The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1885-08-21
.ITH.E WORSlN SIORY
roID on CAPT. sMIra,s Po1ica.


TOLD on CAPT. SMITHS PoIIcE.
me 1asp,enass, sieve Jehases, n Hretes,
Business for M ohieer-A attempting TO ]
Cause Violations Of several City Laws
for HLs own Selfish Ends.
Since The present police force meinto
Existence, hardly aweek has passed but
What those in position to know and
earn and hear, have been put in posses
ion Of scandalous reports about the do
prs Of q number yotsthe members of the
force. stanyof the reports are known to
be- true, and thepublic has been informed
81 some Of them, and while others have
not been published, they have been COM
mon street talk and have implicated not
only the deputies but Porter Smith. the
chief, and Steve JOHNSON, his lieu.
tenant. The latest scandal Is about Lieut.,
Johnson, and there is no doubt as to its
truth. An 1STELLldENcER reporter was
first informed OF it about ten days ago,
aud investigating was told the same story
by Mrs. Susan Mueller, one Of the parties
directly interested, which had been told
him by. others, and last evening Mrs.
Mueller repeated her story, this time In
the presence Of d witness.
MRS NuEtIER's STORY.
Mrs. Mueller ia the widow ;of the late
William Mueller, formerly brewer at the
Reymann Brewery, who later kept q
coffee house on Market, bstween Ninth
and Tenth streets. Mrs. Mueller nov
keeps coffee house at No. 1145 and 1141
Market street, nearly opposite the old City
Building and Lieut.. Johnson 8 residence.
Tie scandal as first told a representative
Of this paper was, that two weeks ago this
morning, Friday, August z, Johnson wal
run out ot Mrs. Mutllef's kitchen by Ellis
Yeagsr, her servant girl, who had used q
poker 10 accelerate Jobnson's movements
and the supposltion was, that the reason
for It wss the improper actions OF the
policeman. It was also told at the same
time that johnson had been "bilking'
Mrs. Mueller for some time previous, fol-
his beer, and. that he had made certain
propositions TO Mrs. Mueller that were
anything, but compatible with his posi-
ton as lieutenant Of police.
The reporter called ct Mrs. Mueller't
for the purpose OF having talk with Miss
Yeager and learning what be could in re.
lation to the other reports. He found thai
Miss Yeager had gone TO her homo in New
Martinsyille on a visit, but Mrs. Mueller
wss seen, and she readily told the fol
loving story. She told 1t frankly and mol
OF her own accord, but only US it va!
drawn out Of her by Inquiries. Her disin
ganious manner impressed the hearel
With the truthfulnsss Of the story, besides
which, there are numerous circumstance
which 20 to show that what she told wa
nothing but tho literal truth.
DRIVEN OUT WITH A POKER.
"Yes,' said Mrs. Mueller, "thats SO
Sieve johnson was driven out OF here viii
a poker by my servant girl. 1t happened
between 5 and o'clock in the morning
before l had gotten up. lie came in, 90
his drink and went on through the ba
down into the kitchen. What happened
there l can't say; the girl would not tel
me or any OF US. ! asked her what hi
said to her and she said sue didn't give
him q chance to cay anything; tsnpposs
he must have tried to do something tina
wasn't right. Anyhow, he or any othel
man has no business In my kitchen aud q
90 early an hour in the morning, too"
"Did he get beer here? Why yes,
should say he did. How did It CONT
aboutP We'll, I will tell you: The first
break he made was 70 tell me that the
neighbors were complaining about my
ceiling beer on Sunday. / asked him who
was complaining, but he refused to tell
| asked MIN several times, bnt never got
any satisfaction. All this time he hat
been getting his glasses OF beer for moth
ing, and now he began sending bis boy
over ct night for bucketluL No, 81
never sent any monsy with tho boy o.
paid for tho beer he got himself. 1nevei
charged 1t either; Id as soon thought o
putting II down on piece Of ice. Yon SET
/ was afraid to charge i after him telling
mo about the neighbors complaining
Of the Sunday selling"
BASE PROPOSAL.
"well. about that other matter, 1t wa
this way: He came over here one day AMI
says he, who is that plays the piano
over hero7' Saysl, NO one; it's the piano
across the street you hear. And then hi
said No, Il was over here Well, fyt
got no plano, and l told him that lie coult
20 through the house and see for himself
Then lie says, You have women como in
here sometimes, aud I said, yes; they
come in here sometimes and get glass OIL
beer He. said, 'Where do they go?,
and I told him they sat back in the hall
there. Then he said l had rooms up.
stairs, aud I told him hadn't; that Is,
YOU know, l hadn't sm for what he want.
cd Of 'eln. Then be esked what ! Kept
two pirls here for II | hadn't rooms, and ]
told him kept them to do my work.
Yes; l have two here, my servant girl and
the girl that looks after my children"
"What else did he say about women
and rooms?"
"Well, then no said whom girls from
the Holiday house Ida Holliday's-csme
in l should telephone over for him, and
that II / could fix him up room upstairs,
the Sunday business would be all right;
that room where he and the girls could
20, would be money for the bar, and oil
such talk az that. / told him l wssn't in
that kind OF business, but since his
bothering my girls and alter talking with
some Of my friends, I'm sorry Ididn't
fix up the room and get him up there (,
then I'd a had him fixed sure. I never
for him when the women WIS
here. I ives going to once OF twice, but !
never got the'chaace.
Il AFRAID OF JOHNSON.
"You SOC all this time I Yves afraid Of
whist he told;me about selling on Sunday
but after his bad breaks with the girls, /
said, that settles 1.-THE don't got no more
beer here.p
"No, only Ella; but the next morning,
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