Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1881-04-11
REpoRroR1AL ENTERPRISE.

Little Scheme by Which q Reporter
Uss TO Watt Himself to Fame-The In
nocent Victims.
A remarkable case OF newspaper en-.
terprise, great, though unrewarded,
came TO light on Saturday morning. The
SUNDAY papers, in mentioning 1t. refer
10 a "morning paper" and as that term
is rather too inclusive, We hasten to sad
die it upon our luminous, though jeal-
Gus contemporary, the InteLi'Qencer. Inc
story is really too good u be kept, al
any rate, displaying, as It does, an
amount OF originality OF thought, fertili-
ty of expedient and tenderness OF stom-
acn rarely seen in a newspaper man:
On Friday evening some three or Jour
of the medical fraternity were gathered
in an office in the Third ward, curiously
examining iIs,Is nature IN the shape oil
| a fe,us. There is a lengthy story IN
connection with it, of woman's weakness
and shame and mans pertidy, but 1t Is
! inmaterial here. The maltormatlOn
was a curious one, and the .Esculapians
had partially disSected it, carving into
the head in their search for the mar
yel,ous. When they We're through, the
question of disposal OF the thing came
up. as il was too small for burial and too
large for cremation. At this luncture
an Intelligencer pencil pusher happened
in and offered solution, one OF the
physicians proposing plan by which
the Fourteenth street might for once get
ahead OF the REGISTER.
Acting in pursuance oil the suggestion,
the enterprising youth Fixed up the
bundle, placed 1t under his arm and
made his way to Market street, in the
vicinity of the bridge. Arrived there,
| he placed the irtus on the pavement
| and retired 10 the shadow OF neigh
boring doorway To watch and wait The
plan was 10 have some one find it and
! become Mortified at the missions on the
| head; then he would appear and the
next mornings Inteliigrncsr would con-
tain a sensational article, produced in
his own peculiar, inimitable and well
known style, of q terrible infanticide,
trusting to the lateness Of the hour TO pre-
vent any OF the REGIsTER's skirmlshrrs
from getting hold Of it.
So far, good. The idea would have
done credit to a much wiser head and
the enterprise was wonderful. The head
part was all right, but it was the stom-
ach that thwarted the successful issue.
| The above mentioned reporter has a
stomach the weakness OF which is pro-
verbal. AS he lay in ambush, he be-
| gan to think OF the contents OF the bun
| die and the thought was nauseatlng.
The more he ruminated the worse 1t be-
came until finally, unable to endure 1t
longer, he rushed ont, seized the plrcel
and heaved it into the creek. The
scoop" was lett for the sunday papers,
| "a the Journal was taken in and badly
sold, As were several persons who par
ticipated in the finding OF the "mur-
dered" child. Squire Schultze was
sold, but he was paid for his trouble.
The corpse floated into the river and
stranded near the Schultze boat house,
where at s o'clock, it was found by
John Battner. A horrible story OF in
fanticide permeated the Independent
Republic, and Squire Schultze sum-
moned the following men to sit on the
c)rpse: Lewis Wilgues, Chris Baker,
John Ebenwalder, Geo. Belleville, Viii.
liam Blattner, Fred Hartman. Bdltzer
| Bot, Henry Schultz and John Meyer.
| Testimony was taken, aud after due
elaboration and prayerful considera-
ton the palladium OF our liberty"
found "that it was the boiy OF an un-
known white female child, between
eight and nine months old; was still
born, and the wounds on the body were
evidently made by some unreliable per-
son for the purpose OF ascertaining the
cause of a maforlnation on the abdomi'
nal portion OF the body" The body
was then consigned to natures bosom
and buried in the river bank.
A Jeanette expedition will now be in
order to hunt up that exclusive article OF
the HiteligcnctT'S.