Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1885-10-10
AS TO METHODS"
Short Stories, Each of Which Cob
taIns a Moral.
Champagne as a Producer Of Evidence"
"A "Ptan" Which SaVoB Strong
y Of Conspiracy - That
Special Telegram.

Mo, u NCli huOWu Lively hhus 4hC CooSh
tial pert of the article is as follows:
"Mr. Ed. Dennis was sitting IN q bench
in front Of the Office. Clerk Gslligsn as
clerk of the committee had written out the
subpGnss for witnesses. he stopped and
said {:
"I see you are summoned to testify be-
fore the Police Committee
eyes, sir; l got a summons said Mr..
Dennis.
care you going there to give evidence
sgsinst Captain SMITH
"'Yes; / guess TIL GO
"9hey cant compel you to 60"
~ know they cant. but Fn going any
how
GsIligan started to walk away, but turnel
and said;
"tDo you own this livery stsbleY'
az am one of the owners said Mr.. Den
mis-.
"'Do you own those wsgonsT pointing to
two wagons standing in the alley.
"'Yes; they belong to the firm
"'Well, you come up there and testify
against Smith and we'll have you pulled in
for allowing those wagons to stand there
"And he smiled, waved his hand and
walks on"
THE REAL CONVERSATION
between Mr.. Galligsn and Mr.. Dennis is
very different. 1t was related by both gen.
rlemen in Clerk Bowers Office, yesterday
morning, and ran something like this:
Mr.. Galligan met Mr.. Dennis in front Of
the ~latter's place of business, and said:
"Do you own those wagons up in the
N'T Yes"
"WeII there has been a great deal Of COM
plant about you and others leaving vehicles
IN the alley 80 that travel is impeded. You
ought to move them.
IAN right" said Mr.. Dennis; II will"
Then Mr.. Galligsn said:
you have a summons to attend the in.
~vestigatiDg committee, haven't your
Yes"
"Well l suppose if you 90 they will have
you up for allowing your wagon to stand in
the alley"
This remark was made by Mr.. Gslligsn in
a laughing manner, and WI understood BY
Hr. Dennis in the spirit in which it was
made. There was nothing threatening in
either the manner or remarks Of Clerk Gal
ligan. and both he and Mr.. Dennis were
surprised at the false position in which they
Re;c placed by the Intelligencer.
While we are IN the subject of
II METHODS OF gangs
t will probably be Just as well to nsrrate
one or tV o instances IS to how the prosecut-
lpg gang" gets in its work. The story
was related 10 a REGISTER reporter a few
DAYS ago by q gentleman connected with the
county government, and we will give it in
his own words:
The ~Intelhgencer reporters are priding
themselves on their detective work since
tie Inauguration of the police trouble, One
of them has been giving me an instance Of
the wav they do it.
as that SOP" said The reporter; what
plan is iollowedT'
81 don't know what plan it is, but the
method employed to get evidence sgain,t
the police seems to be open to criticism. 1t
seems they, some time ago, made an ar.
rangement with Hattie Scott or her girls,
BY which, in the event Of any policeman
happening in, he was to be entertained in
rovsl style, the resources of the house being
used to the fullest extent, if necessary, to
make him comfortable and happy. While
the unsuspicious cop was enjoying himself,
a messenger was to be dispatched to the
Atlantic hose house and a telephone mes
sage was to be sent to the Intelligencer
Office to the effect that that little matter is
all right or everything is ready This
vas to mean that the scheme was working,
and a reporter wss TO go post-haste to the
Scott house and being admitted into the
apartment occupied by the officer, would
have the blue coat on the hip"
"And did this scheme work. asked the
reporter. =.
81 so understood the ~Inteligencer man.
Well" said the reporter, that method
of gathering information is rather a strange
one, to say the least"
$50 it impressed me- said the gentle
man; ut looks very much like a conspir'
scy."
A CHAMPAGNE STORY.
Another method employed in the attempt
10 get evidence against the police force is
equally novel, if the rumors afoat be true.
As the story goes, and it comes from the
best authority, two In~telligencer emissaries
repaired to lis Seventeenth street, about A
o'clock on the morning of a day not long
zone by, under orders from their msnag,
ing editor. The purpose Of the visit was to
get q story" from one of the inmates Of
the house. The girl did not seem lin
c,ired to talk at first, and one of the visit
ors ordered up a bottle Of champagne
This wes an event almost
as rare as visit from
angels, and as two or three bottles of cham
pegne meant big money for the house, and
a consequent rise in the msdame's favor
the girl saw her opportunity. She began tc
talk knowingly of what she might say
NJ der certain circumstances, and her inter
ested visitors ordered another bottle. The
girl dropped q hint or Two more. ea6 thu
result was more chsmnagne. Finally {
STORY" ofsome stJrt was obtained, and thu
jubiIsnt. reporters made their exit.
WHO paid for that champsgneY' sskeC
the astonished REGISTER man to whom TIL
story was told; "sureiy not the reportersY
oh" said his informant, the boys tel
me the office stood that; it went in as a.
item Of expense in the fight against tn
police"
4 DENIAL.
A REGISTER reporter approached CHE
Smith last evening, and said:
Il see, by a special dispatch in this morn
ing's I~ntelligencer, that you we're treste
rather coldlJ in Pttsburg."
The l~nteligeAcer says was, but | wa
not. There was no refusal TO speak to m
In the Office Of Chief Blackmore. The Chic
and l had a conversation on the subject o
the charges against the Mayor. He, O
course, regretted that he would have t
come down here to testify, but he said b
would come, and that he would tell tn
truth. Clerk Witten spoke to me very COL
daily, but was too busy TO talk. Detectiv
Shore l DO not remember seeing while il
the city. BE was not at headquarters whsl
l called"