The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1890-08-21
FORA uAMLlN,S CASE.

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Indignation Aroused Rt Iast-The Oil htlI
Held without Color OF LAW. though "
Warrant i,ns been lssued-Scw Outrnees.
At Last there arc signs that the public
recognizes the gross outrage pe.petrated
by the authorities In the case Of Dora
lIamlin. Yesterday expressions OF In.
digna!ion and surprise were very com.
mon. The real facts in the case, 10 far
as they appear on the surface, are almost
Incredible. The details not accessible
except to those interested In concealing
them from the public will doubtless
make the matter much WORSE when they
come out, as come out they III all human
probability must, and that Mt no distant
day.
Last evening tho woman, whose right
name Ia now understood to DO r. Z.
Volkmer, completed her eighth day In
confinement. Her imprisonment was
simply Mt the whim Of officials Of the city.
Until yesterday no legal process had
been taken, ind even now the only legal
process taken a%ggravates rather than re-
Iieves the outrageous character of The
treatment OF the prisoner.
She was arrested without n warrant,
and brought TO West Virginia without
formality. She has nince been deprived
OF her liberty without any color OF law.
Yesterday morning Dr.. G. |. Garrison,
the city Health Officer, who was called
into the case fret by Chief Of Police Del.
bruggf, called on thep girl. lie found her
very weak, and splitting blood. She was
so weak that Bho talked with difficulty.
She said she had not been taking the
medicine left her because she had
been too weak 10 walk over to the stand
whore ii was, aud there was nobody
present to wait OH her. She asked Dr.,
Garrison TO get her q lawyer, and be
went to Mr.. J.B. Sommerville and asked
him TO see her. Mr.. somnervfllc ac'
companicd the Doctor TO tho police
headquarters, and was refused admit
lance to the room where the girl wGs
officer Short was at tho door, md told
Mr.. sommeryi!le he could not SEQ her.
Later Mr.. Sommcrville went back tc
the building, when both Capt. Delbfuege
and Officer Short were present, and wai
again refused admittauce. lilo left with
remarks which led the officials named
to suppose that he was about 10 sappca
to the Circuit Count. 4 shorttime aftel
a policeman called at his Office ane
handed him q note which may Dgnrt
prominently'in subsequent proceedings
1t read: .I.-
M. S0rlmerriNe:
, 81 have changed my mind, and do mo-
need your services.
Ut. E. NoLKMEH."
DR.. Garrison was also refused permits
zion to see his patient. and having beer
employed by CHIEF Delbruege, he tool
, this as a dismissal, and did not ngair
) attempt to SEE her. So far rs could bt
learned, no physician saw her in the
. afternoon. On one OF tho occasions
! that Mr.. Sommerviiie called, he was told
"iou cannot see her until we get this
matter fixed up"
What this matter" was could only bt
T conjectured.
! 1t is aaid on as good authority as any.
thing can be learned about the case, tina
the woman did not have permission t
change her clothing from the day she
! was arrested until yesterday. Iester
day a woman from another house had tc
be called in to assist her in dressing
Miss ChisnelI, whose diamonds the cir
, stole, refusing to 60 or send a girl from
her house.
at noon yesterday Squire ". II. Davi:
issued a warrant for the woman, on COM
plant Of Julia Chisnell, the charge being
grand larceny. This was directed ID
John Short as special constable. So ia.
IA could be learned last night the war
rant had not been serve1. 1t WINS moi
applied ior until the woman had been
held without formality for over q week,
and then only when she asked to see
l,wyer.
1t is stated that Julia Chisnell has
held herself in readiness to pay all ex'
penses incurred in recovering her din.
monds, and has So informed the %clIicials
several times, and that In spite Of this
J there is an attempt tc coerce the prisoner
into paying not only the expenses, buta
considerable sum besides.
1t is incredible that in a civilized com.
munity such c stete OF affairs could exist
for over Il week. A gentleman familiar
with the CAGE last night eaid that in the
treatment OF the woman every sale
guard placed by the law or the constitu-
lion about the ~sanctity of the person,
had been wpatonly and grossly violated,
the Law had been get at nau.ht, aud the
persons sworn 10 enforce it Bad violated
it most outrageously.
The question is, what. Is to be done
about it? II the woman should die ae
the result ci Der mistreatment, what OF
it?