The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1870-03-25

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although his neck was not broken. He
did not struggle muclli and atleE hang
Ing some 90 minutes the doctors pro-
nounced life extinct; ind the body was
cut down and placed in tie coffin z
At two o'clock his body was taken to
the NJ. E. grave yard and buried.
Carr was born OF Sugar Hill, about
three miles East Of Wheeling, near the
CLAY Monument, March Q. 1916. he was
one of eight children. Three years after
his birth the family removed TO Woods
Run, and three years afterwards to Full
ton, couple Of years later to Centre
Wheeling, and still later the family lived
in the old jail, North Wheeling. Thomas
us he grew became quarrels0me boy,
constantly fighting and quarrellmg with
other boys on the streets. lie formed bad
associations, and when he began to work
was engaged with river men, brlckyard
hands and colliCrs lie says he was init.
mate with John Burns, who murdered
Mary MontOnic, and friendly with Myers,
his accomplicc; and TINT It WIS he who
gave the alarm Of the murder and showed
the police where Burns was hidden In
board pile. During Burns Imprisonment
he slipped him weapons and poison to kill
himself, but says Burns was "t0O coward.
" tO use them" Shortly after this the
family went 10 Belmont county, Ohio. p
When the rebellion broke out Carr en-
listed, at the age Of 10, in the 10th Ohio,
three months men, and was on duty in
West Virginia. lie rc.enllsted for three
years in the 18th Ohio, and upon the cx-
piratiOn Of his term enlisted again. His
whole career in the army, MS reCited by
himself, shows him to have been u sort Of
ticnd in human form, who riOtcd in every
species of crime 1t was possible to engage
in. He was a bud soldier, was frequently
under arrest, and twice sentenced to be-
shot for violating the regulations LII the
course Of his connection with the army he
took about u dozen lives, the most Of them
in cold blood. In all he seems to have
been guilty Of some fourteen or fifteen
Cold.6Ioodcd murders
He relates these without givinga single
date, either year or month, In which they
were pcrpetratcd, except in the caSe ofthc
murder Of Louisa Fox, for whose murder
he was executed. The first murder" he
relates took place near Grcenleaf Noun.
tain in Virginia, where he Ind wandered
away from his regiment for the purpose
of pilfering and doing oil the harm he
knew how. Ofthis murder he says, while
Lying in the woods one daya citizen tried
to arrest me. As he approached / rose
up and shot him through the left breast.
hurried away and left him to die. Next
day heard that he was dead" His next
effort was while Il prisoner at Columbus
S. c., where, he says, "a boy named Ed
ward Berringcr attempted to jOinthe Con.
fedcnte army, and our men found
Il out, and that night he was
strangled in our ROOM. I'm that
deed | was one OF the three prin.
cipal actors" During this time he had
been soldier in the sixteenth Ohio Vols.
When released from rebel prison lie went
to Columbus and Joined the 18th Ohio
Regulars and went TO Mississippi, where
in an engagement he shot rebel soldier,
and II short time ailcrward, while on
picket duty lie shot another. Alter his
time expired in the 18th Regulars, lie
Joined the 4lh V. Cavalry ind served his
time in it without doing anything worthy
Of special notice, except ut Clarksburg
shooting ut "AnniC Whnlen," who seems
to he his heroine. Hc afterwards enlisted
in tho 1SOth Ohio Regiment, ind while
near Rock Hill, Belmont county, hunting
q (lcsertcr where lie lcvcled his revolver
at Dr.. L. Voorhees, for intimating that he
was not doing just right in arrcSting the
man. TDr. Voorhees, says that this is not
true lie didn't shoot however. He was
in tic battle of franklin in which he
says: ~ feel certain (thOugh | wish |
could nOO tint l shot two men," after
which he robbed their dead bodies Of
whatever Of value he could find. His
next murder was when on tho march to
Wilmington. North Carolina, which he
relates rs follows: "Whilc OH that tramp
VIC lind u desperate little fight ut Wtse's
Forks, during which was crOuChed be-
hind pine log, when rebel Sergeant
came up In front; did not sec me; shot
him." = = ~ examined tho wound as
piltcrcd Ills clothes" His next feat was
in shooting a soldier Of the S4th Ohio
Regiment, who he was placed to guard,
and who made I'M attempt to escape. lie
was then zone Of the leaders Of II gang Of
eleven that rushed into suffers shop,
and killed the owner by stamping him to
death"
Tic says he was one Of Is who burned n
house and outraged girl in North Caro-.
lima, and lcll her for dead. While guard
ing house he shot q man near Raleigh,
for attempting to break into q smoke.
house. lie threw colorcd waiter over
board, when on n vessel from MorllCad
city to Fortress Monroe. Afterwards in
Baltimore he cut mans bowels out, for
attempting 10 put him of a street car for
not paying his fire. lie also killed n man
at Newark, Ohio, by throwing bottle at
him, which struck him on the head and
split his skull This was an act of pure
wantOnnGsS, The man was stranger tO
him, and was standing on the platform
Just as train load Of soldiers was starting.
Carr jumped on the trNin and 1t was never
known who did the deed.
lie avOws himself to have been one Of
the murderCrS of Ulrich, who was muir
dercd and robbed beyond the HcmpGcll
Tunnel, for whose murder Joseph Eisele,
alids John ShalFGr wus hung at ParkGrs.
burg. This WIS after Cars return from
tho army. His own account Of 1t is the
following:
THE MURDER OF ULRICH.
I returned to Wheeling, and said
would never run Oh the river again; antl
never hive. Hired first with James
Sweeney, in the briCk-yard, then with
James BOdlcy, and worked for the Inter
until MGy. | disSipAtCd ut night. Early
one morning | was walking out of town,
when met, near the glass.house, Joseph
Eiscle-hc CHILLED himself John Shader
thcn-who had n "blrd he wanted to