Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1890-03-24
He WILL HANG.
STREET TR0SS CONVICTED OF A TERRIBLE
CRIME IN HARDY. -
The Details Of HIS Assault on Mrs. Mary Lewis-A
Flying Machine Invented-A New
Swindling Scheme.

STREET. Tr0SS. a negro man, about eigh-
teen or twenty years old, was convicted
in the Circuit Court of Hardy county last
week Of committing a rape on Mrs.
Mary Lewis. white married woman.
and unless he gets a new trial he will be
hung for IT, The trial began on Thurs
day, the 18th. The jury went out the
following Tuesday evening and ON
Wednesday morning rendered verdict
OF guilty as indicted" The jury had
the right To add to their verdict that he
be confined i'm the penitentiary, in which
event the term would have been from
seven To twenty yours; but if they
thought he should be hung. they had to
say simply guilty" This they did. \
motion was made for a new trial.
The evidence showed that TrOSS was
passing Lewis house about mile above
Moorcfeld one night. and seeing Mrs.
Lewis and young woman, named An
ME ArmcntrOut. and Il boy in the house.
he began 10 stone il. and threatened to
kill them if they did not put out the
light. While this was going on man
named Hclmick came along qEd went
into the house, but the negro threaten
ed to kill him if he did not leave and
take the boy with him. Helmick seems
to have been great coward and begged
the negro not 10 hurt him, and did
elaVe, taking the boy with him. After
ne was gone the negro forced his way
into the house, ran the two women from
one room to another until the Armcn-
trout girl pulled the window sash out,
jumped out of the window and escaped
and ran all the way to town.
Mrs. Lewis testimony was that the
negro then caught her. choked her and
by force accomplished his purpose. She
had a baby only two months old at the
time. He said hc would kill her if She
made any fuss. and ne was sitting by the
fireplace when two men, who had been
informed by lclmick of what was going
ON. came up 10 the house. They We're
armed. and one of them forced his way
into the building. The negro ran into
the back room and showed fight. One
shot was fired at him, but missed lie
jumped out of the window through
which the Armentrout girl has escaped.
but fell as hc got out. and one of the
men shot him ia the back with a re-
v0lver lie got up, however, and cs-
capped: but his hat was found in the
house. and he was arrested next day.
J. Il. CrcsSlcr. of AllbrightSyllle, Pres
ton county. an enthusiast VII the sub
jcct Of erial navigation. has about per
fccted flying machine, which was
lately exhibited at Kingwood The
Nc,c Era describes it as follows: The
first part is mechanical device. cx-
cccdingly ingenious, in which the mo-
tions made in flying by the wings of a
bird are almost or quite initiated. IL is
Of brass and wire. and moved by the
hand the skeleton wings rise. spread.
flap. fold. and come back to the starting
point. The other consisted of wings.
made i'm paddlc-Shape. which, on rising.
offers no resistance to the atmosphere.
but in the downward motion the sur
faces close and catch the air
One piece or model consists OF two
wings rigidly fixed to piece Of light
wood about Is inches long. which is
connected with a hand-picco by joint
Turning the hand-piecc backward and
forward SO as To flap the wings causes
them to rise in the air as far as one can
elevate the hand-piccc following the
rise of the wings. Another is like the
foregoing, and is called the propeller by
Mr.. CrcSSlcr. The two are rigidly fixed
To light iron rod three feet long with
a crank turned on its end where il is
held i'm the hand. Holding the rod up
right. which raises the wings ON its far
Their end above ones head. and impart-
ing to the rod by the crank forward
and backward motion alternately. the
wings catch the air and carry the whole
apparatus formed rs fast As one cares
TO walk. the speed depending upon the
rapidity of the motion impaired TO the
crank.
The Richie RcccUcof this week says:
There came TO this place this week
man dealing in a patent right to Subduc
kicking horses He started i'm. il APP
pears. to fleece somebody, and TO fur
Their his design he took in with him one
OF our citizens as kind Of Stool-pgcon.
These two worthless started ont ON their
lay. and halted one OF our most re-
Spcctcd farmers TO try their hand. The
patent right man took the farmer aside
and prevailed on him TO help him gull
the man who had come with him. and il
appears there were two or three notes
passed between the three. but the sharp
or reserved the note on the farmer. re-
turning to him the note Of the citizen,
aS ne judged the farmer 10 be the more
substantial Of the two. and as ne had
promised to return To the farmer his
note as soon as ne had procured the
note of the other. and which the farmer
thought he had done. But. 10, and be-
hold. when the ucNt day the farmer
came to town he was greatly surprised
to find his note in ono OF our citizens
hands for 500.
Quite a racket took place IN the Her
dh Office at West Union the other day.
George Davis. the Junior OF the Hcdld.
and :. :. McCardlc had been passing
jokes intimatiug that the said McCardlc
was 10 buy ont the interest the said Da-
Wis held in said paper. ut which \. \.
Bee. senior editor took OiieuSc and
went for McCardlc rather roughly. The
first blow was a Slight scratch under
McCardle'S paper collar; the next result
ed in two long scratches ON the left
check. just nj this point In the drama
Davis lntcrfercd with a printers mallct.
and was going to dcmolSh Bee, when
L. T.. Bee. brother Of the proprietor,
came in and separated them, pushing
his big brother to the wall with very
little difficulty. McCardle, who was the
only person upon whom blood was
drawn. hustled of to Justice Davis and
procured a warrant for Bee. but i'm the
meantime. before the warrant was
served, Bee went before the Mayor and
confessed and paid a fine of -.
The daring gang Of thieves that for
couble of years have been robhing the