Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1913-09-18

With two labored amdaV1IS Jnat reao
lilo the children of a fevered brain, ]
Handlan last week burdened the
community through the columns Of
the newspapers and in distributed
dodgers with lengthy and dreary
exclamation that did not explain the
midnight ride of last November.
The Majority charged that he, the
law officer of the county, had taken a
little girl of sixteen years Of age out
the pike in an automobile, and had
been found with her at 4:30 O'Clock in
the morning, the machine wrecked and
themselves bearing evidences of depre-
citation, wear and tear. The only new
thing brought to the public's attention
in the affidavits offered in defense was
that Prosecuting Attorney j.. B. Hand
Ian had an accomplice! To the aver
age person this will appear twice as
bad as the Majority originally charged.
Some Analysis. n
An analysis of the affidavit, in fact,
makes the matter more serious than at
first charged, and the then prosecutor
more blameWorthy.
W. Bremen, that the two of them took
the little girl from a social function
at u o'clock, that they started out
the Pike in Handlan's machine, ex-
pecting to be followed by another
party in another machine, went as far
as the park and turned to return, and
had progressed but q few hi1dred
yards on the return trip (hurrying be-
cause Of threatening rainl when the
machine, guided by Handlan, struck
a telegraph pole, that the accomplish,
Bremen, was injured SO badly that
Handlan and the little girl supported
him to some place a "long walk" dis.
tant and there telephoned Doctor
and further deponent sayeth not, ex
cept that the accomplice went to the
hospital.
Public Expectant.
This leaves many details yet to be
given an expecttant public. The Ma.
1ority, in the laudable hops of salts
tying this desire of the public and in
the interestsf furthering the palitat-
ing cause Or public and private moral
lty launched by the immaculate Ami
Gus Curiae Handlan, submits few
suggestions.
These, of course, are mere sugges-
tons made for the mechanical perfec.
lion of the stoy At present it lacks
completeness and continuity There
are large gaps that burst in upon the
reader and destroy his mental poise-
something like hitting sandy spot in
a slide down greasy toboggan. They
are put suggestions, and many more
Will doubtless leap into the active
Draln and fertile Imagination of the
Amlcus Curiae when he takes a little
LIME to It; especially if he shonld be
suihclently fortunate as to secure the
luftheT literary collaboration of II. C
ogden, than whom there is no better
dt thls particular class of misinterpre
tatlon OF facts. (Some men have The
halr restorers skinned to death in the
way they cover up a bald and shining
fact) = NJ
Some Suggestions.
But really, there is much need fol
Improvement in the afidavits Of Hand
Ian and his accomplice, Bremen Fan
We II from the Majority to ridicule an
sAplanatlon prepared in such great
haste, but now that time is no Longer
pressing, and the election is over, and
.ae conyolutions of the mighty brain
VI me Anxious Curiaae are disturbed
:! me buzzing of no Cengresslunsl
Production. 40 - 49,
Lets compare the aff1davits with
VIZ might have been put into them.
rof instance:
lhey might have explained thas il
taAeS ~ minutes to go from WleeHns
W me park. That machine, stalt
ns rom the city at II o'clock, mid
hi isn't running to the park, turning anC
s.rnualletdately starting back and pro
Kissing s.;essing about 300 yards on the return
~ would have consumed approx
natey 80 minutes. Simple arithme Ell,
1no"S this to have been 1890 O'Clock
I; Nv ohe IS quite simple enough to figur,
II, oF any other kind of arithmetic
.tdno an and the little girl came in OF
s1e 80 car. Where went the hour.
NON $50 until 4:30? From midnigh
ull morning
Handlan's failure to climb the tele
i "a. u pole with his machine occurred a
n -. ou a nj. according to his own com
qua An electric car passes tina
S Spu! at L o'clock. a half hour later
w nTanu for Wheeling. Wheeling is tn,
r. where Handlan says he wante,
ms ~ he wanted to go there 50 ba,
ra nt ne was running his machile YER
s tpsats. Why did he not hail tn
girl ear and at least put the littl
Handlan says there were thraa na.
two ua ~ me auto. 1t has seats IL
arrano ta9w were the seating faciiitie
iTS S for the occasion?
land.s accident according to Hand
account occurred not 100 yari