The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1878-03-27
A Gard from the Mayor Of Bell.

afro.
sai.su 1a,slllssa..r.
CO., whose communication in refer.
sneo to Bsllsirs politics was published in
your issus Of tho 18Th inst, has a letter
In to.day's Reohlr, in which he mSni.
fssls surprise tha. his statements oil fact
in his Communication to you had not
beendeniOd. We, at BsllaiFe, know pref
ty wellhow athis vice Of lying has be-
come fastened on Q. (P. 81, and have
long since given up denying anything he
sayp,-abandoned It as Q useless Formally
This second letter Of his recalled US to
the fact that he was speaking away from
home, and that 1t might be well enough TO
state what the facts really are.
You remember that &c" undertakes to
show that great injustice has been done
10 some Of the men opposed to the Bos-
ton men now employed In the Goblet
Works, and presents what he 10 pleased
to consider facts.
he saws WIN. @. Gill, one Of the present
workmen, was arrested on q complaint
Of shooting with intent TO wound, con-
yicted and fined In the Insignificant sum
Of one dollar and costs.
In truth Gill was arrested only for
firing off = pistol in N Of the public
~streets Of the city, and was fined two dol
lars and costs. /,
Rea, another workman, was arrested
on complaint Of using abusive and oppro.
brious epithet in a public place, con.
yicted and fined two dollars and costs,
says aU.n
Infact Rea was arrested for committing
an assault and battery on one Jesse Fuss
ner. The offense consisted shortly in
this: Fussuer was working for Rea at
the Glass Works, and not doing the work
to suit Res, was by him struck slight
blow on the shoulder. Rea was fined
three dollars and costs.
aC' says "John stroble an anti sym .
pathiser for the LAST named offsnse" Il. g.
using abusive aud %approbrious epithets
in a public place. twas fined fifteen dol
lars and Costa
In fact Rea wa not arrested for the
same offense Us Strobe. There were two
charges against strobis-bcth for using
bad lapgIsge on the streets. II appeared
that he had gone up to the boarding
house Of the Boston men, had called them
out, and was creating q great noise aud
confusion. It happened just as church
was out and many Of the people were
Obliged 10 20 into the street to avoid the
crowd he had gathered. For the FIRST OF.
tense he was fined S. and costs; for the
second, $40 and costs.
again. says "C,n "some Eve OF the
eastern men were arrested for the SAME
ofrsnse, and Il was with the greatest diff.
Guilty that the complainant could have
afidayits prepared; none OF the otfcers
volunteering assistance, aud the Mayor
being incompetent he bad to await the
convenience Of the City Solicitor, They
we're then in file aome two or three days
before the one appointed for the trial,
giving plenty OF time to the defense for
examination, but at the last moment the
officer whose duty Il was TO make these
complaints, destroyed the cues that bad
Ueen uleu uy Lup cttIAtu auu nuoo1ihutee
for them his own, thus allowing q strong
claim for the ~defsndant's attorneys. to
stave of the case until after the election,
which was readily granted by the Mayor,
That this was all pre-arranged We have
not the shadow OF a doubt and It IL the
earnest wish Of the writer that these facts
may be read and appreciated"
The facts are that II was no part Of the
Mayors business TO make the complaints,
The complaints that were filed were with
outthe names Of the offenders, and those
that were fled by the officers were filed
only at the hour Of trial. The defendant,
then demanded a jury trial, and said they
would be ready for trial on the next Mon.
day or Tuesday-the very first day q
trial could be had; but "C,n who seemed
to be representing the prosecution, asked
that il bs put off until after the election
It was not the Mayor, nor the attorney
for the defendants, but &c" and he only
who was and Is responsible for the de-
laying Of the trial. JOEL SrRAHI,
Mayor OF Belaire.