The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1889-03-06
REWARD MONEY.
The Council Committee on
Claims Commences
THE TASK OF APPoRTIoNING
The $1,000 offered by the City For
Joe Glena's siurdewrs, and For
Which There Are Many
Claimants,

The Council Committee on Claims met
last evening for the purpose OF examine
ing into the claims Of those who have
made demands for the reward Of 81, 900
offered by the city for the arrest andcon'
yiction Of the murderers Of Policeman
Joe Glenn, The meeting was held in
the chamber of the First Branch in or
der that theclaimants and their attorneys
might have room to SEQ and hear
and be heard. There were pres
emit Messrs, dillingham; Chairman,
HadlIck, Gavin, Rumble, Craig, EN-
marth and Isawling, Of the committee,
MIR, Happy being the only absentee,
Mr., Henry NJ. RHssell, and Mr., James,
a Newark attorney, representing the
KellaIs, OF Newark and Thomas kellar,
one Of the clients, were present; also
Capt, B, ,, Doyeper,rePressenting MckeG'
baugh, Meredith and Moore, Newark
officers, and ex,Sherif Handlan and ex'
Chief OF Police Smith, who bunch
their claim, and Meredith and
smith, two OF his Clientsi also ex.
Judge Jacob and ex,Judge Hunter, OF
Newark, representing George McFar-
land and Eli Davis, ot'NewaFk, Porter
Smith also has special separate claim
In for some OF the reward money to pay
the expenses he incurred In assisting to
hunt down Kelly and Christie, the two
men now serving life terms In the State
penitentiary at Moundsyille for killing
Glenn. City Solicitor White was present
to assist the committee.
Considerable time was spent by the
committee IN discussing how 1t should
70 about things. The question was an
entirely new one TO them and 1t was full.
" an hour before anything like start
was made. Finally, at the suggestion OF
Colonel White, a resolution was adopted
instructlng him to prepare an agreement
which must be signed by all the claim
ants, or their representatives, before the
committee passes 10 q final consider9'
ton and apportionmelt Of the reward,
binding all claimants 10 abide by the de-
Cision OF the committee and take no
further action in anything from tho city.
This was at last agreed TO, though some
thought that point was sufficiently well
covered in the Clty's advertisement Of
the reward,
Mr., Russell then raised the same vex-
atious point that proved such q conten'
tious one before the Board OF County
Commissioners when It was engaged IN
irving to make an equitable division oil
the s., 500 reward offered by the county
for the murderers--n namely, the admlssl:
bility Of dispositions. Mr., Russells
claim was that this matter should DO
treated as in q court OF law and justice
and that when dispositions were intro
duGed It should be only when tho
other interests had had notice OF the
taking Of them served upon them. This
was ruled against and all the attorneys
at once proceeded TO pull out atiidavits
10 be presented. EdCh attorney was
permitted 10 present his clients claims,
and as there was no limit put on the
time allowed, 1t was about midnight When
Mr.. Russell, who spoke last, concluded.
All presented atiidavits, and Captain
Doyener and Mr.. Russell offered as a
part Of the testimony they wished the
committee TO read the stenographic re.
port o. blb IIkp piuCccuihbo hnu DSAViS
| the County Commissioners. The com.
mittee will have to meet several times
before they are through with all that
was presented 10 them last night.
Among the new altidavits presented
by Captain Dovener, most Qt WHICH are
directed against the Kellar claim, Is ono
from Kelley the murderer, in which he
says the Kellars, who run psYn shop,
had received stolen goods from him,
knowing them to be stolen. previous 10
receiving the stuff stolen at ut. Vernon,
somp Of which he had just disposed Of
when arrested.
Mcfarland and Davis are new claim,
ants. They assign as their reason for
not being before the County Commits.
sioners that they arc poor and ignorant
and did not know such hearing as was
had was 10 be held, and further, that they
were promised o part Of the reward by
Handlan, Smith and Meridith, They were
in Jail at Newark at the same time Kelly
and Christie were, and II was partly
through Mcfarland and his wife that
the famous give.away letter was inter:
cepted. They also claim to have pumped
confession out Of the murderers that
led to their arrest