Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1892-04-06

could find il in his heart and mind to
shoot his defeuSeless wife 10 death as
she lay before him in bed, entirely un-
conscious Of the awful fate which was
20 uVertake her without seconds
warning ct the hands OF the man TO
whom she had pighted her troth and
been united in wedlock but six months
before. Maier seems % have had muir
der in his heart for some time past. be
told Mrs. HOhO, mother of the murdered
woman, a short time ago, that there
we're five people in Wheeling whom he
Intended TO put out Of the way, and
named as three Of them Officer William
Carney, Tailor Dimmey and Mrs Heger,
the woman whom he robbed Of Sl60
year or eighteen months ago. He has
constantly uuarreled with and threaten
cd his wife, almost from the day the
couple first came TO this city, and Mon
day evening about eight o'clock be
purchased for two dollars the Bull
Dog" revolver which was the instru-
ment OF death SIX hours later. After
buying the pistol he went home and
played on a cornet or other horn until
ten o'clock at night, which rs about the
three times he has threatened to use Il
butcher knife upon his vile, aud the
woman was forced TO hide the knives
az the house 70 prevent their falling
into mis- hands. Yesterday careful
examination OF the room where the
crime was committed resulted in the dis
covery Of butcher knife with a nine
inch blade sticking behind the iron nre-
front, with its handle pointing In the
direction Of the only door by which the
apartment can be entered. The knife
must have been put where II was
found, 50 as 90 be readily found In the
dark by the person placing il there,
while others ia the room would not no.
tIce it, unless their attention was at
tracted towards IL by the merest accl-
dent. This knife may have been IN
tended as a weapon Of attack upon
any one attempting to enter
,hc room after the shots were
fred and before the murderer fled,
when his pistol might be empty, or 1t
may have been intended for use in the
event Of the failure Of the pistol TO DO
Us deadly work, or even Secreted before
the revolver was purchased at all. The
attention Of Coroner Phillips was called
20 the knife, and il may figure IN the
subsequent proceedings.
There can be no doubt but that the
murder was committed in the dark, or
a. least there was no other light than
that which would be reflected through
The Open windows from the street
amps When Maier entered the room,
after having been called by Mr.. keuhl-
born, he must have walked TO the
south side Of the room, thus reaching
The foot Of the bed, with the revolver In
his hand Passing between the bed
and the wall, along an interval about
eighteen inches wide, he came with
10 foot or two Of the head OF
his sleeping wife. He asked her TO kiss
him, which aroused Mrs. Maier'S sister,
Nate IohO, but there is no evidence
that his wife heard him, and even as he
made the query the revolver must have
been pointed almost in the woman'S
lace, for the first shot followed almost
immediately. Whether this hrSt shot
penetrated the head, or the arm, going
thence into the lungs and heart, Is
matter OF the mereSt conjecture, but IL
seems certain that it was fatal, for the
woman does not appear to nave
maze the slightest movement after It
was fired. Not knowing the effect OF
the shot, the murderer fired again and
again, in quick succession, varying the
position OF his pistol but slightly, until
iour balls had entered the wife, and the
nttle girl had jumped from the
oed and run from the room,
oewidered and frightened almost
70 death, and leaving a stream OF blood