Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1884-06-24
THE snEIB CASE
Heard Before tho poIIcs Court Yes
terday Morning.
All Previous Relations Ruled 0pt b IN
cour, and tie woman flssd Two
Dogas ssr,- AssaOl

The police court opened 70 . fgll house,
yesierday. morning. promptly at so'clock.
The audience was larger and more select
than is usually to be found there, even on
Monday morning and there was no class,
profession or creed that escaped representa-
ton there The list of formal introductions
to His Honor, Judge ,Jeffers, was much.
larger than customary bat the interest Gen.
tered in the case of Mrs. Anna Hayman,
charged with assault on William IL. Sheib'
the Market street music man. 1t was the
best case and probably on that account was
reserved to the last, so that not spectator
left.the room until the curtain was rung
down on the last act When the case was
called. Miss Hively led her sister, Mrs. Hay
man, into the dock and carefully deposited
her in chair, She was pale and seemed
very weak, but whether this was natural or
assumed was a mooted question. As the
witnesses were brought forward, the crowd
closed in and braced up, as if in anticipa-
ton of something rich. Capt Doyener
| appeared for Mr.. Sheib and George K. E.
| Giichrist for the defense, though why Mr..
| Sheib, who was merely witness, wanted an
attorney, was another mooted question.
Sheib was called and gave his story. 1t
was simply that he was going south on Mar
ket street when he met Mrs Hayman and
her sister, and the former stopped him and
wanted to speak to him. He told her she
couldn't do it there and attempted to move
on, when she caught him by the coat and
struck him with her fan. He retreated
across the alley with her cinging TO him,
kicking and striking at him, until Officer
Bird took her by the arm.
PRECEDING HISTORY sQUELCHED.
Mr. Gilehrist asked him what his relations
with Mrs. Hayman had been. AT this the
crowd again braced up, but were disap-
pointed. The court refused to admit any
thing back of the assault, and thus any sup
posed racy testimony was SHUT off. One o.
two other witnesses for the city were queS
toned and none had seen Sheib strike the
woman or do anything but try to get away
from her. Officer Bird, I. NJ Darrah and
Harry Glass all told of this.
The defense put Miss Amanda Hively,
the sister, on the stand. She had look OF
determination about her tightly closed lips
that gave the crowd an intimatiOn she would
make some interesting revelations but the
court cut them off Her story was that
Sheib struck at her sister and then ran of
the curb, where she followed him up This
blow she saw coming she said, but as she
was afraid it was aimed at her, too, she
turned her head and did not see it fall Her
lister, she said, had no intention of creating
disturbance or making a scene, and
thought she had right to stop Will Sheib
whenever she wanted to.
THE wOAAS's STORY
Mrs. Hayman was then sworn aud gave
her story, about as follows: 81 was going
up Market street with my sister and we met
Will Sheib coming down. said to my sis
ter III speak to him, and did. | said:
Will, want to speak to you. He tried to
run away and caught hold of his coat and
stopped him. The hand mad my fan in 1t
and it struck him and that was the only
time | struck him until he struck me. He
struck me on the head and then ran across
the alley and said: Won't anybody save
meY | don't know whether | struck or
kicked him afterwards or not, was so ex-
cited. | didn't intend to do anything and
| if he had talked to me FIVE minutes there
would have been nothing of it. Besides, ]
had perfect rig hit to stop and speak to him
at any time,
She would have told in what this right
consisted, but the Court confined the case
strictly to the time of the assault and would
hear of nothing which had led up to it.
| The case then rested and fine of - and
costs was imposed on the woman, which
were paid and she was released.
| OTHER CASES.
The three rowdies who raised the disturb
ance on the Elm Grove cars got their just
deserts. 1t was clearly shown they were
! turbulent and profane, and one of them had
| knife drawn while another was preparing
to throw a stone into the car. in fning
them $50 and costs, Judge LETTERS said that
was all he could do in tone which implied
he was very sorry it was all They went to
the hill for thirty days.
Tom Hill, the man who gave Officers
Huff and FREEHOLD such trouble on Sunday
was sent up four months. Two fines for
disorder and assault were imposed and two
months, without bail, for resisting the of
Gcer
The usual array of DRINKS. disorderlies
and other cases were heard and summarily
disposed of.
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