The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1872-09-10

An ExrRAeRDlNAHY TRIAL.-One Of
the most extraordinary cases we have
ever listened to in our reportorial ex-
perience came OF yesterday before
Justice Forbes.
Our readers will remember that on
the 18th Of August Mrs. Fulstick. an
old German lady living in the Sixth
ward, telegraphed to Steubenville to
have John Frasure, Louisa Frasure and
Catherine Fulstick stopped and taken
from the train, she charging that Mr.
and Miss Frasure were running away
with her daughter. On the strength Of
the dispatch the parties were arrested at
the station above Steubenville. by
Squire Love, o! the latter
place, and returned to Wheeling.
Since that time the matter
has been kept quiet, until last Tuesday,
when Mrs. Fulstick went before Squire
Forbes and swore out warrants for the
arrest Of John Frasure. charging him
with sbducting her daughter Kate
from her fathers house for an illicit
purpose, and for breaking windows in
his (Frasure's) fathers house, and for
general disorder. She also charges that
George Frasure and Miss Louisa Frasure
enticed Kate Fulstick from her fathers
house in order that the brother John
might commit adultery with her. This
is about the extent Of the extraordinary
and complicated charge, and on it John
Frasure and his brother and sister were
arrested on Sunday last and gave bail
for their appearance yesterday.
The State made out pretty fair case
until the young lady who was abducted
was put upon the stand. She swore
that Frasure had never enticed her
away from Der fathers house; that, on
the contrary, he had told her he wac
married man and that he didn't want
anything to do with her; that when
they went away, the time the mother
telegraphed for and had them stopped,
she and Miss Lou. Frazure were going
on visit by themselves, and that John
didn't know anything about it until he
got over to Bridgeport on the afternoon
Of the day on which they left; that
when she was brought back she was
whipped by her mother until her back
was cut all to pieces, and that she was
then chained to the banisters by
her brothers and kept for four
days with insufficient food, and when
she attempted to leave them again be-
cause of their cruel treatment, she was
again chained up and kept so fastened
until Sunday night last She knew she
had acted indiscreetly, she said, but it
was because she wasn't treated right.
She vehemently denied that there was
any abduction in the case, because she
went away freely with Miss Lou. Fra
sure and not with John Frasure.
Mics Kate Fulstick is a rather hand
some looking, petite young lady, Of about
seventeen wears of age. She has a
sharp black eye and evidently has q
will of her own. The accused is q
young man not over twenty-five, we
should judge, who is said to have a
wife in Pittsburgh. He says that when
he got on the train at Bridgeport he
was going to Pittsburgh to work for the
purpose of breaking off with Miss Full
stick.
The Justice reserved his decision in
the case until this morning at 10
o'clock. R. G. Barr appeared on behalf
of the State and E. G. Cracraft for the
accused.
We have called this an extraordinary
case because it is the first time that we
ever heard mother swear that her
daughter was abducted and the daugh>
ter turn round and swear, in effect, that
no one was abducted at all, or if there
was that she abducted the other party.