Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1895-07-04

I NCl8ADOI5.
Ramirona, Texas, July 3.-The mys-
terry of the hanging of Albert Black
man was fully explained when his
fancee, Miss Bessie Harris, made
full confession in court. She sad that
Blackman, who was a well-to-do young
farmer, had been courting her for soma
time in opposition to the wishes of her
parents. Her father and mother did
not object TO the young man on account
Of any Of his habits, for he was indus
trious. sober and abundanuy able TO
provide a comfortable home for their
daughter. They maintained that she
was too young. being scarcely eighteen
years Of age, and ghey had hoped she
would take O. fancy to a relative living
in another State. whose name she
s-eadfastly refused TO divulge. Find
ing that they could not change her af-
fection for Blackman by threats, they
adopted a more certain method and
commenced a systematic attack upon
her jealous nature. They told her
Blackman was simply making her ri
diculous and that he was engaged to
another girl. She gave him no chance
to explain away the reports her parents
had furnished of him and did not even
mention that she suspected him Of inf
deity.
AT HER FATHERS SUGGESTION
she requested Of Blackwell that he give
her a test OF his love by letting her
hang him, promising to cut him down
in time to save his life. Blackman
was desperately in love with the girl,
and he submitted to the test. On the
night of the murder she took long
walk with him and lured him to
lonely spot where her father was in
hiding with a rope EXcusing herself
for a moment, she procured the rope,
J and returning, placed it about Black
mans neck. She says he had little
fear of the results, as he felt sure she
did not have strength enough to pull
him from the ground.
After the rope had been placed over
the limb and drawn taut, her father
/ appeared, and he and the girl pulled
/ Blackman from the ground and tied the
rope. The poor fellow struggled terri-
bly,, and she would have cut him down.
but her father mentioned the mythical
other young woman and her heart har-
dened toward the lover who was SLOWLY a
suangling to death After the body
became rigid she united the rope and
lowered the form to the ground. Even
then she felt no pangs Of remorse, but
with the assistance Of her father ar
ranged the body so that it would ap-
pear 10 have been a case Of suicide.
Her confession caused a pronounced
sensation and there was talk of lynch
ing the parents of the girl. This was
averted by the prOmptness Of the Off
cials, who Immediately after her con-
fession, placed them under arrest and
spirited them away. The girl has also
been arrested on a charge Of murder.
IN THE .. S. COURT.
Special to the Register.
Parkersburg, w. Va, July 81. B.
Buskirk, commissioner of school lands
of Logan county, was required to give
$4,000 bond at United States Court to
day to abstain from cutting timber on
land claimed by II. King ct al. He
will later give a counter bond to securA
the value of timber which he will cut
on the land. A compromise will prob
ably be effected in the land case of King
VS.. McCHntOc, as movements in that
direction are being made.
WAS MURDERED AND ROBBED.
Washington, July 3.-At the instance
of the father of L. d. Howzer, Of New
| York. the State Department yesterday
cabled the United States consul at Val
Daraiso. Chilli, to investigate a report
/ that HOwzer. who was paymaster for
/ mining company in Chilli. had been
killed. The consul has replied that the
man was murdered and robbed while
on his way to pay off the miners: that
! the murderers have been captured and
that a judicial investigation is in
| progress.
PROMINENT RABBI DEAD.
Chicago. July S.-LeOn Sraus, the
ex-Rabbi of Belleville, Ills, who was
run over by a cable car Monday, died
AT S.. Luke's Hospital to-day. He was
70 years Of age and was prominent in