Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1898-12-28
TWO MURDEROUS ARRAYS
The Result Of Too Much Merry Christ
mas Whisky.
THE AFF-aAYS TOOK PLACE IN THE
MCNONGALIA COUNTY OF Il
FIEL DS-ONE OF THE VICTIMS is
DEAD, AND THE OTHER DYING.
THE MURDERERS ARRESTED
AMID IN JAIL AT MORGANTOWNl

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Morgantown, w. Va, December H.
Two men charged with murder have
been landed in Jail here as a result of
the celebration of the period of peace
en- earth and good will toward men.
IEey are held as a result of cutting at
trays, in which one man has died and
the chances are good for the other
man to do the same thing.
The first ARRAY took place on Satur-
day night, but great deal Of secrecy
has been observed by the people in the
section in which the cutting took
place, and they will not answer tele-
phone messages or give out anything
about the affair, SO that it has been
aard to get definite information.
Saturday night there was Christ
mas celebration at Browns Taberna-
lie, well known place in the Stat
ers Run oil field. The hometown
gang concluded that they you'd
CLEAN OUT THE PLACE
md went over we'll fortified with rot
en- whisky.
The boys on Jake's Run thought
that they would prevent this, and
sree-for-all fight occurred. In the
fight Will Moore, a nineteen-year-old
boy, had his throat cut by Roscoe
Tenant, bad man from Jake's Run.
Moore lived until Monday afternoon
when he died.
The fight was not reported to the
Prosecuting Attorney until after the
man had died, and no arrests were
made until he had ordered it to be
done in very pre-emptory manner.
A coroner's inquest was held last
right at midnight and this morning
a preliminary trial was held before
Justice Shriver and Tenant was held
for the action of the grand jury He
Tenant has very bad reputation,
and has been mixed up in several
scraps before this. The statement is
made that it is
A CLEAR CASE OF MURDER,
and that it will go hard with the pris-
cner. All the parties interested are
tough characters and free fights are
FREQUENT between them, but this is the
first time that murder has been done.
The second fight took place on the
Widow Browns place, near Fly Blow.
1uon
Dave Morrow cut J. E. Noel several
times in the left side and Noel is not
expected to live. Morrow is from
Clarion county and Noel is from Allie
gheny.
The trouble arose as a consequence
of the badgering of Morrow by the
other men, They had played practical
Jokes on him until he could stand 1t
no longer, and
THE LIMIT WAS REACHED
on Sunday night.
Morrow went into the tent where he
was staying with the others and found
his bed piled high with all the furni-
lure Ill tuc pidCS. liz oohOu WIZ A"NA
lone it and when Noel replied that he
had and asked what was to be done
about it, Morrow attacked him with
knife and cut him seven or eight times
in the left side. The worst cut was in
the left side near the seventh rib.
This was three inches deep and three
and a half long. Noel yelled for the
others to pull his assailant off and
they caught Morrow, holding him I'M
til constable could be called.
A preliminary hearing was held at
cnce and Morrow held to await the
action of the grand jury. Noel may
not live as result of the injuries in
fiicted He is very large man, weigh
ing over two hundred and was the
bully of the camp, while Morrow is
small man and the butt of all in the
tent.
Whisky cut a prominent figure in
both these ARRAYS but in the latter
case Morrow has always borne a
splendid reputation and has never
been in trouble before.