The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1870-03-24
THOMAS D. CARR.
THE MURDERER TO Be HUNG TODAY
Some Particulars Of His Life.

Thomas David Carr, who is today to
expiate bis crimes on the gallows at st
Clairsvilie, Ohio, is. if he is to believed,
one of the greatest man-slayers ever
born in this or any other country. He
has made q confession, written by Mr.
A. r. Miller, and pubi>hed by J. Fl.
Heaton & Co., of st. ClairsviIls, in
which he copfesses to being the perpe
traitor of fourteen cold. blooded murders
aud FIVE unsuccessful attempts to take
life, before the killing of Louisa C. Fox,
Tor which he is to suffer the death pen
atty. Through the courtesy of friend
We ara enabled to present the following
synopsis of
HIS LIFE.
He was born at Sugar Hill, Marshall
county, near the Clay monument, some
five miles east of Wheeling, on the
9Th of March, 1916, and was the fourth
son of family Of FIVE boys and three
girls. When about three years old be
moved with his father, William Car,
to Woods ruo, this county. Iu lS49 CT
1850 the family msved to Fulton and
afterwards to Centre Wheeling. From
there they moved to the old jail proper.
ty in North Wheeling. Here Carr com
menced work in brickyard. In 1854
he was sent on the chain gang by Squire
Dulty in default of paying IS and costs.
He was quite intimate with John II
Burns, who murdered Mary MontoDie,
and who was afterwards hung at zion.
athan's Gut" and with Oscar Myers,
who was sent to the penitentiary for
being an accomplish in that murder.
He says that he raised the alarm of that
murder and showed the police where
Burns was hid in board pile. Outing
the time of Burns imprisonment he
slipped him poison and tools, but says
he twas too cowardly to use them"
Just before the time of the breaking
out Of the war Carr moved with his
father family to Belmont county, Ohio,
and in 1862 he joined Company c, 10th
Regiment Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and
was in the battles of Phillip, Rich
Mountain, Laurel Hill and Bull Pasture
Mountain, and boasts of having left his
regiment aud perpetrated murders,
rspes and robberies that stamp him the
iend he is. He was finally captured
and held as prisoner of war at Libby
prison and while there managed to kill
three persons.
After being discharged from the ser
vice he retained to Wheeling, after, as
be admits, numbering street car driver
in Baltimore, and killing negro roust
about on the steamer HIllmau by SHOW
ing some heavy barrels on him, and
hired with James Sweeney in the bIick
yard, and afterwards with James Bod
ley, with whom be remained until May,
1867. He was walking out of town one
morning, and when near the East
Wheeling glass house he met Joseph
Eisele, alias John Shaffer, who signed
for Carr to 20 with him. When they
got little way beyond the Hempticld
tunnel, Shatfer dropped behind the
other man, whose name was U rich, and
struck him in the head with a Ratchet.
Carr finished the bloody deed by mash
ing the unfortunate Uirich's head In
with large stone. He aud Shaff,r si.
vided the murdered mans property,
Carr taking lot of gold francs and
SEINE paper money, and Sbatfer taking
a trunk full of clothes belonging to him.
He SAYS that when he heard that ShaffeT
had been hung aud made a confession,
Though he did not hear it until after
his own arrest for the murder of Miss
Foxy it made his knees tremble for fe IT
Shatfer had implicated him. They com
mitted this murder he says about the
first of July, 1867, and the body was
found on the 9TH Of the same month.
He was very much afraid he would be
detected at the time of the coroner's in
quest, but was not even suspected.
On the Monday After this murder he
went about his work as usual, but the
matter pr, yed upon his mind so that, 10
use his own language, 81 thought l
would 60 to church and see if | could
not get some consolation" He soon
after joined the Zane Street Methodist
Episcopal Church, then Rev. Mr.. Balls
charge. Growing restless and uneasy,
and f arful that be would let something
drop in his sleep, he determined to leave
Wheeling. From Wheeling he went to
Sewel'sville, Belmont county, where he
committed the crime for which he is to
answer with his life,
THE MURDER OF LOUISA C. FOX.
While working with his bTother-in-
law, digging coal, Carr became acqaint-
ed with Louisa C. Fox, q remarkably
beautiful girl, only fourteen years old
He seemed to have fallen violently in
love with her from the first, and by
every means in his power exerted him
self to win her affections. In this he
was successful, and they were finally
ensay ed to be married.
by and by Iumors came to the girls
friends of Cars lawlessness, and that
he was already married, and they set
themselves to break off the match. FL
ualiy, Louisa's father told Carr that the
girl was too young to marry, and that If
he would wait for her two years he
might have her. Then and there he first
,esolved 10 kill her if she did not marry
bin.
On Thursday, January 2lst, 1869. he
seems to have made up his mind to take