Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1886-06-28
THEY WERE 0NATEAR.
A WASHINGTON, PA, WOMAN LOCKED VI
LAST NIGHT,
Over at Martins FeTy-A Case Which
Seems to b Of a Some
what Complicated
Nature.

The morning train over the Pittsburgh
division of the Baltimore and ONO, yes
terday, brought to town, among others, n
German named John Lehman and a woman,
formerly of Wheeling, who sometimes goes
by the name of Matte Clark, and again rs
Mollie Turner. During the day they hired
a rio and went over to our suburb oil Mar
tins Ferry, where the m seems 10
have stirred up a great deal OF trouble, ana
finally wound up in the lookup. There
she was seen by REGISTER reporter, TO
whom she told the following story:
After crossing the river she and her male
COMPANION became hungry, III asked a
man named Jack Brannon where they
could get dinner. Brannon, rs she alleges,
directed them To James FurrelfS saloon,
and accompanied them 10 the place. Mrs.
Terrell promised to prepare dinner for two
dollars, and while she was supposed to he
engaged in getting up the meal they got 10
drinking beer. and the woman be-
came intoxicated, with the result OF soil
ing the floor. she says Terrell wanted her
10 nav ten dollars for cleaning up the dirt
she had made, and for the trouble which
would result from the soilingoT the carpet.
This she and Lehman both refused to do,
and she went ont the back way
TO the alley, where her horse
was tied. Brannon, according To her
statement, followed her and got into the
buggy with her, and in some way col
Jared twenty dollars she had about her
clothes. They were riding together, anu
making such good time that the officers
interlcrcd and made the arrest, Erannon
skinned out while the officers were taking
the woman,
Mr.. Fcrrcll. the saloonkecpcr in whose
house the trouble occurred, tells an en-
tirely different story. He says the
couple came there, and represented
themselves a. being acquainted
with his sister who lives in Washington,
and stated that she had directed them To
come TO his house 10 get dinner. He says
they were drunk when they came, and
that rather than have the trouble OF put
ting them away his wife prepared dinner
for them, which they ate and then refused
To nay for. tie made no fuss with the
cnupIe till they tried tn leave WIN lhrir
bill unpaid, when he threatened TO lick
Lehman il he would not settle.
Lehman was seen IT the ferry boat, haV-
ing started to cross To this city, when
Brannon and Miss Clark left i'll the buggy.
He stated that Fcrrcl lGId tried 10 steal
$500 which he had in his pocket. This
Terrell and his family .t0utly deny, saying
that he did not lay hands on Lehman at
all. The only thing which anyone eau
BE- positive OF in thc mi>oi condition Of
affairs. is, thai i.nlrman and Mnllic were
drunk, and that she and Jack Brannon
were diS0rdcrly in driving too fast.
Joseph Barum, of Washington, was i'll
Martins Ferry at the time of the trouble,
and brought the buggy back to this city,
where it belongs. He also promised 10 90
back to Martins E,rrA AND hail the Wo-
nan ont Of i4il. bat up 70 10 U'clNck last
night, lie had nGt shawn zip, and the wo-
man wit7 making bowling mob Of her
self because Marshall Burns would not let
her 90 away. The full particulars, and
perhaps the truth undisputable. will be de
velopcd in Police Court this morning.