The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1872-03-29
BURKEAND COSTEbLO
Their Arrest, incarceration
and Release.
How Fred AHsti can ,cIiizen may
be Dragged outof bed q n a.
night Without War
rant Of Law.
''''P'si SiiSssT5sSPIISp IIS HSFs3Tt' SSsEE:3 II !
| Cumberland Jail and a Cumber-
land JelIreYs., go,
What General Burke Says of It

H. VIZ Chucuab lA1 Ayully f1V Vbdbl9t tbtn-
Ing to sec Gen: BuRKE and CApt. C6s.
TELLo, but failed TO find them. Later in
the evening, however, they visited our
office with Gthsfg gentlement6 see the ac-
count given by a Cumberland paper Of
their arrest On 9 I}Aat city gHs report pl
the NetSs published elsewhere was shown
them and pronounced substantially cor
rect, as far as It went. We asked General
BURKE ifhe had any objection to stating,
in his own yay,ithe circumstances Of his
visit to this city and his subsequent ar
rest, with permission TO give it TO the
public. BE replied tliats he2 e2hSd not and
saidl 9el4 on tlIEy 400 nCG
lGEN! BURKE's sTATEalRNr.i0
Capt Costelloi aud i arrived in this
city last Thursday noon, stopping at
the, Grant, House. The, object n ,of
our visit was to, speak ID favor
of proteclion TO American iAdaStry.
On Saturday evening we addressed a
meeting in the Court House, and re-
NAMED in Wheeling on business con-
nected with the Association until Tues.
day evening, when We LEFT by, the lBalH-
more 8 Ohio road to visit our families IN
New York. About ten o'clock we took q
sleeping car, and were suddenly awakened
about two o'clock In the morning BY be-
ing shaken and man saying Get up l
turned round and asked the man, What
do you wantT He pulled mo more. yio-
lently than before, and was told to get
up and put on my clothes. I then, on
getting out Of the berth saw the men
were uniformed and were policemen. l
asked what was the meaning of this
torn out Of my bed 'at.midnight. They
said ! should know soon enough, but all
had to do was to get on my clothes
quickly and "get out Iof there" ] en-.
deavored to get into my clothes as quick
ly rs possible, and quite commotion was
created in the sleeping car, all the parties
running their heads through tho screens
to see who tho terrible thieves were that
were thus fortunately captured. Capt.
Costello, actuatcd by the same curiosity,
poked his head out to see what was the
matter. lie was Immediately grabbed by
one ol the policemen. who Said: HHjjThis
is the other Iellowi!ps Capt! Costello very
naturally asked "What do you mean,
sir ?" He was told, as I had been, 10 hurry
up and get on his clothes and "get out OF
here" Twas taken possession Of by a
couple Of policemen, one Of whom got
hold Of me and virtually dragged me out
of the car.
should have said that before this they
refused to allow us sufficient time to get
on our clothing, and insisted, in fact, that
we should go and carry, our clothes In our
hands. Captain Costello fought desper-
ately TO be allowed 10 pution his shoes.
which was acceded to In the streets, hut
he was taken away without his hat. The
officer who had hold OF me continued to
drag me along, and ! was at first inclined
to think that the best thing for me to do
would Be to Knock him down; but I
thought that was Just what he should
like I would do, and Il had better keep
cool and not get into an alteration, IN
asmuch as he represented the law Of the
land fol. the time being g1u.f ,.fsg
We were taken TO the station, and 4
asked the man who was in charge, "Whati
Is the meaning Of this /? Why are we
hereH1i he said, II will tell you thatp
and produced telegram which in sub
stance directed the Chief Of Police of
Cumberland to arrest two men, bne with
"big beard,n' the other. with SANDY nous.
tache," charged with having swindled, by
the confidence game, an Ohio gentleman
to the extent Of So, $50. The telegram
was signed, "Conant, Chief OF Police,
Wheeling" i believed there was really,
a joke in this thing, and it was a dodge
gotten up by our political enemies, and I
asked the officer lf he knew Of any.
such person as this man "Conant."
\, BE said he knew from the paper that
he was chief Of police at Wheeling. I
asked II, independent OF the paper, he had
any other knowledge as to whether there
existed any such man as ""Conant." He
said, no. l asked if he had any dlrec-
tory or other, means of information on
this point. No, he had not. " o.
The place we were confined in, Is with
out exception the filthiest hole ever
passed so many hours in. II was even,
filthy enough to correspond with the Ian
guago and conversation Of the officers
and loaters who hung aboutit. We had
to sit up there until morning. / asked
how long we were TO bekept here, but
gotno satisfactory answer.
At nine O'Clock in the morning we werC
brought up 10 the court room Justices
office from the station and given seats,
and In little while two gentlemen came
In. VI H.'t,sI 81 '.,s.5-ars m Z, +,
-.-Weasked Gen, Burke If he had read.
the Re@S report Of what transpjred at
the justices Office. He said ho,had ,tand'
1t was substantially correct, and added
that the editors Of tho Neps had been
very ce1fteous and kind 10 them HI, ,c5S ooa-
ftInued y saS y elG ENJ
Mr.. Conant and Mr.. Goodwin after.
having saluted me as "Dunlap'' went in
search Of q Justice, who took his seat on
the bench. 'Lneed not detail what occur
red upon the hearing, as = 1t isiyery.
fully set forth in the report In the Netcs.
There Is one thing, though, which l wish
TO nottcG,land dotit unwillingly, having
great respect for the laWs-thatrI never
saw q more uncultiYatedI and boorish
specimen OF judiciary than this person.
Mr.. CosTRLLo-He seemed to be the
original Of Dickens QuiIt, in the aOld
Curiosity shop"-his bullet eyes
Gen. BuRKE-He didn't make his eyes,
though he did make his manners, which
were brutal. fbly ,tGTA.5 IA 7i',5,r.-
After the commitment by the Justice,
we were taken In charge by
Conant and the Cumberland . i,olice.
who marched Us through tho town
at midday to the St Nicholas
hotel, through the principal streets. Ar
irving there We asked for telegraph