Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1859-12-01
na-OnlY Ten Gents q Week.-The
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HIDE PIrrsRrRGH REPorTER.- Lizzie
wayt, the young woman who was charged
with robbiug Mr.. Murray, in this city,
some months ago, and who afterwards at
tempted to lecture in Washington Hall but
failed for want of an audience, is still ma
King noise i'll the world. She seems to
he composed of very combustiGle material
and is all the time doing naughty things
and getting into naughty scrapcs The
Pittsburgh papers of yesterday morning
come to us with glowing accounts of an
attempt on the part of Lizzie to cowhidc
Mr.. O'Ncil, of the Chronicle, on Tuesday
evening. The True Press says:
For some weeks, the Boothcnian Dro-
matte Company have been playing at Com
uclly,s Hall, and as the amusement was
cheap, it drew together large numbers of
all classes of men and boys. Amongst
the principal performers, was Miss De Witt,
80 called upon the bills, but really Lizzie
Wuyt, of CLONE Ties - memory. The
character of the exhibitions was in the
main harmless, but it is said that the tab
Icaux upon one or two occasions, were not
such as to inspire the most elevating
thoughts, and hence many were disposed
TO condemn the participants. 4 few brawls
attracted the attention of the police, and
Mayor Weaver, on Tuesday, ordered the
place to be closed.
The closing of the Boothcnian was made
the subject of few general remarks"
by Daniel O'Neill, Esq, of the Chronicle, in
his local column OF Tuesday The cos
tune OF Miss Wayt was criticised, and it
was intimatcd that her pcrsonation of
Eve" was quite natural. Lizzy, it seem Z,
was highly offended upon reading the ar
ticle, and she determined to cowhide the
author. Accordingly, she sought Mr.
O'Ntill Mt the Office, but failing to find
him there, she had the audncity to invade
the SanctitY of his dwelling, backed and
nbettcd by the late manager of the Boothe-
MAN, Mr.. I. c. Jones. Lizzie rang the
bell violently, and upon the call being an
Swercd, she demanded an interview with
Mr.. ONc:ll. She was told that he was
not in, but this did not seem to satisfy her.
y pHrlcy cnSued, dnring which Mr.. O'Ncill
came up street. towards his dwelling
Lizzie Immediately attacked him, when he
kindly advised her to leave the premises,
as he did not wish to lay his hand upon Il
woman. This maguanimity did not suffice
the Infatuated Lizzie, and with her left
hand she GRABBED the pendent gontcc of the
iignitied reporter, while with her right
she raised 0loft the ever plant and ever
dreaded cOwhidc.
1t was n critical moment To strike q
woman would be unmanly, but to suffer
such an indiguity at the hands of one who
had unsexed herself, and was scarcely en-
titled to the nppcllation of woman, would
have been puSillanimous. Mr.. O'NciI,
ii is said, did slap Lizzie in the face, and
gave her to understand that she could not
play the Amazon with him. Lizzie's back
or, Mr.. Jones, finding that she was not
likely TO succeed in her mission, advanced
to the rescue, and struck him once or twice
not doing him any material damage
At this stage of the affair, u gOodly crowd
had collected, and the police had also been
attracted by the excitement In the twink
ling of an eye, Lizzie and her cOmradc, Mr..
Jones, with two other male members of the
company, were on their way to the lock
up, where they were suffered to remain du-
ring the night, to answer q hearing this
morning, at eight O'clock.
In the station house, Miss Wayt's con-
duct is represented as absolutely frantic.
She continued to read sentences from the
offensive articles in the Chronicle, charac-
tcrizimg each assertion.as a lie, and called
MIR. ONeil a slueth-hound and black
guard. Reporting in Pittsburgh seems to
bca hard way Observing the Lord.