The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1922-12-28
CONFERENCE OF COUNT AND
6TEUBENvILLE CITY AUTHoh1-
TIES HELD IN OFFICE or
CHIEF or POLICE.
widow OF Slain Man Tells or Home
Being shadowed Before Night
OF Crime.

Steubcuvlllc, O., nec. Fifty ana
county authorities hp have been ma
ing separate Investigations I'M" the
murder OF Charles "DiNic" DiiI:I. aged
80 years. prohibition enforcement officer.
whose body was found in Marsh alley
here Christmas night. today combined
their efforts TO learn the identity "t a
stranger, a Hungarian. VIII" was with
the dry agent for several hours Monda%
night and who It is believed lured H!imn
Ia his death AZ the hands or professional
killers.
4 conference q. city and county Off
cos was held at tho Office -: ''Iicf OF
Police Blaine Carter this afternoon ana
was attended by Prosecutor Stanton
Pcarce and his assistants and Sheriff
Edward Lucas and deputies. who have
heen working on the case. Members or
Bl!nn's prohibition crew. who have been
gathering evidence, were also present.
Previous to the conference. the widow
% the slain officer talked with the
county officers and stated that thcir
home on Sycamore street had hccn shah-
owed for gone weeks past. that strange
men were seen about the prcmiscS, and
that on several occasions she saw mon
looking in the windows. Her husband
had told her, she said. that he was being
watched and followed about the city.
Just when the mysterious stranger
met Blinn has not been ascertaincd. but
II IS definitely known that he was with
him from 3 y. m. Until l0:@h =. n.
Monday night. The body Was found az
f1:2o p m.
stranger With olinn.
Sheriff Lucas in a statemen; today
says that ne traced Blinn 10 and from a
dozen or more places where drinks were
served and that tho stranger was always
with him, usually paying for the drinks
but refusing 10 drink anything himself.
The theory that the murder was " n
United on Webster avenue az Bl'nn left
the homo OF Lulu Lyle or that he waa
killed In an auto was exploded this AFT
ernoon when the sheriff learned from
James Casali. North Sixth street cafe
owner, that Blinn and the stranger were
In his place At 1880 p. N. and that the
stranger paid for two hotties OF beer
which tho dry agent drank. Another
person, It IL claimed. has been found
who saw the two men going towards the
Polish quarter where the murdered body
WAS discovered.
Officials now believe the stranger
"steercd- BlInn to this section, where
paid gunner. hired to avengs the ar
rest and prosecution Of foreign boot
leggers, completed the lob, probably IN
Some house IN that quarter. afterwards
carrying the body to Marsh alley.
Lad oussttonsd
James Tobasso. aged II years. who
discovered the body. was questioned
again this afternoon and admitted that
when he and a young companion found
tho body, II was lying face downward
In the alley and that they turned It
over to see who It was. The boy denied
that he had taken the money from
Blinn's pocketbook.
POLICE stated late today they had OBJ
tanned better description Of the stranger
and this description is to bs broadcas St
ed. Half a dozen Witnesses have been
found who claim they saw Bnnn and
tho Hungarian on tho streets after 10
p. m, which was the % he Is supposed
to have left the Lyle homo.
The efforts Of both city and county
police departments are now centcred on
tho nnding OF the Hungarian. whose
arrest they confidently believe Will bring
a solution Of the crime.
The funeral OF the murder victim will
held from his late home Thursday
afternoon At , p. m.