Ceredo advance. [volume] (Ceredo, W. Va.) 1885-1939, 1914-03-11
MURDER COMMITTED
IN CAVE HOLLOW
Alleged Crime Has Been
Exposed by Convict in
Penitentiary.

the May term of the Wayne county
grand jury for the purpose ct in :.
dicting the men who the authori-
ties hold responsible for the death
of Virginian named Williams,
who was slain in . dark cave back
of Kenova iu October, 1909, sc-
.cording to the statement of County
Prosecutor Daniel Hardwick of
Wayne Court House, who was in
Huntington yesterday.
Prosecuting Attorney Hardwick
held a long conference with Chief
of Police Sam Davis in regard to
the preparing of evidence OF the
crime.
An order from the Wayne circuit
court has been issued at the instance
of Prosecutor Hardwick by Judge
John b. Wilkinson requesting the
warden OF the state peniten,iary at
Moundsville to permit the Wayne
county authorities the use of Percy
Blackwell, a prisoner sent up from
Cabell county, as a witness in the
case.
fsBlackwell, in a sworn statement
made and placed in the hands of
Chief of Police Davis, accuses John
Richardson and George Duncan,
Two alleged yeegmen, of knitting the
VirgiDlan to death In the Happy
Hollow cave at Kenova as the re-
suit of card game.
Blsckw ell, in his statement, says
that with Richardson. Duncan and
Williams he left Huntington, going
To Kenova, and then to cave back
of that place. They found a num-
her of men at the cave and all en-
gagged in a card game. When Will
liams started to withdraw Duncan
aud Richardson objected, according
to BlackwelPs story.
"Duncan kicked him over and
Richardson stabbed him with
knife" reads Black ll's. state ment.
'Duncan then took the knife from
Richardson and cut him to death. "
Blackwell declares that after the
killing of the Virginian he left the
cave and came to Huntington. At
terwards, he says, he was informed
by Duncan and Richardson that
they had stripped the body of the
clothes and dissected it.
Parts of the body we're buried in
the bills surrounding the lonely cav
ern, one leg was thrown into the
Ohio river and the other placed in a
fodder shock near the scene of the
crime.
Later the human leg was found by
farmer. The farmer reported the
affair to the authorities but no defiu-
Ite information was secured for
nearly year, when q brief note
was received by Chief DAVIS from
Black we'll IN which he Indicated
that he would divulge the story be-
hind the finding of the human leg.
Richardson is supposed to be in
Canada, having left this country a
few years ago. The other man Is in
prison. = Huntington Herald.Dis-
patch, March 8.
During the month OF January,
1910, we published an account of
the finding of human leg by Jes.
Sc Cyrus in fodder shock while be
was feeding his stock.
Mr.. Cyrus took the limb to the
Office of DR.. James I. Miller and af-
ter crucial examination had been
made by Drs. Miller and Goff, they
stated the limb was that of human
The bone had been Gu. off at tn,
pelvis and contained an amount o.
Aesh from the knee to the ankle
The bone had again been severed a.
the ankle and the foot was missing
What lead the physicians to believe
that the bone WAS once connected
with human body, was the knee
cap. No animal possesses one
whereas, the subject under discus
sion al that time did. Then again
Mr.. Cyrus find contained both tn,
tibla and 6bula bones, those leading
from The knee to the ankle.
One thing that was Of q puzzlinS
nature was the femur OF thigh bone
The femur of the limb found by Mf
Cyrus seemed to be shorter by a