Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1877-07-07


ten o'clock, his watch, which would soon
stop after falling int the canalpointing
to live minutes after tea O clock All the
inmates Of the house OF ilLrepute, kept
by Jane Waters, will testify that both
men came 20 the house between 10 and
IL o'clock. Dolly Bender, one OF the
iumates, says some one brought the on:
ions home and hid them at corner OF
the garden fence. Gardner told her
to bring in the onions, and to say
nothing that they had brought them
home. The tops of the onions were
bruised ''right smart" They were used
next morning for breakfast. 10
The men have made various contra
dictory statements as to their wherea-
bouts that night at the hours named.
When the men were arrested Groves
wife said they were at home all that
night, but has acknowledged that such
was not the ease She told the detec-
tive in making the arrest to Saddle it
on the right horse" and when Gardner
was arrested he asked "It they were go
Ing 10 SeI SrOSe wv.
Grove and Gardner were born in
Loudoun county, Va, and Jefferson
county, w. Va, respectively, are both
illiterate, and are considered perfect
"Molly Maguires' Grove is fifty years
of age, the father of ten children, four
Of t6em living, and Gardner is twenty
six years of age and unmarried.
Grove is rather a desperate looking
fellow, with narrow receding forehead
and high and broad cheek bones. The
residents have never kno wn him TO work.
He lived in a shanty 1-2 miles from
Sandy Hook, and is charged with hav-
inc played the "blind man, and repre-
sented himself as a local preacher on
various begging expeditions His name
is connected with various larcenies. lie
served a term in the peEitentiary for
stealing corn.
Patrick Higgins, one of the witnes-
ses, says that in 1859 Grove and Bill
Catherine were under trial for the muir
der of an Irishman named Corcoran,
whose body was found lying outside OF
Groves door one morning with the
skull split open, after drunken brawl.
A vigilance committee had the rope
around Groves neck TO lynch him
when they were persuaded to allow
trial by law. Grove got off by an i'm.
portant female witness being found
wanting. He has been at Hagerstown
Jail so frequently for various offences
that ''Grove's cell" has become recog-
nizatiUn feature of the institution.
Gardner is a red headed young man,
of apparently uncomfortable temper,
and otherwise is not bad locking man.
| Two detectives of Smith and Vests
force were working up the ease about
two weeks, one of them taking the
character Of a miner and the other that
of Young man who sometimes "played
crooked" and was wanted in Pennsyl-
vauia for murder. The detective in
this way worked themselves into the
confidence of the prisoners The de
tectives went TO work at the instance OF
the officers of Rev. Mr.. fridays church,
Mr. Uopwood in charge.
A vigilance committee of thirty-elght
members has been organized at Sandy
Hook, and it is openly avowed that if
ever the men return there that they will
be lynched. \ committee Of about
! thirty citizens assisted in the arrest OF
! the two men, several Of whom carried
masks. and strong arguments were adj
! vanced to prevent Interference with the
law. The indignation in this section is
very great, especially in localities where
Rev. Mr.. Friday was known.
The parties to the romantic marriage
which resulted in the death of the Off.
ciating clergyman have been remarked,
in consequence Of failure of recorda-
ton of the minister's certificate.
1t is believed at IIarper's Ferry that
the murderers mistook Rev. MIR. Friday
for gentleman who was expected there
to invest money in mineral quarry.
The motive was evidently gain, which
was frustrated by too powerful blow,
forcing the body into the canal. Dr.
w. ii. Cannon says there was slight
abrasion of the skin on the bruise on
the right temple. This bruise was not
perccptible till after the coroner's in
quest, when the blood diffused.
HAGERsrowN, July 3.-The postpon-
ed preliminary hearing in the case of
James Gardner and Jacob w. Grove,
charged with the murder of Rev. Mr..
Friday, near Harpers Ferry, came up
before Justice H. +. Cook, at the court
house here, at Q A. NJ. today. The
prisoners had lengthy private consul
tation with their counsel, Mr.. George
Freaner, in one Of the rooms of the
courthouse.
Mr.. Frcaner then, before the justice,
said that after the publicity given to
the charges affecting the prisoners it
was not probable that they could avoid
being held for a higher tribunal, where
full and final investigation would take
place They could not hope to be dis
charged on preliminary hearing, and
even if the case could not be made out
bailable it was not probable the prison
ers, poor as they were, could find even
reasonable bail Therefore he had con-
Guided to waive preliminary hearing,
and the prisoners would allow them
solves to be committed to await the &C
ton of the grand jury, unless on fur
ther developments it shonld be deem
ed proper to invoke habeas corpus