The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1920-10-20
SEEK MURDERER
Of GRANDSTAFF.
b. & o. SToREREEPER FOUND DEAD
IN HUT NEAR EAST WHEELING
TUNNEL
UNDERTAKEN DISCOVERS HE HAD
DIED FROM BULLET WOUND
IN BODY
TWO THEORIES BUT POLICE WORK
IN BELIEF THAT ASSASSIN
DID DEED


While walking near the Baltimor"
, Ohio railroad tracks 1T the eastern END
, Of the Baker street tunnel N"StrrdtE
! afternoon, Thomas GarN"y. conductor OF
Il switch engine, glanced through inc
I window OF 4 small hut used as Il St"r"
I room by the railroad company and saw
! the form OF 4 man reclining in hall
+ sitting position near desk. Trying inc
door he found 1t locked and then raII"n
Lluyd RatSrn. a section hand. and to-
,cthcr they forced open the window ana
released The spring lock on the door.
Entering the two men found the man
WAS dead After Il hurried invest Mat in
/ they learned hr was Bernard f. 'irId-
! stan. employed 10y TIA" company as
Sturrkcrprr GraudStan had his uiilc"
in the small building.
! Coroner Il. G.. Hobbs was called and
: ordered III" body taken I" an under
taking establishment where prS. {. W.
. Ilfcrt and H. II. Copeland ""nduCt"d an
autopsy. When they undr":'S"l IN" man
they wrr" surprised I" tInd bullet
. wound IN tn" stomach. Furlh"r inN"Ntl-
cation disclosed tn" fact that his spinal
, cord had been severed. Tn" physicians
say ne could not have lived NOR" than
tw" minutes after being struck.
Two theories for IN" death OF III" man
are advanced by chef OF l'0IlC" Fred
Il Frazier. who with Il number Of de
/ trctivcS HAY" been working constantly
On the cas-. ON" - that "i d"lIh"rhtc
murder and the other accidental DEATH
N''rr ~ IA" 49," ,,.,in +, nnI H..
/ ,,,..,,",, i,,rr, ruul, and corner Of The
! building WA searched but nothing wIS
| ,,, ~ !, adam, M. man
, had not ended hIS own III"
If he Was murdered. TIA" man wh"
d hh"' h.i" Pu'''" ~" "' ,,,
committing '"' "''"' ~" 49,, az.
! locked WIN g. sprung u" w - 49,,
, "lu" IN" polio" II" w"rh'hE @" ne
theory that ia" man had been shot hN
Mrhy built doc NOV ,''nh i"",'oI".
( JhhI'lnE from '''' ~, 'u'' ~ Wv |iS
and ,h" h"'Ehth "f 'h" window. \ hnl.
. let p"u ir"iInE Il broken pan" III 'nr
wInd"Y world HAY" !" IhhE' """h""r"
I" Ir'k" ilI' m'n HH III" M'hI"w VIII
, hirhrr than his waist.
THAT robbery VI" not lh" mot ~" 10
disclosed 10y the fact lhni VII ," Wa"
! found Ia hiH porkrt.
/ Grandylnn wax about IS year" Of ago
and * survived Icy wLf' aud daughter.
|
!
d"rs,nmhiurS and drr"r' Ions nh""r
which ~" r""rl" OF = '"un'fE II' :"
often led 1" consent !" war may '' ""-
! waited
Thlrd- pom having '"'lIE
S"nta,lN" h""! not P'IA u" ,,t' ,
put" express ruhI'''! TO- r .'''
matur"d opinion MS 7" now IN ,,7i ,,;,'
crSy ought 10 nc S''l''u' an" mus -, ~
10 bear upon the dcNoh OF I'M p'N,"S'
I the well Informed "ninlCn OF 'l' CIVIL
lied world.
"FuNrih-lt any parry |" .''; hN!''
m"nt were I" NIoih,' II ny H'''N'''' 49,. We.
! without IN" stipulated delays necessary
for arbitration or INVESTIGATION ana re-
port or w"r" t" maxi" war ~ El"iH.i ron
of. the unanimous opinion OF 'nr olmr'
/ nations. then upon III" lac -, ~ w.
la"rN or tha' l''lIH tio'', ',, ,S,,',.
"l 'rhu'' .U.I'''ri ~ "," ~ mc en-.
''rt""'%' M.Hm Wv r'i,L Iii ,I,,. ronsn
'.''N ~ ,I;,,' r~n,,, s,,,.h an nuI-
uu'i'rS i'""'"H, '''"' '
Ia"f!' ol,. r,,
.r, t'It'>.'t - o,I % rho league
"c y. NV 70 W. r,uTbiy rI,ssi.
Mr., ROOT said may De roughly
H'u hS iu''oMS' ,,..ro, dro,
.!nJ'r'iohS " n"' - W ~.
Slvr al'lanrr M!th a. rtt''In
''aS M t',,,;nns "a ~ s,,hmitt1pr 70 tho
''l' tt IONS l." S" ',,,.,io,s c ,,prr
tu",AiL ~ we IIrS .,,,.I nc thc Nnnro..
y Am"r''An n ",aSHi ns'', Of - Naturalization
mnon wbi,.h ,hc EurUpcan countries dp-
nrnnchimg that subject from an entirely
different roint Of view with opposing "r
different interests would almost nrC"S-
- - That tho scheme practically
tbrust aside the whole system Of r"Nrl-
nr,m,nt 'or ,ntrruationr, law and of ar
hitr,l ACCESSION which had Ice" the Srttl"l
'alt, f IN" I.nit,h States for many
rrnrrItiun% and depended for the irr.Lt-
,nrrt Of Questions Of right Hs We
n,,,..,inrs of nolirv upon tn" council.
Whi,,h would hr composed not of Judges
lint Of dIpIuuutiC ruprc S"nlai.y"s II the
puwrrS
II THAT the SChcn" created super
government which would destroy the IN
dependence Of the lnIt"d States
IS That the working OF tAr p.ih u'-
der tn covenant WAS not :" ArFihE''i
rs to articulLt" with tho conStliut|"ndi
government of the lultrd StatrS,'Hhtl
under it the president alon" could rrnc-'
tIcallv carry on the cntir" foreign al
fairs of the United States by agents OF
his own selection Ia the praC;lcal cN-
rluS!uu OF the popular branch of our
guV..rnmcnt."
Mr. Wilson in being "unw'llin" To &C
r,.'.l reservations" to thr p"aC" treaty
aul League Of Nations. has left. us prac-
tirally where We stand today. Mt koot
said J.
"Mr Cox declares" h. said. that nc
will insist upOn the treaty Just as Mr..
Wilson negotiated il, and upon tina; un-
drrstuudIur MIR. Allison is support ing
Mr. ruy far the presidency The Demo
,rItic nl,rfnrn SAYS substantially the
. same thing
ON the other hand. Mr.. Harding. who
voted for the ratification of the treaty