The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1881-10-25
GIN. WRm DEAD.
An Inquest Held on the nody Yesterday
Morning.

Al inquest Aet4 On t41 Ao4N AtateNAAS
M0Ening.
General Welt, Of 81. clairville, an account
Of whose injury on Saturday evening BY the
hand Of his son James appeared in these
columns yesterday morning, died at $50
o'clock yesterday morning. The funeral will
take place att o'clock this afternoon, Bel.
mont Lodge No, 10 F, 4 A. n. took charge OF
the dying man shortly after his injury and
will conduct the funeral services to-day,
The remains will be deposited in Union
Cemetery, near St. Clairsville, beside his two
wives and six children, who have preceded
him.
Jim is still at large, although the city
Marshal concluded on Sunday evening that
an effort should be made 10 arrest him and
accordingly swore out warrant and had
kilograms sent ever the county urging his
arrest and detention, all Of which would
have been unnecessary II the Marshal had
done his duty on Saturday night, as he was
urged to do. Yet he grossly neglected to
make move until long after he knew that
the criminal had fed. The people Of St.
Clairsville are indignant at his neglect Of
duty and have right TO be, for "a bird in
the hand is always worth two In the BUSH
Shortly after the Generals death an ex-
animation was Ntlu uelUES EA1l W M' Ohlle1I
ut st, ClairsvillG, DR.. Henry West was first
sworn and said:
On Saturday, about 5 o'clock, Ada Weir
came for me. telling me her father was hurt,
Invent Immediately, and found the General
lying down, His face was bloody; he was I'M
conscious; could not arouse him; washed his
face which was very bloody; pulse about 100
and moderately strong. His left eye was all
black. On left side Of head, about M inch
and half from the eye, an egg-shaped knot
had formed about the size OF third OF an
egg, james said: 1--WE done something,
Doctor, for which | ought to be killed. |
struck father with my fist and hurt him bad.
ly," That was all he said until they carried
him up stairs, found the General In room
between the front room and the kitchen.
James said; "Do not touch him, Doctor I'M
til we take him up stairs" They took him
up in the west front room, and then exam
ined him. The second place Examined was
tho lower end Of bone OF the nose on the
left side, about half an inch long through
which the blood was running freely; small
artery had been cut, The lower end Of this
bone was fractured probably half an inch
from the distal end. That Is all the wound
discovered before the post norton. He'cOn-
tinued unconscious until death at $50 A. N,
the Ath inst.
There was compression or severe concus-
sion.
AT four hours after death the autopsy was
made by Dr.. Henry West assisted by Geo. A.
Close and John +, West, practicing surgeons
An incislon was made through the scalp from
top OF left ear TO top OF right ear across top Of
head. The scalp was turned down In front
posed and fracture Of the skull was dis
covered through the sQuane0us portion OF the
temporal bone, extending under the igOnea,
running upward and backwards about one
inch and then In seTpentinG course about
one and a llalfinch further. And there was
second fracture V shaped about three
quarters OF an inch from base to apex at mid
die OF above fracture below and backward Of
same, That was all the injury 10 tho skull
Over the fracture the muscles were very
much bruised and entirely filled with coagli-
lated blood, The integuments above the left
eye were very much bruised. On the surface
OF the brain between the skull and the menu
branes of the brain was very considerable
hemorrhage. Throughout the brain was,very
much congested. There was bruise on the
right fore arm not very extensive. There
were no other bruises discovered on his body.
Do not think the injuries could have been
done with one lick Of a mans fist. Death
was caused by these wounds. DB Henry
West, John H. West and George Close con-
Cured.
Shepherd Davis sald On Saturday morning
met James Weir, ST., and he was apparently
In good health, At o'clock Saturday even.
Ing John Riggs called on ME and told me TO
come down to Weir's, and told me all that
had happened. He was going up town to get
some liquor for General Weir. objected to
coming, surprising 1t to be q family quarrel
lie went up town and did not go. John
West came with Riggs and we oil went down
to Weirs. Old DR., West was there when We
arrived, We went up stairs, James met me
as | went In and said lle was glad came.
lie and ] went 10 work heating water and
hunting bottles. As soon as the water got
hot we put 1t In them and placed them about
Mr.. Weir. About S!l5 o'clock James Weir, IT,,
cllled me down stairs and went In the
room with him. He took seat before the
stand and sat down beside him. He asked
what in the name OF God he should do, and
he asked me II he should send for any more
doctors. told him that ] thought II was not
necessary, as ! thought DR.. West could and
would do oil that was necessary. He told
me that he wanted his father to adopt Ada,
his daughter, TO Miss Cady, and that was
what the trouble began about He picked up
these two papers WITNESS producing two
! papers, ana no sara Ill no WAnIell was lot MIN
to sign these papers. lie would not do II,
and lie then reached up and caught him to
hold him In the door, and his father resisted,
and at that he struck him once on the nose,
and that turned him around and he fell on
the aooL That was all. James left about
$3.50 ?. N.
@. Kirk and James MellOr said James Weir
told them substantially tho same
Ada Weir saw James strike one blow, and
then she ran out Of the room.
The victim Of this tragedy was born In
1903 In Washington county, Pa. For forty
years he praCtCed law at the bar OF Belmont
county. In former years no was an active,
enterprising citizen, but for few years past
he has been feeble, and remained at home
most Of his time. He served three terms in
the Legislature Of Ohio as Wing. A few
years ago his family was among the foremost
In the community now but three remain
one awaiting his trial for the highest Crinie
another fugitive from justice and patri.
eide, and another tender girl who needs all
the sympathy she can have.