Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1892-05-12


Pittnburg sisters Rescued From q Dis
orderly Houae-Two aoMechen, Mar
shall County, Girls Under Arrest.
Yesterday was "girI day at the City
Hall.
The police officers had four young fe-
males on their hands between two and
six o'clock in the afternoon.
Two of the Observation-Disclosures
shipped off to Plttsburg on the clio
train, IN the care Of brother, and two
more-also sisters-were turned over to
the care of their father, who came up
from just below Benwood after his
daughters.
The ages Of the girls ran from twelve
to eighteen years, and the Pittsburg
couple were exceedingly tough, while
the others, from below town, had "6een
around" some, but in somewhat differ
ent way.
Yesterday morning the police were
informed by telegram from Pittsburg
that a man named William Wolff, OF
that city, who was wanted up there for
committing a serious offense, had fled
to this city, bringing with him two
sisters named West, aged about sixteen
and eighteen, respectively. Othcer
Lukens started out on search OF the
town, and il was not long until he had
located the two girls in Jennie Lees
house OF i'll fame, where they had been
domiciled for several days past. The
girls were taken to headquarters, where
thew soon demonstrated, both by con-
versation and actions, that they were
about as tough specimens as
are often met with, and that
they had not suffered much, from
a moral point of view, by their life In
Wheeling. 1t was ascertained that
Wolff had left Pittsburg with the girls
Thursday of last week, and had arrived
in Wheeling that evening. A telegram
was sent to Pittsburg, and In response
G.. w. West, brother OF the girls,
came down and took them away on the
6:1O B. & o. train. The girls will be
sent to the Morganza reformatory.
Last night another telegram was re-
ceived from Roger O'Mara, OF the Pitts
burg police department, to arrest Woln
If he could found. The night force was
instructed to look out for him, last
night.
A NEW RACKET STOPPED.
For some time passed man named
Henry McCamick has been going about
the city with two little girls, aged
twelve and fourteen, representing that
they were his daughters and soliciting
money upon the following paper
1.-The bearer of this is worthy object OF
charity. Anything you giveher, be 1t ever
so little, will be gratefully appreciated. .,
HENRY MCCANnCK."
The police had information that the
outfit was a fake, and it was determined
TO stop it. Last evening about half-past
five Lieut.. Terrill and Officer Lukens
found McCamick and the two girls on
Market street, near the new City Bank
building, soliciting money from pedeS-
TRANS, and arrested all three. They
were taken to the City Hall, &C
conpanied by several prominent cltl-
zens, who had been imposed upon. III
was there found that the girls were not
McCamicks daughters at all, but were
named Mary Belle Scott and Nancy
Ann Scott, and that they resided in the
neighoorhood OF Jim's run, just this
side of the upper end Of the" Narrows,
in Marshall county. McCamick was
locked up in cell, and the girls were
detained in the Chiefs private office,
word being sent to Mr.. Scott, at Ben
wood.
II is understood McCamick has col
lected good deal Of money through
the pitiful appearance presented by the
two girls.