Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1891-06-23
RE4TEN TO DEATH.
~.sves 10 B2R-ZssPERS WHO THROW
PEOPLE OUT"
.y rm-- Dies from The Result Of Blows
lsa woais'a. at Dola's Saloon
sr.s and be Aaus3y-Wood-
s Arrested.

......,,~o O'clock yesterday morning
.s #. Fleming. wen known TO a
,,mb,r of people in this city
,bs ro.k-ap, at the City Hail.
OBJECT, or blows administered
wooison, q bar-keeper at
r,..... ...,a. on Market street, just
.lef,as Opera House, and short
.-e afterwards officer West arrested
s,s, 1T his boarding house on
.r-a street, over Lash's jewelry
and he was committed 90 Jail by
.s Phillips TO await the result OF
ts inquest and Of d preliminary exam
ION.
About hali-past three o'clock while
.r..r West was standing at the corner
Fourteenth and Market street. ne
heard q row a- the saloon, and in mo-
the doors opened and the bar
t...ar wo5dsoa. dragged man outon
3D. sidewalk. The officer at once went
aver and found the man to be in what
l. -r.r. ras q drunken condition.
s. w.s also bleeding slightly from a
D.noi or his face. The officer made
enquiries which led him to be-
tlat nothing more serious than the
.ctreotadruuken man had occurred,
fe called tine patrol wagon, ut the
-e time setting the man upon his
- Whom wagon came the officer
--c. -be party 10 walk 90 the vehicle
.t took l.m 10 the building, where he
washed OH and placed IN q cell.
dis. ugilre ujue o'clock, when the priS-
.- were being brought out for Police
--rt. Elemiug was found 20 be uncOn-
,. and Capt. Deibrugge's attention
called a. the fact, he directed
the wounded man bc carried out Of
.all and placed on q cot i'm the
cap Keepers private room. This
done ag two officers and physi-
w2s sent for, bat Fieming expired
before Dr. StatheIs, who responded, ar
rr.d The Doctor made an eNamlna-
-.a of the corpse, and gave it as his
.rui0n th2t death was the result of
lows received about the head.
The history Of the ease being aScer-
tanned by Chief Dcl0rugge, W00dSon
was no once arrested. He seemed daZed
by the information that Fleming was
dead and said litc.e or nothing. After
being taken 90 Jail he sent for Captain
Dlvener, by whose advice he refused 60
Iail, tO newspaper men.
Coroner Phillips was notified OF the
sth and hc repaired TO the City Hall,
and about II O'Clock impaueled jury
consisting Of MesSrS. B0reman, Edward
Robertson. Eugene Hanke. Z. A. Woe
..r. Jr., Robert Teasdaic and John
Howell The jury viewed the remains
ana was then adjourned over until half
,.>r three O'Clock IN the afternoon TO
0rIr 0f q past norton examination be-
u. held by Dr. Wilson and others. The
n.oy was removed early in the after
tu the undertaking rooms OF Friend
>l-. where the autopsy was COM
rnced 40 three O'Clock.
Chief Delbrugge sent d telegram 10
Che mother, brother and sister of the
deceased at Toledo, during the day.
The deceased was @ son Of the late
William F'eming. who died about 1863,
uj wh0 was I'm partnership with VIII
am Hunter in the Virginia iron
works. the predecessor of the present
Bcuwood works. although first located
10 the mouth OF the creek. The de-
ceased ten heir 90 about thousand
dollars recently through the death Of
eu aunt I'm WellSburg. He rOOmed at
Suilvan's or Market street, about mid-
way between Fourteenth and Fifteenth
streets. and was supposed 90 have been
.g his way there when he dropped Into
ueau's, after returning from the eNcUr-
,o7 uD the river Sunday night. He
nas about thirty-eight years OF age and
unmarried.
At haif-DoSt three o'clock the inquest
wa> begun, 40 the office OF Coroner
1efps. and the story of the crime Suf-
t.cuty appears i'm the evidence.
THE FIRST witness called was Harry Il.
Capluc. % compo,itOr by trade, who
..s .u Do'm's saloon at the time of the
r3,c ia reply 60 questions 10y Mr..
ey. who represented the State, the
-ueSS sald.-
ADO" -Hoil'1N 'c'"'"S' '@SO
linn To Do.ans s&looh' between
-ao and four O'Clock TINS morning. !
W tlem.rg there when ! came IN an"
talked --w words with hlm. lie was
sitting Cu chair by q table. l told
m I couldn't do the act Fleming
Dad gone % sleep In the rear room, and
aar.eeQor-Laie something-or-
.--r-i -a1t know his last name-was
stt 20 we- lie said; That mans
ac to Sleep back there ana went
ana SHOOK ann up ana S&lo' I'm
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