The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1895-12-30


name as Alice McClellnnd was brought
here on the Ohio River train from Sis
tersyille, near which place shp was shot
at SIP. m. on Saturday: She has dan
Eerous wound In her right breast, and
also a pistol wound In her wrist. sha
was brought here on cot IN the car
and her injuries had received little at
tantlon. before her arrival here. A
telegram was sent In adSuhce 20 the
North Wheeling hospital announcing
that she would reach here op,thRt train,
and one OF the Sisters OF ST, Joseph, In
charge OF the hospital, telephoned 20
police headquarters asking that the
city patrol wagon meet the train and
haul her TO the hospital. CAPT Bennett
and Lieut.. Ingram went to the station
Ia the wagon, but In the meantime the
sister superior at the hospital learned
that the woman had been, shot IN a dis
reputable place on the Ohio side of the
river, and that she lived IN Pittsburgh,
and II was therefore decided TO decline
10 receive her info the hospital, The
wagon was reoailed before II reached
the hospital, but some delay was caused
before Il was decided what should he
done. Finally, however, Mr., VIII Cald.
well. son Of Mayor Caldwell. assumed
the responsibility for the care OF the
woman at the City hospital, and she
was taken there, and DR.. Stnthers was
summoned. He and Dr. w II. Gillespie,
OF Sistersyille, coroner OF Tyler county.
who had accompanied the wounded
woman here, probed for the ball in her
breast without finding II. and at length
concluded TO let her rest until this
morning, The exact nature OF he
wound cannot. therefore, be determined
yet.
The woman was shot in house boat
near Cochransville. nearly two miles
below Sistersville, on the Ohio side,
The boat was an immoral resort ana
Alice McClelland was one OF the In
mates Frank Rogers visited the place
Friday night and spent the night there.
He left Saturday morning and was
gone until the middle OF the afternoon,
when he returned. He had evidently
been drinking. Whether he had ever
known the woman before he met her
there the night before Is not known,
but several times he asked her 20 leave
the place. quit her evil associations and
70 away with him. This she refused to
do. He was persistent and they quar-
relied about the matter He offered to
make her his wife. and when he con-
cluded that persuasion was In vain, he
drew n big 'bulldog" revolver and fired
two shots at her
AS stated. one shattered her right
wrist, while the second inflicted the
wound In her right breast, He then
turned the revolver upon himself and
fred two shots. one pierced. the left
breast Just above the heart. while the
second entered the heart producing
death.
Coroner Gillespie and DIR. West were
soon at the boat. An inquiry was made
and the facts found TO be as above
stated.
The man who did the shooting and
who killed himself did not seem to be
known 10 anybody about Cochrans-
vile or Slstersvllle. He was a well
dressed young man Of twenty-one or
twenty-five years. and presumably an
oil man. The woman had been about
Sistersvllle some time. and said her
home was In Pittsburgh.
The bringing OF the wounded woman
here was simply for convenience, ana
the trouble In finding accommodations
for her. while unfortunate. was no.
body's fault She was not such charge
MS either hospital Is supposed to take
care OF gratuitously. or for pay, for
that matter, A large crowd gathered
about the patrol wagon during the en-.
barrassing pause after II was found
she would not he admitted to the North
Wheeling institution. The case illus
trates the necessity often dwelt on IN
the local press. OF some sort OF an emer-
gency hospital In Wheeling. The city
Is not Justly chargable with suoh
a.
caring for Il, even II II could be Justly
expetced to, Is at the infrmary hos
pItal, which ia too far for case de-
fnandlng immediate attention. Human
fly would seem to dictate that there
should be some provision under similar
circumstances without an Individual
being required to assume the resnon'
sibility for the cost.
There had not been case In Wheel
ing In years which caused as much talk
aa this ope. There was an evident dis
position 10 criticize somebody aud yet
nobody made any Just criticism. The
city patrol wagon has been chilled on
for somewhat similar service very Of
ten, and has always responded prompt
". II II not. however, Intended as a
general ambulance. The lack OF any
thing like an ambulance service In n
city OF the size Of Wheeling II often u
subject OF comment. After the patient
was taken into charge last night, and
the North Wheeling hospital refused To-
receive her, Chief Bennett wns put in q
very embarrassing position. and had
considerable difficulty In finding.
through tho nearest telephone. anybody
who could secure the adnilssion Into
the City hospital Of patient for whore
reception no formal arrangements had
been made. II IL not Creditnble TO tho
city that such trouble might occur un-