The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1892-12-24
WOMAN DYNAMITER
Arrested at Martins Ferry for
Threatening q Family,
SIZE IS WELL KNOWN IN WHEELING.
md Claims She IS Being Prosecuted.
She May bo Insane, though Doctors
Have Pronounced Her Mentally Al.
RIrht...was Formerly Teacher in.
tho whoollng Pabllcschools.

Miss NJ. E..U. Lope, WHO'S welSRnown'
~bsreabOuts, was arrested in Martins.
Ferry Thursday night at . late hour,
With a large quantity Of dynamite.
dynamite caps and fuse. These she
claims to have had for months and her
object in having such explosives is a.
mystery. The reason she giyesis dis
credited.
Miss Lope has benin Maftin's Ferry
several months. She had a room at
Mrs. McCarty's, on Broadway, until a
week. ago, when she wentto the homeof
Thomas Hanson, g coal miner, who.
lives on Penn street, having known.
Mn. Hanson for a long time. Mr.. and.
Mn. Hanson, became afraid Of her after
thew learned she had alot of dynamite,
and ON Thursday night Hanson APP
neared at the mayors Office, told the
poiice that she had threatenedsto blow
them up with the terrible explosive and
Sa wanted them to arrest her. His
ronuest was Immediately complied.
with, Marshal Westwood and Police
man Och found Miss Lope in bed and.
arrested her. She had the dynamite
cans ard fuse concealed in 9 black cloth.
shopping bag. This the Officers handled
yery carefully, and after examining 1t
at tho headquarters locked it up in q
jeSk. Officer Och said inaiocular way,
@I'l throw n Of them in the stove"
and pretended that he was about TO do.
Il This caused the others to get out OF
The Office in short order.
The dynamite cartridges measured
eight inches in length and an inch; in
diameter, and there was fully twenty
6ye feet Of fuse. When the officers en-
tered Miss Lope's room she dshiedihay-
ing any explosives, but they were soon
found.
The dynamite woman was seen IN
iail Yesterday by an ISrELIIGEEcRRrep-
resentatiye, and she was very commu-
NEGATIVE, not knowing that she was.
talking to q newspaper man. She
taught school in rooms Nos. l.3 and
in the Sixth wardgin Wheeling sixteen
years, and is the woman who wrote a
book expbsiug or slandering a number
Of prominent people of Wheeling and
Beilaire. It will be remembered that
she was arrested while selling this
book, adjudged insane and sent tofWes-
ton. She says she remained there only
two weeks, escaping. She saidithat she
was never examined Us to insanity by
any physicians, and never saw pr. g. j.
Garrison, whose name appeared on the
paper. She was examinedlater by Drs.
Muhlemau, Boone, Mcclellan and Wal
lace, Of Rellaire, and they all pro-
nounced her sound in body and mind,
theysigaing a paper to this effect. She
claims that she sold 1000 OF these
books, but did not make any money,
the price being SO low.
The woman claims that she has been
persecuted by Jacob Grub, al Work,
Jack McNash, Miss Kimberly and.
others, Of Wheeling, and Phil Helsley,
Of Bellaire, for years; that they have
hired people to torment her and so on.
Since escaping from the asylum she
has lived in Wheeling, Bellaire, Pitts
burgh, Martins Ferry and other places.
She said her parents died when she was
ababy, and does not know where she
was born. She gives her age q sforty-
eight, but looks older. She has dark
brown hair and eyes, and measures
about five feet, Her story concerning
the dynamite is in substance asfollows:
She bought 1t in Pittsburgh last spring,
intending to take it to the farm Of her
brother, Walter Wilcox, near New Gas.
lie, Monroe county, to blow out stumps.
She walked from Pittsburgh TO Beaver,
carrying the explosives with her. at
Beaver she expressed the explosives to
Bellaire. When asked II she intended
to dynamite some of her enemies she
said, "0h no." smiling, and explained
that this would do her nolgood. Asked
itshe believed in .anarchism, she said
.shedid not. She saidshed did not know
Berkman, who tried to kill Frick, was
not at Homestead, and was not in.
Sympathy with the strikers there.
Iii known positivelythat on Decem-
Der 5 she received an express package
from Portsmouth, Ohio, andppon sign.
ing her name on the express delivery
book here she got it. This package
weighed two pounds and this is about
the weight Of the explosives found.
This package laid around the Office for
several days. When it came IL was.
thrown down on the floor as any ordin-
aFy article would be, the express people
not knowing that it contained enough
dynamite to blow up Martins Ferry.
Miss Lope saysythat this package con-
tanned q book, but it was asqueer look
Ing package for a book. She says she.
has relatives near Portsmouth, Ohio.
Martins Ferry sin quite a furry OF