The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1880-10-04
CRIMINAL RECORD.
ARRAY OF AWFUL AoIs
OF ANGER.
a western Woman's Way of PunishIng
Man who Refuses 20 Marry Her
Other Grimes, Remote and
Recent, In Various Sec.
lions OF the Land.
BEATEN ny BUNKO.
A siissoari MipIster Takes His Chances
With the Boys.

ST. LOUIS, October 2.-Rev. Mr.. Gun.
ningham, pastor OF the Presbyterian
Church at Brussels, Lincoln county, this
State, Is the latest victim Of the bunko
steerers. He arrived in town yesterday,
and while walking down street Mr.. Cum
ningham was met by q young man who In
troduced himself as q Mr.. Perkins, OF q
family Of that name In Lincoln county,
we'll known there. After this 1t was all
plain sailing for the men. One OF them
Just remembered that he had drawn q
prize, and the Rev. Mr.. Cunningham was
escorted to room, where q drawing was
started. The moral minister was given
ssme chances for no consideration, and in
few minutes he had drawn 500 to $500.
For this he deposited 500 in good, honest
cash, which, 1t is unnecessary to add, he
never saw again, nor the bunko steerers
either.
CAPTURE OF ONE OF THE wELIsBuRG INcES-
DIARIES.
PARKRRsBURo, October 1.-0fficer James
Mehen, OF this city, and DR.. Curtis, Of
wellsburg, to-day captured one of the al
legged Bethany fire bugs, who escaped from
the wellsburg Prison last February.
James johnson, alias Tom Kelly, who is
said to be notorious criminal, and who
seldom stays long in any prison. The Of
ficers Of the State have been searching for
Kelly for several months, and he was at
last tracked to Burning Springs, and final.
ly captured as above stated. He was
brought to this city and confined in jail.
TEXAS MURDER ACCORDING TO THE HIGHEST
STYLE OF TIE ART.
FoRr SMITH, ARK, October IA few
days since the daughter OF old man Adams,
q white man skulking in the Creek Nation,
shot and killed the postmaster at Tulsa,
named Church, because he would not
marry her. Sitting on white horse, he
was riding past the log cabin Of the Ad.
amses, when the woman hailed him, with
a revolver hidden under her apron, and,
in front OF the horse, asked
Church, also white man, the usual leap
year question, to which he gave an en-
phatic "No." Deliberately she raised the
pistol and sent a As caliber bullet through
his heart. Hestill sat on his horse, the
blood running down either flank, when
she again took aim at the heart. the ball
through and splitting the shoul-
der blade.
The msn fell dead at her feet, and she
then dragged the body to the side OF the
road, took off her apron and spread It
over the dead face, caught her
pony, and riding to a neighbor, told what
she had done. In the quaint language Of
the frontier, she said: You uns will find
his body down by tho road, and you'd
better trke care OF it before the hogs eat
IT," She then rode to another neighbor,
two miles the other way, passing by the
body as she went Then, plotting one Of
the neighoors TO the scene OF the murder,
she dismounted and coolly went about her
work. Through fear oil lynching, how.
ever, herself and father took their skiff
and started down the Alkansas river, but
were finally picked up by Indian police,
and are awaiting trial in the United States
Jail at this place.