Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1883-10-24
A HUMAN WOLF.
Accused of AssauIting Sixteen
School Girls.
Engineer Sleeper Charged With Entcing
Them from Their S,udeS-IntenSe
Excitement Of Newark
Parents.

NEWARK, October 2}.-Never in the his.
tory of Newark have parents OF children
in that city been so excited as they now are
over the horrible revelations brought to
the surface by the arrest OF Gamaliel D.
Sleeper, engineer in the PeterS.CIlhoun
factory, on a charge Of enticins children
into mis- engine room and assaulting them.
The alley runs from the Germar.English
school on Green street to the engine room,
and during recess the girls have been in
the habit of frequenting the engine room.
Nearly all the pupils are the children OF
Germans conspicuous as merchants, manu-
facturers and mechanics, and therefore the
story has
Created Intense Excitement
among the 10000 Germans in the city.
1t was through the illness of several OF
the pupils that the ALLEGED crimes were dis
covered phusin;anr ocDG Oh tho rpnnrt
parents how they had beer treated A con-
ference was held by several Of the parents
to consider what action should be taken.
Some of the fathers were in favor OF Keep
ing the mothers quiet for the sake OF the
children, but others insisted that it was
their duty to have the guilty punished.
Three fathers had Sleeper arrested, and
on Saturday afternoon he was confined in
cell at the First Precinct Police station.
Private citizens
DIsenssed the Horrible Story
on street corners. and men were heard to
say that it was well for Sleeper that he was
in a pCliCe cell. Toward midnight, when 1t
was reported on the streets that sixteen
children, ranging in age from six to four.
teen years, had been found who said they
were victims, the excitement was tanned to
a white heat
Justice Ricard had large audien 1e when
be took his seat in the First Precinct P0lce
Court Yesterday morning Indignant ldtherS
and brothers were in the throng, ana stat
wart policeman and besotted prisoners
sympathizsd with them. Sleeper, who
Earnestly maintains his innOcenCe, and who
hss heretofore borne a good reputation,
held his head down ~ h wake into the
court room with policeman. lie
Did Not Look az the spectators
He is tail and slender, has brown hair aud
sandy musache, and his blue eyes are
large and uneasy. His face Is pale Ok
months aso he was married. Turce cOm.
plaintS we're made against hin Sy ScSoH
girls, one of whom, bright girl OF twelve
wears, described to Judge Ricard IN very
clear manner how the crime was committed.
Sleeper was at once booked for the County
Jail and the Grand Jury, which has not
vet adjourned for the term, will lnVestI-
gate the case The penalty for the crime
with which Sleeper is charged is fifteen
| wears Imprisonment at hard labor for each
offence. As he was being taken from the
| ce III TO the Jail van crowd oil men curseu
| him. Not one word was
spoken In His Defence.
MY innocent little girl has been severe
" injured" said one sorrowing mother to
a reporter, "and the fellow ought to DE im'
prisoned for life at hard labor. This thing
rents will be afraid to trust their little
girls away from home. 1t is because pa
rents fear publicity that they pursued thelT
prey heretofore with impunity, but now
several of US are resolved that punish mem
shall he meted out TO the guilty. The eu
tire community is shocked to the centre
for this most horrible crime has struck a.
the heart Of the home circle