The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1870-08-03


lapse Of time. The Coroner in tho Nathan
C'Isc seems IN have erred IN the opposite
extreme. He went to the house and
examined but one witness, and that ones
evidence was so loosely recorded that the
record Of It Is disputed as wholly inc0m.
plete and unreliable. He ought at least
iollavc had the state Of facts US they ex.
isted in the room where the murder &C.
Cured, ascertained with chemical and
microscopic tests, and exact measure.
mcnts, and 10 have ELECTED on the spot,
from every inmate in the house, the fullest
record Of all they had done and said, and
where they had been for Of least the day
before the night Of the tragedy. Instead
of this tho blood stains were washed oil,
the position Of tho articles In the room
shifted, and everything done that could
trace the beginning Of the clues, which
could lead to the discovery Of the MUIR
derer. The keys Of the deceased even
were lefl In possession Of the tnmily; the
contents Of the down town safe were re-
signed to the charge Of the inmates Of the
house where the murder occurred. With
no evidence oil entry or exit ofany stranger
the coroner and police choose 70 assume
the inpoGsibiitics Of a murder being done
by any Of the people who alone as yet arc
proven to have been insthe house at the
time il was done. III ,..l.,,.
"The Bufdell case was botched badly
enough, but there the authorities were not
not tatuOuS enough TO let Mrs. Cunning
ham take possession Of Burdclls papers
and effects. Here Is a case in which, like
that, tho mode Of killing points 10 the
murderer rs tho intention oil the assassin.
Personal vinlictivneSs seems almost neces'
sarily implied In this case as in that by
the repeated SupertIuouSlys howered blows
and injuries; and yet other hands than that
OF the law have been allowed 10 examine
and dispose Of the dead mans papers, In
which alone, If he had a secret enemy, or
If any one had u motive for getting him
out Of the way, the clue To that persons
identity would have been followed. The
murderer was no skilled and practiced
burglar.
1.-THE police profess 10 think 1t was o
lOAfer Or vagrant Conccaling himself In
the house, surprising it to be empty. Such
Il man, hearing one person after another
enter the house uud retire.to rest, would
have been fearful Of being overpowered by
the three or four men he knew TO be on the
premises. They say now that the walls
were deadened, and the Shrieks Of the
victim could not be heard in the other
rooms; but the stray loafcr would
not know that he need not expect the
sllrieks and blows TO bring every
inmate in the house upon him. He
would either fly the moment he heard
the old man getting out Of bed or the mo.
ment the first blow elected the first Shrek.
How could a stranger dare O to remain
there, neutrality-suspicious. blows on the
already stunned victim, and then coolly
rumaging the room for plumber? This
murder was done by man who did not
at first want 10 kill Mr.. Nathan, or lie
would have killed him in his bed, but who
did want not only to stun him and escape,
but TO kill him sure and safe. after Mr..
Nathan had not merely seen but recog-
nized him. Was there any more robbery
done than was needful to throw suspicion
upon providing plundercr! The Coro-
ners stupidity in allowing the traces Of
the conflict to be effaced and the papers
Of the deceased to be explored by other
eyes than the laws, has probably placed
the criminal safe from all penalty, but
present popular suspicion and future dI.
vine vengence. "The water closet and
pipes in Nathan's house arc being torn
out in search for the watch and dia-
monds OF Mr.. Nathan. This is done on
the theory that the son or some one In the
house had thus disposed 9th jewels after
numbering the father, so as TO remove the
evidence from themselves and create the
suspicion that plumber was the object OF
the murder.
Cor. Of Gin. Enquirer.
1t was ascertained Mt tho funeral, this
morning, that Washington Nathan, acting
under the advice Of his uncle, Judge Car.
doz, of the Supreme Court, will, immc-
diately after the seven days mourning are
over, cause the arrest Of the person who
wrote the article, and bring civil suit for
100000 damages against the proprictorS
Of the paper. He proposes to obtain a
verdict so heavy that the concern will
have to be sold and broken up forever, and
donate the proceeds to the Mount Sinai
Hospital. Tho most eminent legal talent
in the country Is so be employed, backed
by the wealth Of hundreds Of Hebrews, to
ruin forever tho Sunday Mercury, and to
furnish such All example that will prevent
hereafter the repetition Of the moral muir
der committed yesterday.