Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1890-10-07
rnE CONFESSION.


the CONFESSION.
IL shall now give short sketch of
my life. / was born in Floyd county,
+ Virginia, in ISIS. l was raised in the
/ beautiful aud picturesque Allegheny
Mountains. lived there until was
/ twenty-five years old, and moved to West
+ Virginia I'm 1883. In 1854 ] moved Ia
/ Hinton, Summers county. In 1856
married Ann Brown. Owing TO my H.
literacy I will not give a history of my
early life. / will commence from the
+ time / came 10 this State, and give only
la sketch of my trouble after
was married. had always been
IA hard working, sober, peaceful
and quiet man until l came to the
realization of the fact that l had mar
ried a vile woman. Being the husband
of "a woman Of this character caused me
a great deal of trouble. / considered il
/ the downfall of myself and children.
/ The fact that had married a woman of
+ that character caused me much trouble.
aud finally ! took TO drinking, thinking
/ 90 drown my modification and shame,
/ but it did not succeed. 1t led to much
trouble Ny wife was not true TO me,
and besides she was very high tempered
I and abusive TO me. In spite of all
could do she became worse 10 me and
/ harder 10 please. Finally she got 60
/ dividing her attentions between other
men and myself. In the fall some men
|camc my house. ON account of her, and
abused me and tried TO get me TO do or
say something TO give them a chance 90
shoot me- She had frequently taken
rides with those men, and afterwards
/ they said she was the cause OF IL, and
/ that they had nothing against me.
After this / saw 10 was dangerous 10 live
with her, and we parted, she going to
/ Fayette county at my expense. After
She had been there two or three months
She wrote 10 me 20 bring or send her
some money. and sent her money two
or three different times, and also went
/ to see her She soon got tired of that
place and wrote TO me TO send her money
80 she could come back 90 Hinton. She
said she could not. or would not live
without me any longer. and if did not
send her money she would come II she
T had 90 walk. / sent her money and she
camc back aud lived with me two OF
three weeks and left. Her excuse for
/ it was that she would not live with my
people. or where they lived. She
/ then came across tine river opposite Hin
I ton. n Raleigh county. and rented one
room I'm q house that Bud Galloway
lived boo. After she had rented thi,
room she wrote 90 me 90 come and
bring her things. After I had received
/ her letter l went TO see her. l asked
her what she was going 10 do. and how
/ She was going TO get along. She said
She did not know, unless l helped hcl
or would come and live with her.
told her thought she was giving me
DOOR announcement To do anything
but That she knew I would do anything
1 possibly could for her, and always had
If She would only do right. The way
She talked I thought she was abou
whipped out running around, anC
the promises she made me Tee
me Co believe that she would
lido better. After we had con
.cuded to live together everything
moved along smoathly until two o.
three DAYS previous to that unfortunate
. -
d. knocked one night TWO OF three day
before the trouble. When he knocked
I was sitting and she was standing bo
fore tine fire. VIXEN he knocked Sh'
.dartcd 90 the door and opened 10 yer,
b little aud looked out. The man 40 th
- door gave ita violent shove; 10 stag
gercd my wife back, but She held to il
: When he had thus pushed the doc
o. ouen he asked where her oldest DO,
p was. she told him he was no the watcI
house. and he walked away. TIN
boy Doe had inquired for ha'
Just set him across the river.
knew there was something wrong by hi
. actions The only thing l said was
who is that? After that there was
considerable change I'm her treatment {,
me- The next day she took my revol
yer and hid 10. When | missed 10
asked for DO. and her answer was, Vol
r have got 10 quit carrying reyolyers, ant
she would not give it to me.
She had never done anything
of this kind before. ha'
carried revolver almost con
. stantly since we had trouble i'm the
. spring The day my wife was killed
went up ON the mountain 20 work, and
AS well as remember, | started HON
about o'clock. I came by my sister
and She told me she heard that ther
was some fellows coming 10 my houS
10 run me off, At the time Sh
was telling me thought yer.
little of TO-, and only said 'let then
come. ! went ON down to Hinton au'
p got to drinking little. com
P menced 10 think of those thing
my sister had told me, and | though
Il might meet with some danger a
amy time. / went 20 Mr.. Burk Prince
s store and bought me q revolver
thought 10 any one came 90 my house
would not run. for I had done NOTHING
: 20 run for knew there was chang
+ I'm my wife. and If any trouble come nj
She would be the cause of it. and fo
b. this reason she had been too intimate
with other men. When I went home
had mo- idea of shooting her. although
o. WAS greatly aggravated over the trou0I
She had caused me after the promise
b She had made. While i'm Hinton hat
bought some goods and pint OF whisky
.ItwaS about shutdown when / rcache'
home. and ] was about hall drunk
u had also bought pair o
shoes for myself After the fami
+. .lv had ate their supper m.
wife came into the room and began u
O. grumblc about me not getting her pai
of shoes. told her that did no
know that She wanted a pair, but d
had known 10 I would have gotten then
for her. As soon as supper was over
her oldest boy walked of. ana no