The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1900-05-28
CONSTABLE
ROUGHLY
HANDLED
Yesterday Afternoon While Attempt
ing to Serve Warrants on the
Ball Players.
HUSTLED OUT OF THE PARK
BY a Hundred or More Of the specta-
tors, and His Warrants Pill
fered by Some One.

There was excitement galore during
the progress OF the eighteeR-InniRg
game between the Wheeling and Mans
field teams OF the Interstate base hall
league, played ut the. Island bali park
sunday afternoon. and the 1000 or $500
spectators were, If possible. more inter-
psted in the side attraction than they
were in the game.
At the beginning OF the game the
players of the two teams had been ar
rested, as usual, by Constable stoehr. of
Justice Rogers court, and had been re-
leased for appearance to-day after
which the game was proceeded with
Everything went smoothly until the
fourth inning. when an elderly man,
wearing a gray canvas hat ana carry
ing some oninous looking documents in
his hand, approached the Wheeling
players bench. and attempted to place
Manager Lyle, of the local club, under
arrest Lyle said he had already been
arrested, and showed the officer, who
was Constable Virgil S. McCuskey, OF
Marshall county, HIS certificate Of ar
rest. The constable insisted that this
counted for nothing. and that he would
take Lytle ana the other players of the
grounds. At this stage Of the proceed
ings, the crowd began to see what was
going on, and the thousand or more
people in the grand stand arose. and
many crowded to the front, while from
the bleachers there came across the
field hundred or more spectators, who
surrounded the officer and his four or
Ave special constables There were cries
from all sides for the election of the
officer, and a score or more began to
1ostte and push Mccuskey along the
front Of the grand stand toward the
main exit. Mccuskey resisted as well
as he could, but numbers were against
him. Arrived at the rail In front of
the bleachers, he made stand, but 1t
was Intellectual, and two of the crowd
gave the officer an involuntary Zip
flop" over the rail, and then pushed
him bodily out of the grounds.
A call was sent to police headquar-
tiers, with the information that riot
was on at the ball park, and Lieutenant
Eddie dichaeis hasteRed to the scene,
but upon his arrival found everything
duIet. He found McCusksy, however,
who told his story. and demanded that
the officer assist in arresting the play
ers. The lieutenant requested the con-
stable to show his warrants, but this
McCuskey could not do, not knowing
who had taken them from him.
After the game, a man from Ohio,
Elmer Long, was placed under arrest
by constable from Squire Greer's
court, on the charge of having assault
ed Constable McCuskey The lntter al
Ieges that Long knocked him down.
Spectators who witnessed the affair
from beginning to end, however, assert
that McCuskey was not knocked down
at all. Long will likely be given a
hearing to-day.
The warrants which Constable Nc
Cuskey attempted to-servc were sworn
out in Squire Greer's court. Before
the squire would consent to issue war
rants for second arrest OF the players
he Demanded specIa! indemnifyIng
bond, which was furnished by the Fed
Grafton of Churches. 1t is in the sum
of $1,000. and bears the names Of the
following well known citizens: ]. N.
Vance, w. B. Hicks. Edward Hazlett,
Myron Hubbard John S. Naylor. John
NJ. Brown, Willard Giesey George
Laughlln and two others.
New warrants were issued last night
and served upon the players.