Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1883-10-23
He is Unatls - Give an Account of
the Affair and the Mur-
derer is Unknown.
His Father Too Poor to Buy a
Coffin and the Undertake
er Refuses Him One.
Special to The Register.

| three or Tour months aud finally with the
late meeting of the Board OF Directors, be-
fore whom the Intelligencer failed to sus-
tain "Quilp's" charges, it would seem were
prepared to meet most any kind Of excite
ment which might present itself, but on
Saturday morning last the town was
Thrown IntO n Fever of Excitement
when the report was circulated that man
had been mysteriously murdered near Jane
Lew, thriving little village about seven
miles from here. the first station on the
c. ( ". railroad, and situated in the most
wealthy and thickly settled part Of the
county of Lewis. About o'clock Coroner
J. W. Wofrndin and several other citizens
bearded freight train which happened to
be Just leaving for Clarksburg, for the
scene Of the murder, to ascertain if posi-.
6le or get some clue to the murder,
which proved fruitless, Notwithstanding
the most
Careful and Rigid Examination
Of the COrOner's Jury, consuming the whole
day in trying TO ferret the matter out.
After having impaneled a jury consisting
Of the following parIies:J Nj. DAkdn, fore
man, Lon F.anulgan, J. q Jackson, b.
Fiesher f. Harden, J. w. Jackson, Madl-
son Peek, Mortimer Stalnaker, David Cay
ton, ID. c. Mitchell and George Goodwin,
Coroner Wottindin and Prosecuting Attor.
ney Lewis Bennett proceeded to unrayel
the mystery. From the evidence il seems
that Samuel Faulkner,
The Murdered Man,
in company with his step.brother, J. &.
Fury. left Clarksburg on Friday morning
OH a visit TO their father, who lives few
miles from Jane Lew, on what is known as
Gee Lick. They were walking and arrived
at Jane Lew some time about Il or L
o'clock, and after losting about the town
for an hour or so and having partaSen OF
some of the ardent spirits, were pretty well
under the in iuenCe when they started out
of town, and at the railroad bridge they sat
down for a rest While there Henry Rat
! CiT, a resident Of Jane Lew, came up and
gan talking with them. Finally Fury
| started Oft saying it was going to ram, IN
| hopes u at Faulkner would follow suit, but
Faulkner not being in that humor, re-
3 "a. aimed talking with Ratclif. In about lOO
| yards or so from the railroad bridge F1ty
passed out Of sight, and according to his
statement kept on sending word back by
! some parties he met for Faulkner to hurry
Do. Ralc!iT, the man who remained
| Al the Railroad Bridge with Faulk-
ner
| states that he started across the bridge t)
! bis home in Jane Lew, and that Faulkner
/ started on in pursuit OF Fury. lhls was
! the last he saw OF him. Mrs. Hacker states
! that Faulkner came staggering up to her
| house, near where he was found, and in-
( Guired if Fury had passed. From the de-
/ scriptiou Mrs. Hacker gave him OF the
] I I cod ha nv q
Not the Man He Wanted,
| and whirled around and started back to-
ward Jane Lew in the direction he came.
| This was supposed to be about three o CLOCK
| in the afternoon.
| cred by some school children, who went to
| Jane Lew and reported that man was ly-
! ing drunk by the roadside under large
oak tree near bank overlooking the creek,
and that if some one did not attend tQnhlm
he would roll over into the creek. Seeing
the perilous position in which the man
was placed,
| Some Parties Went 10 His Assistance,
! and upon arriving at the scene found that
| the man had rolled over the bank ABOUT
| ten feet, and was lying near the edge ot
| the water. Ore of the party approached
| and asked what was the matter, TO which
| ne replied that he was shot, and upon ex'
animation found that such was the case.
| He was then
| Carried TO DIR. Bailey's Office
ard upon being asked who shot him, re-
| lied that Ounce Cummins shot me, II 1t
| is the last words have to speak
From Fury's testimony upon being re-
| examined il seems that Faulkner recently
rad some difficulty with Cummins, lad
about fifteen years OF age, and u son oil
Thomas Cummings, who lives near the
depot at Clarksburg. Cummings ana soms
other bows got a Joke on Faulkner, and
IPrSisted in keeping il up until he got
tired and said that
Cummins Was Too Small
to strike, but that he would get even with
him in another way, that he had bought
whisky Of his father and paid tor IL; ahu
| that he would inGiCt him. DE bad also
had a ie bit with a man named Joe Weaver
AZ No > mines, near Clarksburg, on the
Saturday, night before, it being the 18Th
| Of the present month, in which CummtnS
is said TO have taken part.
He received the most careful medical
attention at the hands of Or. Bailey, but
Died Abont Nine O'Clock
that evening. He is supposed to be en-
tirely ignorant as to who did the shooting
as be made two other statements on his
death bed, which shows plainly that be
either did not know who did it or that Il
would implicste some one whom he did moi
want TO get into trouble.
one statement was that "he did no.
know who did it, and the other that l.
he lived this matter would all be terreueo
out, as he knew who did it but refuse u
tell" At
The Post Mortem Examination
Iall ~ fnnnC
the bail had entered his right groin, takint
an upward course, passing through th'
liver and lower lobe of his right lung De
hind the upper lobe to the yerteorae OF th'
spinsl column, thence DETECTING to the lei
Groin where il lodged. IL was 81 cahort
6sl and supposed to have been shot from
gun. death being caused from interna
bpmorsge produced by the wound, Tn'
coroner Jury, after q long and tedious
session,
Leaving no stone Untnrned
which would likely give any clue To th'
murder, rendered the verdict as follows
That the deceased came to his deatu from
sun shot wound in the hands Of some un
known person.
There are several theories atioat as 70 whit
did the shooting. One IS that 1t was
spent ball from the gun OF some one shoot
l u
general opinion is that the ball would no
have taken the course it did had it been
spent ball, as the parties who were shoot
ing were three or
-Four Hundred Yards Away,
besides the ball would not have had forct
enough to carry that far. The guns wert
carefully examined and one OF them prove
10 be a thirty two cslibre, the same as th'
hall found in the corpse, but upon compari
son il was found that the rifles of the gur
did not fully correspond with the indent
ures of the bail, besidrs the parties wh'
were shooting in the meadow testified tbs
they were shooting in so entirely ditferen
direction from where the man was found
The theory which
Gains the Most Crelenee
is that the person who did toe shooting
WAS hid along the creek bank and shot rp
| wards the hank being almost perpendIcu