Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1888-04-04
WHO KILLED GLENN ?
THB REQUISITIONS ROR CHRISTIE AMI
KELLY NOT HON0RBD.
Governor Foraker Holding the Matter Over Untl
To-Day, at the Request Of Knox
County Authorities.

1t was the earnest desire of the county
and city authorities that the fact that req
QUESTIONS had arrived from Charleston,
asking that Henry Christie and Thomas
Kelley, the two men now in Jail at Mt.
Vernon for burglary, but who are suspected
Of being the murderers Of Officer Joseph
Glenn, be not published in any Of the city
papers, and the pledge was exacted from
the REGISTER by Sheriff Handlan that the
matter would not be mentioned. The REG
IsTER kept the promise so made, but other
papers did not and the fact of the arrival
of the papers was thus made public, to do
whatever damage to the cause Of the State
the Sheriff and other officers feared when
they made the request. Publicity having
been thus made, some Of the facts in the
possession of this paper may now be pre-.
sented without o violation Of good faith.
Sheriff Handlan and Chief Smith went
to Columbus, yesterday morning, bearing
with them the acquisitions for the two men
above named, and also q considerable
amount Of evidence, which was to be pre-
scented to the Governor. Upon the Wheel
ing men presenting themselves to Governor
Foraker, the authorities of Knox county,
in the Jail of which Christie and Kelley are
confined, were informed of the presence Of
the officials, and their GRAND, ~whereupon
the Prosecuting Attorney Of the county
telegraphed, asking that the requisition be
not granted until ne had been heard in the
case.
To this Governor Foraker replied, noti-
flying the Prosecuting Attorney to be in
Columbus at ten o'clock this morning, to
which tine the final determination of the
matter was adjourned. The trouble with
The Knox county authorities Is, that they
are not thoroughly convinced that the two
men wanted by the Wheeling people are
really the murderers OF Glenn. This being
the case, they are naturally anxious that
they do not escape justice IN West Vir-
ginis, and being released over here, be be-
you'd the easy reach OF Ohio officers. 1t is
probable that the requisitiOn will be I'm
ally granted by Governor Foraker, but
that a counter TequisitiOl will be pre-
pared on the Governor of West Virginia,
so that in the event that the charge OF
murder is not sustained here, the men may
BE- promptly taken back TO Knox county,
and punished there for the otfenses alleged
against them.
Sheriff HIndlan is firmly convinced
that the two mea are the murderers Of
Officer Glenn 1t is stated that Christie
and Kelly were in Wheeling the night The
murder occuned aud that they took a hur-
ried departure the next day. On top OF
this are the admissions, written and oral,
they are said to have made regarding
"the killing OF a policeman behind the
market house i'll Wheeling and sOme
further evidence, in the 70 IN Of an
affidavit, now in the posses ,ion of
admissions made by the prisoners is in the
form OF a letter, written after their arrest
at Newark, to some crooks Of their nc
quaintance, but the value Of this letter, as
evidence, has been seriously called in ques-
ton, iEasmuch as the crime which seems
to be causing apprehension in the mind Of
the writer, is not in it located in this city.
While oil the local authorities STe doing
what they can to settle the matter of the
connection o the 0hiomeu with the murder,
and are entirely united in their efforts 10
get them on this side Of the river, they are
not n unit upOn the presumption that they
are guilty. Some Of the officials have a
very different theory, with different actors
in the plot, and say the met now in jail at
Mt. Vernon cannot possibly have been
guilty OF the murder, except that it turns
out that their names are not Christie
and Kelly, but something very
different, and that when brought
here they turn out to be two
well-kn0Wn local criminals. The officers
have been on the trail Of these local crooks
for SOME time, snd have some very dam
aging evidences against them. If the ole
chance in ten thousand that the men in
Jail at Mt. Vernon are the local crooks,
should turn cut TO be true, there would lie
doubt but that the authorities would
have them dead to rights," and that
their speedy conviction would follow.
Moro will be known about the matter OF
the identity OF the two men in a day or
two, and that point SETTLED, the present
situation will be greatly siUnpliaed. Sheriff
Handlan and Chief Smith are expected
home this evening.