The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1873-10-29

the top of the frat stairway It appears that
Mr., Clary emerged from o recess at the
other end of the landing, ten or fifteen
feet from Mr.. Resley, he having just
come down from the composing room
OF the office, in the third story. Here
the shooting took place, the first shot TAX
| ing effect IN the LETT side Of Mr.. olary's
neck, the ball going through to the right
aide and cutting in It's passage the thyroid
artery on the left side, and the windpipe
and the carotid artery on the right. Mr..
Clary must hR11Athen turned around, as
the second sh ed Immediately after
the first, took effect on his right side, the
ball striking the posteriof angle OF the
eleventh rib and glancing upward and
forward traversed the rib, lodging at It's
anterior angle. This wound was insig-
nifcant, and would not necessarily have
produced serious results-the first having
been the fatal one. There were no wit
nesses 10 the shooting, although MIR. Brad
ley, standing OF the foot Of the stairs, saw
Mr.. Resleys In the act OF firing. Some
hours before his death, however, Mr.. Clary
made statement to ]. N. Beall, Esq,
Justice OF the Peace, which Dir. Beall,
acting under the advice oi Judge Pearre,
has declined to make public. In the
meantime we refrain from giving the dit-
ferent versions OF 1t that arc current as
they are widely different. ~ : ~.
Immediately after the last shot MIR.
Resley came down the stairs and crossed
rapidly over to the other side Of the street,
where he remained for about five min
utes, when he was approached by officer
Magruder, Of the city police, OF whom he
inquired II he was wanted. The officer
replied in the affirmative, and Mr.. Resley
accompanied him to the office OF Justice
Strong. MIR. Resley waived an examina.
ton and was committed to Jail. A con-
siderable crowd gathered around Mr.
Resley, while he stood on the street. He
was very pale, and much excited, and
moved about nervously. He did not seem
inclined to converse, and several times re.
buffed persons who spoke to him.
On receiving the second wound MIR.
C,ary went up the stairs leading 10 the
composing.room and Mr.. T. L. Darnell's
Photographic gallery, situated on the same
floor, and entering the gallery he fell or
laid down on the floor, bleeding profnsely,
Some OF tho attaches Of the office, attrac.
ted by the firing, came from the compos:
ing.room, met Mr.. Clary ut the head OF
the stairs, and assisted him into the GAL
lery, while others went after surgical aid.
Drs. Ohr and Dougher,y soon arrived,
and upon examination lot Mr.. Clary'sl
wounds pronounced the ono In. the neck
fatal. The wounded man, evidently sui
iering very much, but fully conscious, was
lying in the middle oi the floor. Fathers
Brennan and Ryan, Of St. Patrick's Cath.
olic Church, having been requested 70 do
so, visited Mr.. Clary, and at his request
to him the rite OF baptism.
kilograms were at once sent to his
family at Frostburg. His father, Alden
Clay, ESQ, arrived here at about half
past three, having ridden from Frostburg
In little over an hour. Bis mother, sis
ter and three brothers arrived later in the
afternoon. ...57pL 70 .Nt4EE.s
About three o'clock Mr.. Clary was re-
moved on stretcher TO the City Hotel,
where he was constantly surrounded BY
quite q number Of friends, some OF whom
had repaired to his side soon after he was
shot, remaining with him until his death.
Early in the afternoon his sight ttailed him,
through loss of blood, and from this time
he sank gradually until he died at s:52
o'clock, about seven hours after the shoot
ing. W %" - - '''>4
Mr.. Clary was thirty.one year.. of age.
He was born in Frostburg, IN this county,
and lived there until the breaking out Of
the late civil war, when he entered the
Confederate army, and served under Cap.
tain Mcneil until tho close of thestruggle,
after which he resided at Frostburg and Of
q farm in Pennsylvania belonging to bis
father, until June, 1870, when he came 10
this city. ''''' E !. ,-..e.s p" '' '7'f