The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1882-07-31
KILLED HIS BROTHER:
sTEuBENvlLLE FRATRlclpE.
!oha iIArter hadaen.d With Liquor Shoots ms
Brother Dead WLIle D.fsndluT Ills Father
Fron Ills Attacks Tao Murderer Bssin. y
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Special to the ln,ellIsc,necc,r..

Special 10 the IntellIgcnccr. Y =; /; tfS3s
srEunESvlLLE, July 29.-Our town to-day
added one more to her already too long
list Of mortal and other great crimes, in The I
death, by the hand Of his brother, Of Ed
ward Harter, youngest son Of our old and /
respected citizen VIM. H. Harter. /! The
circumstances OF the crime are about as \ l
follows: John Harter Is, or has been, On.
eed in the hotel business, having leased tho
St. Charles Hotel building from his father,
last spring. Boarding with him has been
Dr. Q. Z. johnson, who had in his employ
boy named lleston. IIarter being on a !
drunk, abused l1eston in some way, and 4
the latter went before the Mayor to.day,a
had Harter arrested and taken before ihats
official, by whom he was fined, and returns!
ed to the hotel highly incenscd against Dr.s!
Johnson, toward whom he seems 10 have, !
ielt great dislike, and whom he no doubt
blamed for putting the boy up \
making complaint against him.
Swearing vengeance against tho Docs
tor, John started up stairs, with
the intention Of entering = the Doc.sS3S
tors room and having a settlement
with him. In the second story hall, Hars
ter senior, father OF John, placed HIMSELF
beforp the maddened son, and sought tos} tos3}
paciiy him, but this only seemed to make;S i
John more violent, and he drew revolver Il
threatening his father. Thiswas seen; by a Z
person passing the hotel, who ran into thesB
jewelry store OF William Harter, Jr., in 81
the first story Of the hotel, where Ed aar-sS III
ter, the youngest brother OF John, was at 4 +
work, and told him Of the trouble. 4 Ed y
ran at once to the assistance OF his father,.Ei
and mounting thestairs hastily ran between Is
the two men. Instantly John lcyeled .theEEE
revolver on him and fired, the ball enter;
ing on the left side OF the breast and pene. =
t:ating near to, ii it did not n c. the Leait. M
Ed tell 10 the floor, whence he was borne TO m
chamber near by and laid on bed. 4 He NJ
was beyond all help and expired IN a few II
minutes. John, still wild, tlourished the q
revolver, and it was not until after strug-I 4
gle, in which Josiah B. Salmon was shot in vi
the thumb, that the weapon was wrested II
from him, and he was placed under arrest. # %fS
John seems to have fred three shots in nil. a.
The first shot, at the father, missed its aim, 4
the second killed Ed, and f3the ~
third was that which Salmon received. III
Ed Harter will be remembered as the e
young man who killed George Aldridge ins35
the McCrvstal den few months ago, and .FFs
for which odense he was under Indictment N
at the time OF his death. The parents have III
the deep sympathy OF our people in this ~
terrible double atfllction. Is IA
TIE rosT MoHrElf. I'd
Special Dispatch to the lu,elliSences. x Il
STEvDESvlLLE, ,July30.-Thcpost mortem q
on the body OF Ed Harter, murdered by his 81
brother John yesterday, shows that the Il
bullet passed through the cartilage OF the 53s
first rib to the left OF the breast bone, cut z
ting the LETT sub-cavian artery in its course n
and lodging in the left process OF the sec
ond lumba vertebrae. The blood rushing II
through the wounded artery soon filed the IS
left thoracic cavity, death resulting from
the hemorrhage. The heart was found &S
empty. Harter's funeral will take place NJ
tomorrow afternoon The Murderer is ~
SOLDERING up in prison and begins to realize
the enormity OF his oiiense and the serious ~
ness OF his own position.