Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1893-10-13
IN THE Sums
ANOTHER ILLUSTRATION OF HOW TIE OTHER
HAFP OF THE WORLD LIVR&
A Dsplorabbe Siats Of Affairs Brought Out Before
justice Arkls, Last EVsning-4Jack the Rip
per" on a Tear in Alley

Last evening two very forcible Illus
trations of the deplorable state OF az
fairs existing In the neither walks Of
life in this city were brought to public
attention through arrests made by the
authorities.
The facts are possibly not pleasant
reading, but the publication Of this and
similar matters may ultimately result
in directing attention to certain very
common forms Of vice and misery, and
bring about relief and reform in quar-
ters where both ara sorely needed.
Before Justice Arkle, Mrs. Martha B.
Holden. Lulu B. Holden, her daughter,
and j. F. Sumpter, now serving q term
In the city workhouse, were arraigned
on complaint Of r. s. Holden, who
charged his daughter with not being a
person Of good fame, and his wife and
Sumpter with unlaWfully living TO-
gether. The evidence was rather
startling to some present, in that it
showed that the girl Lulu, who Is not
more than sixteen, had long been
running the streets with young boys not
older than herself; that she had other
girls and boys freQuented saloons, where
beer and whisky was freely given them;
that the mother had long since forgotten
her marital vows; that the father was a
worthless %drunkard; and that Sumpter,
who had been taken into the family
some years ago, had taken advantage OF
the trouble between Holden and his
wife, to secure the affections OF
Mrs. Holden. Louis Cavals, the
Italian saloon keeper on North Market
street, was put on the stand and
acknowledged that the girl in question,
and other girls and boys were ire
q%uenters Of his joint, and to-day he
will be arrested for selling to minors
and will likely get a salty dose, which
ne had richly deserved for some time.
Holden was arrested before the hearing
was over, for general cussedneSs, and
was sent to Jail for a year.
Lulu, the girl, got sixty days,
and Sumpter will also be sent
to Jail as soon as his workhouse term
expires, and Mrs. Holden, who was re-
auired to give a bond OF 500 to behave
herself, will likely land in the same
place. The sad thing about 1t Is that
there are two little children whom Hol-
den removed from their home Wednes-
day evening, after his wife had been
arrested, and who are in a deplorabie
condition. Holden seems to be a man
Of some education, having a good COM
mand of language, but drink seems to
have ruined him.
The other trouble Of the evening was
In that old time nest Of iniQuity up ia
alley C. May Thompson, who Is gen.
orally known as Jack the Ripper" got
fighting drunk yesterday afternoon,
and about seven o'clock last night she
appeared in the alley with her war
paint on. She accused Nora Hays OF
taking her lover from her, and was
proceeding to whip the girl, who is
small and slight, when Mrs. Maggie
Miller came o the rescue. May an
nounced her belief that she could whip
both women, and started on the task,
when Ella Miller sent for the police,a and
Officer West arrested Mrs. Miller aud
May Thompson and they were hauled
to the City Hall and locked up. Even
in the lookup May attempted to get at
Mrs. Miller, and paced around her cell
like a crazy woman for a while.
Alley C and alley Six ought to be
cleaned out and have a moral as well as
a chemical f%umigation. It's only a
question OF time until that part Of town
will furnish a 1rst-class murder. About
every other species Of crime known to
the statutes has already eminated from
that nuarter.