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The Daily Dispatch: March 16, 1861., [Electronic resource], Tragedy in Wheeling (search)
clock, however, learning that he was about to be arrested, he disappeared. Yesterday evening his numerous friends and relatives were startled by a dispatch from Bellaire, stating that he had shot himself near that village, and was dead. Young McLane was about twenty years of age, and was greatly admired by his employers and loveown slowly to the West Wheeling Ferry Landing, and, after crossing, stood for some time on the Ohio shore looking into the water, and then proceeded down towards Bellaire. He is supposed to have lingered along the route between the Ferry Landing and the place where the body was found, a short distance this side of Bellaire, untilBellaire, until about half-past 2 o'clock; and being in a distracted state of mind, because compelled to leave his home a felon, drew his pistol and shot himself through the heart. He seemed to have been thinking the matter over before committing the rash act, as he had whittled quite a large niche in the fence against which he had been standin