The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1881-11-01
VOLUME XXX.--NUMBER go.
ANOTHER MuRDER
Up the RIver-LagFauge the Scene-ThS
Murderer and HIS Victim.

special Dispatch To the lntelltgencer.
WELLsBuRG, October 3l.-A party ol
boys among whom we're Harry West,
Douglass Montgomery and William Nc.
Henry, went over to Brilliant Qagrange)
Saturday night, and while congrepted
about Hassner's saloon, fight began be-
tween West and McHenry, which resulted
in West being stabbed in the abdomen, as
the evidence before the Coroner's jury
showed, with a knife three inches long.
The knife penetrated the bowels and
stomach. West died Sunday night at s
o'clock. AlcHenry was arrested Sunday
night He will be taken to Steubenville.
"Doug" Montgomery got two or three cuts
during the melee and is in dangerous
condition. West WAS about fifteen wears
old and McHenry about twenty, The eyi.
denCe before the coroner's inquiry showed
that McHenFy cut West,
sleubenvIlle Gazette OF yesterday,
Living at Wellsburg is crowd Of young
men Us disreputable and notorious for their
wicked carousals, drunken rows and total
depnvity generally, Us those who lately in
tested Murderer's Row, on Water street, in
this city. They are organized in gangs
there Just as they were here, the bone OF
contention being an old fued, existing for
a long time, brought about perhaps BY a
fight Seyeral years ago.
On Sunday night lot OF these notorious
characters came over to Lagrange, in this
county, and got drunk on beer, which, wo
believe, is not sold In Wellsburg. In a
row that ensued Henry West was fatally
stabbed in the ide by hard character
named VIM. MCHenry, and Douglas Mont.
gomey was also stabbed by man named
Nelson.
AItIseems that,West and McHenry en-.
gagged in fist fight in the evening, both
being drunk, MCHenry was badly whip
ped by West, receiving painful wounds
about his face.
The fight was supposed to be ended with
West as the victo 7, but McHenry was not
yet ready TO give up, and after getting
on more beer he followed West up, and
about eleven O'Clock stabbed him in the
side with knife, the blade penetrating
the liver.
West was taken to his home at Wells
burg, where he died in q very short time,
In the excitement that followed the
slAbblng, q man named Nelson stabbed
Douglas Montgomery in the abdomen, In.
fiCting fearful but not necessarily fatal
wound. lie was also taken over to Wells
burg, where he is now lying.
Henry West, the murdered man, Isabout
seventeen years old, EIe is the son Of Wm.
NVaaf IA IoPnon n nnnt tninnr ~ NVnIlybu.,,
lie was hard case, always qnarreling,
either drunk or sober.
Mclleny, the man who fatally cut West,
belongs to the notorious MCllenFy family
Of that region. There Is no good in him,
according to our authority.
Montgomery Ia also bad character, and |
Is employed In the Wellsburg glass works.
We know nothing about Nelson, the man
who struck him, but as he associated with |
MCHenry and West he should be Classed
with them, and no doubt he, too, is as bad |
a character as the others.
McIlenry was arrested by the Wellsburg
marshal, and put in the Brooke county
jail. Marshal Cahill, OF this city, went
down this morning to arrest him, the deed
having been committed In Jefferson
county, but he had to return without his
prisoner not being armed with the proper
papers,
The inquest Is being held this afternoon
by Coroner West, OF Brooke county, at
which Prosecuting Attorney Cook, Of this
county, is present.
Nelson ran away, and as yet has not been
McTIcnry and Nelson were "pards" and |
West and Montgomery flocked together.