The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1877-05-31
THE mHAMITOwN mURDRR.
Excitement i'm the ViIlage--Tesaf.
mOny Taken This Morning.

ana D O'CLOCK yesterday afternoon, Oh
account of complications growing put Of
the tragedy which resulted in the death
of young John c. Nugent, early Monday
morning, from wounds received at the
hands OF Evan Breese and his nephew,
young John Reese.
1t seems that while the funeral car
tege were at the MiamitOwn Cemetery
yesterday evening in the act Of witness
ing the obsequies OF the murdered man.
a citizen named Walker, who had been
deputized, with three others, by Consta-
BILE Clark Rittenhouse to guard the resi-
dence Of Breese, who is confined TO
his bed by sickness, came IN
haste to the Cemetery and informed
Rittenhouse, who is also sexton OF the
church, that there was a party OF men
who had just come from the city In n
hack, and that theirvmovements at thb
Breese residence were mysterious; that
they had driven the guards of, and had
taken possession OF the room In which
Breese was confined, and had locked
themselves in with The prisOner;- in fact.
that he feared there was movement on
foot looking to the abduction Of Brees5.
Upon receiving this intelligence Kit
tenhouse started immediately, with
posse Of armed, men, for the Breese resl-
deuce, where the prisoner and the
strange party were found still under the
watchlul eye OF Deputy CleaYer and the
other two, and there found party OF
Cincinnatians composed Of Maj r Black
burn, DR.. Wood and Mr.. Moon, an al
tAciie oil the Cincinnati POst-oftice.
Rittenhouse at once. demanded TO
know the object OF their visit and was
informed by Blackburn that he came TO
see the prisoner on legal business. and
mad brought DR.. Wood along in order
that Breese might be examined, to see il
| he bore any evidence Of violence at the
hands OF Nu2ent received during The
difficulty The sunday previous.
His explanation being deemed salts
factory by Rlttenhouse, Blackburn's
party remained, afterwards accom- panl-
| ing The prisoner and his guard 10 this
city. While at the grave, which was
lsurrounded by large cOncourse Of Cit
zens, the father of the deceased tainted.
The populace were terribly excite i, aud
threats were made that Reese would be
hanged. In the language OF MIR. Rich
ard Porter, who attended the funeral,
and with whom STAR reporter had q
| short conversation To-day, tit looked
livery squally at one time; aud 4 am
afraid tnat ii Reese had been there al
that time he would have been strung up
on tree. He was then at his mothers,
two miles north OF Miamitown."
Later i'll the evening, while Reese, in
charge of Constable Rttenhouse, Was
in squire Bakers office, WHITTIER he
had been taken to aw.rt the making 0alt
OF an order transferring MIN TO tnE
County Jail, Mr.. W. q. Nugeut, father
of the dead boy, came in apparently la
boring under great mental eXcltemens.
AS soon as his eyes rested on Reese, ne
became temporarily insane, anu madea
demonstration towards Reese as If TO
null a pistol, Uut was at once taken in
charge aud led from the office.
| A half hour later Reese and Constable
Rittenhouse and the Blackburn party
started for this city, wnere they arrived
at 8 o clock last night, The Two former
nutting up at Kresz's Hotel, on Central
avenue opposite Freeman street, from
where Reese was at au early hour THE
morning, transferred to quarters in the
lCounty Jail. This morning, acting
Coroner Dossman resumed the Inquest.
| James Shearer, stone mason resid-
ling in Miamitown, being examined les
lifted as follows:
The fight occurred in front of Harry
lCroley's saloon, about O'clock last
Sunday evening. Ree.e was standing
with his whip in one hand and the lines
in the other. l ran out and saw breese
land Nugent In a scufie. Nugent waS
nm ton OF Breese, and IN a second alter
Reese commenced striking Nugeat with
a wh;p, He hit him three or four times
over the head, with the butt end Of ths
whjp. saying '.get of of him, you son ot
"a" Nugent started 10 get up, whea
Jeff Knowles stepped up and
ierked Reese away. Seeing
ltbis, Nugent turned and kicke ed
Breese III the face three or four times.
Breese then cried out, take MIN OF
take him off," and Nugent was taken
away, and went to Hes.er's saloon,
where he washed himself and soon alter
got in his buggy and drove towards
home. All three men bear good repa n
, tlons for peace and Quietness. never
heard nf either OF them being IN d!fa-
J Guilty before. They were all suDer at the
time Az far as / know. did not see
Nugent strike Reese At all during the
difficulty.
The following
AUTOPSY
was presented by D.. West:
'sMIAMITOwN, May 20, 1877.
"To the Cor ner Of HamltoA County:
81 uu hereby certlly tnat Oh the 20 4
} day OF May, 1877. at the residence o4
m. Nugent, IN Whitewater Towrship.
as sisted by Drs. Johnson and Dayton.
of Miamitowr, made pos tmortem ex.
animation OF the body Of Jonn Nugent,
Found slight bruise Oh the LEFT ior :
laIm, u confused wound upon the crown
of the head about one inch in length
and extending to the skull; also found
bruised surface about two inches
above the right ear. Upon removing
the scalp,'I found the scalp-cord-tls
temporal muscle-badiy bruised. rhs
parietal bone appeared to be-
separated from the artieu.
latlon with the temporal bone.
Upon removing the skull, l fou nd
about ten ounces OF dlffuSeL and csasu-
lated blood within the cavity OF the era
mum and under the membrane
covering the btaih; also, u larger
cavity in the brain Oppusile
the external bruise upon lAs
outside. The rupture OF the brain m Ist
have been caused BY severe c0ncu IS on
BY external violence. Tue rupture and
the internal hemorrhage and pressure
upon the brain We the eau .es
Of death. Tue autopsy was made about
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