The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1869-01-29

some time in her family. n 1t appear
that Carr desired to marry Miss Fox
but had been refused by her parents Of
account of her extreme youth, she beinl
only fourteen years old.
On Sunday Thomas Carr, the murderer
made written confession, and we give
below the substance of what led him tx
commit the terrible deed:
On the day the crime was committed
Carr visited the girl at Alexander Hun
ter's, and conversed with her for nearly
half an hour. On this occasion she men
toned to him the hopelessness of his
suit, at which he appeared greatly dis
tressed, syowing his intention to com
nit suicide. He asserts that up to this
time he had no intention of taking heI
life, and did not come to that conclu.
sion untilabout three hours before the
deed was committed. While conyers.
ing, the girl assisted him to draw some
cider, of which he drank three pints
In view of his intended suicide Carr
procured razor at Hunters house. He
then left and went to Sewellsville
where he obtained shoe-knife, which
he intended to use if anything else
failed him. His first desire, however,
was to procure Q gun and accomplish
his purpose with it, but after one OF
two attempts he failed to borrow one.
About one o'clock Carr started from
Sewellsville, his intention being, he
says, to visit FoX's and and see if there
was not yet a chance of procuring their
consent to his marriage with Lsuise
While on his way there he saw the OBJ
iect of his insane passion coming down
the road, accompanied by her little
brother. When she came up he Joined
her. By this time his dreadful purpose
had become firmly fixed in his mind
During the short walk the girl told him
that her grandmother. whose house she
had Just left, had told her that her pa
reHts had determined that she should
never keep his company again. The
reply of Carr was that "he guessed
both of them had short time to live"
adding the query: Louise, are you
prepared" to which she responded, ~
am," and Immediately after her reply
he pushed her down and drew out the
razor which he had hitherto kept con.
cealed in his pocket, and proceeded to
cut her throat. The girl threw up her
hands, which were fearfully gashed in
the struggle. 1t appears that she did
not make an cutlery or plead for her
life, so rapidly was the deed consun-
mated. Subsequent examination showed
that the victims head was nearly sew
cred from her body, though the spinal
column was not, as some supposed, di-
vided.
It would be hard to fad in that i'm.
mediate neighborhood a more public
place than the spot where the deed was
done. Three farm houses are within
plain view of it-none of them being
farther off than quarter of mile.
After seeing his purpose accomplish
ed, Carr walked up the hill in the
direction of Sewellsville, getting out of
sight Just as the father Of the murdered
girl, who had received the alarm from
the boy, came up. The guilty man,
who had irrevocably determined on
suicide by shooting himself, had gone
in search of a gun, venturing boldly
into Sewellsville-the news of the crime
not having reached there at that time.
After some failures, he procured a rife
at the house of family named Frissell.
After this he proceeded by a round
about course to the coal bank, which
was about two hundred yards from
John Fox's, the home of the murdered
girl, and where her body then was. He
passed the night in the coal bank, occa-
sionally walking some distance out into
the field; but what was most surprising,
he even ventured to the front of the
house and looked in at the window,
watching the neighbors preparing the
body of the murdered girl for burial.
We doubt if the annals of crime can af-
ford scene more grotesquely horrible
than the picture of THO wretch, actu-
fed nv morbid and unnatural curissi
ty, stealing amid the darkness and ST.
lence of the night to lock, himself IN
seen, on the mangled corpse of his vic
tim!
When day broke he repaired to Fo1's
spring. house and proceeded to make ar
rangements for taking his own life. He
cooked the gun, tied a string to the trig
ger, passed it over the end of rafter,
and then, by pushing the gun from him,
discharged its contents into his left
breast. The ball passed through the
outer and upper portion of the left lung.
Thinking that the shot would not fin
ish him, he then proceeded to sever his
windpipe by drawing the edge of the
shoe. knife several times across his
throat. As soon as this was done he
heard the shouts of his pursu-
ers, the father of the muir
dered girl having himself dis
covered Carr standing near the
spring house. Daniel Mamma, at whose
house Carr is now lying, was the near
est person to him, an at Mammals re.
quest he threw the rife down the hill,
and Mamma went up to him and arrested
him. When he was arrested he had the
boldness to ask to be taken into the
house where the dead girl lay. This, of
course, her parents refused.
On Sunday Carr's wounds were dress
ed by DR.. McConnell-there being pres
ent at the time Doctors Mcpherson,
Lindsay and Strahl.
The chances are that Carr will not
recover frsm his wounds. A powerful
forms a good Offset in his
favor.
r=At T. NJ. Porter's can be found the