The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1888-12-18

A Man with Several Aliases, who Figured
HeFeabOuts, In jail Mt Cincinnati.
Cincinnati Enquire Of Sunday
DR.. Thomas G. Melanethon Sinclair,
alias Campbell, alias AcElin, alias Hersh.
man and alias half.dozen other names
too numerous to mention, was yesterday
arraigned in the police court with his
wife, Mrs. Angeline Sinclair, and his re-
puted sister, Jennie Hershman, on n
charge OF abortion on the person OF Mrs.
Annie Skidmore. An official statement
from the city hospital was presented to
Judge Caldwell regarding the condition
OF the prosecuting witness. She was
somewhat worse than when received,
and would not be able to be present in
court for at least two weeks. Major @.
ii. Blackburn, the attorney for the de-
PENDANTS, made an eloquent appeal for
the release OF Mrs. Sinclair.
She was perfectly innocent party in
whatever criminal proceeding that might
have occurred, aud being OF good fam.
lily and bearing the best Of regulations,
was sadly Inundated by the disgrace
that her husband, II lie was such, had
brought upon her. In reply Judge
Caldwell stated that he believed the
woman to be an innocent party, us her
counsel stated; but the necessities OF
the Ease demanded her presence. She
was at liberty on her own reCOgniZance,
and no harm could comet to her through
being kept on the docket, and he there
fore refused Mr.. Blackburn's request
and continued the cases OF all three pris.
oDers until the Goth inst.
While at the bar Sinclair was recog-
nized by Court Officer Martin Brennan,
an ex-Penitentiary Guard, as the man
who, under the name OF DR.. Campbell,
created such sensation ut Columbus by
appearing MS one OF the main witnesses
in the tally.sbeet cases. He affirmed that
he, with John Francis and Others, did
the work, and rs consequence was
given the best OF treatment by the peni-
Tertiary officials, One night he went
out with Deputy Warden Cherrington
under the pretense OF working up the
case. Instead he got gloriously drunk,
and was found the next day at the room
of his alleged sister.
A dispatch from Parkersburg, w. Va,
says:
DR.. Sinclair, Hershman, Malanethon,
&C., of the Palmer House horror, IL none
other than Thomas Campbell Hersh-
man, or DR.. Thomas Hershman Camp
bell, as he is known here. Campbell at
one time prior to 1884 kept drug store
near Morgantown, in this State.
Through some criminal act he was sent
to the Pennsylvania penitentiary, where
he served several years. In 1854 he,
with his wife, the woman now claiming
to be his sister, started down the Ohio |
river in small canvaSs-covered house
boat. At or near Steubenville, Ohio,
their only child was burned to Heath on
the boat through criminal neglect or in
tent, as is fully believed here.
While here he aud his wife were ar
rested for stealing chickens and given q
Jail sentence. While in Jail Campbell
claimed to have been lineal descend
ant OF the poet Campbell, and through
bis poetic appeals so wrought upon pub.
lie sympathy that his wife was released
and taken care OF, while Campbell's
term was reduced. 1t is well enough to
say that Campbell's pretensons OF poetic
lineage were clearly disprOved before
he left. When he did leave he went to
GAINESVILLE, Ohio, where he stole horse
and buggy. Through the efforts OF then
Chief BeGkwith he was arrested at
Wheeling, W. Va, taken back to Zanes-
vile in November, 1884, and sentenced
to three years in the Ohio penltentlary.