Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1886-05-10
A FAIR MURDERESS.
Tho Examination of Ettis KniseIsy
in Richie County.
A Wife and Mother EIOpes With Her Hus-
bands Employer - A Water
Spout 49, Suicide ---Ac-
cidentally Killed.

tY, recently, IL low III progress pelOEo
Squire Bolivar Reed, Of Clay district, that
county. Thirty or forty witnesses have
been summoned to testify. The attending
physician gave a description of the horrible
wounds which caused ths death of the
woman. Mrs. Angelina Simonds told of
Etta's coming for her after the murder.
Eta told her she was sitting in a rocking
chair when the murder was committed,
when in fact there was no rocking chair
in the room
A startling discovery already made
since the progress OF the examination is q
revolver, concealed in the foundation Of
the house, where the crime was committed
Several of the cartridges Of this weapon
we're discharged. 1t is a Smith & Wesson
revolver, Of heavy calibre, self
cooking, and one OF the finest
weapons made. The muzzle was bloody
This pistol belongs to Wesley Kniseley,
EFta's brother, q youth of eighteen or nine
teen years OF age. 1t disappeared from
the top shelf OF a high cupboard. Many
people think Mrs. Hsrdesiy was killed
with it and that the horrible mutilstion of
her head was done for the purpose of con-
cealing this fact. The dead body was ex-
burned to ascertain if there were any balls
in the head, but none were found.
The Richie Gazette thus describes Eta
kniseley as she appeared when brought
into the court for trial:
Eta Kniseley is a tall, slender girl,
with a shapely form, and a bright. pleas,
ant face. Evidently she is q person OF in
t~elligence and seems modest and unassum-
ing. she would not be chosen from
among an sssemblsge of her sex 81 the
one capable of such q crime as that with
which she is charged. When brought
into the court room, in custody, she WAS
cool and collected, and beyond an occa-
8 olsl slight twitcbing of the muscles OF
her mou h, nothing showed what her emo.
tons were. Her cslmness, whether she
is innocent or guilty, is surprising. She
is veiy youthful looking"
Mr.. Jonathan Getz, who resides near
Masonvl Q. GraDt county, suffered a loss
OF about $500 from the bursting of a
cloud, or waterspout, on his farm, about 2
o'clock on Monday last. 1t had bsen rain
ing for about half an hour, when the
clouds seemed TO meet, and an inch Of hail
covered the ground, in a few minutes. and
was followed By torrents of water, which
literally covered everything. There ia a
small run, passing near the house, which is
not more than O few inches wide, and il is
only u quarter of q mile to the head, where
the water 0ivides In fifteen mi0utes' time
the water had carried away HE still house,
m%ilkhonse, wash.house and sugar camp,
hlied the yard with rocks and logs so that
1t was impossible TO get in or out with a
horse, and came near taking his grain sta.
BILE. A willow tree that stood in the yard,
about a foot and a half in diameter, was
washed out by the roots. and several small
trees swep, away. The place is greatly
damaged, though the actual loss is not
known.
On Sunday evening OF last week just a
lit e after dark, John w. Price. who lives
on Beech Fork Of Twelve Pole, Wayne
county, and Mrs. Dicey Wart, wife Of
Nicholas Warf, a tenant Of Mr.. Price, dis.
appeared and have not returned as get
Iuqulries have revealed the fact that they
left together in the direction Of kentucky,
aud are pro5ablygoGe to stay. Mr.. Wart
discovered fis wife's uutaithtulness and her
intimacy With Mr.. Price O few days pre-
vious 10 their departure, and charged them
with it on the same day they Left. Price is
about 40 years Of age, q married man with.
out children. Mrs. Warf is about ~ or 20,
and has two small children, who are left 10
the care Of their father. She is said to be
quite a pretty woman, and bore o good
reputation before her recent rash step
Mr. Price is a man Of considerable means
and his conduct has surprised his neigh.
bora very much, as it WAS supposed he had
sown his wild oats sone years past.
On Saturday morning last the citizens
ofFranklin, PeDdleton county, were startled
aud shocked by the report that Geo. Dab
mer, confined in the Jail on the charge of
iunacy, had hung himself in his cell. Mr..
Dahmer had taken his drawers and tiea
them around one Of the bars of the door
aud getting upon a chair, tied them around
AiS neoE, aud then sinking down. straugled
himself. His fee; were still resting upon
thu chair, the knees .iBclining outward, the
back and head toward the door. Mr.
Dahmer had been conf2ed ia i4il as a
some tina previons to this, but
indications 0! improvement he had
been taken home by his friends aud was
only returned to Jail the day before the
suicide.
e man By the nalae OF Cooper, who re-
sided near Pennshcro was found dead near
that place 4 day last week. l.
seems from the evidence that h.
had been failing for a long time. and
by his physicians 10 bs in Il serious
condition, that he left his home on III day
to 60 TO Pennsboro for some
medicine for bimself, had reached town
procured the preparation that he wanted,
home, and it Seems had got of bis
horse from oil appearance, and fell dead
N the road, aud was found so by come one
passing that way.
Thursday morning about mite o'clock
Loomss Ferrell, 3 prominent and we'll to
ci,isen # Calhoun county, met his
death by accident. He was assisting in
come timber be ownei into the
at GraDtsVille, when he was caught
~ a rush OF logs aud crushed TO death
was q pubic spirited man and was
spoken Of for ShstiG. His
iesth causes general regret.
Mrs. Jacob Reel, of Mill creek, Grant
last week, gave birth to three chill
lren, all of which, at LAST accounts, we're
Icing well THE is the second time Mrs
Rel has given birth to ttipletts. During
he Tilden and Hendricks campaign she
ave bi.th to three Children. ~h':h she