The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1917-01-04
|GRAND JURY |ND|CTS s. /. BRACY
ON CHARGE Of $4,000 FRAUD.
MURDER INDICTMENT
AGAINST JOHN NOLTE
EIGHTEEN FELONY TRUE BILLS
INCLUDED WITH FORTY.
FOUR INDICTMENTS.
Two Automobile Thefts, Two Worth
less Check Cases and Nineteen
Yost Law Bills Returned.

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after two days of work, during which
time approximately one hundred wit
nesses were examined before the grand
jury by Prosecuting Attorney D.. A.
Mckee and Assistant Prosecutor Carl
Bachman.
Eighteen Of the true bills charge the
commission Of felony crimes. Twenty
six of the indictments are misde-
meanor true bills. Sixteen not true
bills were returned.
Charge Noite with Murder.
John H. Nolte, alias Jack Nolte. OF
Warwood, was indicted on a first
degree murder charge for the killing
: Of Robert Lee Ritz, late captain of
Wheeling high schools champion 1876
football team, at the corner of Ninth
and Main streets on Saturday evening,
December 2, 1916. James Ice, of Fol-
sam, ". Va, was indicted for felony
! for shooting James OLeary in the
weeks ago. Andrew Davis, alias j. G.
Buckley, Ices companion, who is al
legged to have come to Wheering with
Ice to pull off a big robbery in the
submarine was indicted on mis-
demeanor charge for carrying pistol.
lndict Groves and Smith.
| Benson ("Soup") Groves and James
Smith, two Of the men caught in the
famous raid in Benwood few weeks
ago when Marshall county authorities,
prohibition officers and Pennsylvania
police unearthed gambling den and
burglars rendezvous, were indicted
! jointly on a charge of committing the
robbery of dental gold and other val
uables in the McLain dental supply
depot in the City Bank building last
summer.
AIlege Gold Mine Fraud.
One Of the biggest felony cases
growing out of the grand jury probe,
aside from the Nolte murder case, is
that of S. H. Bracy, who conducted
offices for the Howie Gold Mining
company, of North Carolina, In the
German Bank building In this, city,
and who Is charged with feloniously
making false pretenses regarding the
stock of the mining company and
defrauding David McGary out OF sums
of money invested in stock purchases,
amounting to $4,000. Bracy is at
large and capias was issued for him.
Another important Indictment Is that
against Walter +. Conrad, an en-
ploye of the Metropolitan Life lnsur
ance company, who is Indicted on q
charge of embezzling funds from the
insurance company.
Joe Lalasa, the Italian Tho is al
legged to have shot Frank brugan, an
Italian boarder in his home in Alley
Is, On Wednesday Of last week, was
indicted on charge Of shooting with
intent to kill his victim, who is still
in critical condition at the Wheeling
hospital from the effects of one of the
bullets fired into his body.
! Two Automobile Thefts.
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are included in the felony indict-
turned against Raymond Dieringer,
Andy Baker and Frank Trabert, who
are accused of stealing an automobile
belonging to DR.. John Gilmore and
driving it out the National pike to A
point beyond West Alexander, Pa,
where the car was wrecked. Another
joint indictment was returned against
Harry Roller and Sam Frazier, the
young men who were captured at st.
Clairsville last week driving II. II.
Weller's automobile which they had
taken from an Island street less than
two hours before.
Worthless Checks Alleged.
There are two worthless check
cases, one being an indictment against
"A. L. Mack, alias A. ]. Manning,
charged with passing forged check
drawn on the Wetze1 County Bank of
New Martnsville, al a Wheeling bust
ness house. S. NJ. West. father.in-
law of the alleged forger claims to-
have been the victim Of the forgery.
The other worthless check indictment
was returned against S. Diotalton, OF
Martins Ferry, o., who is alleged TO-
have passed a check for $50 al the
Hub without having sufficient funds
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BartoIas Indicted Twice.
Nineteen Yost law cases are in
cluded in the misdemeanor ndict,
ments. one of them being returned
against Cal Bartollas, proprietor Of
the White Cloud hotel. who was
charged with violating the Yost law
following big raid by city and
county authorities at the White Cloud
a few nights ago. Bartollas was also
indicted on charge Of operating a
gaming and disorderly house in the
White Cloud hotel.
Fred Van Dyke, who was taken in
the White Cloud raid. was indicted
on charge of carrying revolver.
Ella Sanders. one Of the white women
taken in the same raid, was indicted
with a negro under the name Of John
Doe, for unlawful association at the
White Cloud. and similar indictment
was returned against Ethel Williams.
(white). and William McGuffin (col-
ored.) The Williams woman has been
in the lookup and Jail ever since the
raid.
RieoIe Exonerated.
Among the cases In which mot
true" bills were found is that Of the
accident at Warwood early in Decem.
Der when Edna May Taylor, little
daughter of Charles Taylor, was run
down and fatally hurt by An automo-
bile driven by Harry Riggle, War
wood butcher. The grand jury, in
making its investigation of this case,
although a coroner's jury previously
held the driver of the machine GRIM
inally responsible for the child's
death. returned not true bill for
Harry Rigler. rs the name Is given on
the official paper.
When the grand jury had been dis
charged Judge Alan II. Robinson di-
rected that capiases be placed in the
hands of Sheriff Howard Hastings for
Joe Lalasa, S. Diotalten. S. II. Bracy,
Walter f. Conrad. William McGuffin,
Charles Kraft and John Doe"
Call Docket Friday.
The docket will be called in the
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