The Clarksburg telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1874-1926, 1908-10-22
Is Arrested, Tried, Convicted
and Sentenced to Serve
Time in Jail.
CHARGE OF ROBBERY
Is Preferred Against the Dis
reputable Woman Demo-
Gratis Seek Aid From.
Minnie Mcdonald, Of Fairmont, a

Minnie Mcdonald, of Fairmont, a.
notorious character, is serving time
in jail. She and Maggie sipole alias
Jones. OF Point Comfort. were arrest
ed Tuesday night at an early hour
at the traction station at the Glen
Elk bridge by Policemen Harry
Brooks and Nicholas Whyte, for
drunkenness and disorderly conduct.
They were also charged with high
way robbery, holding up a woman
and taking money from her.
Both are night officers and were
not present at the trial Wednesday
morning before Mayor E. j. Wood,
hut the officers left memorandum
for the mayor, which stated that the
women were arrested for drunken
ness and disorderly conduct and for
robbing woman. The mayor in the
absence OF the policemen, who made
the arrest, did not take up the
charge of highway robbery, but tried
them for being drunk and disorderly.
The Mcdonald woman claimed she
was not drunk, but Policeman Simmsl
informed the court that he saw her
boozlng In the evening. She was
fined three dollars and costs and
sentenced to Jail for three days. The
Sipole woman admitted that she was
drinking and she was given like
dose. Both are now behind prison
bars.
The Mcdonald woman came into
special notorlety Wednesday morning
in a big streamer on the front page
of the News, which recited that she
accused the colored police officers of
having robbed her of a pocketbook
containing five dollars, and her
bracelet the night Of September %,
when she was taken away by the po-
licemen from white man, whose
name she could not recall, according
to her story, and was allowed to lie
out all night in drunken condition.
The News tried to make the imrres-
sion that the officers had committed
a crime upon her, but in the affidavit
secured from her by Democrats for
political effect she fails to state that
such happened.
This common street walker was in
the Office of the chairman of the
Democratic county committee. L. d.
Lewis, about an hour Tuesday after
noon, where the affidavit was secured
from her. Others present besides
the Justice, S. R. Bartlett, of Elk
district, before whom the same was
sworn to. were Lester Mcmillan,
candidate for circuit clerk; j. G.
Shaw, editor of the News! County
Chairman E. D. Lewis, of the DENT
ocratic committee; Mayor Edward
j. Wood; and the Chief of
police of the city. Mr.. Bartlett is
Democratic justice, hut the News
did not explain why he was chosen
for the purpose.
1t is stated that after leaving the
Office of the Democratic county chair
man, where she was in consultation
with the men named above, she got
in the company of four Italians and
they all went to a thicket and re-
NAMED some time.
In view of the low character of the
woman and the associates she is
known to have. 1t is incomprehensi-
BILE how any man or set of men.
would avail themselves of an affida-
Wit from such a source or give the
slightest tone of credence to any
thing she said or might say.
But, resort to this merely shows
the desperation to which the Demo-
cratic organization has been driven
by the knowledge OF the fact that
the people are not supporting the
Democratic ticket.
The Mcdonald affidavit, with the
facts known, has proven Demo-
cratic boomerang. that has caused
that party's undoing in this county.
Policemen Farmer and Howard
deny positively the story told by the
woman. They deny having been
with the woman the night stated or
any other. On the night in question
Officer Howard say the woman and
white man at the postofflce corner
as he was on his way home on Mon
ticello avenue. At the Pike street
bridge near the Catholic church the
woman AMI her white companion
,yara ordarad off the .raat nv pniina