Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1888-09-10
THE sTAUB MURDER.
The c,tizens of Tsylorstown Mad at th
Wheeling Press.

Tho citizens of Tsylorstown Mad at the
wheeling Press.
The hearing of the Wheeling men, IN
iail at Little Washington, on the charge
of numbering Adam staub, will take place
at ten o'clock tomorrow morning, before
Jnstiee Rople. The attorneys for the de-
fsnse are McCracken and Stevenson, ana
NJ Mcconnell, Of Little Washington. 1t
ia probable a large number Of Wheeling
people will 60 up on the early train In the
morning, in order to be present at the
hearing.
The attempt by few people of Tsyl ors-
town To prsindice the people OF Washing
TON comfy against the Wheeling men, by
imnugnipg the statements made by the
Wheeling papers as to their general good
,snntat;on here at their homes, does not
seem 10 be in the interests Of exact justice,
Init in the line of an attempt TO secure
conviction of the charges alleged at what
evsr coat. Scores OF citizsns OF Wheeling
wonld testify, if need be, 70 the character
Of the men as law abiding citizans, and 1t
is very generally believed here that they
would never have engaged in riot Win
citizens of aylorstown, or oil any otner
locality, except under great ProVocs'ion'
and would not have fired their gums, ex-
cant thew were actuated by the belief that
Adam Shaffer was in great danger OF nis
life.
case be upon its merits, aud keep preJu-
dice entirely separate and apart from the
unfortunate affair.
Saturday evenings Reporter is authority
for the statement, that at Isyiorsto"n
"Great indignation exists ct the attempt
which thew claim is being made by the
Wheeling press to prevent the facts IN the
case and color it to the advantage OF .ue
citizens Of that place who compfisea 'he
party who killed Staub. numper Va
eve witnesses to q portion or the wnoie VI
the affair we're seen and interrogatea'
They state that the account OF the AFFAIR
given in the Reporter Of the 9th inst, was
n.--sct general account of the affair." tnt
That pape. nS of course not being given.
l evening, nurlD>- ststes that on FRIDAY
= psople, who examined ta TaylorstOwr
lished in the issues of the Wheelieles pub
OF that day, prepared the following an
Q stand ready to make affidavit as to til
9 correctness of the statement"
8 about eight o'clock p IN on Wednes
: day, the 9Th instant, when the streets q
this unusually quiet and peaceable villsg
were thronged with citizens, a one-hors
wagon, drawn by gray horse and contain
E ing five or six men, passed up Main street
The men were apparently happy and sing
ing, When they reached Anderson Il Blu
= chanan's store they halted. People on tn
3 street guyed their rather lndicrous appear
: ance. They Immediately passed on, turned
, the corner and again halted and one o
, them said, 'Go.to hell, you g. of b.
They commenced getting out of the Wagon
and came up to the store. One of The
party come up to the corner and declared
} that he could lick any s. OF g
b in the crowd. He also remarked,
there amt q man in the crowd brave
enough to come out Just then one of the
gang attempted to get out of the wagon,
but was so intoxicated that he fell to the
ground. E B. Ham said to Ed MCPher-
son look at that man falling out of the
wagon Meanwhile one of the party ap-
preached Ham and struck him on the
chest Mr.. Ham retaliated by striking
him in the face; two more Of the party
came at Mr.. Ham and stone was thrown
at him which grazsd his person. Mr..
Ham ran for his life and the fight became
general aud the Wheeling party were
worsted; they returned to the wagon and
came back armed with guns, which they
pointed at the crowd around the
store. The crowd dispersed in all direc-
tons; part of them took flight
through Fishers grocery; the door was
closed; one of the Wheelingites followed
aud broke open the door. He rushed
through the grocery aud discharged his
gun saying take toat you sons Of --
or climb the fence Several shots fol-
lowed on the street and Adam Stsub fell
mortally wounded. The grosns of the
dying man appeared to settle the desper-
ate fight. While the horror stricken by
ISLANDERS were looking after the wounded
man the Wheeling party left, with the ex-
ception of one man who was disarmed and
captured; the party in the wagon went
down the creek and were sem by several
persons In sbOut half an hour they re-
turned and passed through the village un-
molested, and were followed and captured
by Geo. L Hill and John Lstimore Of
Claysville. They were brought back to
this place and were taken to the WASH
ington Jail on the following morning.
"MANY CITIZENS"
The Reporter further says;
Zone OF the Wheeling party, the one
who is still at large, left his friends when
they were to the north Of the town, and
making detour arrived in Robert Croth-
ers' woods, near which place he was seen
by Taylorstown boy, Of whom lie in
quired as to freight trains, saying that the
party had killed man in TaylorstOwn,
and asking the boy not to speak of having
seen him."