Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1884-12-11
ANOTHER MURDER
Rellaire Adds One to the List Of Muir
ders in Belmont County.

ders in Belmont County.
Samuel Day, well-to-do farmer o
Mead tp, went into Bellaire last Wednes
was carried home the next morning IN ;
lc0ffin, having been stabbed 10 death b.
Oliver T. Borham.
The particulars of the tragedy ar
about as follows: On tBat afternoon
Samuel Day sold his cattle 10 Borham
whose father is butcher, and some dis
pute was raised about the price. Dal
claim ing that S5 was coming to hiIn, ap(
BOrham holding that he had paid the ful
amount They agreed to settle the dis
pute by game of seven up. and went il
Monahan's saloon to play the game, which
was won by Day. In the meantime they
were joined by ex-policeman, Shannon
\ Archer, and considerable drinking was
INDUCED in. After Time, Day eonclud.
ed to GO home. and was assisted on bis
horse by his two com panions, " no started
to accompany him out OF town. one on
either ride ofShe horse.
As hey were crnssiIg the McM..h ,s 8
creek bridge, a iispu arose. ABA az
counts Conflict as Iu the ,xa.-t nsiGiv Il
ly stabbed by Borham. aud Archer, vino
was aD old tnsmy. severely cut about
the head aud ACE.
The cutiing nccurreG at about o clock
ia the evening, aud Day 'iiea auou, half
past one O'Clock the same night. Having
been told by Drs. Close and steers that
he had bat few hours to live, ne made
an anle-innItsID statement, saying There
had been no quarrel. but that Bpr.iam
h4d pulled hiI1 of his morse And eGt
him."
All the parties had evidently been
driGki,g seayIIy, and Archer seemed to
pe rather mixed in his account of the
affray. but said they we're talking about
a horse race, when the next thing he
knew they were scuff1ing. He stepped
around the horse, and saw Borhan make
a pass at Day. after which he (Areher)
was cut, aud would most likely have also
been killed. had not Borham been taken
OF him BY man from Ben wood. who
happened along.
Borham gave himself up, and on his
person was found belt, containing
he would not have given himself up had
he known Day was mortally injured.
On Friday, the preliminary examina
tion of Borham was held before Mayor
Cooper, of Bellaire. when about the above
facts we're testified to. Drs Close aud
Steers testified as TO the nature of the
wounds, that they had evidently been
made with sharp. double-edged knife.
The wounds were described as two punc-
lures and one ineisive. The incisive
wound was ever the left elbow, and
made cash of about two and one half
inches. The first punctured wound was
one over the left scapula, extending in
wards and upwards to depth of two
and half inches; the second punctured
wound was two inches below and two
inches to the left of the nipple. passing
through aud cutting off the sixth rib,
and passing into the apex Of the right
ventricle of the heart.
After the testimony was taken. the
Mayor committed the prisoner to Jail
without bail, on charge Of murder in the
first degree, and he was accordingly
brought to st. Clairsvilie op Saturday
and lodged in Jail. Borham was at th-s
time under bond for appearance at pres-
ent term of court to answer charge OF
aggravated assault. for having severely
injured Dallas Hammond with stone,
on the night of the Blaine meeting in
His defense will be that the
cutting was in self-defense.
Another version, and the one most
geRerally accepted, is that Archer had
started to accompany Day home alone.
and that Boihan joined them on the
bridge, after passing his slaughter house
and homo. Tbe theorists claim tbassl
Borh&m did not kn0w Archer wss pres
snt wben he came UP to Day. and that
bis object Was to get hold of the roll of
money he had paid to him. Days pock-
cts being cut gives c0lor to this theory.
There was some testimony introduced
that tended to strengthen this theory of |
the crime; bat it may be that as there
seems to have been NO object known for
the crime. that this theory is made to |
give an object.
Samuel DAY, The murdered man. leaves
= wife and one child. He was soarin> |
av Of E. F. Cash, Esq. having mafried |
his daughter something over a year ago. /
His brother-in-law, w. B. Cash, Clerk of |
Courts, was telsgrsphed and went i'm
nediateiy to Bellaire. and with Days
Two brothers. accompanied the remains |
to his former home in Mead tp., from
which place the funeral occurred on