Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-04-10

Has Not Yet Been Arrested-Sensa-
tiona1 Details.
There have been sensational devel-
opments in the Hervey murder case,
the State having secured evidence to
prove conspiracy to rob the Her.
vey residence.
In addition to John Mooney and
Friday, who are now on trial in the
Criminal Court for murder, three
other men are said to be implicated.
Jack" Conner and Dukes Reilly are
now in Jail charged with being access
cries. A third man, whose identity is
not revealed, is missing, and the .au-
thorities have been unable to locate
him.
The most important information up
on which the arrests were based, was
given by dissolute woman named
Kitty st. Clair, who is now in custody
in the county Jail, and who will be the
most important witness for the prose-
cutlon in the trial which is now in
progress. The woman was chamber
maid at the saloon and lodging house
conducted by "Dukes" Reilly at the
corner of Sixteenth and South streets,
and the information she gives was Sc
cured, according to her statement,
from one of the parties implicated, and
from a session of the gang at which
she overheard the plotters. The Reil-
ly place seems to have been the head
quarters for the gang. The story of
the St. Clair woman, with corroborat-
ing evidence which the State will Of
fer, will make most damaging case
against the parties implicated, and
will also serve to break up a gang
of dangerous men who are believed to
have been implicated in number of
serious crimes committed in this city
and vicinity.
The Plot.
The st. Clair woman has been con-
nected with several criminal cases.
She came here some years ago from
the west, and became an inmate of the
bagnio at No. 1916 Main street, con-
Quoted by Kittie Lee. subsequently
she removed to the oil fields in Tyler
or an adjoining county, and she con-
Quoted a house of ill fame in WetZel
county.
1t was while in the oil region that
the woman shot and killed a man
who attempted to force an entrance
into her house after she had repeated
ly warned him to keep away. She
was arrested and brought to the Ohio
county Jail, but the case never came
to trial, as the grand jury failed to
find a true bill against her, and she
was released. Recently she has been
living in Bellaire. Some people re-
gard her as woman of vicious char
acter, but by others she is looked up
on more as a victim of circumstances,
and her connection with criminal cases
is regarded as accidental. However
that may be, popular report has asso-
ciated her with more than
one crime of recent occurrence.
The st. Clair woman, known in Bel
laire as Kittie Lee, was a chambermaid
at the Reilly place, according to her
story. She claims to know Frank FIJI
day, and says she knew him in Kansas,
where he had reputation as an expert
safe cracker, and was known as Frank
alias DOC" Riley. Riley, or Friday,
occupied room No. in Dukes" Reil-
ley's resort The woman alleges that
he made overtures to her, but was re-
pu!sed, as she was at that time leading
a vi. nous life. She says that one OF
the inducements he offered was money,
which he said he would have after he
had robbed a man at Elm Grove.
The plot for the Hervey robbery,
and also the robbery of another house
in the same locality, was discussed in
another room. The woman says she
overheard the conversation, and she
duplicates Five Men,
Two of them were Mooney and Friday.
Two others were Jack Con-
nors and Dukes Reilly, and the
fifth is unknown to her by name, but
she thinks she could identify him.
Her story is that Mooney and Friday
were detailed to commit the robbery,
and that they started on the night be-
fore the murder, but abandoned it on
account of the inclemency of the
weather. Mooney and Friday left
Reilly saloon at noon the next day.
When Kittie St. Clair learned of the
murder, she says she Immediately made
preparations to go to police headquar-
tiers, and tell all she knew about the
plot. She states that Dukes" Reilly
and struck her, and at the
point of a revolver prevented her from
carrying out her threat. By the same
methods of persuasion, she says she
was induced to go to Mccartney saloon
in Bellaire, where she was kept in a
room and guarded to prevent her es-
cape
Patiently watching for an opportun-
ity, she escaped from the Mccartney