The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1914-07-28
MURDER RESULTS FROM
ATTACK ON FOREIGNERS
MIKE mEAcHEk AND COMPANION
ASSAULTED BY TWO MEN
WHO GET AWAY.
Friend viii Likely Recover AIthouqh
IN Serious Conditlon-Re~ard or.
fereo For Capture Of AssaIIapts

As the result OF fight between
tcuf foreigners at Counersville n short
distance from Rayland. Ohio early
yesterday morning. Mike Meachek
one OF the participants. b. dead and
J"hn Rosak. his companion. Is In q
trlucal condition Meachek died AT
9.30 O'Clock yesterday evening in the
house at Connersvills TO which he
rad been taken. Rosak has rcgained
consciousness at times hut Is uncon-
sclous most Of the time.
The two injured mon and one Geo
l'eagun and an unknown foreigner
had had trouble at a foreign CeIcbra-
non OF some kind at Rayland early
sunday evening. Meachek aud RO-
SAX had started home and when near
lnE the footbridge which spans a
small stream along the Wheeling and
LIKE Erie tracks just out OF Corners
vile, they were attacked by George
BeaRon and his unknown companion
Little OF the details Of the fight which
ensued have been learned except from
hosak statement made later to the
JEFFERSON county authorities in which
he said that he was struck over the
mead with some blunt instrument but
that he didn't know what had hap
pened to Meachek
The two injured men were found
coon after. lying IN pools Of blood
They Were taken To a house in Con
rersville and DR.. Hunter OF Rayland
was summoned The back OF Mea-
cEek's head was Utterly beat into
pulp and his skull was fractured.
ROsak had received cuts and bruises
about the head. neck and shoulders but
his injuries were not considered as Sc
we're as those OF Mechek
Reagon Arrested.
George Reagon was arrested by the
authorities OF Connersville as a sus-
pect but was later released as the evil
dence was not strong against him. A
short time after this Prosecuting At
torney w O. Brown. Of Jefferson
county. in company with Sheriff W. A..
HuscrOft and Deputy Sheriff EdwarH
Lucas. arrived in COnnersyille and as
kosak was then conscious they gained
a partial statement from him IN which
he named RcaEOn as one OF the two
assailants. sheriff Huscroft then got
in communication with the Corners
Vile authorities and found that they
had released the accused man The
sheriff Immediately offered reward
Of 800 for his capture A diigent
search Of the town was made for him
but up until a late nour last night
he had not been apprehended 10 BE-
thought By some that he is still IN
Connersyille while others are of the
belief that he has escaped The town
Of COnnersville 81 being closely guard
ed and " Rcagon has not already cs-
capped Il will BE- difficult for him 20
do so.
The mystery OF the case lies In the
fact that no Information can be gained
as 10 who the companion Of ReagOn
was. In Rosak's statement 70 the JEFF
ferson county authorities he was un-
able 20 name any other than Reagon
" seems that no one in Rayland
knows anything about the prelimin-
airy quarrel SUNDAY evening which
was responsible for the midnight at.
tack several hours later Every q.
fort is being made by the jefferson
authorities TO gain information
that VIII lead 10 the arrest Of Rca.
CONS companion but no until "a late
hour last night no clue had been So
cured