Year: 1879

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Correspondence Of the Register.


BUXTON, w. Va, August Is.


Seeing that the "Bogy" Ice matter is
drawing the attention OF the press OF the
country, and that many people in this
section are much interested in the mat
ter, your correspondent takes occasion
10 write up the unwritten part OF
''Bogy's" life, well known as 1t Is, how
ever. in this section. BOgy's prominence,
Won NAV saw, begins with the earlier
dav of the late war, in which he served
as a private, and in which possession he
distinguished himself for cool bravery
having on one occasion offered his ser
vice To the commander of detatch-
ment, which was checked by the mad
sweep of an unbridged, flooded Virginia
river.


We had stopped the command, and a
volunteer was looked for who would
swim the river, with rope, Tor the pur-
pose of making mode OF crossing.
"BOgy" was the first to offer, and plung-
ing bravely in, after 4 hard struggle
gained the opposite shore, made hls
line fast, and the command was saved.
In the army he shrunk from no duty
and feared no danger. Further than
these facts, he has no army record oI
redeeming nature.


The last time your correspondent saw
him he would have filled the following
description: FOrty-eight years OF
age; five feet eight inches high; dark in
complexion; rather inclined TO besandy
in beard and hair; face full OF treach-
cry and deceit; low, slOping forehead;
sunken, sharp, steel-gray eyes; IN fact,
q face that physiOgnamists would rank
rs hall idiotic. Wolf, lion and half
snake-he was the bad man he looked.
While on a furlOw home, one night
BOgg thOughtshe would get even with a
former neighbor, one Wade, against
whom Bogg had terrible ieud, which
shall be recorded further along, and ap-
preaching Wade's house in the dead Of
night, he succeeded in rousing the
family.


Wade rising from his bed went to his
door and asked what was wanted, when
BOggy told him that he had been sent
by the commander to make him pris-
Oner. Wade's sympathies were with
the North, and he well knew the treat
ment that men got at the hands OF the
Federals. He told his soon TO be captOr
and marcher 10 remain where he was
that he would dress Immediately and 90
with him.


1t appears that Wade at the time
did not know who his CaptOr was, nor
did he until he stood face to face
with him and told him that he was
ready to go.


Wade babe his family have courage,
and bidding good bye TO his wife and
half clad crying children, thinking prob
ably that that would be his last, for in
those times murder and destruction
rode over the country night and day,
hand in hand. What the poor fellows
thoughts after that were no one will
know, as shortly after the captOr and his
victim disappeared in the darkness
the report OF musket awoke the echOs
of the hills, and Bogy reported next
morning ut Warrington that he had
taken a Rebel in the night, but that he
had attempted to escape and he had
shot him.


The sad duty was left Wade's wife and
children to harness up there horses and go
down the road, load the dead body Of
husband and father on little sled, take
il home and wash and dress it. The
next day the neighbors helped to lay to
rest the mangled remains of John Wade,
and tonight the stars shine brightly
and the soft summer winds stir the long
grass gently on his grave, on sloplng
hillside on BingomOn creek, in Marion
county.


He was a man of a backward easy
going, quiet disposition, well liked, in
dustrious and considered among his
fellow farmers and by all who knew him
as a good citizen. His death went un-
avenged until after the close OF the war
when peace had taken possession OF our
! distracted States. Then a warrant was
issued for 'Bogy' for murder.
lie was taken and tried by a jury OF
ex-Union soldiers as at that time any
thing but loyal was excluded from the
juries) found guilty and sentenced for
life.
lie is charged with having murdered
two or three Of his children in his vio-
lenee, and il was on account, some say,
of these facts that he murdered Wade,
who, il is said, had come on him una
wares while i'm the act or Immediately
after he had killed his little boy in
coal mine, where he had carried the
child to punish him for some childish
wrong. And that is the kind
of hair pin all this
fuss is about. Why, II he were turned
out tomorrow he would $50 he swore
when he was arrcsted) follow his ar
restors To the end of the world, il neces-
Sary, to kill them, and anyone who
knows him knows that he would do it.
And it is very probable that il he were
| turned loose upon the public and began
his threatening and rowing, he would
grace the limb of tree OF Wetzel or
| Marion.


A petition was circulated more than
/ once for his release, but got no signers
at all, which is proof OF what he is
| thought of 10y those who know him best.
The people of this section, who know
Bogv well, are taken aback at the state
ments of his suffering and the injustice
done him, as claimed by the q. A. r.,
and they think it, as a court, should
hear the the testimony before passing
sentence. From where Bogy is known,
some one thinks to work miracles by
getting him pardoned on the bloody
shirt cry.


His wife roams around from place to
place; his children are scattered-one
being the girl upon whom the brutes In
human shape at Warrington practlced
an outrage last mOnth-and taking
iacts and figures into due consideration,
the best place for Bogy is where twelve
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