Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1883-05-01
THE WRONG STIFF.
The Father Finds the Wrong crave
and Gets the Wrong Child.

Col. Sep. Hall, OF Wetzel, was in the city
yesterday, and a REGISTER reporter ad q
talk with him in relation to the corpse
sensation from that place, an account of
which appeared in these columns. This
account scored up the New Martlnsville
papers for not catching on" to the affair,
which provoked the Democrat INTO retort.
The man who gave thekaccount here
screened himself behind Certsin questlOna-
able statements, in the course of which in.
Justice was done, but only by inference,
10 Michael Herrigan, the sexton at New
Martinsyille. Col. Hall says Herrigan I'M
derstands that he was not the sexton re-
ferred 10, and of course the Dsm0rra''> talk
is all sarcasm. The Wheeling man was
named Hayne, and the corrected story APP
pears in the account subjoined. lis given
in full, because the introduction is written
in the Captains own inimitably humorous
style:
The city editor of the REGISTER is the
very early bird himself. He finds out
everything that happens down here, while
the New Martinsville papers are sound
asleep. His local column is a fireworks of
uClI0u. Last CaIuLuaN uutuin5 hv SuteI-
tanned mis- readers with thrilling romance
entitled "A Ghoulish Sexton" The sum
and substance of which was to the effect
that Wheeling. Patri!cian whose child
had been buried in an unconse-
Grated New Martinsville graveyard,
had made the horrible discovery that the
"ghOulish sexton" had stolen the body OF
his child aud sold it to the doctors aud
buried plebian infant in its stead. Worse
than all, he had exchanged the burial case
in which the Wheeling child's aristocratic
corpus had been placed for miserable COM
mon thing such as New Martinsville people
are usually buried in. Now this is what
the early bird editor OF the REGISTER found
out.
But the after breakfast bird OF the Demo.
crit didn't find it out that way. This is
what the after breakfast bird found out:
A Wheeling man had child buried in a
New MAJ tinsville graveyard and wished to
remove the body to more sacred soil. The
child'S body was enclosed in burial case
brought OF a New Martinsville undertaken,
J. n Coulter, but the Wheeling man had
never paid for it, The Wheeling man
heard that the New Martins.
vile undertaken meant to levy a Chicago
execution upon the burial case as soon as
it should be unearthed. Then the Wheel.
ing man tried to hire the ghouliSh sexton
to dig up the body by night and ship it to
wheeling on the Regular, early IN tue
morning but the sexton didn't banker to
be caught digging up dead people at mid
night. So the Wheeling man hired another
man and pointed out the wrong grave him.
self and the another man" dug up the
wrong child and shipped it to Wheelingand
the Wheeling man had heap of troub.
lie because he wouldn't pay an honest debt.
Now the father of the wrong child meaus
to have the Wheeling man arrested il he
ever dares to plant hoof in Wetzel county,
and Michael Herrigan, the sexton intends
10 sue the REGISTER for libel, and the New
Nartinsville undertaken says he is going to
have that burial case back or explode dy-
Mantle in al the cemeteries round Wheel
ing, and about every other man YOU meet
wants to know about that early bird editor
and calls him a dam musical instrument
and says that he is going up to Wheeling
TO play on him,