West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1901-05-09
ANOTHER BRUTAL CRIME.
Hiram McMiilen OF this County Shot and
Killed by Drunken Negroes over In
Pennsylvania.

idtSu iu rayette county Tor some
years took place at the Wynne
works near Oliphant at late hour
Friday night, April 90. Six colored
men residing at or near Oliphant
and two women Of Frogtown motor
iety will have TO answer for the
deed. The men are Wesley Lewis,
William Allen, Thomas Walker,
John Franklin, Walter Coles and
William Lee. The women are Bes-
sic Ware and Lizzie Jones, and the
persons who suffered at their hands
are Hiram McMillen, aged 40, and
his wife, aged I'll. They had gone
over there to hunt work, only ar
irving on Wednesday before. Nc
Millen is son of James cMillen,
who lives out in the mountains back
of Masontown this county. The
darkeys named above came to the
shanty where the McMillens were
staying and proceeded to get drunk
and raise the devil generally, as
saulting Mrs. McMillen and finally
shooting her husband twice, so that
he died from his wounds and the
negroes are all in jail. A coroners
jury was summoned to view the
body and inquire into the matter.
The jury was composed of c. w.
Mccain, Daniel Hunt, George w.
Bradley, Judson Sisler, Joseph w.
Hager and Andrew Bowie.
Only three witnesses were called
by Coroner Taylor. The first was
Abraham Kenney, with whom Nc
Millen and his wife stayed until the
former should secure a job of work
Ivy McMillen, wife of the deceased,
was next called. She told straight
forward story. She and her husband
were in the shanty, and about II
O'Clock Allen came in with a revolt
yer in his hand, took her out behind
he shanty and threatened to shoot
any one who might interfere with
him. He then went away, but
came back in about an hour and
tried to force her out again. In
the meantime some of the crowd
had been shooting through the
door of the shanty.
When she refused to go out Allen
ordered everybody out of the place.
On the outside Millen told his
wife to run. When only few feet
away she heard a shot, and her
husband cried out ooh /" An
instant later another shot was fired,
and her husband called for her to
come back, that he was shot. Mrs.
McMillen did not see Allen fire the
shot, but there was no person else
at that point during the shooting.
Walter Laughed, to whose home
Mr.. and Mrs. McMillen went after
the shooting, also testified as to
their coming, and the condition
they were in at that time.
This ended the evidence. and the
jury were not long in arriving at
the following verdict:
owe find that Hiram McMillen
came to his death April 20, 1901,
by bullet wound inflicted upon his
person April 20, 1901, at the Wynne
coke works, In Georges township,
Fayette county, Pennsylvania, by a
revolver in the hands of William
Allen, said injury being inflicted
with felonious intent"
Allen was brought over from the
jail during the inquest, and was
positively identified by Kenny and
Mrs. McMillen as the man who
fired the fatal shots.
Coroner Taylor held a post
mortem examination on the BODY
of McMillen, and found that the
ball responsible for death had en-
tered the body between the sixth
and seventh ribs, passing through
the liver. Death resulted from
hemorrhages, etc.
The Uniontown Genius of Lib.
erty gives the following additional
particulars of the affair
Henry McMillen, the victim of
the fiendish and drunken negroes.
at Wynne works, Friday night, died
about 10 O'Clock Monday and muir
der will be the charge preferred
against at least four of his assail-
ants. The injured ma ! was brought
to this place Saturday morning and
taken to the county home, where
Dr. Bowie attended him. His
wounds we're not thought to be
serious, but after they had been
probed and the bullets removed he
grew unconscious and had been in
that condition ever since. On Sun
day he was removed TO the hospital
at Connellsville where everything
within medical power was done TO
bring him through. Both the
wounds we're in very dangerous
places, one just below the heart and
the other below the Kidneys.
William Allen, one Of the neg