The States and Union. [volume] (Ashland, Ohio) 1868-1872, 1870-10-19
Murder In Cleveland.


We take the following account Il
the murder of DR.. Jones from the
Cleveland Plain Dealer of Saturday
Doctor w. H. Jones, a young and
prominent physician OF CleveInnd,
fatally .hot at an early hour this fore.
noon, on the West Side, by q young
dentist, named J. F. Galentine. The
following article which appeared ID
the Leader, of the 9Th inst. is suppos-
ed 10 state the causes which led to
the fatal deed:
We received yesterday m anony
nous letter relating to q most outra-
geous proceeding, In which a promi-
nent physician of Cleveland figures as
the leading character, referring to a
we'll known lawyer for the truth of the
statement. AS the person we referred
to verified the truth OF the affair, we
give below q few of the particulars,
leaving out the names of the parties
interested.
1t seems that a certain physician of
this city took advantage OF the absence
of the husband Of q lady, who resides
in the same house, to ingratiate him
self into her good grace, asking her
on several occasions to 60 out and
ride with him, and otherwise paying
attention to her. His invitations, so
persistently offered, were as persistent
ly declined, on the ground that it was
not proper. She also gave him to
understand that his attentions were
anything but agreeable to her ! but
still he continued, and finally his con
duct resulted in q most outrageous
and villainous proceeding.
BY some unknown means he OBJ
tanned a key to the door Of the apart
ments occupied by the lady, and one
night on his return home he entered
the room after she had retired. Her
first impression when he spoke was
that burglars had broken 10. but a
second time she recognized the voice,
and Immediately sprang out Of bed,
putting on a loose dress and retiring
toward the door of an adjoining room
of which she had the key. Entering
the room she locked the door on the
inside. thus preventing her pursuer
from accomplishing his villainous pur-
pose. Enraged by this the Doctor
commenced pounding at the door en-
deavoring to break it down, but be-
ing afraid of attracting the attention
of other parties in the house, he was
finally obliged to relinquish the pros
ecution of his design, and retreat to
his own apartment, which was Just
across the hall. The lady informed
her husband of the offence. after his
return, who called on the doctor 10
ask an explanation of his conduct
He denied the whole, and further, in
timated that il he was in the lady's
chamber, it was not without invita-
ton, thus adding insul, to injury.
Criminal proceedings were mstltu-
ted by the husband, and to-day the
case will be brought before an exam
lining magistrate, when of course the
names will be made known.
Doctor Jones was shot In the i'm
mediate vicinity of his Office. He oc-
cupied a suit of three rooms, on the
second floor of the Foot's Block, stu
ated or the corner of Pearl and De-
troit streets, West side. There was
a pleasant sitting room, an Office and
a bed room. The sitting room was
in the north west corner, looking out
upon Pearl and Detroit streets The
Office and bed room faced Detroit
street.-the former the middle apart
ment. Mr.. William Donaldson, q
cousin of the deceased, came to Cleve
land a few days ago fran Parkman,
Geauga county, to attend the fair ;
he has been rooming with the doctor.
Last night two more relatives of the
deceased, viz :, Hiram and Augustus
Moore of Nelson and Parkman, staid
at his apartments. They occupied
the bedroom, Doctor Jones and Dom
aldson sleeping on a letdown lounge
in the sitting room The Moores left
on an early train, before the shooting
took place.
Doctor Jones and his cousin arose
between six and seven o'clock. After
putting on his pants, and shoes, and
backing the latter, the doctor left on
a moments GRAND, leaving Donaldson
in the act of completing his toilet
Suddenly the sharp report Of a pistol
was heard, and the next instant the
hall door was opened, and Jones,
swinging in, closed it hurriedly.-
Dropping a coat which he was brush.
ing, Donaldson sprang forward with
the Observation-Disclosures are you
shot" 81 don't know" was the re-
ply. He then staggered towards the
sitting room, when, as he was in the
act of falling. he was seized by the
cousin, and q man named Oldroid,-
student of the deceased-who had
just arrived, and carried TO the bed.
He groaned once OF twice, but was
evidently unconcious from an instant
after being wounded. In about eight
minutes life was extinct. A messen'
ger was at once dispatched for the
two brothers of the deceased who
were temporarily stayin' on the heights
and they were quickly at the scene Of
the tragedy. nai 1-.
AS we before stated, Doctor j. +.
Galentine. did the deed. The Doc.
tor is about thirty years old. He is .
g~ood.looking man, complexion and
hair light, and sports a moustache.-
He is a dentist by profession, and al.
so has an Office In Foot's Block-sit.
uated on the second floor, fronting
Pearl street His Office door is near
the first landing, at the head of the
stairs, almost directly across the way
from DIR. ,Jones' Office The fatal
shot must have been fired in the hall
but the immediate circumstances OF
| the murder have not come to light