The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1892-04-14
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Before YOU married your site did
you threaten to kill her Il suu did not
marry your
mo, I did not. She told mo that |
must either marry her or Let her go,
and ! married her.
Efforts were made to induce Maicr to
relate what ho did after tho murder,
IN what direction hc ran Immediately
after. To most Of these quca-
tions no replied that no did not
know; he was too much excited Mt tho
time. All that could DO got out OF
him was tho fact that no crossed over
tho MI and wont TO Bonwood. II he
Is telling tho truth, this would dispose
OF tho statement made that no had boon
seen entering the llcmpicld tunnel. II
he crossed tho hill he must have
climbed 1t back OF tho Rcymunn
brewery or run down rs far as Market
street, crossed tho creek and taken tho
road loading up tho sido Of Chaplinc
hill. From the top OF the hill .hc may
have descended to Caldwell's run, and
worked around to Bcnwood back OF the
cham OF hills that extends to that town.
lie WAS NOT SEEN.
Maier was questioned us to tho truth
OF tho reports that no had been soon ut
different places particularly was he
asked II he had slept over night ut old
mar kraus's house, q mile or two up
Whisky run, on the other side OF tho
river. He said that he had not been
near krals's, and that he had not once
slept in n house since he fed from the
scene OF his crime. Several nights, he
told the reporter, he had slept in the
open air, and ut other times in barns
and hay sheds. The story OF his hav.
ing SO OH his person at tho time he left
he said was not true. He had only Il
few cents when he He'd, and everything
he had eaten was begged from farmers.
The only reason lie gave for having
committed tho murder was his wiio's
threat TO leave tho house. IIo said
that he had frequently had words with
her; that nothing he would do seemed
to satisfy her, and that she was always
quarreling. lie wa not communicative,
and having exhausted all means OF OBJ
tanning further information, the report
er left.
a guard was placed over the prisoner
last night, and in looking about for a
suitable man Sheriff Steenrod thought
he could select no better than ono Viii
son, a prisoner who is under indict-
ment for larceny. On the oath OF De-
cember Wilson, while drunk, stole a
watch from Mr.. J.. B. Lee, of Barnes
vile, W. Va, while Lee, with his FAM
lily, was waiting at the B. & O. station
for the train for Pittsburgh. Wilson
has been confined in the jail ever since
and has been Il very tractable prisoner,
causing the jailer and his deputies no
trouble. lie was thought to be n COM
petcnt man to stand guard outside tho
prisoners cell.
Desiring to provide against any posi-
BILE attempt at lynclling or other law
%lessness, the sheriff also kept q full
posse OF deputies on duty at the county
Jail all night, simply as an extra pro-
caution.
WIEN FIRST ZEN
The first person to see NIaier yester-
day was Mrs. James liner, who was at
her home in Manchester. She saw a
mar moving along the side OF the hill,
not far from the old cemetery east OF
the creek. He acted peculiarly, and
Mrs. liner called her husbands atten-
ton to him. Mr.. liner said last night
that the man looked even ut that dis
lance somewhat like Maier, whom liner
had known, and the idea that it might
be he was suggested at once, yet it
seemed SO improbable that nothing was
done, except to call the attention OF a
young man, Will Florence, who lives
near, to the mans movements.
Finally the man went through the
fence, where there was q paling oil, into
the Peninsular cemetery, and going to
the new made grave OF the murdered
woman, stood there awhile, acting
quecrly. He seemed to be wringing his
hands, but at the distance his watchers
stood no very clear idea OF his motions
could be had. There was a report that
he had jumped up and down on the
grave or danced on it, but no origin for
this could be found.
Finally he sat down, or kneelcd down,
on the grave, and then threw himself ut
full length on it. BY this time liner
and Florence were pretty we'll satisfied
that the nan was Maier.
TIE POLICE INFORMED.
Tho two men sent liners wife and
Florence's mother to the Standard Oil
company's office to telephone to the
police, and Lieut.. Terrill was told that
Maier was at his wife's grave. He and
Lieut.. Luliins and Officer Joe Daum
started out at once. Soon after Mr..
Bayha, OF Fulton, telephoned to head
quarters that he had seer Maier in tho
cemetery, and Capt. McNichol and OIL
Ger Devlir also started out. i
In the meantime finer and Florence
followed UP the man. He had come
out OF the cemetery and sat down on a
log on tho creek bank. The two men
expected him to shoot himself in the
cemetery, and when he was on the creek
bank, looked to see him drown himself.
They passed him, dubious as TO the
proper thing to do. He kept his lace
ayertcd, and liner, desiring to gotta good
look, asked him
"Did you see a white cow pass here2'
Maier said NO." but kept his face
from view. The two men watched him
until the police appeared, when they
started up over the hill. They told
Lieutenant Terrill, and he and Daum
went over the hill, while Lukins went
through the B. d o.. tunnel.
On the other side they saw him max
ing his way down through Mrs. Judge
Thompson's field, not lar from her
sprinG-housc.
At RAY.
Tho officers yelled 10 men working OH
tho National road to stop the man, but
they and other men passing gave him a