Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1874-04-11

A correspondent writing to the
Wheeling Register from Coving'on'
KY, March 2sth, says:-
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 OF 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 murdered
man is the Hon. Harvey Myers, and the
assassin Col w. G. Terrell, both resi-
dents of Covington, Ky. Harvey Ny
ers is member of the Kentucky bar,
and Col Terrell is the Covington re-
porter for the Cincinnati Commercial.
For the past year Mr.. Myers has
been trying to obtain a divorce for the
wife of Col. Terrell, in which he has
not as yet succeeded. This service OIL
the part of Mr.. Myers which has been
purely of professional nature, has made
him an enemy of Col. Terrell. Within
the last four months Terrell was as
saulted by a man named Francis, and
nearly murdered This man Francis
retained as his counsel at his trial Mr..
Myers. This combination OF circum-
stances has served to make Terrell very
spiteful at Myers.
At IL a. m. To- day, Col Terrell en-
tered the Office of Mr.. Myers and asked
some question in regard to dispositions
that had been taken in the case of Mrs.
Mary Terrell VS.. w. G. Terrell. Myers
replied to Terrell that he could answer
his own questions and that he wished
to have nothing to do with him. Some
few other words took place between the
parties, when Myers ordered Terrell to
leave the room. This Terrell said he
would not do, when Myers took hold OF
Terrell by the arm and pulled him to
the hall way, when Terrell drew Der
ringer from his pocket and shot Myers
through the abdomen an inch below
the naval. Myers walked back in his
Office and said he was shot, and fell to
the floor where he died in fifteen min
utes, indeed before his wife could reach
the death bed of her husband.
Terrell was arrested and taken to the
Jail. Hundreds of people soon assem-
bled in the streets. Whispered COM
ments went through the crowd. Tears
ran down the cheeks of men. Mr.. Ny
ers is man 43 years old. A scholar, 4
perfect lawyer, and gentleman of the
finest culture. lie stands at the head
Of the Kentucky bar. Col. Terrell is
also a lawyer, man of splendid educa-
ton, an acknowledged satirist as wri-
ter, but a man of crabid and morbid
manners, morose and melancholy at
times, and this intermixed with liquor
makes him unpleasant to all
! He has struck down in one Of his
evil fits a man infinitely more useful
and admired than the assassin; one who
was spoken of in connection with. the
Chief Justiceship Of the United States;
a lawyer whose future presented all the
golden protuberances of wealth and
fame. Mr.. Myers leaves a wife and six
small children. Col Terrell has one
son.
1t is stated that the practice Of Myers
was worth $4,000 per year.
Thousands of people have been on
the streets all day, discussing the la
inevitable catastrophe.
The multitude are excited, a mob
would take place at the word, and Ter
rell you'd swing from the court house
fren