The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1886-01-18
VOLUME XXXIV.--NUMBER 127.
wRsToN's HARD FATE.
he TsllI the Story Of the Riot Leading tC
the killing Of HaymRksr,


CHIcAGo, Jan. l7.-Mr, Milton Weston
who stands convicted in Pittsburgh, Pa.
as accessory to murder, has returned t
Chicago to close up some business affair
prior to returning to Pittsburgh to receive
his sentence Of four years in the Riverside
PenitentiAry. Mr.. Weaton's reputation
here has been beyond reproaCh both as 4
business man and socially, He has !
mother, wife and children and brothers
residing in this city, all Of whom are
highly esteemed.
"fou are shaking hands with a con.
vic" said Mr., Weston TO reporter. "
am able to bear all this, but when my
sons and daughterplace t6airarms around
my neck and cling to me and weep, she'd
ding tears that well up from the heart, It
nnmans me. For fortY.three years have
lived here and done business, and no man
can place black mark against my char
aGter anywhere, have always sndeay-
ored TO do Justice TO my fellow men, and
God knowa that in all theyeaGsot my pros.
perlty | never alloWeda fellow bsingto sui.
Ter II ! knew 1t and could relieve that
suffering. Yet here | am convicted for a
crime which never committed. This
thing has cost me $3.50, 900, besides $40, 600
Tor lawyers fees, over 100000, about all
the fortune that had. Ever my wife has
mortaged her farm aud pledged her die.
monds TO keep me out OF trouble, but Il AM
still here though victim Of q great con-
Splracy,
THE STORY or THE KILLING,
The story has never been told. It was
for me to buy land and discover the value
Of natural gas as an illumlnstor and It's
utility for fuel, when was attacked,
robbed, and now to be cast into prison, |
secured 1850 acres OF land in WesLmore.
land county. ! purchased the tract from
Il, j, Brunot, brother OF Felix Brunot, the
Quaker Indian Commissioner, l paid
S2Op 900 To Brunot for the tract and 81 900
to remove cloud from the title. After /
made the purchase received deed from
Brunot wherein he agreed TO give me- good
and sufficient title fee aud clear OF ali On
cumbrances for forty.iour leases, which
we're contained In the 1850 acres. Imade |
the hrst payment which is acknowledged |
and reCeipted for In my deed which ID on |
record, Before the second payment came
due was notified by four owners OF the
leased lands that Brunot did not own them
at all. l Immediately took steps to nos.
ess myself OF these lands which | succeed
cd IN doing for 90 years, and plaC.
ed them on record at Greensburp,
The, leases conveyed to me by Brunot
having lapsed by their own conditions,
every lease or renewal OF q lease was
placed on record by myself, Regardless
VI these facts and In violation Of tic ssle
to ME Mr.. Brunot sold the same 10
another gas company, oil my titles being
Then on record. He sold to Pew, Emerson
\ Co, limited, a concern in which be
was q large stoCkholder, and It was
through him or his agents that an
attempt was made to diEpossess me.
DEFENDING HIs PROPERTY.
At that time myself and wife were liv-
log on the land, and for several days and
nights before my wife had been there al
most alone, having but one lady eonpsn.
lon in the house. Haymaker, who was
unfortunately killed, was the agent Of
Brunot, and his companion and he Rad $50
noA uhAol hlA WIZ MbIU HIul6u MlLu
pick handles and reyolVers, to try 10 dis
poasesG us. Who would not have resisted
10 o'detend his own2 In the melee that en-.
Iued Haymaker was killed, and whilo that
killing was charged upon my foreman the
Iaot is that he was killed by one Of his
OWN men from o shot which wins
Intended for my foreman. was
living on the property with my
vile, and she was 600 feet from where the
light occurred and witnessed the entire
but she was not competent
witness for her husband. But why should
/ detail lurther2 Ishall 60 back to Pitts.
ourgh and face my Bentence and serve II
1 necessary, feeling that am An innocent
man, innocent before my God and the
world. My reputation cannot be blacken.
ID by, such cruel and Infamous persecu-
ions."
Mr.. Weston'S friends here and in the
East will made q strong effort to secure
ais pardon in case he Is sent to the peni.
entiary.