Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1897-07-22


band by the latter name), but she
couldn't account for it very well.
Younger had been arrested, but when
he was brought before the jury and
Mrs. Mason he stated that he was at
his home on Little Grave creek all
day Tuesday, not being further away
| from the house than the stable, and
that he did not know Mrs. Mason.
She also said she did not know Young
er. The prisoner was then discharg-
ed.
Charles Golden testified that he was
the first man at the scene after Mrs.
Mason reached home in the evening.
Golden lives three hundred yards from
the Mason home, and between seven
and eight o'clock he was sitting on his
porch with his wife and Mr.. and Mrs.
H. H. Cox. He said he saw
MRS. MASON GOING HOME,
passing up little hollow about hum
dred yards away. 1t was not yet dark,
and he saw and recognized her.
About ten minutes, as nearly as he
could Judge, after she reached home,
he heard her scream and cry: My
are DlCSulHS " uColA. liz
said to Cox: "Ill go and see what is
the matter, and you go for doctor"
Witness then ran TO Mrs. Mason's.
whom he found with the youngest
child in her arms, and crying and
screaming. She hurriedly told him
what was the matter and said Stanley
was'lying out on the hillside, and wit
ness went in the direction she 1ndi-
Gated and found the second boy, whom
he carried to the house.
Henry NJ Salter testified to being
early at the scene and to making an
examination of the ground near where
the boys were lying, and TO picking
up sticks and switches covered with
blood
Later in the afternoon Mrs. Mason
was again called and was asked as to
THE VISIT OF A MAN
at her house about week ago. She
said that about that time man had
called upon her at her home and rep
resented himself as Mr.. Barrack of New
Martinsville. She would not say that
was his name, but represented him
self to be Mr.. Barrack. She did not
know him personally. She said this
man asked her if the youngest boy
Willie-was Will Jarrett's boy, and
said he had been sent by some OF Mr..
Jarretts relatives to find out the truth
and clear the matter up. She said the
boy was there, and the man looked az
him, noted his blue eyes, ETC., and
said: 1.-The boys face talks for itself.
She told the man the matter was none
of his business.
H. H. Cox, who was with Mr.. Col
den when they heard Mrs. Mason's
screams, was then called, and cor
roborated Mr.. Goldens story, and also
Mrs. Mason's in such particulars as
came under his observation.
After some further work Of no par
ticular importance, the jury adjourned
until seven o'clock in the evening, but
without taking any more evidence, ad-
journed
UNTIL s O'CLOCK THIS EVENING.
at the Court House.
Stanley Mason's body will be taken
to Rosby's Rock at eight o'clock this
morning for burial.
Public opinion at Moundsville is very
much divided, and all sorts of conjec-
lures are to be heard. Some think the
murder the act of an irresponsible
maniac. Others suspect Mr.. Mason, the
husband, and still others are trying to
weave a web which will catch the
mother in it's meshes, but so far there
is nothing to warrant suspicion as TO
her. She>could not have attacked the
boys in the morning before she left,
because they were seen in the middle
of the day, and she was at Roberts's
certainly until after four o'clock, and
did not leave there to go home untll
seven or a little after, when she was
seen both by the man on the wagon
and by Messrs Golden and Cox That
she left the Roberts house and went
home, between four and five o'clock,
bv another route, and then returned
and went home at seven, has been ad-
vanced. but this is more ingenious
than plausible, and has few adherents.
1t was the general belief In MOUNDS
vile last evening that the jury would
not adjourn for several days, and there
are hints that a surprise in the shape
of evidence may be sprung to-day,
It is one of the most mysterious
crimes ever known in this vicinity, as
we'll as the most fiendish, and the solu-
tion of the problem and the bringing
of the guilty party to justice, will be
awaited by the public with illy-con-
cealed Impotence.
THE LOCAL END.
Yesterday morning the Marshall
county authorities communicated with
Chief Bennett about the murder, and
asked him. to keep a sharp lookout for
the indefinite tall man with white
coat and light hat. who figures as the
man who assaulted Edwards with the
club. Tuesday night at nine o'clock,
and about whom the little fellow Will
lie babbled yesterday in his conscious
moments. Early in the day the police
were informed that stranger an
swering this indefinite general descrip-
tion was begging for meal in North
Wheeling and had also been seen
above town. and Lieut.. Clemans was
detailed on the job. He put in most
of the day on the hunt, but returned
with no tangible information. Inc
Register had positive information, last
night. that a man tall, with llgnt
coat and a light or light brown nat,
had visited several places In North
wheeling. asking for something to
eat. but there is one chance in thous-
and that the individual had anything
whatever to do with the murder.
The local police will cooperate act
iyely with the Marshall county authori-
ties and will do whatever they can TO
aid in bringing the guilty party TO
| justice.
The murder was a general theme