The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1908-10-28

OVER YOUNG
MANS DEATH
Body Found Under Cliff At
ter An Alleged Meeting
With Young Woman.

PENNSBORO, Oct. 2S-Develop-
ments are coming with rapidity in
the case of the mysterious death of
Frank Medium, a we'll known young
man whose almost nude body was
found at the foot OF a cliff near Toll
Gate, three miles east OF Pennsboro.
and members of one OF Richie coun-
TVS most prominent families are be-
lieved to know something more of the
affair than has yet been told Prose-
cutting Attorney Hobbs has fnaugu-
rated a searching investigation, and
declares that arrests may be expect
ed within the next day or two.
The body of Medium was found
on Monday afternoon by a farmer re-
siding in the vicinity of Toll Gate,
and the coroner was Immediately
notified The investigation was not
exhaustive, and as his body was
badly bruised, giving evidence that
he had fallen over the cliff, a verdict
of accidental death was rendered.
The body was taken to Parkers-
burg for shipment to Bradford, Pa,
where he formerly resided.
In Daughters Company.
Prosecutor Hobbs, after learning
something of the case. was not salts
fed with the verdict rendered by the
coroner, and at once began a yigor-
Gus investigation, revealing some
very interesting and sensational facts.
It was learned that the clothing of
Medium was found in the possession
OF Miss Hickman, daughter of Ed
ward Hickman, merchant of Toll
Gate.
The young lady had been sic Dping
in a summer cottage near the Hfck-
| man family home. On Sunday night.
| it is asserted, Mr.. and Mrs. Hickman
and their son Ralph went to church,
| and on their way home, in passing
! the summer house, heard the voice
of a man. The IA ther and brother
/ went to the door and demanded adj
| mission.
! Disappeared in Darkness.
Everything within was quiet and
! they kept pounding on the door to
! gain an entrance The persistent re-
fusal of those inside to open the door
i caused the young man to break II
i down. In the meantime, the figure
of a man was seen to 90 from real
! window and over a bank.
According to the authorities. RALPH
}, Hickman admits that he followed the
: man whom he recognized as Medium
n crawling away from the house. and
: struck him with a piece of wooc
/ which he picked up in his anger. HI
) said that the man went over the elf
and he followed. but saw NOTHING
2 more of the intruder
, 1t is asserted that the lights in tn
1 house were extinguished as soon a
t the father and son demanded admis
: sion. Upon breaking down the doc
e the father encountered his daughter
standing, apparently thunder-struc'
and unable to give any explanation
She was partly disrcbed, 1t is assert
ed, and a mans clothing was foun
in the room.
Relatives Won't Talk.
Relatives of the dead man, whe
: questioned at first concerning hi
I death, declared that it was Academia
and the above information was nc
learned until the prosecutor starte
his Investigations.
The young man was married an
is survived by his widow and Chile
The young woman who has bee
dragged into the affair, is almo'
: heart-broken, and none OF the famN
3 Will make any statement of the a
4 fair aside from the above vers Nn s.
IS cured from Ralph Hickman by tt
5 prosecuting attorney.
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