The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1911-08-07
Charles r. Lily of ton
lIalbs WilllaIl kia ~.
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Coroner's Jury Says King
Killed Chief Of Police
Of NortlIVisw
gro, e I hoTntQn

quick Work was SHOWN ne
capture OF william king
who shot Stephen shield ct
police OF 1orthVioR.
o'clock Saturday night &c the
Of Jesse Harris, coIorsd
view. as the oaieer vas tTyin
dtsperse q number OF
lcarousing there. indictinG
with a shot gun from Wll 81.
Acer died q few minutes q ter d1d
King Is safe In the county ian if
Charles R. LILLY. United
court commissioners At GFaEt1I
tured king at Thontoa
east Of Grafton 1t 1880
Sunday morning and he ana
brother-in-law. @. q. Rove
him here on the 4 O'Clock on
accommodation train Sunday
noon. They were met at
by Sheriff N. J. Frmei Dp6tT
.SheriR Percy Byrd, Iieuten ut che
OF Police Nicholas Whyte and 20
licean Blaine Kearns with q
and rapidly driven to the ian 50
to avoid demonstrations AGAINST
negro. Although there was 4 larss
crowd at the station It as not
aware OF the negro's arrest ana
.omcers got away without any
OF trouble except a rush or euric
~ inclined OF many at the stti6n
Several were there from aJor
and quick work precluded
AS Commissioners LILLY YFas on
way to Sunday school ~
he was informed that q nj 70
swertng the description Of one Mo
killed Harry L Crooks ca
lice here, had passed throi q
railroad yards east fifteen minute
previous. Instead Of going 20 Sun
day school Commissions lilly went
to the police station and there 10
read a teIephoned description Of the
fellow and the offer of one hundred
dollars for his capture. Mr.. LILY
was unable to get q street car ana
he walked one and q half miles %
the eastern part of Grafton Where
he persuaded a freight train crew
to permit him to ride on the onginS
OF the train to Thornton. The train
slowed up at the latter place and a.
jumped on, Scarcely had no PIT
foot in the village uhtI he spied
King and William Jordan, coIoredf
out the county road headed east
Kings capture followed immediate,
~. He made no resistance but de-
MED that he was wanted at Claflf
burg. Mr.. Lilly also placed Jordan
under arrest and he took them 70
Grafton in an automobile and
placed them in the county iaih
where they remained until he took
them out to bring them to CIarltss
burg.
Mr.. Lilly did not mention tho
crime for which King was wanted
here, but he told him that he IN
tended to bring him here and that
II he expected him to protect him
upon their arrival here he must make
a clean breast of the trouble to HIM.
King still denied having been here
but just before they boarded the
train he asked that he be protested
here.
Upon their arrival here, King val
easily identified as the one who
did the shooting. In his effort e
get away. King came to this city
and got on an eastbound Freight
train at the PInnickinnIck coal So
ton. He rode to Grafton and then
walked through to Thornton usin
the county road and the railroad IN
turn.
Both negroes were much fright
ened, when they saw the crowd at
the station and they became 90
nervous in the jail just AFTER they
were put in that Jordan wept likea
child. AS he was not implicated "a
the murder and knew nothing abo1t
It, the sheriff told him he could
have his liberty. but fearing harm
on the outside. he refused to accent
1t.
las soon as the murder was conn
mitted the sherif and his poc9e
were called and they made a search
without result. The sheriff then
to various places that
king was wanted, giving a descrlps
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