Martinsburg weekly independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1873-1875, 1875-01-16
How n Gray-Ifaired Lotha-
rio Won the Confidence of
Another Mans Wifc---He
Fays the Penalty with His
life
From the Cincianatl Times.


From the Cincinnati Times.
The shocking details OF a sad
case ofdomestic infeiicity, resulting
in determined, cold blooded muir
der, last Wednesday morning
reached the city this morning.
The officers of the steamer Tele-
graph furnishes the particulars,
which were CLEANED from passen-
gers who came on board the boat
at Point Pleasant. w. Va, yester-
day.
VIM. Weitzel is man in the
prime of life residing at Point
Pleasant, w Va, on the river,
above this city.
he possesses a comely wife, the
frailty of whose nature transpired
in recent events. A short time ago
he had occasion to leave home on
business trip, and bid his then
faithful wife, as he believed, fare
well. But fate and passion were
leagued against her virtue, add
she shortly became a victim to
the Wiles of man whose weight
of years and numerous gray hairs
would seem to have placed him
eyond the capability of playing
successfully the Lothario's role.
A smooth tongue and bold char
acter were the predominating traits
in Captain Hutch McDaniel's char
acter, and these he welded with
ready success. He soon had con-
quered the nervous apprehension,
of his victim, who, in the first
flush of Illicit love, permitted him
to accomplish his purpose.
The intimacy, which than sprang
up, became so glaring in his char
acter that brother of Mrs. Welt
Eel, in The absence of the husband,
first warned the daring invader
that he was treading on dangerous
ground, and, finally, threatened
McDaniel's life.
In the meantime the husband
returned home, and to him the
wife's brother communicated his
suspicious of his wife's infidelity.
Upon going home Weitzel ques-
tened his wife closely and became
satisfied that there was good foun-
dation for the reports in circula-
ton. Then it was that his indig-
nation asserted itself, and Selling
a loaded shotgun in his fury, he
started out in search of the vile
destroyer of his happiness and
peace.
He at once proceeded in the di-
rection of McDaniel's house, and
finding that the person whom he
was in quest of had just left for the
river with a horse, which it was
his intention to water, followed
rapidly in the trail of the seducer.
Weitzel came upon him as he was
passing down the bank toward the
waters edge.
He first accosted McDaniels,
charging him With having robbed
his wife of her virtue, when an al
tercation arose, in the heat of
which the injured husband raised
his gun and fired at his enemy.
The shot were scattered in the legs
of McDaniels, who dropped to the
ground, while the horse which he
was leading took fright and fed.
Weitzel hen approached the
wounded man, and placing the
muzzle of the gun close to to the
fallen mans body discharged the
contents of the second barrel into
McDaniel's body. Having thus
accomplished his purpose, he re-
turned up the river bank and was
Immediately placed under arrest,
the charge of murder being placed
against him.
Captain McDaniels was at once
attended to, but he was MORALLY
wounded, and life soon sped on its
darksome journey. His body was
found to have been pierced by
eleven large-sized shot, some of
which penetrated his legs, abdomen
and chest The murdered man
was about fifty years of age, and
had, until recently followed the
vocation of steamboatman, having
been captain of the Gallipolis aad
Kanawha River packet Active.
We did not learn whether he was
married man.
VIM. WeltZel, the man VINO ala
the shooting, is in the prime of life
and does not seriously regret an
&C ION which he believes q just
Punishment for the great wrong
done him by McDaniels. Public
sn.3 pathy is on his side, his course
being generally upheld.
This world would be a sandy des-
ert of lonesomeness if woman were
not privileged to attend auction