The Clarksburg telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1874-1926, 1905-06-16

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Mystery Shrouds the Fienaish
Deed and There is Nothing ito
Indicate the Motive. Was MOI
Robbed as Money Was Found on
Him. May BE Woman in Case
Following the strange Goodwin
murder on Grass Run few. days
] ago is one even more mysterious.
/ The victim is q Slav, Charles
Stocl1nan, employed at the works
Of the Grasselli chemical company
and the scene is a woodland 1p the
Stout and Criss hollow of from
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Only from the fact that the sur
lyeyors were in that section laying
off a county road was the murder
discovered, and otherwise the fell
low might have lain there for days,
Nathan Jones, John Stanton and
others were engaged on the survey
and about ten o'clock Monday
morning they heard means come
from the woods on the hillside
above them. They at once began
Ito search for the source % these
means and Mr. Stanton ran.
across the Slay stretched out on
the ground in d semiconsciio con-
dition.
A horrible sight confronted
them. The fellow had been stab
bed in the center Of the abdomen
and partial emasculation had been
committed. There were small
scratches on his throat also. az If
an attempt had been made to cut
Ibis throat.
Lying near him was razor
which had evidently been used as
the weapon in inficting the fatal
injuries. Fifteen feet from him
was found q pipe. The razor case
was also found near him.
An alarm was given inned iately
and telephone messages were sent
Ito the sheriff and physicians. The
lssheriff and two physicians went to
the scene. The sheriff inyestiga-
ted the matter but found little eyi-
dence to nnrayel the mystery. The
\ physicians gave the man medical
attention, and at one o'clock in the
afternoon they brought him in on
the street car to the City hospital.
The affair created much excite
ment in the neighborhood and 4
! big crowd surrounded the dying
man until he was moved to tile
hospital. The foreigners were
especially excited and summary
measures may yet be taken by
them, if they find out who did; the
iiendish act.
Stocl5man left his work at six
o'clock Monday morning, having
been on the night shift, But be-
fore he left he drew his pay
Amounting to ss4.27. He went to
his boarding house, kept by Geo.
Horwatt, a Hungarian, and chang
cd his clothes. He appears not to
have been seen after that until
found in the woods.
There is said to have been
trouble at the boarding house sew
eral days, the exact nature Of
which is not known, and there is
believed to have been a woman in
the affair.
Awaiting the mans injuries
which 1t is believed will result in
4 his death, nothing special viii be
1 done in the case further than TO
find the guilty party, II possible:
Stocknan is single and has two
brothers, Andy aid Mike Stock
man, whose reputation, as well as
his own, has been as quiet peaceful
citizens.
The fellow was not robbed as
the full amount Of pay he had
/ drawn was found on him. The
IISpipe found near him was identified
AS George Horwatt's, but none
/. know how it happened to be there,
or whether Stockman had borrow
Led it.
For sick headache take Chamber