in the
coal bank OF Mr.. Fox. During the
. night he went to the house where the
murdered girl lay, and looked IN ,nle Inc
window while the Coroner's jury were
engaged in holding the inquest. After
the crowd dispersed for the might
he went to the spring-house Of
Mr.. Fox and remained near II
s. until about daylight, when he
took the gun and placed tne ,H. nue. ~ ~
II closed to his breast, to deaoen the
report as he said, and In that position
discharged it. The ball just missed the
v heart, passed through the left lung ano
lodged in his shoulder. This did mol
:, prove fatal, and he went to work 10 re
load the gun, out when Ne aiao Hao .So tae raI11
about half way down he broke the ram
, rod and could not complete the load
,, ing. He then, about sunrise, took
shoe knife from his boot and drew \
across his throat, cutting his neck pau
ly and nearly severing the Juglar vein
Mr.. Fox, on opening his door IN th'
morning. discovered the wretch LOOKING
around the corner of the spring house
and raised the alarm. a crowd soof
= gathered and arrested the exhausted
and nearly dead murderer, who wa:
taken to the house of Daniel Mumma
where he received medical attention
and had his wounds dressed by Drs
Lindsey, MCPHERSON, Mcconnell ant
Strahl. At last accounts he was still
er living with some prospect-thougi
NJ very little-Of recovery.
Vi The girl was of respectable out poo
narents. and has sustained a goot
character.
The murderer, Thomas Carr Is abou
twenty-four years of age, low IN stat
ure and strongly built, with Pnysioe
n n nomy that indicates hard heaFteI
unretined, debased nature.
We have many rumors of the confess
ion of several previous murders-tW
in the army and one Of woman