The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1893-06-12
THE RECORD BROKEN.
The Largest Docket for this Morn
ings Police Court
IN THE LONG HISTORY OF The CITY.
Wholesale Raids Saturday Night Fill
the Lookup Temporarily with Men
and Women like saFdines In a Box.
About Eighty Cases will claim his
Honor's Attention.


Last evening there were seventy
eight cases on the docket for this.
mornings police court, with prospects
for several additional ones before morn
ing, Saturday opened up dull enough
in police circles, too. There was but
one case for the evening session, that
being Gertie Wells, who had the fight
with Kate Coliield the evening before,
She was fined s. and costs, and in de-
fault sent to jail for fifteen days, In
the evening four men were run in for
dlsorderly conduct, and one plain
drunk Soon after this tho fun began,
1t has been the custom from time i'm.
memorial to raid the houses of i'll fame
periodically, When the right season
arrived, one or two houses would be
"pulled" on certain Saturday night.
Then 1t was well understood that tho
police visits were due on Saturday even
ings until all had been gathered in
once, People who frequent such houses
governed themselves accordingly
Women have been known TO beg the
police to raid their houses and have
the agony over, as the knowledge thata
raid was about due made business dull.
Chief McNichol resolved on differ
ont plan. His idea was to pull all, or
US many as possible, tho same night,
Thus, no warning having been given,
large delegations were expected to be
found in all tho places.
The officers started in on Fan Pres
toms Nineteenth street mahogany hall.
She and ten girls and six men, making
q total OF seventeen, were arrested, and
all but her were brought to the lookup.
May Davenport received tho next call,
and she and one woman were captured.
Then, at Stella Chester's four girls and
five men were found, besides tho land
lady, and at Ada Fosters five girls, five
men and herself. BY this time the
lookup was about as full az it would
comfortably hold, and the officers re-
leased the prisoners on deposlting cash
10 cover their fines,
Mrs. Eta Ditto, five girls and eight
men were next booked bv Second ward
officers, followed by Josephine Boyd,
four girls and three men, and Rhea
Gray and ono man. BY this time it be-
came apparent that the news had
spread, and that inmates and visitors
had left the houses, and tho arrests
were stopped for the night At tho
customary price, $50 and costs for land
ladies and s. and costs for others,
these hauls will aggregate over 5000 OF
tribute to the general cotfors.
The work Of the department did not
stop here, however. A woman had
sworn out warrant for Henry Knoke
for keeping gaming table at II Thir.
ty-third street, and no and seven men
we're arrested there and put up tho
money. This mado an aggregate Of
seventy-seyen cases, and last evening
Charles Hill was added to tho list on
warrant charging him with assault on
man tho night before. There were one
or two other warrants out, aud 1t
was prophesied that the list would
reach, il it did not exceed, eighty, by
the time court meets.
Tho largest docket ever recorded be-
fore at one session Of the police court
had but seventy-six cases on 1t, so that
this ia the biggest in history.