The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1892-02-12
MYSTERIOUS ASSAULT
On q Lady in tho Country Yestcr-
day Altorpoon by q Stranger.
THE OBJECT PROBABLY ROBBERY,
but ESQ tho Thief was Follcd In Ills
Aucmpt--.Thc sheriff and officers
scomr the Surrounding Country
without Rosult-.-A Description OF
tho Assailant. ,ft@sf

Yesterday afternoon at tho residence
OF Mr.. James Moore, well known ma.
chinist employed ut Sweeney & SONS,
who lives out at Echo Point, there oc-
cured one of the boldest and most
mysterious assaults ever recorded in
the annals OF local crimeyd
Mrs. Moore was alone in the house.
a man knocked at the door and sho
opened it, when he saidthat the men
working over at n new house in process
OF erection near by had sent him there
to get a key. Mrs. Moore told him she
had 10 key, when he said there must
be mistake somewhere, and went
away.
A minute or two later the man re-.
turned and said that tho workmcn at
the now house insisted that the key
they wanted was at her house. She
again told him that she did not have
the key, and he again loft. In a few
minutes the man again came to tho
house, opening the kitchen door him
sell, without knoCking, and
WALKING IN BOLDLY.
Mrs. Moore looked at him in surprise,
but witlouta word no walked across
thcroom and taking Off his oyorcoat,
hung it up on 3 nail.
Mrs. Moore asked him in astonish-
mcnt what he mcantand what he want
ed. Turning toward her, lie struck her
several hard and singing blows on tho
back and right side OF the head. lie
used his fist, but evidently had some
thing like key in it. The wounds on
her scalp look rs if they might have
been produced with the end OF kew.
There are five or six Of them and while
they Nre not dangerous they arc very
painful, and were sufficient to produce
Inconsistencies. Mrs. Moore fell to
the floor, and Just how long she Law
there before she was discovered is not
known, From the fact that nothing
about the house was disturbed it is
thought that the man was alarmed be-
fore he had time TO look about for any
plumber. Robbery must have been his
object. There have been several
BOLD DuEuLARIEs AND RoDnERIEs
i'll and around the city lately, but for
recklessness this assault is ahead OF all OF
them and OF every other desperate deed
ever done in this community.
1t so happened that lady from tho
residence OF Mr.. Hogc, not far from Mr..
Aloore's house, passed aboutthe time OF
the assault, on her way to the Elm
Grove station to take tho train for the
city She saw 4 strange man run out OF
the house and run up toward the hill,
and at once suspecting that something
was wrong, entered the house to see
what was tho matter. She found Mrs.
Moore lying apparently lifeless on the
!Ioor.
An alarm was raised and word was
brought TO the city building OH the next
trip OF the motor. Sheriff Steenrod and
Chief McNichol, accompanied by Officer
LuEins, went at once
TO INVESTIGATE THE CASE,
while all the other officers in the CITY
were notified to look out Tor suspicious
persons.
When the man left the house he left
his overcoat on the nail where he had
hung it. In the pockets were found, Il
horseshoe nail, bent in a peculiar way
as II Tor some purpose, and circular
advertising 4 Pittsburgh house. Tho
coat was fur beaver one, somewhat
worn, but not worn clear out.
FRANK Dapgs and his partnertare plas-
terng a house not far from tho place
where the assault was committed.
Bags told the officers that the man had
stopped at the house and talked quite
q While. lie described him as about
five lcet eight inches tall, with new
black dlccr on, and wearing pretty
good black coat and vest. His panta-
looms were light and marked with dark
stripe He was young,
HARDLY MORE THAN A Roy,
had smooth face and was pretty
good-Iooking man.
AS near as the officers could deter.
mine by their inquiries, tho man first
Went up on the hin to the north OF the
mouse, i'll the woods, and then came
around upon the pike at point west OF
there and toward the city. Search in MI
parts OF the city where it was thought
ne might find roiugo was in vain up to
ANte hour last night.
Last evening Mrs Moore was resting
easyeXcept ior the result OF the nervous
SHOCK OF her experience, which was nat
uFaily enough quite as severe as the &C
lu"l elect OF her wounds. She bcd
pretty freely from one or two OF the
cuts on her head.