The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1885-09-30
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The Body Of TIN yun at Concord TX.
hnmed by the Coroner.
ON The 22ndina, Drs. Barbee {
Mossman, at the instance of lhg
Prosecuting Attorney, proceeded /,
the scene Of the hangingd the mar
found on Five Nile a week or s.
ago, in company With Justic,
Franklin, Of this place, aud exham
ed tbebody. heircouelusions art
given below.
The impression formed by The
people If that neighboThn0d that il
was u Gaze Of murder and robbery
seems to have been correct, and I
proper investigation at the FIRST in
guest might have resulted in tn,
detection OF the murderer or muir
dsrets But il is not too late nov
to hunt up the murdGrors, as there
are many things that point to witt
they are. The renple demand thai
the County Court shall take soml
action in'this matter, by Offering {
reward for the apprehension Of The
murderers. They are highly in
censedrand will wait a reasonable
time for their action in this mat
ter, SO they say, and II the CourI
does not dosomething towards help
Ing TO ferret out the murderers
they propose to take the law in
their own hands, and do some hang
ing. They say The family who
committed the crime are residing
There, aud thereis not u man il
the whole neighborhood but what
believes them guilty. Such q
crime as this ought not to be light
ly passed over every effort ought
to be put forth 10 huntup the mur.
derers, no matter at what cost
Below is the report of the Doctors
and the verdict Of the Jury Of In.
quest:
Drs. A. R. Barbeo and E J. Moss
man after exanling the remains Of
the body Of the supposed Green
Lakewood. from Ohio, who wa.
exhumed yesterday, stated to the
Coroner's jury that they found the
thin portion Of the temporal bono
of the left side Of the head fractured
and third rib Of the right side alst
fracturedj also, from the character
of his hair believed that the de
ceased was II mixture of the whit,
and colOrcd race-perhaps about
threp.rourths white blood.
Daniel Anderson (colorcd), sworn
stated that Green tlaalewood, {
very bright mulatto from 0hiC
stayed all night with him some
time the latter part of May, or frs
Of June; that he stated he was il
search Of u locality for a blacksmith
shop; that he wanted to pnrchas,
n little home Ut a cost OF $50 t.
800. Stated that HazIewoJd wa.
from forty-iiyo to fifty years of age
about 5 feet, Z OF S inches high, hac
thin, sandy WHISPERS; was a quick
spoken, talkative man, with goui
deal Of style; generally had money
Anderson swore positively to tn
coat, pantaloonS, vest, shirt ant
hat found with the dead body, as
being scientifically the same as worr
by Green Hazlcwood the night ht
spent with him on the occasion
above referred to, and that hc als,
had and used spcctaclcs the nigh
spent with him.
YIN. Anderson (cololcd) from
Ohio, sworc to the pantalo0ns ant
vest as hoing the same worn by
Green IIaalcwOod about the tim,
he left Ohio in May for West Vir-
gmia. wherpnpon the coronor's
jury rendered the following verdict
to coroner W. franklin:
State Of West Virginia, Mason Co
tnwit:
An inquisition taken at Couch's
Farm, in the county Of Mason, Oh
the 22d day ofSeptember, 1885, be
fore W. Franklin, coroner Of tho
said county, upon the view tho
dead body supposed to be of Greer
Lakewood there lying dead: The
jurors sworn to inquire where, how
and by what means the supposed
said Green Lakewood came to hi!
death, upon their oaths do say
That the party came to his deatl
first by Il blow upon the left side o
the head, fracturing the thin por
ton of the Temporal and SphGnOiC
bones, with perhaps other injuries
received about the chest as evinCeC
by a fractured rib on the right side
[Signed]
John R. Couch, ]. w. Sanders, ]
B. Tippett, ]. +. Eastman, Dandy
Mitchell, J. 7. Shepard, Wilson DAY
Isaac FadelY, John P. Austin, G
Bechtle, W. v. Dabney, Frank
Day.
An ouTRAGE.-Another outrag,
has been committed on the Fiv,
Mile road. This time a WORTHLESS
negroe, named VIM. Smith, OF
Monday, attacked Charles Martin
son of Mr.. Prestly Martin, while OF
his way home in a wagon, and at