Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1894-03-26
LOOKS LIKE MURDER.
The DEATH OF KREVELICK, NEAR WARREN
TON, A SUSPICIOUS CASE.
Hs Was Almost Certainly Killed by Two Com
pauions, and His Body Placed on
the W. & l. z. Track.

Facts are multiplying going TO show
that John Kreyelick, the Slav who was
run over by a Wheeling and Lake Erie
passenger train, Friday afternoon, a
short distance north Of Warrenton,
Jefferson county, O., was dead when hit
by the train, and that he had been muir
dered in a drunken brawl and his body
placed on the track by the murderers
Krevelick, a Hungarian named Kru-
ski, aud another, name unknown, were
at Tiltonville Friday, where they drank
a good deal Of whisky, and when they
started north along the railroad, about
three o'clock, they were very drunk.
They each carried a jug containing
LIQUOR, and the jugs and jags combined
made walking the ties a hard job. After
passing WarrentOn, just after four
o'clock, q row vas started, which IL is
believed ended in the murder Of
Krevelick Evidences of this row were
found on Saturday by Coroner Maxwell,
Of Jefferson county, who began an in
vestigatlon. Blood was found on the
track, one hundred feet frUm where the
with other indications Of struggle. 1t
is the theory Of the people in the vicin-
ity that Kruski and his companion
killed Krevelick, and then placed his
body on the track, with the idea that
II II was run over, all evidences OF the
crime would be hidden. As matter Of
fact the body was terribly mangled and
the head cut of.
Pending an investigation KrusH was
arrested and locked up at Mt. Pleasant,
where a preliminary examination was
TO have been held Saturday afternoon,
but it was postponed until to-day, at
Laurelton. Kreveick was about %
years old, and leaves wife and child.
No. S, the Wheeling and MassIllon ac-
commodation, was the train which ran
over Krevelick. This train leaves
Tiltonvllle at $50 o'clock on its west
ward course. Last Friday evening it
left on time, and Frank Johnson is
the engineer. Mr. Johnson was
seen by a REGISTER reporter yester-
day, aHd said ne was going around a
around a sharp curve one mile west OF
Titonville wen be saw a man near
the track, who motioned 70 him.
The signal was thai Of Ego ahead"
The train rounded the curve, and Mr..
johnson saw body on the track. He
was too close to reverse his engine, and
the man was run over, his head rolling
down the bank. Mr.. Johnson could not
see whether or not the man on the track
was injured as be approached. The
man who was seen beside him, and who
gave the signal, then started to run
west on the track. Mr.. johnson opened
the throttle OF his engine aud soon over
took the fleeing man, who was COM
PEELED by the crew to get aboard the
train. He was Kruski, and was taken to-
Laurelton, aud aiterward to Mt. Pleas
ant.
Train No. %, east bound, passed No.
s at Titonville. Eight minutes before
the accident, this train passed the scene
of the accident. The fireman OF this
train saw the men near the track. The
fireman is Thomas Welsh, and he told
REGISTER man yesterday he thought
the men were Quarreling as he passed.
This morning Kruski is to be given a
preliminary hearing at Laurelton, and
the crews OF both trains are summoned.
The prisoner and Krevelick were
brotherS-in-law.