The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1881-05-02
STRAuDER

Discharged by the Uniled States CiFcuit
Couri, bat ReaFFeHied on the old
CbAFES-sOme Peculiar Legal ComPli'
cations Or IntsFest-"A Celebrated
Case.R i
For nearly nine years the reading pub
lie have been RECALLED, from time to time,
with lengthy articles in reference TO lay
Tor SEESudsr, the vile murderer. The
finding Of the dead woman in . chair IN
her home, on the morning Of April 70,
1872, with the bloody and gaping woundA
made by the terrible Ratchet; the cause
OF the crime; the pursuit and capture Of
the criminal, and his various trials IN the
different courts are familiar TO many.
1t was presumed that the final chapters
in the history OF this remarkable case
which to some extent has interested .
nation, would be made in the present
session Of the United States Circuit Court
nov sitting at Petersburg, by the decision
NJ Judges jackson and Bond.
But L seems that the end tS not yet.
Anticipating, perhaps, that there mlghi
be q possibility OF strauder being ireeo
from the legal network which surrounaeu
him, Captain Henry Conaut, VINO WAl
Civ Sergeant at the time the murder WA
committed, was, it Is presumed, induced
10 swear GU! q new warrant on the Ole
charge OF murder. This was done ON the
an Of last month, before Justice Caldwell
hut the TACT was withheld from the puollc
On Saturday last Judge jackson deliv
cred an opinion. In the StTRuder case
filling some fifteen pages Of legal cap, anC
Tsvieyiug the entire case. The objections
10 the pleas in abatement to the indictmen
which had been filed some weeks previous
and argued by Capt, B, B. Doyener To-
me defense, aud AttoEney.G enefal Whit
and Col, Geo, B. Caldwell Tor the prosecu
lion, were oYerTuled and they were filed
| 4 demurrer was entered 10 the pleas bu
thew were also overruled as were also tn
motions OF the counsel for the State to re
mand the prisoner 10 the State authoritis
or 10 retain the cause for indictment in tn
United States Court The only thlng ieI
! for the court 10 do was to discharge III
prisoner, which was done, "
The moment this was done, and In tn
presence Of the court, Strauder was rIe
arrested on the warrant sworn out b,
Captain Conant. Captain Dovsner Gale,
the attention OF Judge Jackson to this acl
which was virtual contempt OF courl
and the prisoner was directed to be re
leased, and Strauder remained In the CouT
room for few hours, q free man, Tor tn
flrst time In nine years. ....,,
The thought must have impressed him
} his Countenance lightened upi his bac
} ewes shone and his form, cramped With
} the narrow confines Of the Wheeling ia
for aImosta decade, grew more erect an
manly, =,
Meantime, Captain Conant had apple
10 several magistrates In ParkersbuTg for
miUlmu or an endorsement oil the warrau
he held permitting him to reincarCerat
lStrauder In the PRrkersburg jail, He WI
unable to secure this, but stIauder wa
willing to 20 without 1t and when he 10
the United States Court room he was take
in custody and again lodged in the Parker
burg jail.
legal teChicalilies connected with the cas-
which are Of general intsreston account
them'probably being without single pr
cedent In the history Of the worlds leRf
: practice. The stir Il created by It's oper
Z ing IN controversies on the constitutions
! amendment subject Is we'll remembered
but The peculiar phase oil the case now an
I the questions It will bring up should b
. even more interesting 10 the people OF TIL
State. ,
, Thstthey may be clearly understood, th
J following diagram is made Of the progreE
: and result OF the trials in the diferer
courts: .