The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1876-02-18
MURDER IN BELLAIRE.


en- IkOH-E uu II aEttCuANTs.
About 10 o'clock night before last, an
Inglishman by the name of William
Hardy, shot and killed brother country
nan by the name of John Binks, and
hen came up to the house OF officer
Drugan and gave himself up. Mr..
Drugsn placed him in the lookup and
hen notified Coroner Garrett who i'm
summoned the following jury;
w. Fl. Mcmahon, j. II. Berry, Thos.
Dunlap, James A. Marlin, John Hadley |
and A. Rockershausen. The following |
is the evidence given before the Coroner's |
Jury, which will give the details of the
affair a great deal better than We could |
gather it from outsiders.
The following Is the evidence in the
case before the Coroner's jury:
Carter Sutton sworn: Met with these
parties in town; they had fight there
IN Carman's saloon; the fight was not
settled there; came Down with William
Hardy; he said this was the second fuss
and that j ohm Bnks should board with
him no more; made no threats of vio-
lence toward Binks; had been at the
works three-quarters OF an hour started
home and met Christy and Binks;
Binks said he was coming down to get
his things; said he would whip Hardy;
Hardy heard Binks say this; Hardy said
Binks could not whip him, and came
upon the pike opposite h (Hardy's)
door to meet Binks, and links picked
up stone and went for Hardy
and when they approached one
another shot was fired; four or five shots
were fired; Binks said he was shot;
Binks laid down on the road going to
the river and threw up (vomited); he
never spoke but once after the shot was
fired; Binks was carried into Hardy's
house; | was fIom fifteen to forty
feet away during the fight; Hardy's
wife and G. Straten were present
during the fight. Mrs. Hardy was not
present when the fight commenced;
Straten was there; Straten was ten or
fifteen feet away when the fight com.
menccd; Straten said nothing during the
fight; Mrs. Hardy asked her husband if
he had shot Binks and he said he
had; Straten tried to discourage
Binks from fighting; fight occurred
about ii o'clock p. NJ, or Il little alter;
ten or twenty minutes after the shooting
occurred | left Binks, and thought he
was about gone; saw the pistol after the
fight.
IRWIN Baker sworn: The shooting oc-
Cured between II and II o'clock p. NJ;
| was in bed when | heard it; went into
the kitchen and heard a second shot;
| opened the door and heard the parties,
and knew their voice; heard one of the
parties say you have shot shot me- or
IL will shoot you,' could not say which,
heard ut least three shots.
Joseph Dean sworn: Heard shots be-
tween II and u o'clock p. ~: was about
one hundred yards away at the time; did
not witness any part OF the fight.
Christopher Straton sworn: Am ac-
duainted with the deceased four months
the Sth OF this month; was with the de-
ceased yesterday evening in
Bcliaire; was drinking beer;
Binks called Hardy a coward for making
up difficulty which Hardy had with me
during the evening; they struck blows;
it occurred in Garments saloon; Hardy
went home with Carter Sutton; came
hone with Binks; Binks SAID he was 60
ing to take h clothes away; Binks said
if Hardy came up TO him he would go
for him; that he would put u double road
through him: that We would both be
ready for HIM; could not tell how they
met, but heard Hardy say:
You buggar are you getting brickl'
heard shot, and Immediately after heard
two more shots; came down TO where
they were fighting, and saw Binks laying
down; heard Hardy make no threats;
helped Sutton and Hardy carry Binks to
his boarding house; opened Bnks' shirt
and saw blood on the breast; told Hardy
that he had shot Bnks; Hardy said moth
ing but commenced tearing his hair out;
don't know the time of night; saw no re
volver before or after the fight.
Mrs. Isabel Hardy sworn; My hus-
band, VIM Hardy was up to town yes.
terday evening: dent know what time
he came home; was slightly intoxicated
when he camchome; he was excited when
he came home. He said he had diff
Guilty with John Binks and Kit Straten:
heard my husband make no threats; don't
know whether he had revolver with
him when he went TO town, or that he
put it in his pocket; after he returned;
said nothing when he left the house;
hesrds no words between the parties;
did not see the fight; could not say how
long Binks lived after the fight; went
to Binks after the fight; after Binks was
wounded, he asked for his clothes; my
husband made an attempt to shoot him.
self after he came into the house.
The following is the testimony of Drs.
A. J. Sanders and A. L. Mcclure:
Having examined the body of the de-
ceased, John Blnks, we find that the de-
ceased received three bullet wounds in
the body: One hear the LETT lilac, in
which the ball passed beneath the in-
tegument and lodged IN the crest
of the left lllium (hip bone, another
about three inches below the arm-pit and
three and three-quarter inches from the
left nipple. the bullet psssing into the
cavity Of the chest another wound one
and e.quarter inches below and little
TO the lett of the left nipple, the bail en-
tcrinL the cavity of the chest and passing
backward and toward the medium line Of
the BODY, the last Of these wounds being
sufficient to cause immediate death.
This being al! the testimony before the
jury, they at once retired and after
short time rendered the following
VERDICT:
We, the undersigned jurors empsn-
nelled and sworn on the 18th day of
February 1876, at Pittsburgh Coal
Works. Township OF Putney, county of
Belmont and State of Ohio, to inquire,
and true presentation make, in what !
manner and by whom the dcceas d, John /.
Binks came to his death, and We do find /.
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