Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1890-05-29
THE DEATH OF AMOS GLOVER.
ADDITIONAL PARTICULARS.

1he Delaware Gd2ette OF last week
publishes the following particulars con-
cerning the recent sad death of Capt.
Amos Glover:
1t seems that last evening Captain
Glover, as has often been his custom.
drove out to the residence of Mr. Simp-
son, which is pleasantly situated on the
Panhandle pike, just across the river
from the pumping station of the water
works, for the purpose of spending a
few days with his sister, Mrs. Simpson,
and family, and as he jokingly stated
before some friends yesterday "tO have
fish once more with the BOYS" This
morning at the usual hour the family
arose, and at the breakfast table one of
his nephews, Denny Simpson, stated
that he intended going to the river and
seining for fish. His uncle, the deceas-
ed, then spoke up and said that he be-
lieved he would take along the old army
rifle and see if he could not have some
luck in shooting fish. Accordingly,
after breakfast, Denny Simpson and a
boy named Arch Slawson, together with
Captain Glover, started for the river
which is situated about one-half mile
west of the house. After getting to the
river the boys went down a steep en-
bankment and cast their seine, leaving
the Captain sitting on a log upon the
bank of the river.
The boys state that they were busily
engaged in fishing, and did not pay much
attention to the Captain, but the last
time they saw him alive he was sitting
on the log with the rifle down in front
of him on the ground. The river bank
at that point is quite steep, and the boys
were just able to see the Captain from
their position down at the river. They
had not seined long, however before
their attention was attracted by loud
report, and on looking up to where the
Captain had been sitting could see that
he had rolled off the log and was lying
beside it. Fearing that something ter
rible had happened him, they dropped
their seine and ran to where he was lying.
Here a horrible sight met their gaze,
Weltering in his own blood, which oozed
from terrible wound in his mouth, lay
the Captain, with the barrel of the gun
tightly grasped in his hand. He was
yet breathing, but it was evident that
the little spark of life yet remaining was
fast ebbing away. 4
While of course no one saw the shoot
ing. still the general conjecture and be-
lief is that the Captain after sitting down
on the log, had allowed the gun muZzle
pointing towards him to rest on the in
clining ground before him, and that in
pulling it forward towards him the trig-
ger had caught on twig, thus causing
it to go off. The sad accident has cast a
gloom over the entire city, as Captain
Glover stood exceedingly high in the
estimation of those who knew him.
That he should have met his death in
this terrible manner is also surprise,
as the Captain was always noted as being
unusually careful in everything that he
undertook to do.
The coroner stated that upon investi-
cation he found that the ball had entered
the mouth little to the left center,
striking the upper teeth and cutting
through the jaw, shattering it very much,
passing up IL WellI unuol 1iiC HooO anu
to the top of the head, shattering the
frontal bones and also the parietal bones
to the extent of two and half inches.
The upper lip was quite badly burnt
where the ball had entered the mouth,
but the mustache was hardly scorched.
The coroner is of the opinion that the
muzzle of the gun must have been very
near the mouth when it went off The
coroner also stated that man present
at the inquest, who had been in the
habit of going hunting with Captain
Glover, made the statement that it fire.
quently was the custom of the deceased
when out hunting and desiring to rest,
to lean forward on his gun with the
muzzle pointing towards him. From all
circumstances connected with this case,
it is now generally supposed that the
Captain had sat down on the log on the
hillside and unthinkingly had rested the
butt of the gun on the ground with the
mouth of the barrel either in his mouth
or very near it, and in moving, the trig-
ger had caught on something, causing
the gun to 60 off.