Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1892-02-09
/ FRACTURED SKULL.
-r ev,rLT OF A MIDNIGHT SALOON FIGHT
IN FULTON.
81 V.-s- Lying Unconscious at His Home
r a Blow Received Upon the Head.
The Details Of the Affair.".
Warrants Issued and
Arrests Made.

.-a- which looks as though IL would
r, I'm the death Of one Of the partici-
-,. and consequently result in muir
charge being brought.
tentatively few people knew of
natter. even yesterday, so quiet was
-. kent 5y those interested.
Tts authorities became cognizant Of
..,sr.r last evening, however, and
.---r-s OF arrest were issued before
.-....s Arkle, after an investigation by
Sheriff S-eeurod.
THE parties to the affair are Fred
v..~.-. Charles Weimer, his brother,
r..-..s Fisher aud John Hillman, alias
Dec HlIman, all residents Of Full
rra scene of the trouble was at
G--.. ~agke's saloon, on The north
.ss -. the main street OF the town,
.-r near the foot OF the pike hill. The
rr...sr bows got decidedly the worst of
....r.r.ntar, Charles being beaten up
.--.- the face, while his brother
H.. VAS struck In the head with a
-..-a OPP some other heavy object just
.l..s and behind the left ear, frac-
err. r. the skull resulting. He was
conscious all OF sunday and yeSter-
F.r ...1rding 20 information given a
re..-rrE reporter yesterday, and his
Co.'S is REGARDED as hopeless by his
blends His attending physician, DR..
Clark could not be seen Yesterday, he
t.r.rr zone into the country 10 see a
PATIENT
Fr.-uu people were extremely reluc-
-s-rt8 talk about the case Yesterday,
tr- hr persistent effort the following
details uf the trouble were obtained:
The Weimer boys seem 70 have been
drinking % good deal OF beer, Saturday
evening. and about ten o'clock they
came into Stauke'S saloon, where they
~s- FISHER and Hillman. Drinks were
purchased, and then a dispute arose be-
tween H.uman and Charles Weimer, and
.r.v got into a row, in which blows
Scam -a have been struck. Mr.. Stauke
And others iu the place succeeded in
sa-srat.ug the COmbatantS, and the
Warar boys left. About eleven o'clock
rrsv came back again, more under the
influence Of liquor than ever, and the
rrarra. with HilIman was renewed.
HWuau biz Charles Weimer ia the face
once or twice, aud may have been hit in
return. and Fisher hit Fred Weimer,
and then the proprietor took a hand,
and succeeded in getting both the We'll
ua-s out OF doors, locking the doors
after them. He kept fisher aud
F-uan In the saloon for
quarter OF an hour or
50. or until he thought the Weimers
had left. when he let them out, and
supposed the trouble was at an end.
The Weimer boys must have been walt
ing outside, however, for in a few
minutes after Hlllmann and fisher went
cut. the fight was renewed, and mo-
msut thereafter Charles Weimer
rounded on the saloon door, and cried
,1l, his brother was killed. Mr.. Stanke
ran out, aud Fred Weimer was found
living on the sidewalk near the door,
while Charles was bleeding from the
face. Fred. was in a Semi-uncOnSclouS
condition, but 10 was supposed at the
tine that 10 was from the beer he had
drank. rather than any blow he had re-
Cs.yed, and le was taken 70 SchItzner'S
and later 20 his home. 10 appears
that no physician was called until
sunday noon, about Is hours after
the injury was received, when an eX-
animation showed that the skull was
fractured as has been stated. Weimer
is a60ut 90 years old aud unmarried.
What the blow was inflicted with, Is
matter of conjecture, but u was most
probably a stone, picked up from the
street. Who inflicted the blow is
natter Tor the future 10 develop, but
that it was either Hillman or fisher
seems certain, although neither was
seen about when Charles Weimer
brought the people out Of the saloon oy
his cries that his brother had been
killed.
There are other stories of the affair,
a., varying i'm details, but leading up TO
the same result-the smuggling OF Wei
mer by some one outside the saloon
door.
William Schneider, who was with the
crowd a portion of the time, throwing
dice, is credited with saying Ilsner hIt
We.mer with a stone, while Mrs. Uenr-
niger, who looked out OF an upstairs
window on first hearing the row, says
she distinctly saw blows struck with
club. Charles Weimer seems TO tnlnA'
from what could be learned yesterday
his brother was hit with beer glass.
A party who was In both Stanke ana
Gehringer's. saloons, Saturday nlghE
throwing dice, said last night he was
confident there was no fight in Stanke'S
il the neighbOrhOOd OF ten ociocA' LOt
be was there at that time. he say
the WeimerS, HilIman and Ilsher "eIe
all there, but we're drinking Sociaoly'
there being no evidences OF trouble
then. He also said the story that MI
Stanke nut the Weimers out hiteen
minutes before fisher and Hillman was
a mistake. as there could have been out
a few minutes difference in the time OF
their exits. ~,
A REGISTER reporter examined FRED
Weimer's hat, which was picked up On
the sidewalk near the scene OF tuo
tr0uble. after 10 was over. There was
a cut about an inch long through she
felt. al a spot which would come @oOuV
an inch above -the-ear- the haS wa wa
put on sauarely. IL looked as tuVusn
it might have been cut with the sharp
edge OF a stone, but could scarcely nave
been made by club, except u naG =
sharp edge, and been welded Win
great force. I'D
Late last night Sheriff SteenroG anu anu
Deputy sheriff Zane went out to fulton
with the warrants OF arrest, and tooS
I-..L.,. "a II;1Ip,an into custody anu
locked them mp In jail. lhqu,ty -
Weimer's residence, last night, SnO"eI
the injured man was in a seml-eonscl .DS
condition, but in a very bad way, anu ho
bis relatives and friends think II ne