The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1883-08-27
A mOK.lBLE STORY
Uf MuIder-A woman's Version Dis
proved by Her u nsband.

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proved by Her Il Husband.
VICKsHURG, Miss, August 25.-From
gentlemen who arrived from Rolling Fork it
is learned that the investigation, held in
that town last Monday and Tuesday, Of the
charges against the two men o'Neil and
March, arrested last Saturday by Deputy
Sheriff Judge Powell, for the burning Of
the store OF George +. Ring & Co., on the
night Of March 4, 1873, and the murder Of
IL inmates, five in number, resulted in the
discharge oil the parties accused OF the
crime. The statements Of Mrs. 0'Ssil led
TO the arrest OF the two men; they
were made to Deputy Sheriff Powell and
Others before the arrest. II appears
tnat disagreement between 0'Neil, one
OF the parties arrested, and his wife,
about two years ago, led 10 separation and =
suit for divorce. The woman told Powell
that after she left o'Neil he continued to
petsecute her, and IN order to rid herself Of
his malevolence she was compelled to make
the disclosure, which she did, in which she
declared that her husband and his brother
ln.law, Marsh, had burned Rings store,
and murdered Mr.. and Mrs. Moore, Willie
jones and Joe Ring and Gouchet, ten
years ago, and that their object was rob-
hery. Her version Of the affair wss that
the men had come to the 0'Neil house,
about four miles from the scene OF the
tragedy, on the night OF the occurrence,
muddy, bloody, and laden with bolts OF dry
goods; she said she had still some OF the
goods which they then brought home in
her presence, and she showed Mr.. Powell
a dress, which she said was made up from
A bolt Of calico taken from the. burned
store.
THE woNAS's STORY.
Prnuiug her story, Mrs. o'Neil told how
her husband, while laboring under excite.
ment, had related to her the particulars Of
the murder, and according to her account
the two men entered the store, which was
a two.story building, by climbing into one
of the upper windows, the isstenings Of
which had been neglected. They iirst en-
tered the room occupied by Moore and his
wife, and dispatched them in their bed.
the instrument OF death used being a wood.
en- small axe. The room oil Willie Jones
Was next entered. The little fellow had
been kept awake by the pain in his
arm, which he had broken q few days
before, by falling from q tree, and
pleaded p!tifully for his life. The crash
Of an axe through his skull stilled mis- cries
forever. Gouchat, the clerk, was the
next victim Of the axe, and the murderers
were proceeding down stairs to rob the
store, when they heard door open, and
rushing out found that it was Joe Ring,
who had been awakened by the noise they
made, and was running towards the woods
for safety. He was pursued and overtaken
on the brink Of the SunaOwer river. One
death-deaiing blow from an axe In the
hands OF O'Neil ended his life, and the
and the two men then threw his body into
the river and returned TO the store and
completed their work of rohbing and as
son. This, according to Mrs. O'Neil, &C:
counted for the fact that the remains ot
Joe Ring we're not discovered amid the
ruins after the burning, when the other
bodies were discovered. When put TO the
lttst Of judicial statement the men sue