Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1901-01-06

MARIETTA, Ohio, January Oval
ter Weinstock, the nineteen-year-
fiend who attempted to criminally as
sault and then murder pretty Nellie
Morris, at Hackney, Morgan county. is
now safely in Jail at McConnellsville,
and will probably be protected by the
authorities until he is tried and sent
enced for the crime. His victim is in
dying condition, suffering from three
great gashes in her neck, cheek and
shoulder, one thumb several from her
hand and all her fingers fearfully man
gled. Should she by any possibility
recover she will be disfgured for life
The story of her fight with Vein
stock is one of peerless bravery and
pluck. According to Weinstock's own
story, when he waylaid her in the
lonely ravine between her home and
e Hackney postoffice she spruned his
indecent proposals with indignation.
Then ne told her he was going to kill
her and drew the keen-edged razor
With her mind alert to her terrible
danger the courageous girl sought to
pacify the brute by gentleness, offered
him money in any sum to let her go
free, begged and pleaded pitifully. This
parley lasted for several minutes and at
the end Weinstock began his bloody
work, 1t was then that Miss Morris
screamed and grappled with him. All
that saved her from being cut to pieces
was the timely arrival of her brothers
on the scene.
Weinstock fed to his home. He was
followed by a crowd of angry citizens
demanding that he surrender, but he
refused to be taken without a warrant.
When finally arrested by Constable
Grandstaff he was taken hurriedly to
the court of Squire Keith, some miles
distant, where he pleaded guilty to the
charge of assault with intent to rape
and murder, and was bound over to
court. Before returning to Hackney
Constable Grandstaff was informed that
a mob was gathering to lynch Vein
stock, and making a wide detour he
passed twelve miles to the side of the
scene of the crime and landed his pris-
oner safely in the Jail at McConnells-
vile at four o'clock this morning
Sheriff Sands wired the situation to
Columbus in order to be prepared for
any demonstration.
fWeinstock is very evidently a rank
degenerate, with an overwhelming pro-
pensity for killing. When he was a
child his disposition was such that his
father was compelled to hold him on
his knees when there were guests at
the Weinstock home to keep him from
fighting the visitors. A few years ago
he tried to murder his father and his
brother. and by singular coincidence
was prevented by Benjamin Morris, the
father of Nellie. He recently returned
home after serving a term in the Ohio
reform school for this offense. With
heavy, brutal, smooth shaver face,
broad fiat noes, cruel eyes and dis
gushing cast of countenance, he is
stamped with degeneracy, though not
without intelligence and cunning.
To your correspondent he made a
signed confession this morning as fol-
lows:
'GM'CONNELLSWILLE, O., Jan. 5.
Il waited until Nellie Morris came
I'D and then stepped up to her. After
talking with her few minutes | drew
my razor out and cut at her. She
grappled with me and | cut her in sew
eral places. 1 don't know why l did
it, but / did She offered me money
if | would not do it. | was not salts
fed with money! wanted to kill her.
| have no excuse to offer for the crime
l done it and if they want to kill me
for it they can.
0Signed)
''WALTER WElNSTOCK.
The father of the injured girl was
recalled from a business trip by tele-
gram and reached her bedside this
morning At last reports there was
little hope of the recovery of Miss Nor
ris. If she dies before the Indignation
of the people has worn off it will not be
surprising if the bounds OF the law are
overstepped and just fate melted out
to him. AT present any rumors OF
lynching are given little credence by
the authorities. The hamlet where the
crime was committed is twelve miles
from a railroad or telegraph line, and
the people of the neighborhood are
peaceable and generally prosperous.
Weinstock's plea of guilty, with his
confession, ana the certainty that he
will get the fullest punishment pre-
scribed, has tended to allay the excite
ment.