Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1912-05-18
MAN FOUND DEAD
IN LIVERY STABLE
Edward Moore Goes TO Sleep at Owen
& Pines Saturday Night and
Never Wakes


6 Pines Saturday Night and
Never Wakes
Edward Moore. Familiarity known as
FLUTES" Moore about town, and re-
siding with his sisters on East Add.
ton street, was found dead Monday
morning about o'clock in cab in
Owen & Pines livery stable, off North
Queen street. Death is supposed to
have resulted from heart failure in.
duced by acute alcoholism. He was
about IS years old and unmarried.
The discovery was made by Roland
Myers, an employee of the livery sta
BILE, who then called to "Jakey' VOL.
ford another employee of the firm.
They found the man doubled up In the
cab, resting in a sort OF kneeling pos
ture, and cold in death. Mr. Pine,
DR. Langford and other men close by
were notified and afterwards Coroner
Kline. Later Undertaken Wilen re-
moved the body TO his undertaking
rooms.
Mr. Moore was last seen, so far as
can be learned, shortly before II o.
clock Saturday night going through
Owen & Pines livery yard in the d.
rection of the stable at the rear. 1t
is supposed that he went into the OPP
en- door and erawled into the cob at
the back end of the stable to sleep and
never awoke from his siumber, dy-
ing sometime Saturday night
Monday morning, w. w. Westphal
acting constable, summoned the fol-
lowing jury: F. d. Staley, Thomas e.
Aud, II. A. Hammann, John II. Blon.
del, B. ID. Myers and John T. Pauldng
together with a number OF witnesses.
The deceased was the son of the
late John Moore and wife and was
born in this city. He was generally
employed about concrete work. He is
survived by four sisters and one bro
Their: Mrs. Jacob Sheetz, Misses Nan
ME, Name and Evely and James
Moore, this city who have the sympa-
thy of the public in their bereave-
ment His mother died a year or
more ago.
Alcohol Cause of Mans Death.
Coroner W. r. Kline conducted an
inquest Monday evening at o'clock
in the Wilen undertaking rooms over
the body of Edward Moore, who was
found dead Monday morning in cab
in Owen & Pines livery stable.
The jury was composed of f. d. Sta
ley, j. T. Paulding, John H. Blondel, J.
W. Dean, Thos. f, Aud and b. d. My
ors.
Four witnesses testified before the
! jury, the first one being Dr. w. T.
Henshaw. He stated that knowing
Moore as he did, having frequently
been called to attend him in the
course of several years, he was con-
WINGED that the man died from heart
! failure, no marks of violence being
found on his body.
Roland Myers, a cab driver for Ow-
en- e Pine, testified that shortly after
O'Clock Monday morning he found
Moore in a cab in the back part of the
stable. He said that he saw Moore
pass through the stable yard some
time before midnight Saturday night
and supposed he was soing back to
the stable TO sleep as many fellows
were in the habit of doing when intox-
icated; but not having seen him
around the premises during Sunday.
he thought he might still be in the sta
bic and then went to see about him.
Myers said that it was dark in the
back part of the stable and that by the
light of a match he found Moore in a
cab in the back part of the stable. He
said he felt his hands and face and
found them cold. He then called to
"Jakey" Wolford, another employee of
the livery stable and the two then no
titled some of the neighbors that
Moore was dead
Jacob 0. Wolford was the next wit
ness and he corroborated the testi-
mony of Myers. He said that he last
saw Moore ABOUT II O'Clock Saturday
night and the latter said he was going
back to take a sleep.
Peyton Engle also testified to see
ing Moore shortly before II o'clock
Saturday night at the Queen street
entrance of the stable yard
The testimony of all OF the witness
Except DR.. Henshaw who did not see
Mr.. Moore Saturday night but was ac-
quainted with his~habts) tended to
show that he was intoxicated when
last seen alive.
The jury then rendered the verdict
that in their opinion Edward Moore
came to his death by heart failure
superinduced by excessive use of alec. (
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