The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1900-12-29
at St clairsyilles by the Additional
Strong Circumstantial Evil
dence Adduced.
WHOLE COUNTY ISSTIRRED UP
And the Court House is Packed Daily.
Fridays Testimony Adds to
Strength Of States Case.

with murder. The Developments OF the
second day had increased interest in the
case and farmers and others attracted
to the county seat to pay taxes or on
other business, found time to spend
several hours In the court room, and
added to the throng that has been on
hand each day, watching every move
and turn In the case.
It has been more than thirty years
since. staid. old Belmont county was
stirred with a hanging bee, when
Thomas Carr paid the penalty on the
gallows for the murder Of an innocent
girl. In all that; long period crime has
been committed. even to murder, but
none have paid the death penalty. Some
are serving In the penitentiary now for
such crimes, but there have been MUIR
ders that were never unearthed and the
axiom that murder will OUT has hot
been verified In two or three instances.
All OF these cases are now being re-
vamped and discussed In quiet way by
persons from every part OF the county,
while this case. based wholly upon cir
cumstantial evidence, Is In progress.
The Present Case. "A.
| There was no one present In the home
where Clarence Warrick met his death,
but his grandmother and aunt, both
past the three score and ten period in
life. and they bound hand and foot The
only witness from whom much could
| have been expected was put to sleep
forever by the murderous thieves who
had invaded that home. no doubt in the
belief that only the elderly women were
there alone. Hence there Is no such
positive evidence as II saw the fatal
shot fired" but there Is n chain OF cir
cumstances marking the movements of
Leonard Stevens, Barney Divine and
others TINT place them dangerously
near that Inflated home on the very
night tho double crime Of theft and
murder was committed.
Taking the case of the state as made
up. the two culprlts, whose associates
were. Of course characters very much
like their admitted ones, and they had
planned and prepared for robbery,
the very character Of which meant the
murder OF any one who crossed their
path. They knew the, occupants Of
the houses along the road leading to the
Sonerton bank they had planned to rob.
Tho Warrick home was on the route
and they did not anticipate serious
trouble there. But that home was rob-
bed and Clarence Warrck was shot
dead The robbery Of the la.ik planned
and prepared for was not carried out.
Yet these two men who met another,
who had nitro-glycerIne with them,
with which to blow the safe OF a bank,
did not disturb the bank.
The Lath Irvine and Knot.
They had been in board yard at
GAINESVILLE in the evening. The Irvine
used to tie the feet and hands OF the
helpless old women is the same kind
OF Irvine used In tying the bundles Of
lath that are abundant in that board
yard; tied by machinery in a Michigan
lumber yard, the knot is peculiar one.
That same peculiar knot is on the Irvine
found In the Warrlck home. They left
the lumber yard and started in the d.
rection OF Somerton, the Warrick home
Is on The route. They were not seen
again until the next day after the rob-
berry and murder. Part of the foot
prints about the Warrick home corres-
pond to tracks that such an injured foo.
as that OF Barney Divine would MAKE,
All these circumstances, as developed
by the state put the accused danger
ously near the Warrlck home. And
then follows the inquiry made of ROSS
Meanor In the Cambridge Jail, about
the twine or rope before they had been
confronted with the charge. and then
the testimony Of Albert Stephens, as to
the revelations made to him as to their
intentions, and the carrying OF a can of
nitro-glycerine wrapped with q news
paper. the finding OF the COPY OF the
paper Mt the Warrlck home, which
probably went from Belaire, where
they said they got the glycerine, Stems
to strengthen the Stephens story. Add
ed to this Is the evidence that n mnu
named Johnson was induced to 30 away
by some one from GAINESVILLE. Before
he left he told the man with whom he
lived near Rarncsvliie that he had to
go because II he ever gut ,1lpon tho
stand In court. there would be no es-
cape Tor the boys and there miEht be
none for him from the outside.
Fridays Evidence.
Yesterday the state continued IT'S limo
ana every Ink seemed to strengthen tho
chain Of circumstances AZ summed I'D.
Lawson Mellott. bartender for Albert
Stephens. corroborated the testimony OF
Stephens In the main. #
| William Hamilton said he saw Ste
vens and Divine running toward the
glass house ln GAINESVILLE about s
o'clock the morning after the murder
William Garner, who wheels ashes Mt
that factory. identified the two men.
and said they came to the factory
about o'clock Sunday morning, but
did not stay long.
John @. Adams identified both men
and said they stopped Mt his store and
got can OF TOMATOES just after he rot
UP. It was about o'clock in the
morning.
Solomon Bishop and John Applcgatc,
OF Somcrton. Identified both mon and