The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1893-08-05
CABELL CRIMINALS,
Tho County Leads AN Others in
Number Of Criminals
ut THE STATE PENITENTARY,
Being Credited With Eight Per Cent
of the Number Confined There
About Huutingtop's and Cabell's
Bad Name Throughout the state-A
Party OF County Officials in the City.

Somehow Huntington and CSbell
county have the name all over the
state of being mighty tough places and
on the face of things this opinion would
seem to be perfectly ~justifablOp as more
criminal news originates in the metrop'
oils at thelowere end OF tho state than any
other place OF equal size known, This
is partly explained by the location oil
the town and county, the latter being a
next door neighbor to those famous
homes OF lawlessness, Logan and Wayne
counties; then again the newspaper
correspondents atthe Second City are an
interchangeable quantity not to DO lett out
OF consideration.
Lat evening Sheriff D, Jol jenkins,
of Cabell county, Deputies John I, Will
son, ADDISON johnson and Allen Love,
and county commissioners, Prof. u. H..
Thackston aud DR.. O. IL. Morris, reg
istered at the Behler, having come up
from Moundsville, where they left q
batch OF five criminals to commence
their sentences in the state
penal institution. An 1%NTgLLIGEN-
GER representative met these gen.
tlemen, and asked them how
1t is that their city and county has such
q bad name throughout the state. They
pleaded ignorance OF the fact, aud said
in defense that the only roason Cabell
has 30 many criminals at Moundsyllle,
10 that their city and county officials arc
ever on tho alert, and don't lot them go
unpunished as in some communities.
PROT. Thackston said that while tho
party was ut tho p~enitontiary yesterday,
they were informed by the officials
there that Cabell county Is on the rec;
ords US sending more criminals to that
institution than any other county in
tho state, and that OF those now there
that county is redited-porhaps charged
il the proper term in this connection
with per cent OF the total number OF
prisoners confined there. This, isto say
tho least, u surprising condition OF
affairs, US Cabell with less than one
thirty.third OF the population, sends
one.twelfth Of the convicted criminals OF
the entire state to the pen. In tho
face OF these figures there would appear
to be a foundation for the statement
frequently made that Huntington and
Cabell are "bad places" AS tho sheriff
says, however, the officials there as well
as the criminal and circuit judges, are
unusually intlexible in the discharge OF
their duty; very seldom it is that one
doesn't get his just deserts.
Following uro tho names OF the Grim
inals brought up Yesterday: Thomas
Jones, colored, for felony, two years; ].
T. Holly, criminal assault, twenty
years; Edward Murphy, forgery, two
years; Ed Porter, felony, n year;
Ed McWhorter, felony, resisting
arrest, one year. The Holly case
was an unusually quick piece of convic-
ton; the crime took place late in July.
These are circuit court convictions.
Five other criminal cases are waiting
for tho criminal court to convene, when
the people will DO interested to 500 how
well ex.State Treasurer "Bill" Thomp-
son knows how to deal out justice.