Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1893-10-18
LlT9LETON CAPTURED
AND GIVEN a HEARING At BENwOOD, YES
fERDAY.
Put Under $4,000 BOnd-A Supposed Incsndiary
Arrested a. Martins FeTy-0hsr
Criminal News

Isaac Llttleton, charged with stab
bling Jacob SIiptner. Monday night
near John Dolan's hotel in lower Ben
wood, was captured yesterday morning,
and was given hearing hearing yes
terday afternoon before Squire Henry
Riddle, of Benwood. Sllptner is not
vet dead and the Squire put Littleton
under 50, 600 bond, for his appearance
at Court, while awaiting the result OF
Sliptner's injuries. Henry Remhotf,
brother-in-law Of Littleton, is bondsman
Doctors Mcdonald and Armbrecht,
of Benwood, are the physicians waiting
on the injured man. Neither OF these
gentlemen will say whether or not he
will recover. His condition is very
critical, and he is weakening with the
chances against his recovery. The
weapon used was large pocket pen
knife, as sharp as razor. His wounds
are cash ten inches long from the
ribs, extending downward across the
abdomen. This wound Is the most
dangerous one, as one or the
ribs was cut clean of and
the knife entered the left
lung. From his wound internal
hemorrhage is feared. At right angles
with this cut are two more about six
inches long, but not so deep. Starting
at the shoulder is a cut eight inches
long, extending toward the longer in
Jury. There is also a cut two inches
long and deep near his temple. The
other side OF his head is also bruised
painfully. The injured man is lying at
his boarding house in the Lower ward,
Benwood. He is unmarried.
Both men had been drinking, and
each was visibly intoxicated. The fuss
started from an enmity dating from a
fight last summer.
After the cutting Littleton escaped.
Officials Of the nearby places were no.
tilted, and officer William Casey, OF the
Benwood police, went to Moundsville.
There he found Littleton yes
terday morning. he gave himself
up to the officer, and he was
brought to Benwood and confined in
the lookup till the hearing, which came
off at 4 O'Clock. Littleton secured John
Coniff, of this city, as his attorney, and
the Squire's office was jammed with
people, among them being the wife and
a small child of the prisoner.
Jos. Wood, q boy, was an eye
witness Of the fight, and he was sworn.
He said the fight occurred between 6
and 2 o'clock Monday evening. Several
were in a crowd before Dolan's saloon.
Sliptner approached. Others in the
crowd spoke to him. Llttleton said,
"Hello, Jake" Siptner said, $50 to
hill, for l don't like you any better
than other people, anyhow" Angry
words followed, and Sliptner went to
his home near by, but soon re-
turned. The quarrel was re-
newed, when Littleton swore
at Sliptner, saying she would scrap 1t
out then with him." Witness said Lit
tleton struck first. The men rolled into
the gutter with Littleton on top. Mr..
Wood did not see the knife, aud was
confident Sliptner had not been cut after
he fell. The witness said Charles and
CLYDE Llttleton, Hub" Jackson, VIM.
Strobel and VIM. Monohan were in the
crowd at the time Of the first quarrel.
John Dolan, proprietor Of the saloon,
saw the knife fall before the men tum-
bled into the gutter. He picked 1t up
and gave it to an officer. In the re-
mainder of his testimony he corrobor-
ated young Wood. Mrs. Strobel tsstl-
fed, but did not see the fight, and was
dismissed, and DR.. E. l.. Armbrecht
testified as to the injuries Of Sliptner.
At first the Squire said he would re-
mand Litteton to jail till the results OF
Sliptner's injuries were known, but At
torney Coniff asked him TO name a
bond, which was done.