The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1899-11-23

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without pain. Now. thanks to
tired feeiing Is gone, and ! an
ing the cow to pasture and cramblett
who was going to her sisters. met her
at Sow geld gap" He asked her to
marry him and che refused. He asked
her to promise to marry him some time,
promising 70 get her a ring, but she re-
fused to promise. He wanted her to
meet him at & neighbor's, where they
could keep company but refused on
her parents account fearing they would
find 1t out. cramblett then proposed
that they XIII themselves and be out of
the way. but she said sensibly, she did
not want to die % young. She said
Cramblett had proposed several times
that they kill Themselves and had said
he would rather be IN the middle of the
sea than do without her. cramblett
never made threats against her father,
and he always treated her right.
Coroner j. A. Fisher was the last wit
ness examined before supper. He de-
scrlbed how he found things when he
went to Gosnelrs the day following the
murder. He told where he got the bull
lets, felt wad and broken glass. He de-
scribed the foot prints in the garden
and the horses tracks. where 1t was
hitched to the fence some distance from
Gosnell's, the horses tracks correspon-
ding to Crambletrs horse, as one shoe
was missing. He would not say the
hair found on the fence was part OF
Cramblett's horse's name. The coroner
contended that the mans and horses
tracks were fresh. and the defendants
attorney debated the question as to his
being an expert on foot prints, at some
length. Fisher insisting that he could
tell.
Detective Work.
In the evening sheriff Porter testified
to examining the horse tracks and max
ing comparison to cramblett's horses
feet. He made an examination at
crambletts house, but found no gun
from which the charge Of bullets could
have been shot. They found one bullet
in pouch, however. They went from
Gosnelrs to CFamblett's when the
search was made. telling cramblett,
who was ct the Gosnell house Of the
trip, and he asked to be allowed to 90
along, and he was given permission to.
Cramblett cried when asking to be al
lowed to go along and made no objec-
ton TO any search. Quite a legal tilt
took place At this juncture, as 1t devel-
oped that Coroner Fisher had taken
Cramblett's sworn testimony at the In
quest without warning him of his rights
as a suspected man. Justice Humph-
reyvlIIe decided to admit the stenogra-
piers notes as to what cramblett said,
as the defendants attorney thought it is
good testimony for them or the state
would have introduced II. Sheriff Por-
ter said Cramblett told him he lost the
shoe going to Long Run Sunday. the
day after the shooting, but later Wit
ness said cramblett told him he lost 1t
Saturday night, the night of the muir
der.
Walker Meek, the local Sherlock
Holmes, told Of tracking the foot prints
of the horse hitehed at Gosnell's fence
the night Of the shooting, and there was
one shoe missing corresponding to
Cramblett's horse, but William Cheffey,
a later witness. who was along with
Meek, said there were three shoes miss
ing and this correSponds to RaInbow's
horse. Meek would not say from which
horses name the hair found on the
fence came from. It is given out
though, that cheHey is relative of
Cramblett BY marriage.
George GOSnell, . nephew Of the MUIR
dered man, testined that two Martins
Ferry officers came to GoSneIlS one day
after the shooting and wanted to see
crambletL, and he went after him in a
buggy. on the way cramblett said to
him, "If the rest Of the family stick by
me am ali right" GOsnell could not
remember anything only this lone sem
tence.
Mrs. LaVaria Rainbow, mother OF
JEFF Rainbow, and a nClghbOr of Cos
uelrs, testified TO hearing the report of
gun the night OF the murder, and
thinking 0osneli had shot coon, went
out to hear the dog and coon scrap.
She heard screams and heard horse
go UP tho road on the gallop. And in
short time her son came in and said
Gosnell was shot and took her down
and went Tor neighbours. She said her
son was Of Dillonvnle the day of tho
shooting and ate his supper and he was
seen farther down the road on his way
home some minutes before tho murder,
Her son. Jeff Rainbow. and Gosnell had
been enemies Tor years, because Jeit
had shot 3 dog OF GoEnell's, and later
they had q fuss because Jet had
moved boundary line stone. She said