Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1888-03-21
ANIMAL LIFE.
HOW A MARTINSBURG NAN SAW fHB
ELEPHANT, AND WHAT HG0ST.
One Of the Nymphs Of the City Consigned 10
jail, on the Charge Of touching" q Stranger
for q Hundred or So.

Yesterday a gentleman engaged in th'
jewelry business in Martinsburg, or at least
that is the inference from business cards
found in his clothes, came to the city, anC
du ing the afternoon started out to see thu
gay side of life as it ia found in q busy
manufacturing community. Somebody Of
an obliging turn of mind conducted him t.
the house ofJennie Lee, where the stranger,
who was a man Of some fifty years, wa
soon basking in the smiles Of one Of the
Cyprians of the establishment. The visi'
tor had a good deal of money about him,
and displayed a roll at various times, once
getting a twenty changed, and again a five.
The girl who caught the eye oft the stranger,
at C sized up this pile, and determined
to have it. She tried to steal it once OF
twice while in the house, but the
Madame got onto the game, and
prevented it. Not TO DO thwarted,
however, The girl, who goes By the soft
sounding name of Birdie, procured a hack,
and getting the visitor into it, the tive
proceeded to take in the town. The re-
suit may be guessed. The elderly party
was dumped out OF the hack at the Lee
mansion about seven o'clock in the even
ing, 80 full that he didn't know whether
it was day light OF dark, and was hauled in
and put to bed on the floor. The Madame
went through him, and found his watch,
papers, etc and about 1915 in money
all that remained Of the big roll. The girl
was non est. The Lee woman at once nOti-
fed the police that the stranger had been
touched" and Officer Gaus was put on
the case. Learning that the girl who had
the money was hiding somewhere in the
Second ward, with the intention of skip
ping ont of town on the first train, Gaus
hurried to that part of the city, and he
and Officers Dunla and Watson went
through all the tough localities of the Sec
ond ward, hut to no avail. While study
ing up q new programme, word reached
the officers that the girl they wanted
had procured u buggy at Dumas
stable, and was sailing around
town. Dunlap telephoned to h~eadquar-
tiers to look ont for her, and then jumped
on a horse and started ont, He traced the
buggy toward the East End, but before he
caught up with il, Officer Druschell, who
had been on the watch at Sixteenth and
Chapliue, overhaulcd the gay miss, and
took her to headquarters. There she con-
fessed TO taking one hundred dollars from
the man, and handed over TO the officers a
fifty dollar bill aud s.. 10i in change, all she
hsd left. Birdie was taken up TO Jail
by Officer Dunlap, and will stay there un-
til to-day, when the case will be inyesti-
gated by Il justice of the peace, If the
stranger cares to prosecute, which is very
doubtful. Jennie Lee, to whom no little
credit attaches for Informing the officers Of
the robbery, turned over TO the police the
MaTtinsburg mans gold watch, pocket
book, papers, and So 70 he had left.
About II o'clock last night the Mar
tinsburg man come to-" and was horri-
fed at the pickle he had gotten into. He
expressed the intention of skipping out by
the first train to-day. The police, in cast
ing about in the hope of finding some Of
the money taken by the girl, learned Of
another little unlawful plan TO turn a
penny or 30. This was nothing else than
a project on the part of two young men of
a crooked turn of mind to rob the girl.
They had learned that she had gone out the
pike in a buggy, alshs had really intended
doing, and had ioGrneyed out to the gloomy
Peninsula, for the purpose of waylaying
her and getting the century of dollars they
knew her to have. They were kicking
hard when they came back, at a late hour,
over their oil luck"