Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1883-12-07
MUM AS CLANS.
Tie Bar Committee Paddock Their
lips
Bot Claim to Know Something in the
heCoiloch Case-They are Salts
fed He Still Lives.

For the past day or two the city has been
filed with rumors to the effect that tue
committee of three. representing the Ohio
county bar, knew something OF importance
in the McColloch case, but had decided
upon the strictest secrecy concerning 1t.
When the REGISTER published the COM
munication to the VolksbIstt, saying Nc
Colloch was only eight miles awsy, men,
Der of the committee vas said to have
smiled wisely and remarked that the COM
mittee knew more than that, and at the
prop er time would reveal. A prominent
lawyer said yesterday:
"Ism not in the confidence of the COM
mittee, but know they have received in.
teresting information. Some letters come
yesterday which have led them to believe
they can now putAh hands on Mccall
loeb, but they will say nothing about it.
To my mind the committee is doing all il
can to throw a still dee pet mystery about
the case. The matter is public one and
il there is anything TO be told the public
should have the benefit of it,
81 can tell one thing" said another, and
that is that the committee is OF the opiD-
ion that McColloch went away on the HIS
train on that Friday night, as the REGISTER
said, and whether they know more, or are
merely theorizing, can't say. Certainly
they are acting very mysteriously, but
suppose they are doing what is best from
what knowledge they have"
II asked Colonel White. to-day, what
the new information was" said third,
land he told me the committee was unlt
On the decision not to reveal what 1t knew
And be added: III you knew it you
would sgree with us that ii is best to say
nothing"
These ana kindred speeches floating
about, met REGISTER reporter at every
turn, yesterday, and he determined to at
least get an expression from the commit
tee. Colonel Robert White, chairman, was
met soon after and was asked il he knew
anything about McCollocb, or where he
wss.
"pont. Wish l did" was the senten-
tious reply. Pursuing the matter further,
the reporter Was told Col. White did not
know anything that could or would he
told at present. The committee was al
work and was not ready TO report.
GO to Bill Erskine," suggested an attor.
ney, get him in q conversational mood
and he'll tell you"
Tie man OF news sought Counsellor Frs
kline, who looked up from his work as
though he knew the mission already. ami
allowed q bland smile to wrinkle his face
like damaged photograph. He was 'in q
conversational mood" but would reveal
nothing The committee had decided to keep
secret. He replied in Yankee fashion:
Don't I'm investigation always proceed
better il carried on secretly"
The only thing he would say was that he
did not believe McColloch was dead; but
whether bis whereabouts were known or
suspected, or whether the committee could
ay its hands on him, he would not say.
1t is evident then, that The committee l.
in possession of what it considers yaluabl"
information, but the public must quietly
await for its development. The opinion OF
the committee that McColloch is alive, l.
shared generally, but speculation is as riff
as ever concerning the means and motive
OF his disappearance.
The Police Gazette OF yesterday publish
ed a cut OF McCoiloch, and in hand bill
announced that it would rext week tell
,omething OF interest about the case
garbled, no doubt, from local publications.