Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1873-11-04
TRAGEDY in CUMBERLAND.

TRAGEDY LIN CUMBERLAND.
Fun Particulars of Tie Klzz,ng of .Hr. q. T..
CARY 5y -Ns. .Joa,. u. Resssy- 4sNe,eh OF.
tie Deceased Tie Gorones,s Laguest-
Terdietsef The Jury
The Cumberland papers of Tuesday contain
full accounts % the shooting OF Mr. L.. IL
sClary, editor of the Cumberland Times. bv
Mr. John n. Resley, Assistant Collector of
{ Tolls of the Chesapeake and Ohio Ganal Com
spany, at that port. The Times anpounces
tue death of Mr. Clary in q: feeling editorial
In the account Of the shooting. it says:
We cannot close this article without giving
vent to some of the feelings which an ont
ragged community displays st this cowardly
and Infamous assassination of a brave and
fearless gentleman. It may have been the
work of coola deliberate conspiracy. or
1t may have been simply the gcowardly deed of
degraded and blood thirsty outlaw. hunting
his victim to a trap, and shooting him down
in a moment of unconsciousness This ia a
matter to be investigated hereafter Hovey
or it will fail in its intention. The mantle of
Lloyd Z. glary will fall upon shoulder,
worthy to wear it, and the Times will not be
suerved one jot or tittle from its course by the
fear of the pistol of the desparado or the knife
Of the assassin, no matter what influences NAV
hedge around them. -
The -Ne.cs says: We are no excuser. of
Mr. Clary's conduct of his newspaper, out
of which the affair grew which cost him his
life, but we do say that his course, however
provocative it may have been but poorly pre-
pared. OF Mr.. Resley We prefer rot to speak
at length. He has taken upon his hands the
blood of a human being, and will have to an.
swer at the bar of justice for the offense. a
riolater OF the law, he will in cooler moments.
realize the awful position which he has as
sumed.
The following details of the shooting, which
occurred about o'clock P. NJ. on Monday
of last week, are taken from the Ne,cs:
Yesterday morning there appeared in the
Times the following editorial article which
We publish, as without it no account of the
shooting would be wholly Ineligible to our
readers:
Considerable inquiry obtains among the
public as to the calculation of the Clerk of
the Court in arriving at the amount of costs
due the taesmen summoned on the Lear case
from several districts in the country. The
talesmen from Lnnaconing were paid IS so
each I; those from Frostburg 81 so, 1.-The Clerk
taking the trouble to tell them in Conrt to 90
down to the Office and get their certificates
while those from Mount Savage and the
country districts were allowed to 90 without
being paid at all. and without receiving any
ln.'mation from anybody that anything was
due them, The taesmen at Homecoming and
frostbnrs were severaly summoned after
seven o'clock on Thursday evening. Thew
"A m IN tun horlo tlo
lett in the afternoon. thus losing but one day
Take the case of Homecoming. the talesmen
from which district received eight dollars and
a>half each. The distance from that point
TO Cumberland, by rail- the longest route. is
twen.y>six miles. The law allows mileage at
the rate of twenty-five cents per mile one
way upon all distances over FIVE miles. There.
fore. the mileagesupon twenty>one miles
should have been 1925. which. added TO the
per diem, $3.50, makes 81 .25 the sum these
talesmcn shond have been paid Again. the
distance from Frostburg to Cumberland, by
rail- is seventeen miles; FIVE of would leave
twelve, which would give the Fros,burs men
s.: as mileage. Ada this TO their per diem
$3.50, and we have So so as tho sum due. in
stead of 'S4.60, the amount received As be-
fore remarked, the men from Mount Savage
and the country districts were allowed to 90
without being paid. In the case of I.onacon-
ing the money was handed over to MIR. Pat
rick Mullen, an earnest satellite of the press
ent incunIbents. for distrbution-all of which
gives rise to considerable Comment"
bout two o'clock yesterday afternoon John
NJ. Resey, ESQ, eldest son Of Colonel Hnr>
ace Resley, Clerk of the Circnit Court for
Ailegany county. met John Brovdrick ,SEso
one of the proprietnrs and editors of the
no ~ RI,
streets, when shor, conversation took Mace.
during which Mr.. Rcsley asked MIR Brow
drick whether he had written the article pro-
duced above, Mr.. Broydrick replying that he
was not the political editor of tho Times. and
had not written it. After some further re-
marks Mr.. Resley went down the street, Mr..
Broydrick going into the store of s. F. Me-
Bride d Co., across the street. Going at
once to the entrance to the Times Office. Mr..
Resley met Mr.. Bradley. collector for the pa.
per, OF whom he inquired if Mr.. Clary were
in the Office. Mr. Bradley replied in the af-
firmative, and Mr.. Resley went up the steps
jus. as ne reached the top of the first stair,
way it appears that Mr. Clary emerged from
recess at the other end OF the landing. ten
or fifteen feet from Mr.. Resley, he having
just come down from the CONFUSING room Of
the Office, in the third story. Hereth shoot,
ing took place, che first shot taking effect in
the left side of Mr.. Cary's neck. the ball
going through to the right side and cutting
inSits passage the thyroid artery on the Left
eide. and the windpipe and the carotid artery
on the right Mr.. Clary must have then
turned around as the second shot, fred i'm
mediately after the first. took effect on his
right.side, the ball striking the posterior an
gle of the eleventh rib, and glaucing upward
and forward traversed the rib lodging at it's
anterior angle. This wound was insignificant.
and would not necessarily have produced se-
rious rcsults-the first having been the fatal
one Immediately after the last shot Mr..
ResleY came down the stairs and nrnssnd r.n>