The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1906-05-04
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lin the forehead which he claimed
was made by the hammer of re-
yolycr in the hands of Gill, or some
of his friends. The wound greatly
resembled a bullet wound and per-
sons who viewed the remains at the
morgue today thought the ball had
madeit exit at that point.
1t developed that it was no more
than a flesh wound. Ferrel came to
this region more than seven years
ago and was employed at the North
view mine of the Washington Fuel
Company. Nothing is known Of
his relatives. He is about thirty
years old and supposedly single.
Clarence Smith Talks.
Clarence Smith, who was one OF
the Gill crowd and who is confined
in the county Jail with a hole in his
arm. tells the following tale:
"The four of us, whose names YOU
have, were going home shortly after
the saloon closed, when he met the
three negroes, and Alva jackson,
white. Ben Gill asked Jackson
why he had done that stoning the
other night and presently they began
to fight.
"Ferrel struck at me but missed
and then some one, it may have been
him and it may not, hit me in the
eve and knocked me about fifteen
feet.
"While I was down some one shot
at me twice, missing the first time
and winging me tRe second. | did
not see any gun and do not know
who shot me. That's all | know
about it,
There was undoubtedly very bad
feeling existing between the two con-
Itingents and they we're evidently
looking for one another. 1t is all
legged that a saloon-keeper near the
Junction advised the Gill crowd
when they left his place to 90 home
and not look for the other bunch,
but they failed to heed his warning.
At the same time, if the Gill crowd
was on its way home, as they say,
the other men must have been look
ing for them or they would not
have met. Z
Most Of the men implicated are
known to be bad men and fatalities
were looked for should they meet as
they did Thursday night. Until
the other men are captured or unless
the ones now under arrest turn
States evidence, then the murder
will proabbly remain mystery. 1t
would seem certainty that both
crowds were armed with reyolvers,
but in whose hands they were used
remains still unsolved. The au-
thorities, and particularly Coroner
Camp, are determined to probe the
matter thoroughly.
One Of the first explanations of
the affair heard was that women we're
at the bottom of the trouble. and
that some were present at the time
Iof the battle. Clarence Smith stat
cd today that there was absolutely
no truth in that part Of it except
that on Tuesday or Wednesday
night he escorted white and a
lcolorcd woman through dark por-
tion Of that section where the shoot
ing occurred last night, and that
later while he, Gill and another man
was with them, Alva Jackson. Fer
rel and some others stoned them.
Smith claims that not woman was
near the scene of the fight nor had
any Of his friends been with any
women all evening. :
At one o'clock this afternoon the
coroner's jury, composed of the fol-
lowing gentlemen, was empanneled /:
Andrew Lyon, 0. P. Boughner. W.
Guy Merritt, W. H. Cole. Lee CofF-
man and H. L. Davis.
They were cmpanneled bv Cor
oner Camp and taken to the morgue
where the body lay and the post
morten examination begun. A
peculiar odor in the room caused
several Of the jurors to become faint
laHd the examination was concluded
in the presence of Coroner Camp
alone. Drs. Wilson and Shuttlcs-
worth performed the autopsy.
No effort has been made to appre-
hend the remaining five men who
were in the fight. !,
Coroner Camp realizing that it
would be impossible to conduct a
satisfactory examination this after
noon in the murder, postponed the
hearing until Saturday morning at
10 o'clock. At the post-mortcm
examination of the body the bali was
located near the top Of the head. It's
course having been upward and for