The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1874-05-14
HARBOUR COUNTY.
The AudricK.VanscOy Shooting At
fair-A Lunatic-rne Potato Bugs
Court business In Tucker and
KarbOUr,

BarDOur.
PmLLIPrE, w. Va, May IL.
Editors otthe Register.
The last has been rather big week
for our rural town; not that il Was any
bigger than weeks generally are; not
in fact as long as some OF the rainy
ones we have had lately, but big in
events, local and otherwise. Early in
the week we were RECALLED with the
presence OF genial and warm hearted
old frlend-the Sun-whose long alb
sence we have all deprecated, and
whose timely arrival has awakened
our energies and given us new life.
On Tuesday the examination OF
young Audrick was had before Squire
Hovatter for the shooting OF David l..
Vanscoy, an account OF which | gave
you last week. Mr.. Brown appeared
for the State and Mr.. Ice for the &C.
cused. The State proved. that on
Saturday, Vauscoy and young Burner
left the house Of Vanscoy
to 90 and look at some
fox traps; in going to which
they passed throug h the premises and
near the house of the accused's father.
When near tie house the accused came
out and told Vanscoy that be must not
90 through the place and TO 90 back.
Vanscoy replied that he would go
where he pleased, and said that he WAS
going down after some !oX scalps, and
that il he did not get any he would stop
as he came back and take his,
(Audrlck's). Audrick told Vanscoy
that he would be there and he must
not come back that way. In short
time, however, Auirick discovered
Vauscoy returning over the same route.
lie got his gun "a ritle) and went on 10
the porch and again told Nanscoy not
to come that way. to 20 back. Vanscoy
reptile that he wouldn't do it. Audrlck
then drew his gun and fired, shooting
Vsnscoy through the thigh. The
defense proved that an i'll feeling had
existed between the parties for some
time and that frequent threats had been
made by VaDscoy against AudrIck 9
life. After summing up OF
the case by the counsel it was
given into the hands OF the Justice who
promptly discharged the prisoner.
Quite a laugh was had at the expense
of the counsel for the accused during
the examination of a witness. MIR. Ice,
the counsel, who is himself 49,
FOUNDER, desired 10 show the disparity
of the two men as to age, size, &c, and
Ell. Golden. who is "a prolific OF good
hits as a prize fighter, being on the
stand, was asked by the fat counsel il
Vanscoy was rot large man, and
what he would weigh. Ell answered
that he was a good-sized man, and
that he might weigh from l25 to lI5
pounds-he couldn't say-that some
men," pointing his finger toward the
cou nsel, looked large, but were heller
inside, and would weigh light" Every
body laughed, and the witness wa,
promptly stood aside.
James Sewer, a resident of Ohio,
but who has teen visiting friends in
this county for the last two months
was confined in jail on last
Wednesday, as lunstic. We under
stand he had been in the Ohio asylum
before his visit here,
McCouville, whose incarceration IN
our jail on a charge OF larceny was no.
uced in the REGISTER few days since
as his friends asked Tor, was given in
charge OF his father, on Friday, who
had come on from Cleveland after him
He said his son had been absent eight
months and he supposed him dead uu'
I'll he received the intelligence OF hi
confinement here, in the REGISTER.
Our young friend Frank Woods, who
has been with his friends for three
months recuperating from over work. q
the West Virginia University, returned
to that institution to-day, to resume
his studies. We are glad TO know
that this is his last session, as he grad
yates in June.
It is thought by many that TIT
many cold snaps were intended as
sort of masked batteries to XII
potato bugs-clearlng of al
at once and getting warm in order Il
draw them out, and then freeze then
before they could get back into thei
holes. Don't know how tar the move
ment succeeds, but l have been told b,
q good templar who was sober at tn
time, that he saw alter one OF the COLI