Ceredo advance. [volume] (Ceredo, W. Va.) 1885-1939, 1903-05-27
STIRRED UP.
The William Still Persu6d Her and
Man Pursued the DOU to Death.

The Sabbath peace and stiffness
which usually hangs over and sur
rounds the little city of Ceredo was
smashed to smithereens last Sunday.
Excitement of all kind was on tap
and tloated around in great chunks
and made both man and the logs hot.
Even the small boy had his inning
and the little girl her share of the
excitement and fear. Fortunately
all this did not occur until after the
morning church hour, and services
went on and off with undistnrbed
serenity.
What was the matter? Why all
this nerve racking excitement? To
make long history a short one it
was thusly thus:
About / a. m. a quiet man with
peaceful limp in one of his piston
rods came TO the Ceredo house and
calling Mayor Sturgill into a quiet
corner of the vine clad porch gave
out the information that his daugh
ter, one Mrs. Vint Thompson who
lived with her husband at Browns
town, suburb of Ceredo, was
mysteriously missing. That she was
not at his home nor yet at the home
of her husband and as the Thomp-
sons's were bad lot and threatened
her life, he was afraid she was mur-
dered. His name was Harve Houch-
ins. This upset the quietude of the
town and soon Town Sergeant Smith,
Constable Strother Mays and posse
of men and small boys went out to
the home of Thompson. They could
not find either Thompson or his wife.
The neighbors knew nothing of the
whereabouts Of either, but told of
how Andy Thomson, father-in.law,
and Vint Thomson, husband, had
threatened to kill the latter's wife.
Rumors ran rife. Some said she was
murdered as Thompson had taken
all her clothes away and that she
could not leave in her night dress.
Some said she was gone with hand
somer man, others found shoe on
the creek bank and no one seemed
to especially care about either one
or the whole outfit unless murder
was done. 1t was true that she had
sworn out warrant for her husband
several days before and that there
had been trouble in the camp of
these Philistines ever since that
time. After the posse non videor
had rafurpaI ounthor aDA s,,II ,s,o.a
exciting excitement occurred. A
dog belonging to Andrew Daniels
which had been ailln' for some time
ran amuck and took the town by
storm. la fact he had the freedom
of the town, so to speak, for time
and after using it freely and sna pping
few other dogs the town turn ed
out ell masse to end his earthly ca
reer. As he ran the gauntlet on B
street about all the pocket guns in
town opened fire upon him proving
that he was by far in safer place
than the lookers-on. 1t sounded
like duplicate of the sham battle
at Clyffeside Friday with big guns
cut out. A kind and merciful provi-
dence protected the citizens and bad
Workmanship or excitement, the
dog. After an hours chase some
small David killed him with stone
and all was over except the owners
of several bitten dogs killed them.
About the time the mad scare
over dog, or the scare over the mad
dog, had subsidized Officers Smith
and Mays brought in Vint Tbomp-
son and lodged him in the city's
Palace Hotel to await further devel-
opments in his case. Monday morn
ing the much-searched.for-Mrs. Vint
Thompson turned up alive. 1t was
stated that she bad crawled under
the house and hid. Thompson was
taken to Kenova and tried before
Squire Lambert who fined him So
and costs. lie not having the cash
to pay same is now living in style
at the Palace Hotel.