The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1883-01-08
NOT A GOOD FAMILY.
History OF Youthfal Desperado's
HeartleSs Crime.

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BKLLroS, January g. The country
around here is considerably stirred up
over the probable result Of what was
thought fora whileto bethe thoughtless and
careless shooting OF one Of the notorious
Good family, by another member of Il.
There is one Jake Good living four
miles from here, brother OF the two Bell
aire Goods and an uncle OF Abe and Jesse
who are now awaiting trial at st. Claims.
vile. They are bad set. Jake served
one term in the penitentiary Just after the
war.
Some time last fall David Good, ir, (son
OF the BelIaire Good and who is only
fourteen and one.half years of age, almost
fatally stabbed in three places, the Oldest
boy OF Thomas Good, lad OF fifteen years,
and who lives with his father in Bellaire,
and to evade arrest there he ran away
from home and came to his uncle Jake
Goods near here. But it was not long until
the evil that was in him again asserted
itself.
HOW TIE SHOOTING WAS DONE.
This lad and two OF Jake Goods sons
went out to gather grapes and hunt, and
not finding any game they went up into 2
cluster Of bushes for grapes, and while
Jake'stwo boys were getting grapes David
Jr. was swapping about with shot gun,
and all at once, said he believed he would
"kiti a SNOW bird" and pointing right at
the boy in the bush shot thirty.seyen ordi-
nary squirrel shot into his thigh and hip,
and laughed at the result. There has been
an effort to make people believe that 1t
was an accident, but eight weeks suffering
and the probability that the boy will now
die, or be crippled for life, has taken the
mask oil, and since, the boy swore hewould
kill the other boy OF Jake's before he left,
his uncle has concluded to have him ar
rested before he carries out his threat The
boy says there are now too many Goods,
and it's best to thin them out with shot.
THE YOUTHFUL DESPERATE.
He has the worst face on him that could
be found in any rogues gallery in the
land. Abe Good, his brother, has served
two terms at Aloundsyille, one for robbing
H. S. Whites store and one for breaking
open cars and throwing out goods as they
were moving TO confederates who would
get them and divide. 1t was for this of
fence that he and his brother Jesse were
sent up for three years some years ago,
and their father, David, barely escaped, as
some OF the goods were found there.
When the arrests were attempted to be
made by Martin Cooley and others Of the
Baltimdfe & Ohio Railroad employees, Off
GERS and citizens, the house was surround
ed at night and in the shortest time i'm
Imaginable the whole Good family were
prepared for war, and with yells and
shouts sent many Of the police force
lodging and running TO the bushes, and
when the second assault was made on the
house they all got away and were arrested
on Little Fishing creek, in Wetzel county,
two weeks afterward. When Abe reached
Littleton, he tried 10 throw himself across \
the railroad track and let the train pass
over him.
PERSONNEL OF TIE FAMILY.
None Of them are men who drink very
much and are all good laborers, but the
evil spirits that were in the swine o. old,
seem to have been transferred to the Good
family.
They came from Greene county, Pa, to
near Bellton, Just after the war, and two
years ago the two brothers, Dave and Tom,
moved to Bellaire. All have large families
Of boys growing up, and It Is hard 10 tell
what next will happen.
The lad who did the shooting Is Of heavy
built, large head and red hair.
DR.. S. B. Stedgcr, Of Moundsyille, was
summoned by telegraph to-day, to operate
on the boy that was shot, and possibly to
amputate his limb, near :he hip.