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...home in an intoxicated condition and threatened Mrs. Hartman. She picked up a poker and ran from the house, her son followed, caught her, and threw her to the ground. She succeeded in beating him off with the poker and then made her way to the home of a neighbor, Mrs. Dorothy Thompson. Mrs. Thompson called the City police station, and Patrolman Grubb answered the alarm. Mrs. Thompson’s son, Ben Thompson, 23, accompanied Grubb to the Hartman home which was dark by that time. As Grubb approached the front door, lighting his way with a flash light, followed by Thompson, Hartman stuck a shotgun through the glass in the front door, and fired at the two men through the screen door. Patrolman Grubb was knocked down by the charge which struck him in the left shoulder. Thompson ran and Hartman followed, firing another shot which struck him in the calf of the right leg. Hartman chased the youth to his home, and there fired another shot, which missed its mark. Returning to his home, Hartman placed his fourth and final shell in the gun. He placed it in Grubb’s ear and fired. The charge did not completely emerge from his head, but completely distorted his facial features. Hartman left his gun beside Grubb and drove off in the City police car which had been used by the officer. He left Buckhannon on the Elkins road, striking a tree as he turned from the Florida Street bridge to Island Avenue. Near the City limits he lost control of the machine, which left the highway and turned over the bank toward the river. In the meantime the Thompsons had notified Assistant Chief William Curtis of the Buckhannon fire department of the murder and he immediately spread the alarm to all State, County, and City Officers who began a search for Hartman. While they were spreading to all parts of the City, Hartman walked from the wrecked car through the central part of Buckhannon, yelling loudly for a policeman. He went directly to the County jail and asked the wife of the man he had killed for a knife and a gun, that he had killed two men and he wanted to get some more. Mrs. Grubb hid herself, and Hartman went from the jail building to Franklin Street where officers found him about 4 o’clock. After he was placed in jail, Hartman made two attempts to set fore [sic] to the building by igniting mattrices [sic]. Officers continued their search for the City automobile, and about daylight it was discovered, its lights still on, and a window broken out. The machine also showed marks of the shotgun fire at the officers. Because officers felt that Mrs. Grubb, who was the only person left in charge of the jail, should not haft [sic] to care for Hartman, and because feeling was growing against the prisoner, he was taken to the Lewis County Jail in Weston. Hartman talked to officers freely about his actions, remarking: “Well I got two of them, didn’t I?.” [sic] thinking, evidently, that he had also killed Thompson who he believed was an officer. He made other taunting remarks to officers to the effect that if he hadn’t run out of shells, he would have killed them. Thompson was taken to St. Joseph’s Hospital for treatment, and he is recuperating satisfactorily at this time. Hartman had a former criminal record, having served a sentence in the state penitentiary for attempted rape, and having once broken from the Upshur County jail. His brother, Cenis Hartman, is now serving a sentence in the state prison for the murder of Wallace White in a beer garden brawl several years ago. Members of the special grand jury who indited [sic] Hartman were: W. E. Sutton, Garland West, H. C. Summers, H. G. Farnsworth, J. W. Knabenshue, H. C. Freeman, D. A. Marley, W. L. McClain, R. R. Colerider, Dean, Porter Brinkley, Terry Hinkle, David Gooden, and Jesse Martin. Funeral services were held for Patrolman Grubb Tuesday morning at the Whitescarver Funeral Home before one of the largest congregations that ever attended a funeral in this City. The Rev. E. L. Arnold, pastor of the Central Methodist Church, was in charge of the services, and Dr. W. H. Barlow, pastor for the Baptist Church spoke. Members of the Frank B. Bartlett Post No. 7, American Legion, assisted with the funeral. Pallbearers were the following six past commanders of the Legion, a position which Grubbn had held: Charles tenney, R. Worth Shumaker, John Shifflett, Ray Light, Everett Williams, and Earl Congleton. Interment was made in the Methodist Church cemetery in Lorentz. Besides his widow, the former Grace Miller, Mr. Grubb is survived by one son, Charles Ray; his parents, Columbus Lee and Malinda Elizabeth Zickefoose Grubb, of this County; three sisters, Mrs. Nettie Beer and Mrs. Zuma Mills, both of Ivanhoe, Mrs. Mabel Reger, of Uniontown, Ohio; and four brothers, Delbert, of Buckhannon, Harold, of Queens, Ralph, of Sago, and Cecil, of Uniontown, Ohio.
