Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-03-02


advanced towards the intruder. the
man dropped his club, and drawing a
revolver, fired a shot into the ceiling.
as if in warning. At this juncture
Henry Hervey ran through the door
leading into the kitchen and up the
back stairs to get his revolver. Mrs.
Mccartney followed. As they reached
the kitchen, second shot was fired.
Henry Hervey, after procuring his
revolver, came down the front steps.
The men had fed. leaving the front
door open. At the bottom of the
steps, with his feet in the sitting room
doorway, his body stretched full
length across the hall, lay Henry Her
vey on his face, dead, in a pool of his
own blood.
The dead man was picked up and
laid on cot in downstairs bed
room. On the right side of his face,
an inch and half under and back of
the eye, the bullet had entered and
passed directly behind the eye and
into the brain, causing instant death.
The housekeeper, Mrs. Gilfllen, was
in her room at the head of the stairs
on the second floor. She heard the
shots fired and opening her door look
ed out. Standing on the landing, al
most within reach, was tall stranger
with handkerchief tied over his face.
She was frightened and slamming the.
door shut, locked herself in.
After the murdered man was found
Mrs. Gilfillen started for the Huff
residence, the nearest house. Half
way across the yard she saw two men
skulking along the fence, going to-
wards the railroad track. She became
frightened and re-entered the house.
Going to a second story and opening
a window, she sounded an alarm on a
dinner horn, stopping at intervals to
cry out: 'tMurder!" and 'Help!"
Mrs. John Huff heard the cries for
help and notified her husband. who
Immediately notified Thornburg Bros,
who telephoned the word promptly to
| the Register Office. The Register i'm
mediately called the county Jail and
notified Jailer Mccormick to hunt the
Sheriff and he Immediately proceeded
to do so. This was about 9 o'clock.
At Elm Grove the alarm spread like
wildfire. About nine o'clock large
posse of men, headed by Jim Ander
son, were on the Hervey premises,
with lanterns and firearms of all de-
scriptions. In the snow the tracks of
two men could easily be followed all
around the house, hating at each win
| dow for the evident purpose Of look
ing into the house. One set Of tracks
was rather small, the impression SEEM
| ing to have been made with about a
No. Z shoe. The other set was excep-
tionally large, measuring IL inches in
| length and three inches across the
| ball of the foot These tracks were
| made with overshoes, as the impress
sion of the stamp could easily be
seen.
In entering the premises the smaller
tracks came from the northwest corner
of the yard. The entry of the larger
tracks could not be found. but it is
| by the front gate and came up the
center path, for on the gate was found
the place where the man had wrenched
| the paling from it's place.
The tracking of the retreating muir
derers was then taken up. With two
| men in front with lanterns, the tracks
were finally discovered. After leaving
| the house the men did not pass out by
| the front gate, but cutting diagonally
across the yard to the east they passed
| through side gate and onto private
| side road. From this point the tracks
| led straight to the railroad track and
entering upon it, started towards Elm
Grove. The tracks were soon lost be-
tween the ties, as the wind had blown
| the snow off to either side.
Later tracks OF corresponding size
were found back-traclxing on the path
on the north side Of the track leading
east back under the 50 bridge to a
cattle guard about seventy-f1ve yards
UP the track from the bridge At this
point the tracks turned onto the ties
and for some little distance they could
be followed leading west again.
The posse followed the tracks to Elm
| Grove station. Here the operator
| telegraphed to all stations east a COM
plete description of the two suspects.
The ponce in this city were also noti-
| fed and were furnished descriptions of
| the two men.
| AS soon as the murder became gen.
orally known. suspicion Immediately
| fell on two suspicious-looking charac-
ters, who had been idling about the
town in the various saloons all day,
since 9 o'clock in the morning. Sew
eral men during the day remarked mp
on the striking resemblance they bore
TO the two characters who had lCafed
about the town the day before Kager's
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