The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1878-11-28
MoUNDsvH.LE.
The Facts I'm the woodrun Robbery Case
The OIL Excitement.


MouSDsv1LLE, Nov. q, 1873.
Correspondents Of the IntslIiSsnesr.
As think l now have the facts in re.
lation to the robbery Of John Woodruff,
on Dry Ridge, in this county, I will give
them to you for publication. On Thurs.
day the 2lst inst, Nuns Hughes, OF Wash
ington county Pa, met Woodruff on
Wheeling Creek, short distance from
Woodruf7s residence, and got into his
buggy with him and accompanied him
home, Hughes then invited Woodruff to
go with him to the house Of Larry Hughes,
brother Of Nuns, who lived in the neigh.
borhood, and Woodruff says that on the
road Nuns drew bottle from his pocket
and asked him to take q drink, which he
did; that after going short distance they
drank again, and Woodruff says that is the
last he remembers until he found himself
at home. Itappears, however, that they
Nuns and Woodruff went to the house
Of Larry Hughes, and that they fell in
company with Wm. Hughes, younger
brother Of Nuns, and that the three started
to return to Woodruf7s; that they stop
ped at Seatonville, little village about
quarter OF mile distant from
Woodruff7s home; that there Wood
ruff. who appeared to be crazy, exhibited
his money, and that the Hughes brothers
Nuns and William-started away with
Woodruff in the direction!of his home.
Mrs. Woodruff, the mother Of John, be-
came anxious from some cause about her
son and sent Robert Myles TO look for
him. Myles says he found Nuns Hughes,
William Hughes and Woodruff together
short distance from Woodruf7s home;
that Woodruff was perfectly crazy, but did
not appear to be physically. drunk, and
that when he went to take charge
OF him the Hughes boys resisted and
him with violence II he inter.
ferred, but despite their threats he did
take Woodruff home, and that after they
got him there they found that his money,
sos, was gone. Woodruff resides with
his mother, who is widow. Complaint
was at once made to Esquire G.. A. Jones,
and he issued his warrant, directed to
Robert Miles, who he deputised to net as
constable, for the arrest OF the Hughes
boys. William was arrested at once, but
Nuns fed. Myles got on his trail and
by telegraphing succeeded in having him
arrested at Mansfield, Allegheny county,
Pa. The prisoner consented to accom-
pany Myles back to our county without
requiring him to procure requisition.
Yesterday morning Myles brought the
prisoner before Squire Evans, of this |
place, and the prisoner waived an exami- |
nation and was committed to jail in default
OF 81 900 bail to await the action OF grand
jury.
William when arrested made clean
breast OF it, and says Nuns threw Wood
ruff down and took the money from him;
that he (William) told Nuns not to keep
the money, but Nuns said he would risk
il. William further says that he told
Nuns the next morning to take the money
back to Woodruff and tell him he only
took It to take care OF, but Nuns still in
sisted that he would keep II, and that he
then left the neighborhood.
The Justice acquitted William, but held
him under bond with security in the
penalty OF 500 for his appearance as a
witness against Nuns.
Public opinion is q good deal divided in
the neighborhood, but the most OF the
people seem to think William innocent;
others think him guilty and believe the
whole thing to have been premeditated
robbery, and that others living in the
neighborhood are implicated in the matter.
When arrested Nuns only had about $50
on hisperson.
THE OIL EXCITEMENT.
Our town is considerably excited on the
oil question. Some say the company bor-
ing over the river have made strike; ut
anyrate they have stopped work, and are