The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1891-08-01
TWO SIDES TO A STORY.
A Young Man Accused of Stealing
500 from a Friond
PAYS OYER A PART OF THE AMOUNT
Tn, afterwards Recovors it---A little
sensation at the Hotel Windsor
Early Yesterday SIornlnG---A Case
the Tru.l, ofwhich is hard to get at.


reiore daylight yesterday morning
,bero was a little breeze Of sensation at
,bc Hotel Windsor, growing out OF an
ercnsation Of robbery brought by one
oftne guests Of the hotel against an
o,Irr The accused and II girl who was
with him were arrested, but afterward
released.
The man accused of stealing was Il. c.
ynowdcn. lie says he has been employ
sIwiib tho advance brigade OF Sells cir
~. Inn, recently gave up his position
w ", GrcSnt A similar one with the Frank
I Gohb;ns show. lie has been Mt the
Windsor several days. His accuscr was
Tcrtrand Hopper, travelling agent for n
New York firm. Hopper aud Snowden
we're no, acquaintance until they be-
cam. acquainted at the hotel. They
Ggy. nIuTed cards together in one an
1,s,r room, and were ont Wednesday
y;"It torcther taking in the town"
A. George Franks house. OH EolF
.,r,r, tlcy met q girl who is known as
Maud Lypold, and who Snowden says
wa. once n bareback rider in the Sells
show. This is probably piece OF dizzy
Imagination. Snowden approached OH
rcr finch Thursday night and said his
wi;. was in George Franks, and he
vented her to leave. Buch asked him
wba, he wanted done, and he responded
I,. Lo ,rnuld 90 and SEQ il she would
no, have when he told her he had con-
suited the police.
THURSDAY night late the two men
wen, back 10 the house. After they left
thc hotel Hopper said he had left his
money in his room. and Snowden adj
yi.rl him 10 90 back and get it, but lie
tbon,ht il would be sufc. When they
len the house, Hopper left first. Ar
fiyel at the hotel, lie claimed 10 have
b,cn robbed, first saying he had lost
50 and afterwards raising the amount
twas not long after until snowdenn and
,hc girl drove up to the hotel in IL hack.
Manager Hobbs refused to allow them
10 enter the hotel, but officer George
Gau.. WHO had been called in, arrested
Snowden, and started to take him to
TIE lookup.
On the way Maud began to cry, when
the officer rclcntCd and went back to the
hotel 10 see il Hopper would not agree
10 compromise the matter. He snid he
wonld drop the matter il the money was
returned, and Snowden produced Sand
the .irl $33, and this III was given
HePper, with q promise to pay the rest
before II q. III. yesterday.
It was matter OF speculation where
the rest OF the money had disappeared
10. OF course the handing over of the
money looked like a confession on
Snowden's part, but yesterday he nc
Cascd Hopper Of matchmaking him out
Of the sum, and demanded its return.
Being refused, he retained Col. w. W.
Arnctt to sue for the money or prosecute
Hopper, and finally the latter returned
the Sil. This is Snowden's own story,
Others deny that Snowden got q cent
back from Hopper
Snowden says he gave Hopper the
money only to keep himself and the girl
0at of the station house. He regarded
ilas blackmail, and submitted until he
could make more effective protest than
was possible at that hour. He says he
was not out OF lIopper's company from
the time the latter told him his money
was in his rOnmand the door not locked.
until Hopper started back to the hotel.
Hopper told Officer Gaus that he had
LEFT Snowden in George Franks pnrlor
anil gone upatairs, and afterwards said
this was mistake. lie said also that
another girl told him Snowden pro-
posed TO her TO take Hopper out OF the
paror and keep him out until he could
go to the hotel and get the money. This
SnOwdcn denies.
Miss Frank, who OF course has no in
terest in the case, says that Snowden
lett her house while Hopper was there,
and was gone twenty minutes or half
an hour. When he came back Hopper
asked where he had been, and he said
upstairs. Before this he had asked the
housekeeper 10 tell Hopper,lf he should
inquire ior him, that lie was upstairs,
and he had acted generally in such n
way that the peorlCabout the house sus-
pectcd he had done something crooked,
and il was ut the suggestion of the
housekecper that Hopper hastened to
the hotel TO see il his money was safe.
Miss Frank has n reputation for keep
ing M honest and orderly house, and
ior being truthful, and she bitterly re-
scnts Snowden's having brought her
name into such story,
Snowdcn told very plausible story
alter Hopper left town-but the evil