The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1883-09-24
sXNALLEGED oUrRAaE
Reported 10 Have Taken Place Across
the River Yesterday. %

the River Yesterday.
A case Of horrible outrage Is reported 10
have occurred yesterday afternoon, across
theriver at Whisky Run, a short distance be.
low West Wheeling. The victim Of this oc-
currence, which, II her story be true, Is one
tof the most dastardly that ever took place
hereabouts, is named Margaret 4 Gonna
way. She ISL aJ15-year old daugh.
ter OF 'Silas Connaway, ST., u coal
miner and brick moulder who resides
in o row OF houses, near the La Belle Glass
Works. Naturally she Ia not bright and a
sickly constitution has tended to make her
mind still weaker. In sizs she 10 not above
that OF the average OF girls OF her age. She
left her home about noon Yesterday, walking
down towards West Wheeling. She returned
In about three hours sick and exhausted, her
dress torn and her body abused. She had
also been hit blow over the eye. y.
She told story TO this effect: That abe had
walked down below West Wheeling, and
when near Whisky Run had met four or five
men, she could not say positively how many,
and kept her there for about two hours, treat.
ing her shsmefully. during that time. She
said she had cried and begged to be released,
and that she had screamed several times.
That finally her screams brought to her
rescue a'young man who had disposed OF her
captors, then taken her to the river, washed
| her face aud escorted her part way home.
Marshal, McConahey was Immediately
notified and called on the girl to get her
story. She told 1t rs above, and also made
the point that the young man who escorted
her home was not 10 be arrested, as he was
her friend. This person Is supposed to have
been Louis Mute, OF this city, whose home Il
in the sixth ward. The Marshal together with
Officer Burdett altar getting the girls story,
started down the railroad track. While pasa-
ing through West Wheeling they saw three
well know characters pulling vigorously
across the river. They landed at the Bel
mont mill. eve didn't think Of them In
could have. ,clught them, t'said Marshal
McConah OF last night while telling an INTEL
LIdEscEs reporter what he knew. about the
case. According 10 his story he and Burdetl
continued down the track, and finding. nc
one returned to West W heeling, where they
were informed that Mute and the girl had
been seen walking down the track together
about noon, and thatin about two hours they
returned together, and tsat alter that, Mute
had gone down BY himself Also, that the
three who hsd crossed the river had run and
ntolen theferry skiti when they SAW the OIL
GERS approaching, and had left the skif on
the other side Of the river.
The men In the skif were Tom Morris
John McDonough and Charles Buokhardt,
and they all oorresponded with the descrip'
lions given by the girlof the men who as,
saulted her. The first two have served terms
In the Reform School, and all Of them &C.
cordlng to the authorities are tough citizens.
None Of them are over 81, years OF age. The
girl has not a, bad reputation. Officer
Burdett was sent over to, this city
TO hunt up the parties named, but upto MID.
night had not met With success. A man
named Bailey was arrested In bridgeport
about 0 o'clock, on suspicion, and taken be,
fore the girl who raid he was not one OF the
party, and be was released. The affair caused
considerable talk In Bridgeport,