Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1888-01-11

rage for aoy mgu to palm OF a rad-handed
murder ON n political party when ne
kaHws Il is no. So
This is what u Republican has to say
about; the matter.
Burnett end Cunningham stated that
they were going to have testimony before
til" grand jury. Why didu't tuey do 80?
II Mon.
We do not know Sho was in the mob.
Nor would we for one minute justify its
actions. Yet We must sRythat the cpl
thets hurled at it viii never clear Gun
ningham.
Mrs. Dun"s, or somebody e~lse's, criti-
cism of the guards in not firing upon the
mob, is not iustifable. But few men
would have been brave or foolish enough
TO attempt 10 withstand thirty or forty
times their number Of armed men. There
is one point that your correspondent has
been able to find out that throws much
hsht upon the murder Of Ryan. When
Coon and Duff were under arrest the eX-
citemeHt was at its highest point, every
body wanted to know what was going on.
Several good, peaceable -m whose
honor aud v~eracity is uGquestiOned, were
at Cooks on the night that the prisoners
were being guarded there, standing about
TO see what shape matters would take, and
1t being e cold night they knocked al the
door and the guards answered their call,
Iskod them what they wanted. They de.
sired to be permitted 10 come to the iUe
the guards allowed them to do 80.
After awhile another knock was heard,
and the guards answered it, aud found il
was themOb. Some Of the guards wanted
90 tire upon the mob, others told them that
il WIS useless. VIXEN the citizens that
were in the house found out that Il mob
mad come, they attempted to escape, hut
when they went into the yard they found
they were surrounded, and were afraid to
run Tor fear they would he fired upon.
Thinking discretion the better part OF
valor. said nothing and were mistaken by
the mob for their own men. These men
say that Coon confessed to killing Ryan,
but said. 81 did not kill him but my re-
yolyer did. Duir shot him lie also
stated that Dan Cunningham was not with
them, but that he did the planning That
he planned the robbery OF Cox and heyser,
and was paid Tor it. 1t was upon this cvl-
GeuCe that Cunningham was indicted by
the Grand Jury in this county. There -
something else we would not fail to call
the attention OF the public to. Why did
The DuIis and Coon resist the officers that
went to arrest them.
Remember that ii was not a mob that
killed George Duff. Also, that It was not
mob that they were firing upon when
they were up stairs in Dutf's house. They
G.G net submit so quietly Is represented
Hy your Charleston correspondent. Coon
md boosted that he had killed several
. J1gu-said ne killed q negro in Ohio fer
/ iig, dollars. II looks at least straDg" that
Cunningham and the DuttS would harhor
such characters. And get there is stall
another pointer. The goods that were
stolen from Cox were tuuNd on the prem
i-ss OF George Dun, the father Of the boys
that were killed.
At the time Of the terrible train wreck
and robbery in Indiana, Cunningham and
the but boys were on q pleasure trip to
Canada.
Cunningham claims that he passed over
the same road, not on the train that was
wrecked. but the one that came along at
ter il.
Ii seems that Dan Cunningham has
PLAYED . double part. lie would plan and
others would DO the work; then he would
turn detective. He attempted the same
thing IN the Ryan case, but it got too warm
fer him. When he found that he was
fooled. ne next assumed the role OF in
iured innocence and was prosecuted for his
political taith.
Il may he there Is something deeper in
this matter than the public has yet
Tgramad. JUSTICE.