Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1888-07-04
HIS THROAT CUT.
ALMOST A MURDER, AT MARTINS fKRGl
LAST EVENING.
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Has Ysy Naruv EscsFs
From Dath.

About three years sgo John Shade arc
Frances Hoover eloped from lAarnn's
Ferry, going from there to Cariisie, n
Thsy returned about six months later
claiming to have been married while 40
seut Shade was . nail feeder BY trade
and Immediately upon his return be sook
machines in the Laughlin mill while the
strike was ON and learned the mailing
tr.de When he first returned be and his
wife kent house in Paurs addition, but
about q year and Q half ago tney
went to live with Mira Shades
father, Eliza Hoover, in . little frame
bouse lust across the county road from the
Lsughlin mill. Several times since they
have lived with the old folks. Hoover
has expressed his doubts as to whether OF
not they were married and each time II
has been the cause of trouble. LAST even
ing the matter came mp again, and q 10"
resulted which came very near resulting
in the murder of Hoover.
He was seen in DR.. W. E. Hervey's office
On Hanover street, where he was having
hi. wounds dressed. He was unable 70
talk on account of q cash three inches IN
length cot scross bis neck and to within
hall an inch of the left jugular vein. Df:
Heryey was at work on that cut
and would not allow his patient
70 talk for fear of causing hemorrhage: de
has another cut three inches In length on
the right fore arm, which severed the tan
dons and will result in the total Gripping
of that member. Besides this the leis
hsnd was badly cut on the inside where be
seizsd the knife tryisg 10 save himself.
Rsing unable to secure an interview with
Hoover. a REGISTER man called at the city
i.iI where Shade and his wife are confined.
Shade. in answer to question from the
reporter, told the following story: Miss
Hoover and were married st Carlyle,
Pa. about three years ago. While there l
was laboring. and Mrs. Shade and I were
keepipg house in a suall tenement, which
was destroyed By fire, shortly after we took
IL In the fire our certificate Of marriage
was burned mp, ard OF course we now have
no proof OF our marriage. From Carlyla
we came to Martins Ferry again and
went to work in the Lsughlin mill. We
KENT house in Paul's addition few months
and from there went to live with Mrs.
Shades father. Several times Hoover mss
assaiied our characters and asserted his be-
lief thst we were not married. Some weeke
since promised hin that TO satisfy him
and Mira Shade would. go to st. GAINESVILLE
and ne married again. l wrote TO Carlyle
several times for copy Of the marriage
certificate. but letters seemed unable TO
reach Rev. Brown, the preacher who
msrried Us, and l could get no proof Of
our marriage. A few days ago, Hoover
mentioned the matter Of getting r.-mar-
ried to me again aud ! promised to go
The mill closed down last Saturday and l
again spoke to Hoover about the matter
and called his attention to the fact that
money would be scarce for a while and
told him it would better ID put it of a
little longer. Tonight we hsd
some words about the mat
ter sgsin and Hoover became very
much enrsged. He came at me with
knife and club in one hand and q coffee. pot
in the other, swearing he would kill me.
| felt that must do something to defend
myself, and az he s'rack me with the cot
fee-pot, making this cut Exhibiting a
wound on his head pulled my knife out
OF my pocket and commenced cutting q!
him. l don't know how badly he was
hurt"
Mrs. Shade, who was in another cell,
corroborsted her husbands statements, and
asserted that her father had struck him be.
fore be made any attempt TO defend him
self She ais, stated that ST her solicite-
ton her husband had gotten a borse and
buggy aud that they we're on their way to
st Cisirsville when they were arrested by
Officer Murphy.
Hoover's wounds are none Of them dan
gerous, but the one on the neck was very
Close call, half an inch deeper in front
being enough to serve the jugulsr vein.