The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1888-01-16
OFFICER GLENN SHOT
By TWO BURGLARS YESTERDAY
At an Early Hour in the MOrninE-A Crime
which Aroused General Indignation.
The Wounded omesr Lies Dying at
the North wheeling Hospital.

the North wheeling Hospital.
officer Joe Glenn, Of the city police
forcs, was fatally shot between midnight
and / O'Clock yesterday morning BY two
burglars whom he surprised ct their work
in Alley O, In the Fifth ward.
Shortly after o'clock this morning In |
tsllIgsnce was received that Glenn was
still living, and was sleeping for the frat
time since his wounds were received. BE
was still sinking fast, however, and Dr..
Dickey, who was present when an opera
ton was performed at the Hospital, told
an INTELLIoENcER reporter that the
wounded man could not possibly recover
and all the chances were against his living |
till this morning.
Glenn was the night man on the Fifth
ward beet. Saturday night about II
o'clock he was standing on the corner Of
Market and Twenty.frst streets, by the
Second Presbyterian church, when Mayor
Seabrighs and Chief Of Police Smith passed
on their way home. After talking few
minutes Mayor Seabright left and Captain
Smith and Glenn walked down street to-
gether nB far es the corner OF Chapline
and Twenty-.hird streets, when they sep
arated, Captain Smith going on down to
his home and Glenn coming back down
Twenty-third street and up Market.
As he neared the intersection Of Alley
10, the Centre Market Alley, his attention
was attracted by the fierce barking Of o
dog, which from the seeming location Of
the sound he supposed to be Watchdog
on the premises Of Mr.. John g. Hoffman,,
ar, just north Of the alley. The barking
OF any dog in that vicinity was 30 unusual
an occurrence that the officers attention
was attracted and he walked up Market
alley and turned into Alley O nolthward.
WARNED TO HALT.
He had gone but a few PAGES, and
though scanning the surroundings closely,
had seen no sign Of person in the alley
when he was startled by voice out Of the
darkness which cried, "Hers, stop right
there"
Instesd Of stopping, he took q step for
ward, more cautiously, still not being
able to see the epesker.
Instantly shot wHB fired. By its fash
he saw two men standing in the shadow
Of the stable on the Hoffman, premises. A
second shot was fired, and Glenn saw that
ono Of the men was large and the other
smaller. The hash OF tue pistol was all
the light he had to 60 by, and ell he could
definitely ace was the relative siZa.
The officer at once drew his pistol and
emptied it ct the two men, so far as known
without effect. They fred third shot at
him, and evidently both were firing by
this time. Four more shots were fired,
making with the FIVE Glenn shot twelve
reports. As tho officer had fallen to the
ground, the last shots OF the other men
did not hit him.
Though weak and IN much pain, the
wounded officer made his wDy to Menke-
miller's drug store, at the corner Of Mar.
ket and Twenty.Becond streets, where hei
walked up Mr.. Msnkemiller, who helped
him in and summoned Drs. Alderman
and Campbell,
FATALLY HURT.
The physiciRng considered 1t necessary
10 remove Glenn TO his home at once,
which was done, 6nd there mis- injuries
were dressed as we'll as possible. 1t was
found that ono shot, the first, he thinks,
inflicted a painful wound on his left leg
below the knee; another, probably the
third, pierced his hat close TO the head,
while the second ball fired entered the
abdomen about the top Of the stomach.
This shot was pronounced fatal.
The injured man remained conscious,
but suffering great pRin, till yesterday al
ternooD, when he was removed 10 the
North Wheeling Hospital OF the request
OF the doctors, where more careful ex-
animation could be made. he was prop
erIy wrapped up and carried all the way
from his parents home, on the corner Of
Market and Twenty.seventh streets, TO the
hospital on cot, the jarring Of carriage
being regarded a, injurious.
It was then discovered that the wound
in the abdomen had pierced the top fthe
stomach and slso severed large vein. In
view Of the character OF the wound,
the physicians gave it as their opinion
that Glenn could not live until y o'clock
last night. ALI day yesterday he vomited
more or less Coagulated blood, which was
an exceeding bad sign.
THE MOTIVE FOB TIE SHOOTING.
The shots OF which Glenn was the vic.
tim, were either fred by reckless, harden.
ed and Cool.headed professional thieves,
or by cowRrdly sneGks. The two hypoth-
eses, In the light Of what Is known,
seem equally plausible, II two men known
10 Glenn were to be caught under the cir |
cumstances,s they would not risk his recog-
MIXING them, but would FIRE before he |
came close enough for an inspection. As |
he stood, no was between the men and
the light on the corner OF tho two alleys, |
90 that they could observe his motions |
and must have seen that he had not |
drawn his revolver. They ran no risk,
unless 1t was that Of being recognized, by |
letting him come close, because the two |
could easily have oYerpowsred him.
Cool.headed men. who knew he would |
would be able to identify them would |
doubtless have acted Just as these men |
did. To run was 10 insure his firing. He |
says no thinks they were not ten feet OF |
when thoy ordered him to halt, and not
more than eight when they fred,
POSSIBLY SCARED.
It may be that the two men were inside |
the garden or the stable at the door Of
which they stood when seen by Glenn,
and hearing his footsteps in the alley,
came out, and alarmed by his close prox- |
unity, were frightened and fred without
reflection. So far as the authorities will
cay, there Is little known that could lead |
to the detection OF the men. Its evident,
however, that the men were either Wheel.
ing men or had besn directed to the place |
by some one pretty well acquainted here.
Their forcing an entrances through the |
stable door when they could have walked |
into the premises from Chapline street
shows caution. Another door remained |
to force open before they could get out OF
the stable into the garden.
A far the affair 0f;rsra Shorku Nappav