Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1899-08-15
TWELVE INDICTMENTS
Returned By the Grand Jury, Last
Evening.
JOSEPH DRILLER WILL HAVE TO
STAND TRIAL FOR THE MUIR
DER OF LOUIS DITMAN, IN JULY
LAST-MRS. PARKER TALKED
TO THE JURY-THE DOCKET TO
BE CALLED TOMORROW.

Inc CIlmiHdl tOuTl, Judge duguS
presiding. met in special session yester-
day morning, and grand jury was
summoned and charged. The jury was
composed of the following citizens
John Frew, foreman; Andrew Korn,
]. P. Seybold, F. C. Mccoy, Joseph
Lawson, Louis Gutman, Jacob Retzer,
Charles Loeffier, James Mckinley,
Charles L. Ebeling, Frank Plankey,
Joseph Freese, Joseph A. Ankle. Will
liam Heryey, D. H. Waddle and Henry
Shields.
The charge to the jury was about the
usual discourse upon such occasions
with the exception of some especial re-
marks about the selling of liquor with
out license at Pleasant Valley Park,
out the pike. The court called the at
tention of the jury particularly to this
matter, and impressed upon the gentle
men the propriety and duty of bringing
indictments if the evidence warranted
it. He also spoke in the same strain
regarding the Dairyman's Association,
which recently gave a picnic out the
pike.
At the conclusion of the instructions
the jury retired to their room, and re-.
manned in session until noon. At 100
the session was resumed, and was con-
tinued until half past six o'clock, when
the gentlemen returned into Court and
presented the following list of true and
not true bills:
State v. William Blinko and Bert
McConaughey, stealing money from
William Alexander July 16, 1899. Two
counts.
State V. Mack MeGruder, for assault
ing Chester A. Lewis with a knife, on
July 22d, 1899.
State V. Joseph Driller for the muir
der of Louis Ditman, July 8, 1899.
State v. George Hushrod, for an as
sault on Michael Agnic, on July %, 1899.
State " Louisa Dalzell, assault on
Ella Branden, July %, 1899
State V. Harry Jackson, burglarizing
the residence of George Laughlin. Four
counts. Crime alleged between July 5th
and 18th, 1899.
The misdemeanor indictments were
as follows: James Droney, Dairymen's
Association, (2): Bader & Maurer, (3).
Not true bills-Bader & Maurer,
Richard Carson, felony Silas Shaw,
felony; August Samsel, felony; VIM. o.
Grant, misdemeanor; James Droney,
misdemeanor. The charges against
Shaw and Samsel were for running into
wagon at Main and Twenty-fourth
streets during the car strike.
Court adjourned until this morning,
and the docket will be called to-mor-
row.
Unusual interest is attached to the
Driller case. Heretofore Mrs. Emma
Parker, who was with Driller in the
boat house at Whisky Run at the time
the crime was committed, has refused
to talk, and it will be recollected there
were two or three fruitless attempts be-
fore Justice Rogers to induce her to
tell what she knew, the State promising
immunity. The influence of counsel
for defense, however, was sufficient TO
have her maintain silence. Yesterday.
however, it was freely reported that
Mrs. Parker, when summoned before
the grand jury, became somewhat frank
in her talk and that the evidence was
forthcoming which made an indictment
against Driller a matter of course. The
details of her story were not obtainable,
but semi-officially it was said to have
been all that could have been desired,
and that the evidence upon the trial
will be complete. The authorities have
been quietly but diligently working up
this case, and it is said that had not
Mrs. Parker told her story there would
have ben an indictment against Driller
just the same, with enough evidence in
the hands of the State to warrant a be-
lief in his conviction before a jury.
With Mrs. Parker's story in addition,
the State is said to feel easy as to the
result.