The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1892-02-06
THIRTEEN YEARS OLD.
And Already Started on tho Down
ward Path-Not tho First
ClSE OF 4 CHILD BEING RUINED
Which has como to the knowledge of
tho Wheeling polloc-..onc of tho
Worst Evils in the Community
Emphasized by n STORY Told ut
Headquarters Yesterday Afternoon.


Yesterday an old lady,livinG in North
Wheeling called on Chief OF Police Nc.
Nichol ind said that a child who lived
with her had left homo tho day before,
in the absence Of tho lady, and had not
returned, and sho was afraid tho girl
had fallen into evil hands. She gave
such description Of the girl as TO make
it easy to recognize her, and officer
I.ukins Mt once went QUITO find her. In
few minutes he returned accompanied
by tho girl.
Ile had found her in the house OF i'll
fame kept by Nellie White, on EoiI
street. Sho was n very pretty girl OF
childish form, with open, innocent
countcnance and rarely fine complex.
ion. Her red hair is bhshy, and OF
medium length, and she was dressed
very tastctully but not richly.
The girls mother is dead and her
father married again, and lives in East
Liverpool. She says that her step
mother abused her, and she went to
live with tho old lady who was looking
for her yesterday. She had worked in
the Warwick pottery, but the other day
there was some trouble about some
ware, and she was blamed for it, and,
getting angry, lett. The lady with
whom she lived was away from home,
and so OH Thursday afternoon about 5
O'Clock she went out TO Nellie Whites
and asked ii she could stay there.
Nellie said she could ii there was not
any fuss made about it, and the girl told
hGrshe did not think anybody would
care Sho spent that night thore.
She was asked by thS chief II she had
ever been there before, and said that
she had spent one Eight there not long
ago with Elsa, Gray, who took her
there.
When Capt. McNichol and the other
officers saw the child they were very
indignant at both Gray and the woman
who would let 4 child OF her age and
appearance remain in den OF vice.
The officers talked to the girl in a
iathGrly way, and she cried hard when
she realized the ruinous step she had
taken. The lady who called for her
said that she thought as much OF the
child as ii shc were her own, and the
girl said she had been treated as kindly
as any child could be by her own
mother, but when she'lost her employ.
mcnt she did not want to be burden
on the old lady, and so concluded to 20
to Nell Whites.
Last evening Elsa Gray was arrested
by Officer Buch and committed to iail
to await a hearing This is, unfortu-
natcly, not the first case OF the same
general character that has come to the
attention OF the police. There are n
number OF young toughs in the city
. who never do any honest work, and vet
always have money. The bestmembers
OF the city police force have for years
been attempting to catch some Of the
youths oil this kind, but it is not often
that they can geta case that will stick.
It is the opinion OF many posted people
that several OF these young fellows
make pretty good thing OF it inducing
Young girls to enter houses OF the kind
that Nellie White keeps. A charge to
that effect would be hard to provo, but
where a specific case is found it may be
possible TO bring the offenders to jus
ticG, and that will be the effort OF the
authorities i'll this case. rOs