Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1892-07-28
RELIEVED OF MONEY.
ANOTHER CASE EVOLVED FROM NICK ASSET
TA'S DIVE ON MARKET STREET.
Adam Glsssner Claims to Have Been Robbed Of
Some Thirty-Two Dollars - MOlhs Car Ar
rested and Locked Up-Rssult Of
a Drinking Spree.

Persons walking into the Office OF the
police station yesterday afternoon
might have mistaken it for branch
agency Of Castle Garden from the num-
Der OF nationalities represented. 1t
was another Of those sad cases where a
habitue Of one Of the tough dives on
North Market street was surreptitiously
relieved of money. The complainant
was a man by the name Of Adam Chess
ner. He claims that on Tuesday after
noon while enjoying drinking
spree at Nick Asselta's on North
Market street, in company with two or
three other companions he was robbed
by a girl named Mollie Carr. Jack West
went up to the place yesterday after
noon and arrested the Carr girl
and took her to the police sta
ton, in company with another girl,
who gave her name as Sophia
Cavala, and her husband, who is full
blooded Hungarian. Both OF the girls
are OF German extraction, and more
incongruous alliance than that repre-
sented by the Cavala girl and her hus-
band could not well be imagined. He
Is dark-hued, OF the nondescript type
so often seen among this ra &c, with
countenance blank and submissive, while
the wife, as she so styles herself, is
more perceptlve and rather antic In her
temperament. The Carr girl is stout
and tough, and after she was locked up
in her cell yesterday afternoon she car
ried on something like hyena, pacing
back and forth in her cell, yelling and
CRYING, and swearing vengeance on
those who had committed her to the
dungeon cell. The noise resounded
through the building, and brought sew
eral from the different departments to
learn what was up.
The Cavala girl went down to try to
talk with her prior to going up TO
Squire Philips, but she was carrying
on so frantically that it was of no avail.
The Cavala girl says Mollie's real name
is Bachman. She denies having taken a
cent of the money.
Glessner claims that he was ordering
up the drinks, mostly whiskey at the
rate of fifteen cents a round, and on
one occasion he claims he gave the
proprietor fve-dollar bill TO change,
and he only received the change for
two-dollar bill, the proprietor saying
this was all be gave him. 1t was while
engaged in this drinking feast that
Mollie, so he claims, reached down into
one Of his pockets and extracted some
thirty odd dollars. He wasn't quite
positive how much was taken, but
thought it was that sum. The Cavala
woman, however, seemed to think
il was only fourteen dollars that was
taken, aud Squire Philips, wavering be-
tween the two statements, decided to
make the charge at fifteen dollars, and
set the case for o'clock this evening.
Mollie did not appear before the Squire
Yesterday afternoon, as she was in too
hilarious a mood. She had evidently
been drinking.
Nick Asselta's place, where the rob-
berry is said to have taken place, is To-
ca led on Market street, between Ninth
and Tenth, on the corner of the alley,
and Is one of the toughest dives in the
city. 1t has long borne that reputation,
even before Asselta took charge Of 1t,
and many are the cases that have
evolved from this place.