The Clarksburg telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1874-1926, 1912-08-22
Italian Bartender Admits
Stabblng Two American
Bartenders.
MOE STOPPED Avn IAIL
When Policemen Open Fire
With Revolvers and Rush
Prisoner to Safety.

l4oOIlSl W odlSLy.
A jury empannelled by DR.. S. NJ.
Mason coroner Saturday held Gull
seppi Deyona responsible for the
murder of Michael Clancy and James
DeVine with long bladed pairing
knife shortly after midnight the
same morning In front of Elmer
loves saloon on North Fourth
street, the motive for which is not
definitely known. Devona was cap
tured soon afterward and jailed.
Devine was stabbed once in the
left side over the heart and twice in
the back. Clancy received one stab
wound in the shoulder which severed
a large artery. His death was
probably instantaneous. Devine
ran about fifty yards and fell uncon-
acIous on the Glen Elk bridge, dying
d few minutes afterwards while on
the way to hospital.
Mayor Investigates.
Immediately after Devona hab
been placed in Jail, Mayor Frank X.
Moore summoned witnesses of the
crime and officers who took part in
hunting the murderer into the police
court and CLEANED what information
he could from them concerning the
tragedy.
According to the testimony thus
given, James Fl. Devine. II. Cork.
Michael Clancy, James Wamsley and
Dufour Gribble formed a party that
visited Frank Rushs saloon on Bal
timore street short time before the
tragedy. They had buggy and on
leaving the saloon all but CLANCY got
into it and went over Baltimore
street to North Fifth street and
thence down that street toward the
Glen Elk bridge, while CLANCY
walked along with them on the side
walk.
Policeman Interferes.
The buggy was stopped in front OF
loves saloon and the four occu-
pants left it. Mr.. Lowe had just
come out of the front door of the
saloon and Devine walked up to
him, grabbed him by the arm and
said something to him, which the
others did not hear. Policeman Rob-
ert Stitt was standing in front of the
Blkbridge building across the street
at the time and suspecting that some
trouble might ensue, went over and
took DeVine to the bridge and told
him to go home. The other mem
bers of the party followed and
asked Stitt II DeVine had been
"pinched." The policeman said he
was trying to make Devine go home.
Just then some one came running
down the street and told the police
man that he was wanted at the Cap
itol hotel, where a drunken man was
raising disturbance and stitt
started to the hotel after DeVine
had promised to go home Stitt ar
rested man named Stutler in the
hotel and took him to Jail. When
the officer and his prisoner reached
the trolley station, he noticed that
the other fellows had gone back 70
their buggy in front of the Elkbridge
building.
At that time, according to other
witnesses, Devine was standing in
front of the Lowe saloon leaning
against an iron railing, while the
other men were across the street.
Dick Porter, Joe Devona and Lowe
then came out of the Lowe saloon
in the order named and Lowe locked
the front door after him. Porter
went across the street. Deyona and
DeVine engaged in an alteration
and Lowe, foreseeing trouble, I'M
fastened the front door and went
back into the saloon, where he called
Lieutenant Nicholas Whyte at police
headquarters by telephone and asked
that policemen be sent over at once.
Stabs DeVlne First.
Devona and DeVine started to
night and clinched. The Italian
stabbed Devine with a sharp pointed
lemon Knife, which he had taken
from the saloon, and Devine reeled
and fell when Clancy came up to
take part in the encounter. The in
furiated foreigner then turned and
plunged the knife into Glancy's
breast. Clancy staggered down to-
ward the bridge and fell upon It,.
Devona fed down the street and dis
appeared into nearby building.
Conveyances were summonded for
the purpose of taking the wounded
men to the hosn'tal hut both were