Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1885-10-06
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A B~OM8SHELL,
Charges and Specifications of a Startling
Nature,
By this tine :he lobby had swelled to
immense proportions. The crowd Of people
had become 80 great in the corridors that
movement Was impossible, and at the sug.
gestion OF President Sweeney, Officer Jun
kiGs, who was on guard at the door, moved
aside and the spectators poured into the
DOM in a torrent, ranging themselves about
he walls until probably two hundred had
entered, wien the stream was shut of. The
crowd in the corridors was still apparently
as large as ever, filling all the space from a
point near the centre of the building nor,h
to the outside of the doorway, and men even
swarmed about the windows or stood far
out on the flag pavement in the hope ofhear.
ing what was going on inside. In the
chamber q number of prominent citizens
aid officials had early been provided with
seats, among them being Mayor Grub.
Council turned its attention to one or
TWO resolutions of q routine nature, aud the
interesting portion of the proceedings
seemed TO be nearly over, some OF the
spectators who had Just entered being on
The point of retiring, when President Sweeney
tossed a paper to Clerk Bowers. The latter
took it up, and, while
ADEEP HUSH
tell upon the crowd, read as follows:
To the Honorable city Council Of Wheel
ing:
The undersigned desirss to present you
with the following charges against Jacob
y. Grub, Mayor OF the city of Wheeling,
and asks that the Council investigate the
aid take such action ss to the Council
may seem fit and proper.
FIrst-I charge that the said Jacob ".
Grub was grossly and indecently drunk on
the evenings Of July 20, Il and %, 1885,
st he Alhambra rink, during the progress
Of tie Sepgerftst.
S; coIdly-I assert that he drank and
paid fer beer at the said rink at that time,
VIXEN he knew that the parties selling had
40 license to sell.
Thirdly-Said Grub has, upon numerous
occasions, granted permission to peddlers
si,hout license, when the ordinance requires
hat they should be licensed and pay the city
a license fee.
Fourthly-He has frequently pardoned
and discharged criminals from the work
house without justification, andIhas therefore
10 ertered with the efficiency Of the Police
force, and
ENCOURAGED DIsoRDER AND LAwLEsSSESs
OF such criminals he has never demanded
security and bail for their future good be
hsvitr.
Ftthly-I further call to your attent on
that before and since the progress of the re.
cent Fair on Wheeling Island Mayo. Grub
no&fed my deputy sergeants that if games
II chance were permitted upon the Fair
| 6, ourds he intended TO prosecute them to
tte full extent of the law. He did not no
MY me or in any way call my attention to
the matter. This was not treating me
vi b proper courtesy and was intended to
provoke characterization and generalization
n my force. Ee sfterward informed the
Fair officers that he would not object to
their allowing games of chance upon their
grounds during the Fair, provided the City
Sergeant did not object.
Sixthly-I charge that the said Mayor
Grubb frequently
VISITS HOUSES OF ILL FAME
in this city in the night time, and that be
has been seen upon numerous occasions, at
late and unseemly hours of the night, in
company with notorious prostitutes.
Seventhly-I charge that since his install
ment in Office he has constantly thrown
every obstruction in the way of the proper
performance Of the duties Of the police OF
this city, and has conspired with keepers OF
houses of i'll fame to bring the police force
into disrepute.
Eighthly-I further charge that during
the month Of July, 1885, willis upon q visit
to Pittsburg, Pa, Mayor Grub exhibited
himself in houses OF i'll fame in a state of in
t~oxication, aud that in one house, kept by q
colored woman, he, in the presence of others,
took negro wenches upon his knees and
caressed them in a most affectionate and
lasciVious nne Said Mayor, at the
same place,
RETIRED WITH A COLoRED WOMAN
to q private room and remained in said
room for the space of ten minutes.
Ninthly-I charge that Mayor Grub, as
a city official, has done what he could to
prevent me from properly fulfilling my
duties as Sergeant. As an instance ! refer
to the case of Pearl Woods and two parties
found in the same house. which was a house
of i'll fame. Miss Woods and the other
two parties were fined in the Police Court, |
which fines and costs amounted to the sum
of $50. 80. In order to secure the refund.
ing of one ofthe fnesfrom the city treasury,
to-wit: 9 fine of $500 and costs assessed
against one of them, Mayor Grub induced
the said Pearl Woods to
MAKE An AFFIDAVIT
that the money, to-wit: $45, deposited with
the Sergeant to secure all the fines, was
not deposited to fettle this latter one, with
the intent thereby to interfere with and
throw discredit upon the Chief of Police in
the performance Of his duties.
PORTER SIXTH.
State Of West Virginia, to-vit.:
Porter Smith, whose name il signed to
the above writing, being first duly sworn,
says that the facts and allegations con.
tanned IN The foregoing wiring, so far as
tetea upon his Own ialormxtion. are true. !
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