Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1882-10-01
ALL SHOOK UP,
A Queer Cass of Attempted Cfime
Creates . Sensation in tho
Housisr State.
The BIackmailsrs Trlpped Up-.-
The Yellow Fever Scourge
Spreading---Call for Help.
Washington hews---What Will Fol-
ger Do---StaIwarts Alarmed
1.-The Ohio Campaign.

! vNcESSEs, IND, September So!-A queer
case of attempted crime has just come to
light in the psighhorins tonnsf eaitvad'
6few miles north of this city. in which
George Heck, constable. and Park Rush
er, keeper of the poor farm, figured 50 con-
spicuously that they are now under arrest
and held to answer for blackmail OF the
most despicable character. Last summer
Hech met Rusher and accompanied him TO
Terre Haute, and taking him into his con-
fidence, cautiously informed him that be
could put him on to rich lead" out OF
which the two could coin money IL they
managed it properly. He swore him to Sc
crecY and then
UnfoIded Ess Tale,
which was to the effect that three OF the
leading men OF Sullivan were counterfeiters,
who had long been connected with Q
gigantic counterfeiting scheme. The PROM
inent men in question who were 80 grossly
charged with the crime Oh couffterfrlans
are w. H. Crowder, President OF the Sulli-
van County bank; T. K. Sherman, ex-
President Of the First National bank, now
a dry goods merchant; Wm. II. Thranhill,
a stock dealer and wealthy farmer, and e.
L. Davis, Democratic candidate for treas
ure and hardware merchant The story
that was repeated in confluence, however,
soon leaked out, and was handled about
from tongue to tongue,
Creating Consts-natiou==
and dsmay in the hearts OF the people who
heard il, as the parties against whom the
charges were made were high up in the So
cial and business world. The only founda'
ton Heck had for repeating the silly SIAN
der was that he had heard notorious bad
woman named Mrs Pearson aver that she
saw the counterfeit money and had han
died some of it, and had a certificate for
very large sum of it. The infamous rumor
finally reached the ears of one OF the vic
Tins, who at once proceeded to put stop
to it. Cornering the blackmailers, the gen.
tlemen made them admt that the report
was fabrication, but RuSher remarked he
was the only man who could quiet the
matter, but would not do so unless we'll
paid for it.
The SIaudereS Gentleman
would not submit to the process OF bleed.
ing' by such scoundrefs. and yesterday bad
Heck and Rusher arrested and held to an
swer the charge of backmail. They were
placed under s., 900 bends each.
Mr. Crowder is President Of fiourishing
and prosperous bank, on which, the last
few days, there has been considerable pres
sure, owing TO the uneasiuess OF dspositors,
who had become alarmed by the silly ru-
mors.
MIR. Crowder and his companions, who
have been made the victims of this false
hood, are righteously indignant over it. and
will prosecute the perpetrators thereof TO
the full extent of the law. The slanderous
report has wrought them much injury, and
the punishment u the slanderers cannot
be too severe. Nothing has occurred for
long time in Sullivan which created so
much condemnation and denunciatory talk
in reference to the worthless instigators as
this.