Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1889-07-29
Stabbed 10 death at Pr Plsasant-A Prophet Of EVIL
Another Murder Nystery-A Nan On a
Rafl-Prizs Fight

its contents at the officer. He fired five
shots, only one, the third, taking effect,
the ball entering the breast, passed
through the body, lodging in the back,
near the spine, inhictinR, 1t
was then thought, a fatal wound.
The negro then started on q
run for the river. A witness of the shoot
ing, who was following the negro, seeing
Rev. Mr. Suddeth, pastor of the Baptist
church of that place, in the street IN the
direction in which the fugitive was going,
shouted to him to intercept the negro, that
he had killed a man and that his revolver
was empty. The reverend gentleman, IN
trying to comply with the request, drew
from the negro the remaining shot in his
pistol, which fortunately missed its marx.
A 81 ort distance further he was sur
rounded by citizens, but continued to
6ght until completely Overpowered and
bound. The desperate resistance made
and the dying condition, as 1t was
thought, of Officer Reynolds, who was
very popular, exaspersted many OF the cit
izens TO such an extent that mob violence
was feared by the authorities, and he was
taken 10 Lewsburg, where he WAS deemed
perfectly secure.
There was some little talk in Lewisburg
Sunday that probably the town would be
visited by mob from Hinton before morn
ing, but no one gave the matter more than
passing thought. On Monday morning
however, the citizens were dumbfOunded
to learn that it had been there and secured
l.s. T. fhof ahonf 0s'f0
o'clock Monday morning the jailer, Mr..
John A Pdlliam, was aroused by three
men, who stated that they had prisoner
whom they wished to deliver into his Gus
tody. The iailer, not doubling the truth
fulness of their assertion, went with the
Jail keys in hand to the front door and
opened it, only to be confronted with
drawn pistols and demand for the
prisoner. A signal was given, and
Immediately the rest Of the mob,
that had been secretsd behind the picket
fence and other places about the
Jail, ayose and rushed into the building.
Mr.. Dudley Pulliam, uncle of the jailer,
hearing the commoiion, started down
stairs to see what was the matter, but
was intercepted when about half way
down By leveled pistol and ordered
back. The prisoner offered resistance,
hut a pistol was thrust at his head and
he was told that if he did not quietly sub
nit his brains would be blown out right
then and there. A rope was placed around
his neck, his hands tied behind him, and e,
bare-footed and bare he AIDED, he was led of
by the mob So quiet and expeditions were
the movements Of the mob that not soul
in town, save the inmates of the Jail, knew
ANYTHING of the occurrence until the mob
lad departed.
Shortly after daylight tho body of the
negro was found hanging from limb of a
white oak tree near the rock'crusher, on
the LsWisbuFg and Ronceverte Tarnpike,
about mile from the former place. His
toes were within eight inches of the ground,
and death resulted from straagul .tion, IS
he had been pulled from the ground by the
rope being thrown over limb.
The lynching was accomplished with
cut any demonstration or unnecessary
noise The lynchers were masked and
had their clothes turned wrong side out
They went to LeSisburg in buggies and
wagons, reaching there at 3 o'clock in the
morning. They are, as far as can BIS
learned, altogether unidentified. There
were hut eleven men in the party.
Constable Reynolds was not fatally
shot, as was at first supposed, and will
soon be on his feet again.
Another Murder Mystery.
What looks like murder mystery of
last summer or autumn, has been brought
to light or the headwaters Of Greenbrier
river, in Pocahontss county, near the little
postoffics of Gillespie. A few dsys ago
Beri. Turner, a resident of the vicinity,
was going through an urffequented part
of the neighborhood, and discovered a
quantity C. clothing and some of the bones
of a man lying near the edge Of the little
stream. II carried the intelligence of his
discovery to some off friends, and day
or two later Amos s. Gillespie and Gran
vile Keller went to the spot and made a
critical examination. They found skull,
the hip, thigh and leg bones, and the
bones Of the feet, the latter
being still eucssed in pair
of shoes. There was 20 trace
of the boues Of the body, or arms. Upon
and about the bones named were the rem
nants of wooden coat, cotton vest of
light color, snd wool hat, which had also
bsen light. None of the bones were broken,
but by them lay two pieces of a singular
stick. The stick had been broken in two
parts, and had been done seemingly at the
time when the man died, the wood was
curly, and the stick surely was part Of a
billiard cue. Whether it was used TO kill
the man with will ever remain a mystery.
No inquest was held and the remains were
deeently buried.