The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1883-06-23

jury on January 70, 1882. The principal
witness, Mary Butler, however, had in the
meantime disappeared, and although the
other witnesses were present in court none
were called and the bill Of indictment was
submitted to the jury, who returned
verdict Of acquittal. For year after his
arrest and fight Hathaway remained hid
den in Hokendaqua. A year ago last
spring he returned 10 this city and took a
house in Rising Sun lane, two doors west
OF Sixth street.
DENOUNCED BY HIS WIPE.
Nothing further was heard Of him until
in March last his wife visited the Coroner's
office number OF times and said she de-
sired to prosecute her husband for beat
ing and ill.treating her. She declared that
she, too had been many times a victim Of
his nefarious arts, until finally her health
had been sadly impaired. She was his
second wife and had been married to him
fifteen years. She denounced him as
rogue and said that she would expose him
for his brutality to her Son and herself.
During their brief sojourn in the Rising
Sun lane house girls ana women came IN
droyes" to see him for purpose which she
could easily guess. Mrs. Hathaway said
that she had threatened to tell the authori-
ties and that her husband told her that II
she did he would kill her and her son
together. Finally, after enduring her aged
husband 8 schastisement and criminal abuse,
Mrs. Hathaway fled from him and took
refuge with her twelve-year.old son in
Coopersville. She was advised TO lay her
complaint and information before the DIG
trict Attorney.
Business became 80 poor In Rising Sun
after her departure that her husband, after
having been compelled TO leave bis house
and taken up quarters in the stable OF q
kindly neighbor, was obliged to throw
himself upon the bounty OF his wife, and
took up quarters in her house at Fifth and
Bristol streets, In Coopersville, where he
was arrested for the commission Of the
minor crime which led to the discovery Of
his past and more serious ofienses.
how THE DISCOVERY WAS MADE.
Assistant District Attorney Bregy said
he first learned Of Hathaways return to
the city abouta week ago, when he was in
formed that the white.haired malpracti.
TONER was in jail, awaiting trial on the
charge Of assault and bsttery, together with
his twelve year old son, upon Rose Elmer,
a next door neighbor. Mr.. Bregy said he
had the old bill OF indictment hunted up,
charging Hathaway with being the prin.
cipai in procuring the criminal operation
upon Mary Butler, and had it lodge as a
deteiper at the county prison against Hath
away.
The disclosures which baye led to the
discovery Of what one Of the proeeclting
officers felicitously calls "a Golgotha In
cellar" came about by an accidental slip
OF tie tongue. A nephew Of Hathaway's,
named Valentine, who bears an ancient
grudge against his venerable relative and
as souvenir Of . visit to his house in
Rising Sun lane the marks Of wagon
trace, was in court on Tuesday when Hath.
away was brought up from prison on the
assault on Rose Elmer. The boy remarked
in the hearing Of court officer; "Oh,
that's nothing. II ! wanted to could tell
something about that house on Fifth street.
Why, II that cellar was dug up they would
| find not only one, but hundred babies
buried there" The discreet tipstaff pricked
up bis ears and was not laggard about in
forming Mr. Bregy, who Immediately sent
word to the Chief Of Police, asking him to
have somebody detailed to Hlake an inves.
tigation. HRtbayay's trial Oh the ACCUSE.
ton OF assault and battery was deferred
until the determination of thegraver accu-
sation.
DIGGING YoR THE BONES.
Detectives Wolf and Peter Miller were
detailed by Chief Of Police Givin to nc,
company Court Officer Solomon Pugh in
the ghoulish errand OF unearthing the re-
mains at the premises 2+S North Fifth
street. They arrived at The house about
ten o'clock yesterday. mording, and when
they produced spade and warrant Of
law and acquainted the occupants Of the
dwelling, Joseph Ennis and his family,
with the object Of their visit, there was
genuine CONSERVATION among them.
"Ii you will dig under the steps leading
to the cellar you will come upon a pile OF
bodies" the iniormer Is said to have told
the officers. Detective Wolf grasped the
spade and had flung up three or four turns
Of earth before grating sound told that
the implement had encountered something
harder than mother earth. The three men
stopped over and saw that the spade had
crushed through slender, thread'like bones
and had encountered tiny skull, as thin
and bleached as paper, Only about four
inches Of earth had covered It. The bones
were picked up carefully and laid 10
newspaper, and Detective Wolf, removing
his coat, sank the epade into the ground
again. A few inches more there were o
skull and more tiny ribs aud leg bones.
This discovery was repeated. The whole
despeped and widened under the vigorous
delyipg OF the detectives sinewy arms mn
III chasm tonr feet deep and about five
wide showed itself. Then tho perspiring
workman knocked of" and sat on the
cellar steps, TO get bis wind, while petec'
tive Miller and 0fElcer Pugh sorted out the
anatomical specimens.
TwESTY.oSE VICTIMS.
From their ffagmentary condition 1t was
a difficult task, but by plecing together the
little skulls it was estimated that they bad
the remains Of twenty.one little ones that
had been sent prematurely into the world
and had been inferred by Hathaway or his
agents. How many more there might be
concealed beneath the remaining mnte
and undisturbed surface OF the cellar could
not be surmised. The osseous collection
already discovered was sufficient for the
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