Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1893-08-20
THREW UP Ills Hands.
WILLIAM I. EMBLEM GOES BACK ON THE
aMADAMgS"
Witbdraws his Name from Their Bonds, and No
d6ss Them to Leave His HOusss-Ths Women
Arrested, and Other Bail Found
Other Criminal Matters

There was another commotlon among
the frail females Of Eoff street, East
Wheeling. yesterday.
William T. Emblem, who has hereto
fore been the protector Of these people,
came to the conclusion, in the solitude
OF his cell in the county jail, where be
has been for about month, that he
could no longer afford to combat the
law, and through his counsel announced
his withdrawal from the bonds OF the
nine madames who have been the occu-
pants OF his houses In East Wheeling,
and at the same time served notice upon
the women that they must vacate the
premises heretofore occupied by them
by Wednesday Of the coming week.
Warrants Of arrests were Immediately
prepared and placed in the hands OF
the police for Maud Smith, Rhea Gray,
Josephine Boyd, Nellie White, Ida
Robinson, Fanny Preston, Lucy Bel
mont. Ann Klein and Blanche Devore,
and all were taken into custody except
Ida Robinson, who was sick in bed
The women, thus suddenly placed IN
a position to 60 10 Jail, were put TO
great straights to secure bail, although
the amount was reduced from the orig
ipal 5000 to SIS In each case, and there
was great scurryinR about town Tor
male friends who would go upon their
bonds. Bail was finally secured In
every case, however, and none OF the
women went to jail.
What these women and the thirty or
more girls harbored by them will DO, IS
one of the problems Of the half world.
That houses can be obtained In other
portions Of the city is very questionable
none OF the women have any money, or
at least but few dollars, and they Will
either have to make their way 10 other
cities and towns or be thrown upon the
streets, to make a precarlous livelihood
as best they can.
The good thing about the whole matter
Is that Eoff street south Of Seventeenth
will be purified by the absence OF these
people, as it has not been for fifteen or
twenty years past, a number or the
worst houses Of the type in the town
will be closed up, permanently, 1t Is TO
be hoped, and the law, which Emblem
has been fighting so long, and, up to
month or SO ago, with such success,
will at last have been indicated,
through the ceaseless efforts
of the Prosecuting Attorney. 1t will
be remem bered that at the last term OF
Court Emblem was both fined and i'm
prisoned upon the charge Of which he
was convicted, and carried the case up
to the Supreme Court. There are ten
or q dozen other cases against him, and
thirteen warrants are out, being cases
which would have come to the attentlo
Of the grand jury at the September
term Of the Criminal Court, had things
gone on as they were, and which, In all
probability, will be presented ANYHOW.
With the case upon which convic-
ton was secured as an indication OF
how things were going, Emblem stood
in a fair way to pay out large sum OF
money and TO spend some years In con-
fnement in addition, and he probably
came to the conclusion that it wouldn't
pay to keep up the fight any longer. 1t
was reported last evening that the de-
PENDANT stood ready to pay fine OF $50
and costs in each Of the cases now pend
ing against him, and quit the whole
business If the State would accept II
IL that way. This may or may not be
true, but at all events he has given up
the fight.