The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1888-04-14
A big CROWD ATTRACTED
To the 3. g. 0. Depot by the
Arrival Of the Two Men
CHARGED WITH THE MURDER
or officer Glcnn-sheriG Handlau
and Chief Smith Bring Christie
and Kelly Here, and Crowd
Follows Them to Jail.

There was scene OF excitement OF
the streets last night such rs is seldom
witnessed in Wheeling. Two prisoners
manacled together, and surrounded'by
a force OF dozen officers, were escorted
to Jail, preceded, surrounded and fol
lowed by crowd OF several hundred
eager and excited men, pushing and ell
bowling in their efforts to catch view o.
the prisoners. Many people on the
street who witnessed the unusual scene
were at loss to account for it.
The men were Thomas Kelly and
Henry D. Christie, who were indicted
by the grand jury here last week for the
murder OF Policeman Joe Glenn last
january. Kelly is a man OF five feet
seven or eight inches, rather full faced
and heavily built, and Christie n very
little taller and OF simmer build, stooE
shouldered and not hale looking ut all
Both were commonly dressed.
The men were in Jail at Mt. Vernon
on Il charge of burglary. They were
selling revolvers in Newark, Ohio, sew
eral weeks ago, and on investigation the
pistols proved to have been stolen at
Mt. Vernon. They were arrested, and
while in custody at Newark made state
ments which point to their having been
the murderers Of Glenn.
When Sheriff Handlan and Chief OF
Police Smith arrived at Mt. Vernon
Thursday, with the warrant OF Governor
Foraker to take charge Of the prisoners,
they found the Knox county authorities
still reluctant to turn them over. The
men were taken to Mansfield and given
a hearing early yesterday morning be-
fore Judge May, Of the Court OF Com.
mon Pleas. After hearing portion OF
the evidence, Judge May turned the
men over to Sheriff Handlan, and he
and Captain Smith, accompanied by De-
putty Sheriff John Fowler, Of Knox
county, left Mansfield at l0:l5 a. ~, for
Wheeling.
Kelly and Christie were very nervous
all the way here, and several times
asked that the handouts be taken from
them and one be allowed to sit with each
OF tnelr cuStOulalS.
Sheriff Handlan allayed their uneasl-
ness by assuring them that nobody here
knew OF their coming and nobody would
be around when they arrived. He was
us much surprised as they when he ar.
rived at the Baltimore & Ohio depot and
he saw it packed with men. The crowd
had gathered simply in view OF the pos
sible arrival of the men. Had it been
definitely known that they were to be
on the train the depot would not have
held the crowd,
The prisoners were very pale and ner'
vous on their way to the jail, but they,
especially Kelly, recovered with marked
suddenness when the doors OF the jail
were closed on them. They were locked
up in separate cells.
On the way here Manager Trisler, OF
the GAINESVILLE gas works, got on the
train and Kelly recognized him. When
Sheriff Handlan asked him when he had
seen Trisler, he said: "Last winter"
1t is the theory Of the Sheriff that these
two men were at the GAINESVILLE gas
works the Tuesday after Glenn was shot,
and were anxious to see the Wheeling
Kelly is not bad looking fellow. His
countenance is open and genial, and he
was perfectly Mt home in the Jail office.
His eyes are bright, but have u foxy
look. Christie did not get over his pal
lor till he was taken to the cell. He has
q sort of timid look, and the general ex'
preston last night in reference to him
was, "That man is u sneak" Whatever
Kelly may be, he is not a sneak.
officer Lukens thinks he recog
nizes the two men us two he arrested on
New Years day, 1887, as Migrants, and
who by singular coincidence were
again run in on the same charge by Off
cet Dunlap just year later.