The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1889-07-29
MURDER MOST FOUL.
The Disappearance Of Col, A, E
Jones Explained,
HIS BODY FOUND IN A SEWER,
Ono of the best Known Men In Ohio
Murdered by His Coachman, who
Is Arrested and COntesses to
Ills Dastardly Crime,

Ills Dastardly Crime,
CINCINNATI, o., July 9S.-Col, A. f.
Jones, whose dead body, tied in a hemp
en- sack, confined therein by tightly
drawn thongs OF leather, was found in
the man-hole Of a Walnut Hills sewer
yesterday norning,was murdered, With
in twelve hours after the discovery Of
the body ol the aged physician the mur.
derer was captured by police headquar'
ter detectives and locked up In a cell.
The murderer was Charles Blythe, He
is twenty,nine years old, Blythe had
been employed by Colonel Jones three
months ago as coachman, gardener
and a man.oi.all.work. Blythe muir.
dered Colonel Jones Thursday afternoon
ats o'clock, In the Colonel's stable,
Blythe had been ordered TO weed the
garden. He did not do the work as
promptly as Colonel Jones desired,
Colonel Jones went to the stable
Thursday afternoon at 8 o'clock to
admonish him. Blythe says Colonel
Jones struck him with light oaken
staff. He admits the blow was light
one, and did not hurt him at all. He
confessed to u reporter last night, that
after Colonel Jones struck him he went
to the rear Of the stable, pick up heavy
oaken stick, "about de size OF my wrist" "
he described it, tan struck de Colonel
on do head while his back was towards
me-" The murderer, as he confessed to
u reporter lust night, then procured tho
sack, which was hanging on u tree near
by, pulled the mouth OF the sack over
the head Of the murdered man, and
then "de Colonel drew up his legs into
dc sack, anil didn't have to crowd dem
In. ! didn't have to bend him at all.
He les pulled up his legs when do sack
reached his middle, and dey went In wild
out any trouble at all"
BURIED ALIVE,
This was the story the murderer told
tho reporter. 1t means that Colonel
Jones was still alive, when, bleeding
IRON the blow on the head, the young
murderer pulled sack over the body.
Aftor the body was placed in the sack
Blythe hid 1t In the woods until dark.
Then he bound about the sack, with Its
bleeding corps, leathern thongs that he
found in the stable. When night had
fallen and the sidewalks beneath the
big sycamores and elms on the hill were
deserted and silent, tho murderer picked
up his burden, lifted II to his shoulder,
sneaked out the side street into the dark,
and all unobserved, reached the sewer.
the cover Of which he lifted, and then
dropped the sack In 10 the dark hole,a the
bottom OF which he Says he could hear
the water rushing downward to theriver
Then-then-then, the murderer re-
allied that murders may be committed,
but they cannot DO concealed. After
the sack had been dropped into the
sewer Blythe, returned to Colonel Jones
house. Then he went home. ~ went
to bed" he told the reporter, "but |
couldn't sleep at al, and got up before
the Gun was UP. Couldn' sleep because
couldn' forget what I'd gone and
DONE" The next morning the mur.
derer went to the home OF Colonel
Jones. Colonel Jones' family had not
yet realized that the father would never
again be with them. They had not for
an instant thought that the old physi.
clan had been murdered. They could
not think that he had not wandered
away, and would be with them soon.
All that day, while the body Of the old
man was lying in the sewer, they
searched iorhiin. "He will be home at
noon," they said. Noon came, and be
did not come. "He is at the home of
some friends he will be back this even.
ing,' they said. Evening came. Colonel
Jones came not with 1t.
ACTIONS or THE MURDERER.
All day the murderer was in and
about the house. A dozen times that
day he had been tearfuly asked by the
aged vile, the sons and daughters, II he
had heard anything about Colonel
Jones whereabouts. Knowing that the
old man would never again come back
to the house the murderer lied
coolly and persistently. ~ haven't seen
dc Colonel" he said. II haven't heard
anything about him" lie answered.
IllythS and Blythe alone, all that day
knew where Colonel Jones was. That
night, Friday, he went home late, and
went 10 bed. II couldn't Sleep" he
said "and Saturday mornin' | got up
early, and went down to Colonel Jones
house. / packed up my things. Mrs.
Jones and Miss Jones asked me u ia
heard anything. ! told 'em ! hadh't
Then went away"
This, in brief, Eas the murderer,s
story. Blythe, with his valise in hand,
went yesterday morning to the Colum'
bia station Of the narrow gauge railway,
purchased a ticket 10 Madisonville, got
oil the train, walked around the station,
and when hG came back the train vas
gone. The murderer then walked to
Nladlsonville. The operator at Colum.
bia had read yesterday morning de.
sCription Of Blythe, and when he OBJ.
served tho strange actions Of Blythe he
tClegraphed 10 Madisonvllle to look out
for him, and then telegraphed Colonel
DeitsCh. Colonel peitsch at once sent
Detectives Moses and schnucEs to Madi.
! sonville.
AT Madisonvile Sheriff Spence Daw.
son and the detectives soon located the
murderer at house on Moore street In
Madisonyillo. Blythe was playing cards.
General W. D. Shuttue, Captain Spence
Dawson, MIR, j. G. Edgley and Mr.. A.
Klein, who we're informed Of the muir.
derer's location, suTroundel" Tile house.
The detectives entered and captured the
murderer. Last night he was brought
back In the city. Alter he had been OK.
amined by Colonel DeltSCh, areporter