The Clarksburg telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1874-1926, 1910-08-11
SLAVE
STORY DENIED

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has come to me. by speaking to ey-
erybody they saw and making i'm
proper advances to everyone they
met.
1.-The same evening they sent for
me, but told them to come to my
Office. and in the presence OF my
bookkeeper their time was figured
and they were each paid $3.35. /
told them that If they expected to
sleep at the hotel that night they
must register and pay just the same
as any other guest.
They left the hotel, and SO they
said later, stayed that night in fat
with some friends. They returned
to the hotel the following day and
would not leave until l threatened
to have them elected by force. So
much for their charge they were
forclbly detained at the hotel and
Inundated by any conduct of mine
or any guest in the hotel.
From start to finish the story
told by either or both of the girls
is false in every respect and is in
lspired solely by malice and revenge.
Indeed, they declared when they left
here last Sunday morning that they
would get even with me for discharg-
ing them. and that they would tell a
story to the papers that would lead
me to regret having let them go, and
they further said that they were go
ing to separate my wife and myself
with respect to the statement OF
the Osborne girl that she was led
to believe that she and The King
and the Lutz girls were to work as
dining room girls, but we're actually
held in imprisonment as white slaves,
is preposterous as the girls were in
the dining room until they we're dis
missed and were at no time deprived
of their freedom of movement.
Il hardly saw the three girls dur
ing the journey from Cincinnati to
Elkins, as l was in the smoker most
OF the time. As l do not drink liq-
uor the statement that drank
great deal of liquor and was free
with these girls is ridiculous. In
asmuch as one Of these girls told
Mrs. Anawalt that l was at all times
gentlemanly, statement that will
be borne out by Anna King, the
charge that l was free with them is
untrue.
THE accusation that l represented
myself as single man, that pinch
ed one of the girls soon after her
arrival, that l and other men locked
the three girls in a room, that these
girls found it necessary to defend
themselves by using water pitcher.
that they we're hindered from leay-
ing the hotel. can be dismissed as
wholly and totally without founda-
ton in fact, and the hair-raislng one
OF the girls tells in making her es-
cape from the hotel by letting her.
self and her companion out Of a
window-a physical impossiblllty III
view of the fact that their room on
the sixth tloor-is on a par with the
other outlandish and slanderous
actions attributed to me. / could
not have plnched any OF these girls
the morning after they arrived be-
cause they did not go to work until
the following Sunday.
a wiz not undertake to say from
what source they secured 1t. but sew
eral days after they had been dis
missed they were seen with large
roll of bills.
"As they had no other clothes
with them when they came, other
than the clothes on their back, It
must be apparent that what they say
about not being able to get their
clothes is entirely untrue. Soon after
coming to the hotel they borrowed
clothes from the head waitress.
81 court a full investigation of all
the circumstances surrounding the
stay of the Lutz and Osborne girls
in this city. knowing that such an
investigation will show how uG-
founded are their charges, There
surely ought to be some way of pro-
tectlng respectable hotel from
such unwarranted attacks from such
sources"
Mr.. Anawalt's statement is cor
federated by his wife and by the
head waitress. Margaret Bowden, as
well as by Anna King, who is al
iuded to in the Lutz girls story.
Anna King says: Il never saw