The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1885-08-20
A POLICE PICNIC!
3 rAagY % eENNsYLyANIANs
who win reel Iils Giving the Nan cltya
wide berth, Aib,l.T they cot on chsapiy
Enepsh In ths Ead-Ths Kew
a Aan woostst'a Hsuio.

Brief mention was made yesterday
morning Of row OF Ann Wooster's place,
on Twenty.frst street. II was developed
in the course Of subsequent investigations
by the police that two ofthe girls in the,
house were the only participants in the
fight, and that the cause Of it was young
man said to be from Bridgeport. AT the
time, however, three prominent citizens
Of Bureettstown, Pa, were In the house.
These gentlemen had hired Sam Robin
son, tho well known colored porter Of the
Howell house, to show them to the place,
desiring To find a friend of theirs who had
failed TO exercise proper self.control, and
not being acquainted with the effect OF
Wheeling beer on the constitution, had
become intoxicated and got lost. He was
not inthe house, but the three men con-
cluded to remain and take some beer.
Sam refused TO stay in the house, but
agreed to wait In the alley, and while
waiting he peepsd through a crack In q
blind into another room, where the
alleged Bfidgeporter and two women were
Sam says: san OF asudden the air in
that room was full OF beer bottles and
glasses, and the weemen was all buddled
| up in 4 hunch-you knows how weemen
lis-and this hyur teller with the cap on
what was in the room, he done run pas
me, wh!zzity l. like that, and was out o
sight.
come out and We walked up Main street,
i and xas clar crost the creek lore a WHSLE
bowed"
The racket in the house was 80 great
that the men in the hook ana ladder
house, next door, thought the house wa
] being torn down, and Foreman Armstrong
footed his police whistle for about ter
minutes. The policeman OF that ward
was up town somewhere, however, anG
persons north Of the creek could not tel
In what direction the whistle was blown
| Officer Watson heard it at Tenth street
and blew his own. Other officers ran FOL
the river but could End no occasion fol
the call. Officer Wilkie thought the sound
came from East Wheeling, and went II
that direction, his speed being accelerated
by a shot fired over In Manchester. Thi:
he learned was fired by the watchman al
the brewery to add 10 the noise oil the
whistling.
For about hall au hour the police iorct
was all at sea, and about a dozen oilicen
were running about the streets at random
Finally newspaper man informed then
where the alarm came from, and delach'
ment was sent over to Twenty-titst street
|, where description Of the Burgettstowr
parties was obtained.
In the meantime Officer Croughan hae
/ picked up a stranger dead-drunk on Watel
!. Street. This proved TO be the tricnS .tle
Burpettstown GENT were hunting for
and they got himiont Of the lookup only
to be put in Themselves. Robinson, the
darkey, was also locked up. against hi.
earnest protest, and Mrs. Wooster anc
the two girls were also placed under or
rest, and the girls loagesa in the Lookup
: About A o'clock tho strangers were re
leased on dapositing money to cover theil
fines on a charge OF lettering in house
Of Ill fame. Il was understood that two
charges would be preferred against
Wooster, one OF selling beer and one ol
keeping o bad house. About 2 o'clock
however, the girls were released, and
when the police court metno charge o.
any kind was preferred against any Of the
parties arrested, except the drunken indi'
vidual picked up on Water street, who
was fined 81 and costs. .,
], The officers were all on the so for about
two hours, and for nothing. Had the
Fifth ward policeman been on his beat the
] affair would not have happened.