Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1881-08-30
PROBABLE MURDER.
Charles Davenport, Color. Mar, Cut in
Fearful Manner Last night on
chapIins Streer-Particu-
lars ef he Sfffay.

A REGISTER man discovered Officers
Wilcox and Tracy al tLecorner OF Four
teenth and Market street last night
having in charge one Charles or John
Davenport, a colored man, whose
clothes were saturated with blood from
a wound in his side. The news
paper man took the man TO
DR.. Bsguley's Office, where ms
clothing was removed disclosing
horrible gaping wound Just above the
left ilium. The wound Is ABOUT lour or
five inches in length and very deep.
The blood was yelling from 1t IN great
spirits and the man grew weak rapioiy
until his mind wandered, and ne I'll
times became difficult to manage by tie
physician. DIR. Bseuley made a super
fi,i,I examination OF the wound and con-
cIn,ied 10 sew it up, which he did, and at
this wiring the negro was as com iortaoie
ss conId be expected. The physician
said he could not tell how deep the
wound was, but in his opinion it vas
most dangerous one. There IS danger
of internal hemmorhage, and In that
event death will ensue.
THE FIGHT.
On the way to the doctors office the
negro told the reporter that he in COM
pany with several other darkeys had been
engaged in serenading during the even
ing, and that they had been followed by
several white men. Finally the negroes
went mp Chapline street to serenade
"Ex-Sheriff Parks" and while
I was sitting there doing
nothing. One OF the white men came
up to me and run knife into my side.
know who he was but won't tell on
him. Ihave had 'sperience OF this kind
before, and / don't want to git any
gentleman into trouble on my account.
This amt much OF cut, anyhow; all l
want is to get it fixed up" BY this
time he had reached the doctors office,
where the reporter left him to get po'
liceman; but had scarcely left him when
his attention was attracted to tie cries
of msn for police near alley 8 and
Market street. Running up to the man
he found smother negro, with his shirt
nearly torn off him, no hat on his
head and nearly crazy either from ex-
element or drink. Officer Wilcox can
up and taking the negro in charge, tool
him TO Bsguley's Office. Then an ex.
| animation showed that some one had
| struck the man in the face with a
stone or cut him with knife, as there
was deep cash in his cheek near the
eye. He gave the name OF John Ma
son, and said he used TO
work with Geye McCully, a
brick mason. He olso said that he was
with the crowd on Chapline street,
when an attack was made upon them,
| during which he was hurt and the oth'
man cut.
There was also another negro in the
crowd called Joe" but he disappeared
and was not seen afterward.
The cutting it appears took place
on the vacant lot east OF the
Lutheran church on Sixteenth street. A
white man who saw the difficulty says
the negroes got to quarreling amorg
themselves, and during the scuttie the
cutting was done. The wounded man
and the negro arrested both certified
that q weite man did it.
Joe Tilden, another negro, was arreS;-
ed by Officer Kennedy at 3 O'Clock this
morning and locked up for with. 1t
is now said that two white men
named O'Mil and White were engaged
in a fight with the negroes, and then
Davenport and the two white men were
stoning each other after the cutting took
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