The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1898-02-25
Caused the Arrest ola Well Dress.
cd Man andSyyoman.
TIIlE'y| TOLD PIIlFUI STORIES

CHARLES DEVICES. n.
For nearly a week past the police
have been keeping their official eye on
"a respectable looking and styllshly
dressed man and woman who have sew
5eral times stopped passers by and, af-
( ter telling them a pltitul story about
slosins their pocket book, or being rob-
tbed, they would make u borrow otany-
thing from quarter 10 u dollar. say
4 ing they would pay It back as soon as
they heard from home.
Last night the climax was reached
when officer Joseph McCausland caught
them in the oct on Market street and
landed them in the lookup. Before he
made the arrest, the officer watched the
4 couple and saw them approach several
( people and receive money from them.
y The favorlte story last night was that
they had lost their pocket book and had
written home for money, which they ex-
= pECkGuNkV q W AUll tILC ipti's
would be paid back. Y
~ AT police headquarters they refused
10 give their names to the reporter who
B Interviewed them In their cells. but la
ter the man told Chief Bennett his
name was Charles Clark and that the
woman was his wife. He told the chief
that he came from Detroit, and had
been here about four days. He said he
had two small children at the boarding
} house and begged that his wife be, al
{ lowed to go 10 them. The reporter In
restigatcd this part of his story and at
eter locating the boarding house just
4south OF the Main street bridge. learned
from the landlady that the couple, &C.
colnpanled by their two small children.
md the lady's sister, bad arrived last
Z Sunday morning and had been there
ever since They gave their names as
a Mr. and Mrs. Charles Devices and said
they had Just come from Pittsburgh.
The landlady also said they owed three
or -four days rent and as an excuse for
not paying In advance Devices said he
had check for fifty dollars which he
would have to get cashed. He also COM
Z planned OF having lost about $4,000 In
three years.
After interviewing the landlady. the
8 reporter sought the sister-in-law. She
: had retired for the night with the two
sslittle children. but after being summon
ed, hurrIedIy dressed and came into the
pa-lor. When she learned, what had
happened, she could not speak for some
time.
She said they had come from Pitts
burgh on Sunday, and that they had
NOT been In Detroit for three or four
months.
i What does Mr.. Devices do for llv-
sing?"nasked the reporter.
si,,.st.I don't know" answered the young
lady. with evident embarrassment.
.'Did he ever have any trouble like
this In Pittsburgh?
~ Indeed. don't know that, either"
she answered.
You would have known 1t II they
!. had. wouldn't you?"
it,aE"I don't know was all she said.
Then she talked ,of the little boys ~
i ing In their bed. None is about three
9and a half years and the other only two
D years old. She took the reporter to the
4 bedside where the two little fellows lay
sleeping inrocen,ly In each others
arms, and as IL In dream the smaller
one moved restlessly. and with q smile
: on his face uttered one word, Mamma"
He went to sleep crying for her"
I said his auntie, ITS too bad, too bad"
tSand so 1t was.
4 Chief Bennett heard the condition OF
e5affairs at the boarding house and for
1.-THE chlldren's sake allowed the woman
ito go home. She would nos answer any
] questions ana on her way home still In
sisted that they came from Detroit.
9 The actions OF the couple first came to
the notice Of the police last Tuesday
y when they touched" Councilman Ebel-
SiDg for fifty cents for a dinner. They
told him they had been robbed on a
Z train and hadn't cent to bug dinner
with. He gave tito them and they took
2 his name and address, saying he would
f'return 1t. They have not UP 10 date. /,
~ Last week the Pittsburgh papers con-
Stained an Item regarding a man and
woman working the same scheme up
.lthere and they were ordered out of
K town by the Police. The local officers
tthlnk they are the same people. They
.f.have q very refined appearance and
their story IS calculated to get money
y at any time. =
Il Il The woman Is not SO much to blame
v as the man. He is evidently using her
3. as 4 tool 10 work his game better and
e sNlhii h.IG WV wy - " bioN itC ~.
ttGishe is compelled TO submit to Il. The
!! slster-ln-iaw Is an attractive young
y lady OF about seventeen summers AID
} from the way she talked, 1t Is apparent
she has no high regard for Devices. The
: only words OF pity from her were for
! her sister and the children.
The, children are bright looking little
= fellows with coal black eyes and hair.
taking this from their mothers side OF
the house, and Both have the same
French countenance SO noticeable In
their mother.
Is The charge entered against the two
lis begging on the public street. and
they Will answer to the mayor this
4 morning.
III lis said that Devices shad money ~
get DRUM: on Wednesday night and since
his stay here has frequented several
gambling rooms. He never made an eff
( fort TO beg or borrow unless he had his
wife with him and the story was so well
told that he was hardly ever refused.
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