The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1872-03-30

minutes on Saturday night while Gen
Burke was speaking. his mind was 81
occupied with another matter that h'
hardly looked at the speaker. Suppos
ing, from the manner in which th'
description he had received Of Dunlap
agreed with Gen. Burke's appearance
that he had found his man, and still
further confined in this opinion by the
statement given by Mr.. Goodwin, who
had gone with Capt. Conant for the
purpose OF identifying Dunlap, that
Gen. Burke very nearly if not quiet
resembled the man he had seen as Dun
lap, the officer felt sure that his search
had been successful, and when tie
gentlemen under arrest refused to tell
who they were, all doubt was resolved
into certainty, and he approached them
as if it was "a dead sure thing" The
conversation that ensued is thus given
in the Cumberland Necs OF Thursday
Capt. Conant, addressing the large
man: "How do you do, Mr.. Dunlap
(Giving the name under which one OF
the parties he was after passed in Wheel
ing.)
Large man-"Mr. Whof'
Capt. Conant-"Mr. Dunlap.
Large man-"Why do you call me
Dunlap, and where did you ever see
me"
/ Capt. Conant-"Because that was the
name YOU took at the McLure House,
in Wheeling, yesterday
Large man, evidently Indignant
"You are mistaken. Ny name is not
Dunlap, and was not at the McLure
House, yesterday"
Capt. Conant-"You need not get so
indignant"
Large mani am indignant and
naturally so. am wrongly accused.
Capt. Conant picked up the overcoat
OF the younger man, which was lying
on desk inside out. The young
man, jerking his coat away, said, "no
man could search him or his clothes
without authority" Capt. Conant told
him "he had seen fellows like him be-
fore
This intimation that he thought them
to be rascals raised within the breasts or
the accused men the bitterest feelings
against the officer. Burkean CASTILLO
knew themselves to be entirely innocent
of any offense, and they could not un.
dersta nd how any one else could imag-
inc them guilty. Their Indignation
under the circumstances was natural
and not to be wondered at, but it is the
tone and style always adopted by sharp
rascals, who endeavor TO enact the part
Of indignant honesty, and we cannot
wonder that the officer, feeling certain
tba! he had captured Dunlap and
johnson, took the natural outburst Of
the gentlemen who were his prisoners
for Iconsummate skill in acting.
Capt. Conant, in order to have the
charge heard at once, went in search OF
justice and finally found Squire
Hobrock, before whom the prisoners
were formally arraigned on q charge Of
having, one of them under the name Of
Il. C. Dunlap, the other name unknown,
delrauded man named Jacob Archer,
of Noble country, Ohio, out Of s225O at
Wheeling on Tuesday. The following
is continuation OF the NeVs account
Justice of the Peace to the prisoners
Are you ready for hearing"
Younger Prisoner-"Unquestons.
bly,"
J. P.-"What are your names and
what do you say to the charger
Younger Prisoner-"We refuse TO
give our names for the present, and
will have nothing to say until the other
side make their case. Then we will
answer you.
Mr.. II. Couant, Chief OF Wheeling
Police, sworn: Yesterday afternoon
Archer came to me and said he had
been beat out of $2250. / asked him
when, how, where and by whom. He
described one Of the men to me as
stout man, with large black whiskers ;
the other small man, with sandy
moustache-both genteelly dressed.
Went and saw Mr.. Goodwin, proprietor
of the McLure House, as Mr.. Archer
said the men got the money from him
there. We all went to the room, and
fouui the men gone. Mr.. Goodwin
said large man OF the description given
had occupied the room, and
Younger Prisoner to J. P.-"Is this
statement OF his own knowledge? II il
is not, it cannot be evidence, certainly
Captain Conant-From the iniorma-
ton received, l believed these TO be the
parties, and telegraphed and had them
arrested.
Younger Prisoner-"How WAS the
criminal act with which we are charged
done ?
Captain Couaut-"By the confidence
game.
Younger Prisoner-"How is that7'
Captain Conant-"These parties Dor.
rowed the money from the old man, and
gave him three $1,000 blank railroad
bonds and check on the First National
Bank OF Cincinnati for $500
Younger Prisoner-"Good for notk
ingT'
Captain Conant-"Bonds were worth
less. Can't Say about the check"
J. P.-"Do these inen answer the de-
scription Of the men charged by Ar
cher?
Captain Conant-"Yes, sir"
Younger Prisoner-How did you
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