The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1884-06-20
jim GULLEY'S END.
4 BRIEF euT tvlL LIFE CUT SHORT
BY Deliberate SuieIds Y.alsrdsy---Oae OF Tho "BoI
Fire Buss"' who STARTED the Diasasrous Fire Z
on MAiket Street Ia 'si. Cho9s,s . watsry
Gra,e-.Ths Body Not Y@ fouad.

A little brief excitement was created on
Market street yesterday by the drowning OF
boy, but the interest did not last long. Yet
behind II Is a story without parallel In the
local annals Of tragedy and crime. Jim
Gullsy, a boy Of seventeen years or 90, was
working on fat boat, which was being IN.
loaded otis carSo oil brick Tor the Board OF
Public Works, by q gang OF prisoners from
the city workhouse. Gulley was ono Of tho
prisoners, and was sitting on the barge with
4 heavy chain, but without ball, attached
to Ills leg. Suddenly he rose, took oil bis
coat and shoes, and deliberately
walking across the barge on which
he WIS working and another tied
outside Of her, leapsd into the river.
Tho weight Of the chr'n rank him ut once 10
the bottom, and be did not again rlso. Some
people were inclined TO think yesterday that
Gullsy's Idea was 10 swim 10 the Island and
escape. but this would have been hopeless
undertaking. There 10 no reason TO doubt
that 1t was o case OF deliberate suicide, as
Gulley told Oharlee Bradley yesterday that
he would rather drown than bs In prison
always, and declared his intention Of coul-
mittiug suicide. Il "a
GULLxy's RK03RD.
Gulley was recently discharged from the
peniteniiary at Moundsville, having served a
term OF three years for arson. He was one Of
the four boys who were arrested In 1881 for
setting fire TO O shed In the alley In the rear
OF N. Shulz's confectionery, on Market street.
which spread to the adjoining buildings snd
consumed In all about $50. 600 worth OF prop.
e,ty. Gulley,. boy OF abou! the same sge,
named Davis, Johnnie Holmes and poodle
Price, two lads OF eleven or twelve, were
charged with the crime. but Price was &C.
quilted and Holmes WAS discharged on al.
count Of his extreme youth. Gulley and
aud by good behavior shortened this term
considerably. They camc home only few
weeks sgo. Davis las sincs manifested q dis
positiou to behave himself properly, and hs,
Joined church aud so far led al upright and
honorable lille. Gulley hGs done nothing
since liz regained lis liberty but loaf around
his old haunts, In company with older char
actsrs OF suspicious Bort. i9ti,',,l-ly
tr% A Y:RMER ArrEvIr ON HIS LIFE. ~
|H'Last week ho and Jabs Gosney, regular
yisitant at P0llcs Court, were loungiug Oh
the wharf one night, when Ollics:s Junk!nt
and Bellyille arrested them for vagrancy
Gulley jumped IN the>river, with the evident
| Vi oGs AK
followed him, and succeeded In preventing
the desperate boy from carrying out hi.
suicidal purpose. He YVES taken to the lock
up, aud being arraignsd 10 Police Court thu
next morning, wa sentenced to four month!
imprisonment in the city workhouss. H.
has since been working on the chain gang
whenever there was work to do, until no pm
a stop 10 work and imprisonment aud mis-
worthless lie 1T once. H'' "a
When Gulley jumped off the boat, Officer
Thompson and FOX, who had charge of tht
gang, were engaged on shore. fixing plant
10 wheel tho brick sc-oss, and did not Sc,
him. A number Of people on this wharf did
but thinking he was trying to escape, and re
gardipg II as good j'ke on the officers, sale
nothing until 1t WAS too late to resoue III,
boy. Word WAT a! once sent 10 Superinten
dent Maloney, Of the work house, aud Mayo
Miller, and search was made for the body
but without result. sgd arHr