Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1891-12-13
DOUBLE MURDER.
..1ss Brumfeld Shoots and Kills
Two Men in Lincoln County.
], rGLY CREEK WAS THE SCENE
d.. Alma Crowd Of R1hans lmbibe "Moun-
D,r Til They Get Into a Shooting
r.-Oae Hundred Shots Fired IN
aNls-S -Srrmfsld's Fifth Victim.
All Escape Arrest
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- was received here tonight
lincoln county giving the details
s1.1Is murder that took place down
~. rely Creek Thursday. Addi-
/. interest IS given 70 the crime by
--.- rrat the murderer is none 9th
.t-- Charles Brumdeld, who, few
+ ,-1. TO save his mothers life,
.-, bullets from his Winchester
,- his father, Paris Brumheld, or
e-b-a not0riety in the southern
..frre State for many years.
..ssn named Stone, has been ru n
loon 40 the mouth Of Big Ugly
..- Gayau river for a little more
=. wear. he has had the reputa-
Handling a quality Of Mountain
rtat was guaranteed % bring
--rrbIe whenever DO was imbioed
-. ttan q limited degree. There
a..r numerous shooting scrapes
stones place during the past few
,s. tut no one has been killed tili
thursday.
..rt day. there were a number Of
..-Ets and 8 party OF lumoermen
-r1rle Guyan lettering about the
+. -r drinking more or less. Along
i .rening, Charles Brumheld drove
Ia ftchiug bis horse, went into the
and Joined the semi-intoXicated
v.-s LIQUOR was ordered, and soon the
- crowd was in lighting humor.
--Fa-i and one Of the up-riyer lum-
.-.r had a few words about a trivial
-s- Harsh words led 20 epithets,
.- less time than il takes TO tell It,
as1e Of conviyiality was changed
.t85tiDr match. Brumheld carried
r.r,beSrer and was extremely handy
!. r. and before his fellow disputant
K get bead, he had bullet hole
-lgh his hat.
-.s first shot was the signal for the
-1 20 begin, and for five minutes
Inc but the sharp crack Of rifles
qy0lvers could be heard, and a man
owed 5y Stone said afterward that
ever than a hundred shots were
ID.
When the firing ceased 1t was found
George Smith had been shot
~rrh the heart, and that Willis Mes
,s- had q bullet wound through his
the ball having passed through di-
lHy from the front. Messenger
9ot dead, but cannot recover.
vysral others were injured more or
ariously, but none fatally. The
,nmherman who was in the way OF
rfeld's first bullet escaped unhurt,
-1- a part in the hair where the
srazed the scalp.
-.s names OF the injured could not be
med. but several Of them are pretty
-a.y hurt.
After the ARRAY Brumfeld mounted
5l-se and rode away and up to this
s,il at large. He is blamed with
g both the fatal shots. None Of
PARTICIPANTS have been arrested, the
.armeu who were not hurt, having
back 90 their camp and the others
lg d sQerSed into the mountains.
5umfe.d bears about as bad repu-
as his father whom he killed
vseks ago. His father had no less
- dozen murders laid at his door,
this makes five for his son. II was
-sd after the younger Brumheld
| murdered his father that the grand
+ had not found an Indictment
-ls. him, because they considered
&C., justified. That was not true,
Fve- An Indictment was found but
.-cegs kept 1t quiet, and circuleted
l.se report, hoping TO capture the
lesDerado by strategy, knowing
be would not be taken alive with
citing more blood, unless he was
-,e1 that way.