Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1888-06-05
TWO MIN SHOT.
The Details Of the Sunday Night ARRAY Out
at Jerry Clemens,
MENTIONED In MONDAYS REGISTER.
Samuel Waters Fatally Shot and His Brother
Hit With Two Bullets
THE WORK OF GERTIE WILLIAMS.
Four Arrests Made BY the Authorities Here
and Over the River.
THE PRISONERS TAKEN TO OHIO.

FHE PRISONERS TAKEN TO OHIO.
That which has long been expected, has
come to pass.
There has been serious shooting affray
at Jerry Clemens.
The elements leading up to the tragedy
may be guessed.
Lewd women, tough men, too much
beer, uninspiriDg music Of cracked piano,
and the unsuccessful and uncouth efforts TO
strike the gait of the French can-can, con.
stitute the background for one of the most
terrible crimes ever enacted in the yicin-
ity of this city,
Lately the place, which is located about
four miles west Of Bridgeport on the
National Pike, has been the fayorite resort
of Wheeling prostitutes and their lovers,
and tough citizens generally, who have
usually made it q point to spend
the Lords day in q debaueh. 1t is
positively asserted by people wh) should
know, that there are few places in the
country which rival it for perfect abandon,
and disregard for the rules Of morality and
deeeney when this sort Of crowd is in at
tendance. The house is located in pretty
place, but removed from neighbors, and as
none of the residentsi in the vicinity are ac-
tually disturbed by the Carvings on, no
effort has ever been made to close up the
Place, and the perfect freedom and license the
patrons Of the place have enjoyed during
the past three years, has made them utterly
disregard the laws, both Of morality and
the State.
Sunday last was pretty day, and the
prostitutes and tOughs Of this city were out
for an airing. Half hundred Of these two
classes gathered together at Clemens in
the evening, many more than that having
visited the place during the day, but hsy-
ing returned to town to ply
THEIR NEFARIoUS TRADE
under cover OF darkness. OF the crowd
that remained ''HOighty Toighty," Cert
Williams, Bertha Hamilton, aud several
others Of our city 3 lowest women, were CEN
trail and admired figures. They could
dance the cau-ean more artistically aud
turn somersaults more gracefully than
their companions, and ever time the mon
strous two hundred pound frame of Gertie
tumbled on the door q howl OF
delight went mp from the sdmiriug
crowd. The wheeZy piano, under
the manipulations OF q hired colored
artist sent forth its discordant strains;
beer flowed freely, and the crowd soon ar
rived at q state Of intoxication which made
it dangerous to be safe, and made murder
and bloodshed not only possible but prob
able.
Gsrtie Williams was there under the
escort of George Arbaugh, Of Martins
Ferry, while Bertha Hamilton enjoyed the
company of Frank Souders, of the same
place. Souders had, up till few weeks
ago, been claimed as the lover of "Hoighty
Tcighty," but Bertha by her cunning
wiles had won him from her, and
the result was bad blood between
"Toighty" and Bertha. 'Hoighty" KEEP;
herself locked in room away from her
foe, and as Souders expressed IL in jail
Yesterday, Bertha pranced about in
front Of the doors Of the room like
A Gagged HYESA,
and told how she would love to tear !
"Hoighty" limb from limb. Gertie, to
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porter while in jail, was a terror. She |
hadn't been of the chain for q long time
and was fierce" Atlength this little COM
pany and q few other cOngenial spirits got |
together in the dinipg-room and settled /
down to beer drinking While they were |
thus engaged, two young Welsh miners
from the Wheeling creek mines, dropped |
in 10 indulge Ia Sunday evening glass OF |
beer. Their names are Cornelius and /
Samuel Waters. aud in short time they .
were we'll introduced, and received as
friends.
At a quarter past twelve the dining /
room party broke mp, and the girls aud /
their escorts went down to the stables to
get their hack hitehed up to start home
II seems that a Martins Ferry woman,
whose name could not be learned, was in
the party and had left it for some reason,
and got mixed mp with another Wheeling
creek miner. In restoring her 10 her party |
some hot words were spoken By both
sides, and Souders, for some purpose, shed
his coat. At this time the Waters
brothers were in the bar room together.
Souders came mp TO the bar and asked them
TO 90 down to the stable to help him quiet
q fellow from Wheeling creek. The Waters
BOYS, feeling friendly towards this newly |
made acquaintance, and being peaceably
inclined, went TO see what was wrong.
The younger brother, Cornelius, was in
advance, and he, evidently being mistaken
by Arbaugh for an enemy, was seized by
the throat by that individual. Gerlie, sp-
parently Of the same opinion,
PULLED OUT HER REVOLVER
and fred ball, which cut the skin on bis
scalp, blowing very neat furrow through
the hair. This staggered him and he fell
to the ground.
As TO who fred the second shot there is
q controversy. Waters claims that Bertha
Hamilton firedit, while Souders and At
bauRh assert that Gsrtie did all the shoot
ing. No matter who fired il, the second
shot took effect in the right side, making
q slight flesh wound. At this juncture
samuel arrived, aud stopped to pick his
brother from the ground, when Gertie
placed the muzzle OF the revolver TO his
oack and fired. The fash burned his
coat, and the ball entered the back an
inch to the right Of the spinal column,
and between the eleventh and twelfth
-ibs. Waters was stopping over his brother
snd the natural course OF the ball was up
The doctors, Whsn they arrived, could not
decide whether it had continued its course
under the skin, or whether il had pene-
rated 10 the lungs.
After these shots hsd been fired the party
cot into their hack and started for home
The hack belongs to T~eedy & Carter, in
Martins Ferry, and was driven by Dade
Lewis. The team was q good one and live
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