Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1892-08-08
box and only few feet above Coyle's
baad had vnfesad hia aim

now. You might as well come out.
There was third shot. Coyle sprang
backward four or FIVE steps and fell on
his back, dead. The murderer's bullet
had entered his right breast and passed
through the liver and heart. Several
men ran forward, lifted Coyle and car
ried him away to where there was some
grass. But be was beyond help. His
revolver was in its sheath buckled to
his belt, and there also depended a pair
of handouts. The body was taken to
an undertaken, and later removed 10
Mcdonald.
After the shooting Of Coyle the crowd
seemed possessed OF fury, and longed
for the life Of Reed as tiger longs for
its prey. Several shots were fired at
the door and windows, and the shooting
was kept up at intervals for two hours,
but it was altogether unavailing. IL
did not even provoke one shot from the
hunted man.
Plans were canvassed on all sides to
get at Reed. Richard Singleton, tor
pedo shooter, appeared with twelve
quarts of nitroglycerine, and 1t was at
once decided TO try to blow
open one end Of the house.
It was not intended to blow up
Reed, but merely to tear an opening In
the walls so that Reed would be at the
mercy of his pursuerA. For that reason
a can containing five quarts OF glycerine
was placed against the corner OF the
building furthest removed from the ice
box where the murderer lay. The crowd
having been warned, the stuff was eX-
.ESL md uuQ
with a terrible noise. hole was
scooped out In the earth, but only
few of the outer boards were torn from
the wall.
Then another effort was made at the
second corner on the rear end OF the
building. A dynamite cartridge was
exploded under the edge of the building
but it did little damage and failed to
open a hole in the double wall
The throng now grew impatient. 1t
was after six o'clock and night would
soon come. People began to shout,
"Set fire to It'll" Burn him out" sam
Norcross came running with bucket
full of oil. He piled some Of the broken
pieces of board against the side OF the
ice house, poured the oil over them and
over the Misunderstanding. set ire to
the oil with a match, and leaped back
as the blue flames leaped up. How the
great crowd cheered and yelled! Now
there could be no mistake. Reed must
come out or be burned alive.
As the fire seized on the building and
swept up over the sides and roof, the
people began TO move back, as II fear
full of some desperate act on the part OF
the doomed man. 1t was but Few
minutes when nearly all the old frame
structure was wrapped In fire, whence
the smoke curled back to the eastward
and cast a curling, CHASTITY shadow over
the valley.
On the slopes OF the hills on both
sides stood grim looking men with rifles
and revolvers In their hands, waiting
TO shoot to death the man whom they
expected to see leap out OF the burning
house. There was no need OF single
shot from them.
From within the flames camo the
sound OF pistol shot, 1t was quickly
followed by another. Then the flames
swept on, and the walls and roof began
to crumble. A few moments later there
was perfect volley Of reports from the
ruins. They did not sound like gun
shots. They were the explosions OF
cartridges which Reed had in store for
his defense.
When one Of the walls had fallen In
men rushed up to peer into the interior.
They saw the body of man lying
against the opposite wall wrapped In
fire. The alarm was Immediately sound
ed and half dozen men set to work to
chop an opening in the wall just about
where the body lay.
The boards were not yet afame there,
and when they were cut down and torn
away the body was seen. A long pipe
having short elbow was used as hook,
and with 1t the corpse was drawn out
and pulled away from the glowing heat
1t was desired to get out Of the body
before it was burned beyond recogni-
ton, but it was too late. The remains
were CHASTITY and horrible. The limbs
were burned to stumps, whence the
white ends of bones protruded, the
ribs were exposed, the face was charred
| into a coal, and the back OF the head
was entirely consumed by the heat. In
the forehead, just over the socket
of the left eye, was a
round hole in the bone, through which
| had gone the murderer's suicidal bull
let. When the body had cooled so that
it could be moved, it was pushed upon
number of rails, and on them was car
ried to the depot, where 1t was laid upon
the platform to await the action OF the
officers OF the law. Pieces OF the burned
! flesh adhered to the ground where the
! body lay for few minutes. The BODY
was taken to PttsburR, where an In
quest was held yesterday.
A telegram from Pittsburg last night
said:
The charred remains OF Martin Reed,
the escaped murderer who after be had
been run to earth, killed Deputy Sheriff
| Coyle, seriously wounded Chief OF Police
Orr, and then suicided, when his pur-
suers set fire to the building in which
he was secreted, were brought to this
city this morning, where they were
viewed by the coroner 1t was found
that he shot himself through the heart
instead Of in the head as believed last
night.
Detectives Mcbride and Williamson,
who took part In the hunt, swore POSI-
lively that they recognized Reed before
the shooting, and Chief Orr also identi-
fed him. Upon this evidence the Coro-
ner issued burial certificate, and the