The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1894-06-30


PnMprI, W, Va. Juno 29.--Tho In.
tcrcst maniicatod in tho trial Of tho case
OF the state vs., +. N. and Margcret Rus.
col, charged with murder, aa narrated
in tO.day's INrELLroESCrR, shows no
tigns Of Nbating. Dr.. S. Mcdaniel was
on the stand most Of tho forenoon yes.
to-day, and several Hypothetical oucs.
tons wcro propoundcd to him. Tho
doctor aocmOd equal 10 tho occasion,
his answers indicating tha he is well
up in hi9protcssIon. Abou. the sano
question: wore asked Dr.. J.W. Doaworth,
and he gave equally a intclligontrcplics.
Tho rigid cross.exnminatIon by Attor.
ncy Dayton failed to "shattcr" any part
OF their testimony. Dr. Isaac Smith.
who was summoned for tho defense,
was excused.
Willie Wolch, tho non OF Mira. Amanda
Wolch, who died from tho effects Of tho
poisonous drug, was on tho witness
stand long time. 1t was brought out
Of him that he and his mother had a
few sharp words just before no left
home to sec HIS sweetheart on tho even.
ing OF March "a, his mother being much
opposed to his paying attentions to tho
Taylor county muiden. II would be
we'll to state horo that Willio was held
by tho cofoner's jury.as au accessory to
the. crime, but was released at the pre-
Ilminory hearing before Justices G. Q.
IHovntter and L. B. Hudkina hero the
last Of April.
The prosecution will attempt to chow
that tho motive OF Russol and vito for
poisoning Mrs. Wclch was that Mrs.
WEIGH had lilo time right in about
twenty acres OF poor land, and that in
the oyont OF her death he, Russell, and
his wife, would fall join. heirs thereto
IN connection vito tho aforesaid Wiliio
WEIGH; and that Russell had made re-
peated threats that he would put her
out OF the way sooner or later.
SOME OF TIE EVIDENCE.
Tho prosecution has shown that Mrs.
Russell was there on tho eve of March
u, but can not prove that F. NJ. ("3fa-
jor Russell was there any time during
the day. All bis neighbours call him
major" but it has not been shown in
evidence how he acquired his military
title. 1t has also been proved that Mrs.
Ruasel. who was present at her dead
mothers residence on the 25th, object
ed to some OF the noighbors, women
who were present, making coffee in the
now famous coffee pot 1t may be that
Mrs. Russell can explain why she so OBJ.
1octed when she comes on tho stand,
and it is hoped that she will. J. w.
Robinson, deputy sheriff and jailor, was
on the stand for the prosecution; as
Major" Russcl has carried on an ex-
tensiye correspondence with bis friends
since his Incarceration and Robinson
has read and takon copies OF all his let
ters. Objection to their introduction
was made by Mr.. Dayton, and their con-
tents have not yot been divnlged.
The attorneys for the defendants claim
that they will furnish evidence to show
that tho arsenic found in thestomach Of
Mrs. WEIGH by Chemist Whitchill was
injected into 1t atter the post norton
examination aud before it reached tho
chemist.
ANOTHER MYSTERY.
Thero was shroud Of mystery sur.
rounding the death OF Anthony Wolch,
husband OF Mrs. Amanda WEIGH, which
has never hocn banished 10 this dav.
On tho morning of July 18th, 1881, the
dead body OF Mr.. WEIGH was found in
patch OF tall weeds by his hog-pon near
his house at Pepper, this county, (whcre
the present tragedy took place. with
his throat cut from ear to cor, and other
wise mutilatcd. a coroncr's jury failed
to place the responsibility OF the crime
on any one and announced a verdict OF
suicide. Mr.. Welch wss alone at his
house that night, his wife, daughter
and son, tho aforesaid Willie. being at
wake" at q neighbours house the previ-
Gus night, not returning till morning,
and made tho awful discovery that the
husband and father was still In death,
.Major" Rnascl was at that time
euitorof Margaret Welch, nov Mrs. Rus.
eell,) blu. Mr.. WEIGH objected to him
paying attentions to his daughter and
had given him orders to keep. away
from his house as we'll as his daughter.
Another man named Davis against
whom suspicion was directed was said
to have forged Wclch'a namc TO q note
and would have been prosecuted had
Wclch lived. Davis lett tho county
soon afterward aud it Ia said I'll at ho is
now doing time in tho penitontiary in
one OF the western states for murder.