Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1891-11-29


s:15. I did not know Neeld had been
there In the afternoon. ! went
at once to the Panhandle depot for the
6:25 train. The wagon was there. l
made some trips, and saw Neeid ABOUT
$40 at the Mcclure. He said he had g.
box to take from 932 Main street to the
depot, at 8 In the morning. went
into Meders and put 1t In my book,
whom he came In and said, "Can you get
It now?" I said yes. AID tore the note
up, and hs got on the wagon with me
He talked about Moundsville, and when
we got up to the Brunswick he asked
me to have drink. said didn't care
TO drink, but be said: "Oh, coma
and get a drink anyhow" and we went
in and got two WHISTLES. Then we went
up, and the box was out on the sidewalk
ready for US. / put it in, and we went
back down, and he insisted on getting
another drink, and we got it. Then we
went to the B. & o. depot and came
back up Sixteenth street. Then he
wanted to get another drink and we
went in Killen & Bader's saloon. told
in years, .and that my head was light. /
told the bar tender TO mix me hot
drink and just put little liquor In 1t,
and did it. Then we went up to the Nc
Lure House. and he wanted me to take
another drink. I didn't want IL, but We
went In, and I put about teaspoon Of
liquor in q glass. Neeld took the bottle
and run the glass over the bar.
l refused to drink it, and took his glass,
and just put little liquor in 1t. I told
him he had better go to bed, or he
wouldn't feel like getting up in the
morning. l told him I couldn't drink,
for had my business to attend to, mail
! to handle, etc. left him about ten
o'clock. All that time he never said a
word about being at my house in the
afternoon. 1t was my custom to carry
club for protection, on the cushion,
on the back Of the seat. never carried
a pistol, for 1 was afraid it would go of
when jumped off and on. That night
I went to the 1855 train, and the 11:30
! from the East, and took the 1905 mall
to the depot, and met No. at 1855, In
from Chicago, taking the mail to the
Office and the baggage to the hotel.
I went to the Mcclure and ran
over the checks and calls for morning.
AS left the hotel went into the bar
to get some seltzer, telling the bartender
/ had drank some liquor with that fell
low and felt bad. Then went to the
market house restaurant, and got o.
strong cup of coffee, telling Charley
didn't feel well. l went to my home,
| 733 Market street, at 3 o'clock. As
unlocked the door, l heard my wife I'M
lock the inside door, which Is very sell
dom locked. I asked her what was the
matter, and she began to cry, and said
the man had been there In the evening,
and tried TO sell her an album, and had
talked funny TO her, and when she went
| to the stove to get my supper, he made
grab for her, and she ran around the
table. He asked her II she thought 1t
would be any harm to kiss her, and she
said she thought it would. He
followed her around the table,
and said he loved her, and wanted
to know II she thought that would be
wrong. She said she thought 1t would.
| She asked him what his wife would
say, and he said sob, my WIFE" and
said she had child of his, and he liked
her for that. She said she thought he
ought to. He kept following her, and
said that perhaps she didn't understand
what he meant. and said he would ex-
plain, but she said she didn't want him
| to explain anything, but 10 go out.
| Then he grabbed his sample case, said
he would be back In two weeks, and left.
! Then she said, as near as she could tell,
| at 10 o'clock he came back and tried to
get in, and had frightened her. She
was afraid to get up In the morning,
but told her there would be no trouble,
and IL there was, to call me, and L would
be down in moment. she WOKE
me at 9 clock, and l went
down. I asked her why she
did not tell me, at supper, about bis
being there, and she said she didn't
want to see me get into trouble, aud be-
sides she thought he had left. l thought
he had left at $40, and told her had
hauled the box the night before. When
| went out, saw the album. My vile
wanted me to take 1t away, but l told
her to keep 1t, and II saw him In town
| would tell him about 1t. When 1 came
down street stopped in at Charley
Elig's, as l often dove get our work
done there-and got the end OF q shaft.
was not thinking of Neeld when l got
It, but got it because / had dropped
my club off my wagon seat. took it to
the "Pewiky" depot, and as the stick
was rough on the end, / borrowed
Thurber's knife. AS was there,
l saw Neeld come up Water
street aud turn up Eleventh
street. l thought he had gone away,
and as saw him, it flashed
on me that be was going up for the
album and to bother my wife again,
and l ran out. / met him in front
of Grants barber shop, and said: "You
insulted my WIFE" He said: 81 guess
not" l hit him, and after that got so
excited / don't know what was said.
| When l came back to the corner OF
| Main and Eleventh streets, some one
asked me what did 1t for. l said: "He
insulted my wife" He said: "Yon
ought to have given him more" went
down Eleventh street to the wagon, and
! laid the club on the seat. haven't saw IL
since. 1t was about two feet long, and
about an inch thick at one end
and an inch and half at the other.
/ had no intention OF in1icting any seri-
Gus injury, but only OF whipping him so
he wouldn't 60 back to my house again.
BY Howard-When your wife told
you, at 3 o'clock, about Neeld being
there. what did you say?
81 asked her why she did not call
BillyP"
What did she say?"
"She said she was so frightened she
couldn't speak"
"What was the effect Of what she
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