The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1872-02-28
wETZEL COUNTY.
Dreadful Brutality of n Father
Towards His BOy--Fienlish Cruel
tY-.AlmoSt a Murder.

Dreadful Brutality of n Father
Towards His BOy.-Fienlish Cruel
tY--AlmoSt Murder.
Correspondence OF the Intclligenccr
Rock Run CANT, WErzEL Co., W. V, !
February 90, 1889. !
Spending short time among the hills
Of Wetzei, Monongalia and Greene, in a
part OF the country where timber is king,
and cross.tie, hoop pole, and stave timber
are members of the royal family, and see.
ing you do not have many correspondents
here, | drop you an Item. See
Rock Run Camp was all excitement last
week. A boy Of sixteen was missing;sup,
posed TO have been murdered by his faith,
er, who had been in tho habit OF using
him SO brutally that he had only the sizl
OF boy Of eighto ten. years. ScarcGlya
spot on his back or head but was SCARED
over; knots on his forehead; his neck dis.
figured by choking. A common occur.
renee was TO knock the boy down with a
handspike; pick him up 10 be knocked
down again. Neighbors had threatened
TO interfere, but all this cruelty and bru.
tality eliminated about ten days ago.
The father, Samuel Bogard, had sent
the boy TO bark so many cross ties, on
Saturday. 1t was more than he could do,
yet lie told his father, such was his fear OF
him, that he had finished. 1t was sup.
posed that he intended to slip ont ION
Sunday and finish them, but his father
was out first Monday morning his parents
gave tue alarm that the boy was missin, q
and in less than an hour they reported
him gone. Suspicious were aroused;
search was made, and blood was found on
the axe and by the side of the stream
which ran past the door. The floor
looked as if lately washed, an unusual
occurrence in this country. The children
were questioned and gave in some ugly
testimony: Boy knocked down." "b00l
heel in face" but shut up" from an elder
sister stopped this.
Some forty or fifty men are out search.
ing for the boy. The father kept telling
them they were hunting too near or too
far, and they never would find him until
he stunk, &c.
He was finally arrested, given trial
before justice, in which the above facts
with much other revolving testimony was
elected. lie had sworn he would give
the boy five minutes to repent then cut
his head oil, and that before ten on Mon.
day morning.
But the boy was found, he had gone tC
Cameron to relative, and was brought
back in cut and bruised condition. Bo
gard was released, when he immediately
swOrc he would kill the whole family. Hi
was again arrested, and l understand i!
in Jail for u year and a day, while hi!
family are in destitute and starving con
ditiOn. Yet no worse of than formerly
Indeed It is said this boy worked out tit
coolest days this winter, with nothing OF
but shoes pants and shirt, and nothing O
the latter but the collar. This is too Sc
rious for joke.
This man BOgard has q wife and five
or six children, living in cabin up m
unfrequented hollow, scarcely clothed
either winter or summer living on corr
bread and herb lea. When the wal
broke out he was serving n term in the
Richmond penitCntiary; was released to
serve term in the G. 5. army, which he
deserted TO serve in the Union army. lie
has some meritOriouS traits-is as geod
woOdsman as ! ever saw-would be the
delight of the Pathfinder, were he trust.
worthy. lie attributes his present con
duct 10 the inidclity of his wife. The
community do not sympathi1c with him
in this.
have given you facts rs near as can
ELECTED In the examination. Excuse the
length OF this item" which precludes
any general observations" at present from
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