Ceredo advance. [volume] (Ceredo, W. Va.) 1885-1939, 1897-11-03
Editorial Correspondence.
HARRIsvILLE, w. VA,
October 81, 1897.

boyhood days-Harrisville-and
arrived here the same day. We
came as witness in suit pending
III the Circuit Court and expected
to have returned to home and bust
ness ere this; but when one gets. to
''courtmg" he often tarries longer
than he really intended.
Harrisville has changed a great
deal since we left the parental roof,
sixteen years ago, and went out to
battle with the world. Since that
time many new, modern structures
have been erected here, natural gas
In abundance discovered and util-
lized, and the town wonderfully i'm
proved. As We have probably
stated before in the columns of the
ADVANCE, this is one of the most
delightful locations for a town in
the State, and we ,hiuk that the
board that selected n size for the
Girls Industrial Home made mis-
take In not locating that institution
at this place.
Judge Romeo II. Freer, who is
known 10 mary of the ADyAScE
readers, presides over the court
and so far as we have heard, is giy-
ing general satisfaction. We heard
him sentence Irwin Brown to the
penitentiary for life, Monday morn
ing. AS Brown was convicted of a
murder which for cruelty and vi
ciousness has scarcely ever had its
equal in this State, we will give the
particulars of the same as devel-
oped by the witnesses and described
by the Richie Gazette:
con the 2sth day of May, 1897,
Emanuel Crull and Erwin Brown
left Richmond, Va, with five horses
wagon and cart, intending to drive
through the country to SistersviIle,
w. Va. At the home of Nelson
j. CrGll, about 80 miles from Rich
F.; mond, another horse was procured.
On the evening of June 10th
they passed the home of lack
Horner, near Pennsboro. That eve
ning they camped in the road about
400 yards from Clark Horner's
house and were seen there by Clark
Horner and two Of his boys. That
night about two or three o'clock,
Clark Horner and his wife heard
what they took to be the report
from a gun, and about daylight
next morning Mr.. Horner saw the
teams start in the direction of Plum
Kun. but noticed only one man.
Blood stains were found on the
grass where the wagon had stood.
which was supposed at the time to
be from horses foot.
About noon on June Ilth, Brown
drove INTO the vicinity of Wick.
Tyler county, with the six horses.
wagon and cart. He traded. horses
three times while there and left IN
the direction of Wick. Several
witnesses detected bad odor about
the wagon and saw what appeared
TO be blood where the wagon had
been standing. The driver of the
wagon told them that he had a bit
OF spoiled meat in the wagon and
inquired where he could get rid of it.
and whether the country Vas thickly
settled.
ID. II. Moore saw a man mass
through Middlebourne, about 3
o'clock on June 9TH, driving four
horse team. He smelled a stencil
as the wagon passed, but could not
say that the prisoner was the driver
of the wagon.
a man who looked like the pris-
oner was seen driving heavy WAC
on about five o'clock on the 18th of
June, about two miles from Sisters
Vile.
a shauty boat man claims to have
seen Brown at his place about a mile
above Sistersville, on the evening of
the 18th of June. The dead BODY
o. man was found floating in the
river that same evening"
The body of the man found in the
river near SistersyIlle was disin-
TERED and identified as that of
Emanuel Crull. The state proved
beyond a reasonable doubt, that r.
win Brown did deliberately murder
Emanuel Crull, presumably for his
effects, and after having committed
the horrible crime hauled the dead
body around through several coun-
ties until finally the stencil becon-
ing unbearable threw it into the
ONO river. Had this crime been
committed in many localities the
wretch would have been lynched
Many persons here would Ike to
sec The unnatural human "stretcb
hemp, as 80 many murderers either