The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1874-03-31
LETTER FROM CONVICTION.
A Disfin gnished Lawyer Coid'y
"a Murdered.

COYlNaEON, MI o4nASA -Si -
Editors OF the Register:
This day will long be remembered by
the citizens of Covington as the occa-
sion OF the most cruel murder that was
ever inscribed on the annals o! crime,
Men, women and children have been
for hours gathering on the streets and
discussing the late sad CATASTROPHE
We proceed to give the particulars as
near as we could learn them The muI-
darsd man ia the Hon. Harvey Myers,
and the assassin Col. W. G. Terrell,
both residents OF Coviugtou, Ky. Har-
yey Myers is member of the Ken
lucky bar, and Col. Terrell is the Cow
iugton reporter for the Cincinnati Com
merciaL
For the past yearMr, Myers has been
trying to obtain divorce 'or the WI
OF Col. Terrell, in which he hes not as
vet succeeded. This service on the
part of Mr.. Myers which has been pure
ly OF OF 8 professional nature, mas male
him an enemy OF Col. Terrell. Within
the last four months Terrell was as
saulted bv man named FranCig, aud
nearly murdered. This man Ffar cis
retained As his counsel at his trial Mr..
Myers. This combination Of clrcum-
stances las served TO make Terrell
very spiteiul at Myers.
Atll 8. m. to-day, Col. Trrre.! en-
tered the Office of Mr. Myer- aud asked
some question IN regard to teF2s'Hon-
that had been taken in tie c.ss o.
Mr.. Mary Terrell rs. ". G. Terrell.
Myers replied 10 Terrell thai ne coNa
answer lie own questions and tie: he
wished to have nothing to DO witt l:!a.
Some few other words took place he
tween the parties, when Myers ordered
Terrell to leave tue room. This Ter
reIl said be would net do, when Myers
took hold OF Terrell by the arm and
pulled him t. the hall way, wueu Ter
rell drew DeI,inger from his pocket
and snot Myers through the abdomen
an inch below the naval. Myers Wa X
Ell lack in his office and sad he vas
shot, aud tell to the floor where he del
in fifteen m!ruies. indeed before h'5
vile could. reach the death bid Of her
husband.
Terrell was arrested aaj taken to tie
jail. Hundreds OF people stoa %s-elA5."
ed ia the stress Whispered Con.-
ments went through the crowd Fear,
IAN down the cheeks Of ne. Nr.
Myers is man AZ years Old. !
scholar, q perfect lawyer, AK " g~2l.'-
man of the faest culture. lie s:A"tS
at the head OF the Kentucky bar Col
Terrell is also & !awyec, a man OF
splendid education, a. ACKNOWLEDGED
sali.ist a. writer, bu!a man 81 cranld
and morbid mn0Le1s, moro~c an"
melancholy st times, AMI tbs inter-
mixed with liquor makes hin nupl@"s'
ant TO ell.
He has struck down il o;c 81 H.
evil fits man Infinitely mog" H-c.Ui
and ..dmired than the assassin Oar
who was spoken o. in connection with
The Cliet Just;ce-Ljp o. the C"iteH
Stale1 q lawyer wLcse future present.
Ell all the golden rrOluberarCca o.
wealth and lame Mr. MyCrs leaves q
wife and six small cbiliTcn. c.. Ter
rel has one s0n.
1t is sisted that the practice q Myers
u,s ,yn~tb 500 VNO nor ypa-
Thousands OF people have been 90
the streets all day, discus ,uG the u
meD;ablc catastrophe.
The multitude are excited, q moo
would take place at the word, aud Ter
rell would wing from = court hous"
tree.
Yesterday young man named SIN
clair struck q drayman over the head
WITH q dray pin, killing bin.
The women are opening thc scige on
4;h stree; iu Cincinnati, but 10 snrren-
ders hGv& as yet been made. ClH.