The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1895-08-21
CHARGED WITH MURDER.
A Serious Matter Grows Out of an
Attempt to Capture Turkeys.

- a. - AAAE1O hNeA AOSOA y . Leaa ~
the southwestern corner of Sails
bury Township and Meigs county
is poor log house containing only
two or three dollars worth of the
cheapest sort of goods, and here in
the bitterest sort of poverty lived
VIM. Cundiff small, crippled old
man sixty years of age with his wife
and eight children ranging from 16
years down. He is described as
peculiarly inoffensive, harmless and
perhaps worthless old man. The
boys are of the same sort, little in
clined to work and the youngest
ones spends a great deal oftheir
time in begging, a brother and
sister of the same family often be-
ing seen in that business in Pome-
roy.
About the only property the old
man has was a flock of seven turkeys,
weighing about pound and a half
apiece. Lewis Lindsey, as the story
goes, had some turkeys last spring
aud he blamed Cundiff for stealing
the eggs, and one day last week he
told the old man that as the eggs
were his he wanted the turkeys, but
the old man said they were Matched
from eggs that he had bought and
he refused to give them up.
About shutdown on the 9TH inst
John B. Lindsey with four big men
who have been working for him on
the county road grading contract
went to Cundiff's to get the turkeys.
The old man stood by the coop and
told them to keep away from his
property. This angered Lindsey
and he struck him with a club
across the front of the head just
above the forehead fracturing the
skull, and he fell His wife then
came to his rescue and he hit her
and knocked her over. A son II or
13 came to the rescue and he was
knocked over. Lindsey claims that
the old man drew club on him and
while he was warding off the blow
the son struck at him with a pick
and hit the old man, causing the
wound. Having secured six of the
seven turkeys Lindsey withdrew
his forces, leaving the old man
weltering in his blood.
a couple of doctors worked with
the old man some time and got him
fixed up little but he kept getting
gradually worse and worse.
Thursday a warrant was issued
for Lindsey's arrest by Mayor Hy-
sell of Middleport on a charge of
assault with intent to rob, on an
affidavit made out by one of the
sons. The case came up Friday
and was continued under q bond of
$500.
Sunday an affidavit was made
before Justice Donnally charging
him with assault with intent to
kill, and the arrest made the same
day, and defendant placed under
bonds of $4,000 and the case con-
tinued till Friday, August Is. A.
w. Worries went on his bond after
a good deal of protesting that the
bond was outrageousIy high and
without precedent in the county.
He didn't kick on the amount only
as establishing a precedent.
Monday at about 2 p. m. Cum
diff breathed his last. 1t was indeed
a pitiful scene. 1t can not be
described by the writer; the widow,
the orphans, the surroundings, form
picture that can not be effaced.
The remains were taken to Middle
port where a post mortem exami-
nation was held by the Coroner and
his doctors. The skull was found
to be fractured from ear to ear and
from the base of the skull to the
forehead, besides several minor frac
lures. 1t was terrible blow which
produced such results.
The same evening Lindsey was
rearrested on a charge of murder
and taken before Squire Donnally in
the evening and the hearing set for
Friday, August 16. He was first
ordered to Jail, but after the Prose
cutting Attorney had gone home he
was admitted to bail in the sum of
S4,O0O.-Pomeroy Democrat, Aug.
18th.
WHO Is HARVEY HAYMAN!