Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1891-06-23

and he died in about fifteen minutes.
He was terribly beaten up about the
head.
OFFICER WEST.
Between 3 and o'clock this morning
I heard noise i'm D0lan'S saloon and
the bar-keeper brought man out and
dropped him on the sidewalk The
mau was bleeding and | asked what was
wrong. The bar keeper said he was
sleeping in there and he threw him out.
lie dragged him out, and dropped him
on the street. l thought he had been
bit, as he seemed 10 be knocked out |
stood him mp, and sent for the patrol,
and took him to the City Hall, and
locked him up. His face was swelling
all the time, and l went back and asked
Chapline II he had been hit, and he
said: Eyes, he gave LATE some lip and
ne hit him" / saw him this morning.
He was i'm bad shape.
To DOyener He couldn't talk. He
was knocked out. l believe he did say
once: "Who hit me?n but that was all.
lie walked into the wagon, and sat up
in II. Lookup keeper McDermitt
washed him of in the lookup.
LOOKUP KEEPER M'DERMTT
Officer West brought the deceased
in at nearly four o'clock. The man
was bleeding in the face. I washed
him or, and put him in the cell, and
attended TO him several times. l went
away about 6:1O o'clock and then
thought he was sleeping. came back
about $50 and he was dying then. He
said nothing To me, except to ask FOR
water. | never saw the man before.
At $50 be did not seem to be breathing.
OFFICER WEST RECALLED.
To DOvener-I have known Fleming
six or eight months He was very quiet,
but was a steady drinker-loOked as ii
/ he drank great deal. He always look
ed that way when l saw him.
To Riley only know it from obSer-
walton.
lookup KEEPER AiEIHEN.
/ was ut the Lookup before six
/ o'clock this morning. l saw Fleming
/ lying down, and McDermitt said he was
/ badly bruised up. | went along by the
( cell twice. About nine O'Clock l opened
1 the door and Fleming didn't get up and
/ we thought he was drunk. We stirred
/ him up and shook him, but he wouldn't
move, and l came out and said he must
! be dead aud sent for the Captain, and
he said he was dead. lie was used up
pretty badly. His face was all Swelled
up.
To Dovener-He was lying on his
back, and his mouth was open.
|
OFFICER MORAN.
This morning little after nine the
captain asked me TO go in the cell and
look at Fleming. l went in and lit a
match and felt him. He was warm,
but his pulse was not beating. We took
him ont and laid him on a cot. His
face was badly beaten up.
OFFICER BUCH.
a few minutes OF nine l >waS told to
try to wake Fleming up, and l went in
and shook him, and came out and said
he was dead. Then Moran came in,
aud we carried him up. He closed his
eyes just as we took him out. His face
was badly bruised and black.
KELLIAN RAIDER.
Between three and four o'clock this
morning was talking TO Officer West,
I and heard d racket at DOlan'S and saw
| a man pulled out on the sidewalk. 1t
was the bar-keeper who had hold of
/ him. He left him on the sidewalk.
/ The officer went up right away, and [
/ went up in about five minutes. When
/ the patrol wagon came he was on his
feet, and got in. There was blood on
/ his face.
The inquest was adjourned until 6:15,
TO hear the report of the post norton.
At G:3O the examination was resumed
at Squire Philips Office, County phySi-
clan L. d. Wilson being called to the
stand. lie testified that he made a
post morten examination of the body Of
Thomas T. Fleming on June 22nd; that
be found the right side OF the face and
Z the right eye lid very much swollen and
! discl0red, the result of confusion. The
/ upper lip was also very much swollen
/ and diScOiOred from the same cause. A
slight abrasion was found on the chin
aud another on the right cheek. On re-
moving the scalp, 4 confusion and small
eifuSiOn of blood under the scalp was
! noticed over the right maStOid process.
/ On opening the skull a very large blood
clot was found under the dura mater,
covering and COMPRISING the left hem
sphere and causing death. The lungs,
heart and kidneys were healthy. The
liver was somewhat rOughened and
fatty, but capable of performing its
functions, so far as could be judged
In answer to a question by Dovener, Dr.
Wilson said q fall could cause rupture
of blood vessel in the brain. After Il
few minor questions the jury retired,
and shortly after returned with a YER
dict to the effect that the said Thomas
T. Fleming came 10 his death on the
22d day of June 1891, by reason of in