The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1892-01-12
THAT KIDNAPPING.
Tho hungarian who was Arrest
cd last week will Prosecute.
HIS TREATMENT WAS OUTRAGEOUS.
His own Story of the Anair..-The
Friyolity oftlie Charge against Him
even Worse than WIS before Stated
...wcakncss of tho West Virginia
Statute.

John NIolnar, tho Austrian who
claims that Constable McAlasters. OF
Mt. Pleasant, Ohio, robbed him Of
certificate OF deposit for $3.50, called on
Prosecuting Attorney Howard ycster-
day, accompanied BY hia attorney, L. S.
Jordan, to explan'thc case, but owing
to tho absence OF m interpreter, did not
have great success. He will return to-
day with an interpreter. MIR. Howard
said yesterday that 1t was q peculiar
fact that the West Virginia statutes
have no provision about the abduction
OF man, but tho olTcnse is crime
under the common law and tho man
can be indicted II tho facts turn out to
be as they have been understood.
Molnar told his story to Mr.. Jacob
Korn, prominent business man Of
North Wheeling, and If the facts are us
the man related them the abduction
was shameful outrage on q defense
less man. AIolnar had been keeping
boarding house in some Ohio town, the
name OF which Mr.. Korn could not
learn, owing to Molnar's indistinct pro-
nunciaton. Ono OF his boarders owed
him S!5 for board, and Molnar
sued, obtained judgment and got the
money. The bourdcr afterwards found
out that, us married man, he could
have taken exemption papers and kept
his landlord out OF tho money. He
thereupon wanted it back, and Molnar
refused to give it up.
Fallingsick about this time Molnar
went to Pittsburgh and entered the hos
pital. Receiving letter from his wife,
in which she wrote that SHE had left
Ohio and had gone to Wheeling with
her two-year-old child, her husband, on
his discharge from the hospital, came
to this city himself, and settled down
in North Wheeling. Last Wednesday
he was arrested by Officer Scalley.
The facts OF the arrest have already
been detailed in the INrELLIGExcEn,
Officer Scalley's story and that OF Mol
mar tallying in almost every particular,
except that the officer says that he told
Molnar he could not be obliged to go
over TO Ohio unless he went voluntarily,
and that Moluar says he told the officer
that he did not wish to 90, and that
there were courts in Wheeling, in which
he could be tried for any ofiense he
might have committed.
Constable McAiastcrs, having put
handouts on his prisoners wrists, took
him out into Ohio, where he was cast
into jail and kept there two days. lie
told his jailers that he had no money
with him, but that he had some in
Wheeling and that he had bank GER
titicate for $500 in his house. He was
brought to Martins Ferry with his
wife, who had accompanied him and re-
manned with him in Jail. A man
brought his wife over to this city and
went with her to the house and made
her give up the certificate OF deposit.
After getting the certificate Molnar's
captors released HIM, gave him Is cents
to pay for his ferriage across the river
and told him to buy glass OF beer with
the balance.
The saddest part OF the whole bust
ness is the fact that Mrs. Molnar was
sick in bed at the time her husband
was arrested, but got up and followed
him on his journey. Officer Scalley got
a woman who lived in the same
house to take care OF the child.