Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-06-25
FROM UPIN THEVALLEY
POLITICAL DoIN0s AT WINCHES-
TER AND NEARBY.
Story Of Sensational Arrest at Wood
stock-Victim Of Lightning
Personal and News Notes.
Special Dispatch to The Star.


though the heated democratic campaign
has been waxing warm in many sections
of Virginia, there is still very little inter-
est manifested in the senatorial and guber-
Material contest in this section. Ever since
the various candidates announced them
selves there have been efforts made on the
part of newspapers of local circulation and
friends of the aspirants for political hon
ors to arouse enthusiasm.
Gov. Montague was the first speaker and
he was followed within a week by Senator
Martin and Judge Mann, who is a candi-
date for governor While Gov. Montague
had the largest audience. it was small when
compared to the vast gatherings of other
days, when friends of the candidates spoke
instead of the candidates themselves.
Gov. Montague is very popular in this I'M
mediate section, and SO is Lieut. Gov. Will
lard, but there is none able to say who
will win in the Valley Of Virginia, due. as
stated, to a general lack Of interest. AS
matter of fact, the valley people do not
seem to care who wins out in the race for
public Office.
Intelligence reached here today from
Woodstock, Va, of a sensational arrest
made by Deputy Sheriff Wenger of Shen-
andoah county, at that town. of man
named Jack Wetzel and Mrs. James E.
Craig of Somerset, Pa. who, according to
a telegram from Mr.. Craig, had run away
from the Craig home at Somerset, where
WetZel was employed.
The deputy sheriff arrested the man and
woman as they alighted from a Southern
railway train, and they were both commit
ted to Jail to await the arrival of Mrs
Craigs husband. who had wired that he
was following on the next train.
When asked to make a statement, Wet
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tated fearing that the husband would kill
both on sight if he found out that they
were in Woodstock. Finally, She said in
substance, that her husband had threat
ened to kill her and had ordered her to
leave home. To save her life, she said, she
did so, and as he had ordered the hired
man, Wetzel, to leave also, both man and
woman departed, and were route to the
mans former home at ST. Luke, Shenan-
doah county, when they were apprehended
at Woodstock, where it was their intention
to hire a team and drive to his home.
Wetzel stated that he coming to his
home anyhow, and that he brought Mrs.
Craig along to save her life. The Craigs
were formerly of Columbia Furnace, Va.
Wetzel also stated that Craig had threat
ened to kill his wife, had made threats
against him (WetZeD and that the husband
had. through his wife, offered to give Wet
eel something to get out of the way.
Craig arrived on the next train and after
being denied by the deputy sheriff a three
second interview with Wetzel made
statement on his own behalf, saying, among
other things: my wife and 1 lived to-
gether very pleasantly for five years, with
one exception when We had some difficulty
over the disappearance Of a considerable
amount of money belonging to her family.
l supported her father to the time of his
death, and her mother Is living with
me. l had reason to believe that there was
too much intimacy between her and Jack
Wetzel and l spoke very positively to her
on the subject. l shall now take her back
home to take care of the children two of
whom are fetting for her. 1 have already
applied for a divorce. and do not In future
expect to recognize her as my wife. I shall
publish statement from my neighbors,
giving a full account of my life and con-
duct. Before leaving Somerset, my wife
took 800 of my money by means of a forg-
ed check recovered over $50 of it here
at Woodstock"
Craig further stated that his wife had
always been kind and pleasant, and that
on the whole his married life had been
pleasant until now. He said he carried a
pistol because he was night Waterman
and thought it was necessary for him to
protect his own person while on duty away
from his home at night. Mrs. Craig Is
twenty-five years old, small, but of attrct-
i've features, and unusually pretty.
The next morning Craig saw the COM
monwealth attorney. and after a few pre-
liminaries he and his wife boarded the
evening train north for Somerset leaving
WetZel behind.
Inc mdnSleQ remains OF aired IhurStOn
RAIDER arrived here on Thursday from At
lanta, Ga, and were laid to rest in the fam
lily lot In Mount Hebron cemetery. Mr.. RAJ
der, who was twenty five years old, was
killed by lightning at his office at Talbotton,
seventy miles south of Atlanta, on last FRI
day, while talking over the telephone. He
was experimenting the construction of new
telephone lines and was alone when the
fatal shock came. His legs were split in
two from the ankles up as If severed by
surgeons saw and his arms were almost
torn from their sockets and terribly shat
tered. His body arrived in a metallic cas-
ket, which was in oak shipping case, and
the two in another case lined with tin and
Theoretically sealed He was a son of DIR.
w. H. RAIDER of Silverton Colo, and was
related to many of the oldest families of
Virginia. Lieut.. Louis Mccoy Mutton of
the battleship Texas, an intimate friend Of
the young man, was one of the palbearers.
Notes.
While working in the harvest field at
Toms Brook. Shenandoah county, a few
days ago, Allen Keller, a young unmarried
man. was killed by lightning, which also
stunned his brother and some horses. He
was twenty-eight years old and principal of
the graded schools.
Friends from Winchester and all sections
OF the Cumberland valley attended the fu-
neral at Chambersburg on Thursday Of Col.
Thomas B. Kennedy, president of the Cum
berland Valley railroad, who died at his
nome In that city on tuesday after long
illness. aged seventy-eight years. For five
minutes during the funeral ceremonies not
a wheel on the entire system from Win
chester to Harrisburg revolved A large
party OF Pennsylvania railroad officials from
Philadelphia were present.
Mrs John Randolph Tucker, widow OF the
eminent jurist and statesman of Winchester
and mother of Prof. Henry st. George
Tucker of the George Washington Univer-
sity. who was recently injured by jumping
from a runaway team in Louisville. KY. Is
now at Winchester Memorial Hospital I'M
der the care of his son-in-law, Dr. William
p. MCGUIRE. Although nearly eighty years
old, Mrs. Tucker Is improving. and she ex-
poets to leave the hospital in a short time.
At a special meeting this week the COM
mon council formally accepted the bid of
the Winchester and Washington City Elec-
trio Railway Company for the franchise to
furnish street lights for this city, which
also includes the company's rights to use
the streets and highways for tracks for the
proposed trolley that is to run to the Blue
Ridge mountains and connect with the
Southern railway for Washington. The
company paid q nominal sum, SIS, for the
franchise.
Winchester has a genuine working
preacher" In Rev, T., X, CrOmer, pastor of