The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1884-09-04
$500 REWARD!T.5.
OFFERED ny SHERIFF sEDwrc1s

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OFFERED ny SHERIFF sEDwrck
For Emmett Mitchell, tho Murderer OF Chas.
Grlneth, ut Loydsviilc Tuesday Night.
A Description Of the. Fugitivc-A
Murder In Rraxton County.
The following telegram was received at
the lNTELLloExcER Office last night. It
explains itself: @la li,tst,.'i p
ST. CLAinsvtLLE, o., September 3.
4 will pay Gve hundred dollars for the
arrest ind delivery to mo at this place of
Emmct Mitchell, who murdered Charles
Griffith, OF this county, OH last Tuesday
night. Mitchell Is dark Completed, full,
smooth face. and snail, dirk mus,achc.
las II downcast look; Ia about twenty.six
years old about five feet ten inches high;
weighs about one hundred aud eighty
pounds. Walks with Il slovcnly walk, and
shows TINT he Is addicted 10 strong drink.
I.Enof q. SEDwlcS,
Sheriff OF Belmont county, Ohio. Y
u MlrcliElI.'s FATHERS STORY. l@.!
At st. Clairsvillc and Louisville tho
Nitchell.Grillith tragedy Of Tuesday even
ing,is still an absorbing topic. Yesterday
afternoon MI ISrELLlGEScEn reporter drove
10 the scene OF the murder nnd learned
some facts In regard TO the bloody deed,
Mr.. David Mitchell, aged scvcnty.ninc
years, father Of tho murderer, was first
seen. lie said: Between five and six
o'clock yesterday evening was about my
house, threc-quarters OF mile south OF
Louisville. heard two pistol shots fired
close together, and started down the road
in the direction Of Gritliths, which Is sev.
eral hundred yards from my house. Go.
ing n short distance met my son En.
NETT, who said in an excited manner.
I've shot Charley Griffith; | had to do Il
down tho road and found Griffith lying on
the ground ind his horse standing quietly
beside him. saw that he was dead and
hallooed for help, when Sheridan Ilaw-
thorne and afterwards others came. led
Griilith's horse homc.' n
.v mi ORIGIN OF TIE rEuD.
The trouble arose several years aco
about u road, and Griffith and Mitchell
have quarrclcd ever since more or less, At
one time Griffith had him arrested. and
Mitchell was fined Il dollar and costs At
this trial il man testified that Mitchell had
said, II want to kill Il mau-Charley Crit
fifth" 'sl.s;s5
Griffith was man OF hasty temper, and
their "spats" were frequent. Once, Il
friend OF ,Griilith's states, Mitchell pissed
Griffith on the road. They were both on
horses. Emmett suddenly wheeled around
and started toward him with the remark,
snow III kill the s--n of;a bib" Grit
fifth drew revolver and told him 10 adj
vance ii he dared. But he didn't.
Griffith claimed that Mitchell had thrown
rails OIL the roMl, but there is no evidence
al. this rs now known,
TIE MuRDEn.
Mitchell had been blowing all day and
was returning home, 4 few feet past
Grlt'th's he mot l|rltllth Oh hlA why
to Louisville TO attend n meeting Of the
Republican club, Of which he was q incnr
Der. No one knows what passed between
them, but two reports We're heard and the
horse was soon after found standing over
the PROSTATE form Of the murdered man.
His face was covered with blood and lie
was cold in death: The bullet bad on:
,eyed the ncfk two and 4 half inches be-
low the mastoid process, on the left side,
and passed inward, forward and upward,
coming in contact with the first bone Of
14s spinal eo!4mA, iiraett!Hrlng the, h9ne and
lodged behind the nastoid process On the
figbt side; 4 heavy cane lay beside him
and loaded rer9lyer vas II his pocket.
He lad carried this revolver ever since the
first trouble with MITCHELL. ~
After the shooting Mitchell went home
ssfEaan sss III s Rse g baaS g. assf NJ ia
ones-and went OH the run to Nlahlon
Hatcher's house. lie was intensely agi-
{PissA, ;nHd eitfE boEEgMing do31@r too!l
went to Thomas Den,ieys,' fwShefj he l rS.
peatcd his story. Where he went from
that place is not known.
/ The pistol used was a thirty-two calibre.
4!tE A!p!KRRRBR:
Emmett Mitchell is about twcnty.eight
years old. He was Il bright and prcco-
cious boy, but soon began to drink heavi-
", HAd was rapidly on the downward
He has been constant terror to ali re-
siding in his part OF the county. lie has
been repeatedly arrested there and else
where for aFunkepness md wes snee IN:
alcted toE: carrying epncea!eh Weapons,
PVT the indictment WAS nollf prostquitd:
~. HOW HE GOT DEER:
He was also before the 0raitd Jury for
forging medical prescriptions for the pur-
pose Of getting liquor. He wrote and
s' MH " HHBe el Rsf Eys Hmmett Mitch
ell cider and beer ior lis stomacl,'s sake.
1T, g, PAINS, NJ, D."
For these forgcries he escaped nuntsh-
been painting the different little towns
around rod merely rs q paslime.- He WIS
good:hcartcd, kind and genial when sober,
but was the essence OF cussedncss when
intoxicated. At the time OF the murder,
however, he was not drunk. s5SS
lis father, agea seyenty-ninc, and his
mother, aged Sixly:eIght yeaFs, aFc oyer-
whelmcd with grief at their wayward sons
act and they have the sympathy Of the
entire ncighborhood in their severe ali]ic,
tlon. a. II. and Wilson, his brothers, are
prominent attorneys ut the St. Gainesville
bar. , & - 55st.fts+ syyf 4
The victim and the family of the MIR
derer'Qrc highly respected citizens:
Earring Ills hasty temper GriNilh's
Malls were fow, and he bud numerous
@ GmPplTIl's HORSE SHOT.
twas some time after the homicide
that " was discovered that Grihi.h's
horse, too, had been wounded by. one OF
the two shots. The bullet had struck II
about ten inches back Of the right car,
producing Il wound five inches deep,
The bill could not be extracted, $500
From eleven 10 ono O'Clock on Tuesday
night, Drs, Estcp and Parks, OF Loylsville,
conducted the post 1noriem examination,
The fact was developed that Mitchell must