The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1874-07-16
NrIaHBoRHooD NEWS.
BELLAIRE.

Pe,Is;,e nrocuring loaded revolver
and starting to the wharf boat, announe-
ing his intention to shoot one William
Lilly, and being prevented by Lilly
knocking the weapon out OF Hammond
hands From recent developments 1t
seems that Hammond has suspected for
some time that there wasya suspicious IN
! timacy existing between his daughter
and Lilly, who was married man on
| Saturday night, last week, Lilly TOOK
skitf belonging to Mr.. Hafer, grocer on
Water street, and in company with MISS
Jane Hammond, who met HIM snort
distance down the river, started Tor Ma
rietta, which place they reached Saturday
night or Sunday morning. On MONDAY
Mr. Hofer telegraphed to the chief oil po-
lice at Marietta to arrest Lilly and SEND
hack his skiff on Monday. The chief tel
egraphed back:
II have got Lilly, skiff and woman not
bis wife What shall lido with him?
I'D. TowNLY, City Marshal"
Hofer answered:
If Lilly pays charges of arrest ana
sends skit. hand him over to his wife,
who will be there on Monday night.
The skif' came back to MT.
Hofer this morning, with charges
of two dollars. Word also came that
Mrs. Lilly reached Marietta just one hour
after Lilly and Miss Hammond had lett
for Cincinnati, it is supposed, as their
/ baggage WAS marked for the Gault House
/ st that CITY. Miss Hammond has here
/ toforc been lady of irreprochable char
! acter. and member of the Presbyterian
| church. She is about twenty-siS years Of
age, good looking and intelligent. Lilly
/ is n man of large and commanding APP
/ pearance, about thirty-tive years OF age,
! and has had notorious bad character
for sometime past. He MARI ID his first
/ wife in Bridgeport and immediately lett
/ her. procuring divorce and marrying
his last wife in Cincinnati about year
ago. Much sympathy is expressed
| among the citizens for the friends of both
the guilty parties.
! SUSAN LANGLEY, whose escape from
| the Moundsville prison on Monday night,
rs noticed in this mornings paper, WAS
! arrested this morning by officer Drugah
at the Baltimore and ONO depot
| where she was waiting TO take the tram
/ to 20 to some friends about S:eubenville.
! In an interview We had with Susan
| Langley this morning she stated that she
/ WAS born on jefferson Davis plantation
near Richmond. where she lived until
the late war. During Hunters raid she
was taken from her master against her
will and brought north, where she has
lived ever since. For the last two years
she has kept house in Parkersburg and
| in last April a wealthy man came 10 her
and said he was going to clOpe with a
girl in that city, and if she would carry
a note to the girl and assist in the affair
he would pay her handsomely. lie gave |
her ten dollars as II retainer. In the
meantime Susan reconsidered the matter
and decided to have nothing 10 do with
the affair. intending torefund the money. |
The man being angry at the failure this
caused in his plans, had her arrested Tor
theft, stating the amount at large sum,
had her convicted and sent to Jail for
term oftwO years on the fifth OF April
last.
She saws there were four of them in
tended To get out of prison. They tore
up their blankets and bed clothes to
make a rope, and fastened one end to the
window, the other reaching to the ground.
One of the other parties started first, and
when near the ground she came back and |
Said she WAS afraid Susan said she was
not afraid, and Immediately went down |
the rope, she says, with the intention oi
calling the guard and telling him about |
it. She SAYS she WAS punished for hole |
in the window that another made, and |
that another woman told her the officers
would take her and put her in dungeon
for thirty days, and for that reason she
had determined to escape, If possible, and
that the other woman laid the plan ana
was going too but that the rope broke |
when Susan was going down, which pre-
vented her. She SAYS when she got down |
and found the rest were not coming she
tried 10 find the guards and failed, and
then for fear they would shoot her If
found. she got a laddcrand scaled the walls.
In getting over the first wall She hurt
her foot; making it quite lame. After
she was out of the grounds she took
| skitf and crossed the river near Dilley's
Bottom. and got Sylvester Lockwood to
| bring her To Bcllairc. She Is full
blooded negro woman, weighing about
two hundred and fifty pounds, and is
about twenty-five years old. She Is
good lacking and appears stolid and in
different. Her husband, she claims, was
killed at Martin>burg at the time Of
/ Hunters raid. The authorities OF
Moundsvillr have been photographed to
come for her. We wish the reward Of
twenty-five dollars which officer Drugan
will receive were much more, AS we
feel assured it is but meet reward for the
perseverance and diligence with which
he discharges his duty. Bcllairc has
deed 10 congratulate herself
ON the efficiency of her police.
The walls of the new German church
are finished, and work has commenced
ON the roof.
WV. LILLY il to BE- hauled over the
Goals by the Odd Fellows, Of which
order he WAS a member.
MASS Temperance meeting at the Dis
ciples Church Friday night.
SOCIAL nt the NJ f.. Church, Thurs
day night.
ELLA JEFFERs and James LETTERS were
arrested Yesterday and fined three dollars
each and costs for assault and battery on
the person of little boy.
KELLY, We didn't hear the name hut
expect ii was John, as John Kelly is
always getting into trouble, was arrested
yesterday evening for disorderly conduct.
The MaIlie Ragon on her last
trip, Tuesday night had on
board over twelve hundred buckets Of
blackbcrries 10 be sold at dollar
bucket at different towns along the river.
The blackberry crop is reported a. more
than usually good at points south Of u.