The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1893-05-01

MCCloud was DEAD, AS he unueFHlOou
it, McCloud and his wife had been in a
fuss and Charley had taken it up.
Mrs. Brannon, another neighboT, had
seen Ttbbs carly in the morning, She
heard the racket, got up and went over
and saw Sam lying on the floor, and
Mrs. Tibbs on the bed. Mrs. McCloud
was not there, She was like the other
neighbors, OF the opinion that Charley
had killed McCloud.
DR.. Mcdonald testified that he went
TO the scene of the murder at o'clock
Sunday morning and made an exam.
nation OF the corpse, finding the nasal
bones crushed and the skull badly
fractured, sufficient in his judgment to
produce death. He found the neck
badly swollen and discolored, as though
by a persons fingers, sufficient also un-
der certain circumstance to produce
death; he thought the throat looked
as though the man had been strangled.
Mrs. Tibbs, the mother OF Charles
Tibhs and OF Mrs. McCloud was the
next witness, She Is q medium sized
woman Of about fifty years. She testi-
fed about the party going to- ALI
bripht's before dark whore they had a
big blowout" She got full and couldn't
say what was dono. Mr.. and Mrs.
McCloud and herself had started for
home after II o'clock, and went in by
the rear entrance. sam took me
around the shoulder, but / don't know
whether he was hugging me or not.
While in that attitude We tumbled
down stairs" She had not seen q
coupling pin nor any fighting, aud only
remembered seeing Charley when at
Allbrights.
"Did you cay 'givoit to him, he is
pretty near dead'?"
II don't know what / said"
Alice Leverage said that in the jail
Sunday morning Charley Nbbs had
said, "Mother, after Sam was hit you
choked him to DEATH" to which Mrs.
Tbbs had replied, u don't know, l was
full"
Mrs. Woods had fled from her rooms
when the fuss was ut its height, &c.
companied by Mrs. McCloud. She saw
Tibbs throw away the coupling pin.
The three were in the hall when she
left.
Miss Lucy Woods told about the same
story. She heard some one say, "Tibbs
has killed MCCloud."
Robert JelIers saw McCloud get the
coupling pin. Soon after Mrs. McCloud
came running out to his house, and soon
after no heard McCloud was dead.
Frank Wycough lives at tho Wood
house. He was awakened and found
McCloud on the floor. He picked him
up. When he got there Mrs. Tibbs was
on the floor alongside McCloud. AT
this time he was still breathing. Charley
was on the outside, and said he was 60
ing for the police.
John Bogard saw McCloud go for the
coupling pin, and soon after Tibbs came
out and threw it away. When he went
in Sam was dead.
Mrs. McCloud was next called. She
carried with her two-year-old child.
She is q pleasing looking woman, about
twenty.six years old. She told about
the same story as Mrs. Tibbs about the
evening at Allbright's. When the party
got home her mother and Sam COM
meuced TO quarrel. She told them IL
they didn't stop she would take the
baby and leave. They didn't stop, and
she left, going to Mrs. LETTERS, Some.
one came in the room afterwards and
said Sam had been laid out. She stated
that when she went out Charley en-
tered the house. When she came back
Sam was lying on the floor. Charley
was the only man then in the house.
The hearing was adjourned at 8 p. m.
until G o'clock in the evening.
The first witness was young George
Tibbs, who had been up to Wheeling
on the night OF tho murder and did not
return until u o'clock. When he en-.
tered he saw Sam on the floor, blood
running from his nose. His mother
was kneeling at his side wiping away
the blood; McCloud was not then dead
but was struggling. Ho didn't think
his mother recognized him; "she was
full OF beer" He had seen her that
way, twice.
Miss Sarah Freeland, a neighbor,
heard tho racket, and heard woman
say, "Kill him; he isn't dead" She
went TO the door and saw man throw
something away. She could not recog-
nize the woman's voice. On cross ex'
animation she said she thought 1t was
Mrs. Tibbs's voice.
Charles Tibbs. whom the evidence
shows committed the murder, was next
called. He was asked If he had said his
mother killed McCloud. Hereplied, "She
choked him and l told her to take her
hands away"
The squire asked If he hadn't told hel
in the lookup that she had killed him
"She said keep 1t to myself, and l told
her l always toll the truth"
"When you told her she was the
cause OF his death, did she deny it?"
II don't remember. But she did, and
that's the truth"
lie said his mother and McCloud had
fallen down stairs. and his mother then
choked him. His evidence was very
contradictory; first that the pair were
fighting standing up, and that they
were on tho floor. He said he didn't
know how tho coupling pin came to
DO in the house, but that he threw II
out. After the examination was con
cluded, Tibbs said he wanted to say {
word az say truly before God, am moi
guilty II l was guilty would take .
knife and cut myself in chunks. l know
mother choked him."
Marshal Cooke testified as to what
Tibbs had said TO him when he asked
him to arrest McUloud, which was that
he had SMASHED him one"
Mrs. Tibbs was called again, but moth
ing OF much Importance was extracted
from her testimony, nor from Mrs
McCloud, who was also recalled.
After one or two unimportant wit
nossos had boon examined, the jury
went out and in short timo brought
in verdict that McCloud had como t
his death by reason OF blows admins