Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1880-09-04
THE BELLAIRE MURDER.
ARREST OF sHANRAfeLT AND Me-
C0RMlCk.
Continuation Of the examination-Ihe les
tmony Of the Colored Girls-Shan-
nafeIt Takes It Back
Other Witnesses.
BELDAIRE.
The Hamilton Inquest-Arrest of Shan
nafalt and McCormick-Other Matters.

nafelt and Nc Matters.
The inquest held over the body OF
Clyne Hamilton has continued all day,
and the excitement continues unabated.
The same crowd has surged about the
city building, and the homicide is still
the all absorbing topic. Perhaps never
i'm Bellaire has there been case which
has excited such universal attention.
There is a determination to ferret out
the murderer and bring his punishment,
and no stone will be left unturned to
accomplish this end.
The examination was resumed, yes
terday morning, in the presence OF the
same large crowd, and the evidence
elected was OF the same character as on
the preceding day. The story was told
and retold as seen by the various wit
nesses.
J. B. Mccormack, who was with
Shannaielt, testified as follows: He lived
i'm Chicago, but had been in Bellaire
since Friday. Had lived there prev
iously and WAS we'll acquainted. He
had met Shannaielt on the night of the
murder and walked about with him and
finally sat down on Du Bois' steps and
talked about Chicago. The girls passed
and Shannafelt spoke to them. He and
Shannafelt then went to Carroll's, where
they separated, at about 1890 o'clock.
He did not know where Shannaielt
went.
Cross-examined-Met Shannaielt near
the Belmont House alley: We came
10 nalp,Ant OF
sons on the corner; think the
front of the drug store was closed; ;
did not see the girls when We were
going up TO the steps OF the lumber
yard; we went on up street piece and
then came back and sat down; Shanna.
felt said something to the girls as they
passed.; / remarked they are pretty fly
coons; Shanna(elt wanted to know some
thing about Chicago was why We took
the walk; while we were sitting two men
came and laid down on the board pile
above us; think the girls pass
ed before that; when the girls
came back one oil them was
swearing, another was talking loud and
saving she would never go there again |;
we left and came down to the corner by
my room; room at Mrs. Carrolrs
building; | saw John Shannafeft yester-
day morning and asked him il he was
subpmned; he said he was; he had told
me he and the other parties had the
girls down in the field; he may have
mentioned whose field it was, but | do
not remember it,; we left the two men at
the board pile when we went away.
John Baugh offered some testimony
that was OF no general importance.
Nina X. White, sworn, says: ! live
in Belaire; have lived here about II
years; was walking round the streets
last Tuesday night; started from home a
little after O'Clock; met Callie Nelson
and Melia Mitchell; We went up to the
head of Guernsey street; saw three fell
lows, who said something about opera;
these fellows followed us down street to
the square; were,talking to us about big
pocket.book Miss Mitchell carried, and
called it trunk; she told them
she would put them in it,
and one OF them said he
would kick the bottom out OF it; the
boys didn't follow us any further; we
met Shannafelt, and he asked us to meet
him at the pump on Belmont and Thirty
sixth streets; we said we would, and
when we got by we said we would not;
when we went down to Belmont House,
and were coming back, the other two
girls stopped and talked to young Ham,
ilton, and he said something to them
about meeting them on the square; al
forwards, they went up to 1hirty-fourth
street, on Guernsey. where they met
Hamilton and Watkins; they
had seen the boys cross the
square; saw Shannafelt and an
other young man sitting on Dubois
steps when we went up, and after the
occurrence we come back and saw the
same two men sitting on the stems; one
of them said, Come here girls, and sit
down, | want to talk to you;" we did
not stop, but went over to Wilson's
corner and stopped there; Shannafelt
and the other man got up and walked
past us without saying anything; we
followed the two bows up to Thirty
siQth and Guernsey streets; Shanna-
felt had asked us to meet him ut
the pump; passed the drug store
several times; some of the boys
followed murder; when Mccormick
stopped us he walked right up in front
OF us; we were linked arms; when the
boys were sitting on Dubois steps we
passed, and they asked us il we were
going, and we said no. we have other ar
engagements; when We got up to the cor
ner by the shop, the boys came up; one
of them put his hand on my shoulder
and said we are watched; then we turn
ed and went to the alley; had just got
into it, and the boys sit down, when
some one said: God damn you, git"
we all run; thought the boys had
tried to scare us, and We laugh
ed about it; | knew Shannafelt
when we passed him; we were
not on Wilson's corner more than five
or ten minutes when the two boys sit
ting on the steps walked past us; Shan
naielt threw his arm across Melia Mitch
ellis breast, but she did not pay any at
tention to him.
Cross-examined by Captain Daniord
Did not know the young man with
Hamilton; knew his face; had met them
both one evening before; they came up
to us on the square; Shannafelt was the
only one that wanted to make arrange
ments with us the night the young man
got killed, except the two boys We in.
tended TO meet; he was by
himself; when we next saw him, some
one was with him, sitting on Du Bots
steps; the other girls never told me
about any one else wanting to see us;
when Hamilton came up TO me at the
corner of Thirty.eighth and Guernsey
streets, and told me we were watched,
| did not know who he meant; when we
were going up, the two men on the steps
asked ii we were going, and we told them
We had other arrangements; at the alley
was ahead OF the girls; the boys
were sitting down; could just see
their faces; ! heard the curse, and was
right close to the boys, and knew it was
not them swore; the voice seemed TO
be right beside them; did not see who
it was; we all run down to the corner
and talked and disputed about who did
it; when We passed the steps going
home the two boys were sitting on the
steps still; satisfied it was not them
scared us; heard the voice in the alley;
cannot distinguish between colored and
white peoples voices; do not know
who followed us, unless it was two
fellows who followed us and sat down
on the corner by Muhleman's; don't