The Clarksburg telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1874-1926, 1901-06-21
JA PE GOLDEN
FOUND DEAD.
on Baltimore and Ohio Track
With leg and Arm cut off and
Body Horribly
Mangled.
Mystery Surrounds His Death
May have Been Murdered for his
money and body thrown on
trackto aIIay Suspicion.

Jasper Golden, Of Jane Lew, aged
about 38 years, a stonecutter in the
employ Of the Ruhl, Koblegard Co.
was killed in mysterious manner here
Saturday night. His dead body was
found by Thomos Mcmahon, Robert
WEIGH and Glen Johnson, young men
employed at Pinnicklnnick, lying on
the railroad track between the rails
at distance of about $50 yards east
OF the old b. u o. depot. IL was lying
face downward with the left arm and
leg cut of. The chest was horribly
mangled, large deep cut was on the
forehead over the left eye and a wide
long incision on the throat. The neck
was also broken.
The young men notified Snowman
forty yards away who had a torch and
they all inspected the body together
Mcmahon and his companions say this
was about II o'clock and that they ac-
cidently stumbled on the body on their
way home from pile Of ties where
they had been sitting to watch the
show loaded.
The officers received a telephone
message from the East End that a
man had been killed over there and
Coroner W.R.Alexander, Constable II.
L. Davis, Chief Of Police Stealcy and
Policeman George Isenheart, started |
to the scene. When they arrived AT |
the old depot they were directed by |
the showmen to Golden's dead body, |
although they had been telephoned by
Pinnickinnick parties. They found
the body lying as above described but
both the hand and foot were some
distance away.
Golden'S body was taken to the
Stealey- Osborn undertaking establish
meat, and lay there until Monday al
ternoon, when it was shipped To his
mother, Mrs. Jacob Funk, AT Jane
Lew for burial.
Coroner Alexander empanclled NJ.
S. Riley, y. L. Stealey, George lSen-
heart, /. NJ, Kelley, John Denham and
Roy Alexander as a jury and held an
inauisilion in Squire Riley Mon
day forenoon and night The young
men who found the body told how
they had run across the body. Minor
c. Bailey testified to seeing Golden at
the Deison hotel between o and 10
o'clock, that Golden lad paid him 81
he owed him, Of the 50 or IS in silver
he saw him have in his hand and that
after inviting him and Washington
Brown to come over to the Nutter
hotel where he boarded Sunday after
noon totake walk up on the hill to
see the town he babe them good night
and started toward the East End. Mr..
Brown corroborated Mr., Bailey as to
Goldea's being at the Deison hotel be-
tween . and 10 O'Clock.
Charles Nutter, proprietor Of the
Nutter house, testified that Golden
began boarding there Wednesday
evening before his death, that Mrs.
! Nutter had told him that Golden paid
his board Saturday evening after
coming to his supper rather late,
and that she said he had been drink
ing some.
Writ Lewis as paymaster for the
Ruhl, Koblegard Company informed
the jury that Golden drew $3.50 in
wages at o'clock Saturday afternoon
and worked uutil5 o'clock.
Floyd Brake told OF seeing Golden at
the B. & O. passenger depot just before
No. ran, and said that while he
was sitting on the platform, Col
den walked up to him and asked II
freights slowed up as they passed