The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1892-04-06
WAS AFRAID OF lIIM.
HOUSE WHERE THE TRAGEDY OCCURRED.

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HOUSE WHERE THE TRAGEDY OCCURRED.
used threats 10 induce herto marry him,
telling her he would kill her ii shc did
not. Since the marriage he had also
often threatened her life, once buying O
big butcher knife and swearing it was
to take her life with.
This knife Mrs. Maier hid in q crevicc
between tho mantel and tho wall, where
It was found yesterday. Afterwards,
Mr.. Yoho said, Maier bought another
big knife, showing it to his wife and
telling her no would cut her throat with
it. This knife the father said would bo
found in the mans trunk.
The theory that Maicr induced pretty
Marie Yoho to marry him by threats is
farther borne out by the fact that before
they were married she used to try all
the time to avoid him. She was en-
ploycd as q domestic on Twelfth street,
and Maier used to 60 and hang
about tho place, hiding behind tree
boxes or around the corner. until she
came out, when he would Join her.
When the girl knew he was there she
would slip out the back way to avoid
having his unwelcome companionship
forced upon her.
Mrs. Maier evidently led an exceed
ingly
CHERRIES, UNHAPPY LIFE
with the husband who ruled her by
fear. She worked out for wages until
the day before her death. She would
go home at night, and at noon sho
would go home. and prepare her hus.
bands breakfast. He slept most OF the
day, sometimes thelatter half and some
times the former, according to what
turn he was working on.
Neighbors say the couple quarreled
every night since they had lived in the
Woods street house but the one she had
spent with her sister, Mrs. Connors, on
the east side OF the same street.
When the officers, neighbors and doc
tor visited the room yesterday morn
ing after the tragedy, a large empty pic
ture frame was leaning up near the
mantel. This is said to have contained
his own portrait, and after killing his
wife, and while his little sister-in-law
was running up street and crying out
to rouse the ne!ghbors, he waited in
tho room long enough to pull the pic
ture from the frame and tear it into
pieces, which he burned in the CRATE.
Big crowds visited the scene yester-
day. M:
THE INQUEST.
Coroner Phillips impaneled d jury
composed OF Messrs. John Howell,
Robert Ellingham, George r. McLaugh-
lin, J. Crumbacher, Newton Berry and
J. II. McFadden. The following wit
nesses were also summoned: Lieut..
George Gaus, Officer Creighton, John
Jenkins, Robert Nesbitt, George Garri-
son, Mrs. Black, DR.. Reed Baird, Silas
Connors and Katie Yoho.
The inquest was set for 2 p. m. to-day,
rs stated above, and will be held in.
Squire Phillips's Office on Twelfth street.
at the request Of Coroner Phillips,
DR.. L. D. Wilson, county physician,
made an autopsy Of the body yesterday
afternoon. He was assisted by Drs. X.
J. Baird, LeA1oyne Hupp and Eugene
Hildreth. Two OF the four wounds the
woman had received were found to be
necessarily fatal.
One ball entered the right temple,
.traversed the greater width OF the brain
and lodged in the vicinity of the base OF
the skull on the left side. Another
entered above the right nipple, pierced
the right lung and the upper part OF
the heart and lodged in the muscles be-
meath the LETT shoulder blade. The
third entered the right side OF the neck
and lodged near the LETT ear. The
fourth scratched her arm on the under
side, tore the left side of the mouth
slightly,
WOUNDED HER SISTER,
little Katie Yoho, and then buried itself
in the pillow.
The ball which pierced tho right
temple had just pierced tho thickest
portion OF Mrs. Majors arm, showing
that her arln was thrown over her head
when this shot was fred. Tho pistol
was so close to tho poor woman that
powder marks and burns disfigure tho
skin about each OF tho wounds.
The child bled terribly from her
wounded fingers and thumb. 1t is evil
dent that several small arteries were
cut.
Katie says that Maier put on his good
clothes, instead OF his working clothes,
and his wife asked him why he did this,
and he told her it WIS ''none OF her
business" Size says also that he had
not been in bed at all that night.
Neighbors say that no was playing on
his cornet until 10 o'clock at night.
Maicr played we'll on several instru-
ments, especially tho .cornet, which no
used to play in Mayors band. The
portrait OF him printed this morning is
from q tintypc OF himself and wife, he
seated, she standing beside him, hold
ing his cornetin her hand. Her, portrait
is from u small photograph OF herself
and two Of her girl friends, taken not
long ago.
MAIER HAS MONEY.
IT. is said on good authority that
Maier had 4 round snmgof money in his
TILE P0lMT