Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1899-11-21
Still Causes Excitement in the Little
Operative Town.
THE PRELIMINARY HEARING OF
QUINCY CRAMBLETT, WHO WAS
ARRESTED ON SUSPICION, WAS
POSTPONED UNTIL WEDNES-
DAY-CLAIMS HE CAN ESTAB-
LISH AN ALIBI-SOME REPORTS
CONCERNING THE CASE.

Special to the Register.
MT. PLEASANT, o., November 20
The staid old town of Mt. Pleasant did
not have a preliminary hearing in a
murder case to-day, as was planned,
but instead the preliminary hearing of
Quincy Cramblett, charged with the as
sassination of James H. Gosnell, was
deferred until Wednesday at noon.
Nothing else is talked of in this town,
and each rumor is discussed thorough
ly and there are all kinds of theories
as to the murder. All say that every
thing turned UP so far in the case in
eliminates Cramblett, though every
body has good word for the young
man.
Because he was sutton for one or
both of the Gosnell girls, suspicion falls
on some of his actions, which might be
explained otherwise if the parties are
not covering up something. Nothing
but circumstantial evidence has been
gotten against Cramblett so far, and the
assassination of Gosnell is still yelled
in deep mystery and may never be
solved, although some tall work is be-
ing done by officials to earn the $500.
Fearing an attempt to put Cramblett
in the sweat box during the interim
between to-day and Wednesday, his
attorney, E. E. Erskine, of Steuben-
Vile. came to Dillonvale to-day and
cautioned his client against talking at
all. Cramblett is still under guard at
Constable brakes home at Dillonvale.
He feels the awfulness of the charge as
much as a man could, and he is get
ting nervous over the suspense. He
came to Mt. Pleasant to-day and had
Squire Humphreyville subpoena wit
nesses who, he says, will prove his
whereabouts the night of the murder.
Prosecuting Attorney A. c. Lewis,
Stenographer George Campbell and
Court Bailiff George Moore went to the
Gosnell home to find out what wit
nesses will say on Wednesday. The
prosecutor was not ready for trial to-
day, hence the delay. A strong at
tempt will be made to fasten the crime
upon Cramblett, as the whole commun-
ity wants Gosnell's murder avenged.
They all think it strange that any one
should murder Gosnell, as they do not
know he had an enemy on earth.
Report had it that Gosnell had or
dered Cramblett to stay away from
the house, but Cramblett says the last
time he was there Gosnell went out
and helped him to get his horse out of
the stable and babe him goodbye and
asked him back often.
Cramblett denied to being a sutton
for Gosnelps daughter, but both girls
say he made marriage proposals to
them, and the youngest says he pro-
posed to her the Monday night before
the murder, but she refused, saying it
would raise too big racket. On
worm fence not far from the house
where the horse was hitched, that the
shooter rode away on, was part of the
name that had caught, and the hair
compares to that of Crambletts horse,
it is claimed.
The horse tracks showed one shoe
missing and several nails stuck in the
hoof, and this corresponded to Cram
blett's horse, it is said. The tracks in
the garden made by the shooter cor
respond to Cramblett's, it is said. Mrs.
Rainbow, a neighbor of Gosnell's, says
she heard the horse going up the road
after the shooting. Pieces OF felt wad-
ding found in the Gosnell kitchen on the
floor, and lodged in the wall it is said
are parts of a felt hat which Cramblett
was using in the gun. TIE where
Sbouts of the gun is still a mystery.
Cramblett's brother, who was said to
know where the gun was, thought to
have been the one used, now says the
gun was stolen from the barn where he
hid it under the hay. He kept it in the
barn, he says, because his wife was
afraid of it, and the day of a recent
sale at his place, he hid it under the
hay to keep it from being stolen. AL
though his wife was afraid of this par
ticular gun, she did not seem to be
afraid of another which is loaded and
can't be shot off, and which is kept in
the house.
The parents of Cramblett have been
worried to death by persons coming
around the house and asking questions
and examining things. The people a:
Dillonvale have beeu making it warm
for farmer named Garrison WHIP as
sisted III the arrest n. Cramblett.
The reward of $500 offered for the
arrest and conviction of the guilty par
ties has been raised to s1.100 The
Gosnell family has offered $500 and the
board of township trustees, $500.
COURT RECESS