Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1883-03-11
THUGS AND THIEVES
Which lnfest Our Sister City Of
Steubenyille.
A Representative Den Of laiquity Shown Up
The Counterfeiters-A Spot
ters Society" on the
Tapis.
s,e,,ay D,,pateh 10 the sunday Reguser.

SDe,laI Dispatch 10 the Sunday RegLSter.
SrsuEENyILLE, o., March 10.-The news
that "a man had peeu slugged and robbed
last night" when announced Thursday
morning, brought no exclamation OF sur
prise and horror from the mouth OF the
average Steubenville citizen, only merely,
who was the yictim?" In fact, that sort
of thing has grown quite stale up in this
neck of the woods, and il takes real first
class tragedy to interrupt the serenity OF
things here. The only wonder is that We
don have more of them, for taking into con-
sideration the number of dens that are kept
running under the very noses OF the city
authorities, and on the most public street
(Marketl, the citizens are disappointed IL,
in the mornings. they hayD't highway
robbery or murder to digest along with
their breakfast.
The Most Notorious Place
at present is DOCS place" saloon actu-
ally established by the city for one OF the
Pinkerton detectives, when those unproti.
table gentlemen thrived here several
months since. When Doc" the detec-
tive, left, the house fell into the hands OF a
msn named Charlie Connell, a slick, sleek,
mild looking individual, who came from
the Devil knows where, and who has sue.
ceeded, together with his confederates, in
making the establishment sort!a rendes
vous for Suggers, thieves and cut.throats,
who will do great many piratical things
for the sake of dollar The tree man,
Shipperd, who was robbed and beaten the
other night, was in this den when he met
the rough from Martins Ferry who
came near taking his victims life for a gold
watch and httle money.
Here il was that the strange horseman
from Wheeling" received his beating last
week which will probably make him first
class invalid for some months to come.
And here it IS that hardly q day passes
that
some Foul Piece of Crime
is not committed. and still the police have
not made an arrest. Not even for keping a
disorderly house has Charlie Connell been
brought up by the minions Of the law.
Why is this? is the question asked. 9th
er saloonists, who run legitimate places,
are pulled" il but a slight row takes place,
but this den of inquity is allowed TO run
unmolested. We can't explain it. goed
dose of
Tar, Feathers aud Rail
is what Charlie needs.
W Dtl lllt NHAS
week that Ike Cameron and Sam Salmon,
two Steubenville boys, had passed $50
counterfeit bill at Jamestown. New York,
and one Of them had been arrested, il raised
much excitement among the boys Cam
eron got away, and is somewhere in the
West, and il is now stated that Salmon 3
father, who is wealthy, and who went to
jamestown when informed OF the doingS OF
his son, has SUCCEEDED in fixing matters
satisfactorily with the authorities, thereby
giving Samuel another chance for his
4 aSpotter>'' society
is being organized in this city. A Spot
tcrs" Society is for the purpose OF spotting
criminals, thieves, etc. There was r so
ciety OF this kind here once before, but in.
stead of sliding the authorities in ferreting
out thieves. murderers, and that class OF
worthies, they contented themselves in
watching saloons knd 'spotting' young
men, and old ones too, who went quietly
in for 8 glass or two of beer, came out an
went home about their business, where the
.spCtter" should have been. 1t won't do.
IL our reformers want to do any good they
must look out and rid out low dens OF vice,
and the inhabitants of such, but as for
watching respectable men who happen to
go into respectable saloon for drink
and then sending word by anonymous
letters to their families, 1t won't do. The
"spotter" is no good,