The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1891-08-14
FIGH7 NTHA BURGLAR.
A gepsatlhal Occurrence on the
Island yesterday Morning.
j THIEF ETERS A HONANS ROOM
,,1 She hs Fearful Combat with
Him. b is vanquished, but the
y,c,orjns Woman Loses her Mind.
pl.,rcJlng stories Circulated.

A., nv early hour yesterday morn
,,ro.icnts on York street, south OF
VIM. were aroused by blood-curd-
,;n,. .d,ams and cries of murder" and
" . evidently in a woman's voice.
,I,a,beoplc rushed oyt of their houses,
,nJ te screams were found to come
s,omibe residence OF Mr.. II. Piper, a
Unknown oil dealer who resides at 81
sort York street. Mr.. Piper was away
,,oIhome, and Mrs. Piper alone in the
boIe. except that a servant girl slept
., distance from her. 1t was some
lin. before anybody reached the house.
M Harry Deiters first entered the
i,It door, which he found open. He
nt met on the stairway by Mrs
Tber, who struck at him with ierocity.
ioJged the blow, and when Mrs.
liner recognized him she did not renew
She was in hysteriCal condition, and
nriI only say that she had been
bvgkcncd by noise in her room, and
found a strange man moving about;
SS I screamed as loud US she could, and
crane "r ont OF bed. Her story was not
s sP and she grew rapidly more
violent, so that the neighbors
HAD TO RESTRAIN lrER.
Dr NIcGrTll, who has an Office on
Broadway, only square or so distant,
va. summoned, but Mrs. Piper in her
,,ri,.mcnt. resisted his efforts to
sno,be her. and chloroform had to be
administered in small quantities. She
wos induced to take it with difficulty,
From Mrs. Piper's excited remarks
ami from the condition OF things in her
moi the story Of what had happened
lad 10 he inferred. For Il time it taxed
,kr strength OF four men to hold her,
and all iay Yesterday she was in a
irrndcd condition when not under the
influence Of anGsthetics.
She is Il large woman, perhaps thirty
wear. old, and has been an invalid for
zone time. her malady being of nerY-
ons character This led many people TO
suppose that she had simply become
insane in the night, but there il every
reason to believe her story that she had
a desperate fight with Il burglar was
true. The slop jar and water pitcher in
her room we're shattered, and she said
shc had struck the man with them. The
iront door WAS open. This led to the
advancement Of a theory that the burg
lar had effected an entrance and then
escaped BIZ the front door. Those who
know Mrs. Piper best believe her story
most implicitly.
WAS liz RECOGNIZED?
A prominent Islander said yesterday
that the man had been seen and recog-
nized us he left the house, but that no
steps would be taken to prosecute him
until the return to the city OF Mr.. Piper.
Tile fact that Mrs. Piper had been seen
TO have money in pretty large sums the
day before, coupled with what was
known about the man said to have been
seen leaving the house, formed the basis
iol sensational theory OF conspiracy
TO rob. The fact is that there were
about us many theories as there were
people 10 originate them, and it would
require a good deal OF ingenuity to sift
The truth from the falsehood in the re-
ports that we're current. There can be
no doubt, however, that the circum-
stantial evidence apparent to all pointed
to the presence OF a burglar.
i story was also told yesterday Of a
visit to the house of Mrs. Alice X, Nor
rison, on Ohio street, by one-armed
burglar, who was discovered and fright
ened off by Mrs. Morrison with re-
vOlver.