Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1893-10-30
CONFESSED TO ARSON.
EgyRY STgNBECE, OF LgWS COUNTY, IN
ABAD BOX.
Guilty. Of the Crime on Several Oceasions-Ih'
General News Of hs Safe nr
Las. Week.

man connected with one or tue HO9'
highly respected families OF Lewis
county, is in jail at Sutton, Braxton
copntv. on several charges Of arson
and has made a confession which Is
rather startling in its character. IN
der the law, the punishment for the
crime Is death or confinement III
the DeDitentiarv for life, this be-
irg left 70 the discretion OF the
{nrv The specific crimes which led %
voupg Stein6eck's arrest was the ourh-
inc of the storehouss Of John /. Bender
o. little Otter, BraItOn county, Iues-
dav night OF last week. The strange
and snrprising part OF 10 all Is that
voDDv Stelnbsck admits the crime. lie
$40 he broke into the store for the pur-
Dose OF robbing 10, and 20 destroy the
audience OF the act be set fire 20 the store
{, two al erent places. DE then started
for his home in Lewis county and ar
lived wednesday. A large boarding
borse belonging 90 A. j. Cutlip adlolned
tbs store and was also destroyed by the
Ere Fourteen lumbermen were sleep
to- in tbs house az the time, and Il Is
tbis tbo- make the crime 50 horrible and
.bo punishment so severe. SOme
sigbt or ten dollars in small
cbs,ge Dostage stamps and new suit
~ cIorbes. d pair of boots and other ar
tic,os we're found in the possession OF
Srsinbeck and Identified by Mr.. Bender
"a beIoDgirg 20 him and having come
fr,n, his store. Sheriff WoOddell Said
tbot In searching Steinbeck's house be
f9u7d TWO trays Of rings and other Jew
eIrv. The iewelry was cheap ana OF
+ba class generally found 10
,-T-t-v stores. MIR. Bender eT-
omfrei the iewelry, but said 10 did not
belong 10 him. Capt Crook store ana
also Eraus Bros store, both on Alum
Bridge, were destroyed by ire ana az
tte time 10 was supposed the stores were
fired, but they have never been aOIe 70
place the crime upon any one. Tue
barn OF Mr.. George SteinOeck, the
father Of Henry, was also burnt. IL Is
now supposed by many tnat young
StbiDbeck did an this work. IL Is sup
uosed the motive In burning bis Iasler S
barn was 90 divert suspicion. Inc
burning of the two stores In his neigh
b0rho0d is O mere suspicion, but II THIS
theory should prove correct II Woulu
Seem that Young Stt.nbeck had mania
f1r burning buildings. Many persons
bafisva him 20 be insane, and this is GER
tsinIv the kind.iest and most humane
construction 90 be placed upon his act
Mai. II. w. Brace, formerly editor
OF the IVES. Virginia World, published
at Hinton, and now Judge OF the Grim
ipaI Court Of Fayetts, has, II reports
be true. Involved himself In very
serious breach OF the law. The cir
cumstsuces are as follows. "trom
1Ss5 TO 1859 the County Court OF Fay
cite county refused TO license 20 sell
liguor. Suddenly A. q. Arson opened
two saloons ln defiance OF law, and
was never prosecuted. Arson re-
tween him and w -,-->sraz9e - en- the
Prosecuting Attorney and now Judge
o., the Criminal Court, stating that tn
consideration OF $3.50, the receipt Of
which IS acknowled, the Prosecuting
Attorney agreed % uOlle all indictments
that might be found against Arson for
selling LIQUOR during 1889. Steps will
be Immediately taken 90 impeaCh and
iudiCt Judge Brace. 10 is rumOred that
be intends resiguing. -ROuCCUCrtC Mcs-
ScDgcr.
Owen Bessie, a sort Of river pirate,
was arrested in Gallip0lis last WeducS-
day on a charge of having stolen some
thirty odd bushels of potatoes from the
farm Of Mr.. Peter Couch, on Kauawba
river, and alSoa sklfT from man named
Cooper. The pirate was taken 70 Pr
Pleasant by Oicers FOgleS0nR aud
Smith, and committed 20 JAIL He is
the same man who was indicted 40 the
last term of the Circuit Court FOR steal
Ing q tarUau.iu from Lock IL, and who
plead guilty 90 petit larceny and served
ten days sentence in Jail, and when
he had served out his sentence, robbed
the jail of three blankets and a bed
tick DE is now i'm a fair way TO take
up his residence at Moundsville.
The wife of. NJ. Saunders, a saloon
keeper of Elk City, Kanawha county,
started out on the war path Saturday
morning 90 kil. her husband or get kill
ed. She got a gun, loaded it, and start
ed FOR the saloon. Arriving there, the
bartender tried 90 persuade her 70 go
away telling her that her husband was
not there. She pressed TO, however,
and went 90 toe inner door and batter
cd the door down, aud opened fire on
Saunders, who was in a private room
She was seized bv the police and was
taken away, but she Sworo that she
would Kin him on sight as soon as she
was released. She is in jail, Jealousy
is the cause.
"A shaft twenty or thirty feet deep
has been sunk on the top Of the Catoc-
Tin mountain q few hundred yards north
OF the turnpike, about two aud a half
miles west OF Leesburg, from which a
considerable quantity OF gold bearing
earth aud quartz has been taken. The
Mirror says the shaft is Ou tae land 1i
the Messrs. Bowie, who, it Is under.
stood, have had the product OF the niue
examined by experts. How valuable
the End may be is not known.-Wn
Leader.
On November lst the IT. G. Davis
Goa Company VIII be consolidated with
the Davis Coal and Coke Company. Col
Thomas B. Davis has resigned his posi-.
tiOn as the Nice-President OF the Davis
Coal and Coke Company, and Mr., Harry
d. Buxton, OF the Piedmont office. the
General Manager, has been promoted
and elected Nice-Presiieut OF the Davis
Coal and Coke Company, and after the
first OF November, Mr.. Burtoa's
headquarters will be 90 the New York
offices.
Col Lucien Grigsby, an ex-Conieder-
ate soldier, committed suicide on the
14th inst az J. NJ. McCus's, near
Princeton, by shooting the TOP Of his
head of COL Grisby was about 20
years Of age and had bsen In bad health
for sometime, lie was brave and