The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1915-05-05
EARL HUnRicsHouss FgIoNt.
oOSlr ASSAULTED BY JEAl-
Gus FOREIGNER.
VINE Makes NASTY Charge Against
stetirn-5oth Men Suffer severe
inIuries-Asssiisnt Lodged
In the Lookup.

Charles Visnieh. Russian coal rnip.-
employed a. the RichlAnd coal mine
Is under arrest AZ police Headquarters
on charge OF breaking and entering
With intent to commit a felony. and
Earl Humrickhouse. manager o, the
Cherry Smash BottlinS Works. resid-
Ing al No. lis Eighteenth street. Is
suffering from a badly lscerated head
BY reason Of his encounter with the
Russian.
According 20 Humrickhouse's story
70 Prosecuting Attorney n. A. Mckee
this morning at police headquarters.
Nisnich's wife had been his house
keeper. Last night at 1880 or li:45
o'clock he was lying partly awake
when a man. without warning. struck
him over the head with what he sup
posed TO be brick. He Jumped from
his bed. grappled with his assailAnt
and called TO his son. Chester. TO get
pop bottle and strike the man with
H.
Humrickhouse took the bottle from
his sons hands and beat the man over
the head. oyerpowered him and threw
him out In the street. He followed
him TO the curb where he held him
until the arrival OF Tom Arlington.
patrol driver. who arrested Nisnich
and brought him TO headquarters.
Humrickhouse said that Visnich en-
tered his house through a rear win
dow in the kitchen by pulling two
nails out of the sides OF the wall
Humrickhouses head is badly cut. and
Dr. o. ID. Mccoy put nine stitches
in II.
Visnich was called and said Hum
rickhouse who he termed that man"
had been living with his wife for some
time. and gave some very nasty testi-
mony about the pair. He denied go
ing through a window. but said he
saw his wife last night and went to
the house in the East End TO see II
she were there. He said that he
knocked on the door. and that Hum
rickhouse came to the door saw who
1t was. attacked him and said: Come
on boys, let's kill the lie
cenied hitting Humrickhouse with a
brick. but said he used a part OF a
bottle.
Ohester Humrickhouse was the next
person Intercepted and told practic.
ally the same story as the father. He
Is ten years Of age and answered the
questions OF the prosecuting attorney
straight from the shoulder 4 half
brick and broken pop bottle will be
offered in evidence.
Is Black Handler
the police say that Visnich Is one
OF the foreigners who have been mixed
up In the Black Hand cases from the
East End. The home of Humrick-
house is situated on Eighteenth
street. next door to No. l1lJR Alley
l6. where these Black Hand cases
took place. Visnich denied that he
knew either Tony Saratori or Tony
Nentronilli. who were indicted before
the grand jury Monday evening
IL is claimed by HumTickhouse that
Nisnich has been bothering him for
months. and some months ago tried
TO break into his house. At that time
the police were called in to take a
hand. and for some time watched the
house. Humrickhouse is divorced and
has been living with his little son on
Eighteenth street.
Nisnich lives in North Wheeling.
He was born in Russia and came TO
New York and later to Chicago He
then came to Wheeling about four
years ago. working for a time in the
Eastern Ohio coal mines.
DIR. Mccoy attended him at the lock
up. and while his head IS badly cut.
he Is in no danger of death. One
thing was noticeable In his statement
He would talk up TO the point where
the Black Hand matter entered into
Il. and then would stop behind Mo
know nothing" Visnich was arrested
by Ohicers Parrish and Charles Nil
Ter. Detectives Hastings and Walker
worked the case.
At 2:3O o'clock this morning u had
not been decided whether TO hold both
men or not but II was thought that
TIumrickhouse would be allowed to 20.
The prosecuting attorney will con
tinue his investigation this morning.
and then place formal charge
against Nisnich II will probably be
attempted murder