The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1891-12-17
CHIEF D"ELBRUGGE
Brooks his Promise to tho Com
mitteo on Police,
WHICH SHOULD PROMPTLY ACCEPT
The Resignation he Placed IN It's
1iandsaga Pledge of Good behavior.
iio Returns to May williams's
Thrall, and Is Found In tho House
when IL Is Raldcd by the Police.

when IL Is lsaidcd by the Police.
Tho 1-SrILLIdEScEI yesterday morn,
Ing mentioned tho fact that at M carly
hour yesterday morning Officers Carney,
Wilkic, Buch, Daum, Creighton and
Desmond, OF the city police forcc, visited
the house OF Ill fHmo kept by May
Williams, on Eotf street, and arrested
May, two girls and one man, besides
the piano player and Harry J. Ford
and bride, OF Pittsburgh. At the late
hour ut which the arrests were made no
other information could be obtained,
and SO far as the officers who made tho
raid arc concerned, it is difficult to get
any more now.
When the officers reached tho house
May claimed to be sick, and protested
against being arrested IN the score OF
illness. The policemen present refused
10 accept her word, and when she
offered 10 summon her physician 10
certify that her condition would not
permit OF her being removed without
danger to her health, the officers wisely
summoned another doctor than tho one
she named, and after an examination
he said the woman was all rightand she
was removed to tho lookup, where the
other people in the house had pre-.
ccdcd her by perhaps an hour. All
were
LOCKED UP o SOME TIME,
but were finally let out ON tho order OF
the chief OF police, Louis Delbruggc, who
went security for all the fines. There
were n numbe- Of sensational stories
ailoat yesterday, the exact truth Of
which it was difficult to get at, owing to
the rcticence Of the officers.
One OF these stories was that Officer
Carney had ordered the chief to quit
the house and that the latter had re-
fused, ]whercupon Carney had iorcibly
elected him and taken him some dis.
tanco up the street, and that tho chief
had demanded that Carney should re-
sign from the force forthwith, which he
refused TO do. This story was run down
by lSTELLIGESCER reporters and found
W DC WHY lilbCl GSupgtIllGu. #lHtTt
was some talk between the chief and the
officer named us well rs with other
officers, but there was no physical vio-
lcnce nor attempt at it, the chief leaving
the house when the officers insisted.
One OF the officers present says that he
vas present where the hiefwas through
the whole time anybody was in the
house, and he did not say n word to any
OF the police there about resigning. nor
anything that could be construed in
that sehse, nor was there any iounda-
ton for any story OF :. sculile.
TIE MAIN FACT IN TIE CASE
is tina. Louis Delbrugge was in the
house when the raid was made, and
this under circumstances which leave
10 course open to the Council commit
tee on police but to accept the resigna-
ton which Delbruggc placed in the
hands OF the committee Tor them to act
oil ii ut any time in the iutuya he should
misbchave.
1t will be remembered that at the
time the chiefs conduct was the sab
ject Of inquiry by the committee be-
fore, he made q frank confession, and
asked that the committee would give
him n chance to redeem himself. This
was done, against the better Judgment
OF many good citizens, aud against the
solemn and earnest protest of Mr..
O'kanc, OF the committee, but only OH
condition that the chief place his resig-
nation OF his office in the hands OF the
committee, not to be acted on unless he
again offended, in which case he was
given to understand that it would be
promptly accepted.
KEPT IN GOOD FAITH.
The committee assured Capt. Del
brugged that as long as he behaved him
sell as he ought he would have no
warmer friends than the members of
the committee, and this agreement they
kept in good faith There has been
soinc disposition to criticise the MEN,
beers OF his force for not reporting to the
committee former lapses from his agree
ment. A number OF times there have
been reports OF his misbehaving with
the same woman who was the cause of
his downfall before, May Williams, but
in no instance was 4 very clear case
made out, although the circumstantial
evidence was very strong. This time,
however, there seems to be no room for
doubt.
The officers who were in the party
which raidcd her house yesterday morn
ing told all inluircrs that before they
visited the house they agreed among
themselves that whatever they might
find should not be mentioned except to
those who had the right and authority
10 question them. They admitted that
Dclbrugge was in the house, however.
They had learned before visiting the
place that it was not legal for a deputy
sergeant
TO ARREST MI CHIEF.
A peculiar city ordinance reseryes that
right to the market master!
The police say that when tho phys
ician said that May Williams was well
enough to go to the lookup withthe rest,
Can't. DelbrugSe told her to get on her
wraps and coup with the officers, which
she then did.
The matter was the absorbing topic
OF conversation about town Yesterday,
and the general question was what the
conNitteo on police would do about it.
Those who had stood by tho captain in
his former fight said that he had now
made it impossible for anybody to longer
beiriend or excuse him, and that if he
had any manhood lett he would simply
make his resignation immediate and
final. Gradually those who hoped for
the hest from tho committce's former
action have abandoned any confidence
intko sincerity Of the chiefs repent
ancc, and the public verdict was that