The Clarksburg telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1874-1926, 1893-05-05
SHOCKING MURDER
In Benwood saturday NIGHT.
THE MU r D ERER AND HIS
VICTIM
Both Well Known in Clarksburg. :
Formerly Residents Of Adamston,
w. Va, whence Tibbs Moved several
Years ago and Mc0oud only About
a Month ago. The murdered man
buried Mt harrisburg.
Monday. Intsaiosnesr'

5lronS uf1nk was Tue cause Oh
a murder at Benwood late Satur.
day night. that caused a sensa-
ton in that town.
In the lower portion Of the
town is located row of brick
residences, which has long been
known as the market house
or brick row. Some ten or fif.
teen families usually reside there.
In the apartments second be.
low theupper corner, Mrs. Tibbs
her son. George Tibbs, and Mr..
and Mrs. Sam McCloud reside.
Mrs, McCloud is the daughter OF
Mrs. Tibbs. The whole fami-
ly lived in two rooms, one at the
rear on tue first floor and a sleep
ing apartment on the upper floor.
Both Charles Tibbs, who is a
young man of about twenty or
twenty-one years, and McCloud,
who is some older, work at the
Wheeling steel works in lower
Benwood. For some time there
has been bad blood between Nc.
Cloud and his brother.in law,
caused as some people declare by
McCloud's ill treatment of his
wife, and Tibbs has said that if
he ever hit his sister he would
kill him.
Saturday evening the entire
party spent several hours at
Allbright's, a neighbours house,
indulging in drink and revelry.
When the party left for home all
wore under the influenced liquor.
Charles Tibbs had left Albright
place intending to 90 to Bellaire
and purchase a suit; but when
up town he had encountered some
boon companions and went to
saloon where he drank beer for
some time and then started for
the brick row in a drunken con
dition. In the meantime, Mrs.
Tibbs, Mrs. McCloud and Sam.
Cloud had reached thsirdomi
Gle, all under the influence of
drink. and in quarrelsome
mood. 1t was not long before
McCloud and the two women be-
came involved in a quarrel,
-whereupon Mrs. McCloud left
the house and went to a neigh
boris. McCloud wentout, secured
a big coupling pin and returned
with the intention of hurting
some one. AT this iuncture
Charles Tibbs returned from up
town. McCloud and Tibbs be.
came involved in a quarrel, and
the former struck Tibbs with the
coupling pin on the forehead.
Tibbs clinched with his assailant
and secured the pin and it is
evident that it was then that the
murder was committed, the
couplingpin being theinstrument
aud Tibbs the murderer. 1t is
also probable from the evidence
that Mrs. Tibbs took a hand in
the matter and helped her son
kill McCloud.
Tibbs did not seem to realize
the enormity of the crime he had
committed, as he went up town
to get Marshal Cooke to arrest
McCloud. In the meantime
neighbors who had been aroused
came in and found McCloud lying
at the foot of the stairs in the
hallway, with two wounds on the
top of his head and one on the
nose. AT this time, nearly mid.
night, he was snll breathing, but
life soon became extinct.
Tibbs while on his way up
town met Cooke, and told him
McCloud had been fighting and
he wanted him to be arrested.
AT the same time he told him
McCloud had assaulted him with
a coupling pin, but he had taken
it from him and smashed him"
Accompanied by table
Sprout, the party proceeded to
the brick row, where it was
found several were in the Tibbs-
McCloud apartments. and Nc
Cloud lying on the floor, dead.
Themarshall atonceplaced Tibbs
under arrest, and soon afterward
returned and the two officers took
Mrs. Tibbs and Mrs. McCloud to
jail.