Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1885-04-17
NEARLY ONE HUNDRED
Indictments Returned by the Grand
Jury,
Which Ceased From Its labors and Ad-
iourned Shortly After Five O'Clock Last
Eyening---The List Not Yet Made
PubIic---Retu Of the Exiles.

THE Grand Jury has adjourned" A
young man ran down the stone steps OF the
Court House last evening, q few moments
after FIVE o'clock, with these words on his
lips, and in a few moments the news had
spread far and wide, and caused general re-
OiciDg among those Of our citizens who had
cause to fear the reception of undesirable
attentions at the hands of the eminently re-
spectacle body of men who for four days
had been diligently enquiring into the lm-
morality of the past six or eight months.
But this feeling oil citation over the dissolu-
ton of the Jury was not unmixed with pan.
True, the end was come, in one sense; there
was to be no more lodging OF deputy sher-
ifs, no more tremblings lest the midday
meal or the evening chat with friends would
be rudely interrupted by the serving of a
subpoena, no more s~leepless nights, the
hours of which were passed in alternate
periods of thankfulness over the escape OF
the day Just passed, or fears for the morrow
to come; the enforced giving away OF
friends, or being given away" by them no
longer troubled the rapid youth; and the
staid and respectable business man might
breathe free once more, as he thought of the
things he might have been called upon to
tell, and thank the good fortune which
caused him to be overlooked when his
neighbor was called-but in the mid OF
these reioiclngs came the terrible thought
to many: Perhaps I'm q goner; msYhap
nv name will blossom out in to-morrows
paper in the list of true bills, and then there
will be q pretty messI' 1t was this delight
full uncertainty which took away many an
appetite for tea last night and sent numbers
OF our gilded youths, and sires, too, for that
matter, TO bed with hearts as heavy as a res,
taurant biscuit.
As was predicted in yesterdays REGISTER,
the Jury began the labors of the day BY
sending down to the Clerks office a long
list of witnesses 10 be summoned, and long
before 1901 a deputy sheriff was on the
street in search of victims. As on other
DAYS of the session, numbers of laughable
incidents occurred in serving the papers,
and some lively scurrying around town re-
suited in vain efforts to escape the inevitable.
Toward the middle of the afternoon it be-
gan to be evident that some OF the witnesses
whose testimony was desired would escape,
and a ruse was resorted to by the officials.
Janitor Flynn and several others were
sworn in as special deputies, and sent out.
and a number of unsuspecting gentlemen
tell easy victims to them and had to go up
and be sworn. Some of these witnesses
were very prominent citizens and officials,
and the reports of their testimony created
many q laugh outside, as witnesses related
their experience after coming from the
room.
At four o'clock the last witness sworn had
been examined, and the little squad of news
paper men and officials in waiting in Clerk
MitchelIs office began to indulge in specu-
lations as to what would come next. Opin'
ion was divided as to whether q new batch
of witnesses would be called, or the jury ad-
iourn, the advocates of the latter idea being
in the majority. Minute after minute pass
ed, and gradually the conviction became
universal that the jury was done. AT i've
o'clock Judge Boyd came down stairs from
room, the clerk was called, and the party in
waiting were soon assembled in the court
room Of Part 2. In a few moments the
Jury appeared, headed by the Prosecuting
ATTORNEY and Foreman T. II. Logan, aud
took their seats, the latter bearing in his
hands a stack of folded papers about six
inches thick. Mr.. Logan addressed His
Honor, and said;
THE jury has concluded its labors, and
is ready to report"
His Honor-Mr. Prosecuting Attorney,
have you any further business to present?
Mr.. Jo-dsn-No, sir
His Honor-Mr. Foreman, have you any
further business to report?
Mr.. Logan handed his package of papers
to the Judge, and said, Nothing further"
His Honor-I desire to thank you, gen
tlemen of the jury, Tor the very thorough
manner in which you have discharged your
duty. Your labors have been heavy, and |
am satisfied none among you would have
voluntarily sought them, but you have per-
formed them in a painstaking, careful and
conscientious manner, and am grateful
for your industry. You are now discharged.
The members of the jury at once left their
seats, and they and the spectators were soon
mingling together. His Honor gave the
package of indictments to the Prosecuting
Attorney, who at once handed them to the
Clerk of the Court, with the instructions to
allow no publicity until the summons for
thoseindicted had been prepared and served
This struck the hungry newsgathers be-
low the belt, and they were compelled to see
the papers carried away and locked up in
the vault of the Clerks Office. This was
not done, however, until the stack had
been sized up" and ascertained to contain
about eighty indictments.
The reporters, jurymen and spectators
then separated and went their several ways,
and the business of the day wa over. On
the streets down town there was much anxi.
ETY. to know the result of the jury lsbors,
and every few steps the REGISTER scribe
was button-holed by some anxious or in
quisitiye citizen, who requested to be In
formed OF the names ofthe victims, or who
wanted to know if the papers would print the
list of those indicted this morning. To
all these the uniform answer was that the
newspapers were in complete ignorance Of
the names of those indicted, and would
print no names whatever until leave had
been given by the court.
By six o'clock the telephone had
spread the glad tidings Of the jury's adjourn
ment to the n~eighboring towns, and by dark
the boys who had been temporarily sojourn-
ing over the river began to make their ap-
pearsnce an the streets, earnestly inquirlng
IS to who had been hurt. Crowds could be
seen here and there on the sidewalks dis
cussing the jury's work and ways and means
to keep the newspapers quiet, and ever and
anon a delegate would wander into
the Office of one or another
of the papers and point out the
uselessness and improperly Of printing the
list Of indictments. Assured that nothing
would be published for a day or two. the
gentleman would depart, only to be succeed.
ed by others
REGISTER reporters made some endeavor
to ascertain who were indicted and for
what o~ffenses, but nothing definite could be
CLEANED from the mass of rumors flying
about, beyond the tact that several owners of
real estate used for unlawful parposes, a
great number OF saloon keepers for selling on
@ -