Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1888-03-25
THE EXACT FACTS
OF the Unfortunate Shooting ARRAY at
Glenn's Run.
HOW THR TRAGEDY OCCURRED
The Wounded Man Dies at Ten O'clock Yes
terday Morning.
SMITH RELEASED on $4,000 BAIL.

G,enn,s Run school house, in Ohio, on
Friday night, wa the principal topic OF
conversation oyer in Martins Ferry yester-
day, and it was frequently alluded to on
the streets Of this city.
The REGISTER Of yesterday morning
contained an account Of the affair which
was in almost all particulars correct, but
somewhat incomplete on account Of the
lateness of the hour, and the distance OF
the scene OF the occurrence from the city.
The shooting occurred at precisely ten
o'clock, in the Glena's Run district school
house, located about half 8 mile west Of
the Ohio river, and about four miles above
this city on the Ohio side. The
victims father, Charles Held, ST.,
came to Martins Ferry to summon
medical sd and arrange for Smiths
arrest, arriving there at about eleven
o'clock. The REeIsTER's MIrtin'sFerry
man met him before he got into town, and
learned o little Of the affair, and at once
procured a vehicle and drove to the scene
of the occurrence, arriving at John John
sons house, where Held had been taken,
within half an hour of the time the first
alarm came to Martins Ferry. Doctors
Harvey and Blackford arrived at Johnson's
about the same time the reporter got there,
and made q hasty examination Of the
wound. Charles Held, the victim, q
yoang man about twenty years old, and a
6ne specimen of hardy young manhood,
LAY ON A TICK
upon the floor, with the head propped up
on a chair, laying back down on the floor,
with the extremities near . hot stove. His
face was overspread with . CHASTITY psllor,
the lips slightly opened and the eyelids
partially closed. showing only the whites
Of the eyes. Nots moan escaped him, "a
the life slowly escaped through the little
t~hirty-two ealibre bullet hole in his left
side. Held was of good pluck
and he lay there seemingly unaware
of his serious condition, and no groan
escaped his lips IS the doctor examined the
wound aud located the bullet on the Oppo-
ate side. Some stimulsnt5 were admin
isSered and q small ineision on the right
side released the leaden messenger Of
death. The doctors o o expressed the
opinion that recovery was almost impOssi-
ole, and the reporter set about to learn the
true cause of the shooting and what led
to il.
Henry Held, a younger brother of the
injured msp, informed the reporter that
THE TROUBLE
had arisen about an infraction Of good or
der perpetrated by him Henry at the
meeting of the Glendale Literary Society,
at its meeting in the Glenn's Run district
school house, on Friday evening, March
18th. He said he was not member ofthe
society, and that he had been put out of
the house for some disorder, on the night
mentioned, and upon being refused admis-
sion again the same evening had kicked the
door'and injured il in his effortsto get back
in. He said his brother Charley had gone
to the meeting on last Friday night TO
whip the two men who had put him
Henry out, but that they were not there.
When asked if he was at the Friday
night meeting, he said he wa not, and
that he had advised his brother not to 60,
and expressed to him his intention to re-
pair the damage. he had done to the door.
He informed the reporter that the only
PERSONA the neighbOrhOod, of whom he
knew, who was at the last meeting, was
Louis Dell, and that he lived across the
hill on Glenn's Run. Held led the way
snd the reporter followed, over the hill by
way off steep and precipitous path, across
the run on fallen trees and o. stepping
stones, and over the toughest woods in the
world for nearly two miles. At last Dsips
home was found. Louis had gone to bed,
but he got mp and let the information
hunter in, and before q huge coal fire told
HIS TORY.
He is not q member Of the society, but
CAD gone there with q friend to hear the
exercises. He had sat in the front part OF
tba nam Ha saw Hharlav Held coma in