Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-11-25
Find Peirce's Pin in
Wheeling PaluuShOp
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" Heetuty F0tCNSFCp
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shop, ut 1890 Market street, Wheeling
The name given by the man Who pawurd
II was not learned.
Both pawnbrOkerS were positive that
| 1t was neither Treadway nor the dis
guiScd Marie Williams. masking as Il
man in suit 0f 1rondwuy's old
clothes. who had pawUpd their articles
Search to discover Pcirc"'S watch in
anv Wheeling uHwnShOn was Cruit'eS>.
Troadway told II circum>tuntial story
Of the crime as he was being brought
| from Wheeling to Pittsburgh.
This 'Al' Smith. VIII" did I'll" kill
ing. said the prisoner, "Gvcd In Phila-
| delphia somewhere near Eighth and
Spruce streets. lie had quite n rep
as II crap shooter | hadn't met him
until Saturday. He had friend whom
] knew only by the name Of Jack.
Saturday night thc pair camN 10 my
apartments near Twenty. first and Wal
nut streets. They were both drunk. and
| didn't want to let thcm in hr"Husc /
| was afraid they'd mAdc a row and got
! w put out. So went out with them
TO get something to cut.
says Others Were Druuk
when we were eating we met pc.rrc.
! | knew Peirrc we'll. lEr invited mr to
ring Marie to his place. He said he
had some good liquor. lie didn't invit"
! the other two bpcuus" they were drunk.
| They got awful sore about it. though.
Marie and ! went with l'cirrC to
. his place. and we had been drinking IL
While when the door opened suddenly
and Al and Jack came il,
"How did thew know whrr" to tmd
yUut" TrrHdw@y was nsak"d.
They d heard rs talking i'll the res o
taurant. They weren't =" drunk th'y
didn't remember the address
"Wrll. they cum" in, and this tcl
low Al flashed gun at our heads.
put IN my hands. but I'circ" didn't act
quick enough. Marie and another girl
who had come with us ran out Of the
room aud down the stairs.
Says Slayer Went Bad
"Wh"n Prircc didn't put his hands
lp Az pulled out II jack and soaked
lin over the arm. Then he hit him
again over the head.
"'Al went hnd then. and took the
hutr end Of the revolver and hit Prlr, &
over the hrnd with il several times,
. lItu nc DAlAfl bNN lL' lANhN y " - h' u
from his pocket and hit him with that.
When al and Jack had robbed the
body they made III" go downstairs win
them and start the big ear. ThcI
snid I'd have to TAX" them over The
state line. | was afraid 60 resist and
got in. Mario was there in the street
She wouldn't be left behind, and jumped
in. too. We brue it out WNlnut street
Il rHn Easy give you ways t" prov,
thut wha, ] say is true. We stopped
for gas ont at Sixty third and Chestnut
street,. There is 4 gas station there,
at tho beginning of the Cobb'S Greek
Boulevard
W. bought fourteen gallons If gus
at this station and Will" ~" were there
the tWo men il the car treated Negro
and Il whit" man who worked at III,
stution. They treated the two out Of
one of the three quart bottles of whisky
they had stolen Hftrr th"y wilIrd ICtrcc
Also stopped at Cumberland
Then "" went strgight to- Baltimore,
: We bought ten gallons of gas at gar
age in the 500 block on Calvin street
We got fourteen gallons nor" III Cum
bcrlRnd, Md.
1T was Il trrriLl" trip through th'
mountains. We were going us ta>t "a
We dared and in some places thcr'
was foot and hnlf "i snow. W" ha'
to keep hoth headlights and both spot
lights going full tilt 10 grt light "n0uGi
not to break uur ucrhs. That wa VII!
the Storage battery was near dead whcI
We reached Wheeling,
"Thrcr or four times ] thought w
were don" for. We hung right on the
edge Of rock roads, and little more
would have taken ~ over. We got by
all right though. "" wrr" nearly d"a,
when we got to Wheeling.
Efforts o. lind any on" in tn" VIrlnit
Of Eighth and Spruc" streets who knew
or had ever heard Of '.Nl' Smith proved
unayaling this afternoon.
The manager Of the refining com
pany = gasoline station ~ Sixty thLrt
and Chestnut streets, said That 80 iu
as h" knew, 10 autU"n"Dii" of H." typ'
in which IN" trip 20 Wheeling wa
r.adr stopped at the station for gaHo
line carly Sunday w"ruing,
Treadwny's StCry IIh
Il was here up uurjl midnight Sa'
rrdov uight, ~ he sud "Nu rcd ca
r,u,aiuiu three men aud Woman stop
Iri Tor 0s. From midnight until
O'Clock SUNDAY morning, there WAS ~
one al the pLNtiou but nihl watch
man, who i- not authorized 10 sell aso
line.
II came on duty again Mt o'clocI
Sunday morning. aud ! cun say posi-
lively that - quartet did not Obtain
any gasOIin" at our station thut day
The story that Two 81 the m"i
guvc our OF two qunrts Of whisky Il
Que Of the men httendauts at the sta
lion /, not feasible in view of tho fac
that We employ only girls To sell thu
gasoline and oil.
Until thr very minute III" prisoners
were nut aboard the train this morning
for Pittsburgh for the first stage ot
their return journey, man aud CIR
denied they were guilty Of the bruta
murder Of PeirCe.
Il didn't do it; | didn t do il, vii,
liaLIS repeated.
The man spent bad night in his
cell at the Wheeling Jail. All night
long he tossed on the hard prison cot
aleeping little and moaning from ri,YPpSs rt,iYPs
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