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around here. There’s still a chance that
the killer hasn’t broken out yet.” He
looked up at the sky as he heard the
sound of airplane motors. Three
planes were above flying low. “Those
are the boys who might be able to help
us. We sent out a call for ’em.”

Howard Ryan, chief of the Bryn
Athyn police, was in one plane, piloted
by Addie Flack. The other was piloted
by H. Wallen, a flying instructor, and
the third by Ernest Buehl, accompanied
by his son.

The planes flew no more than 200 feet
from the ground and at a slow rate of
speed.‘ They did this purposely so that
in the event they spotted the killer they
would be able to signal the ground
forces immediately.

CHIEF RYAN was in the lead plane, a
Cub. Occasionally he fixed binocu-
lars to his eyes, only to put them down
again on his lap. It was hard to spot
anyone from the air where the foliage
was thick. His only hope was that he
might see the killer break into a clear-
ing or run across a field. He waved to
his pilot, Flack, to go down a little
lower. He could see a group of officers
below, probing a large clump of brush
and weeds with their rifle butts. An-
other group was about a quarter of a
mile away, crossing a road into a dense
thicket. Occasionally the Chief could
catch the glint of their rifles, reflecting
the sun. j

The Cub flew on until it was over a
large, oozing swamp near Bethayres,
several miles from the spot where
Mathews had been slain. Chief Ryan
had a clear view of the swamp and he
surveyed it through his binoculars.

What was that?

He focused his binoculars quickly. It
was a man, stumbling through the
swamp, his arms thrashing wildly.

The man heard the sound of the
Plane and he looked up and then
plunged forward. He was heading to-
ward a growth of woods that fringed
the swamp. Chief Ryan waved franti-
cally to his pilot and the plane circled
the man below.

But Ryan was helpless. There was no
Place to land and the plane had no
radio. What he had to do was fly back
to the ground officers and signal them
to the swamp, and somehow he had to
do it before the man broke out of the
swamp and reached once more the
safety of the woods.

The Chief thought of firing at the
man. But then—

What if this man wasn’t actually the
killer?

The plane headed back toward the
main forces. Chief Ryan spotted several
men on the road. The plane dipped
down to about 75 feet and the Chief
shouted out the word, “Swamp!” and
pointed desperately in its direction.

The officers stood there looking up,
as if trying to figure out what the Chief
was saying.

The Chief had to repeat the maneuver
twice more before they understood and
broke into a run in the direction in
which he pointed.

Chief Ryan had his pilot head the
plane back toward the swamp. The
other two planes still were circling the
area. But nowhere could the Chief find
a trace of the man he had seen. Un-
doubtedly he had reached the woods.

In a few minutes officers poured from
all sides into the swamp. They covered
it completely and then headed into the
opposite woods. Chief Ryan, flying
ahead, was of no more help to them.
In the cover afforded by the trees, the
fugitive was safe again.

EANWHILE every community

around Rydal was alerted. The
morning’s newspapers were filled with
the slaying and. with the details of the
chase. While the killer was on the loose,
no one was safe. He was armed with
several revolvers and he would not hesi-
tate to kill again.

And with that feeling of tenseness in
the air the doorbell rang at the home
of R. L. Smith, at Rydal Road and
Washington Road.

Mrs. Smith answered it.

The moment she opened the door, she
was sorry she did.

A man stood there. A man who wore
glasses and who had a thin mustache.

Mrs. Smith, her heart thundering,
remembered the description of the
killer which she had read in the news-
papers.

“Could you give me something to
eat?” the man asked. “A sandwich or
something?”

“I—I don’t have anything—” She
slammed the door shut and leaned
against it heavily. Her heart seemed
to be throbbing in her head.

The door locked, she gathered
strength enough to look out the window.
The man was walking across Rydal
Road. Soon he had plunged into the
woods.

Mrs. Smith ran to the phone.

A few minutes later the area was
swarming with officers, but nowhere
could they find a trace of the man who
had come to the Smith door.

Now he was here, now he was there.
Dozens of frantic phone calls poured
into Abington Headquarters. A guard
at a manufacturing plant saw a man
slip from one: patch of woods to an-
other. A woman was sure she saw the
killer in front of her house. And on it
went, one call after another, some of
them reaching the pitch of hysteria.

Here, there, but always the killer was
nowhere.

At least nowhere the police could find.

Meanwhile in. Philadelphia, from
which the killer’s truck had come, a
many-pronged investigation was being
carried out. Public Safety Director
Samuel Rosenberg had promised the
Montgomery County authorities all
the cooperation it was possible to give.
The investigation, directed by In-
spector Doyle, was concentrated in the
Seventh Detective Division, from which
area the truck apparently had been
stolen. Sergeant McDermott and De-
tective Britt, assigned permanently to
the case by their direct superior, De-
tective Lieutenant Albert A. Granitz,
worked on that day without sleep in an
effort to find the killer before his trail
became cold. .

As FAR as they could figure, Earl

Benson, who owned the truck, and
Andrew White, who had borrowed it,
were in the clear. The two men defi-
nitely had not been in on the killing
and, from what McDermott’s and Britt’s
investigation of them indicated, they
were not the type of men who would be
involved in a burglary.

As they told Lieutenant Granitz when
they gave him a report that morning,
“We're sure someone stole the truck
from in front of White’s house with-

out him knowing it. If we find that.

thief we'll find the killer.”

“What do you suggest, Lieutenant?”
Britt asked.

“The first thing we have to do is pick
up every known burglar in the area we
can get our hands on. Every car thief
we can find. Every man with glasses
and a mustache who even comes close
to the killer’s description. Of eourse,
the fellow might have shaved off his
mustache, so we can even skip that
point. Let’s make it anyone who fits the
killer’s description in the slightest way.
Bring ’em all in. I’ll call up Abington
and have ’em send Cutting along and
see if he can identify someone.”

McDermott and Britt started out im-

mediately. Within an hour and a half -

they had in custody five men with
criminal records who bore what they
thought was a resemblance to the kill-
er. Waiting for Patrolman Cutting to
arrive from Abington, they questioned
the five men continuously. All of them
protested their innocence vehemently.
Three claimed alibis for the night be-
fore. The other two, however, were
hazy about their night’s activities, say-
ing that they had done a lot of drink-
ing. and could not say definitely where
they had been.

Patrolman Cutting, accompanied by
Sergeant Jackson, arrived at the
Seventh Division Station about noon.
Cutting took just one glance at the five
men and cleared them immediately.

“T had a pretty good look at the kill-
er,” Cutting said, “and I’m sure I could
recognize him if I saw him again.”

Inspector Doyle said, “I guess we’re
going to put you to work then.”

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"Johnstown, Pa., April 9. - Yharles Carter gave up his life on the
scaffold today for the murder of John Matthews in Johnstown on the
night of the 2nd of last November, Carter is a colored man, and
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iously injured a young man named Kurtz. Yor this offense, however, he was
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murder Carter and Matthews had had some trouble about one of the
women and Carter threatened to fill him with lead. When

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shot him several timés with a pistol, from the effects of which
Matthews died the next day." STAR, Indianatopolis, Indiana,

April 10, 1890


man’s passport through the building.
Nobody would look twice at a window
cleaner, moving along the corridor with
his pail and rags. It would seem so
natural that few people would even
recall seeing him.

“Anything been stolen while the
window-shine was around?” asked
Kenny.

Arel answered promptly and em-
phatically. “No, Sir! By that, I mean,
not that I heard of, and I usually hear
of it. No burglars around here at all.”

Kenny smiled. “There was one tq-
day,’ he said. “The second in a week.”

The superintendent gave a sickly
smile. “Yeah?” he asked.

“The Kehoe boy's dime collection,”
Detective Kenny replied. “It disap-
peared in two installments. Twenty
bucks a week ago and the rest this
afternoon, for a total of ninety dollars.”

Arel stroked his nose. “Nobody
beefed,” he said at last, and with a
sigh added, “That’s unusual.”

Detective Kenny swiftly outlined his
theory. It hinged on the window-
washer.

“That could be,” Arel declared. “I
check those babies as close as I can,
but how can you really tell? I’ll get the
records.”

HE WAS back in a moment with a
card. “The name I have,” he re-
ported, “is John Edward Felton, of Ful-
ton Avenue, up in The Bronx. He’s
worked here a year.”

Anticipating the next question, Arel
ran his finger down the card. “He was
in the Kehoe apartment a week ago.
Wasn’t due back for ten days. That’s
the schedule they work on, unless
asked for more frequent service, which
rarely happens in the Winter. So he
sure as Hell wasn’t due here today.”

Detective Kenny nodded. “The big
question now is: Was he here?”

“Well, I'll make some inquiries,” Arel
promised. “Somebody may have seen
him around.”

Kenny hurried back to the station-
house and related his progress to

Lieutenant Demarest. And Demarest
decided that Felton would have to be
brought in.

Such things are routine, usually. But
the Fulton Avenue address turned out
to be a large tenement, with no tenants
listed by the name of Felton.,

It took an hour of sweating, and
considerable use of “the tin,” as New
York cops affectionately call their
badges, to get on the trail of Mr. Felton.

He was only a roomer, not a tenant.

And into his room they came at last,
not overly comfortable at the circle of
staring, perhaps hostile eyes of neigh-
bors that greeted them.

Felton’s room was so bleak that a
search was easy. Kenny “tossed it,” as
the cops say, while Lieutenant Demar-
est pressed for information among the
neighbors.

“Look,” he said disarmingly, “I’m not
Home Relief. I don’t want a thing from
you folks except some information
about Mr. Felton.”

His persuasion won him a few drib-
lets of information. Felton was a wash-
er, of dishes and windows. He had plied
the same beat in the Lexington Ave-
nue sector for nine years. Yes, he was
married but the whereabouts of Mrs.
Felton was a mystery.

Meanwhile Detective Kenny was
finding things inside the grimy room
that Felton inhabited.

To begin with, there was no evi-
dence of flight. What few .clothes
Felton owned appeared to be in their
places.

But Kenny triumphantly came up
with two small pieces of brown paper
from a small waste-basket. “Look at
those!” he cried.

They were brown coin-wrappers
from a bank.

This could have been coincidence,
but the time-tested New York cops
were not buying that. To them, those
wrappers spelled only one thing. The
petty loot from Johnny Kehoe’s Roose-
velt dime bank.

Lieutenant Demarest looked at the’

wrappers, brushed the sleeve of his

A Cop for a Truckload of Loot

“Ever since I've had it. Why not? It’s
always locked.”

“Did you lock it tonight?”

The man nodded. He was staring at
his slippered feet.

“Is the key in the house?”

White went to look and shortly he
was back with the key.

“I don’t know if Benson had a dupli-
cate or not,” he said.

And that was all the information
White could give. He swore that he
had parked the truck outside and that
this was the first he had known it was
gone. What did he know about Ear]
Benson, the man from whom he had
borrowed the truck? Well, all he knew
was that Benson was an honest, likeable
person.

“I think you’ve got it all wrong if
you're figuring him in on this,” White
said.

Did White have any idea who might
have stolen the truck?

“It could be anyone,” he said. “You
know how this neighborhood is. It’s a
rough place to live in.”

THE officers knew that he was right.
The Seventh Division had its fill of
criminals and toughs and any one of
them might have been the one who stole
the truck and shot Patrolman Mathews
to death. That would be their problem,
finding the one who stole the truck, for
although the slaying took place in
Rydal, the solution might very well lie
here in Philadelphia. i

“Of course,” Britt told McDermott as
they drove back to the station, “this
means we believe White's story.”

“For tonight anyway,” the Sergeant
answered. “I'm pretty sure White was
not involved, for his description doesn’t
seem to fit. But that doesn’t mean we
have to buy his story that the truck

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was stolen. I’m thinking of his friends,
the people he knows. He might have
loaned the truck to someone. Or he
might know who'd be likely to take it.”

Meanwhile, in Rydal and its sur-
rounding communities, the search for
the slayer of Patrolman Mathews was
pressed by members of six different
police forces. All that night they beat
through the thick woods, shoving aside
bushes and high weeds, probing the
tree limbs above them, poking their
flashlight beams into the tangled un-
dergrowth at their feet. The man they
sought was dangerous, a killer, a man
who would not hesitate to slay again,
and the officers, not knowing which tree
trunk hid their man, which weed patch
covered him, from which limb he might
be peering down at them like a panther,
held ther rifies and tommyguns and re-
volvers in readiness.

And at the same time the road blocks
that were set up at Second Street Pike
and Welsh Road, at Welsh and Valley
Roads, at Philmont and Fox Chase
Roads, were stopping every vehicle that
came by. The occupants were made to
step out, their faces studied, their pa-
pers read, their cars and trucks ex-
amined thoroughly. The officers were
taking no chance that the killer might
have jumped on the tailgate of some
truck or commandeered a car. They
wanted to keep him bottled up in the

woods, frightened by the sounds all.

around him, terrified by the flashlight
beams that might be pressing closer to-
ward him. They wanted him to run
frantically from tree to tree and bush to
bush, knowing that there was no way
out for him, that he was hemmed in,
that he could only run so far and no
more, that he was blocked and that
eventually he would pay.

But, as morning dawned and no sign

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new suit and said, “Let’s go get him.”

It took some doing. They walked
and walked, flashing the tin in gin-
mills, talking tough in some restau-
rants where it was necessary to talk
tough and. always keeping the “per-
suaders” in working order, quick to
the hand. This was a tough neighbor-
hood. Neither underestimated it.

Slowly, painstakingly, they picked up
a trail of dimes.

Here a man had changed five ten-
cent pieces into a half. Here he had
changed ten for a dollar. Always
Roosevelt dimes.

In a tavern on Third Avenue, Lieu-
tenant Demarest and Kenny missed
their quarry by no more than five min-
utes. Here he had exchanged one
whole packet of dimes for a ten-dollar
bill

They hurried on.

At 157th Street and Third Avenue,
the police caught up with Felton. He
was in the act of changing another
wrapper of Roosevelt dimes into dol-
lar bills.

“Pretty, aren’t they?” Detective
_Kenny asked, sidling alongside.

Felton scowled. “What are you after,
Mister?”

. “You,” Kenny replied politely. “Come
on, Felton, we have a bit of talking to
do.”

On the morning of February 15, after
Felton had been questioned extensively
at the East 67th Street Station, Chief
Inspector Sullivan announced that
Felton had confessed.

Sullivan quoted Felton as saying
that, a week before, he had cleaned
windows in the Kehoe apartment and
stumbled upon the cache of dimes. He
took two rolls, according to this alleged
confession.

The thought of those extra rolls of
dimes preyed on his mind.

On the morning of the fourteenth,
according to his confession, Sullivan
said, he determined to get them.

“I didn’t need money,” he was quoted
as saying. “I just wanted them.”

He took a bucket, swabs, squeegee

and the rest of his window-washing
tools and entered the apartment build-
ing on 82nd Street. He knew the habits
of the Kehoe family pretty well,

HE. MADE his way upstairs by the
self-service elevators, carrying his
bucket as a front. The service door to
the Kehoe apartment was unlocked, as
he figured it might be. Felton set his
bucket down at the end of the hall,
then walked in.

He was doing fine, according to the
confession as quoted by Chief In-
spector Sullivan, and had pocketed all
the rolls of dimes, when he passed the
bathroom door. ‘

“It began to open slowly,” Sullivan
quoted him as saying, “and I knew
Mrs. Timothy was gonna come out. I
knew she was in there. I could see the
tub; it was maybe a quarter full of
water, so I just pushed. Pushed as
hard as I could.”

His finger-prints matched those on
the door, Inspector Sullivan declared.
He said further that Felton kept
mumbling: “She was a nice old lady.
I didn’t mean to kill her.”

That same day Felton was booked
at the East 67th Street Station on a
formal charge of homicide.

He was arraigned the following day
before Magistrate Ambrose Haddock in
Manhattan Felony Court and held
without bail.

There was to have been a hearing
on March 1, but in the meantime the

_ New York County grand jury indicted

him for murder in the first degree,
contending that death had been caused
during the commission of a felony.

That was on February 25. He was
arraigned March 4, 1949, in General
Sessions Court, pleaded not guilty and
was remanded without bail for trial.
No date has been set as this issue. of
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goes to press.

The name and occupation of Charles
—Trigger—Thomas are fictitious to
protect an innocent character who was
questioned and cleared in this case.

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was found of the killer, Lieutenant
Streeper wondered exactly how trapped
this slayer was. With the light of day the
scores of policemen pressed into the
hunt seemed insignificant against
the miles of woodland which covered
the killer’s tracks. And who knew if
he had not broken out already, hours
ago perhaps, and had made for Phila-
delphia and was now mingling with
that city’s millions?

The officers, however, now knew for
certain what the killer had been doing
in Rydal, why he had tried to fiee so
furiously from Mathews and Cutting
and why, chased into the woods, he had
killed the patrolman.

They proved their theory that he
had come to Rydal to break into homes
there, that the articles found in his
truck were stolen loot, that Mathews
and Cutting had intercepted him just
after he had finished a job.

An investigation of near-by estates
by Lieutenant Streeper and Detective
Albert Murphy uncovered the fact that
two houses had been broken into and
ransacked. One was the Hauptfuhrer
home, the other that of J. W. Blizzard.
The occupants of both homes had been
away that night, and not until late in
the morning was a full picture of the
robberies obtained.

The Blizzards reported that jewelry
valued at $5,000 had been stolen. Also
missing were a dozen bottles of cordials
and whisky, a .22-caliber Colt auto-
matic, a .45 automatic, and about five
dollars in cash from a child’s bank.

The Hauptfuhrer home had been
ransacked even more thoroughly. The
killer had entered the home by break-
ing a window on the sun porch and
once inside he had just about gone
berserk in his search for valuables. Rugs
were turned up, drawers pulled out,

mattresses thrown off beds, closets ran-
sacked. The Hauptfuhrers reported
that jewelry and other valuables were
missing, although at that time they
didn’t know exactly how much, as well
as @ .38-caliber revolver.

THAT revolver, the police believed,
was the one that had been used to
kill Mathews; for after Doctor John
Simpson, Coroner’s Physician for
Montgomery County, completed his
autopsy at Abington Hospital, his re-
port stated that he thought the two
bullets found in the patrolman’s body
were .38’s.

“The course of the bullet in the head,”
Doctor Simpson reported, “was upward.
That indicates the killer was crouching
when the patrolman approached him.”

Lieutenant Streeper was parked at
the side of a road with Sergeant Frank
Jackson and Detective Murphy when he
received the physician’s report by
radio. A gang of construction workers
was digging up a side of the road about
a hundred yards away. They seemed
to work at their job half-heartedly.
their interest on the frenzied hunt go-
ing on around them. Occasionally their
foreman would shout at them. Lieuten-
ant Streeper watched them disinterest-
edly, his thoughts on the chase.

“The killer lured Mathews right to his
death,” he told Murphy. “Called out to
him in the darkness that he wanted to
give up and then waited for Tom to
come close to him.”

Murphy said, “What about servants
at the homes around here? After all,
the only two places looted, the people
were away at the time.”

“I thought of that,” Streeper an-
swered, “and I’m having someone look
into it. But right now I think our best
bet is to keep searching the woods

[L


“What do you mean?” Patrolman
Cutting asked.

“The Rogues’ Gallery pictures at
Headquarters,” the Inspector explained.
“I think the best thing for you to do
would be to go through them. It’s a
good bet that this boy has a record. And
since he stole the truck in Philly, it’s
probable that his record is here.”

Inspector Doyle accompanied Patrol-
man Cutting to Headquarters. Sergeant
Jackson, however, remained at the
Seventh Division to coordinate the
Philadelphia part of the investigation
with that of the Abington officers.

+6 NE thing we can't do,” Sergeant

McDermott told the others, “‘is
wait for Patrolman Cutting to go
through all those pictures. It might
take a couple days.”

Detective Britt said, “What do we do,
continue the round-up?”

“That's our best bet so far. Even if
we don’t pick up the killer, we might
find a boy who knows someone fitting
the description.”

The ringing of the phone interrupted
him. He swept up the receiver. The call
was from a mechanic in a near-by ga-
rage. In an excited voice, he reported
that a man fitting the killer’s descrip-
tion just had been in his garage and
had showed him a revolver he carried
in his back pocket.

McDermott, Britt and Jackson drove
to the garage.

“I know the fellow,"’ the mechanic
told them, “and he’s a mean cuss. He
stepped into the garage a short while
ago and he gave me a funny grin and
he said, ‘Look, you wanna see some-
thin’?" And he pulls out that rod.
Geez, he scared me to death! I didn't
breathe easy until he walked away.
Then I remembered reading about that
cop getting killed.”

Detective Britt interrupted quickly to
ask the mechanic the man’s name. It
was Harry Johnston, the mechanic said,
and he gave the officers the address.
The officers hurried there immediately.
They found Johnston sitting on the
front steps of the boarding-house in
which he lived.

Gun? What gun, Johnston demand-
ed when the officers asked for his re-
volver. He was still sitting on the steps,
his hands folded on his lap.

Britt said, “Stand up.”

“Why?”

“This is why,” Britt said, and he
flashed his badge.

Johnston swallowed hard and his de-
meanor changed. He got up slowly. As
he did, Sergeant McDermott noticed a
bulge in his back pocket. A quick frisk
revealed the gun.

A .38. The same size gun that prob-
ably had been used to kill Mathews.

“You carry guns you don’t know
about. boy?’’ McDermott asked.

Johnston didn't say anything.

“Why did you deny having one?”
Britt demanded.

“I didn't figger it was your busi-
ness," Johnston answered sullenly.

**) JOW that it is our business, tell us
why you're carrying it.”

“Just carryin’ it, that’s all.”

“Where were you all last night?” Mc-
Dermott questioned.

“Home,” and he nodded at the board-
ing-house.

“All night?”

He nodded again.

“You got proof?”

The officers studied him as he seemed
to search for an answer. Johnston was
about 29 and, although he didn’t fit the
killer's description exactly, he came
close enough. He wore neither glasses
at the moment nor a mustache but this
didn’t mean anything, the officers
realized. The .38 revolver was the im-
portant link.

“I was home,” Johnston said finally.
“But I live alone and nobody was with
me.”

The detectives realized that the
easiest way to settle the whole thing
was to have Johnston face Patrolman
Cutting. They bundled him into their
car and drove to Headquarters. As they
drove they wondered if, perhaps, this
was the end of the case. Would Cut-
ting identify Johnston? Or would they

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have to look further? It seemed as if,

in their anxiety. to learn the answer,

they would never reach Headquarters.

ae minute of driving was like an
our.

And at Headquarters they waited
with Johnston while Cutting was sum-
moned from the file room where he was
still going through Rogues’ Gallery pic-
tures.

As Cutting entered the room he stared
at Johnston and a frown crossed his
face.

He kept looking, still frowning, as if
trying to make up his mind.

Johnston rubbed his chin nervously
and McDermott had to order him
sharply to take his hand from his face.
The man was quick to obey.

McDermott looked back at Patrolman
Cutting.

THE patrolman shook his head. No,
this wasn’t the man who had killed
his partner. At first he hadn't been
certain, but now he was positive. The
man definitely was in the clear.

Although Johnston was cleared in the
slaying, he was ordered held for a hear-
ing on the charge of carrying a con-
cealed weapon.

Where to now?

“I’m going blind from all those pic-
tures,’ Cutting said wearily. “And
there’s thousands more.”

Leaving Cutting at Headquarters,
McDermott, Britt and Jackson headed
back to the Seventh Division. They
were a tired, disgusted group of offi-
cers. They had expected a lot with
Johnston's arrest, but now they had
nothing. In a second everything had
been wiped away.

As they entered the stationhouse,
they saw a group of officers gathered in
the radio room, their faces tense with
excitement. The three detectives hur-
ried over.

“What’s up, Lieutenant?” Britt asked
Granitz.

The Lieutenant explained quickly.
An alarm just had come over the police
radio that a man resembling the killer
had been spotted in the Northeast sec-
tion of Philadelphia, and that all avail-
able police cars in the vicinity were
bottling up the Roosevelt Boulevard and
Grant Avenue area.

“A couple of cops in a squad car spot-
ted' this fellow trying to hitch a ride,”
Lieutenant Granitz went on. “When
he saw them, he beat it into a section
of woods around there. Every cop in
the Northeast is probably up there now.
A couple New York-bound buses stopped
becausé of the excitement and the pas-
sengers are helping in the hunt.”

The officers remained by the police
radio waiting some word of the progress
of the hunt. Was this hitch-hiker the
killer of Patrolman- Mathews? Or
would it turn out to be another false
alarm?

Five minutes passed, then ten.

“McDermott or Britt!” someone
shouted from the detective quarters
upstairs. ‘Telephone!”

Sergeant McDermott, leaving the
radio room reluctantly, went up to an-
Swer it.

Andrew White, from whose house the
truck had been stolen, was on the
phone. He had important information
for the officers, he said.

Britt and McDermott hurried over to
White’s house immediately. There they
found the man and his twelve-year-old
son, Bernie.

“Bernie just told me something that
happened last night,” White explained.

McDermott said to the boy, “What
happened?”

ERNIE wasn’t nervous at all. He said,

“About half-past ten a man rang the
bell. I answered it; Mom and Pop were
upstairs sleeping. Well, this man was
there, Buddy, and he asked to see Pop.
I said Pop was sleeping. He asked to
— Mom and I said she was sleeping
00.”

“What did he say then?”

“Nothing,” the boy answered. “He
just turned around and walked away.
A little while later I saw him peeking
into the truck. Then he drove away in
it. I didn’t think any more about it
*cause I knew he wanted to buy the

truck. I forgot all about it until just
now.”

“Who’s this Buddy?” Britt asked.
“And what about him wanting to buy
the truck?”

White explained that the same day
he had borrowed the truck from. Ben-
son and had parked it in front of the
house, a man had come to his door and
asked if he’d be interested in selling it.

“I told him it wasn’t mine to sell,”
White continued, “but I said that if I
ever got around to buying it, I might
think about selling it to him. It all de-
pended what I had to pay for it and
what he’d offer me. He came to the
house the day after that but I told him
I still hadn’t bought the truck.”

“You say his name’s Buddy?” Britt
questioned. “Do you know his full
name?”

White shook his head. “That’s all he
called himself.”

“Did he say what he wanted the
truck for?”

“He said he was going into some kind
of a business, although he didn't say
what. I asked him what he did now and
he said something about sewers. I don’t
remember what it was, -whether he
cleaned them or dug them or what.”

That business about sewers could be
important, the detectives realized.
They asked White for a description of
Buddy.

And the description he gave was al-
most exactly the same as that of the
man who had (Killed Patrolman
Mathews.

HE two detectives rushed back to the
Seventh Division station where they,
met the other officers just as they were
leaving the radio room. The lead of the
hitch-hiker in the woods had fizzled
out. The police had found him but he
turned out to be a sixteen-year-old boy
who had run away from home.

McDermott and Britt told Sergeant
Jackson what they had learned about
Buddy.

When they came to the part about
the sewers, Jackson stopped them.

“What's the matter?” Britt asked.

“That might explain everything,”
Jackson answered tensely. “That might
explain how the killer knew which of
the Rydal homes were empty and which
families were away on vacations.”

“I don’t get it,” Britt said.

“You will when I tell you that con-
struction work is being done on a road
near where Mathews was killed. And
you know what they’re doing? They’re
putting in sewers!”

Sergeant Jackson hurried to the
phone and put through a call to Lieu-
tenant Streeper in Abington. He told
the Lieutenant what they had discover-
ed and asked him to find out if a man
called Buddy worked with the construc-
tion gang near the crime-scene.

And then, in Philadelphia; the offi-
cers sat back and waited.

Would this lead, too, fizzle out?

A half hour passed, then an hour.

The phone rang and the three offi-
cers dashed for it. McDermott picked
it up first. It was Lieutenant: Streeper.
He had talked to the sewer-construc-
tion people, a Philadelphia firm, and
had learned from them that a man
nicknamed Buddy had worked there.
His real name was Ollie Carey and he
lived on Haverford Avenue in Phila-
delphia.

ys is the important part,” Streep-
er said. ““‘We spoke with the fore-
man and he told us that Carey hasn’t
shown up for work today.”

McDermott, Britt and Jackson im-
mediately left for Headquarters, there
to go through the files to see if Carey
had a police record.

A quick search revealed his name and
picture. Carey had a record that went
back 23 years.

Patrolman Cutting was shown Carey’s
picture, which he hadn’t reached yet in
his probing of the Rogues’ Gallery.

He looked at the picture carefully. He
wanted to make no mistake.

Later, police officials announced that
Cutting identified the picture.

An alarm immediately was sent over
the police network and, although the
search in the Rydal woodlands was

continued, the investigation in Phila-
delphia was intensified. The officers
searched all of Carey’s known hang-
outs: without finding a trace of him.
He wasn’t at his home and hadn’t been
there since the night of the crime. His
girl friend, whom the police questioned,
claimed not to have seen him.

The officers warned her to let them
know immediately if he did get in
touch with her.

D4¥s passed. Two, three, four. The
search in the woods was given up.
Carey had disappeared completely.

And then they received word from
his girl friend that she had received'a
Postcard from him. The card merely
said that he was well. The postmark
was from a small town in Virginia.

Although the police had sent Carey’s
picture and finger-prints to every large
police department in the country, offi-
cials of the southern states, especially
Virginia, were asked again to be on the
lookout for the man.

Early on the morning of July 9, Vir-
ginia State Policeman L. F. Payne was
patrolling State Route No. 130 near
Lynchburg when he saw a man walking
along the highway trying to hitch a
ride, It was a strange hour for a hitch-
hiker to be on the road, especially a man
carrying two suitcases, and the trooper
stopped to question him. The hitch-
hiker said that his name was Hanson
and he was from Philadelphia, and he
produced papers to prove it. He said
that he was trying to catch a bus to
Lynchburg.

Having nothing against the man but
suspicion, the trooper walked away and,
from his car, kept his eye on him. When
he saw the man take a northbound bus,
instead of the southbound one which he
would take if he were going to Lynch-
burg, the trooper knew that something
was wrong.. He raced ahead of the bus
and picked up another trooper, F. A.
Bradley, Junior. When the bus stopped
at Amherst, the officers took the sus-
pect into custody.

Taken to the Lynchburg station, the
man insisted that his name was Hanson.

He didn’t change his story until his
finger-prints were found to be those of
the fugitive, Ollie Carey.

Virginia police claimed that Carey
confessed to the crime but later denied
everything, calling the charges “a
joke.” Once, officers said, he stated
that although he hadn't killed
Mathews, he thought he knew the man
who did. -

On Saturday night he asked his jailer

for a pencil and paper. The following’

day he returned them unused and from
his pocket he took a piece of jagged
glass. He told State Police Sergeant
C. E. Rives that he had intended to
write a statement and then kill himself,
but that he had changed his mind,
Rives said.

Although Carey said he would waive
extradition, Montgomery County offi-
cials took no chance. Captain Patrick
McKee of the Abington police obtained
an extradition warrant from Governor
James H. Duff and, armed with these
papers, Lieutenant Streeper, Sergeant
Jackson, Detective Murphy and Patrol-
man Cutting went to Virginia to bring
Carey back.

Carey was returned on July 14, after
signing a waiver of extradition which
made unnecessary the use of the papers
the officers had brought with them.

N JULY 14,1949, he was ordered held

without bail on two charges of
burglary. Later that day Sergeant
Minor Newcombe said that he had
Slashed his wrists in an attempt at
suicide which failed.

The next day Carey was ordered held
without bail on a murder charge and
July 20, 1949, a coroner’s jury held him
for grand jury action at an inquest in
Norristown, seat of Montgomery
County. As this issue of OFFICIAL
DETECTIVE STORIES goes to press,
further action is pending.

In this story the names Earl Benson,
Andrew and Bernie White and Harry
Johnston are fictitious to protect per-
sons brought into the investigation in-
nocently.


"The 'Herald'! representative interviewed the doctors present, as the corpse was being
placed in the casket, The men of medicine differed in their views as to the cause of
death, Some said trangulation, Others said broken neck or fracture of the vertebrae,
Those who were of the strangulation opinion bpheld their views with the .argument that
had there been a severing of the vertebra death would have been more sudden and not so
- long drawn out, On the other hand those physicians who believed the neck was broken
contended that if such was not the case, there would have been convulsions and con-
vulsions very pronounced, As it was there was but slight twitching, likely invul-
untary on the victim's part, who was sent into eternity a second after the drop, or
when the rope's slack was taken up by Clemmer's weight at the end of it. The jury re-
tired to the waiting room at the junction of the old and newportions of the jail, after
Clemmer's body was taken down, They heard the report of the physician's autopsy to the
effect that 'the neck was not broken,’ The jury accordingly rendered a verdict of
'death from strangulation by due process of law.' The autopsy was made by Drs.
Beaver, Tegtmeier and Hall, and it was on their decision that the verdict was rendered,
From the appearance of Clemmer's face as he lay in the casket in cell No, 45, he ex=
perienced no pain, There was no sign of convulsion or distorition of the features in
any waye The dark rings under his eyes evidenced the worry he had undergone,
".20n Wednesday Clemmerwas .visited by his wife, Judge H. Ke Weand and one of his attor-
neys, Edward F, Kane, The guard at the prison claims that the condemned man slept
well during the night and Thursday morning he ate a hearty breakfast. Shortly after
6 o'clock Thursday morning Rev, F,ther Gallagher went to-the jail with the Holy
- Eucharist and administered communion to Clemmer, At 7 o'clock Father Hannihan
arrived, . He stayed with the doomed man until the endeeeeLizzie DeKalb, who figured as
‘the woman in.black' in the murder case, occupied a cell probably 50 feet from the
scaffold, . She was confined on the 2nd tier, about midway of the old portion, and on
the .lower side,
"HISTORY OF THE CRIME,

"James A. Clemmer was executed for the.murder of Mrs, Emma P, Kaiser, who was shot and
instantly killed on Wednesday .evening, Oct. 28, 1896, on the Crooked Lane road, about
a mile below Bridgeport, The tragedy is still fresh in the minds of every reader of
our paper. “harles 0. Kaiser and his wife Emma left Norristown about 5 o'clock in the
afternoon for the purpose of taking a drive, They went.as far as.Gulf Mills, when |
Kaiser decided to return to Norristown by the way of Bridgeport. Shortly before 6
o'clock Benjamin Hughes, a clerk in the Peoples Bank, was returning to his home at Gulf
Mills, when he passed a team containing Charles 0, Kaiser, Jr., and his wife. A short
distance down the road Hughes met a man walking hurriedly towards the team containing
the Kaisers. Fifty yards from the man was a team approaching containing a woman, From
a description afterwards given she was identified as Lizzie DeKalb and the man

walking wasnone other than James A, Clemmer, Hughes had hardly got out of sight bee
fore Mr. and Mrs. Colehower, who reside on a farm in Upper Merion township, heard 2
pistol shots, A few minutes later Frank Mancill, now deceased, came driving along

the road and met Kaiser, The latter seemed to be terribly excited and exclaimed

that he had been waylaid by 2 highwaymen, He said that they had shot his wife and

had taken her valuables, He also showed where he had been wounded in the arm. Mrse
Kaiser wastaken to Bridgeport where it was found she was dead, The ball had passed
through the brain just above the left temple, The next morning a search was made
and-Mrs, Kaiser's missing jewelry and a revolver, with 2 chambersempty, were found
hidden under a stone a short distance-from where the alleged robbery was supposed to
have taken place, On Oct, 29th, Kaiser was phaced under arrest charged with the mur-
der of his wife. The trial came up on Mar, 8, 1897, and after a sensational trial,
which lasted 2 weeks, he was convicted of murder in the first degree and sentenced to
be hung, The case was taken to the Supreme Court but they refused to reverse the
decision of the lower court, Gov. Hastings fixed Sept. 6, 1898, as the day of execution,
Kaiser defeated the ends of justice, however, for he committed suicide on Auge 18 by
cutting arteries in his arm and limbs with a spring taken out of a clock, Elizabeth
DeKalb was arrested in Philadelphia on Nove. 3, 1897, and James A, Clemmer was captured
at Newark, N, J.,°on Nov, 26, 1897, Shortly after her arrest the "woman in black’
weakened and told all she knew of the murder of Mrs, Kaiser, She said that Kaiser and
Clemmer had placed $11,000 (insurance) on her life and then murdered her to get the
money. Lizzie also said that Clemmer told her that he fired the fatal shot for the
simple reason that 'Kaiser did not have the nerve,' Clemmer was put on trial on June
13, 1898, and Lizzie- DeKalb went on the stand and her testimony alone was énough to

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lantern spread in a thin, fiat circle

“= on the deep ruts of the farmer’s
lane. Its flickering glare lighted the
legs of two men; left the upper halves
of their bodies in darkness.

“You say your wife’s been shot?” The
voice came from above the overall-clad
legs.

“T think she’s dead.” The speaker’s
voice sounded weak.

The two men stumbled on in silence,
their shadows taking monstrous strides
into the blackness beyond. The rim of
light ahead picked out the junction of
the farmer’s lane with the Philadelphia-
Bridgeport highway, and glinted on the
thin spokes of a trim
buggy.

“She’s in there.”

’ Farmer William Det-

tra raised the lantern
over his head. In the
buggy, half on the
leather seat, half on the
floor, slumped the fig-
ure of a woman. Her
large hat, its cockade
of upright plumes wav-
ing slightly, hung
crazily to one side, still
attached to her pom-
padour by a jeweled
hat-pin.

Even in the gloom of
this shadowy headgear,
Dettra could see the
dark stain on her face.
He reached out a hand
and moved the _ hat.
The woman’s eyes were
expressionless, unsee-
ing. :

The young husband
said, “We've got to get
her to a doctor.”

Dettra shook his
head. “She don’t need
no doctor, she’s dead,”
he commented as he
peered over the dash-
board at the silent
figure.

At this point came
the rapid clip-clip of a
trotting horse and the
ringing creak of steel
tires on the gravel. An-
other buggy pulled into
the light and stopped
with a muted “Whoa!”

‘“‘What’s the trouble?”

Tis SMOKY light of the kerosene

Scene sketched in court at the trial of the .
slayer with the death buggy introduced as
evidence. Charles Kaiser (inset) described

“They've been hurt,” explained
Dettra. “His wife was shot.”

The newcomer, introducing himself
as Frank Mancill, proprietor of the
Farmer’s Hotel at Bridgeport, Penn-
sylvania, backed up his horse and
turned the buggy around.

“Need a hand to get into your buggy?”
Mancill asked, and the young man
nodding, the inn-keeper and the farmer
boosted him in beside his wife.

“Pll tie your horse’s reins to my
buggy. I don’t think you can drive with
one hand,” Mancill added. “You just
hold onto. your wife and don’t let her
get jolted.”

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In Bridgeport, the inn-keeper was
fortunate to find a lamp still burning in
the office of Dr. C. E. Mann. With the
assistance of the kindly physician the
body of Mrs. Kaiser was tenderly car-
ried into the waiting-room.

_ One glance at the inert form revealed
that a bullet had entered the head di-
rectly over the right ear. The weapon

'had been held close, the woman’s face
‘being powder-marked. 4

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CLEMMER, James A., hanged at Norristown, Pa., May 18, 1899.

"JamesA.e Clemmer was hanged in the Norristown jail Thursday morning for the murder
of Mrs, Emma P, Kaiser, The drop fell at 10:07 and 20 minutes later he was declared
dead by the physicians. Over 100 persons witnessed the execution, and it was pronounced
one of the most successful that had ever taken place, It was 9:30 when the gates at
the jail were opened, Assistant Chief Macolly and Officer Howard Evans were on duty
and kept the crowd back, At the door of the jail ex-Sheriff Charles H, Jokinson was sta-=
tioned, He took the cards of admission as the different persons passed through. The
spectators and newspaper men were taken through the.old portion of the jail and passed
to the new addition, They were grouped between the rows of cells in the new portion
of the jail, A rope was stretched across the aisle in front of cell No, 45. This
precaution kept .the spectators within about 10 feet of the scaffold, The prisoners
had all been removed from the new portion of the jail, The gallows was erected just
inside the new portion, The rope was fastened to a steel beam, which was over the
first two cells, The gallows was 5 feet long and 3 in width, High Constable Aw M ...
Bergey says it is the greatest structure of the kind he has ever seen, Sheriff Light
made his appearance .at 9:45 o'clock, He took a look at the gallows and rope, and en-
tered a cellon the left with ex-Sheriff Johnson and High Constable A, M, Bergey,. |
The rope that pulled the bolt back to drop the trap doors, entered this cell, At 9:55
Deputy Sheriff Thomas J, Coulston.entered, being followed by the Sheriff's jury. . They
took their positions along the balcony surrounding the uper tier of 'cells, As the
town clock struck 10 Sheriff Light, Deputy Johnson, Chief of Police Rodenbaugh, .and
High Constable Bergey took a look at the scaffold and started towards Clenmer's cell,
which was on the second floor of the old portion of the jail, not over 30 feet from
the gallows, Warden Gotwals opened the cell door, and said: 'All is ready,' Two
minutes later Rev, Phillip J, Gallagher of St, Patrick's Re C, @hurch and Rev. Richard
Hannigan of the Church of the “ssumption, Philadelphia, emerged from the cell with
Clemmer, walking between them, He wore thesame dark bule suit that made him famous
during the trial, Rev. Thomas F, Shannon, of St. Patrick s Church, followed in the
rear of Clemmer, The walk to the scaffold consumed only a few seconds, but Clemmer's
nerve did not leave him, His face was pale, but it was evident that it was nothing
more than prison pallor, .0n reaching the scaffold Clemmer looked up at the rope and
then down at the trap doors, He never uttered a word, but kissed the crucifix which
he carried in his hand, As soon as he took his position on the scaffold, Deputy
Sheriff Johnson, High Constable Bergey and Chief of Police Rodenbaugh stepped forwards
Clemer placed his hands behind him and Deputy Johnson put on the handcuffs, While
Chief Redenbaugh was strapping his limbs, High Constable Bergey was busy adjusting
the black cap and noose, Chief Rodenbaugh was the last to leave the scaffold and he
had just stepped to one side when the signal was given, The rope attached to the bolt
was pulled and the next instant the trap doors and Clemmer's body dropped, The fall
was 5 feet. When the rope became taut the body twisted around several times and then
became motionless, There was a slight twitching in the limbs, Clemmer's head hung
to the left side until 10:37, when the rope.to which he was dangling was loosened
from the 6x6 wooden beam above, This permitted the body to come to the prison floor,
and he was laid on his back and the noose removedeseselne priests left their vigil at
10:2 and a minute later Chief of Police Roderbaugh informed the spectators that the
doctors had agreed that Clemmer was dead and ordered all to leave. Jt will thus be
seen that it practically took 18 minutes to end a life of 30 odd years. The handcuffs
which fastened his hands behind him and the irons which kept his legs together were
-unlocked and removed by Warden. Gotwals at 10:27. Then it was the lingering crowd, eager
to see everything that transpired, was again forced back past cell No, 5 which Under-
taker John J, Ferry of Morristown, and assistants entered, and when they emerged they
bore a casket, The casket had the appearance.of mahogany but was simply of ordinary
wood with mahogany stain, It was highly polished, with silver handles, Upon the
top was a silver place in the shape of across, On it was inscribed 'James Ae
Clemer,' with his age. The priests stood at the top of the aperture through which

Clemmer fell for twenty minutes after the drop, They were in constant prayer,

pronouncing their invocations from a prayer book of the Catholic Church, When the
body was let down and the noose removed to be placed in the casket...it wasnoticted

that Clemmer had pinned to his vest, over his heart, a religious insignia,

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CLEMMER = hanged Norristown, Pa,, 5-18-1899 = Continued.

convict her former lover, The trial consumed 11 days and the jury brought ina vere
dict of guilty of murder in the lst degree, after being out less than 3 hours, The
Supreme Court refused to grant the convicthd man a new trial and he was sentenced to
be hung. ‘he case was also carried to the Board of Pardens, but they refused

to inervenen, Lizzie DeKalb pleaded guilty to heing an accessory after the fact, She
was sentenced on June 1), 1898 to two years in jail. She is also wanted for horse
stealing at Gloucester, N, J., and in Chester County." NORRISTOWN WEEKLY HERALD,
Norristown, Fa,, May 22, 1899 (5/13),

".eefhe prisoner is a dark complexioned man of medium stature, with black hair and
black mustache, but otherwise clean shaven face,...Clemmer's father, aged about 60
years, sat on the right hand of the prisoner, the iron railing of the dock separat=
ing themes..." WEEKLY HERALD, Norristown 6-20-1898 (2/1) on startingof trial,
"eeeSubsequently, after the arrest of Kaiser, Clemmer visited him at the City Hall
and employed an attorney to defend him, The prisoner then went to Trenton and for a
slight offense had himself imprisoned under the name of Harry E. Snyder. He was
afterwards apprehended in Newark, NJ, under the name of Harry E, Young, AHAXAXXKEXKA
eceee” same edition page 3, col. 2eece

"..eeHe said he was born in Upper Hanover, July 30, 1861, In 1865 his parents moved
to Union, B,rks, Co., where they lived till 1882/ He went to R ading where he worked
with the R ading Tron Company} He beacme sick there and engaged in the milling
business with a man named Detwiler, #e shortly went with A, G. Freed at North Wales,
He could not stand the businesson account of the dust and went to Doylestown where

he took charge of the country seat of Mr, Walter Patterson, +n the fall he went to
work in the baggage department of the Philadelphia and R_ading Railroad, where he
remained until the fall of 188), In the spring of 1885 fie worked on the street cars
and in the fall he got a position in the custom house under Cadwllader, Thanksgiving
eve, 1885, he was married, In 1887, he resigned, and in the spring of that year he
engaged in the milk business and in January, 1895, he sold his milk business,

He then engaged with Gately “ Fitagerald, 1025 Market St., as a solicitor, canvasser
and collector, with whom he remained until Oct, 31, 1896, Clemmer thenstated that his
wife needed a servant, and a man named Bucher of Pottstown recommended Lizzie DeKalb,
She was engaged in the last week of August, 189. She contimed in his employ for

8 weeks when she went to Ninth and Cherry Sts., where she and Clenmer lived as man
and wife. Dec, 22, 189), she returned to his employ, and in Jan., 1895, she went to
Ninth and Cherry Sts, again. He then contined to live with her until the time of
their arrest, moving about from place to place and assuming different namesee.e

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Reuben Flohr, died April 19 at Yale,
Guthrie County, Iowa, in her 82nd

pear. Her maiden mame was Miss
Mrs. (amelia Jane Hensel and she was born
lat Cashtown She leaves besides her

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Emmert Kuhn, of Perry, Jowa

‘Claude Kuhn of Minnegpois,
Minn, and Mrs. Myrtle Emig of Yale,
lowa. She was 2 sister-in-law of Mrs.
Samuel I. Kuhn of Cashtown.

Charles D. Sheads a well. known
battlefield guide died suddenly -in his
room at Hotel Gettysburg on Monday

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the. Maryland for twenty
five years and most of the tim@:as a
freight conductor. After -Jeaving
railroad he took up battlefield guid-
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ors, but the following residerits of
Gettysburg are cousins: My 2
Sheads, Miss Mary Myers, Sa-
fome Stewart, Miss Alice Shegds, D.
reeg'd Sheads, Mrs. ses: wney,
and B .F. Myers. Mrs. Ida Durboraw
and Miss Annie Sheads, of Kansas
City, Missouri, are also cousins.

‘Samuel H. Rebert, a well known
citizen of Littlestown died at his
home on Monday from cancer after a
}six months illness in his @6ist year.
|He had been a rural carrier out of
Littlestown for 18 years, resigning
Ha last September and before that time
Harlan had conducted a hardware store in
Ctacobs of East \Littlestown He had been ’s. member

ceah jot the Good Samaritan. ‘Masonis

>»

at ;
ae ef ;Lodge of Gettysburg for 735 years. }y'
{ ‘Sain uy |The funeral was held on Wednesday

nataok or Wie iby the Good Samaritan Lodge sind in-
€ Eavpastock of tement made in Littlestown cenietery.
wea & black. |e leaves two s0na, Professor Homer

actitinseen tinge

PAY HE DSATH PRNALTY
‘ MONDAY, APR. as.

Se ceeammammel

t-

For the Murder of George J. Besh-
q man in October,
1918.

Clarence R. Collins, in his 2and
year, and Charles C. Reinecker, in
his 20th year, paid the penaltv of the
law for the murder of George J.
Bushman at the Death House at
Bellefonte Penitentiary on Monday,
April 25. They went to the electric
chair with the same attitude with
which they faced their trial and con-
viction,

Sheriff John W. Hartman, County

Detective Charles H. Wilson and
Horace E. Smiley completed the work;
of transferring the two men to the|
Death House on Friday. Leaving
here on the early train, they caught
a Pennsylvania train at Harrisburg
for Tyrone, and arrived there in the;
evening. Megsgs., Hartman, Wilson!
left

and Smiley immediately for

home.

to the Penitentiary and was with the
two boys Sunday afternoon and
again on Monday morning, giving|
them spiritual comfqrt. The last
message the boys sent was to the
boys of Gettysburg urging them to}
avoid bad company and the places!
where bad company is found.

The electrocution of the condemn-
ed took place early Monday morn-
ing, Clarence R. Collins going to the
chair first at 7.06 and was pronoune-
ed dead at 7.13. When Reinecker was
told that Clarence had gone “home,”
replied, “I'll soon be there too.” At
7.20 he went to the chair and at 7.25
was pronounced dead. . .

The witnesses to the electrocution
provided by taw are the warden, a
physician, six repufable adult citizens
and representatives of not more than
six newspapers and a spiritual ad-
viser. The only official Adams
county representaive in- the. room
was Arthur C. Sentz, constable, of

six jurors ‘and so named by the ward-
en at his own request.by lettet>: 788
KA C. Ghealer,-.the ,undértaker
was on hand to receive the bodies

*jand prepare them for interment, The

bodies were brought here on Tues-
day morning. The body of Collins
was at once taken to St. Mark’s |

_|Church, where services were held by

Rev. J. B. Baker and Rev. P. R. Pon-
tius and interment was made in the
church graveyard. The body. of
Reinecker was taken to the Ever;
green Cemetery during the afternodon
where services were held by Rev. J.
B. Baker.

So ends this tragedy and there arc;
unanswered questions which will be
the subject of conjecture for vears)
to come. Was the only motive easy |
money and did the youths follow this.
motive blindly, or was their mental
powers weakened by the use of liquor |
or dope 20 with blurred vision they
followed. the mofive? :

The electrocution. of these boys
was preceded by four other execu-
tions in thé, county, and one of these
was a tiarder tn York county, con-
victed here ‘on a’ chatige of venue.
They werd: James Hunter on Jan. 3,
1818, James Green, colored, on April
15, 1833, Johtt Coyle, of York county,
April 22, 1883,.and, Henry Heist on!
Jan. 24, 1804. Fredérick Smith, con-
victed of -murder, killed himself in
jail two days after his trial, on Sept.
26, 1849. Ie: the first.one hundred
earé of: the Wistory of the county
there had been three executions for
murder ¢omfmiitted in the county. The
electrocution of Collins and Reineck-
ét. are the first in the second century
of thé county.. .<% goin

Rev. J. B. Baker, at request, went the

{da

th

Mt. Joy township, who was one of/4:

jagreed

CASES TRIED AT APRIL COURT

ONR CRIMINAL CASE AND FOURI-

CIVIL CASES.

-¥ enieminiit

The (Clvil Cace of Robert E. Sheads
fer Loss of Arm to be Tried

in November.

q

i,
a.

pril Court has finished a week of}

trialg.of cases one criminal case and

four pivyil cases and a jury was drawn’

or ease to be tried during the
week in Ma i

f

of the

many terms of the four

from one to two days,
.one- criminal case tried was
Com. vs. Charies H. Flicking-
with assault and battery,
? , on information of his
wife. ¢ It was a pathetic kind of a
case. The wife had been the mother of
twelv@ thildren and the parents did

_ : oo Mp0 learned

with each other but there had been
unpleasant scenes in which the wom.
an had been strugk and a fmger hurt,
The fury after hearing the evidence
brotght-in a verdict of guilty as to

case of assumpsit of
Lynch vs. J. Herman Bream
the attention of the Court on Thea
y. “There had been a contract for
the d@fivery of three thousand cords
of womd for thea camp here between
defendant and plaintiff, and the latter
claime@ that
fused*to complete the contract and
in ye Nr thereof he had a loss
for which suft had been brought’ A
humbex of witnesses were heard
pa ih! ae the questions of fact
raised; when the jury retired it
? as though the case would
reach end. . The came back
ance | . received
ons from the Court, and finally
wate a conclusion and put it in
be rand signed it and separated
ngkt morning it was brought into
Co +: Bg ago by the Court and
- A on nye by a jury
b have made, having
the Court directed that ver-
ig in accord with the law,
Mischarged and: case

“Edward Y. Shriver vs. Lloyd
Sites was next civil ease tried and it
was an appeal from docket of J.

L. Hill? was @ landlord and tenant}.
case; Didendant’ kad rented farm, of.

plaintiff and when he went on farm
there was so much -hay there and he
to leave as much and when he

e defendant had re-{:

instruc. | d;

edie

iy

charge of assault and bat and | D
not gufity as to the maining.
ree W.

Lwas appoints
Ling-swors th
ed by Jud

eiv

eft there was no hay, and other}:

violations of the contract were also
testified to, and the positions of bottr
parties were

ury.: Wm. Hersh, Esq. represented

the plaintiff and G. J. Benner the de-[;

fendant. The jury brought in @ ver-
dict of $120.00 for the plaintiff.

John F. Dick vs. John Miller, an- °

other landlord and tenant case occu-

the attention of the Court on +.

hursday. Plaintiff had rented a
farm from a Mr. Benedict, and de-
fendant followed ay the tenant in the
following year. The defendant cut the
wheat crop the plaintiff put out and
the-latter contended that it was his
right to cut the same and that he was
entitled to the half instead of the
fourth of the crop. The crop had

{sold for over $2.00 a bushel and the

amount in controversy was nearly
$400. Butt and Butt Esqs. represent-
ed the plaintiff and Wm. Hersh the
defendant. The verdict of the ior
was for the defendant. : ar}

The case of Lehigh Portland Ce-

W. Koser, trading as
Warehouse Company, am act
sumpsit was for trial on Friday. Bust
and Butt Esqs. represented the plain-
tiff and J.,Donald Swope Esq, the
defendant. ae Rate

action of as-

4

Pacer: gag and argued to}.) .

ment Company, a corporation v&. G./¢
pany


it)

% Beis joe Uia@iucie leilc Wad sidd rey Ye
Ms Fee Me Weikert and she marsied . Fournes
‘hake iw (Lady, who died-a numbet of. years
ln : rh ,
vadtiago, The family fived Sear “Mum-
$4 linasburg for a number of years. The
ae iftneral was on Tuesday with inter-
iment at Flohr’s Cémetery. She leaves

pese sons-and daughters: J. Calvin

dy, of Cumberland township; Mrs.
Catherine. Hartzell, of .Reading;

Harman; Bream, -of Gettysburg;
ing E. Lady, of Los Aageles, Cal
Se: Patents tister and “two

i ethers,” Mrs. William’ Dubbs, of
Fawrteld; John B, Weikert, df Mc-
j izhtstowss; and, George W,_Weik-

gth-year. She leaves hes husband

sd one son. She leaves her pa-

3, Mr. and Mrs. Harry L. Sand-

wits. of Iron. eek three sisters

ge Bem 4 “two érs, Jennie, Ethel,

, SE Frances, Lloyd and Lee, at home. The

t be Bh-ltuarrat was held Wednesday with

atasdiservicees at “St. <Mery> tholic
noterme

soup Chureh, Fairfield, and at in
sid ithe Fairfield Cemetery.
D MaDe * Rati, Asnie Lents Nelson, wife of
: oh bs sap Nelson, died at her home
pr their voy: }seer tows on Saturday from the “flu”
¥ dr

a2 fol 7 a 3 years. Shte leaves her pa-
ater rents, Mr. sod Ms. Israel Lentz; her
sit be OB Gheaband, and these brothers and sis-
ki ibe aunt wane Mrs. gaemen. Butt snd es
fe: period OiAdams, 0 ttysburg; osic,
‘signing’ Of )Frances and Daniel Lentz, all at
west thome; and William Lentz with the:
a ariaee' American Expeditionary Forces. The
feclqnated {funeral was held on Wednesday with
i (8 linterment in Evergreen Cemetery.

seethom ;

patret ROS) Mis. Ma Topper Dick, wife
ME PUSS FoF John Diet, died in Straban town-

5 ate iship wear Gettysburg on Sunday from
fhe: aged about $4 years. This
lB So ihe death in the family
the past month, a daughter

land daughter-in-law having died in
‘Camden from influenza. The funeral

Te. 1) on Weduesday morning, services
by A in St. Fraacis Xavier Church by Rev.
Ay RRR, Boyle and interment in the Cath-
stotie Cemetery, Besides her husband
ze. Dick leaves the following
waters afid sons: Mrs. Blanche

alt, of Hanover; Gervus Dick, of
easter; Mrs. Hester Swope, and

» Dick: ‘of Camden, N. J.; Marie,
axles and’ Howard, at home. She
cf petves ‘the following ‘brothers
me? sisters:: Mrs. Harry Saeeringer,
Hanover: Mrs, - Robert; Sprenkie,

, Bertin; Mrs... Vincent. Orne

a, Charles

Recwnel; Miss, T.
. Joka Spangier, all of

ye ey &: Trone, dau hter’
4Mry and Mrs. Harry Trone, ford
taf township. died on Saturday fron: the
al gd” in ner 17th year. Besides her
sf perents, three brothers and a sister
tof [strvive: Andrew M.,, Wilmer, Harry
45, To pkey, and Helena Trone, at home.
dena The funeral was on Tuesday with in-
mt in the Hanover Cemetery. |

eee

ay phen L., Mickley, only son and

Se yw ae end ie of bar
\« - N93 tt
is dead at the hoche af, Dr. aud.re.
Oyler, in Williamsport, Pa. CS cas Oa a

Jaceb Blair Fissel, son of Denton
and May Fissel, of York ,Springs
died Wednesday night from the “fin”
in his oth ‘year. He leaves: his pa-
rents and the following brothers aad
sisters: David F., Pauline M., Grace
E, Mary J. and Anna Lee Fissel,-all
at home. The funeral was beid. Fri-+
day with interment in Centre Mills
Cemetery. : : :

Henry Bair, after an illness of but
a few hours from neuralgia of the
heart, died Nov. 3, at his; home in
Union township, aged 67 years, 4
months and 4 days. He is survived
by his wife and two sons, Jesse Bair,
of Union township, and Milton Bair,
at home; also the following broth-
ers and sisters: Mrs. Ephraim Sny-
der, of Spring Grove; Hamilton Bair
of Pottsville, and Samuel Bair, o
York county.

Clark Young Craumer died Oct. 5
and Mark Luther Craumer died Oct.
8. They were twin sons of Mr. and
Mrs, Walter J. Craumer, of Abbotts-
town, and aged 3 months. Interment
was made in the Lutheran Cemetery,
Abbottstown.

Frank Fulton Patterson, aged 38

ears, ‘formerly of Harrisburg, but
ately of New York City, where he
was employed by the Pullman Com-
‘pany, died Sunday from anthrax. He
leaves his wife, who was formerly
Miss Mae Hall, of Buchanan Valley,
and one son, who reside in New
York; his parents, Mr. and Mrs. H.
R. Patterson, three sisters, Miss Anna
Patterson, and Mrs. George W. Bell,
of .Detroit; and Miss Jane Patterson
and one brother, Ensign W. Kenneth
Patterson, who is serving overseaa.

Mrs. Barbara Virginia Seiss Heagy
widow of the late William H. Heagy,
died Thursday near Graceham, Md.
She formerly lived at Greenmount.
She was aged 82 years and 1 month,
Mrs. Heagy has no children to sur-
vive her. The funeral was on Sun-
day and interment in Evergreen
Cemetery, Gettysburg. on

He

time. When they had been heard, am"
adiougpment was taken to Saturday
more g, Nov. 16.. °° - ’ ay

TRe--constables made their reparte
and there were few -matters returmet
ed. *Ig Franklia, Oxford and, Hamil,
toutjan townships roads were report;
ed in, bad condition and it appearin
that tWese roada*had been previously,
t éd'and had not bee repaire

lea bus there being n0.case tay” thats’
. ae thes. Gaied jary wad Cs

isped. fw; Fy DRED SEK eae
e Petit Jury was next called pad.

ge ae it pols | Being called”
to hear lunacy, proceedings, sil other.
jorymeni "were exceed = ae 2A
| Judge -McPherson : explained ~thiet
the. entire trial.list of civil cases wea
corftinned to the January court. That
the Bar had been. asked during, t
past weeks to complete the work
the. questionaires in relatiop to. t
dra¥t and this work taking the
of the attorneys it had been d
that civil cases would aot be forced;
to trigl, as very little time had bees?
available for preparation for: trial.-»

District Attorney Raymond: F. Tope.
per having waived his rights to gay:
exemption from war duty by reasoa,
of his office, and having orders . td.
report for duty in the Officers’ Train-.
ing Camp at Camp Gordon, Ge, é
Nov. 15, presented his application to,
the Court for the appointment of J...
'Donald Swope, Esq., as his deputy
for the January Court, 1919, and the
same was approved. The District .
Attorney also asked for the appoint»*"
ment of an assistant in the murder
cases to be tried at the January. «
court, growing out of the murder of ~
George J. Bushman and the Couft
appointed J. Danald Swope, Esq.’to
assist in these cases. * A Seed 1

- 1 "The Murder Cases. © * 2 **

It has been decided that the trial,
of the murder’ cases ‘would be: hel@
in Adams county. The spot iddicat=

‘by Coltins where the shots were

county wou
tion. along ,

a member | ed.
He, mar-|: The

th, of Me-

oth

East Middle pts)
word of the eefy eer;

¢ Mr. and Mrs. Edgar L. Mick- itheir son, Norbett
sdley, of McKnightstown, died in York! —Lieut. Herbert:

on Nov, 5 from the “flu” in bis agthiand Mrs.

elyear. His parents moved te Mee
ightstown when he was three

Ridge, who has beet’ ractive’ ser-
vice in France with the gith Engi-

oe, TRA years old and he grew up there. He!reers for more than a year, has been

Cantain

ttate of Gettysburg;

baker, late of New Oxford; Ge

J. Bushman, late of Gettysburg;

G. Klunk, late of Mt. Pleasant to

ship; Nichotas Carns, fate of
hattetown: Tohn A. Hall. late af Geto *


CONNOR, Catherine, and WILDEMAN, Henry, white, hanged at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania,
| on July 2, 1737.

"Philadelphia, July 7, 1737-Saturday last Henry Wildman and Catherine Smith, alias
Connor, were executed here for burglary. (Isaac) Bradford, who was condemned with
them for a robbery had areprieve and became their executioner,. Wildman had been
imprisoned here for a fact of the same kind about two years ago, but the evidence
leaving the country before the court, he was discharged without a trial. Yet this
was not a sufficient warning to him, He said he was 53eyears-old and had followed
thieving ever since he was 25, He confessed himself a great sinner in other re=
spects, appeared penitent, and cautioned all to take warning by his shameful end,

He was a Shropshire man and by trade a nailor, The woman said little or nothing,

She had been condemned for the like crime last year, but was reprieved and discharged
and immediately took to the same practice again, having SAMAK KAAXASHSEAX since commie
tted several notorious feonlies, besides this for which she now SH## suffered, She
left a young child behind her, with which she was pregnant at the time of her con=
demnation last year, though not. found quick with child by the jury of matrons, impan=-
neled on that occasion, She had been formerly transported from Ireland to Virginia,"
SOUTH CAROLINA GAZETTE, CHarleston, SC, S&XAMKAHXIJXXAZ September 3, 1737 (2:2.)

"Philadelphia, April 15, 1736-This day ended the Sessions of the Court on Oyer and
Terminer, at which 3 persons received sentence of death for house breaking; to wit,
John Watzal, Michael MacDermot, and Catherine Conner (alias Smith), The two former
pleaded guilty, The latter put herself on tryal and was found guilty, After sen-
tence, she pleaded pregnancy; but a jury of matrons being empaneled found her not
quick with child..." SOUTH CAROLINA GAZETTE, Charleston, SC, 5-15-1736 (2:1) Note:
Whatnell and McDezrmatt hanged on 5-5-1736.

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‘Rioting originally because there was no sugar in their porridge, 300 convicts in historic Dartmoor Prison,

London, above, attempted to fight their way to freedom.

The Month Five Years Ago,
January, 1932

EADLINES: New York City
+4 leads nation in homicides during
1931; fifteen persons, including
Negress, sent to electric chair at Sing
Sing . . Vienna, Austria, ‘Suicide
Club” invites all persons. intending
suicide to gala banquet; 1,000 men and
women from all walks of life turn out
. . . Chicago policemen go unpaid as
court verdict ties up all city funds...
New York police wire-tappers listen in
on gangland murder plot, arrest Vin-
cent “Mad Dog” Coll as one of plotters
before he hangs up... Nine-year-old
Bombay, India, boy found guilty of be-
ing “aide to Ghandi,” sentenced to
prison for four years .. . Senate com-
mittee hears that several University of
Michigan students pay for education by
bootlegging . . . Joseph Bauman, New
Yorker, sentenced to die in electric
chair for holdup killing which netted
him one dollar.

RURAL TRAGEDY: Six police of-
ficers killed and three wounded in New
Year’s Eve gunfight when “Pretty Boy”
Floyd and cohorts are barricaded in
farmhouse near Springfield, Missouri.
Gang escapes but week later Harry
and Jennings Young, brothers, mur-
derers, owners of death farmhouse,
cornered in Houston, Texas. Both are
suicides as police close in.

SUBURBAN TRAGEDY:
Roth, 23, nursemaid, and her two
charges, John and George Heindel,:in-
fant children of John -H. Heindel,
Chicago capitalist, ‘found hanged in
gas-filled mansion in River Forest,
Chicago suburb. Coroner’s verdict,
murder and suicide, by jealous maid.

SENSATION: Mrs. Granville For-

32

.. Mary.

By El M. Hurst

tesque, society leader; her son-in-
law, Lieutenant Thomas Massie,
U.S.N., and a sailor detained on U. S.
warship in Honolulu harbor in ‘con-
nection with the death of. Joseph
Kahahawai, Hawaiian, one of five na-
tives awaiting second trial for crimi-
nal attack upon Mrs. Thalia Massie,
officer’s wife. Officials ask probe of
Hawaiian rule-and criminal law en-
forcement. '

ROBBERY SLAYING: Mrs. Agnes
sley, widow and wealthy sports-
woman, and her maid beaten to death
at home in foxhunting country near
Middleburg, Virginia. Negro ex-con-
vict, former employe, sought.

ENOLOGY: Fred Collins, Negro
convict of state prison at Belle-
fonte, Pennsylvania, overpowers Betty
Hickok, 22-year-old .daughter of pris-
on doctor, in her bathroom, criminally
assaults her and then:strangles her to
death. Collins walks half mile to
prison and surrenders; he was known
as “moron, but harmless”...
minute plea that “Two Gun” wley
was “moral imbecile” fails and he dies
in Sing Sing electric chair .. - . Worst
prison revolt in modern times stuns
England when 300 convicts of famous
Dartmoor prison, complaining against
sugarless porridge, fight pitched battle
with guards, burn buildings. Seventy
critically wounded before order is re-
stored. None escape. .
UNCHARTED BANKING: Two de-
positors of closed bank at Moncks Cor-

OFFICIAL DETECTIVE,

January 1, 1937

ner, South Carolina, force entrance to
bank office, steal $2,000, approximate
amount of their deposits, hide money,
then return and surrender:

MIRACLE: Gus. Winkler, notorious.

Chicago gangland figure, supplies
$100,000 bail for release on robbery
charge, visits underworld and returns
to -hand over to police $583,000 in
negotiable bonds, part of loot of Lin-
coln, Nebraska, bank robbery. Also
furnishes proof that $2,217,000 in reg-
istered bonds were burned. Buffalo
alibi clears him in robbery,

MEANEST THIEF:: Jacob Share,
Brooklyn, New York, letter carrier,
caught stealing letters containing
small contributions to. crippled chil-
dren’s fund. Stole and banked $1,410
in two months.

GEM .ROBBERY: Three bandits,
posing as bootleggers, gain entrance to
Harry Glemby mansion in New York,
fell butler, bind five servants, loot safe
and escape with $349,000 in precious
jewels.

The Month Ten Years Ago,
January, 1927

HEADLINES: Despite crime wave,.

homicide rate in.U. S. for 1926 ex-

pected to show decrease ... New York

City policewomen demand opportunity
for sergeant’s rank . . . “Kenneth Or-
miston, radio man questioned in con-
nection with Aimee Semple MacPher-
son kidnaping, identifies his com-
panion in hideaway as “Miss X.” De-

Note the Governor’s Building, gutted by fire

nies it was Mrs. MacPherson .. . Poi-
son rum toll continues to rise as gov-
ernment announces poisoned alcohol
will remain .. . Magistrate Bail of Cin-
cinnati refuses to try more liquor
law violators, explaining that attempt
to enforce law causes serious. breach
of the peace ... Canada announces co-
operation with U. S. Government by
fixing -rigid restrictions on liquor ex-

ports.

SENSATIONS: Thirteen New Jer-
sey State Troopers and two S.P.C.A.
agents accused of murdering Beatrice
Meaney, 20, wounding her brother
James, and beating a second brother
during visit to. the Meaney home near
Flemington to investigate complaint
that eattle were underfed ... Rev.
Frank J. Norris, crusading Austin,
Texas, pastor, acquitted of charge of
murdering D. E. Chipps, wealthy friend
of Austin’s Mayor, H. C. Meacham, ob-
ject of the pastor’s attacks. Rev. Nor-
ris pleaded that he shot in self-defense.

ETECTIVE WORK: New York
police learn that Charles J. Dry-
den, accused as $150,000 swindler, is
partial to fancy wardrobe trunk with
green leather straps. Description of
trunk is broadcast. San Diego, Cali-
fornia, police locate it in express office
and arrest Dryden when he calls for it.
SWINDLERS: Joseph Johnson, who
posed in Paris, France, as retired U. S.
Army general, arrested as leader of
international swindling gang, charged.
specifically with robbing Rochester,
New York, businessman of $140,000.
SECRET LOVE: Marion Hunt, 21,
artist’s model, found shot to death on
doorstep of sister’s home in Queens
Village, Long Island; beside her is
empty weapon and torn photd of

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Ny
.

Ps wes

ee ewe | eee

“Construction and| machinery, $46,532,450;
armor and! a ent, $85,786,209; equip-
ment, $400,000.
' “Of this 7 we appropriate in this bill

or and armament,
836,860, which leaves
689 to be appropriated

hareafter.” |
“The ships ‘author are: One first-class

' tye first-class ored cruisers of 14,500
’ tons, cost (each) ($6,506,000, three scout
cruisers of| not e than 3,73 tons, cost
(each) $3,200,000; colliers, to be capable

. &000 tons of cargo! coal, total cost (each)
91,250,000. ‘The total cost of the above
program will be 885, 000,
The report gives in detail, illustrated
with colo plates. the strength of the
, Various navies of [the world. The total
staal of | the bil] is $98,238,038.

House Votes for Fair Loan.

The House to-day by a vote of 172 to
108 concurred in he Senate amendment
to the deficiency appropriation bill, auth-
-arizing a loan of %.000,000 by the Govern-
ment to the Louisiana Purchase exposi-
ten, after |amending it with respect to
the manner in which the money shall be

_ paid. The; proposition was strongly op-{;
Bpeed. wae others by Mr. Dalzell, of
nsylva
_ was

Among the bills passed
one providing for a term of the
United States court at Martinsburg, W.
Wa. i
Live Washington) Notes.
At the deginning the session to-day the
Sepate adopted a joint resolution authorizing

a@ @urvey ta; determine whether a tidewater
ag ‘cross me State of Florida. ts

neon ae

BAKER Is HELD FOR TRIAL.

al Wife Testifies Against Man:

Charged With Abducting Her.

George A. Baker, of Smithville. O., was! |

Asked to Speak. ‘

Sheriff Trescher went to his cell just at
3@ o'clock thia morning and told him that
he must preparé for the gailows. The
murderer asked to:be given the privilesc
iof addressing the gathering, and his re-
quest was ‘at first refused. Rev. Mr. Cor-
‘teriand Rey. Mr. Lousecky, who were
‘with him, joined in the request, and the
isheritt finally gave hie consent.

Kruger walked with a firm step to the
‘gallows, Weak in ‘physique on account
of his long imprisonment, he was slightly
‘Mervous, but he went through the ordeai
ifearleasiy. ‘He talked slowly and deliber-
‘ately. and when he had finished his state-
ment Sheriff Trescher and Deputy Sherif
Dantel Doncaster adjusted the noose. At
‘the! foot af the gallows Rev. Mr. Corter
read a Scripture lesson, and a prayer was
imade by Rev. Mr. Louzecky.

Murderer’s Farewell.

As Deputy Doncaster pulled the biack
‘capiover his head, Kruger remarked, “God
eave ‘me,”"" The iever releasing the trap
‘Was tmmediately pujled and Kruger was
swung into. eternity at 10:10 o'clock. At
‘16:33 o'clock a-corps of physicians pro-.
ae tn him dead, and seven minutes
ta the Budy was cut down. Death was
due: to strangulation.

The curfous were not allowed to view
‘the. murderer's remains, and this after-
noon they were sent to East Liverpool, O.

Mrs. Augnat Betuwsky, the murderer's
mother, and Wiliam Betowasky, hs
‘brother, were in Greensburg at the time
iof the execution, and accompanied the re-
jmains to the family home. Krugers
‘mother gave him her last farewell an
‘hour before: the march to the gallows was
‘begun.

Thousands of people aurrounded the jail
at the time of the execution,’ but Sheriff
‘Trescher followed the letter of the law
as strictly as possible, and less than w
persons witnessed the execution. Kruger

h@pent his laat night on earth in song and

prayer.
p=

ed hm FR ttm eit ete as =:


CRUGER, Charles L.,

White, hang ‘ed Greensburg,

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Condemtied Wian Views Machine
"Which Will Send Him
7 to Death.

HIS. MOTHER DEMANS MONEY.

ESPECIAL TO THE. PITTSBURG POST.

G REENSBURG, Pa. Feb. 10.-—As un-
concerned over his fate a8 at-any time

Kruger spent his iaet day On. earth.
Yesterdmy he gave up all hope of ane

‘} other nee @n4 not on 4 single instance
to-Gay Se me mer a any mesesxe | |
; has: Dee sed o Gece! Harrisburg. Al

grant
, Kreger’ ss apparent ailiinigness
to ay on the gutiows, there is an alr of
about the jell to-night. The
eons freely expressed that ne. will
make an atiempt hacky nae the law an:l

igre. “Betowsky, bis mother, breated a

Tied for his burial, but the wishes of

4nsteted
pat. East Liverpool. The body will leave
at 2:30 o'clock to-morrow af-

 terncen and will be buried at East Liver-
poo} on it arrival

trated their [ wedding anniversary.
oretgners aC Blacklick, is dead.

ats: nine a Byeamaid son.

during: his fmpfisooment, . Charies £.-

the money which Krager had |
| the ‘gondemmned man ‘wilh be followed | ,,

on na vitty a dig funeral cortege '

ZniILBe, O.—A gasoline explosion fm the home !
Lor Jnosepd Howser burner Mrs. Hoover and |

‘BAS Howe
~ men)

wee | favor of oust

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ease. The fir
the majority
minority, th:
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(geat.. This |
of pray to 163,

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ee
BWAROM.. Pa~Mr. and Mrs. Jobn Kah! cele- | this time jc)

Speaker Cx)

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oh whieh wa ew

STME NAVAL APF ROPRIATION BILL

SUM ALLOWED FOR NEW WORK

War: to Cost $23,-

BATTLESHIP.

ed. 1L—In the report
< on the naval apprppriation bill made to
ay Chairman Foss, of
< the naval affairs committee to the gaunt-
Senator Gorman, in.

-- hig ampoundced policy of internal fmprove-
-mentg ‘in place of| naval construction is

mmended the con-

E. year we provided for five large battle-
> gkips. «. This. will sive @ better proportion

.° ° “Foremost! and pove all must stand
m+ eonsiderations of ational defense, main-
of ie policies and pro-

‘<Jegeen their influence on this hemisphere

~ ner foreake | interests on the other.”

he abpropria for. new ships for the

vy, as well as the completion of those

now undor |cénstruction is dealt with in
: the report am follows:

pg complete all the ships authorized up

including their con-
armor and ar-
and equipment, will cost $82,718, -

| "ah eB

o1gS WITHOUT RETRACTING CON-
| | ES8QION| TO MURDER OF

__+x\ JOHN BLEVING. |
ow eT
ETS [DEATH FEARLESSLY. |

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sf pbs rasa ;
Speaks From Gallows, Blaming Drink
ab the, Cause’ of bite
= - Downfall.

i

HIS: MOTHER CLAIMS™

aac nn RE

ini to The: Pittsbarg Post.
GREENSBURG, Pa., Feb. 11:—Protest-
tng that he: had been implicated in the
murder of John Blevin. city treasurer of
‘New Castla; five years ago, Charies A.
Kruger was: to-day hanged in the county
‘Jail for baving killed Constable Henry
Foster Bterer, of Greensburg, at the No.
i plant of the Jamison Coal and Coke

mpany, on July 19, 1903.
While his spiritual advisers, Rev. Ww. R.
orter, of Greensburg, and Rev. T. V.
Lousecky, of 24t. Pleasant, prayed witn
him in his cel! last night, Sheriff John H.
Trescher called him to the jail corridor
and asked him for his last etatement re-
lative to the New Castie crime. He re
| fused to retract his former confession of

; to name his accomplices.
| Brom the’ gullows Kruger delivered &
three-minute speech, in which he biamed
@rink for his downfall, ‘but deciared that
he had repented ‘and made his peace with
God He did not.refer to the murder of
Blevins, however. It was in the hope that
the murderer would meke & fina] state-
ment concerning the New Caste crime

that he was allowed to speak from the

Dane at

* MSBASM....

NAME ‘ ° ’ , | PLACE — CITY OR COUNTY DOE & MEANS

SAVERIO CURCIO : - ; SCRANTON, Pas He 1-23-1908
eos oR AGE t=: * RACE “| OCCUPATION RESIDENCE : - 4 GEN , >

. . | white ' ' IS ge

CRIME

Murder 01 222-190);

vVicTim

Nicholas Ferrias

Motive T 0 be hanged in lower right hand corridor of county jail as soon after 10 o'clock, as it
would: take to march from cell up stairs of scaffold and to complete other BENBWHMM details,
synopsis Taking situation very hard, Has eaten little in two days and chief source of worry to his
Rev, Raphael Bellini and Rev. Domenico
to pet his mind caimty—itisposed-to-tis fates
sposed to repentance, but he breaks out afresh

Pater Landrsn wae in call yesterddiv when neawe baskon tea him thet theo Dane at
OO ERASER WON hE CER YS Ver eay when Aews—_opoten_teAinthet Une prara-ot

Pardons refused to interfere and he anted in semi-frenzy, He paced cell, held hands above head,
lowered them below waist, moaned and crieds.s.The terrible wound he inflicted on self Nov, 21,1907,
after the Soard had refused to interfere affected general health though he is recovered from
injury. Is 30 pounds lighter than 2 months ago. Curcio is in end cell on right had side of lower
right corridor and gallows erected in the corridor so that steps leading to it will begin just
outside cell door, It will stand 18 feet above floor, Platform is worked so that when the trap
“is sprung the floor falls from beneath his feet and he drops 3 or 4 feet, Has one brother in
this country, a barber on Penn Ave, He formerly lived in Pittsburg but moved to Scranton and got
“work -when-Saverio—got—into trouble-to—be near-hin-and do-what—he-coutd-to-aid him, As-brother-has—
no money for funeral expenses, body to be interred at expense of county, The only persons for
ee : saat she thekd : Pal :

In his answers to priests, he manifested athiestic tendency, although after he tried to kill
himself, he: confessed to Father Mcliugh of Green Ridge, The one great impulse domi natine him

for weeks is fear of gallows, His wound, made with small and dull knife, required a lot of grit

to inflict and yet he does things which make him out an arrant coward in other respects. When first
tried had the air of a stage villan and a cynical smile, He carried it after the verdict and when
the Supreme Court granted new trial he was full of confidence, After second trial he went to
Pieces 1n court room and since has been exceedingly depressed, He may have to be carried to the
scaffold, SCRANTON TIMES, Scranton, Pa., 1-22-1908, The folkowing from TIMFS && of 1-23-1908
wit photograph on page one: Had arrived in Ust seven years previousl Y

Nicastro, Italy, Hanged at 10:8:30,. Had killed Nicholas Ferrias, a countryman, on 122-1905
—in North -Seranteon, His—heart—kept—up—aect-ion—for2l_minutes—after {rap—was—sprungethough—his
pulse could not be fblt in wrists after 18 minutes, Pronounced officially dead in 26 minutes,
Examination showed neck-broken, After body fell there were no twistings or convlsions,

Hanging conducted by James Van Hise of New Jersey who was assis ted by Frank Snyder, also of Newark,
Scaffold built by Van Hise and was of own design, Instead of being dropped on the old scaffold,

he was j rked nine feet from floor by means of three weights of 360 pounds and then dropped back
to withing 2 feet of floor, The day preceding was spent with him by Father Landro but Curcio

gave no thought to anything but the horror of being hanged, That night, he appeared to be more
resigned and reouested and ate meal of chicken, potatoes, bread, butter and coffee, Then smoked
pipe and went to bed, sleeping soundly untit 6 AM when he rose and dressed in new black smtt—and—
‘smoked pipe constantly for 2 hours, Mass said in cell, In last visit with brother, blamed end
on-vhiskey, advised-brother to_return-to—tItaly—and—Live-with mother,—shun—all—comanions,—_so-te—§
mass and not drink, Curcio in cell with priests when hangman entered cell at 10:05 with black

J i les and cried in terror at

sight of somber black cap and noose. Js he realized that his last minute was at hand his cries
gave way to frenzied moans and terrible bellowing which were heard upstairs in the front offices
mathe jail, It was only 20 feet to patlows. te tad biack cap over head-and to00se-about—necks

He never saw gallows, His first step faltered. Half stumbling and half carried, screaming and

Moma U Momottl syne Pad pndor eallauic Th hands was rosary an
+ WASLOGBAGECE FAtiors, Ht HeahAaSHas—Fosart A

t fat >-Ea
Cc PCED GS REL SCT

A ACS‘? zg
right lapel of black suit was badge of Sacred Hart, Over heart hung amflarge crucifx to be buried
with him, Was still crying bitterly when weicht fell, Rody to be buried in Cathedral cemttery.e

LAST WOROS

Over for account of crime,

EXECYTION pe
(o S


oO QO

The following from SCRANTON TIMSS of 1-23-1908:

Chronology:Killed Nicholas Ferrias in North Scranton, Dec. 2h, 1905; Convicted first degree murder,
June, 1906, New-trial granted; Convicted second time of lst degree murder, Feb,, 1907. New ;
trial refused; Gov, set 9-3-1907 as datte of execution; Reprieted to 10-2l-1907; Nov, 21, 1907,
attempted suicide in cell. Reprieved to 12=3-1907; Jan. 21, 1908, Board of Pardons declined to ine
terfere after a third repireve; Hanged Jan, 23, 1908,

Crime committed at home of John Capriello on Summit Ave,., North Scranton, Curcio had boarded
there for two ponths previously, He had come to Scranton from Pittsburg. _The evening before
murder two men, Nicholas Ferrias and Luigi Rocco, whose home was in Carbondale, came to Capriello
home to spend the night and participate in Xmas festivities the next day. Curciog Ferrias and
Rocco left house together on the forenoon of Xmas, went to fruit stand of Tony Luzzia on North
Main Ave., stopped in saloon on the way and had some drinks, They had drinks in boarding house
before, starting for, frnit stand and after return, Up to noon hour there had been no trouble, - .
They all sat down to eat together and then Curcio and Ferrias began quarreling, Both got up

and Ferrias started from door to escape from house with Curcio following, They continued
arguing and as Ferrias started off porch, Curcio drew revolver and shot him in the back,

Curcio ran away and escaped, taking revolver with him, Police secured his ricture and sent’
copies throughout country, Had gone to boarding house in Glen Lyon, a small mining town near
Wilkes-Barre and was located there 2 days, later when he sent,to North Scranton for his clothes,
:When arrested, at first denied identity, Had revolver, in his pocket and when returned to
Scranton, admitted he was Curcio, Two hours after body of Ferrias had been examined by coroner

a stilleto found in blanket which had been wrapped, around it and Commonwealth contended one of
Curcios friends had placed there to indicate self-defense, At first trialk convicted after trial
of l; days. Conviction reversed on anvesl, fonvicted again, This sustained, After suicide attmt
lingered between life and, death for two weeks But finally recovered, At trial it was asserted
that he was only 19 when crime committhd but commonwealth maintained he was 22, “hen being taken
to jail, he boasted that he would be out in 2 years and at first trial was confident his punish-
ment would be easy, Even after first conviction, he kept up high spirits but after second one
bfoke completely, wept aloud and had to be carried from court room, . The attack on self on 11-21
was with penknife si small that he must had stood awful pain to finlt the wound,


60 Private or County Jail Executions in Pennsylvania

gallows; his iron nerve never dese
murmur of protest; the nerviest
county”; no professional execution
parental neglect and father’s drinking”; the last person to be
executed in county; warrant issued, June 2; see Scranton Tri-
bune—Republican, December 4, 1914; courtesy: Miss Dorothy
Mattes, Lackawanna Historical Society, Scranton; (V. 243-171),

*Chogwaski, John, executed J anuary 4, 1910; Chester; for murder
of a farmer, Harry B. James and his wife, Abby, in the barn of
their home in Easttown Township between Newtown Sq. and
Berwyn, on February 3, 1909; sentenced J uly 6; see The Village

Record, West Chester, J anuary 6, 1910; (R. 13-312); warrant issy-
ed, October 22, 1909,

*Christock, J oseph, alias Frank Mitchell, executed
Schuylkill; for the murder of Mrs. Mary Ann Ri
mother-in-law of defendant’s employer,
ber 16, 1910; motive, one of mystery; |
claimed, “That means death!” and proceeded to kill his chance
victim; sentenced November 295, 1910; was very meticulous in
perparing for his execution although he tried Suicide several
times; hundreds on hand to witness the hanging; a phrenologist,
one “Professor” Levi Hummel, of Gordon, after making meas.
urements of the criminal’s head, announced that “he had the

rted him, no whimper, no
prisoner ever held in the
er was used; victim blamed

March 30, 1911;
chards, aged 65,
Peter Paul, on N ovem-
heard a hound bay and ex-

without the formality of a jury”
for speed; the dates are correct).

*Clark, George, executed February 26, 1890; Gree
Taylor, murdered William M’Causland, “a quiet and gentle
manly drover” from Allegheny City “in the next county” on

rently robbed of $1,500
person; so well had the

ne; with Zach


NO APPEAL

CHRISTOCK, Joseph, hanged at Pottsville, Pa, on March 30, 1911.

"tT want the public to know that I did not kill a bridgekeeper at Norristown, that

I did not kill Mrs. Morrison at Cumbola, and that the only person I ever killed was
Mrs, Richards, and I am sorry for that, and I pray that God will forgive me, I said

I killed the others because I did not want life imprisonment, I want to die, because

I think I deserve to die.' This was the statment made public by Joseph Christock,

who will be hanged next Thursday at Pottsville, Christock confessed on November 27
that he killed Mrs, Morrison and a Norristown tollekeeper, At this time he was already
under sentence of death for thekilling of Mrs, Richards of Auchey Station, Christock's
confession was brought about by an examination by the police Friday in which he was
asked when he killed the man at Norristown, 'I never killed him,' he said simply,

'Did you kill Mrs, Morrison?! 'No, I did not kill. her either, I only killed one,'
‘Why did you make that confession last November, Joe? ' 'Because I was afraid they
would commute my sentence to life imprisogment,' 'Then you want to die?! 'Yes, that's
it. I want to die. I don't want to live, I killed Mrs, Richhzds and I deserve to
die, It is the only waye' Chef of Police Rodenbaugh says that he camnot recall

any bridge watchman being immdered in this vicinity. Several years ago, Richard

Megay, who was watchman at the DeKalb Street bridge, was attacked by an unknown man

and badly injured about the head, His assailant was never captured," WEEKLY HERALD,
Norristown, Pa., Mar. 27, 1911 (6/h.)

"Pottsville, Pas, March 31, 1911-A remarkable display of nerve was made in the county jail
here today by Joseph Christock as he wag about to be hanged for the murder last fall of
Mrs. Ann Richards. Declining the proffered assistance of a priest end deputy sheriff, the
man walked smilingly from his cell to the foot of the gallows and ran lightly up the
steps. +t was a public hanging and about the gallows stood 1,500 persons to whom Christock
waved his hand, ‘hen he reached up, grabbed the noose and placed it around his neck, put
his arms by his side to be strapped and smilingly said: 'Goodbye, all.' The nervy men
then presented his head in position for the adjustment of the black cap and in another mo-
ment the trap was sprung. He was dead in 12 minutes. Before going to the gallows, Chris-
tock made e complete confession, declaring he had shot the woman when he was detected by
her attempting to mistreat her daughter. He told of numerous highway robberies and bur-
glaries committed in the neighborhood and wound up his confession by saying he deserved

to be hanged for his crimes. He joked of death to the very end."

JO 4 £ a A Se ate ° cflle s ! ¢
AD. 3-191 6722) 31, 1911. (2/he) same article in ITEM, Mobile,


GHRISTOCK, Joseph ; ,

"Pottsville, Pa., 3-30-1911=Joseph Christock, who was
hanged here today for the murder of Mrs, (Mary Ann) Rig
chards (aged 65, mother-in-law of his employer, Peter
Paul, on Nov. 16, 1910), declined the proffered assistance
of a priest and deputy sheriff and ran lightly up the
gallows' steps. About the gallows stood 1,500 persons to
whom Christock waved his hand. Then he reached Up, grasp«
ed the noose, and placed it around his neck, "Goodbye,
all,' he said smilingly. Christock made a complete con»
fession, declaring he shot the woman when he was detected
by her attempting to mistreat her daughter, He joked of

death to the very end and said he deserved to be hanged,"
DAILY NEWS, Galveston, Texas, 3-31-1911 (2-6) No appeal,

See SCAFFOLD AND CHAIR by Teeters, pt 2, pg 60,
Talli. 7 K~ LOC -/S-ecteecdk

On GFFICE sUPPLg-cOTHAN

; Z|
Lah,»

A


nal
i tag he
oecause,
t so his (Continued from page 3) members of the
making Blue Ribbon Grand Jury we found sev-
a6 or 8 eral who had criminal records.”
se when “What do you mean by ‘Biue Ribbon’?”
s in the I asked.

“They’re the tops—the best juries we
ime too. have. But there again it is a case of only
looking a few being unfit for public service, | Yet
aaybe a it shows the importance of all public em-
‘bout to ployees being fingerprinted.”

: to one This investigation to date has been of
regular great benefit to the public at an exceed-
1 allow ingly small financial net cost, considering
25c. in- its achievements, not to mention its moral
vinning effect on lax and inefficient public officials
the big who long ago forgot, if in fact they ever
of your knew it, that a public official is a servant
‘of the public, not its master. |
ups can- |
ong the @ HOW MANY readers of Trur DETECTIVE
to quit have heard of John Scarne? In case
for him you haven’t, it may be mentioned that
few for there is impressive testimony in support
> hits a of the belief of many in the game that he
ter face is the world’s best card-man. Our staff
ort? If writer, himself a magician of some note,
ill turn who is working with Scarne to put his
srovided fascinating story in shape for publication,
says of him: “He can make cards lie down
s, and if and roll over. I believe he will go ‘all out’
nd says, for TD readers although in the past he has
” Some- consistently refused to do that, regardless
n forces of the offers made.” i Ma
s if — I have just read the first in this series
aybe he ||
he still | |
sells the ey
number, |
s makes |
away a (Continued from page 63) held in the
ik even. hands of a person slightly elevated above
vee BY, Mrs. Kaiser’s head. A man on the step
and of a buggy would be exactly in the right
line position.”
ot if The report ended with a description of
the Mid- some black and blue marks on the wo-
: or two man’s upper arms. How she had acquired
k I may these bruises, and if they were of recent
origin, no one knew.
te I send In the meantime, arrangements for the
out that funeral were being made. With the per-
in stem mission of the husband, the local branch
he word of the Daughters of Liberty, to which
tand we patriotic organization Mrs. Kaiser had be-
with his longed, took charge of the occasion.
halfaC On the morning of the interment, a
large crowd began to gather in front
nce was of the funeral parlor of Undertaker A. C.
siderable Hallman shortly after dawn. _Even before
m afraid the hour came to permit visitors to view
ig to get the corpse, more than two thousand per-
‘this gee sons Kad filtered into Norristown to take
Big City, part in the services.
1 when I To satisfy those who could not hope to
« him oft get into the funeral parlor, a line was
wg?” formed which slowly threaded its way
-crossing past the bier of the murdered woman,
rom me, giving many their’ first opportunity to
else too, gaze upon her face. :

? os’ would Present .at the ceremony was Chief
‘e could. Rodenbaugh and to him shortly after the
a couple services had ended came Officer Abe
r1ells for Gotwals. x : om ,

Ww, “Chief,” he began, “there’s a woman

‘os after I here from West Conshohocken who says
a right I the corpse is not that of Mrs. Kaiser.”
his dicks Mrs. Emma B. Kline, vouched for as a
‘nd when respectable citizen by Chief of Police
. in their Courdoff, quickly gave the reasons for her

claim.
Teor “Last June.” she told Rodenbaugh, “a
: man who save the name of Moore rented
; a room from me. And most of the three
' — weeks he stayed ino rv house he kept to
eaccpt hiss bed.
Licut He hadonty two visitors, A man Whose
oe one she never heard. and oa beautiful
- fant young, lady who sometimes accompanied
1 Page him. The door had always been locked
CTIVE JULY, 1942
RRP +5 RABIN oe DP HORE, canes were PmESaRe ”

Personal:

which will begin
next month
in this magazine,
Magicians of the
Underworld, and
I must say that
in this instance I
agree with the
writer, for it is
one. of those
stories that
makes you forget
yourself and
everything

Scarne: around you in
oy : " the illusion it
He is tops creates. While

you are reading it you live in another
world—the gamblers’ world.

The late Arthur Brisbane, after watch-
ing Scarne work, remarked: “How John
Scarne can do miracle after miracle for
fully one hour is beyond me.” New York’s
Police Commissioner, Lewis J. Valentine.
said of him: “John Scarne has the fastest
pair of hands I have ever witnessed.” Rip-
ley made him a subject for his Believe It
or Not series, and Walter Winchell in his
widely read column commented as follows:
“John Scarne, the greatest card manipu-
lator of them all, could retire in a year if
he wanted to be a cardsharp and trim
chumps, but he never gambles. You
haven’t seen card stunts or magic if you

Design for Death

after they entered the bedroom—they had
even stuffed the keyhole, reported Mrs.
Kline indignantly. Once the visitor re-
ferred to the lady as “his wife.”

Not until she ran into the man in Nor-
ristown in- August had she learned his
name; it was Charlie Kaiser. And she
was much surprised to see the lady in the
coffin was not the woman he had called
his wife in West Conshohocken.

“Describe this woman to me,” said
Rodenbaugh, “‘I’d like to hear more about
her.”

Mrs. Kline said she was beautiful. Black
hair, black flashing eyes, and though it
was June, she wore a black linen suit
topped with a large black hat. The “Wo-
man in Black.” The buxom brunette
described by the two hostlers at Kurtz’
livery stable. .

Mrs. Kline said that Moore was rather
dark, of medium size and wore a black
mustache.

It was not difficult, to pick up the trail
of the woman in black. Several local
citizens had seen the buxom brunette and
had turned for a second look. She had
visited Norristown off and on during the
summer, it seemed, sometimes only for a
day, occasionally staying overnight at the
hotel. Alexander Harrison, baggage mas-
ter at the Pennsylvania Railroad Station,
and Ross McKenly, publisher of the Nor-

-ristown Breeze, a weekly gossipy news-

paper, were able to contribute some im-
portant information when they learned
the police were interested.

“I saw her the last time,” said Mr. Har-
rison, “the afternoon Mrs. Kaiser was
killed.”

She had been loitering in the general
waiting-room, he said, sometimes saunter-
ing to the door to look down the street.
Curious to know for whom she was wait-
ing. Harrison had kept an eve on her,
and ut two-thirty he had noticed she was
Joined by Charlie Kaiser

The couple had had a long conference
together, and then Kaiser had gone, leave
ing the lady behind. While Harrison was

Pre aE NSC ate

haven’t popped out your eyes watching
him deal a hand, not from the top or bot-
tom of the deck but from the center.”

Those of you who read Mr. Winchell’s
Favorite Detective Mystery, The Murder
That Rocked Broadway, which appeared
in May TD, will recall that Arnold Roth-
stein, the central figure in that story, was
ceaselessly on the lookout for that miracle
man of cards who could show him some-
thing about the cardboards and gambling
that he didn’t know. Rothstein had made
a fortune in cards. But Scarne was more
than his match. The “King of the Un-
derworld” had sent for Starne to give
a demonstration before him and certain
of his underlings and Scarne came—he saw:
and he conquered. He came a second
time and he came a third time to work his
miracles before this same group of “New
York’s Men from Missouri” and they were
at first mystified, then fascinated, then
angry—then threatening. They wanted to
know—and they had a way of making
their requests difficult to refuse—HOW
Scarne did it. Realizing he was on the
spot, he...

But it occurs to me at this point that to
go further would give away one of the
best things Scarne ever did, so why spoil
it? It is perhaps better to leave it for Mr.
Scarne himself to relate, as he will do in
his own personal story which will appear
in these pages next month. JS,

otherwise engaged, she vanished.

Ress McKenly confirmed what Chief
Rodenbaugh had long suspected, that
Kaiser was on friendly terms with the lady
in black. During the summer, he had
written in the Norristown Breeze a gossipy
item “about the beautiful brunette who
comes to a photographer’s shop on West
Main Street so frequently.

Kaiser had stopped him one day on the
street and asked him not to print any
more such comments. The lady, he had

' said, was a wife of a friend, and neither

her husband nor his wife would like to
hear such gossip.

But here was Kaiser continuing to deny
any acquaintance with the mysterious
couple. Another strange angle was that
no one knew the lady’s name.. The man
known as Moore to Mrs. Kline in West
Conshohocken, and as Cook to the hostlers
at the livery stable, had also vanished.

M@ WITH PHILADELPHIA but a short

ride away, it was more than likely the
mysterious couple had hurried to that city
after their drive on Gulf Mill Road. After
communicating with the Philadelphia
police and learning that Detective Frank
Geyer would be directed to make a hunt
for them there, Chief Rodenbaugh pre-
pared, for his next move.

The insurance angle in every sudden
death is not to’ be overlooked. When
Rodenbaugh found in Mrs. Kaiser’s purse
an identification such as insurance com-
panies issue to their patrons, he deter-
mined to learn how much had been carried
on her life.

Kaiser, when asked, handed over to the
Chief of Police a collection of papers he
said he had found in his wife's trunk.

“LT know she carried two policies,” he
said frankly. “One she took out before
her marriage to me: the other is a joint
policy we took out together.”

Rodenbiateh soon had thems: in his hands.
The one taken out by Mrs. Kaiser was

dated March, 1894, the agent, C. RB. Hutch-
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ing through the pack, he held out one, an
unusually clear photo.

“This is your friend Clemmer,” he said.

Rodenbaugh breathed a deep sigh of
satisfaction. For Smith had picked out the
photo of the man known as Moore, alias
Cook, and now: alias Clemmer—the man
who had gone to so much trouble to take
out those policies, life and accident, in
behalf of his friends, the Kaisers.

That Clemmer was the leading figure in
the tragedy Chief Rodenbaugh was now
almost certain. There were several logical
reasons for this assumption. —

First of all, though every citizen in Up-
per Merion Township and the surrounding
territory had been on the watch for the
highwaymen, with and without their mas-
querade of charcoal dust, no one had seen
a trace of them.

Whispers began going around that they
had never existed.

Then, in much the same manner as
Kaiser’s gold hunting watch had -been
found not far from the scene of the mur-
der of his wife, so was his diamond shirt
stud discovered a few days later where it
had been thrown over a fence into a field.

™@ THERE MIGHT have been a good

reason for this gesture on the part of
the highwaymen. The stud was not the
diamond Charlie Kaiser had described but
an ordinary twenty-five cent imitation
stone in a brass spiral setting.

Confronted with the imitation, the young
widower refused to accept it as his.

“Mine was a real diamond,” he insisted.
“A first-class stone.”

Another detail that had puzzled the
local authorities was the condition of
Kaiser’s shirt front. He had said the high-
waymen. had wrenched the stud from its
place in his stiff bosom. But the front of
his shirt showed no sign’of such violence.
Surely the small opening for the stud
would have suffered a tear or at least a
smudge, but Charlie Kaiser’s shirt front
had showed an undisturbed surface.

Chief Rodenbaugh’s next clue came
from nearby Pottsville. Mr. Walter
Yeager, foreman of the Pennsylvania and
Reading car cleaners, wrote that he had
found the enclosed watch on the sidewalk
the afternoon of the 12th of November.

Within the watch’s lid had been a scrap
of paper bearing the words, “Mrs. Emma
Kaiser, Norristown, Pa.”

It would have to be a highly eccentric
highwayman who not only threw away his
loot but went to the trouble of attaching
his victim’s name and address to the
jewelry.

Norristown officials decided to hold
Charlie Kaiser for the murder of his wife.
Accordingly, the photographer was taken
from his boarding house and lodged in the
local jail.

During the six months that intervened
before the trial the argument continued to
rage. Before the opening day, almost
every able-bodied person within walking
or riding distance of Norristown was mak-
ing plans to attend.

The sun was hardly up on the 8th of
March before the trolleys from Philadel-
phia began disgorging would-be specta-
tors. Every buggy, wagon and carriage
in Upper Merion Township brought in its
load. Every livery stable was crammed,
while hitching posts for horses fell far
below the demand.

Within the courthouse the crowds
surged up and down the aisles, eager for
seats. So congested was the courtroom

that William Rumford was squeezed into
a state of collapse, and fell in-a faint to
the tloor.

It took two days. to find a jury that
claimed it was free from prejudice of any
kind, District Attorneys Strassburger, as-
guLy, 1942

‘walked around the back to the other side

sisted by Assistant District Attorneys
James D. Holland and John M. Dettra,
took over the prosecution.

Fighting for Kaiser was an equally
capable array of counsel headed by N. B.
Lazalere with ex-District Attorney Henry
M. Brownback, M. M. Gibson and George
H. Carr of Philadelphia to assist him.

On the bench sat Judge Aaron Schwartz,
flanked on one side by the steel pen in
which sat Charlie Kaiser dejectedly chew-
ing gum. On the Judge’s other side stood
the most important exhibit of the trial, the
piano box buggy, its canopy top showing
the bullet holes, its cushions still exhibit- |
ing dingy stains.

There should be considered, ruled Judge
Schwartz on the first day, only evidence
against Charles Kaiser himself. All sug-
gestions as to the guilt of any other party,
(James Clemmer) were outlawed. The
only issue was the guilt or innocence of
the defendant himself.

To the defense this decision was a blow.
Although neither Clemmer nor his lady
friend had been located, they might have
served to create doubt in the jury’s mind
as to the guilt of Kaiser.

| In a terse outline of its stand, the prose-
cution opened trial. District Attorney
Strassburger scoffed at the story of the
highwaymen. According to his recon-
struction these characters had been born
in the head of the defendant. Kaiser, he
held, had left his seat in the buggy,

hrm he mounted the step and shot his
wife
The motive? To reap the benefit of the
insurance policies taken out on her life.
'The defense, when its turn came, con-
centrated on showing haw inconclusive
was the state’s evidence. They denied
there was any direct proof of Kaiser’s
guilt.
’ ‘Then came the climax of the trial. At-
torney Lazalere announced he was going
to call to the witness stand every one of
the physicians who had examined the
wounded arm of Charlie Kaiser after the
murder.

™@ SINCE THESE men, Doctors Umstead,

Mann, and Drake, had also been the
witnesses for the state, their testimony
could hardly be doubted by the prosecu-
tion.

“Was it possible,” each physician was
asked in turn, “for Charlie Kaiser to have
shot himself? Could his wound have been
self-inflicted?” ‘

That question, the defense reminded the
court, had intentionally been omitted by
the prosecution.

And each physician, pressed by Attorney
Lazelere, admitted more or less reluc-
tantly that Charlie Kaiser could not have
shot himself through his upper right arm.
The position of the bullet hole made such
a conclusion an impossibility.

Then, if Kaiser could not have shot him-
self, a third party must have fired the
bullet.

The highwayman story did hold up.

It was a telling point. The case against
Kaiser had many holes, and public opinion
in the courtroom began to veer in favor of
the accused.

On the eleventh day of the trial, March
29th, the case was given to the jury shortly
after four o’clock in the afternoon. The
crowd in the courtroom stayed on and on.
When dusk came Tipstaff Rumford walked
quietly around the:room turning on the
gas jets.

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the hungry spectators that the jury had
made up its mind. An eerie quietness |
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Central Mutual Company of Cincinnati.

In June of 1896, shortly after the Kaisers
had arrived in Norristown to open their
photo studio, the same Mr. Hutchinson
had looked them up and induced them to
take out the second policy for four thou-
sand dollars.

Chief Rodenbaugh continued to thumb
through the papers idly. He might stumble
on something significant. He was startled
to find a third, and a.fourth policy, the
third being a life policy taken out on hus-
band and wife, the fourth an accident
policy, also covering both of them.

The third policy had been taken out July
16th, 1896, less than a month after the
second, which seemed rather strange.

A letter to the Philadelphia offices of
the ‘Covenant Mutual Life with which this
third policy had been taken out, and the

. Atlas. Accident Insurance Company
brought back complete reports of the
transactions.

The life policy for $5000 had been ne-
gotiated by James Clemmer, who had
represented himself as a personal friend
of the Kaisers. His interest in them had
been sufficient to induce him to pay the
first premium out of his own pocket.

@ THE ACCIDENT policy, Chief Roden-

baugh learned, had also been arranged
by the same James Clemmer, who again
had put down his own money for the
premium, a fact which in itself was in-
teresting. Pylnbny

To both companies Rodenbaugh now
wrote asking for Clemmer’s address.

He received the same answer from both,
that James Clemmer was not one of their
regular agents, and that the only policy
he had ever negotiated was that for his
friends, the Kaisers. They had no record
of his address. ;

Perhaps Kaiser could supply the miss-
ing address? Rodenbaugh hastened ‘to the
boarding-house where Kaiser still made
his home. ‘

“Clemmer?” said Kaiser, still looking
pale and nursing his arm. “What makes
you ‘ask me about him? I haven’t seen
him for weeks.”

“Thought he was a friend of yours,”
he commented. “What happened between
you?”

Kaiser shrugged his shoulders. “Oh,
we had a fight,” he answered, but refused
to say more,

“Know about these insurance policies?”

. Rodenbaugh’ showed Kaiser the docu-
ments negotiated .by Clemmer.

“He said something about having paid
them,” Kaiser replied. “I didn’t know how
much it was.”

“But you expected to pay the premiums,
didn’t you?” the Chief prodded.

Kaiser agreed that he had.

“Those four policies would total close.

to $500 a year,” continued Rodenbaugh.
“Could you, as a photographer, afford to
lay out that much money on insurance?”

Kaiser did not reply and Rodenbaugh
let the subject drop for the moment. He
wanted to do a little investigating on the
side before questioning Kaiser further.
Of course, the payments on those last
two policies had not yet come due when
Mrs. Kaiser had met her death. Yet her
husband stood to make several thousand
dollars with a minimum of outlay. Where
did the benevolent Clemmer fit into that
picture? ..

On the other hand, if Kaiser had not
expected his wife to pass away, how
would he have met the $500 in annual
payments? The local bank said when
questioned that Kaiser’s bank account had
never gone over fifty dollars, and was
usually down around ten,

“I never kept my money in the bank,”
Kaiser argued when his low bank account
was mentioned. “I bought stock with it

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for an investment.”

When asked to show the stock cer-
tificates, Kaiser said he had sold them to
a friend in Philadelphia, one Charles
Denck, who had a haberdashery shop at

2135 South Street.

Denck, called on by Detective Geyer,
backed up this story.

“I bought stock, Colorado Consolidated
Mining Stock, from Charlie Kaiser.” he
asserted.

“T never heard of the stock mentioned,”
a broker at the Philadelphia Stock Ex-
change told the police.

Of course, admitted Rodenbaugh, the
stock might have been one of the many
wildcat operations not vouched for by the
dignified Stock Exchange.

As for the mysterious Clemmer, he had
disappeared from both the Philadelphia
and Norristown scene.

No one concentrated more than did
Chief Rodenbaugh on this puzzling case,
but the harder he worked the more con-
fused became the issues.

Yet the most important development
was now to come about by accident, one
of those lucky breaks that give the con-
scientious detective the helping hand he
so often needs. ;

Into Chief Rodenbaugh’s office in Nor-
ristown walked a red-faced and highly
irate gentleman. He introduced himself
as John R. Johnson of Gloucester, Pa.,
and held out to the Chief a clipping from
a Philadelphia paper. It was a sketch
of the buggy in which Mrs. Kaiser had
been killed. .

The buggy, Mr. Johnson claimed, had
been stolen from his stable the night of
September 2nd.

Kaiser, Rodenbaugh knew, kept his
buggy and horse at Kurtz’ stable. Perhaps
the latter might be able to clear up this
side issue.

@ OFFICER ABE GOTWALS escorted
indignant .Mr. Johnson to the stable for
a talk with Samuel Kurtz. And now came
the break—for the story Kurtz told of the
buggy’s past had a significant slant.

“Kaiser asked me to go with him to
Philadelphia to look at a horse he wanted
to buy,” Kurtz began his story, “and on
the afternoon of September 5th we went.”

They left the train at Powelton Avenue
and Kaiser led the way to a vacant house
in the rear of which was a stable.

There, almost as if waiting for them,
had been a man and a woman sitting in
the very buggy Mr. Johnson now claimed
as his. The man had given Kaiser a curt
nod, and sauntered from the stable. The
woman was introduced to him as Mrs.
Boyce. :

Kaiser had asked him his opinion of
the buggy so he had given it an inspection
‘that ended with a recommendation to buy.
Then the three went to a near-by horse
auction sale where, again on his advice,
Kaiser had bought a horse. :

“Think you could find that Philadelphia
stable again?” Rodenbaugh asked Kurtz.

The livery man said he thought he could.
After Mr. Johnson had been assured that
his rights in the buggy would be con-
sidered, though the vehicle would have
to remain as evidence in the custody of
the Norristown authorities for some time
to come, Rodenbaugh invited Kurtz to
accompany him on a trip to Philadelphia.

Detective Geyer, informed of the pro-
posed visit, was waiting at the depot for
them. But upon their arrival at the stable,
they found it empty. Not a trace of its
former tenants could be found.

Detective Geyer, one of the ace investi-
gators of the Philadelphia force, thought
of another angle.

“They probably dealt in stolen buggies,”
he suggested. “Seems to me I recall a
charge against a man and woman for both

horse and buggy steadaige.”

“Might be worth looking into.” sug-
vested Rodenbaugh.

It took a litle thumbing through the
records to locate the case but eventually
Detective Geyer found the file he wanted.
Two months earlier, a man named Moore
and his wife had been accused of stealing
a buggy. but before the case could be
tried the man had disappeared. His ad-
dress had been given as 2004 Newcomb

Street.

The officers rushed out there, but again.
the birds had fiown, nor could neighbors
add to the meager description of the
couple.

Who was this man called Moore?
Strange how, a description of the man
eluded him. An inconspicuous sort of
person, certainly, a nobody who could be
anybody so far as looks were concerned,
with only a black mustache to distinguish
him in a land full of black mustaches.

Wherever the trail led, it always seemed
to return to these three parties—Kaiser,
the woman in black, and her mysterious
companion, Moore. Just what form the
triangle took, or what part poor Mrs.
Kaiser had played, Chief Rodenbaugh
could not yet tell.

The next twenty-four hours were full
and busy ones for Chief Rodenbaugh.
First he called on Detective Sam Scherer.
“You drop in on Kaiser at his boarding-
house and keep him talking there until
after lunch. I want to go through his
place.”

The Chief was soon thumbing through a
collection of negatives.

Some of the resulting photographs he
discarded. Others he kept, and ‘these re-
vealed, either alone or with a black-mus-
tached man, the flamboyant figure of.a
young, good-looking woman dressed in
rather too striking a style for the Quaker
background of this section of Pennsyl-
vania.

Undoubtedly this was the woman in
black.

But it was her companion who most
interested Chief Rodenbaugh. Tucking
several photographs of this man in his
pocket, he started out on his rounds.
His first visit was paid to Mrs. Kline in
West Conshohocken.

“Know this man?”
one of his photographs.

“Sure,” she nodded, “that’s Moore, the
man who always stayed in bed.”

And he held out

Rodenbaugh nodded. “This the woman?”.

and he held out another.

@ “YES,” began Mrs. Kline, but before
she could say any more Rodenbaugh
bade her a hasty adieu.

The Kurtz livery stable was the next
port of call. Shown the collection of pho-
tos, Kurtz picked out the woman as the
one introduced to him as Mrs. Boyce in
the Philadelphia stable. His hostlers,
Davis and O’Hare, not only identified the
woman but were certain the man identi-
fied as Moore was also the man named
Cook who had hired the phaeton on the
afternoon of the murder.

The following morning, Chief Roden-
baugh was sitting opposite ex-Mayor
Smith, head of the Philadelphia office of
the Covenant , Mutual Life Insurance

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policy taken out on the Kaisers by James
Clemmer.

It took but a few moments for Roden-
baugh to explain the purpose of his visit.
Then he hauled out from his pocket his
collection of photos and handed them to
Mr. Smith.

“Recognize any one there?” he asked.
“Take your time.”

His host’s brows puckered. His atten-
tion was caught immediately by the like-
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when two men jumped out from the
side of the road. One of them, a short
fellow, grabbed the horse’s head. The
other jumped on the step of the buggy
and pulled a pistol. I gave him my
wallet and my watch. He yanked a
stud from my shirt before I could itake
it out.” '

The young man said his name was
Charles Kaiser; that Mrs. Kaiser had
handed over her pocketbook quickly,
but had trouble unfastening her watch
from within her belt; that the gunman
had held the barrel of his pistol against
her head in a threatening manner when
he apparently thought she was stalling;
that the next thing he, Kaiser, knew,
the gun went off. Neither he nor his
wife had offered any’ resistance and
both were doing their best to hand over
their valuables.’

Kaiser said he jumped for the man,
who turned and fired at him.

“I knocked his arm and'the first shot
went wild. Instead of getting me in the
head, it went through my coat and the
upper part of my arm.”

The highwayman started to run and
his accomplice, who had been holding
the horse’s head, fled after him.

Kaiser said that in the darkness he
was not able to get a good look at either
of the men but he had the distinct
impression that their faces had been
blacked in an effort at disguise.

This last statement raised the ques-
tion as to whether local characters
might be involved. At this point Kaiser
explained that he knew few local peo-
ple-as he and Mrs. Kaiser had moved
to Norristown only about six months
before.

The body of the victim, it was de-
cided, should be taken temporarily to
the establishment of Undertaker D. Y.
Mowdray in Bridgeport.

“Come with me, Kaiser,” invited
Mancill. “I’ll put you and your horse
and buggy up at my hotel.”

Kaiser gratefully accepted the offer.

Early the next morning the official
investigation began. All three com-
munities through which: the Kaisers
had traveled from Philadelphia con-
sidered themselves involved. Chief of
Police Rodenbaugh of Norristown, Chief
of Police Courdoff of West Consho-
hocken, and Officers John Murphy and
William Clinton of Bridgeport, met the
next morning at the Farmer’s Hotel .to
make their first visit to the scene of the
murder.

Despite this multiple police force job,
the most important discoveries of the
next twenty-four hours were made by
volunteers.

Joseph Beaumont. of Norristown,

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paying a hasty visit to the
scene, caught the glint of
something under a stone
about a quarter of a mile
from the murder spot.

Probing underneath, he
unearthed a heavy gold
hunting-case watch bear- °
ing on its lid the initials
“C.O. K.”

“Charlie Kaiser's
watch,” commented Chief
Rodenbaugh when the ob-
ject was handed to him.
“What kind of a highway-
man is that who throws
away the spoils?”

That the murder of Mrs.
Kaiser had been no or-
dinary crime Rodenbaugh
was convinced after a visit
made by a young Norris-

-town man, well known to him and

thoroughly reliable. For the story told
by Ben Hughes, clerk in the People’s
National Bank, added a sinister note.

Hughes said that after the bank
closed, he cycled to his home on Gulf
Mill Road as was his custom. On the
evening of October 28th, he had been
pedaling along when he drew abreast
of a phaeton.

“In the phaeton sat a swell looking

lady,” the clerk said. “She wore a big '

picture hat, a black suit and black
gloves. She was alone.”

But that wasn’t all. Ahead of the
phaeton walked a man who, even as
Hughes passed, turned to call back to
the lady in black, “Mind what I told
you,” and walked on.

This meeting had taken place as he
was nearing the crest of a hill. Just
down the other side, he had seen a
buggy. In it sat Charlie Kaiser and his
wife—he knew them by sight because as
a budding banker he made it a point
to know all the newcomers. ;

“Recognize the other couple?” Roden-
baugh wanted to know.

Hughes shook his head. “Never saw
them before. But they had that rangy
bay horse from Kurtz’ livery stable.
I sometimes drive him myself.”

“Keep all this to yourself, Hughes,”
ordered Rodenbaugh. ‘“Can’t say there’s
any connection with the murder, but
don’t talk.”

The young man agreeing, they bade
each other a hearty farewell.

A visit to Kurtz’ livery stable was
the next best move, decided Roden-
baugh.

Officer Abe Gotwals, sent to inter-
view Samuel Kurtz, found the livery
man thoroughly willing to cooperate.

“You want to know who rented a

clared the body was not that o

Mourners at funeral services of the victim
(above) were horrified when a eee de-

Mrs. Kaiser

phaeton with the rangy bay horse from
us on Wednesday?” he repeated. “‘That’s
easy. Hey, you, O’Hara, bring me the
order book.”

Thumbing through the mussy look-
ing ledger, he soon found the desired
information. The man who had hired
the buggy had given his name as Cook.

“The fellow was alone when he came,
but there was a lady with him when
he brought the phaeton back.”

’ Was there anything more the hostlers
could tell him? ‘Well, the lady had
flashing black eyes and she walked with
a swagger.

Perhaps Kaiser might be able to iden-
tify this lady and her escort? _

“They don’t sound:like anyone I
know,” the husband answered. “And
I didn’t see them that night on Gulf
Mill Road.”

Chief Rodenbaugh commented that
he would like to ask that couple some
questions. He would try to learn: if
any one else in Norristown or the neigh-
borhood had seen them that day, be-
sides the young banker. ?

In the meantime Dr. J. R. Umstead,
the Coroner’s physician, assisted by
Doctors Drake, Mann and Eisenberg,
had performed the autopsy on Mrs
Kaiser.

Their verdict was that the dead wo
man had been shot by a pistol hela
so close to her head that the blast had
both blackened her face and singed her
hair, The bullet had entered just above
her right ear and traveled downward
and back.

“Is the course of the bullet in accord
with her husband’s story?” Chief Ro-
denbaugh asked.

“Yes,” answered Dr. Umstead,
spokesman for his companions. ‘The
pistol was (Continued on page 109)

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fendant guilty of murder in the first
degree,” he read.

There was nothing beaten in Charlie
Kaiser’s attitude when he talked to re-
porters shortly afterward.

“T am an innocent man,” he protested.
“T did not kill my wife: I am not responsi-
ble for her death. If the truth is ever
known, I will be vindicated.”

“How about your friend Clemmer?” he
was asked.

“That man has ruined my life,” an-
swered Kaiser. “If he could be found, the
truth would come out. He knows more
about this affair than I do.”

Interest in the missing James Clemmer
increased. Detective Geyer in Phila-
delphia had been instructed to follow
. every clue; there was to be no letup in
the search.

This order proved extremely difficult
to carry out. Clemmer and the brunette
had ‘disappeared completely from the
scene. : .

M GEYER’S INTENSIVE investigation
did, however, succeeded in uncovering

the turbulent past of the couple. Two years |

earlier, he discovered, a young girl of
seventeen by the name of Lizzie deKalb
had arrived in Philadelphia from Potts-
town to seek. employment. The first job
offered her was at the Clemmer house-
hold at 1815 Moore Street where she was
engaged to help Mrs, Clemmer in the care
of her fifth baby.

A few months of domestic work had
been enough for the high-spirited girl and
she had accepted with: alacrity the in-
vitation of James Clemmer to run away
and set up housekeeping with him.

The two had started their new life to-
gether in a couple of rooms at 251 North

10th Street, Detective Geyer learned, |

where they were known as Mr. and Mrs.
Moore, the name obviously being taken
from their previous address on Moore
Street. But they had not stayed at any
’ place very long.

Weeks and months passed with the
couple still missing. Then came a bit of
news that Lizzie had been seen in Potts-
town though she had not been in touch
with her old friends, ~

How. to reach her?

Would:not a personal in the Philadel-
phia Press, a paper that had a wide dis-
tribution throughout the state, be likely
to catch her eye? Written in such a way
that she would think it had been inserted

by Clemmer, it might well bring an

answer. ety
- In September the first notice appeared.
“To Lizzie Moore,” it read, “Your Jim
would like to hear from you.” or

Not for five days did Lizzie deKalb pick
up the notice. Then came a timid letter
from Pottstown. A second personal fol-
lowed, urging Lizzie to come to Phila-
delphia, and when the girl sent word of
her coming, she was met at the station
by detectives.who told her bluntly she was
under arrest.

It was a subdued and remorseful Lizzie,
housed in the Montgomery County’s jail
at Norristown,’ who listened respectfully
to the wise advice of her counsel, J. P,
Hale Jenkins. '

Accompanied by her lawyer, she met
Chief Rodenbaugh and District Attorney
Strassburger at the District Attorney’s
office and was taken. by carriage to the
crime scene.

- Down the old State Road the carriage
rolled, -Rodenbaugh ‘at the reins, with
Lizzie leaning over his shoulder to point
the way. On through the Borough of

Bridgeport they rode, until Lizzie broke.

the silence.

“Here, at:the foot of this hill,” she began,
“We passed the Kaisers going the other
’ way in their buggy. I asked Jim if that

‘112

wasn’t his old friend Kaiser. He whis-
pered to me to shut up and pretend [
hadn’t seen him.”

About the length of a city block beyond,
she related, Clemmer had stopped, turned
the horse so that they were facing back
toward town as were the Kaisers, and
then put the reins in her hand.

“You stay here,” he had said. “I'll be
back shortly.”

Lizzie said she had waited alone for
about ten minutes when suddenly through
the darkness came the sound of two pistol
shots. She had been horribly frightened.
A few minutes later Clemmer came dash-
ing up, his right hand stained with blood.

“Don’t get excited,” he had said. “Every-
thing went off fine.”

“Didn’t you suspect that Clemmer had
shot some one?” Rodenbaugh asked.

“Not then. Not until we got back to
Philadelphia did Jim tell me what had

happened and then he said he’d kill me if,

I ever told.”

Where Clemmer was at the moment,

Lizzie deKalb did not know. It was not

until the end of November that a tip came |

in from a stranger who had seen the
wanted man in Newark. Clemmer, the

man said, was working for the Singer |

Sewing Machine Company.
District Attorney Strassburger immedi-

ately wired Chief of Police Stansbury of |
Newark, and the following day Detective |

Sergeant John Cosgrove called at the office
of the Singer Sewing Machine. There was
no Clemmer on the payroll, but a sales-

man answering to the name of Howard |

Young was quickly identified as the

wanted man. The arrest was made with- |

out protest.

M@ BACK IN Norristown, Clemmer was.
indicted for the murder of Mrs. Kaiser, |
and the prospect of his trial caused even

more of a furor than had Kaiser’s. Lizzie
deKalb was scheduled to appear as a
witness, "

The trial opened in June, 1898, with
Judge Weand on the bench, District At-
torney Strassburger again in charge of
the prosecution and Attorney Henry M.
Brownback at the head of the defense.

The first highlight of the trial came
when Charlie Kaiser took the witness
stand. '

It ‘was Clemmer, the photographer
claimed, who had engineered the plot,
arranged for the insurance and carried
out the murder. He, Kaiser, had not
only refused to co-operate but had pro-
tested bitterly from start to finish.

“I tried to prevent him from carrying
out his vile scheme,” insisted Kaiser.

‘When he had started out for the drive

with his wife, he testified, he thought
Clemmer had given up the plan and was
back in Philadelphia. Then suddenly
Clemmer had appeared out of the growing
darkness of the October night, leaped on
the step of the buggy and shot Mrs. Kaiser,

“He threatened to shoot me if I ever
breathed his name,” continued Kaiser.
“That man was my evil genius. Would to
God I had never met him!”

On the following day Clemmer had his
opportunity to tell his story. ‘

“It was Kaiser,” he began, “who en-
gineered the plot. At his request, I
negotiated the insurance policies, com-
pletely unaware of his intentions. When
he later told me of his scheme, I did my
best to persuade him to give it up.”

According to his account, Clemmer had
bluntly refused to take any part in the
death scene. It was only by accident he
insisted that he had met Kaiser on the
Gulf Mill Road that night. After passing,

‘it had occurred to him that Kaiser might

be going to kill his wife right then and
there and he had hastily quit his phaeton
and hurried back to make a last attempt

to save Mrs. Kaiscr from her husband,

Just as he approached, he saw Kaiser
lean over and hit his wife again and again
on the head. He had tried to protect her.
But Kaiser, now out of the buggy, had
forced him back at the point of his re-
volver, and deliberately shot his wife
through the head.

Who was telling the truth? The man
already facing the gallows, or the man with
the scaffolding just around the corner.

Could Lizzie deKalb, the last witness
in this unique triangle, be able to give the
facts that might determine which man
was telling the truth?

She took her seat quietly in the witness
chair, A simple brown shirtwaist suit,
topped with a brown sailor hat, was her
modest costume. A bunch of pink rose-
buds in her belt provided the only bit of
color. Ri

Calmly, Lizzie told her story.

“Tell us, Lizzie,” urged District Attor-
ney Strassburger,; “what message you de-
livered to Kaiser in the Pennsylvania
Station at Norristown the afternoon of the
murder?”

“Jim told me to meet Kaiser there and
give him a message for him. I was to say
“everything is all right.’ That was all.”

The crowd in the courtroom gasped.

“And now, Lizzie,” continued the Dis-
trict Attorney, “tell us what Clemmer
told you that night after your return to
Philadelphia.”

Lizzie plucked at her roses nervously.
Suddenly Clemmer’s voice broke through
the stillness of the courtroom.

“Lizzie, Lizzie,” he called, “you wouldn't
do that to me. Lizzie, Lizzie, darling, you
wouldn’t turn on me. Lizzie, I love you.”

A guard pulled Clemmer back from the
rails of the cage through which he had
thrust his arms. Lizzie was induced to look
up and, choking with sobs, to tell the rest
of ‘her story.

“Jim told me,” she began, “that he had
shot Mrs. Kaiser. He said it was a bad

_job. He said Charles Kaiser held her

arms so he could shoot her right in the
head.

“Kaiser gave Jim the watches and his
wallet to take away so it would look like
a robbery. Then Kaiser raised his arm
so Jim could shoot him so that he would
be wounded too.”

M@ THE TWO men were tied together
irrevocably by Lizzie deKalb’s testi-

/mony. She had cleared up every doubt,
/and filled in every gap in the evidence.

Gone was any chance for an appeal for
Kaiser, nor could Clemmer’s attorneys
see any hope of an acquittal for their
client.

On June 24th, after an exceedingly
brief absence by the jury, James Clemmer
was found guilty of murder in the first
degree. . vty bgt

As for. Lizzie deKalb, many thought the
girl had been brought into the conspiracy
against her will. The law agreed with
this lenient view and the young woman,
held as an accessory after the ‘fact, .was
given a sentence of only two years,

Charlie Kaiser, the first convicted, was
scheduled to be the first to go to the gal=-.
lows, the date being set for the 6th of
September, 1898, almost two years after
the murder of his wife. He never kept this
date. On August 18th, he committed
suicide, using the sharp edge of his watch
spring as a weapon.

The last days of James Clemmer had
no such dramatic finish. He made his final
farewells to, his family the evening of the
18th of May, 1899. That night he spent in
prayer, reading the Scriptures.

One hour after finishing this breakfast,

‘Clemmer walked leisurely to the gallows.

Lizzie deKalb, her two-year sentence
up, disappeared from Norristown forever.

“TRUE DETECTIVE

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604 COUGLE, Appellant, v».§ McKEE ET AL.
Opinion of the Court. [151 Pa.

dence in regard to them is conflicting, the doubt or the conflict
must go to the jury for settlement, and an ascertainment of the
facts. Was there doubt or conflict over the facts in this case
on which the question of negligence rested? There was first
the fact of the fall, which took place almost immediately after
the workmen began to use it and with four less workmen than
had worked upon the lower scaffolds. This is not proof of negli-
gence, but it is a circumstance which the jury may properly
take into the account with other facts and circumstances, and
which may help them to reach a conclusion. Next is the fact
that this scaffold was not built by a carpenter but by men not

familiar with that sort of work. It does not follow from this -

that the work was not well done but it is a circumstance that
the jury may properly consider. Then there is the fact alleged
by the plaintiff and denied by the defendants, that it was built
in haste. The plaintiff alleges and calls witnesses to testify
that wrought iron nai should have been used, that they
should have been driven with an inclination, that the ledger
boards should have been supported by cleats or blocks in addi-
tion to the nails, and that without such supports the scaffold
could not be considered safe, or properly built. True, an equal
and perhaps a greater number of mechanics testify that cleats
and blocks are unnecessary and that this scaffold as described
by the witnesses was securely built, but who shall say which
class of witnesses should be credited? If skilled mechanics can-
not agree upon the character of the scaffold, is it possible that
a judge can say as matter of law that there was no negligence
in the manner of its construction? Very clearly this was a ques-
tion of fact. It should have gone to the jury for determination
in the light of all the evidence in the case. If they conclude
that the defendants furnished a safe scaffold for the plaintiff to
work upon, or that they exercised the measure of care in the
effort to provide one which the law requires of them, then the
plaintiff cannot recover. If they conclude that the defendants
did not exercise proper care to make the scaffold safe, then he
may recover unless his own negligence contributed to the in-
jury.

This is a hard case in any aspect of it, and requires careful
consideration. The plaintiff has suffered great injury, but the

defendants ought not to be called upon to respond in damages.

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COUGLE, Appellant, v. McKEE ET AL. ens
1892.) Opinion of the Court—Statement of Facts.

for the lives and limbs of the sufferers by this accident unless
it is fairly chargeable to their want of care for the safety of
those in their employ. This question however upon the evi-
dence as it is presented to us was one of fact and not of law.

The judgment must for this reason be reversed and a venire
facias de novo awarded.

Commonwealth v. Cloonen, Appellant.

Criminal law—Murder—Intoxication—Evidence.

Evidence that defendant, on trial for the murder of his wife, brought .
home a gallon of whiskey a day or two before the commission of the
crime, and that the night after the crime was committed there was but little
of the whiskey left, to be followed by evidence of all the living members
of the family, that none of them tasted liquor but defendant, is not evi-
dence to establish intoxication of defendant.

Argued Oct. 3, 1892. Appeal, No. 167, Oct. T., 1891, by
defendant, Dennis Cloonen, from judgment of O. & T. Alle-.
gheny Co., March T., 1892, No. 18, on verdict of guilty of mur-
der. Before Paxson, C. J., STERRETT, GREEN, WILLIAMS,
McCo.tium, MiTrcHeut and Heyprick, JJ.

Indictment for murder.

At the trial, before Couuimr, P. J., and SLAGLE, J., it ap-
peared that, on the evening of March 17, 1892, defendant.killed
his wife by striking her over the head with a chair. Defénd-
ant.claimed that at the time of the killing he was intoxicated.

When James Cloonen, a son of defendant, was on the stand,
he was asked: “ Q. Latterly, Mr. Cloonen, do you know what
his habits were as to liquor? Objected to. A. Well, he was
a very hard drinker. Mr. Burleigh: I object to the question
in the general way in which it is put as incompetent and irrel-
evant.

Mr. Marshall: I propose to prove by the witness and all the
children that this man constantly kept in his house a very
considerable lot of whiskey, and that after supper nearly every
night he drank heavily of it to intoxication; and that on many
a night would drink over a quart between getting home and
bedtime, and that it was a constant practice latterly to keep it
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Statement of Facts. [151 Pa.

The Court: The objection is sustained. The offer is not di-
rected to the condition of the defendant at the time of the
alleged offence. Exception. [1]

The same witness was asked: “Q. Could you tell from any-
thing that he said or did that evening after you met him on
Webster avenue what his condition was as to soberness or
otherwise? A. Well, he was not drunk—what you would call
drunk—and he was not sober; but can’t tell when he’s drunk;

-he only gets drunk in the head. Q. Have you seen him

drunk?” Objected to as incompetent and irrelevant.

The Court: At other times?

Mr. Marshall: Yes; at other times—many times.

Objected to as incompetent and irrelevant.

By the Court: Will you state the purpose?

Mr. Marshall: The purpose is to. show his condition then,
as far as we can, and what effect liquor had on him.

The Court: He cM testify as to that particular time. I do
not think he can testify as to any other times. Exception. [2]

When Gilbert Cloonen was on the stand, defendant proposed
to prove by the witness that a day or two before this death, de
fendant, Dennis Cloonen, brought home a bucket filled with
whiskey, holding a gallon at least, and that after the death of
his mother, that same night, he looked at the place where the
whiskey was kept and that there was only a small portion of
one bottle of that gallon of whiskey left; and follow it up by
the evidence of all the living members of the family that none
of them tasted liquor but the father.

Objected to as incompetent and irrelevant, objection sustain
ed, exception. [3]

Verdict, guilty of murder in first degree; judgment. De-
fendant appealed.

Errors assigned were (1-3) rulings on evidence, quoting
bills of exception; (4) rejection of juror because he had formed
an opinion, and without stating that the opinion would affect

the verdict or upon what the opinion was founded; the juror |

being challenged to elicit an examination by the court; coun
sel for the prisoner, after examination, thought him competent
and took exception to the ruling of the court on his compe-
tency; the assignment of error not quoting the bill of excep-
tion or ruling, except in substance as above.

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COMMONWEALTH +. CLOONEN, Appellant.
1892.] Opinion of the Court—Syllabus.
0. P. Scaiffe and Thomas M. Marshall, for appellant.

Clarence Burleigh, district attorney, not heard, for Common-
wealth.

PER CurtaM, November 7, 1892.

The appellant was convicted of murder in the first degree.
He now complains that the court below rejected certain testi-
mony offered for the purpose of showing that he was intoxi-
cated at the time he committed the crime. The evidence
rejected did not measure up to this standard. At most it
would have shown that he had liquor in his house and might
have drank it. This was not specific enough and the court be-
low was right in rejecting it.

There was also an offer to prove that the prisoner was drunk
at some other time, and the effect upon him. This was prop-
erly rejected.

The fourth specification is not properly assigned, and will
not be considered.

The judgment is affirmed, and it is ordered that the record
be remitted to the court below for the purpose of execution.

Welsh v. London Assurance Corporation, Appellant.

Fire insurance—Notice of fire—Evidence of.
" It is conclusive evidence of notice of a fire to a fire insurance company
that the adjuster of the company was sent to the place of the fire under
instructions from the agent of the company, and was there a week after
the fire occurred.

Proof of loss—Waiver by silence—Estoppel.

If the insured, in good faith and within the stipulated time, does what
he plainly intends as a compliance with the requirements of his policy
respecting proofs of loss, good faith requires that the insurer shall promptly
notify him of any objections thereto, so as to give him the opportunity to
obviate them; and mere silence may so mislead him to his disadvantage
as of itself to be sufficient evidence of waiver by estoppel.

Notice to local agent—Act of June 27, 1883.

Under the act of June 27, 1883, P. L. 165, proofs of loss may be served
upon the local agent of a fire insurance company, who has countersigned
the policy.

Variance between application and policy—Mistake of agent—Life estate.
Where a life tenant of real estate in applying for a policy of fire insur-


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to sent me the money that will
save you lots of troubles and wor-
ries. There is more than one way
to get even with you. | will go to
it if it kills me. Because you have
been kind to me ever since | knew
you.

Another letter dated simply “De-
cember” said:

Dear Mary, You was telling me
that you did not had the money
and you borrowed the money from
loan co. But you did not told me
that you loan some money to
Christ to open up a restaurant.
Dont blame nobody but youself.
| hope you are satisfy now.

The last of Mary’s letters was dated
January 28, 1936. In this letter Pete
demanded the usual money. It read:

Dear Mary. 1 have gave you
enough time to think this matter
over and there is no use for me to
try to make you come true with
your promises. I think you have
started in the wrong direction
already.

Now Mary | am going to give
you one more chance if you don’t
come true with this I shall come
true with mine. Send me ($100)
one hundred dollars. To help me
get on my feet and then you can
go with whom you please and
marry who you love and | promise
you | won’t bother you any more
and we can still be friends instead
of enemies and if there should
anything happen to me it will be
myself no other name will be men-
tioned to it.

| have ten letter that belongs
to you. | will destroy them or
send them back to you so it is up
to you to save our life or some one
else’s lifes. So let me hear from
you before Saturday for | am leav-

The March of Crime (Continued from Page 17) ofrici

women as regular members of the
force . . . Barricaded in the postoffice
of Kirkwood, Georgia, a suburb of
Atlanta, J. W. Johnson’ makes a spec-
tacular stand against a posse which
surrounded the building. The bandit,
who had just blown the safe, ex-
changes shots with the posse until he
is mortally wounded.

gael Jealousy drives Frank
Bailey, vaudeville star, to kill his
pretty wife and team-mate, Mazie Ed-
wards, at Kansas City, He commits
suicide before the police can reach
him ... At the time of her marriage,
four months ago, Mrs. F. I. Ponsing of
Richmond, California, promised her
husband: “I’ll kill you if I ever catch
you going out with another woman.”
Finding Ponsing at a_ skating-rink
with another girl, the bride lives up to
her pledge, shoots and kills him. Then
she tries suicide, but fails.

Battered body of Alicé Crispell, at-
tractive eighteen-year-old farmer’s
daughter, is found in Harvey’s Lake,
near Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania.
Alice, dressed in her best clothes, was
last seen the night of July 4, drinking
in a tavern with her suitor, Herbert
Johns, 25. Johns is held without bail,
but finally is freed, while police con-
centrate on search for a rival suitor
and also for “a mysterious stranger in
a dark suit” seen at the lake the night
of the Fourth. Investigation discloses
the victim had many torrid, tangled
love affairs.

Arrested at Los Angeles for passing
a bad check, Simon Helfinstine boasts
that he committed eight murders in
Ohio without being detected. One of
them, he claims, was the slaying of
Pearl Bryan, for which two medical
students were put to death. Los An-
geles authorities seek the aid of Ohio
police in checking up on his state-

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ing town Saturday. Answer yes or
no.

Kelley questioned Mary about the
second paragraph of this letter, the
part that said “if there should any-
thing happen to me it will be myself
and no other name will be mentioned
to it.” ,

“Pete always said that if the police
got him for Jim’s death he would say
that I was in on it with him, and I
would get sent up, too,” Mary ex-
plained.

“Aren’t you afraid of that now?”
Kelley asked her.

“Nothing matters any more. I can’t
stand this any longer. I didn’t help
to kill my husband, but if you think
I did, I’ll go to prison. Anything would
be better than this,” she sobbed.

So that was Pete’s fatal error. He
put the screws on too hard and kept
them on too long. The day came when
Mary could bear no more. It was a
relief for her to confide in the deputy
sheriff. Perhaps she would never have
gotten nerve enough to come to us
voluntarily with her story, but when
we took the decision out of her hands
she was glad, even eager, to tell the
whole story.

Mary’s testimony completed our evi-
dence. I immediately demanded the
arrest of Pete Gologonoff for the mur-
der of Jim Aleff and got out the war-
rant for him.

a next thing was to get Pete him-
self.

On the day the warrant was issued,
October 17, 1937, four and one-half
years after the murder,’Pete was in
Ohio; in jail in Chillicothe. He had
been jailed on a charge of breaking
and entering and was caught with
burglary tools in his possession.

On reaching Chillicothe, Kelley
found that Gologonoff was “cock of
the roost” in the jail there. He was
“king” of the kangaroo court that pris-
oners frequently organize, and had

ments . . . Skillful detective work re-
sults in arrest at Toledo, Ohio, of
Frank—Yellow—Denzeler, accused of
killing a waiter and a bartender in a
saloon fight in New York City.

Police of Atlanta, Georgia, exhume
the body of aged Joshua B. Crawford
and find traces of poison. The youth-
ful widow, Mrs. Mary Belle Crawford,
who received the half-million dollar
estate, is arrested and charged with
the crime. She protests: “I am being
persecuted by my husband’s rela-
tives.” .

Morris Reich, known as “Moshe the
Strong Arm Man,” a gang-leader of
New York’s lower East Side, is stabbed
to death on the street by four men
whom he greeted as friends. Detec-
tives chase two of the killers over the
roof-tops and capture them. For years
Reich had been levying tribute on
legitimate business. He was also known
as a labor-union -acketeer.

ROBBERIES: Total loot of quarter-
million dollars taken in series of jewel
robberies of Summer homes at New-
port, Rhode Island. Vacationing mil-
lionaires, afraid of further raids, send
gems back to Boston and New York
for safe-keeping ... Two bandits hold
up an Illinois Central train outside of
Memphis, Tennessee, blow open safe
in express car and obtain $3,500. Then
they detach the locomotive from the
rest of the train, run it to Pope, Missis-
sippi, and escape on foot in the open
country.

PENOLOGY: The first all-wom
jury to hear a felony case in Califor
votes an acquittal for a member of
same sex accused of blackmail .f.
Four buildings at Sing Sing destr
by fire while the convicts shout
ance from the cell blocks. Adminigtra-
tion puts the loss at $200,000 and states
that the blaze was started by rioting
prisoners in the mat shop .. . Thirty-

ae

attained his position by being the
toughest character in the jail.

Although Gologonoff appeared un-
afraid, he fought extradition. Ohio
authorities were very cooperative and
we brought him back to Flint on Oc-
tober 22. He was calm at the prospect
of facing trial for murder, and from
the moment of his arrest, Pete steadily
denied any connection with Jim Aleff’s
death. He added nothing to the state-
ment he had made in 1933 and even
when he was brought to trial he main-
tained the same stolidness that had
characterized him from the start. His
training in the gambling dens in the
Mid-West stood him in good stead.
There was no breaking his calm.

Pete Gologonoff was brought to trial
for the murder of James Aleff on
March 14, 1938, before Judge Black,
a venerable jurist whose keen mind
and alert intellect belie his 84 years.

Cys twice did Gologonoff show
any sign of interest in this fight
for his freedom.

The first time came when George
Kirkoff was on the stand. Kirkoff had
testified that the piece of wire used to
hold the trigger of the murder gun
back was the same length as the piece
missing from the roll in his car.

Defense attorneys immediately chal-
lenged him, pointing out that this was
a common type of wire and could be
obtained anywhere. Kirkoff admitted
the fact, and Gologonoff heaved an
audible sigh of relief.

The second time the prisoner showed
interest was when Sergeant MacAlpine
set up a reproduction of the murder
trap in the jury room and Judge Black
held court in there for a few minutes.
When MacAlpine walked up to the
door and sprang the trap, several
members of the jury jumped notice-
ably as the hammer clicked in the
tense stillness. Pete squirmed as the
Sergeant explained how the device
operated, and when led back into the

five Negro convicts are trapped on the
second floor of an antique structure
on a prison farm at Jackson, Missis-
sippi, and are burned to death... A
fugitive for 21 years, George Koors,
54, returns voluntarily to the Kentucky
State Prison to serve out his life-term
for murder. He sold his furniture to
get railroad fare from New York to
Kentucky.

The Month Fifty Years Ago:
July, 1888

HEADLINES: Government agents
. deal smashing blow at alien smuggling.
Twenty-one Chinese held on McNeil
Island for illegally entering Washing-
ton Territory . . . Authorities report
large traffic in drugs, especially opium,
along Pacific Coast, despite raids made
in San Francisco and other ports.
SLAYINGS: Deputy Sheriffs James
McGeorge and Bill Smith, returning
from a raid on a still, shoot and fatally
wound each other in a duel on a house-
boat near Louisville, Kentucky. They
quarreled over which one should car-
ry the gun of a prisoner they had
taken ... Massacre reported in Choc-
taw Nation, Indian Territory. Four
white hunters who entered the Terri-
tory are found shot to death. Their
tents were cut to ribbons by bullets
. is " tor, suc-
in attempt to is
fe, Amy Reynolds, an actress, a

ce

Horribly slain, the body of Walter
McAlister, 22, a railroad brakeman, is
found in a Philadelphia rooming house.
The only witness to the crime is a
four-year-old girl, who turns evidence
against Thomas Cole, another roomer.
Police charge Cole with slitting Mc-
Alister’s throat and battering in his
skull... Alice Kelly, youthful beauty
with a record for blackmail, is found

uffalo, New York. He had accused >
’ her of having affairs with other men.

courtroom, handcuffed to a deputy
sheriff, sweat stood out on his fore-
head.

The trial lasted three days. One by
one witnesses, freed from their fear
of what Pete would do to them, gave
damning evidence.

Called to the stand to testify in his
own defense, Gologonoff gave non-
committal answers to practically all
questions fired at him by the prosecu-
tion. He “didn’t know” or “couldn’t
remember” very much about his ac-
tions at the time of the murder, but
he did deny it flatly, and also denied
making any threats against Mary or
her sister. :

With that denial ringing in their
ears, the jury of seven men and five
women went out to deliberate Pete’s
guilt, and on the evening of March 16,
Foreman Earl H. Gee answered the
Judge’s question “Have you reached a
verdict?” with the words:

“We find the defendant guilty of
murder in the first degree.”

There is little more to the story. The
next morning at nine o’clock Judge
Black sentenced Gologonoff to the
maximum penalty under the laws of
the State of Michigan—life imprison-
ment. Half an hour later he was
seated beside me in a car headed for
Jackson and the State Prisori of South-
ern Michigan, where he will spend the
rest of his natural life, unable to harm
Mary Aleff or any member of her
family any more.

Mike Kelley is back on routine work
again, checking week-end traffic acci-
dents and minor break-ins and stick-
ups. But you can bet that if there are
any more unsolved crimes in the police
files of Genesee County, he is going
over them in his mind, and I won’t be
at all surprised if he comes to me
again one of these days and says,
“Sheriff, I’ve got a theory about such
and such a case.” And believe me, if
he does, I’ll answer, “Go to it,

Read It First in
AL DETECTIVE STORIES

dead in woods near Ottumwa, Iowa,
her throat slit and her horse and buggy
standing on the road near by. Police
seek a stranger who had been seen in
town recently . . . At Columbus, In-
diana, Mary Doran confesses that she
killed her husband, Oscar Doran, by
pouring carbolic acid in his mouth
while he was asleep.

PENOLOGY: Meeting at Boston, the
National Prison Association deplores
“antique methods of punishment,” ad-
vocates “perpetual confinement” for
habitual criminals, demands a separa-
tion of penal administration from
politics, and recommends the speedy
execution of all sentences for murder
... Jesse Pomeroy, the “boy fiend,”
seeks release from Massachusetts
prison where he has been in solitary
confinement for 20 years. “I need a
vacation,” he says, claiming that he
has been illegally punished by being
kept in solitary so long.

The Month One Hundred Years Ago:
July, 1838

HEADLINES: Race riot threatened
in New York City after a Negro stabs
and kills Francis McCarney, prominent
merchant, as he stands on the side-
walk in front of his home... Gordon
Houk, notorious mail robber, breaks
out of jail at Columbus, Ohio, after
beating Sheriff William Graham and
his wife who put up resistance—$500

ught to put all on their guard

the light-fingered gentry.
persons have been robbed on
board} the DeWitt Clinton, and we
leased with a notice on board
allow last evening, ‘Beware of
ockets,’ which should have some

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54

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828

make the earlier occurrence part of the res
gestee attending the murder. Without spec-
ifying further, it would at least have war-
ranted an inference that “the defendant was
one of an organization banded together to
commit crimes of the kind charged,” which
of itself would be sufficient to connect the
other offenses with the one charged...

(3, 4] If we are correct in this ruling that
the evidence objected to was entirely com-
petent, it would follow logically that it was
equally proper to show that the pistol used
by the defendant in the killing of Williams
was the same weapon that defendant dis-
played while engaged in the altercation at
the saloon, and that it was properly ad-
mitted in evidence. The same may be said

108 ATLANTIC REPORTER (Pa

ment of the court of quarter sessions and
sending the case back for a new trial, the
Commonwealth appeals. Reversed, and rec.
ord remitted for further’ consideration of the
Superior Court.

Argued before STEWART, MOSCHZISK-
ER, FRAZER, WALLING, and SIMPSON, JJ.

John A. Coyle, S. V. Hosterman, Dist. Atty.,
and John BE. Malone, all of Lancaster, for

the Commonwealth.
_ B. F. Davis, of Lancaster, for appellee.

FRAZER, J. Defendant was indicted for
alleged perjury in testifying as a witness
in interpleader proceedings between the in-
formant and defendant’s wife, the issue hav-

with respect to the pistol that was offered
in evidence as a pistol that belonged to the
defendant’s brother and which was found
under the body of Williams after he had
fallen. The identity of the pistol rested on
the declaration of the defendant, and the
evidence was given for what it was worth,
contradicted though it may have been. It is
unnecessary to pursue the matter further.
In what we have said we have sufficiently

ing been framed to determine the ownership
of certain personal property levied upon as
that of defendant. ‘The interpleader pro-
ceedings were tried twice, the judgment en-
tered on the verdict in the first trial having
been reversed by the Superior Court. The
second verdict was rendered September 28,
41915. Judgment, however, was not entered
thereon because of failure to pay the
jury fee. On January 18, 1916, a true

discussed the matters raised by the several
assignments. We see no merit in any of
them, and all are overruled. The defendant
has had the benefit of two separate trials, on
both of which he had been pronounced guilty
in manner and form as he stood indicted.
No sufficient reason has been offered for any
interference on our part with the legal con-
sequence attending such result. The assign-
-ments of error are overruled. ;
The judgment is affirmed, and the record is
remitted for purpose of execution.

COMMONWEALTH v. HILTON.

(Supreme Court of Pennsylvania. June 21,
1919.)

OrRmINAL LAW €=589(1) — NoNENTRY OF
FINAL JUDGMENT IN PROCEEDING IN WHICH
PERJURY WAS COMMITTED NOT GROUND FOR
CONTINUANCE, 5 :

Defendant in a prosecution for perjury 18
not entitled to a continuance merely because of
the nonentry of final judgment in the civil pro-
ceeding in which alleged perjury was committed
for failure to pay the jury fee, though the

_ general practice is to postpone the trial of a
criminal prosecution for perjury until the case
out of which the offense arose has been deter-
mined.

Appeal from Superior Court.

Eber E. Hilton was convicted of perjury,
and from a judgment of the Superior Court

pill was found against defendant on an
indictment charging perjury, based upon
his testimony in the interpleader proceedings,
and a trial on September 13, 1916, resulted
in a verdict of guilty. A new trial was
granted, and, upon a retrial, a second ver-
dict of guilty was returned, on which sen-
tence was pronounced. Before trial, counsel
for defendant moved for a continuance, &l-
leging failure to enter final judgment in the
civil proceedings, which motion was ager
On appeal, however, the Superior Court hel
the refusal to continue to be error, and re-
versed the lower court. An appeal was per-
mitted to this court, and the sole question
now for our consideration is whether the re
fusal to direct a continuance for the reason
stated was erroneous.

It must be ‘conceded the general practice
is to postpone the trial of a criminal pe
cution for perjury until the cause out 0
which the offense arose has been determine
80 Cye. 1424; Com. Vv. Dickinson, 3 a
265; Com. vy. Garvey, 65 Pa. Super. Ct. ;
Greene v. People, 182 Ill. 278, 55 N. E. ~
Hereford v. People, 197 Il. 222, 64 N. E. 31
None of the cases called to our attention, how-
ever, have gone so far as to make the term
nation of the earlier proceedings an absolute
necessity before the quarter sessions can i
quire jurisdiction to proceed to trial of wr
defendant. The reason is obvious. The ui
fense of perjury is committed and complet
at the time the false testimony is aoe
regardless of the outcome of the pret re
in which it occurs. The rule is therefo

(69 Pa. Super. Ct. 222), reversing the judg-

12
necessarily one of convenience only, in th
Se ae

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Pa.) COMMONWEALTH y. REID 829
(108 A.)

orderly administration of justice, and its ap-
plication enables the commonwealth to pro-
cure the best evidence of the alleged per-
jured testimony by producing the completed
record of the trial in which it occurred, and
also furnishes the means of determining
whether or not the alleged false testimony
was material to the issue involved, an essen-
tial element of the crime of perjury. Com.
vy. Dickinson, supra; Com. v. Garvey, supra.

If the reasons giving rise to the adoption
of the rule do not exist, the rule itself has
no application. Here the action in which the
perjury was committed by defendant was
tried the second time in 1915, and neither
motion for a new trial nor appeal entered.
The execution creditor in that case, the pros-
ecutor here, was satisfied apparently with
the justice of the decision. The only element
a complete record lacked was the formal en-
try of the judgment, which must necessarily
be delayed until payment of the statutory
jury fee. The prosecutor, as he was the un-
successful litigant, did not pay this fee, and,
so far as he was concerned, it was immate-
rial whether or not judgment was finally en-
tered. Mrs. Hilton, being in possession of
the property at the time, did not see fit to
pay the jury fee, as the only effect of a judg-
ment would be to enable her to collect costs.
The commonwealth was not a party to that
proceeding, and under no duty to pay the
fee. Accordingly, we have a verdict with
which all barties seem to be satisfied and
willing to permit matters to rest, and none
willing to pay the small fee necessary to
make the record complete by entry of judg-
ment, nor was the action ended until the en-
try of judgment. To hold a_ technicality
of this nature sufficient to preclude a prose-
cution for perjury committed during the trial
of a civil proceeding would defeat the ends
of justice and substantially convert the rule
of convenience into an absolute and arbitrary
rule of law; in other words, make the for-
mal entry of judgment, regardless of circum-
stances, a condition precedent to the attach-
ing of jurisdiction of the quarter sessions in
cases of perjury. No authority has been
cited, and it is safe to say none exists, which
goes to this extent.

Without in any way detracting from the
wisdom and propriety of the established rule
in a proper case, the present is certainly one
affording an exception, and a proper one for
the exercise of the discretion of the trial
judge. No adequate reason can be suggested
for holding the mere formality of paying the
jury fee and entering judgment on the ver-
dict would, so far as the prosecution for
Perjury is concerned, add anything to the
Tecord of the previous proceedings.

The court below exercised a proper dis-

this reason the judgment of the Superior
Court is reversed. Inasmuch, however, as
it does not appear from the opinion of the
Superior Court that the other questions in-
volved in the appeal were considered by that
court, the record will be remitted to have
those questions passed upon.

The judgment is reversed, and the record
remitted for further consideration of the

going opinion.

COMMONWEALTH ex rel. VESNESKI y.
REID et al.

(Supreme Court of Pennsylvania. June 21,
1919.)

1, MUNICIPAL CORPORATIONS €==60 — Corpo-
RATE POWERS OF BOROUGH ARE NOT VESTED
IN COUNCIL ALONE.

Under Act May 14, 1915 (P. L. 312) ¢. 5,
art. 1, § 2, vesting the powers of boroughs in
the corporate officers, which under chapter 8,
art. 1, include other officers than the council,
the corporate powers of the borough are not
vested in the council alone.

2. MUNICIPAL CORPORATIONS €=155 — Bor-
OUGH COUNCIL NOT GIVEN POWER BY STAT-
UTE TO REMOVE BURGESS,

Act May 14, 1915 (P. L. 812) e. 7, art. 1,
§ 6, cl. 3, requiring borough councils to enact
such laws, ordinances, etc., as they shall deem
beneficial and provide for their enforcement,
gives a council no power to remove the burgess,
as it refers only to the ordinances and resolu-
tions which by chapter 7, art. 1, § 7, require
the approval of the burgess, and by chapter 7,
art. 2, § 11, cl. 3, are to be signed by him.

OUGH COUNCIL CANNOT REMOVE BURGESS.
A borough itself has no incidental right to
remove the burgess, and hence the council has
no such incidental right.

4, MUNICIPAL CORPORATIONS €==59 — Have
ONLY POWERS GIVEN EXPRESSLY OR BY REA-
SONABLE IMPLICATION.

Municipalities have no powers save such
as are expressly conferred by statute or are
reasonably to be implied from the powers actu-
ally granted.

5. OFFICERS €=70—REMOVABLE ONLY AS PRO-
VIDED BY CONSTITUTION OR STATUTE.

As under the Constitution the executive and
legislative departments are co-ordinate and in-
dependent branches of the government, one can-
not. exercise incidental powers over the other,
and hence an executive officer can be removed
only as prescribed by the Constitution, or by
statute in the case of an officer who is not a

cretion in refusing a continuance, and for

constitutional officer.

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Superior Court, in accordance with the fore-,

3. MUNICIPAL CORPORATIONS €==155 — Bor-


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the

wp COMMONWEALTH v. COLES.

i 21, | app
e Court of Pennsylvania. June
(Suprem Ben

108 ATLANTIC REPORTER

(Pa.

result was the same, and judgment was

tence pronounced.
thereupon entered and sen
it ig pees this judgment that the present

eal has been taken.:

The assignments of error are several,
since all relate in one way or another to the

1. CRIMINA LAW C36 — NCT CRIME : .
9 Ppoees ff
L (1) DISTINCT © admission of certain ev idence offer ed by the

INADMISSIBLE IN EVIDENCE.

in
commonwealth touching an occurrence

* i he other parties
isti con-| which the appellant and t 2
anerel rule, 2: ee eee sat - indi e participants,
aie with that laid an the indictment cannot charged in the indictment were p

be given in evidence against the prisoner.

2. CRIMINAL LAW €==365(2) — pa a
PRIOR DISORDERLY CONDUCT ADM

and which took place within a very oak
distance from the place where ior = res
charged was committed and preceded it by

i yer ssignments,
WILERE CONNECTED WITH FOMTCIDE CHARGED. | 45 minutes at most, the several assig
Vv ?

In a prosecution for murder of ane to
evidence that 15 minutes previously defendan

this extent, may be treated as one. The

testimony « offered by the commonwealth

itted against
: ; spoon BF: hing this matter, and admi

thers were disorderly in as ) touching against
nba firearms and shooting at employés, was objection, was to this effect: About a q

i v hile escaping,
issible as res gestee, where, Ww
ps ran across decedent, whom defendant he
while decedent was trying to disarm one 0

as
companions.

ter past 12 o’clock on the day of the so
rence appellant, accompanied by his

sociates charged in the indictment, en-

tered a saloon on the corner of Sixteenth

i i ia, where they
* piston, UNEAW: tax pisesatED WAS use = aun ech eee Looe especially
PISTOL UNLAWFULLY DISP. BO i ahived dir; Alnor , especially
TO KILL DECEDENT ADMISSIBLE IN MURDER Peahiud sane: Rete. without any gare
i i oin
eras i by defendant | vation or offense being given, : eee ea
Batons et Oe ee ake ed pistol at the man behind the Q

was the same weapon that he had displayed in
the saloon was admissible.

tempted, though unsuccessfully, to sees
the weapon some three or four times.

sd aw i shots, one taking
Sean xcavee tae puis- |ers of the company fired iployé of the
- YJDENTITY OF PISTOL IN MURDER TRIAL A ee ik a aaa es

SIBLE UNDER DEFENDANT’S DECLARATION.
Evidence that a pistol found under ae
dent’s body belonged to ey i. ne a
ions held admissible; ei y
tee Gist resting on defendant’s declarations.
t

Appeal from Court of Oyer and Terminer,
Philadelphia County.

establishment. All four were pats sedis
pistols which they exhibited. The pat oe
mained in the saloon but a very few ml
and then hurriedly left together. bceaei
ing having been heard outside the sa Ne ae
number of persons were attracted peas
place, and, when they saw appellant “
companions leaving the saloon in a

es
The shoot-

rrie!

: y y be four men en-

; vi f murder i2| manner, they followed. T pias

amuel Coles was convicted o ; ie fone, eR
Pa first degree, sentence of death was passed, gaged in the disturbance

and he appeals. Affirmed. i

J., and STEW-
Argued before BROWN, C. =
ART, MOSCHZISKER, FRAZER, WALL-
ING, SIMPSON, and KEPITART, JJ.

delphia, for the Commonwealth.

STEWART, J. The appellant stands bes
victed of the crime of murder of the tes
degree under an aoe Te adelalan

y and, terminer cour : a é
i ae charging him, together with iscngunet
er, John Coles, and two others, with a can
nious killing of George bipseeae re
detective officer of the city iF gee ea

h day of January, 8. me
bites ealled for trial a aereteae =
asked, and appellant was accorded a sepa. il
trial. resulting in a conviction as above

n their retreat. Their line of retreat was

i 1
so circuitous and their retreat so hee
that, except as the line of retreat es cage
chosen to escape arrest for the occur cop
the saloon, it must have been ee

i inutes, >
é d C. Stuart Patter- was within a very few minu
m, dry both of Piilade la, for appellant. that in their retreat they encou
Jr., both of Philadelphia, fo most, the encou
Mews J. Speiser, Asst. Dist. Atty. and] 9, Waverly street, near the nae
q . . mo tyne :
Samuel P. Rotan, Dist. Atty., both of Phila teenth, George Williams, a

It
en at
ntered
f Six-
city detective,

j

vever, in citizen’s clothes. ant

seinege ve ‘his life while ee na

ake a pistol from one of the retrea ing =
be a Cashes of the appellant, es er .
reason to believe was on his a eons
unnecessary to enter into fort ae io
with respect to poee ag pare ML CEP ~ oe
complained of. This tes n mdete: =f
‘ed with a view to showing a dist ‘
ride from that charged in the = sag gt
was ix offered to furnish additio a.
orth appvllant’s actual guilt of the pa ws
ue ft see charged against him; that ee

= “Bhat it was his hand that later tires

dicated. A new trial was granted in which

shot that resulted in the killing

ne ae x Key
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of George Wik Bont °C
Peal ae EE ing rendered thereby unintelligible.” 2 kK. B.
400,

Pa.) COMMONWEALTH y. COLES 827
. (108 A.)

liams. The ground on which the common

ra

- In Goersen y. Com., 99 Pa. 388, the same

wealth contended for the admissibility of the | question was there raised as here. Chief
testimony was that the occurrence at the|Justice Mercur there ruled as follows:

saloon was the beginning of a sequence of
acts terminating in the crime for which de-
fendant is being tried”; “that the killing and distin

“The second specification is to permitting the
commonwealth to give evidence of a separate
ct offense from that for which the ac-

took place while the defendant and his com- | cused was being tried. If that other offense, in
panions were fleeing after the offense in the| fact, was separate and distinct from the one
saloon, within possibly 10 or 15 minutes of charged in the indictment, it is important to
the time of the actual shooting there; that|C®sider the Purpose for which the evidence
the entire occurrence from the beginning of | ¥8S offered, It is true a defendant cannot be
it, which is referred to by the witnesses, to convicted of the offense charged merely because

the time the murder was done, did not take
over 15 minutes.” The ground of objection
was, as stated by counsel, “that it charges

he has committed another offense, either of a
similar or a dissimilar kind, Hence, as a gen-
eral rule, evidence of his participation in anoth-
er independent and distinct crime cannot be re-

8 distinct and separate offense utterly dis-| ceived simply for the purpose of proving his
associated from the issue we are trying at/|Commission of the offense for which he is on
present; that there is not a word in the| trial. Whar. Crim. Ey. § ie bate a, tke

testimony to the effect that George Williams
was present or had any knowledge of this
occurrence in the saloon. It charges a dis-
tinct and independent crime for which he
might be tried but not the one for which he
is being tried.”

[1] It is quite true that, as a general rule,
a distinct crime unconnected with that laid
in the indictment’ cannot be given in evi-
dence against the prisoner. All our author-
ities are in accord with this proposition. We
need only to refer to Shaffner vy. Com., 72 Pa.
60, 138 Am. Rep. 649... What is there said we
have above recited in totidem verbis, and
we abate nothing from it. As will readily
be observed, the qualifying, and to that ex-
tent the governing, word in the rule as stat-
ed by Mr. Justice Agnew in the ease cited,
is the word “unconnected.” If the offense
disclosed by the testimony sought to be in-
troduced is unconnected with that charged
in the indictment being tried—that is to say,
that the two have no common element, and
the facts with respect to the one are not re-
quired to supplement or explain the facts
appearing in the trial for the other or later
offense—then it must be said that the two
offenses are distinct and Separate, and the
evidence would he irrelevant and inadmis-
sible. It often happens, however, that the

ple, 55 N. Y. 90; State y, Renton, 15 N. H.
174; Com. y. Campbell, 7 Allen [Mass.] 542
[83 Am. Dec. 705]; Shaffner v. Com., 72 Pa. 60
{13 Am. Rep. 649]. It cannot be received to
impeach his general character, nor merely to
prove a disposition to commit crime. Yet un-
der some circumstances evidence of another of-
fense by the defendant may be given. Thus it
may be to establish identity; to show that the
act charged was intentional and willful, not
accidental; to prove motive; to show guilty
knowledge and purpose, and to rebut any infer-
ence of mistake; in case of death by poison,
to prove the defendant knew the substance ad-
ministered to be poison; to show him to be one
of an organization, banded together to commit
crimes of the kind charged; and to connect the

the same transaction.”

[2] The testimony in the present case
touching the earlier occurrence in the saloon,
although it discloses an offense there com-
mitted by the appellant and his associates
other tham the offense with which they were
charged in the indictment, was not offered
to prove the commission of the earlier of-
fense, but was offered as part of the res
geste of the crime of which he was charged
and convicted, the felonious killing of George
Williams within 15 minutes at most after
the occurrence at the saloon and at a place

two. distinct offenses ‘are so inseparably con-
nected that the proof of one necessarily in-
volves proving the other, and in such case on
the prosecution for the one, evidence proy-

they reached in their flight to escape arrest
about a city square distant. The killing of
Williams followed almost immediately upon
the arrival of the defendant and his three

ing the other cannot be excluded because it
proves the other. 16 Corpus Juris, 588, and
the authorities there cited.

- “The general rule cannot be applied where
the facts which constitute distinct offenses are
at the same time part of the transaction which
is the subject of the indictment. Evidence is
necessarily admissible as to acts which are so
Clearly and inextricably mixed up with the his-
tory of the guilty act-itself as to form part of
One chain of relevant circumstances, and so
could not be excluded on the presentation of the
fase before the jury without the evidence ke-

associates at the place where they came to-
gether. The sudden arrival of four men at
that point with no ostensible object or pur-
pose, the arrest of the flight by the interven-
tion of the officer of the law, who was im-
mediately killed thereafter by one of them
while he was attempting to disarm another—
these facts and others equally pertinent hay-
ing a direct bearing on the question of de-
fendant’s. guilt would have been left wholly
unexplained on the trial except as the tes-
timony in regard to the occurrence at the

saloon had been admitted. The two offenses
were shown to have been so related in point
of time and distance separating them as to

jAsuueg peynooryoete SyoeTq *Tenwes *s#109.

other offense with the one charged as part of ‘

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"SATURDAY, OCTOBER 19, 1918:

.. Pest Office at Gettysburg, Pa.

NO. 10

iieh, wife of P. J.
died on Monday
nins and 2 days.
and and ten
Benedict, Marie,
- Mary DeSales,
‘Home, and Roy
yhagkes Training

‘Pafter.en illness
aday. He was
le, Ma. Me was

‘sburg College in

-& went .to: Mar-

Be mig ago and

School of

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4

THE PUSH,

X. |Over $100,000 Raised in @ Short Time

in Gettysburg—Same Work Go-
ing On in County.

ad

Ye hustling on the Fourth Liverty
Loan is prodigtous these days. The
rooin is a busy spot. The quota for
the county must go over the top. The
“flu” and other conditions have inter-
fercd with the campaign. Several
days are leit and over the top it must

LOAN WILL GO OVER TC?

HIT ’'EM AGAIN CLUB GETS IN70O :

, GEO. J. BUSHMAN MURDERED.

{ Fi

| PETA.

‘Robbery is Believed to Have Insti-
gated the Killing.

George J. Bushman, of Gettysburg.4
was touily murdered, being shot
through the head, his body, robbed
jof-money, and watch and hidden in
jweeds along the Susquehanna River.
} The last seen of Geo. J. Bushman
‘in this place was Wednesday even-
ing after six o'clock, when he was
‘noticed going out the State road in
his big car, headed for Harrisburg;
jhaving as passengers: a man and a
»Woiman, whose tdentity has mot yet}

PERSONAL POINTS OF YIBW

GOMINGS AND GOINGS INTO AND

Secial and Other Individual Happew

"

City, spent several days recently wih

OUT OF THE TOWN.

ings and Other Local Items
c of interest.

B. Stoner, of Pittsbu:gh,
W. Stoner, of New Yo. k

—Dr: J.
nd. Dr. G.

been estabhshed.

' ‘The body ot

. Mr. Bushman
‘found Thursday morniig by G. H.!}

itheir brother, C. W. Stoner, Esq, U-l-
ng pimore street. The three brothers .
WaSvalso spent ‘several days ani. g
fricnds at Fast Berlin. ;

Sa yeare old. He igo.
“two children. = | ‘fhe feeling of assurance that

the

‘Li,senhour, an enploye or the State;
Highway Department, at about eight!

ed to her home on East Middle sticet

it, of Ann

i Wednesda

_ wttick will be done is to be gathered
apolis, ‘irom a number of circunistances. The
y- She Liberty Loan Committee have sem

oclock in the inorning.

‘among the weeds near the river bany: py,

near the Coxestown

It was lying?

*-Mrs. Chas. 11. Wilson has recurn-

Hotel.

Coroner:

aiter

a

visit

derick.

with

her daughter

in

—Miss Margaret Gilllland. of Clear-

Mr. and M

rs. W.lout over the county large circviars, Eckinuecr was immediately sinmnon-

«fie

dd. as soending several wecks at the

Washington, for similar to the fifth page of the Cum-

wed ang the body was taken to the unset)

re TTo
et)

!
at

her

purents

Mr.

and

Mrs.

Gis ate {fis of Gettysburg. !piier this. week telling of the fifieen

ms
‘

ats, her husband,
{wo brothers and

» Hollebaugh, U.
ssell Hollebaugh,

aterment was at

rs. Colin Collins, |

Adams county boys who have made
the supremic sacrifice.

Then the banks of the county have
‘agreed to loan all the money needed
‘to buy the bonds at not more than
4 '-2 per cent, which incans that any

dertaking parlors of C. il, Mauk and
ound just above

there wes a bullet w
the lefe car.

OW. FL Gillilann. Carliste street, the
Clearfield schoo!s where Miss Gilli-
land is teaching having been closed

A number of receipts and bills ine
‘cluding several from the Gettysburg
thee and Storage Company and a Wil-
jlard *Storage> [sSatiery seryice made:

ton account of the cpide mic.

spent

—~-Dr. F. B. Forrest, of Bellewood,

days recently a. the

- arye

“SS Wer, of Ha
ta; BStown; a
Cay O& Quince

‘of Hanover, died!
ors? ae sg
the widow, Rosa iat 4 1-2 per cent would be $45. The
hd five children h , *
“mp one to twelve
Grace, Carl! The coupons for the year would raise
his ‘parents, Mr.isy2s0 toward paying the Bank

‘out in the name of George J. Bush-
man were found in the man's pock-
‘ets and helped ta establish his iden-
tity. Some money and cards were
found in a pocketbook. In ad ition
ithere was a clipping trom a Gettys-
burg paper relative to new scales of:
iprices tor battieheld guides at the
in- Gettysburg National Park.

nover, jterest and the individual backing his: The man wore ga pair of black
sister, ! government would be out $2.50 per froueers with brown stripes, a blue

y, UL, thousand with plenty of good chances CUat aud vest, a blue tie with pio
stripes and a small gold tie pin, a,

citizen can loan to the government
the credit of his name for an actual
outlay of $2.50 per thousand. The in-
terest on $1000 borrowed of auy bank

hh
n

security for the loan would be the
holding of the bond by the’ Bank.

home of his brother, Emory Forrest,
York street, on account of the seri-
ous ilness of his niece, Miss Anna
Forrest. Dr. Forrest also visited
relati in Littlestown before ree
turaing hone. ;

—Mrs. Charles S. Dunean, Lincoln
avenue, spent several days this week
with her son, C. Wim. Duncan, U. S.
N.w at Brooklyn, N.Y.

—Mrs. Norman Heindel, Carlisle
street, has returned from a two
weeks’ visit in Washington, D. C.

28

y Miller, of West

rs, 7, months and
roves and Wil-
. E.

on Sunday from:
g children sur-'

‘to make this up. This offer of the
‘Banks to loan has stimulated buying
‘bonds on borrowed money.

The Hit “Em Again Club went at
‘the Fourth Liberty Loan just as de-
‘scribed, catch as ecateh can, hit ’ein
again, any old way, just so the bonds
came tumbling in. The club met in
the Court House on Thursday even-
‘ing and listened to splendid talks by
‘Dr. W. A. Granville, Rev. Fr. Boyle,
‘Frank Eberhart, John D. Keith, J. L.

Vy

f ef -houser, Chester Leas, Ken S. Lynei, i
and four sis- Coa Piccher. ; Mr. Bushman was about 55 years Speeese, Hanover street. oa
Qo and Ralph, spc! Ww. Melthenay, J. D. Of age and leaves a wife, a son and) eS Peeing
te nes ot home Swores , , ‘daughter, poate ees, bs the; WEDDINGS. be mal
e funeral es ooo. Jol Bioeier, Erank Dp, 4%my, and Mrs. rgaret Holder = _w .
at Holtz- i Blocher, EA. Crouse. ati er Bekins: who is with her husband, aa instrue- j< Shank ico eee ree”
aged + |Martha H. O'Neal, Annie W. O'Neal, tor at a training camp in the South. Public Schools of Adams county, and<
my gee (W. S. Adams, Chas. S. Duncan, Sem- ; ‘Miss M. Anna Hauser, of Stoay
ws yan. of Posi uel M. Bushinan, G. f. Benner, H. G.; Overseas Xmas Boxes. feck: were united’ cin marriage at.

e Grove, Md.,
Two. Taverns, '

y. and bnrial at

t Iwo .Tav-

“san of Mr.

” in ber 24th |
tsurvived by her

| Williams and others, and then got
‘down to business with the result in
a short time over $100,000 was raised.
The subscriptions were to be in adii-
.tion to any previous subscriptions
and agreeing to become members of
the club with not less than $1000 sub-
\ scriptions, the Banks loaning money
;needed to complete the same.
(following is list of members and sub-
‘scription:

— Frank Eberhart.
3000, Evergreen Cemetery Asso-
n- ‘ciation.
Wm. Arch. McClean.
Judge LD. P. McPherson an’

pa-

» pale: man, of ‘Geo. W. Lynch.

Charles, Evelyn: ¢> 00, J. L. Williams, John D. Lip-
“Bs gt, home. ‘py, H. T. Weaver and F. A. Way-
ae es x ‘bright.

_ daggbter of lin! $2,000, Chas. Hi Huber, Chas. H.
of EL Berlin, saith, Join D. Keith, W. A. Gran-

ille, P. W. Stallsmith, Roy P. Funk-

The!

grav and black checked cap, and a-
black imuffler dround his neck. He
“Wore a wnitted evteater and a brown
overcoat.

Stevhen Gruber who lives near the
scene of the acerlent, says that he
saw an automobile stop near the
point between 1b aud 12 o'clock last!
night. Hie pant no atrention ta the
happening urtil this morning when
iEisenhour found the body. Since it
‘was covered with a blarket it is be-
‘lieved the body was brougilit.to the
‘spot where it was found. In corro-
Loration of Gruber’s story, Eisenhour
says he saw tracks where the auto-
mopile drew up. The ear evidently
bad small tires acording to the trucks
it was declared.

; These facets wold show that
body was not taken to the place
pwhere found iu the Bushman car. It
iis known here that Mr. Bushman
‘irequently carried a yood sized roll
‘of money in his clothes. The amount
‘of money found upon the body and
the absence of the watch lead to the
conclusion that Mr. Bushman
smurdered in order to rov the man.
{the theory has been advanced that
‘after reaching Harrisburg with his
‘passengers and being paid, he may

have been seen by thugs to add the! ceatton, announte the birth of a
uieney to a roll in lis pocket and the daughter. Mrs. Strevig is the young-

_murder and robbery was planned,

MV

‘viciting at the home of Mr. and Mrs.
sNormau Heindel, Carlisle street.

visited Miss Aouda Duttera at her
home on Baltimore street.

Berlin, were business visitors in Get- _
tysburg on Wednesday. :

‘ola, L. L, and Lieut. George Morris,

and
are

--~Mrs. Davis and daughter
Seuter, of Dallas, Texas,

~Miss Alice Cable, of Washington,

—D. P. Wagner and son of Fast

'—Lieut. Theodoré Morris, of Mine-

the :

was,

of Washington, D. C.. have returned
to duty after spending several days
with their parents, Dr. and Mrs. J. B.
Morris, North Stratton street.

--Jacob ‘Musselman, of Fairfield,
was a business visitor in town on
Wednesday.

—Mrs. T. C. Billheimer has return-
ed to her home on Springs avenue
after spending a weck with relatives
in Vork.

—Mr. and’ Mrs. Russel Mizell and
son of Perryville are spending some
time with Mrs. Mizell’s parents, Mr.
and Mrs. C. J. Weaner, have returned
to their home. .

—Mrs. L. L. Sieber has gone to Ni-
‘agara Falls, N. Y., to spend some
time with her daughter, Mrs. Clinton
Beard, who is ill with influenza,
—Prof. and Mrs. Ear! Strevig, of

est daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Charles

‘Deatrick, J. M. Warner, H. J. Hart-! The War and Past Office Depart-
man, Philip R. Bikle, J .F. Hartman, ments and the American Red Cross
.Geo. W. Reichile, Gettysburg Tee and!haye made an arrangement by which
iSturage Co, W. F. Gilliland, H. C.\every man in the army overseas may
Hartley, M. kh. Eckert, W. E. Kapp,'receive a Christmas Parcel from his
G, Harry Roth, H, O. Himes, A. M.\family or friends. The amoant of
Warner, J. A. Singmaster, Abdel Ishipping space which can be set aside
Ross Wentz, Amos Eckert, badyiedl the transportation of these par-
Keet, W. Lavere Hafer, C. W. Gard-!cels will permit the sending of but, The only attendants were two fives
ner. S. Miley Miller, W. A. Mcilhen-!one parcel to each man. | year-old nieces of the bride. They
Iny, Wim. F. Weaver, Dr. Geo. Cobean,| Each soldier overseas will be pro-'were Martha Dietz, of Hallam, and
‘Geo. Eberhart. Chas. T: Ziegler, Dd. I. vided with one Christmas Parcel la- Edna Stauffer, af Fargo. N. D, Rew. ©.

the home of the bride’s parents, Mr.
and Mrs. W. F. Hauser, on the
Wrightsville turnpike, last Thursday
‘afternoon, Oct. to, as briefly noted
last week. The ceremony was pere_
formed in the presence of membera .: 5
lof the immediate families only,. The .
‘bride was given away by her father.-

tancig Hospital,
day from the

his grandsons,
+ Deardorff waa a

uy SATURDAY, OCTOBER 26, LDS ii Batored as second-class matter at the NO, 1

*e' Post Office at Gettysburg, Pa,

; The work of tabulating all the
in the Paradise - |bonds subscribed has been a long} ~~
tows. . — ICLARENCE COLLINS CHARGED|'tdious work. An the banks must}COMINGS AND GOINGS INTO.AND

a report to the Liberty Loan Commit-} ~* +.
s0m of Mrs. John WITH THEFT OF BUSHMAN CAR. tee before subscriptions can be|* OUT OF THE TOWN.
pwn, a eg sg scheduled. The work has progressed]

ay gy int that it is known th

2 2 Lttiestown for|Collins Found in Waynesboro and Uncee. wand eee

three wards of Gettysburg, Bigter-| Secial and Other Individual Happee
the Car Has Been Located in a {Ville and Menallen township haved ~

Ce gees BUSHMAN CASE CLEARING| "ssc tsery ten Overt To IPERSONAL POINTS OF VIBW

i fl imge and Other Loca! Items
Pp . : Kone over the top without the help

Btair, daughter of Philadelphia Garage. of any bank subscriptions. A num-| of interest

i. Moti. Poa ber of other districts are well within

oe

. : e ’ |Sight of the top and whether or not :
“ct. 1f-in her Whether the murderer of George the whole county goes over the top} —Mr. and Mrs. Harry Sanders,
es. B nurse in the|J. Bushman will ever be apprehended depends upon returns from one banks| East Middle street, spent the week
‘was sent to her|depends upon finding the correct an-ling district in the county, If that/end at the homes of Mrs. Saniers’
acid on Thursday Swers to a number of mysterious district, with its banking institutions brothers in New Oxford.
See ke’s Ceme- queries, namely: . {does what all other districts have! *--Mrs. N. L. Wierman, York ctrre
brother, William! Who were the man and woman in done, and if its,quota is provided for,|was a recent visitor at the home ot
Nille, Guy, of New the car with Bushman when seen] same county will go over the top|Mr. and Mrs. Blaine Beamer at York
rs and three sis-| driving out the State Road in his}with Ayin- colors. Surely no one Springs.
: ; poo It is said a child was with the district is going to place itself in that) —Mre. Charles S. Butt has rerurme
Eg eee couple. - ; .., [attitude and hence it is confidenthy ed to ‘er home on Carlisle strect aife °
we Seaith died on Oct.| How far did Bushman £0 With believed that the right attitude will|ter a visit with her parents, Mr. and
Her mother died these passengers? be taken and it will be over the top| Mrs. Phillips, in. Waynesboro.

Hom the same dis-/ Did he return to Gettysburg and at]; , Old Adams. —Dr. and Mrs. Edgar Grim Miller
mt was at Cone-|8.30 get into his car the murderer ? have returned to Columbia after a
tery on Tuesday.| Where was the murder committed ? * Jvisit with Mrs. M. Valentine at her

her father, Peter!In Adams county? home on Springs avenue.
Ihers and four sis-| Was the body conveyed to River Our Farmers Over the Top. ~eLiont, ‘Cole Frank Lee Graham
Be Road above Harrisburg by the mur- :

q , The Pennsylvania Department of !and Mrs. Graham, formerly of Gets
erer
3 ty18 and the crops in Adams county/week to his new command at the
on -Friday. She] der? }
Ernest, at home.|the fast ; ‘ond crop in s9t7 and in rye is only a few! Ohio
. *jthe last one for instance.
crop of wheat in the county was 936,- el to her home on West Middle
ing to Baltimore} Mond { last ke ‘Bush Irye in 1917 121,845, and in 1918 121,153.;Mrs. W. kK. Fleck at Lititz, She was
i onday of last week, Bushman was i
, id had . In the State of Pennsylvania there —tLieut. Maurice B. Bender, «whe
the clothing and this it is said WAS jar
died in Hartford jcounty is one of the six. signment at Camp Dix, N. J,

; i ave < sed the pro-ltyshire. « is ee: .
Be tetera vece | Where is the Bushman car? latetion ‘of wheats roe aud cate aoe are: (‘al Geahawe wilt eels
Mrs. Emma Star-| In answer to ake eakesions. PN he wheat and oats have exceeded the Small Arms School at Camp Perry,
Detective Chas. H. Wilson Saanty [hundred pusbely sap, In 1917 the! — Mrs Murray Sheads has return-
> i lecinety tin fate apts dene keke ee ae 230 bushels and in 1918 1,004.872, In} street after a visit with Rev. and
She was aged 50/known to bave on his person Sou laraoon in 1917 444,068, and in 1018 Lane Roath home by Mrs, Fleck and

p her -husband and/The body when found had but $25 in|?» Murray. |

: meee :. ae WAS tare but six counties raising over a spent this week at his home on Care -/
Pao te, avara Fhe mcite ak eoov ey elim bathleof wheat an ams Bi scecu"ist tie ea
ermént in Abbotts- de man al io Sapa MEiCh OF | Rev. and Mrs. David Burnite and

t
f

he ee a

i

f
'

t

: < daughter have returned to their home &

iy He poapes on George J. Bushman owned . Hud- Over Here and Over There. |at Danville, Pa., after a visit with Dr, =~ -
per,‘ four brothers Son super-six seven passenger car, j : : and Mrs. FE. S. Breidenbaugh, Car- :

} ets: the State license number being 120,313! The following men from this local- ‘ :

s ° =
oar ele Aid and engine number was 573u, and this ‘ity have been reported wounded in alt hapiy OS C. McClean, East
y by Ahe: “Flu.” car has disappeared as though it had jaction during ‘the past week: Chas. Middle+ street, spent the week end
‘ges never existed and no trace of it has Cool, son of Mr. and Mrs. Henry, with her sister, Mrs. Stock, atmer
Mobring, daughter | yet been found. [Cool Liberty township, shrapnel home at Iron Ridge. ;
John Mehring, of |” J; js said that George J. Bushman|wound in leg; Clair Bond, of near —Robt. S. Bream, West Confeder-
fast Saturday aged inet the man, woman and child at the; Brushtown, gunshot wound in aM ieee vente. has Watusied trans heal
atid-.29 days. Wednesday evening train and that he|Willis D. Lauver, of Arendtsville, | nese trip through the central part of
Pee aera did not take them a great distance.’ wounded, degree undetermined. Clair the State, ° :
is. Weaver, son of That he returned to Gettysburg and} Richwine, of Gardners, missing in —Edgar and Fred Faber, of Wwit-
° pe! nig was in the Square at or about 8.30 action. mington, spent the week end at the
y aged @ years, 4/P. the same evening and one or: Word has heron receive! of thw =afelhome of their parents on Chamberse
A ls rae ,More men got into his car in the sein Gi cteeee of C. igen pret d burg street. om
; i Square. json of Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Miller,| "yg Ww. : is
patter, son of Mr. The next fact known is that the | Water street: Licut. Heury Smith, Sehr jh cne qeracl rpagbeune
Shetter; of Gard- body was placed in the bushes along!son of H. {. Smith, of New Oxtord; days this week. - Z
of Or nico the river bank above Harrisburg Chester Fohl, son of Mr. ind \re 8 at Roy Feaktouser, Balinese
Eon Se about midnight. Steven Gruben, liv-. J. Fohl, of Biglersille; and Wm. Hole gives, haa petabaed from shore”
east. ing near the point where body was |labaugh, of near Biglerviile. visit with relatives in Hagerstown.
¥ daughter found, says he was awakened by the} Rev. Luther S. Black, pastor of —Miss Elizabeth Martin has rec
enjamin F. Thomas |noise of automobiles and when he College Hill Presbyterian Church. at tured to. bérchome oe Baltinanen
ship, died on last got-up and looked out of his window Easton, has enlisted as a Y. M. C. Ab street after attending the funeral of 2.3
cars, 9 months and he saw two machines standing along-|Sccretary for overseas service. Rev. hee niece Mrs. Keyron Ramer, ig
Vesa side the road but did nat see any: Mr. Black is well known here. Harvisburg A Weg
f one move about. If the murder was = joseph Codori, who is an instructor —Prof J. Louis Sowers, Baltimore.” é
line, aged 14 years: the work of more than one man and/jn mechanics at Camp Lafayette, virent nde A visio’ in Harrisherk Rea
‘dime, ‘aged 6 years, | secret is known to occupants. of!Easton, has been promoted to the thle aeek: w et
a ina 7: two machines, the mystery should rank of sergeant. : Mrs, Frazer, of Springfield, Ohio, x
ar ‘si i. | leak out. | Prof. Paul S, Miller, son-in-law of who has been the guest of Rev: and ,
Phe hx hil] The placing of the body at the! Mr. and Mes. C. EL Wilson Eocs Mine hive. J. B. Beker, Les cone ta dames
16 flu.” Mr. and point at which i was ‘ound makes , le street, who has been serving as a “epi ott 2 piece ins ppg hey 73
y lived in McSher- it nossihle for the murder to have;\Y. M. C. A. secretary at Camp Colt, Mew Lane Schofield has deturned oP
K been ¢-minii 1 near Gettysbure ind i this summer, spent several days this to her home. neat’ town after attend-. . +
- : body conveyed there, and gives @1 week in Washington, taking exami- ing the funeral of Mr. Schofield’s +
Other Causes. opportunity for the finding of it- ‘nations preparatory to, overseas ser-! other at Potstown, Pa. =
sel,.a farmer of }7°*5¢% af any point cong the Stats vice as interpreter in the Intelligence | —Calvin R. Criswell, of Bermudiag, ¢
died at Mc-|'021 to crinnnating cireumstances. 1 Division, U. as was a business visitor in Gettysburg
Tuesday ed pat The murderer evidently made sure
P y

| The first Gettysburg College man

! é . on Friday. 23"
h ‘ 4 that dead men tell no secrets, for‘to make the supreme sacrifice is Lt. —Blaine Trimmer, of Waynes hear
the arteries, ae ‘Bushman was not only shot in the Chas. S. Montgomery, of Roselle, N. formerly of Gettysburg, - visited) -;
and 20 days. ©\back of the head but he had been shot : .

iJ.. who died on Oct. 1st of wounds re-|;°. is in town this week. *
through the left breast and all thei frienc

: ceived in action, Lt. Montgomery} | : L. Sieber has returned to” °(
'e living first evidence was that the shots had been | was a member of the 1918 class and his beng in Raltimore after a visit sghe?
p. te ee dpi fired at close quarters, the overcoat | was prominent in athletics. He was at the home of his daughter, Mrs. E.- +
Vor hs Fenner being burned at point where the shot/a man of unusual physique and was A. Crouse, Broadway. ‘oak Rr

He Wile died entered breast. ; : , 16 feet 4 inches tall. ae --The many friends of Rev. » R
Veda title white | Not a trace can be found of the] Martin Erithar Baten a aase ©

county, came to


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army deserts ; electrocuted 2. 5S. P. On Jan,
55 19<o, ft MuFder or William > Elforg and
Office Inger in Pittsburg; ON Nigh+ Of June
>; 1917, while curglan; ing El Ord'gs athert,
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lec, Pa, ( filadelpnia) On Jan, ;
1928, 4ATfirmed: 139 ATLANTIC 374, Murdered
“yottcemanWiiiias a: OOK o 13, 1927,

& Cafe at Jet and Filbert Streets in

h auto-~!
Mopdile, YNES was drivins and “Meyers as Sit~/
in in EP seat ith on ! the Women Po-
liceman

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MPol,. FRED J. WEINCARD DOD: 14-17.

RD was shot and killed on the hichway TORRESDALE and
PON AKA. ADMTRAL DEWEY.

fon OL.. THOMAS McVAY

1918 - POL. THOMAS McVAY - On July 28, 1918, POL. McVAY was shot to

Geath during a_race riot, 2700 Titan St. by HENRY HUFF, 28/2745

Titan St. am

POL. JAMES “IILSOY #3913 NCNM 1-21-18
Assismned to the 30tr District
WV 0 lopte Date 10-21-12

42 years old

POL. WILSON was. watching for thieves on the Penna. B83 at "G" 2 FRONT

STS. when he was struck and killled instantly by a freight train.
(Mayors Annual Report, 1918)
Police Beneficiary Assoc. )

POL. TYOMPSON Brace

1918 - THOMPSON ELACK - Qn January 17, 1918, POL. WHITE & POL. PALCGK
“Went to 2210 Garrett St. as CHARLES MILLER was foins to kj I 6

CUNNINGHAM. The two officers went upstairs to wait for Miller; Mast;

Miller came into the house and fired a shot which killed POL. BLACK. ¢

POL. CHARLES DeWNEES DOD 1-12-18
NO 121 E- Horter Street Assiened to the 14th District
Phila., Pa. Appt. Date 10-28-90

53 years old

VAN-DRIVER - DeWEES,- of Van #7, was transporting prisoners when the
horses bolted throwins him from the van causing him. to fracture his
skul] and break his neck. The incident occurred in front of the old
Germantown Avenue Police Station.

(Mayors Annual Report, 1918)
(Tnauirer 1-14-18)

t—POL. GEORGE L. WILLIAMS UUlyY

1918.- POL. GEORGE WILLIAMS - On Jan. 9, 1918 at the saloon, 16th &
South, @xalyers were fired during a quarrel. POL. WILLIAMS attempted
to arrest JOHN COLES and he was shot four times in the back causing

his deathe JOHN COLES, SIDNEY ELLIS, MALCOLM TRICE & SAM COLES were
_arrested for this murder.

POL. CONRAD E. GIBSON DOD 10-4-19

2016 Wilder Street Appte 10-12-05

Philae, Pa. Assigned to the 17th District
OFFICER GIBSON was accidently shot when he dropped his revolver while :
leaving an automobile in front of the District Station House, taken

to the Polyclinic Hospital and died.
(Phila. Record - 10-6-19)

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GETTYSBURG, PA., SATURDAY, FE!

COLLINS FOUND . GUILTY

OF MURDER IN THE FIRST DE-
GREE BY JURY.

Four Days Consumed in Sefecting a
>. Jury to Try Charles C.
Reinecker.

&

On fast Saturday morning upon
convening of the court for the trial
of Clarence Collins, charged with the
murder of George J. Bushman, Presi-
dent Judge McPherson announced
his opinion upon the question of the
jurisdiction of the Court. He stated
that after carefully reviewing all tlie
‘authorities cited in the argument of
the counsel he had not been persuad-
ed that there was want of jurisdic-
tion in the Court. That there were
no Pennsylvania cases on the consti-
tutionality of the Acts of Assembly
of 1860 recognizing a jurisdiction in
either county when a crime was com-
mitted within 500 yards vi the coun-
ty line and when committed during a
travel. The Court being of the
Opinion that this act gave the Court
jurisdiction overruled the motion to
strike out all the evidence.

At the conclusion of the ruling of
the Court the defendant rested its
case and had not produced any evi-
dence relying entircly on the ques-.
tion of jurisdiction. The counsel for

defendant further stated they did
not desire to go to the jury on the
facts, and were willing to have the
Court instruct the jury as to: the
same. \

J. Donald Swope. Esy., assrsting
District Attorney Topper, made a

short address to the jury.” He did not
yeview the evidence, confining him-
self to the duty of a jury, however
disagrecable, to tind according to the
evidence. That the case was a most
serious one, the highest known to
law, and that if the evidence satisiicd
them beyon! a reasonable doubt of
the guilt of the defendant there was

only one duty facing them—a verdict \
of guilty in manner aud form as he |

stood imdicted.

Judge McPherson charged the jury
at length upoo murder in the first de-
gree as premeditated and with malice
aforethought, and the distinction of
murder in the second degree with-
out premeditation. He called atten-
tion to the essentials the jury must
find, first that there was a killing of
George J. Bushman by human means
agd then who did the killing and
whether it was premeditated and
with malice. The burden was on the
Commonwealth to prove beyond a
reasonable doubt every essential of
the crime. The jury retired at 10.48
A. M.

It was about noun when the jury
returned with their verdict and the
jury was ordered polled and each
member of the jury being asked in

the case of the Commonwealth «vs
Clarence Collins how he found,
whether defendant was guilty in

manner as he stoud indicted or aot
guilty, each juror solemly pronounc
ed their finding of guilty of murder
in the first degree.

Hon. Geo. J. Penner, Esq. counsel
for defendant, immediately made a
motion for a new trial and defend-

ant was placed in the custody of the,

Sheriff

Reivecker Case.

The court eoiveltedt on

morning with the panch-of- jurors em-

panncled for the Jannary court and:

out of the jurors obtained one jury-

man for the case. On Tuesday morn-

ing Sheriff Warctimeno-had a panel of
P riche’

i

Mosrelays!

J. Bushman on the bank of the Sus-
quehanna River.

Coroner Eichinger, of Dauphin
county, testified of going to the spot
where the body wos tound, and hav-
ing the body removed to the Mauk
undertaking morgue and the finding
of about $25 in pocketbook. The coro-
ner sent tor the councy detective and
put the matter in his bands. . The
body had a we-and in Lead and in the
breast.

Mr. McCormick, of the. Mauk
morguc dctailed taking body to their
place.

Dr. Harvey Miller repeated. the
story of ‘the autopsy and that the
wound in the head could not. have
been self-inflicted.

Chas. Plank identified the” body

and clothes again.

Milton Bender repeated his testi-
mony of bringimg the body to. Get-
tysburg. ;

Ben Carter went on witness Stand
to tell the story KReimecker told him
and the sparring bugan as to whether
it was voluntary and when’ Reinecker
was awake and knew what he was
saying. Judge McPherson ruled that
the evidence was admissible and
court adjourned Thursday evening
with Carter on the witness stand and
the evidence not fairly started.

Ou Friday morning Ben Carter
went ahead with the story the Rein-
ecker boy had told him.

Ben Carter testified that Retuecker
came to his place, where he was liv-
ing im a tent near the Littlestouwn
pike. several days after the killing,
that Reinecker went to sleep on a
bunk in the tent and was mumbling
in his sleep and tinally Carter spoke
to Reinecker und the latter turned
toward him and bis ¢yes were open
aud Ben sax:

“What did vou do?” wa

Reinecker answered, “We've shat
him.” < #5
"Who did vou shoate”
next question. ;
“Bushman” was the reply
{ Carter then  exclanied, “Oh
ewhert did van do that ferro:
“ff ik Weula net have been for Col-
‘tins it would’nt jravc been done,” was
the reply. “Then feineeker said

SYou won't give wc away?

“Nos Carter replied, and’, fullow-

“Wirat, did-you ‘do

was Ben's

x

hell,

\

ity the question,
with the geanZ”

+ Reinecker ‘repited.
the creck”

There
‘The tyht
»Reimecker was
Ihe was saying. :
' J. F. Walters, county detective of
| Dauphin county, was recalled and
testified about the two prisoners be-
jig. brought to the Dauphin county
ijail and how after Detective White
|rold him the boys came across, he
jhad asked them whether they want-
ed to make a Statement and that it
‘must be voluntary and -with = the
knowledge that it would be used
lagainst them upon the trial. Every
yoliection that was possible to make
Ragainst introducing ,this confession
was made by the counsel for the de-
jendant, Tt was sought to exclude
it on the theory that the prior con-
-tession. was a sweating and if second
cotessian was based on same it was
not acmissible.. The confession pro-
“duced bao the witness ‘and from = his
testiniony appearing to be voluntary,

“Ehrew it inte
Was) te Cross-exattinetton.

had been over) whether
awake and knew what

Howas admitted and read to the jary
Confession.
j Wanobin County Jail,
Oct. 255 tos

Charles ©. Remeckes :

By Detective Walters

Oo Now’ site teil your story iid
ste ile weite it otf and let yor read
it ded-see if itis currect

A’ We starfed from Gettysburg, |!

it was “bear 8 o'clock and we

push their. plans through. to early
AFeomplttion: “A a
Mr. Warner ‘has ‘always taken

4+World. Wat

THE MAGNIFICENT GIFT

OF THE ANNIE M. WARNER HOS.-

PITAL TO GETTYSBURG.

John M. Warner and Annie M. War-

ner Make Gift to be Erected at
an Early Date.

Jolin’ M.-Warner and Annie M.
Warner, his wife, have announced
the magnificent gitt of the Annie M.
Waruer Hospital for the use of the
people of Gettysburg and Adams
county. It is recognized by every-
one as most timely and appropriate,
and as coming frum two natives of
the old town has-touched the hearts
oi all our peopl. ;

The need of a hospital has been
manifest for many a year. After the
great battle here every church and
public place was turned into a hos-
pital and our people devoted them-
selves. to the saving of lives and
there are mauy cherished memeries
of those stirring days. Then the
great) peace celebration came with
its hospital preparations to care for
the aged veterans and proved most
helpful to the: many needing such
services *. ’

Then came that most thritling re-
cent time when the awful epidemic

struck the camp here and ‘carried
away over 162 soldier boys, great,
strong men struck down and in a

fev hours time had passed out,

Mr. and Mrs. Warner. who’ had
often thought of the gift of a hoe pi-
tal, were so impressed with the sced
of.a hospiial after the experience of
last» year, that they-determined to
go ahead with their fine, and great
pals tor’the vld home tow “Beth
havezit in their minds and hearts te

great pleasure ino making building
plans and sketches and he ‘has bert
phiaiing for weeks.) With the help
wi “Suggestions. from “physicians and
othirs he completed sketches of stten
a building as che desired to) erect
These osketehes “have becir, tarned
Gyer to an architect to dreft.\ * Just
what the finishcd. plans: will bechave
not yet been determined as they must
be submitted to a state boards) Phe
building will go om the zo acre tract
in the south-western “part (of) the
towns = Just as soon as the plans
have been ‘completed and approved
they will be made known by, Mr. and
Mrs. Warner.

GREAT OFFICIAL WAR MOVIE.

“America’s Answer,” 2nd Official U. S.
Film Will be Seen Here.

the Division of Films, Comimittec
on Public Information, George Creel
Chairman, will present “Anicrica’s
Answer,” the sceond United States
Ofheial War Picture, at the Lincoln
Way Theatre: next Tuesday evening.
Feb, if. eer

“America’s Answer” was niade by
U. So Signal Corps. photéserapliers’ by
direction. af Goucrat Joan de Persh-
ing and stelly th a Most interesting
Way what the United States has, ac-
cumilished. in Frances dieiage Aner:
alfirst year et partenjiattunan tite
Bhe pulls apt’ lo
innkpiethe war iaaly as st eguiber
fot fightmy anen “Atacrica’s Anawer'
jpotoonly shows tty yao pS ihe War
snd sows tt ih away thal Oeea sac’

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MISS KATE

OF BUSY XMAS
CAN

Delight ef the Bo
bered Frem t
Miss

No wonder’ you
become of me—lI
have been so neg
so fast and I kee;
writing in the rw
past few months h
ed with work that
tle but spend the
Canteen and my b
latter at midnight
to even think. I
a kitchen or smell
the doors here for

We had a very
the boys ail enjoy
three boys attach:
two others came |
a couple days.
Kuve me 2 wWwago.
and other Christr
a-ittle work te}!
tive. With cook:
the day before an
had a busy time b
joy their saurkey
just as much af a
had cigarettes, cig
lates and chewin
the Commissary ‘a
if that extra Ch
se: t for. cigarette
pleasure to the b
their thanks. As
now for ice eres)
for oiler’ things
and gia dolar
re TE pent a eine So 8
paid: fos ominths
vi hout? money.
it) jnstaliment
H-andkereinefs) a
sweaters Tean
Cross_warchouse.
zor in 50 dozen te
of socks, Al do.
brushes and ‘past
Jun, S92 the meee
ot hand andthe
extras, ismokes <
can get it aad a

Will you tell
“pecial) Nmas &:
the Jast installme
her Xmas was
after boys came
Xmas_box forth:
not. expect a th
toons of smokes
bar chocolate fel
was’ a grand Fv
they. came dro
seventy-fre boy
ing Xmas in bo
and gave three ¢
lady back home-

Everyone is b
and the joy ©
start is boundle>

Thanks awful:
hest regards to:

we ee

MAY soo

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“Y" Secretary T
os Seldier on
Mrs jf A, Sm

L merely was
pleasant meetin

both fhriks aud adpatation, bat odt | voy Horace oh
also depicts the ‘Darth slediind the fsuf by ame aie re
Fighting: buy agby sremecans rack fing oot e the
of cupplyingy the aens ay ioe trent tana we ecan:
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scrup

of th
fons tha
“mot go into the
defendant upon the
ed in court alone.
challenged

All these were
for cause and excused

Then the Commonwealth and the de- fi

 fendant had the right to twenty pe-
remptory challenges without stating
the reason and the larger portion
such challenges were exhausted be-
fore the jury was finally selected.
The twelve men finally chosen and
sworn to render a true verdict in the
/ ease of the Commonwealth vs.:Clar-
ence R. Collins are the following:
of: W. E. E/ichelberger, merchant.
&Byrone ‘township.
George B. Lay. farmer, of Tyrone

hip. ‘

‘=e Reuben Mathias, farmer, Union
ifownship. :
Curtis. Kane, farmer, of Highland
fownship.
=> Laban E. Hershey, farmer, of Cum-
berland township.
t+ Abram’ J. Guise,
4ownsbip.- be Boy '
=}. B. Zimmerman, farmer, of Mt.
Pleasant township.
“~ Lloyd Baughman,

ford township.

oi

farmer, of Butter

farmer, of Ox-

of Hunting-

ee , retired farmer, of Ox-

AD EF for
j Pleas-

‘ant townshtp.

Ax J. Edward Hall, farmer, of Frank-

“<flin township.

»..oWhen twelve jurors had been se-
cnred District. Attorney Topper
epened the case for the Common-

«wealth with a statement of the fact

= ‘to be proved going to establish mur-

“der_in the first degree.

“Clarence R. Collins, the prisoner, is
-yepresented by Hon. Geo. J. Benner
‘and: aSsociated with him are the at-
torneys representing © Charles. C.

“Reinecker, William Hersh and John.

“4° D. Keith, Esqs. District
= Topper _is assisted by J.
“Swope, Esq.

‘Sue prisoner does not show con-

“eern over his trial. He arose and

“sFaced each juror without exhibiting |

usness. He sits upright in

observing all details of the

rial, selfom speaking to his counsel,

¢ except when addressed by them.
S When the clothes of Bushman were
uced, overcoat, blanket carried

«3m ; bloody vest, the
—* garments did net move the prisoner
2 perceptibly any more than any other
“ydetail. ometimes the | prisoner
slightly rocks the chair in which he
49 sitting. He seems to be no more
“s eoncerned than aay one of the large
gdience listening to the details of

‘~The case of the Commonwealth be-
n with the testimony of Harvey
linger of seeing George J. Bush-
we town in bis gratomobile

the evening of the nipcder. Mr, Eis-
whowr, the. State Highway De-
a told “Ot the of the

of George J. Beshman on the
hanna River above
McCormick, of the
establishment,

he body where

o their morgue

at and

man and t
the body, all o
m court. Char
+<burg, identified t
i Netenaing to George J. Bushman.
-». Dr. Harvey Miller detailed how he
was called to the morgue in the ¢s-
—tablishment of Undertaker Mauk
and found the hody of George J.
= Bushman. That his body was the
only one of an adult male at the
place. An autopsy was performed
‘on the body. There was 2 bullet
qound in the back of the head and
-gne jn the breast. Either shot would
yohave killed the man. The shot in the
head could not have been self-inflict-

the same character. The wounds
‘ap caused the death of George J. Bush-
fies man. as the autopsy revealed, there
hi being no other cause.

‘2° Mitton Render, of Gettysburg tes-

Baki a Sails

‘of jlins?

Attoruey ;
Donald |

a} No sir. >

sd, the one in the breast ‘was not of}

ad to Collins and signed by

The confession so made by
Collins was read to the jury.

Confession.

Jail, Harrisburg, Pa.,

Oct. 25, 1918.

By James T. Walters, County De-:

leective of Dauphin County: Boys,

you understand just what we want,

the statement you made to Mr. White

and those gentlemen in Gettysburg-

You understand we ask you to make

this voluntarily, we are not exerting

any force. You will find it will ease

your minds and you will feel better

or it.

To Collins). :

Tell us how this happened, Col-
You and the boy figures to
et this man out and do this? A.
es Sir. :
Where did you meet him and
time? A. It was about 8

\what
to’clock.

; Q. When? A.
har aia

Last Wednesday
Go ahscad? A. We hired
‘Bushman to go to Carlisle.
i Q. Tell us what happened on the
iway down? A. We_ stayed over
ithere at Carlisle awhile and came
back and going back we killed him.
Where was this? A. Between
j there. It was on the other side of
; Mt. Holly.”
EQ. In Cumberland Connty was it?
A. I don't know. We were close to
Lidas tiie: : “ .
Q, You would know the spot? A.
{Ob yes. e + ,
+ Q. Now when you got there what
pened? A. We killed him there.
“Who shot him? A. He did:
Q. You talked about it before? A.
‘No sir. Him and I together did yes

vha
!

1 sit. ‘ ee pi {
4). And you robbed him? A. Yes.
(Sie. ES ait ad prac ™
' ~ How much money did you get,
l{rom him? A. $380 We ‘took him
-then ‘to Harrisburg and put him along
the river. ; re re
+e:
‘there

PH Vy Kae Fe f ¢
Did you get his watch? A. No!
never was a watch on him. i
: There was a ring in Bis vest?
,A. We did not see any. noah nae.
: Aiter you shot him did you!
‘turn around right there? -A No sir)
we rode about a mile. © > :
Q. Then what happened? -A. We
Harris-

\

4

‘turned around and came to
burg. = »* ¢ fos
Q. De you know what time it was:
twhen you go A.
‘was about 2
{ When you crossed
‘where did you go? A: Along the}
river. drive. : i
4). Were you Stquainted there? |
‘A. Lhad been up once before.
.. When you got to this spot was
it just by chance you put him out:
there? Yes sir. ee

A. Yes sir. : id
The frst shot kilted him 1 sup-
pose? Yes he fell over and ‘tl took
the wheel and drove the car in.
“Q.. Did you turn your car. before
ou carried him over the bank? A.
io ‘sir, We carried him there and
then we drove up the river and came

go =p, do you
did you go to the bridge? A.
not that far.

back. ay
Q:* How far did you

know,
Ne sir
d and came
crossed
the
Humerstown roa

thea sent to York, then to
ptile and there I took it in the gar-
age. and told the saan I wasted to
sell 4. een em re ;
Qi: You teft it there and did not
pack any more to the garege? A.

* Where did you go. then? A.
ck home. [ caught a side home on
automobiles. se ies Are
Q: Clear to Gettysburg? Arn We
came up on different care. %5*"
‘Q. You got back. to: Gettysburg
when? A. Thursday. B t.
QO. Then you went from; there to
Waynesboro and got & od there? A.
Yes sir. tis ge

jberh Gipe.

Q. The two of you carried him out:

uel Becker, ot MeSherrystuwn, Fits
Becker, of Hanover; and three sis-
ters, Mrs. Curvin Cromer, of Mid-
way: Mrs. James Lingy and Mrs. Na-
than Houser, of Middictown, © The
juneral services were on Tuesday,
from St. Vincent's church) by Rev.
William A. Howard, burial in. St.
Joseph's Cemetery, Hanover.

ja vastard cnls

Elizabeth Lott .
father Shericy He
awarded for latter.
In Tyrone towns|
was reported, moth
cost, reputed fathe
In. Hamiltonban
rails were down

Reuben K. Sipe diced at his home in
Hampton on ‘Tuesday
tuberculosis, aged 74
and 1 days.

he conducted the Hampton Hotel, ;

crossing the race

a 1 jbastard child was
morning from: Hazel
: years. 3 months! Ralph Musselman.
For a number of years | for latter.

Richardson.

First’ Wa

In the

then went to farming, and had served jtown a bastard wa:

as supervisor for several years.
dren: Mrs. Augustus Thomas, and
Samuel Sipe, of Hampton, and
F. Zartman, oi Hanover;
brother, Robert Sipe,
and one sister, Mrs. Louisa Stone-
sifer, of McSherrystown. The fu-
neral was held on Friday with servi-
ces in Hampten Lutheran Church by
Rev. Stauffer, of New Chester with
interment in Hampton Cemetery.

trouble.

ears old on
renner was a son 0
Catherine Brenner,

jwas born in Berwick township. He

formerly resided in Hanover bat lo-
cated in Lancaster when a young
man. Surviving are the following
sisters ‘and brothers: Mrs ohn
Myers, Miss ‘Katie Brenner, John
Brenner and Frank Brenner, of Han-
H. W. Hoeffner, of

The

over, aud Mrs.
Orlando, Fla., formerly of York.
funeral was Wednesday morning
from Sacred Heart Church, Lancas-
ter, aud interment in the ckerch cem-
Mrs. Martha Montgomery Robbins,
widow of Flon. W. M. Bobbins, for
some years a member of the Gettys-
burg National Park Commission,
lied some months ago at Statesville,
N.C. Mrs. Robbins will be well re-
membered by many Jocal peuple. She
married Major Robbins during the
Civil War while he was. serving im
the Confederate Army and their mar-

+ . Pr
ried life extended aver 43 years.

Mro. Susan Bollinger, wife of Sam-
nel Bollinger, died at her home along
the Carlisle pike, near Hampton last
Saturday from infinnities and other
aged 81 years, |

band, one son,

hame, and two sister

of near

school house, and Mrs.

of Baltimore. The funera

on Tuesday, services by Rev. Charles
Baker with interment in the Hamp-
ton Cemetery. eee oF abe *

one

Mes. Helen Lee Pee Sheridan, for-
merty of Fairfield, wife of John P.
Sheridan, of Parkersburg, died on
Tuesilay, the eve oft her 29th birth-
day, in the General Hospital, Lancas-
ter, from the flu. She was the eldest
{ Mr. and Mrs. George E.

Sanders, formerly. of
Fairfield,
the residence ©

and Mrs.
York. Faneral was held
Church on Satur-
day. taterment in St. ~ Patrick's
Cemetery, . York. Besides her hus-
band and parents, she leaves three
daughters, Rosemary, Genevieve, and
Bernadette Sheridan, and the fol-
lowing brethers and sisters, Guy D.
Sanders, of New Oxford; Private
Bernard J. Sanders, stationed at
Camp Knox, Ky.; Raymond LC. Sand-
ers, of York; Misses Annie, Hazel,
Margaret, Veronica, Jeanette and Al-
len, at home. ay

Mrs. Katherine Coulson, formerly
of East Berlin, died at the home of

Sheridan,
from St. Joseph's

Q. Who took the facies off of
Bushman? A. He Reinecker) did.

|. Did you divide it between you?
A. Spent it for gasoline. :

Q. Now you make this statement
voluntarily, knowing and realizing it
will be used against you when you
are tried. for this crime? A, ves

sir. reg
“Clarence RB. Collins.

igned) |
also testified that

in West York, last Saturday, in
88th year. She was a member
Trinity Lutheran Church, East Ber-
lia. Mrs. Coulson is survived by one
son, John Coulson,
and two daughters, Mrs. ee Jacobs,
of East Berlin, and Mrs. ewis. Kauff-
man, of West York, at whose home
she died. The
Monday, services by Rey. H. T. Bow-
ersox, of St. James’ Lutheran Church.
The body was taken to

Mr... Walters
¥ (Coat

pred
= aa

@ paar 4)

*) ‘ \ a
ee uae oe ag’ ies
. 4 bal 0 R

(Continued on

babii a 8

¢ or sé de | Hiida
is survived by his wife and three chil-} Augt.  Soyder.

‘Yatter. ‘
Mrs. |

er; also. one and
ot Harrisburg, | pointed foreman.

East Berlin, | ship. ree
page S$) 4

Stonesifert.
Pre

The Grand Jury
sworn, Frank

The Court charg
duties end instruct
care with which tt
gate the charges
would be sabmittec

The Grand Juty
bills of indictment
bills and was dise
ternon. 5 6»

Com. vs. Claren
ed with the mur
Bushman on the
Wilson, county de
a true bill, |’

Com. vs. ‘Char!
charged with, the
J. Bushman on th
Wilson, county de
2 true bill .°

Forty-cight jure
moned to constit
Terminer Court, i1
der charges woul
trial of these ca
number. of days. .
on the crimmal ¢
tinued, except one
ed of, being Com.
er, charged with
verting morey a:
joath of Chas. H.
j settled by “payin

and costs were pa

The Court appo
sou and Arthur ‘
the first week of
dies H. V. Kiunk
ler for the seconc

The report of ¥
road m_ Hunting:
\Carliste and Oxfc
Samnel Weigle a
to the York i
road at lands af A
confirmed absolu
feet. set ath

The viewers’ ©
in Menallen town
deravitie-Goodyet
rel road, was filed

In the estate of
of East Berim, w
gue leaving 2 “Wi
appoimted by th

5000 taw set. asic
sonal estate amo
the widow, aad t!
praisers Was, col
confirmed absolu
after advertiser
the Court. =>»

in the estates
man and roe
te

his danger,
report of apprats

-|Chas. R., der,

ter, real and pets
entitied to a8 ar
Bushman to awa
ander the taw al
ing spouse $4000,
tq be confirmed
\days if no excep
jadvertisement as
of the Court.

In the estate
neeker, fate of
decedent willed h
iter at @ valuatio:
[under impression
But 31 acres. cou
order was made
iter to take and 1

her daughter, Mrs. Lewis Kauffman, ‘at So an_aere.
her a
}

of ithe $500 ex

The followin

led nisi to be cc
ino exceptions a!

of Camden, N. J. tare of Thomas

Liberty townshir
Joe) B. Muss
tonban towns

funeral was held oniJoho P. T

township; i
ward F. Sparvet,

i
ce)

kg OO


rami y Ride Over Route.
+ Charles H. Wilson recalled to the
wShand, detailed going later to Har-
avisburg and asking Collins whether
‘he was willing to g0 with him over
‘the route he had taken the night of
“the murder and warned ‘him that any-
*thing he said would be used against
i willing-

J The pris-
oner with Wilson and County Detec-
of Harrisburg, drove
‘over the route, Py | first to Carlisle
; olly, and. after
passing this point Collins had told
nd- 1 will
eH you where ‘it’ took place. Ahout
“400 feet heyund ai culvert he said was
“the place where. Bushman was killed,
driving slowiy and

Rus CURSE

ix SATURDAY, FEGRU AL

leonstant objection had a comm

j piace appearance until the testimony
was reached

fof the next witness
when the situation was exceedin
{dramatic and the interest ran at h
t ottch.

Fred Moore was this witness, who

PTs oe ft
ypovess

jmurder he ‘met Clarence Collings
'

“ Eettgsburg

Gettysburg, Pa.

ternoon. Collins asked him wher!

We. ARCA. McCrean.... 2.2... Edita:

: BATURDAY, FEB 1, vio

“CLARENCE R. COLLINS ON TRIAL

(Continced from Page 1

).

ingness to make money.
“sone and get away with his car a
Money, and to witness’ inquiry as

George J. Bushman and told how
could be killed on a trip and bo

while

“Kame facts

of the murder,
,Yaken them

started home

fend went back to Carlisle. Only got
something ov er $5.00 from Bushman he thought he was joking he did no
=and spent that tor gas, and how they] tel} the police. In. the attempt to

J “took the body of Bushman

Sao Philadelphia. .

© Clarence Bushman, son of the mur-
dered man, corroborated J. L. Wil-
+> Slams jin the details of this first coan-
2 pfession. and said -he -had asked Col-
ns two or three times in Williams’
_ pofice, Why ‘did_ you kil! my father?
‘and Collins answered for the anto-
\

Emdbile.

\

Vhim.- Collins expressed a
«mess to go over the route.

etive Walters,
‘and then to Me.

“them to ketp'‘on driving 4

sThey had bec

rthey got out and Collins repeated
that they were at the Place where
«Bushman was killed. They they.

“rove on to a Jane where he said they
murder and

The placé
‘Pointed out was 644 feet from a stone
in the road knuwn to be on the boun-

turned the night of the
“went back to Harrisburg.

rdry line between Adams and Cun-
Dertand ‘county. The stone was log
‘feet from -cnivert and where they

‘turned around avis 28a feet in Adams

<ounty.
This testimont Was, to shi the
venue and jurisdiction of the court,

An old jwetoor assembly makes it ty
Kal to try inceither County for au of-
wt
CUNNIes.
Wilson de

emse committed within S00) yards
the bortidry fines Detweenye

Then Connes Dereetiva
tailed. haw dn Neo ty he went
Hoarriiter ret

waiting for the stenographer

20 write owt the statement Collins
BS ‘told him he had given the pistol with
ae which Bushman was shot to Rein-
= Necker and after he was first shot in

i and when Wilson and
» White had left the office temporarily,
Collins had voluntarily told the story
how Bushman had
to Carlisle, how thew
‘had gotten out at the Y. M. C. A,
“Suilding, how near midnight they had
and when beyond Mt.
- Holly Bushman was shot, pulled into

back seat and they turned around

. : and did
t along the river and then went on

te

made away. He said on
to Waynesboro and how

him with a hammer. Collins show
the end of a revolver from an insi

but stood the ordeal well an
strengthened himself, rather tha
weakened in any way. He said h

had told Roy Pittenturf on Saturda

lins had sounded funny to him an
he thought he was joking and he di
not say anything to Bushman be

find some point of the witness he wa
asked whether he had ever “beeit ar
rested, and he admitted he had ‘anc
there was an intense moment. unti

speeding.

then asked why. did
his réply was for his money. a.
3 Bushman Auto Traced.
Joseph) F. Goodman, of. Philadel-
phia, manager of an auto sales gar-
ave, toht of a man looking like Col-

lins coming to_ his garage with ‘a

Hudson Super-six and wanted to
trade for a Ford. He showed him a
Ford, gave him a fide and offered to
trade and give him $roo, Before the
deal was closed he went to sec his
partener about it) and Collins got
away before he got back. He identi-
fed a State license made to read
George J. Sherman, 22 Carlisle street,
Gettysbarg, where Sherman was had
been rubbed. The witness had gone
fo far as to make out a bill of sale
for the Hudson which Collins . had
signed as George J. Sherman. The
Hudson was delivered next day to
Detective Hodge, #
* Deteetive Hodge, of Philadelphia,
testified of getting the ear and license
card from Goodman and delivering
the car to Chas. H. Wilson and J. L..
Williams.

C. H.. Wilson, tecalled, told of
bringing the car home and turning
it over to Geo. F.. Eberhart and the
latter testitied as to Bushman having
the ear in his Sarage before he. was
Killed and identified the car.

The case: of the Commonwealth
wad been developed to the extent
narrated ahove up to Thursday even-
ine’ There had only been one sug-
xcstion of what the defense might be.
When “ing the (eross-examination of

this parents on West Middle street,
jand had operated a taxt last summer,
| He testified on the Friday before the

he did not want to make some easy
Money and witness expressed a will-
Collins fin-
ally detailed that they could do some] ui

who the man was Collins had named

a previous
night Bushman had taken them over
a fellows
nerve failed him when he was to hit

Mr. Moore was giver a Tigid cross-
cxamination by Hon. Geo. J. Benner

of Collins’ talk but the talk of Col-

cause he didn’t think Collins was go-
ing to do.what he said -and because 30—ALABAMA, Jan. 14, 1919.

the answer came that it shad been for
ee Fat

Mrs. Woutersz testified that. dur-
ing a visit to the jail last Saturday
she asked Collins whether they were
uot sorry and he replied yes, and she
you do it;and

on-

he
dy

de

d
d

1860,
af-}declared as
ler! Violation of 1
of defend
crime was committed
Passed upon by

pass

tional questions
more thorough exami
in this tows for two years with/the ends of Justice would be better
served by an adjournment, and court
Was adjourned until Saturday m
ing at 9 o'clock.
on} The provisions
} Baltimore street near the People's | of

Eo m p if QE } Cash Store about 3 o'clock in-the

which counsel

Pennsylvania,
ndjcourts as far as known a
to/an entire new
tion in this Sta

At the convening of
Judge McPherson st
not had time enougl
gly;the cases cite
igh|willing to

nor

the cons

nation and

ofthe penal code
sel asked te be
uncenstitutional and in
he right of trial by jury
ant in the county where the
has not been: . :
the Supreme Court '@e with pr
lower
nd presents :
question for adjudica-: 2% most of
te.

any

ee
Dry Honor Roll.

Forty-four States
vorably on the dry a
Constitution but the
ed|iS not yet in the list.
Koll to date is:

» Jan. 8, 1919,
INIA, Jan. 9

Keyston em

have acted fa-' partially cove
mendment to the |The cause of
pire ; definitely but.
The Honor jtions that it ;

athe head, the body was put in the]vest pocket and explained that with I—MISSISSIPPI, January 8. carelessness |
ack of the car and the second shot jit and some bullets taken from an- 2—VIRGINIA, January 1i. a Spent t

"2. ‘wwas fired in the breast. other pocket the killing could be 3—KENTUCKY, January 14, ue Te the k:

* i " . : done. Witness refused to have any- 4—SOUTH CAROLINA, Jan. 23, r. Taylor w

Cie ie al Firet Confession. thing to do with such an‘act Sun- $—NORTH DAKOTA, Jan. 25. future. «,

, .iCharles H. Wilson, county detec- day evening witness met Collins 6—MARYLAND, February 13, 3 :
<2, = ive of Adams county, went on the again in the Square. while they were 7—MONTANA, February 19, —E. E. Slay
‘DR, stand to detail the facts leading uP tol waiting to get a load to go to Han.| 8—TEXAS, March 4. yacant lot on
; | the first confession in the office of J-Jover and Collins asked him whether S~DELAWARE, March 18. yH. F. Hershe

/4L. Williams on the afternoon of Oct. he wasn’t going to go along with him} 10-SOUTH DAKOTA, March 20. | College Churd
“25. befere the prisoner was taken tafand when he said he would not he re- 11—-MASSACHUSETTS, April 2, ing .te Prof.
arrisburg. He took Collins to Mr.J plied if he dign’t he would do it him-| 12—ARIZONA, May 24. will erect a
‘Williams’ office with detective White self or get someone else to do it. In] 13—GEORGIA, June 26. spring.
“bf Harrisburg. After fifteen minutesfone of these talks George Bushman} 14—LOUISIANA, Aug. 8, 1918. —Mrs, W. }
more they left the office, leavin drove around the Square and Collins 15.—FLORIDA, Nov. 27, 1918. Granville, Mrs
wahe prisoner with Mr. Williams and saw him and remarked something} 16.—Michigan, Jan. 2, 1919, nox and Mr
“Clarence Bushman, the son of theJabout if he knew what was going to] 17—OHIO, Jan. 7, 1919. town; Mrs. N
4) murdered man. happen to him. 18—-OKLAHOMA, Jan. 7, 1919. and Mrs. Flen
«> J. L. Williams testified as to the 19—MAINE, Jan. 8, 1919.

20—IDAHO, Jan. 8, 1919,
q| 2I-TENNESSEE
n{ 22—WEST VIRG
e| 23—WASHINGTON, Jan.
y| 24—CALIFORNIA, Jan. 13, 1919,
25—INDIANA, Jan. ;
26—ARKANSAS, Jan. 14, 1919.
27—KANSAS, Jan. 14, 1919.

14, 1919.

-| 2—ILLINOIS, Jan. 14, 1919,

293—N. CAROLI

NA, Jan. 14, 1919,

t} 31—COLORADO, Jan. 15, 1919.

35—UTAH, Jan. 15, 1919.

;| 33—-OREGON, Jan. 15, 1919.

-| %—NEW HAMP
1{ 32—IOWA, Jan. 1

SHIRE, Jan.
5, 1919.

1] 36-NEBRASKA, Jan. 16, 1319,

set acted
necticut,

tion Was

cf

ratification

date,
by Mr.
presence
Texas,

nia,
House ane
toon Le

Won?
Usrierty aeriad
eations, +

Deteetive Walters (hes- was asked
whether the hove’ tad net told hin

O'Neal

The

1919.
37—MISSOURI, Jan. 1
38—W YOMING, Jan.
39—WISCONSIN, Jan.

40—MINNESOTA, Jan. 17, 1919,

-.41—NEW MEXI
42—NEVADA, J.
43—VERMONT, Jan. 29, 1919.
44—NEW YORK, Jan. 28, 1919.
The tour States which have not’as
yu the amendment are Con-
Rhode Island, New Jersey
and Pennsylvania, the legislatures of
all of which States are how
sion. The great Keys
wealth will likely be
At any rate Pennsyly
it before the amendm
ly proclaimed as in
was due to liquor power in the State.
Ratification of
amendment to the federal constitu-

t]

proclaimed

the thirty-sixth st
on Jan. 16, and that 1
of the amendment itself prohibition
becomes effective ane year froin that

Wednesday, Jan.

Polk. acting Secret
nroclamation is dated Jan, 29, but fe-
gal authorities of the depa

Wats

2%, by

le

formally on
Frank L.
ary of state. The

accomplished
ate acted favorably
ander the terms

proclamation

of” Senat«ir

author. of

Metals

et

the

«Ht

Ss

ue
th

\m

4

WEDDINGS.

¢t

itty

)

6, 1919.

16, 1919.

17, 1919.

CO, Jan. 20, 1919.
lan. 21, 1919.

prohibitio

was osigned
Polk at tras a’clack—in the
hepmrt. of
the <amendment
resolation; former Sceretary Bryan,
Representative Randall” of €alitor-
Prohibitionie:

te the

Anti-Sa-

erica, S) the

Temperance
wiry ura
1 Nia

court Friday
ated that he had
1 to examine all
d to him and was un-
upon

in volved without a

, gis. |
13, 1919. |

15, Jeascd perticns.

in ses-
tone Common-
at the tail end.
ania did not get
ent was official-
force, and this

riment say
when

Barn D

On Sunday
on the farm
htiveen Are
Mas entirely
Taylor had b
euiside of th
inthe morni:
‘order of woo
; this to the fir.
ed in the kite
close by. A
14s Mr. Taylor
adjoining farr
the one end
:roof. Fortung

titu-

that

orn-

‘cue the hor
. Qearly all of

i however, will
'lor’s season’s
Rpowsge of o
a calf and $i;

jary or that

j edu, of Han
saual state car
jut Harrisburg

;
b <. Hov
“We offer On"!
for any case of
cured by Ha!!'s
Hall's Catarrss
by catarrh sutr>
five years, and }:
most relable rer
Catarrh Medicine
{the Murous g»-/
son from the B)

After you ha
Medicine for a ki
freat’ imp-ovem
aea'th. Start tak:
cine at once and
“ar testinionials.
PF. J. CHENEY

n

SPURS

ASSRURA RRR


suMeiuing Over 35.00 trom Bushinan
“and spent that for gas, and how they
. “took the body of Bushman and did
at along the river and then went on
“aod Philadelphia.
ts Clarence Bushman, son of the mur-
sdered man, corroborated J. L. Wil-
fiiams sin the details of. this first con-
_ fession- and said -he chad asked Col-
,lins two or-three times in Williams’
sofice, Why did. you kill my father?
nd Collins answered for the auto-

tndhile.

Ride Over Route.

Charles H. Wilson recalled to the
jstand, detailed going later to Har-
grisburg and asking Collins whether
he was willing to go with him over
the route he had taken the night of
“the murder and warned ‘him that any-
“thing he said would be used against
‘him. Collins expressed a_ willing-
sBess to go over the route. The pris-
oner with Wilson and County Detec-
-tive Walters, of Harrisburg, drove
‘aver the route, going first to Carlisle
rand then to Mt. Hotty, and. after
passing this point Collins had told
“them to ketp’’on driving and [ will
“eel you where it took place. About
400 feet beyund-aiculvert he said was
<ahe place where Bushman was killed.
They had been deriving slowly and
-they got out and Collins repeated
that they were at the place where
~Bushman was | Shi tes Then thes
rove on to a Jand where he said they
turned the night of the murder and
“went back to Harrisburg. The place
Spointed out was 644 feet from a stone
athe road known to be on the boun-
«dry line between Adams and Cum-
Dertand county. The stone was 1013
‘feet from -cufvert and where they
turned around «vas 280 feet in Adams
~county.

This. testimony was to show the
senue and jurisdiction of the court.

==" <An old act of assembly makes it le-

xal to try in cither county for an of-
fense committed within 500 yards of
athe boundry lines. between counties.
Then County: Detective Wilson de-
tailed how on Nov. t9 he went to
<Harrisberg with a warrant for Col-
Jins charging murder to bring hin
Arack to Adams county. That) Pur-
wess James W. Eicholtz and Josep!
oH Bushnian went along with him.
Cotlins was willing tu go alung and
Wilson warned him. that if he talked
and revealed anything it) would be
cused against him. The four came
ewer the same route from Harrisburg
to Gettysburg and when the same
fmeeint was reached Collins again vol-
Pluntarde pointed out the same spot
> as-on’the first trip. where Bushman
had been killed ,
foseph Ho Bustonan -corroboraied
Mr. Wilson im. afl the details of the
trip, the warning given Collin, about
’ falking. and Collins potting out the
“spot where it had happened.
A Bushman had_ been along when the
\ensasuring was done and the spot
was 644 feet from county Ine.
Most Dramatic Event of Trial.

.MGhe seriousness of the: tsial was

> apparent all the time by the legal! |.

~iecontest going on, the -objections,
made to everything looking like a
« confession. Counsel for.prisoner left
mothing undone to have every -con-
fession excluded and make objections
; 4nd ‘motions. to strike out because
> uthe ‘killing was in Cumberland coun-
* ety,.ithe Court: overruling as all the
; proof ‘before the Court was that
<while in: Cumberland county it wag
wéll «within the s00 yard territory.
Bat the prisoner at no time seemed
nervous and the -trial by reason: of

“Strong”
Blood

«~ Or weak blood governs for good or

ill every part of the body. The

| medicine that makes weak blood

.\ pure and. strong is HOODO'S

:SARSAPARILLA. For a

‘third of a century it has been the
~deading blood purifier,

over

L

Mr.fo

he thought he was joking he did not
tell the police. In the attempt to
find some point of the witness he was
asked whether he had ever been ar-
rested, and he admitted he had and
there was an intense moment until
the answer came that it had been for
specding.

Mrs. Woutersz testified that dur-
iny a visit to the jail last Saturday

not sorry and he:replied yes, and she
then asked why did you do it. and
his reply was for his money.

Bushman Auto Traced.

Joseph F. Goodman, of Philadel-
phia, manager of an auto sales gar-
age, told of a man looking like Col-
lins coming to his garage ‘with a
Hudson Super-six and wanted to
trade for a Ford. He showed him a
Ford, gave him’a ride and offered to
trade and give him $roo. Before tke
deal was closed he went to see his
partener about it and Collins got
away before he got back. He identi-
fed a. State license made to. read
George: J. Sherman, 22 Carlisle street.
Gettysburg, where Sherman’ was had
heen rubbed. The witness had gone
so far as to make out a bill of sale
for the Hudson which Collins had
signed George Jo Sherman. The
Tftelsern was delivered next day to
Detcerise Ehocge.

Detective Hodge. Phitadelphia,
testificd of getting the car and license
card fram Goodman and. delivering
the car to Chas. H. Wilson and J. Lb.
Williams. ' /

C. H. Wilson. recalled. told — of
bringing the car home and turning
it over to Geo. .F. Eberhart. and the
latter testiied as to Bushman having
the car in his garage before he was
killed and identified the car.

The case of the Commonwealth
had been developed to the extent
narrated above up to Thursday even-
ing. There had only been one sug-
gestion of what the defense might be,
when in. the cross-examination of
Detective Walters he was. asked
whether the boys had not told htm
that they had been drinkig for some
Jay. before the killing and that on
that mghf ther bad a bottle of liquor
in the car. Detective Walrers demiect
ever hearing apything of the kind
‘rom the boys, that he had never
heard mention any. drivkig, that
tolling had never told) tim any
drinking.

The case cof
closed Friday morning with the tes-
timeny of S.. Miley Miller. connty
surveyor, in Which a pot of the road
was offered an evidence slowing that
nart of road trom Gettysbary te Cart
liste about thesbeundry lime Gt Ad
ams and Cumberland counties. The
white stone on the coad> was ttenti-
Ged as on the. boundsy line’ and the
Soint where Collins confessed to the

ot
wt

the” Commonwealth

killing was 644 feet over tn Cumbers
land county and the point te which
the auto came. with the bedy” of
Bushman and tarncd around was 2Ro
feet over in Adams county :
When ‘the ‘Commonwealth rested,
the counsel for the defendant moved
to strike out all the testimony and
dismiss the case for want of jurisdic -
tion as the crime was committed in
Cumberland county. he fo pti
John D. Keith in sapport of this
motion made an extended argument
to the Court. The two sections of
the penal code of 1860 providing for
trial where a crime has been com-
mitted within 500 yards of the boun-
dary lines or committed during jour-
neys, it was argued did not apply for
the provisions were made to obviate
‘the difficulty of proof, but where the
Commonwealth had established by
proof that the crime was committed
in Cumberland county, the jurisdic-
tion should be in that county.

The real question, however, Mr.
Keith declared, was that the provi-
sion of the law of 1860 was unconsti-
tutional. That trial by ane was
based upon the: proposition o being
tried in the county where the crime
was committed and that. the act
recogiizing a 5300 yard zone or where
committed on journeys was a legisla-
tive act beyond the power of a legts-
lature to make as to the constitu-
tional right of trial by jury in the
county where offense was committed.

she asked Collins whether they were,

a BUNRAMY, vali. id,

3S—-UTAH, Jan. 15, 1919.

33—OREGON, Jan. 15, 1919.

34—NEW HAMPSHIRE, Jan.

32—IOWA, Jan. 15, 1919.

th gp ame Jan. 16, 1319.
919.

37—MISSOURI, Jan. 16, 1919.

38—WYOMING, Jan. 16, 1919

39—WISCONSIN, Jan. 17, 1919.

40—MINNESOTA, Jan. 17, 1919.

..41—NEW MEXICO, Jan. 20, 1919. .
42—NEVADA, Jan. 21, 1919.
43—VERMONT, Jan. 29, 1919.
44—NEW YORK, Jan. 29, 1919.

The tour States which have not as
vet acted ow the amendment are Con-
necticut. Rhody Island, New Jersey
and Pennsylvania, the legislatures of
all of which Stuies are now in ses-
sion. The great Keystone ,Common-
wealth will Hkely be at the tail end.
At any rate Pennsylvania did not get
it before the amendment was official-
Iv proclaimed as iu fores, and this]
was due to liquor power in the State.

Ratification of the prohibition
amendment to the federal constitu-
tion was proclaimed formally on
Wednesday, Jan. 20, by Frank L,
Volk. acting secretary of state. The

13

wal authorities of the department say
ratification was accomplished when
the thirty-sixth state acted favorably
on Jan. 46, and that under the terms
of the amendment itself prohibition
becomes effective one vear from that
date. The proclamation was signed
by Mr. Polk at r£.2 o'clock in the
presence of Senatur Sheppard~ of
Texas, author of the amendment
resolution: tormer Secretary Bryan,
Representative Randall. of Califor-
nia, Prohibitiouist tuember of the
House and oficials of the Anti-Sa-
loon — Lezygte > of America, the
Womer’s Mhristian Temperance
Union ‘aud other, anti-saloon. organi-
vations. : y

WEDDINGS.

O'Neal — Schultz. — Dr. “Alexander
Hay O'Neal.) son of Dr. and Mrs.
Walter H. O'Neal. of Gettysburg, and
Miss Mary -B. Schultz, of Pittsburgh,
were married ti, Intter: city on last
Saturday exening

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Pifer—King.—At Dillsburg on last
Thursday Rev. O. We Cook married
Miss Hope King, danet:ter of Mr. and
Mrs. S. B. King, of that place. and
Charles H. Pifer, son af Mr. and Mrs.
Daniel, Pifer. caf: Huntington town-
ship.

rod ;
Weigle—Burtner.—At the. York
Springs M. E. parsonage om last;Sun-
day evening, Rev. James Doherty
umited in marriage Miss Gail Bart-
ner. of Clear Springs, and Park TL.
Weigle, of York Springs. é

Poole—Lighter.—On Jan. 22, at the
Lutheran: parsonage in Middletown,
Md., Rev. Tenfield united in marriage |
Millard Poole. of Frederick, and Miss
Ruth Lighter, of Hagerstown. The
groom isa nephew of Mr. and Mrs.
A/F. Roudebush. of Huntington
township, and the young couple are
spending their honeymoon at the
Roudebush home. By

| West Point Appointments.

Congressman A. R. Brodbeck has
made nominations to the Hon. New-
ton D. Baker, secretary of war, for
appointment examination admission
as cadets to the military academy at
West Point as follows: © Principal,
David E. Ziegler, of York; first alter-
nate, Lloyd Gladfelter, York, second
alternate, Harry C. Baublitz, of Han-
over, who is now ceinployed by, the
Western Maryland © Railway” Com-
pany. § fee

As second principal, John
McDonnell. of Gettysburg. Firse al-
ternate. John Maurice Weikert. Get-
tvsburg. Frank Josey Kyle, who re-
Ides in the lower section of ~York
Teounts. is second alternate: te Prin-
cipal McDonnell vA Ls

These young men will be shrected
to report for examination. for admis-
chon of the successful candidates: te
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CONNOR, Catharine, and WILDMAN, Henry, whites, hanged Philadalphia, |

Pennsylvania, on July 2, 1737.

"This day ended the sessions of the Court of Oyer and Terminer at which
three persons received sentence of desth for housebreaking, to wit:

John Watnall, Michael McDermott and Catherine Connor, alias Smith,

The two former pleaded guilty. The latter put herself upon trial and

was found guilty. After sentence, she pleaded pregnancy but a jury of
matrons being empannelled, found her not quick with child," PENNSYLVANIA
GAZETTE, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, April 15, 1736.

"Yesterday about noon John Watnall and Michael McDermott were executed
here for burglary. The oman condemned with them for the same crime was
reprieved, They died penitently and exhorted the spectators to take |
warning by them and avoid those vices which had been their ruin," P™UNNSYL-.
VANIA GAZETTE, May 6, XXEXX 1736. |

"Friday last at a Court of Oyer & Terminer held here for this county, |
three persons received sentence of death, to wit: Henry Wildman for ae
burglary, Isaac Brandford for robbery and Catherine Conner for burglary.
e She had been convicted of a crime of the same kind last year and con-
““ demned to die but was pardoned," PENNSYLVANIA GAZETTE, 5/19/1737.

zl!

11-1737 Philadelphia. : Saturday last Henry Wildman and Catherine Smith |
.t alias Connor weve heen here fw burglary. Brand-
| *" Ford y who was Condemned with them for a robbery, had a reprieve and became

| their eyeeutioner. Wildman had been imprisoned here for afact of the same
- he was 25. He confessed himself and cautioned all to take Wamiry by his
cont shaving Since Committed Several notorious felonies besides this for
¢ had been formerly orted fran ey to Virginia.

Kind about two years 040, but the evidence leaving the Country before the
| Court, he was discharged withact tial. Yet this was not a sufficient waming
: yl to him. He satd he was 53 ucers old and had followed thiewing ever since.
“YE Shameful end. He was a Shropshire man and by trade a nailors The Daan
av. p Said little or nothing. She hed been condemned Fur the Ike erime last yean

i but was reprieved an discheryed and immediatly tock fo-the Same practice

ch she now Suffered. She left 4 yauy child behind her with which She.
WAS pregnant at the time of her condemnation last year, though not-found
ae with child byth nes of matrons empannelled on that occaslon-

& The same day wah eect at Chester Thomas Bevan fer firing and

robbing a house. He confessed himself to have been guilty per arent eee
number of thieveries for which he long since d.< ‘ad the end he Was |

now browsht to and desired all to take warning by him. 5 fist fact

was oly stealing a pack of cards which was tolowed any more of
Consequence in England whence he was at length ted sane Maryland |

q ! whare he continually added to their agai +l he ; cade the: RN Es Shek as om
of that For which he died.

whith wanted nothi a . rs effeetuel but aood Englis and - —
The evidence wes too clear against him. He nosed

‘ ' ‘ '
Dope egg npn wi IR Sn eo nF


CONNOR and WILDMAN,, Continued,

sentence of death at the same time for a robbery and was to have
been executed with them. ut he was repri eved and did the
office of executioner." KX¥#MERXKXKAXAMAZKAX AMERICAN WEEKLY
MERCURY, Philadelphia, -Pa.,, July 7, 1737.


CONNER, Catharine

and WILDEMAN » Henry

a oth were han rd d.-- ~-h 5
Tuly 2, 1737, A trig reeey at PHUladSI phi on

a conde ee Son, Isaac Bradfayz
mned to die with them, but the Provir Des,

previous” year wh had been-—pard ed -the-——
€n cor anal? on
= Gs8e. she _was-preena ndemned to die for

again, +t

"P hiladelphia:Friday last three persons*re-.
ceived sentence of DEATH,’ via: Henry W ildman
for burglary, Isaac Brandford for robbery and
Catherine Conner for burglary. o%She had been
convicted of a crime of the same kind last
year and rondemned to die but had been pardon-~

ed." NEWSLETTER, Boston, “ass., May 19, 1737.
Saturday last Henry W iidman and Catherine

“mith, alias Connor, were executed here for
(Philadelphia) for burglary. Brandford; who.
Was condemned with them hda. reprieve and be-
came their executioner. “ildman said that he
was 53 years old and had been theiving since he

-», Was 25,,," NEWSLETTER, Boston, Mass., July 7,

L737.


CONNOR, Catherine, and WILDEMAN, Henry, white, hanged at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania,

on July ?, 1737.

"Philadelphia, July 7, 1737-Saturday last Henry Wildman and Catherine Smith, alias
Connor, were executed here for burglary. (Isaac) Bradford, who was condemned with
them for a robbery had areprieve and became their executioner, Wildman had been
imprisoned here for a fact of the same kind about two years ago, but the evidence
leaving the country before the court, he was discharged without a trial. Yet this
was nota sufficient warning to him, He said he was 53-years-old and had followed
thieving ever since he was 25, He confessed himself a great sinner in other re-
spects, appeared penitent, and cautioned all to take warning by his shameful end.

He was a Shropshire man and by trade a nailor, The woman said little or nothing.

She had been condemned for the like crime last year, but was reprieved and discharged
and immediately took to the same practice again, having ASKAXKKXAXXBHEKAX since commi
tted several notorious feonlies, besides this for which she now SHRX suffered. She
left a young child behind her, with which she was pregnant at the time of her con-
demnation last year, though not found quick with child by the jury of matrons, impan-
neled on that occasion, She had been formerly transported from Ireland to Virginia."
SOUTH CAROLINA GAZETTE, CHarleston, SC, SAKKAMKSHXIFAXXZ September 3, 1737 (2:2.)

"Philadelphia, April 15, 1736-This day ended the Sessions of the Court on Oyer and
Terminer, at which 3 persons received sentence of death for house breaking; to wit, .
John Watzal, Michael MacDermot, and Catherine Conner (alias Smith), The two former
pleaded guilty. The latter put herself on tryal and was found guilty, After sen-
tence, she pleaded pregnancy; but a jury of matrons being empaneled found her not
quick with child.oo” SOUTH CAROLINA GAZETTE, Charleston, SC, 5-15-1736 (2:1) Note:
Whatnell and McDerrmatt hanged on 5-5~1736.6

PHILADELPHIA Yesterday those men were executed here

a h
05-06-1736 who received sentence of DEATH at the

oa fe
rug WAMAN WEA

AS INCORRIG/B Le.

sions of the Court of Oyer & Terminer for Burglary>

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ne aan WATNELL, who: was born in the See ee
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ns EXECUTED A FEOK m” ; e y . 7
1 i pi rd Pree, nagncket condemnation, they appeared pen

imprisonment after | :
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i those
CONNOR alias SMITH; received sentence of OE pect vice’
two men for the like crime and was to mae e ree grant
eh them but His Honor the Governor was pleas
wi

her a reprieve.

AMERICAN W EEKLY MERCURY, Philadelphia, PA 5-6-1736.

s of instruction.

"Philadelphia: On Saturday last just before twelve, Henry Wileman,

a nailer, and Catherine Smith alias Connor, were executed here for
burglary of which they were cnvicted at the sessions of Oyer &
Terminer in May last. Wideman was born in the Parish of Himley

in Staffordshire in England and was almo& 51 years of age. the woman
was but 23 years of age, born in Kings-County, Ireland, and died a
Catholic. At the place of execution as well as in prison, they
neither of them behaved so concerned as might have been expected

for persons in their circumstances, One Isaac Bradford received

CARTER, Jesse, black, hanged Pittsburgh, Pa., Jung 3, 1884; and
JONES, George, black, hanged Pittsburgh, April 3, 1884,

"JESSE CARTER DROPS INTO ETERNITYROM THE SCAFFOLD, WITH A PRAYER

ON HIS LIPS. - Pittsburgh, Pa., June 3. - Jesse Carter, colored,
convicted as an accessory to the murder of John Foster by Babe
Jones, was hanged this morning in the presence of fifty people,

The condemned displayed wonderful fortitude on the scaffold where

he declared his innocence. He prayed and sang the hymn, 'Farewell
to the World.’ His neck was broken by the fall and in six minutes
life was pronounced extincé,

"Two years ago Jones shot and mortally wounded John Foster, for which
crime he was executed A pril 3. Carter was tried as the accomplice
and it was shown he had been with Jones when he purchased the weapon
with which the shodting was doné, Jones exonerated Carter in a
statement before his death, but the pardon board after investigating
refused to interfere,"

A newspaper called the JOURNAL dated dune 4, 1884, and sent by Van
Raalteé+who identifies the city as "MPS" whith, I suppose, means
either Memphis, Tenn., or Minneapolis, Minn.


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postponed by agreement, shown either by ex-
press words or conduct, until January 30,
1919. On that day, the parties met in the
oflice of a trust company to close the negoti-
ations. The necessary ealculations were
made, and the balance due by the vendee was
found, the correctness being certified to by
the signature of the vendor to the account
prepared. It then appeared that the check
of a building and loan association for $5,000,
being the amount which it had agreed to ad-
vance Piacentino upon mortgages of two of
the houses, was not in hand, and could not
be obtained until the next day. After dis-
cussion, in which the defendant demurred to
further delay, on account of loss of interest
on certain mortgages upon which he was li-
able, the vendee deposited with the trust of-
ficer a sum more than suflicient to cover the
charges for 24 hours. Young left the execut-
ed deed, but, finding upon his return the fol-
lowing morning that the balance had not
been paid in, withdrew it about noon.. Short-
ly after 3, the remainder of the purchase,
price was handed to the trust company, and
notice of this fact was attempted to be given
Young. ‘Thereafter the yendor declined to
deliver the conveyance, insisting that the
time for settlement had not been extended
beyond the 830th, and, further, a rescission
had been agreed to by the parties on the
morning of the 31st, and the deal called off.
The result of the dispute was the present
bill, asking for specific performance, which
was subsequently decreed; from the order
made this appeal is taken.

{1] The legal questions here involved are
without difficulty. Specific performance of a
contract for the sale of real estate, where
time is of the essence of the contract, will
not be enforced if there has been a failure
of the vendee to comply with the obligation
assumed within the period limited, Dough-
fy v. Cooney, 266 Pa. 337, 109 Atl. 619; Me-
Kuen y. Serody, 269 Pa. 284, 112 Atl. 460.
This rule is subject to the qualification that
the parties may by their actions surrender
the right to demand strict compliance. In
Van Kirk v. Patterson, 201 Pa. 90, 95, 50 Atl
966, 967, quoting with approval from Pom-
eroy on Contracts, the principle is thus
stated:

“Wherever time is made essential, either by
the nature of the subject-matter and object of
the agreement, or by express stipulation, or by
a subseqnent notice given by one of the parties
to the other, the party in. whose fayor this
quality exists—that is, the one who is entitled
to insist upon a punctual performance by the
other, or else that the agreement be ended—
may waive his right and the benefit of any ob-
jection which he might raise to a performance
after the prescribed time, either expressly or
by his conduct; and his conduct will operate
as a waiver when it is consistent only with a
purpose on his part to regard the contract as
still subsisting and not ended by the other
party’s default.”

Where such conditions appear, the vendee
may perform, or offer to do so, until the ex-
piration of the new date stipulated. Mans-
field vy, Redding, 269 Pa. 357, 112 Atl. 437.

[2,3] The application of the decisions to
the present controversy depends upon the de-
termination of the facts, the real cause of
contention here. Did it appear that the time
for settlement had been extended until the
21st of January, 1919, and was the perform-
ance tendered on that day by Piacentino suf-
ficient? And, again, was there a mutual re-
scission of the contract of sale? Both of
these querics have been answered adversely
to the defendant by the court below sitting
in bane. In reviewing the conclusions reach-
ed by a chancellor, we are to be guided by
the oft-declared principle that facts found
which involve the credibility of witnesses,
and the weight to be given to their declara-
tions, will be treated by this court as if pass-
ed upon by a jury, where there is testimony
to support them. Cruzan v. Cruzan, 243 Pa.
165, 89 Atl. 876; McIlvaine v. Powers, 270
Pa. 342, 113 Atl. 365. Only in cases of plain
mistake will they be set aside, if any evi-
dence justifies the determination adopted.
McConville v. Ingham, 268 Pa. 507, 112 Atl.
85. It is insisted, however that the appel-
lant should not be so controlled in the pres-
ent controversy, for the reason that the trial
judge, who conducted the hearing, first found
there was no extension of the time for the
performance of the agreement beyond Janu-
ary 30th, a conclusion subsequently set aside
by the court in banc, after argument upon
exceptions filed. There would be merit in
this contention if the chancellor found one
way, and the court as a whole, before whom
the witnesses did not appear, took a differ-
ent view. But this is not the situation here
presented, where the former took part in the
subsequent hearing, and joined in changing
his previous finding. It is the final conclu-
sion of the chancellor which is to be consid-
ered. Frequently he modifies the facts’ as
first declared, where mistake is called to his
attention, and the last statement made is to
be treated as his deliberate conclusion.

[4,5] With these thoughts in mind, the
record has been examined to discover if the
findings adopted ultimately are justified by
the evidence produced, and we are convinced
that the proper determinations have been
reached. Though denied by Young, there is
positive testimony, supported by convincing
circumstances, that the time for settlement
was extended until the 31st, and there was
no mutual rescission of the contract on that
morning. If this was so, the vendor could
not withdraw the executed deed from the
trust company at noon; he was bound to af-
ford opportunity for settlement until the pe-
riod fixed had gone by. The payment made
by the vendee to the agent of both the par-
ties about 3 o'clock was sullicient. Indeed,

Pa.) COMMONWEALTH vy. CARTER 409
(116 A.)

by that time the vendor was in default, and
a strict legal tender to him was no longer
necessary, all that would have been required
thereafter was proof of a readiness and will-
ingness to perform. Young was not entitled
to a personal delivery of the consideration,
as he had designated the depositary, aud
when the vendee paid the balance there, his
obligation was performed. It was the duty
of the vendor to deliver the deed; having
failed, ,the decree requiring that he do so
was properly. entered, It follows from what
bas been said that the assignments of efror
should be overruled; and it is so ordered.

The.decree of the court below is affirmed,
at the cost of the appellant.

=——_

COMMONWEALTH v. CARTERAC

(Supreme Court of Pennsylvania. Feb. 6,
1922.)

1. Criminal law @==959—Rehearing on motion |
for new trial properly denied for failure to |
take advantage of previous opportunity to
introduce evidence.

Where, on a motion for new trial, leave
was given to file within 15 days affidavits and |
depositions in support of the motion, but none |
were submitted and more than seven weeks |
later a new trial was refused, a rehearing, that |
the newly found evidence might be placed upon
the record, was. properly denied, in the ab-
sence of explanation of the failure to take ad-
vantage of the previous opportunity given.

2. Criminal law ¢=-942(1, 2)—Newly discover-
ed evidence merely contradicting and im-)
peaching witnesses insufficient to justify new |
trial.

On motion for new trial in a murder case
on the ground of newly discovered evidence
that deceased’s wife, who at the trial denied
that she knew defendant’s accomplice, had pre-
viously stated that he was a certain person
and evidence that it was a finger on defend-
ant’s left hand that had been injured by the
falling trigger and not on the right hand as
had been testified, being effective only to im-
peach the credibility of the witnesses furnished
no sufficient reason for a new trial.

3. Homicide @==319 — Newly discovered evi-
dence in murder case held insufficient to Jus-
tify new trial.

In a murder case newly discovered evidence
as to identification marks on the gun with
which the murder was committed and evidence
that in defendant’s room had been found car-
tridges of a larger caliber than that used for
the gun held insufficient to justify new trial.

Appeal from Court of Oyer and Terminer,
Philadelphia , County ; Joseph P. McCullen,
Judge.

Earl Carter, alias Earl French, was con-
victed of murder, new trial was denied, and

he appeals. Affirmed.

Argued before MOSCHZISKER, C. J.,’and
FRAZER, WALLING, SIMPSON, KEP-
HART, and SADLER, JJ.

Frederick F. Windle, of Philadelphia, for
appellant.

Maurice J. Speiser, Asst. Dist. Atty.,
Samuel P. Rotan, Dist. Atty., and Franklin
E. Barr, all of Philadelphia, for the Common-
wealth.

SADLER, J. Earl Carter was convicted of
the murder of Richard Manus, and, a new
trial having been refused, he was sentenced
as required by law. From the judgment en-
tered, an appeal has been taken, in which no
complaint is made of the conduct of the trial
or the charge of the court. The testimony
discloses all of the ingredients necessary to
the rendition of a verdict of murder of the
first degree, and, if believed, fully justifies
the finding made. Unless some harm has
been done the defendant by the refusal to
grant a new trial on the ground of after-dis-
covered evidence, the action taken below must
be upheld.

The deceased conducted a small store in

| the city of Philadelphia, and the defendant,

residing near by, had been an occasional cus-
tomer. On June 17, 1920, he was a purchaser
early in the day, and was present again about

/6 in-the evening. At that time Mrs. Manus

came from the apartment at the rear to wait
upon the supposed patrons. When she en-
tered the storeroom, two men confronted her
and demanded delivery of the cash. One,
whom she identifies as Carter, armed with
a revolver, secured the money upon her per-
son, as well as from the cash register, and
handed it to the accomplice, who fled, and
has not been apprehended. For the apparent
purpose of causing fright, and inducing si-
lence, defendant then fired; the bullet strik-
ing the arm of Mrs. Manus. The husband,

attracted by the noise, advanced from the

rear portion of the house, was attacked by
the robber, and shot once. Holding each oth-
er, Carter and Manus struggled through
the door to the street, where three additional
shots were fired, one into the air and two
into the body of deceased. Neighbors seized
the defendant, taking away the revolver,
which he still held, and in so doing a slight
injury was inflicted upon one of his fingers.
The actions of the parties, after reaching the
highway, were described by many witnesses,
all of whom identified Carter as the assail-
ant, while the widow and defendant alone
testified to the happenings within the store. At
the hospital, shortly before death, Manus rec-
ognized and pointed out the defendant as the
murderer. :

The defense rested on the assertion that
Carter was present in the store, at the time

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of the holdup, by chance, and took no part
in the robbery. It was insisted the assault
was the act of the second customer, and the
seizing of deceased, when he backed from
the store to the street, was explained as re-
sulting from an effort of defendant to aid
the wounded man and prevent his falling.
Certain exclamations, alleged to have been
made by Carter at the moment, were offered
to substantiate this contention. The jury
refused to credit the story, and conviction
followed.

Assignments of error now presented com-
plain of the refusal to award a new trial.
An affidavit, submitted below, averred that
certain evidence had come to the notice of
counsel, which, taken in connection with the
other testimony offered, was sufficient to
raise a reasonable doubt of guilt in the minds
of a jury. It was claimed: First, that the
police officials found, in the room of defend-
ant, cartridges of.a caliber differing from
those used in defendant’s gun, which fact
had not been disclosed on the trial; second,
that certain identification marks had been
placed upon the revolver, as to which no ex-
planation was given the jury; third, that
the widow denied at the trial that she knew
the alleged accomplice of Carter, whereas
she had stated previously he was Alexander
Miller; and, fourth, that an examination of
the finger of defendant, made at the station
house by the police, showed the injury caused
by the trigger of the gun was on the left
hand instead: of the right, as had been testi-
fied. r

{1,2] Leave was given to file, within 15
days, affidavits and depositions in support of
the motion. None was submitted, and, on
April 28, more than seven weeks later, a
new trial was refused; whereupon, defend-
ant, by his counsel, asked for a rehearing

be placed upon the record for consideration.
The refusal of this application was proper,
in the absence of some explanation of the fail-
ure to take advantage of the previous op-
portunity given. The correctness of the con-
clusion reached need not be based, however,
on any technical ground. Assuming that all
of the suggestions are amply supported by
proof, there is nothing to be found therein
which could have affected the merits of the
ease. If Mrs. Manus made the statement
that she knew the second man, which she

denied on the stand, or, if Scully was in
error as to the finger which was injured by
the falling trigger of the gun, whether on
the right or left hand, the contradiction
would have been effective only to impeach
the credibility of the witness testifying. Aft-
er-discovered evidence, having this purpose
only, furnishes no suflicient reason for grant-
ing a new trial. Com. v. Flanagan, 7 Watts
& S. 415.

[3] Nor can we see that the commonwealth
was bound to offer explanation of the identi-
fication marks upon the gun. Had such
course been deemed necessary, there is no
reason why it should not have been demanded
during the course of the trial. The defend-
ant himself called attention to them at that
time; if considered of importance, the mat-
ter should then have been made the subject
of investigation. So, also, failure to show
that bullets were found in defendant’s room
of a caliber differing from that of the gun
used is no sufficient reason for a new hear-
ing. In the face of the positive testimony
that deceased was shot with a revolver con-
taining shells of a certain size, which was
wrenched from the hand of defendant, when
the assault was completed, it cannot be said
he was prejudiced by failure to prove the
immaterial fact that he was also possessed
of other and larger cartridges. Cf. Com. ¥.
Morrison, 193 Pa. 613, 44 Atl. 913.

None of the evidence would have justified
the court below in awarding a new trial, even
if established by proper proofs. It is now
suggested that the application made be treat-
ed here as if instituted under the Act of
April 22, 1903, P. L. 245; Pa. St. 1920, §§
8188-8190, which gives authority to this,
court to order further investigation by the
trial tribunal where newly discovered facts
are shown, sufficient to raise a doubt as to
the guilt of a defendant convicted of murder
of the first degree, It is enough to say that
the matter has not been presented to us in
the manner provided by that legislation; if
the contrary was true, the facts disclosed are
not such as would justify an order for addi-
tional inquiry by the court below. Cf. Com.
v. Hine, 213 Pa, 97, 62 Atl. 369. The reasons
for so declaring are apparent from the dis-
cussion which has here preceded.

The assignments of error are all overruled:
the judgment and sentence of the court be-
low is affirmed, gnd the record is remitted

for the purpose of execution.

Me) WARREN vy. PORTLAND TERMINAL CO. 411
(116 A.)

WARREN et al. v. PORTLAND TERMINAL
co.

(Supreme Judicial Court of Maine. March 6,
1922.)

{. Carriers €==98, 108—Only acts of God or
public enemies, inherent defects or fault of
ship excuses failure to transport safely; car-
riers not insurers of promptness of shipment.

Nothing will excuse the failure of a carrier
to transport merchandise safely, except the act
of God or public enemies, inherent defects in
the merchandise, or fault of the shipper, but

a carrier is not an insurer of prompt trans-

portation; its duty being only that of reason-

able diligence.

2. Carriers €==99—Not liable for delay caused
by strike of employees,

Though a master is charged with responsi-
bility for the acts of its employees within the
scope of their employment, a carrier was not
liable for delay in shipment of goods caused by
a strike of its employees, who refused to work,
where it exercised reasonable diligence to avert
the strike and save its patrons from losses; @
servant no longer being an employee when he
strikes.

3. Carriers @—=95—Diligence required of car-
rier as to promptly unloading cargo from
ship and transporting the same stated.

A terminal company which owned and op-
erated wharves and a line of railroad, and filed
with the Public Utilities Commission a rate
for discharging coal from ships, was bound to
discharge a cargo of coal tendered and to trans-
port it on its railroad within a reasonable time,
but, where there was a strike of its employees,
it was not necessarily bound to discharge the
coal in a time which would have been reason-
able under normal conditions, though it was
obliged to use reasonable diligence to prevent
the occurrence of the strike and to minimize
its inherent consequences, and to inform char-
terer of ship which was responsible for de-
murrage of the fact of the strike, and to
keep it informed in relation to it, so as to
give it a, reasonable opportunity to protect

itself.

4. Carriers @=99—Terminal carrier held to
have exercised reasonable diligence in dis-
charging cargo of coal where strike of long-
shoremen caused delay. :

Where a terminal carrier which owned and
operated wharves and a connecting line of rail-
road, by reason of a strike of longshoremen,
failed from August 27th to September 10th
to discharge a cargo of coal tendered it, but
had endeavored to the best of its ability to con-
tinue operation of its facilities by trying to
come to terms with the strikers, and by em-
ployment of strike breakers, and by doing all
in its power to procure an opportunity to dis-
charge the vessel at some other dock, it was
held that it exercised reasonable diligence, and
discharged the ship in a reasonable time in

5. Carriers @=-60—Indorsement on bill of
lading held not equivalent to a receipt of
cargo for transportation.

Act of terminal company’s agent in accepting
report of captain of ship and indorsing his bill
of lading, which indorsement signified that “de-
fendant [terminal company] accepted its obliga-
tion as a public service corporation as afore-
said to notify the captain to dock his vessel
(in its turn) and to discharge said vessel,”
was not equivalent to a receipt of the coal
for transportation, but was merely the acknowl-
edgment of a tender, and not tantamount to a
receipt of the cargo.

6. Carriers @=-99—Terminal carrier held not
required to re-employ employee properly dis-
. charged to end strike of longshoremen caus-
ing delay in discharging coal from a ship.

It cannot be said that a terminal carrier
operating wharves and & connecting line _of
railroad was lacking in diligence in discharging
coal from a ship, in that it could but would not,
stop a strike of longshoremen by re-employing
a man justifiably discharged for insolence and
insubordination.

Agreed Statement from Supreme Judicial
Court, Cumberland County, at Law.

Action by Fiske Warren and others against
the Portland Terminal Company. On agreed
statement of facts. Judgment for defendant.

Argued before CORNISH, 624, )-end
SPEAR, HANSON, DUNN, MORRILL,

and DEASY, JJ.

Bradley, Linnell & Jones, of Portland, for
plaintiffs.

Charles H. Blatchford and George E. Fogg,
beth of Portland, for defendant.

DEASY, J. The plaintiffs, S. D. Warren
& Co., paper manufacturers, are a partner-
ship, with mills at Cumberland Mills and
elsewhere. The defendant owns and oper-
ates wharves in Portland and a line or rail-
road between its wharves and Cumberland
Mills. Its wharves are equipped with appa-
ratus for discharging coal and other merchan-
dise from ships. Its tariff schedule which_as
a public service corporation it has filed with
the Public Utilities -Commission provides,
among other things, a rate for discharging
coal.

On August 27, 1917 the ship Binghampton
arrived at Portland with a cargo of coal con-
signed to the plaintiffs and destined for Cum-
berland Mills. Under the contract of car-
riage between the plaintiffs and the shipown-
ers four days were allowed for loading and
discharging. Beyond such time demurrage
at a stipulated rate was provided for; 2 days
12% hours of the time remained for dis-
charging.

The ship was not unloaded until Septem-

view of the unusual conditions.

ber 10th. The plaintiffs thereupon became

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APPEALS

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EXECUTION

FRANK NEWTON OFfice PuPeLypoorHaAN


CHASE, Bharles

alias Winton, executed Aug. % 28, 1867, at Brookville, Pa.,
for the murder of Mrs, Betty McDonald on Feb, 19, 1866;
victim was an aged and highly respected lady of Washington
Township (Brockwayville), known as Aunt Betty and who
lived alone; robbery motive; Chasé who lived near Titus-
ville, worked for the victim's nephew, Roderick McDonald,
a manufacturer of shingls; this was the first hanging in
the county; it was Supervised by Sheriff Nathan Farrier;

a police force numbering fifty handled the large crowd

on hand; a "multitude of curious people" was present; a

amphlet of the case was ublished entitled "Lit d
Confession Ofeesetc", As Ja Anderson & ons, Pitestacne,

1867; warrant issued, July 2h; see Brooktélle REPUBLICAN,
Auge 305 1867 C74 TNE Lode. S&L

(WPE #-23-67G))

‘Lb- ho-edd Phe S ay


Another of the Gallows’ Dread Lessons.
iia gray docbsat IN JEFFERSON COUNTY, PA.
Tue Cosvict Paoredte nis INNocRNce to THE Last
—Tay Noose Stirs avo he Faust? 7HR URUUND
BrpsNEvp—A Smockina BcENwe: fo) ss
Charles Chase, convicted for the murdet of an:
aged but wealthy lady in Jefferson county, Pa, was.
bong on Friday, tho: 30th ult, | Hy wae growed ina
Luck coat sod pants, white shirt and: Recktiv: and
black volvet cap, to. which was atlacbed on the in~
I side the. black covering or cap, as. it js called, that
‘was so cover bis face.” Ho lit 9 ciggr dud smoked
‘aiid thatted with allat randont for about tive iin-
uios,» Hy te the Sovrilf ho was ready, avd

tho procession. woved out of tho upper, corridur,
Wheu the lowtr corgidor was readhed the coflin was |
‘geen. Charlie stepped up toit aud road the iuscrip=|
tion: C. Chase 5 algedt 26: Yours, 2) munths and 31.
daye.” ‘Cho ccflin was silver:monntod, and was @
nent affair. Alter he had‘ road: the fascription. ly
tookedt at atid telt the lining on tho inside. At eight,
minutes alter.one the proccss‘un feached tie ecaf-
fol, where, atterteking his scat.on the drop, he
said: : a EWM eae Ge Sih diame AOR eg ac
“Gentloinen: I have,a fow worde to say “to yoo. J
at uneducated, and I wish to cortoct a wrone im. |
‘pression that may cxist intl minde of some of the’
poople of this place aftor I ant gone. They say the
iéligion I have. now was forced upon me—but itiwas
not. 'The young Andy who camo to-my cell hits saved:
me from hell,’ and had: it not been for her I would
have beon lost. If thero ever Wag an angel, sho :is
one, J auvianocont of the crime which it. alleged
I committed ; if Lat vot; I hopo to bo damned for-
ever, Tho next time's stranger comes to your town
ive him @ chance for bis life, agd do not scok after
gis life:. Do:not try to kecp him dowu. | I bad. good
fvetruction until I was about fourteen years: of ago.
You think, gentlemen, this is bard, bat look at what
our poor soldiers suffered.. I die forgiving all against
whom I have any eumity, and have prayed for thei

all. Gentlemen, I want your padyars_ ame Saale
‘God is moreiful,. aud Lopo to moet you all-in

beaven;. Again, genticmen, I say. am fonosent of:
the murder for which I am about ¢o euffer.”

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CHAPMAN

54

written by himself in Spanish and translated into English. Doylestown,
Pa., printed for the publisher, 1832. MoU-L.

22 p. 22.5 cm. coffin cut on t.p.

172

The life and confession of Carolino Estradas De Mina. Executed
at Doylestown, June 21, 1832, for poisoning with arsenic, William Chapman.
Written by himself in the Spanish language while under sentence of death
in the jail at Doylestown and delivered by him to the Sheriff of Bucks Coun-
ty with a request to have the same translated into English. Translated
from the original Ms. in Spanish, by C. G. Philadelphia, Robert Desilver,
1832. DLC, MH-L, NHi, MoU-L.

50 p. 22cm. execution cut at end of p.50 poem on p. 46.

173

Trial and execution of Mina, the murderer, who was executed at
Doylestown, Bucks County: Pennsylvania June 21, 1832, for poisoning
Doctor Chapman. New York, C. Brown, 1832. DLC.

35 p. ports. 16.5 cm. text begins on v. of t.p.

Chase, Charles

Life and confessions of Charles Chase, executed at Brookville,
° Penn’a., for the murder of Mrs. Elizabeth McDonald. Pittsburgh, A. A.
Anderson & Sons, printers, 1867. DLC, NHi.

35,1} p. 21.5 cm. pict. wraps.

174

copyr. by James Onslow.

Chase’s confession covered a great many crimes, but he would not admit to
the killing of Mrs. McDonald at Brockwayville, Pennsylvania, for which he
was executed,

175 Chauncey, Henry

The life of Eliza Sowers, together with a full account of the trial
of Dr. Henry Chauncey, Dr. William Armstrong and William Nixon, for
the murder of that unfortunate victim of illicit love. Containing the exami-
nation of witnesses, verdict, &c., &c. at the court of oyer and terminer,
January session, 1839. . .. Prepared by the reporters. Philadelphia, printed
by P. Augustus Sage, 1839. DLC, MH-L.

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(appeal of Accomplice BALLON: 78 A 831)

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on June, 239 1910

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yd ae , "

aa Condemned Man Does Not Hearthe Glad News couhouinlutt, 1 si tooling

ai J over mead: His nore as awerey ii ddchin
hy) wae '

7 i fis att») ‘
suite | - Until Alter His ‘Companions Have Been, a eapilition: (hat; ifs awcnih! en dh

gous % eel, Age Grady amy ales ys

giants a, TT 3 en f from. Cell for Pecan a a ae ie rae ey

ae

: t is Man
oui Itaiton, Win. sin Lins: a maa be i Juinoid rink ihe: ‘itwhtguatiis Fuiforiny t
J everhor: Hae’ ‘gest (gah hin: A, rey Popa ae Me Ae Bi ‘ ay. GA mn 4 BOC rete Nal ami ie
ti! jeve,, whieh vhad been aie Foes byt. rn he i mr 7 4)
Attorbey Manel “i Meats i ioe ees
yeh id d S34 wae hronght, byt ie. thephetin!
Palioa dtd) wot aw" tint: itn ‘ite o. ket pre ab, ati weil
rt wits > bat ne ¢
had teh: Jae; ae Sid hedge, nights! ve rm 43 af are
UT the very, Jarl, mifsute,:: My me Let He: Aminedintely, ‘acijuninted “BheNe P 4)
He» had ‘been prepared for: hats hy thickly, of hla. imisaloni-,
the, hate ig tha RAnIG. ch ie ‘ome nee TRO, inoasennor Who; browgtt: # .
Lona ayer grh }" is sae det tes thie, eri if wna aaa
oNbL plik Chicarbia rid? “Maree bas
heed fiiken otid, of the donrnsary; wo Tbe
whitutl» tee ' Wee, Pulaced cea oot
seit. iinlidiy jin Hist ne ayriegt not: hi “
HAR RT itaa: Cheater anes Mae Saute ib : the: Bipfe ot
eso of the

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ulté 10 cents,

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ia thie men
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Bhiey were
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prevent tie
tonyr, The },
hit etich a
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tie f
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hes Most
Well as alia
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ues AL, OF
Smee TAL,
Ling! Lisle
ue, docateil
Thi, about) 2
Lon) accord
hee Ace sed Dy
ifoored) an
¥ Kemodig
af Oh he
Wohe collar’
iehay, ana

ajuriphig
nh te aletnnd
fin! byt wis
be Chiecartibe
- Mariage,
ol the out:
tig Cae tds
ark tit. iim
Het te the
fe OOF! hy
Noud split
ek Ot: Johns
entered: ard

& onthe

abdoinen,

ad fation
fe brewk hi

Hafawh: Wrolies ye
a Norrtate wa,
PWalty: ACR):

Iara.) ay re ru

nahh was givin ® bare at Hest for
{he-dieht owas dark aid Teal vi tect:
pike was lonely. ite thodght) he th
cuenised thé voles): and ahen | fh a
that his dnterrogator. and the “two's or:
mote ‘conianions. wore false mustaches,
“Sh Whatso your gine, a hold-up?: You’

| pretty: hele gat *yout's/) all right, for

1 waa, Just ready :to hand, you; Gyer a
Wf you had coniesd step: ncarer,”

¥ Way of explanation 1 might pe well
to bay that, besiles being a horse: iratiy,
er; ur stable boyy Carlin ts ‘somewhat
obs pnt, acta his -reputation td not
haknown to he Poctlon, Of pt fown
Uetow” MAL wtreets 45 Sree

‘Thins Mdlsenvereny, Talli ‘anwonet
aril Atiat they’ wore on a fittle dark ||
Ata’ which a girl) or: two! figured,and |!
‘Carlin: proceed- | ta

(hén’ they. passed on!’
ed todig home in Norristown?“ Some-.
Jim .atter; thal, Cartin’ told: of his OX¢
pericnte.and his’ ‘slory. reached the ear:
of @ hoy hamed Appleton. This boy
later -playetia most Important pact) in
the story ot: clearing ap ihe vlowd of
mystery. which ‘enshrouded the. murder
oa mathe on dobnson, isanenrt

‘Johnson Shot Shel pastas ‘|

> When: the “ftalians,)on “the! occa-
‘wton, Of thie second’ attack: on the Jobhn-
Bou home; ‘had’ shot ‘and ° beaten. the fs
ie Hallod atid Maringe ‘searvhed!

ile Mothiig and. tovk therefrom about |:

$30,as neat ae the ‘auihoritios could: as
vertalt, Theynadé s\svarch pt. the

‘Hous and nt finding any inure money,‘
retureed and finding Johnson bleeding |.
coplously; Chicaring ahd: Balion bound |.

ip tis Wounils with theif red bandanna
haudkere ohhefa,: They: then proceeded:

totes thei vicdiin, but he begged no |
piieoumly,, and proinised not to’ attempt hs

Th fullow ‘thom, that'they teft. him: un
lott, On leaving the touse Chica- 1“
fine saw dobnson's gui landing in the,
worner et the” room and he, decided that
it! wastiks dangerius @ ‘weapon ito be:
within ‘Johnson's seach; wo he took ‘It
and. ttirew tt, dows thi, ‘wells ‘The
they broccertod ty, return ite Norriat
Lown’. ned

On leavin’ the ‘ntiuiuds “the quia svar

walkout. DeKalb, strect’ pike forth
Coinieutowh road whiet. they aaah
oth boy dabowellavende,” " followed >
deroas Yo Bandy HIW' road Mand’:
Paes town past te Plymotits Couns
Wy (06 1o.Maliutreétand walked: ap

tw *Nick’ #roninuratt, ‘arriving "there

About Thre: ouitonkso Mallon) and:
Nek threw olf i ‘table, the) money
With’ theyhad taken: from Johnpon.
Grim’? Herancesd : hig, phare,: They:
Bae Abi $450 S40 ew ‘Wareed:: that) bu
('Hearine’ bit given $19 with whe te
Was tr hor SrtaMphia add burchase),
revelverd und other, -hecesnary’ sent
to carry oft’ a pian: te, blow Mp * ante
Mridgepori Nationali Bank.) * mn

‘While: the dedpersdors (were < tradg. | hee

tne: Honiewand, Johnson by:4 hereuledt
(Hort ‘pullod himselt logetter and’ mide
Heddy notwithstanding. chin’
Hifevipping woundn,” to

g}itiodL a abarter;Or: Ny

Noid of” Hori “Jonna

‘oleh

ijt woul :
eit akin

hh
shen

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riety werd. erautis. wh jong

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tid, arn duhsteon's her

ewobnaon:

arork witch’, yes,
eats eosoly Beant
Hes for ‘the: pubpone,
sibia: ‘eh 4 “apart y't: Abby;
GF boy l) that: ‘pelgttirhood, who Wha |:
quanheted of beliy bad ‘enowatt' to: to}!
puch in. Hat Was roinded: Gf,” The¢ |;
Were! alt 16: to. Rive? ‘mh ‘wceoiunt, Oo
themaclves onthe night of the todrder:|:

THO heme Walt Trud Ul the ment A wie 1

Injow ‘whe, Wer
he

Bot Wis werd: ¢

lime’ and : iwher tie ried
Wolper that. the! met, falkrita
Ing }xome. cobb i (rie done, bith:

hent he tetubed:

hp’ rekd ot dohitsun havin,
ibing forthem
£ On, ¥riday,: Dated

vt the

itey McAvoy,
earl vod son:

with Halessitenlaché Mmen,,

Carlin uy “Until, ‘this time:
eoanhehad A
siiihori tien although onic
‘attack’ tha: Connty: Contimissionors,
ihe. bohest of Attorn
edd reward of $200"

i hieing oi

ster Carlin. aint adele tat]
teh, Katty’? did naan M
ed thatcthey, were: hese
“Watiy? declated tint he

‘at the. Heckaher furnace’ on’ iat

felt. wore The nooks Rowe: a i

Hehen hie
i Sra Bans

dahon ¥. ‘Al wre t

ct wax. “allowed ‘lo depart from cuntunty, Ni

rkey"' and “arin wete: held, i

int exh
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Lakes phate ate iiatio fae he Hest falta [SCOURE OB OLS Heth nie? hla tott he Leh Yorkey@ Mon admiftia: islets tan Hilarie
wel iat Ti token hia tty breakin Histon pti Wot! | te vd: ished, there’ ani: ‘Yih Viet! wlth: iinet: abi
PT we dey Telly Wind Potlod h Bon The thiek Alvin Gy qnartae i Wie the: nearty! Wlteninted. 1d Folk the. nga
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MeNncee fur hes ty Wilantehe Ke! Naw Helton Oh dae Jonehiehe oe LHe thiKaih 1)» VORA ye" on the. Rirenelt Ge toi wnt GAN
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«il ghT OF toad iliie, ann kHowkeal’ wut Biv Heian ree Gf) the carers, Phat ac Uti Had! Meats tated | Manis "and
Se ee AY Markt, Nofristoge a) if that: be} Ohtcarine: and Tinvon!) werd Biya de HF:
Tre men hie wal ie havik Kathnnvied eeu? fronts’ the ‘grtat ‘hina if boot ‘Gubitde” men on tte wight fy the, ‘Whee AT NEES Ho } v7
Thy honse tor money) aa they tayadod [ati Wutorhie Seonl ne hocks of bald Aer Bhd (hut there were twas Amer,’ a achook: huh ic Cinna eed ford |
the hake On The Senppostiion- thal [fete aid midgel) Johto ‘ater! he had} cada, “whom he. fd Mee Khow, witty fo Kaw eh: bocthing LNs “and wivtlom wilh Bi
Lehnson Wai, & nilsor, who’ bad’: tis | heed, Thee titena hit” 1B. an'clock, |) hem. CEH AY cwete fetes ot: Clittrn }4 iy inge eal: Daastieer Ue wane
A tite hidden about: tbe premises: John: Wetlinnndicy, | September Ay wis: able’ ‘to tine froin Phifidetinavhe, ft Mee H thie : “unttoedan, % Hai
On? Was Liminartied “andy lived™ alone, tell by Plecemeal Othe, terrible otdent Ballan faind chtéeating, : when. £ tithe Mary i $50 ‘tor abbite. a
Avice bis father died about. seven/years flo Whit itd had heen) subjected, white tran(ed with “Grim'y" stateront, whieh {bd the ome: ot Wi
are. They Hea ‘tether arid won) chad | Mee, Stotten eaught to, toake hee nolen: eps read: to, them separately, 1H) Thad Co: ‘sanilly. 4 Nanieriy. tie
also Roltoth along without: the ald ofa | bor contériable and to ‘Shop The” Haw f Hrewenice of arn doddured that | ing. end? pecandon i
Womal to keep the houne ta. ordi tnd Pot: blood hby) banda AR, Mt Stetten “cirtin’tnd, ut when “Grieat BtUCK fe. tint rer: peaninl: mand, s

. clentitiposd, foltowlhg the death of (he | SonRht niedicnl., ‘ate Ve ealtod: tug [it that. spi Alory, wan the) truth, Male Pete ‘Admits LAswnitieee. YS

; totirdered man's mother, years, before wevon: dierent physicians ands told | labs: Wravado Fett “bin and her, stately». Through: hei cnabeyien 7 w
the deat of Ais fathers oh them dhe natare Ot Who) chia: and’ that ent» ty: iploden, ‘especially; wher’ SALT proper gathoripes the? ay
“Henry Johnson, {the father, Wan | Thrniedlate attention wad required’? it horney Me ME ayaa ‘rtived every, step’ abd pesteictert: 40 ductors, (he she

H thtifty and tor) Pours) atiended the} (he man's lle was'to be, saved | Not (incident ’ ‘eventful: sping Fayre Lot: Awelete® ‘ind abouts thi

‘ Western Market in Norristown, bis stall |one ‘bt the «even idoetora®: “neeponded) 1) el fod cans’ Iniplicated nindcen, ‘whith ” heieheritt, GOK inate

i ib being tu the bout hi eother, «Aa he; was | Onc: ‘ecouldipol come’ becaune he ded to) Yr Fhatyavinrt inion bent Neel fide ice ie hes geet | remit ot

; eye he wh keds Ire ia " ete aie eee Hie the? beets eae nice ea ihe yay Behe abit avers) and Skt the

; lb ple rot pitt ahi Rene and the ober fore fine Pasion hg curth: mani ‘at Uic scene of ‘the thurder, They were alike” wht Dah be

‘ _ | George, > George fived ‘a-hermit’s life, [euses.:Thon the’ hoxpttal’ yaa aippeal- me sh they gli oat {oiimpll~| tite: the: rele pollew ie}

" and waa nol given’ to spending money, | 1 to.) To get ihe Ambulanod ai permit.) Cate: him ,beeause ‘hig’ wa tnurrted: and He € wiletw heb rt te: rte

: ‘f but ‘worked et cobbiing sed: adsieted | Crom ether: Dr: 0.44, Mann, of Tr. B! "ar tae Meet Then “Nick wend, Lek we Penile oe Bate

t vu Relighbors “18. farm work. it) was 1. Kleenberg” Was, Tequired, Me; Bef. pent wt a * ; pas A Be He ih ee thei. ne BN st ’

: ‘et netghborhood goselp. that: he was con-| ten was told. The iphone. call to! | ¢ Finally, Chicatine: aves tan. dy ff pa agen

i A. | tindaliy adding to the horde which had | Mann was)! not without, “effect. ‘His Whom he had, placed, héuliinst ‘egfte

; i ean from father to ‘200, abd “which in‘ al th Riven: for lhe. amin: dence, broke’. down, admitted that: Met

i wipposed to be ket sume whore | fanée, ‘and: It: wae dispatched, (0. the re bug of the asskiiante, ae

Kates fodhreenpemmyeirepecr treed Hea wert elieoerco cod oad gyre eh orale a

ern, roadway, é a f 5

‘ Lae story aime to! the ears. ot; viie | oF nearly, three: cae igh nga © the cellar, was followed by * Balion,

: of the Ttallaay. ne invaded bis sage tacked, ings s was i ech ni oot maut te Ripe a

j Fouad a 'Taoe be the fermion {Ballon called) to hat. to: throw +) np | 46

; a4 x : hands: ey Chicarine: opened,” aM the: oe

| Paving Club al Pen agar eal eck doer" eater tntheole thet We

prack was hgh gehen be? J ‘ Pier” ph bo 9 abe

7 1 Head thie inics:aatine fee te tee a been’ stihalng. quand,’ *Nick’ Dicer. wh

1 ty aseeenbl i to at pk owes i: polka: ered at Johnson. with .« Jelab |. °F roms 8.) Y.a0..) eduies sie

‘ ‘Some iat Mali asiee cedts heart Lat: the “1 b€ Hfece bf fron’ pipe; rendering - bluid toe Pricbts were Ju, for ee

j wt | Mreh,” wes figured; "out that. they | byscha Syeet hhedpectous “axtd “Nick” and. ‘Halion cation with  Phiearlny

i oe Mea nivaaaeo eta iners sweat Ble sloth, mtn fn :

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Tat Maringe and Chlearine vould: bel he hifarmatton which, came, tos, Tht

{iNbeny, tit Logethot/ und) they would ead nit ihat, tlic. buy: whd., wis’: aieacls

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LON bane Undirit doget her ony Ballon aliens was bov<-eome: ‘boy. alos
dt Maen tun laa tear Hee Phe intorination: was giyon by, ith
Tis doubttalit Ghiraring and Ma- | Tinllan edunsel 7 5 ne socntte
leat ‘Toa inge detually scalleod’ that Hallan’ was} The ‘District ‘Attorney: xaynt
pared. (ijt to phbee? Mec) vg ieheinacat thy, eta Snvextigation Beet Battefied hivieet that
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ealoufy ! shat horrid montter, and my | utter .
ruin Jove and its. clifive promifen, are. the,
ead of my ‘untimely end | :%y
bet bad ac dvige (was induced to Pas

na@ et, 7¢

aes ar

c El
iviug he arfenic a yo Carot ¢ hef
fi a asd, pers es
esfony but none, mitered.
Andy nath,., liv wever, a fatal opportunity
prefentec v3 itlelf# and I puta portion of the
artenic into a crock of leaven in Mr, Caro-
ther’s houfe with which the tamily fermented.
and rajied bread, which they ate, and all
became fick, Atthis event | was greatly
sroubled 5 and when I found that Mr. cafoe,
ther’s died, which happened‘on the -26th
of february, 1793, | was extremely alarm
rd as I’had no ill-will to the family. aa
Ithep defilted, for a rime, from’ accomu
plithing my horrid plan: However an op-
pottunity offered one night, while } attend—
ed tlie aid Ann (under the mafl. of friends
frip ona bed of ficknefs,) Imixed a portir
onin barley and milk, which | ave, her
with my own hand !

In the month of thay,, my refills paffions .

of Jealpuly, anil love for this younp man,
forced fs to. renew my attack on Ann (aro.
thers: L therefore procured one ounce of :

yelhow arfenic; and, althoael the faid Ann |
was much impaired in health and althouph )
Mrs. Carothers died’ the 3d af June, yety |
uch wastheexcelsof my delire to remove
ur of my way, her Whom. ., conceived 48 |
y preatelt obltacle, that thority atter. the
ileafe of her mother, ! put fome ot the are
enic into a crock .of -butterfin the (pring
oufe of Thomas Curothers [Aon then living. |

tfaid Carothers.]-

Here it was tny diabolical icles wae dif-
overed, 1 was appretended and commited 2
iton3 And, tor this wicked’ conduct, 1
m fhortly to fuffer the fhameful and ipane
inous punithment of the gallows. ‘That iw
ay be an awful leilon to all young womens

the laft requelt of a martyr to contending,
Movs. :


| Lat words snd dying -Confeffion of Sa

UlanK, sarah, hanged Cumberland Younty, Pa., on 0 ct. 30, 1799

4,
‘

Clark, . Sd
Who was Executed at Carlifle, on Wedn
day the 30th of October, £799, for poil
ing John Carothers, Efq. of Eafipennfh
rough Towuthip, Comberland ‘Coun
State of Pennfylvania., | | ny
I SAKAH CLARK, was born inthe y
17664 or '67, abouttwo mifes from C
lifle. My Father’s naine was John Cla
who died when | was young ; and my.
ther, I think is yee living in Pittfby
from ain years of age, I trave been. ‘am
flrangers. When abuut 20, I enpare
the family of Mr, Haye a6 8 hovfeke'
where I continued gbout ,12 montht;—
‘ which I went to the family of Mr. Lo
y where F lived about two years ; after w
I went into the family of John. Doug
where | continued, expeQing » thort.. ¢!
uptil my ruin took. places .. Wilk} live
the family of Douglafs- f,¢ontraced\ia!
or # young man but’ who: ‘uhfortngfely’
peared to me to bein Jovewwith: Ang: C
}ther, the Daughter OF Sahin tC arothets;t
My foul thoughts*Wére béne:/on ste mb
of removing the:obftacte whieh sppeated
be in my way,' in-6rdé# vto obtain. the’
je of all my withes,: For thle por po
took advices and if the’; fall of 1498, :4
chafed a quantity of white. ‘arferic whi
heard would poifon, animals,’ end’,: whi
meant to give to. Anh « Carothérs, C4

‘

ing the young. manda.) 4.0K: sy vy ees
{= wbfegeey at

Hered v 14 Ja
ceived’: \ AL
‘

‘eo
lag
°

pr the fd any aoe tne
in my way.rowards ‘the attelp meas:
} y many‘. whome Fetoved sto’
Jouoz many!) whoo FBlOVed 160


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it, but could not effedt my purpose, wh second. tent iptation ,
‘game with forcey. that I should destroy my master 'S Youngs.
est son; bi Nt af. ailiig i in “this, also; ‘on Saturday’ the 2gth of
ate anuary’y 1861, going 7 to ‘the ru for’ water, I desireyt Lu-
cet to fo witli’ ANC, , Swick: out any nitention df doing her
ny arin, ungil: ‘Teame eto the run} ‘standing a little while, |
‘third tempt ation 'e2 me, thar, ] should SIT I hers, T unme-
“diately laid ‘hold of her, tind. Jaid My ‘Hand: on: ‘her mouth,
Sand held i it: as long, as T could perecive any. breath, then
threw. her, into thet run, rook “home the water, and entirely
forgot’ what had. es itil an’ ‘hour after,; being: at the —
‘run; iabeye, where she lay, my, anascer. culling to” ine, to”
KNOW if ‘Lucetia was with, ME, T a; yaiwered NOs i a% iis Was -
Ane first of ny “recollect ig what J had done! Presently: “Ate .
ter’ my. nial tur “Found, her.in the ron. As. yet, , I believe,
athore. was no. “suspicion, ‘at my. being | the. murcerers T now
“promisctl myself good day: s, at, least. so’ lo: ne as; my WSs
‘tress’s trouble, lasted, bub. found 3 iso: herwise; the funeral
was sGaitcely over, "bethg” on “Sunday, , when ste :“raade me
“Strip: ‘ot nity’ ‘hort gSwinysand. gave me; asevere Shipping
‘with: a cowsk jis *alsn. ‘on "Vy uesdays réhe. ‘gave ome vanother, .
, ‘and ati helt Mowing’ Saturday; She & ive mea wthjrd. At?
length, cetermine d on. further re VENER, hav ing. business at

aalked her why “she told every > rhitie Fr ivoni me; lie -ansywer=

; ed: tha cher siogher desired her tote sat. Taaad, youshall-

cae,

“never te ell any, TROTE on mes: I then laid hold often, and,

ate me the: ‘ather "CASE, | I, ‘laid my hand: ‘tpen;: ber: Tieuth, and

1".
Rane it near the space of half ‘an oir, then Lrhrew. Jer tuto,

4 8 +e

ht tne* rin, ‘l rca ned ; peguie. mi my ibis without, auy

Pa ’

wdeakor c Listfess, Mt stil, my, inistess): thtpugh the; persuasion
of. othets,.! bit gM. to'$ Suspgck: jg. for, the "matderers then tire
‘Asrrars ‘af ae petty | egnsdence, awoke, within | me; Tow: “8
Rich’ whippe ai ayy: my, mi! aster:to-e extore-a Cofitessiony bute
i I Was 1! ion amore Lashed | by-iny on; i) conscience. As lengsis:

| conte ae Wi is con mmigteds) “Ci Vi in} trial I cred hot

¥ Sede

‘
guile y5 thaug ‘\ “Sell ny s conse tetice: Spoke. Ait i; 1 Ine Lo. ‘the

Yl ad a hiv € ‘T Vone? dit Tevenging tlic J iniurics I suf.

}. weg,’ amy 2.
sor

if contrary. . “On! “Res ne siratl J i hind, abel to heal i its wounds?
|

;

|

!fored Tt drive ras ¥ “he. fierce Indigitation. ‘of Beay cn upon

In yself aa te vere! tot “Hie & is! togd vf: two! ‘ugcens « children
Sericth’ aguist: Me’ *Frotn’ the gioutida” Js hy: sin: :too great
for whe mercye rok Gort-to" Paden! ‘Is my stat” too; -decp § for
‘the blood’ of Jekusite Washa AWAyy, J and isuilfhene couraged’ to~
trrist th at, Toud’ asa bie sl ‘ol? se, IMigckn ts; i for
. Venge ANCE,” “the. blood “of jest: ¢ cri slouler “foriht trey: and:

Baroy ays 1 ‘risk; tate his READ goodhess wil! Hor,

; My. Water, oh Bh ET “s
es » . , wey . . ?
isificy Mmetor weridlis * oe mab ren ae 7 stow 2K dk

J. Inimblyask’ ‘torgis Veness, ‘of exeryspey3son whiny, iT have
Alived, particularly . piysmaster’ ‘andl mistress; Liisk j it, for
"Ghrist's sakes: as-Tefrom my gee: ‘do, forgive’ every person
rWho has injured, Ne. “To: Go re commit mysclf, hoping

that he, mullireceive e my spirits’ 7 ‘CHLOE,

a . ’
. eon =
r 2

‘ ‘

‘ we. per ree a 2

hie, rin; T desired ‘Bo lly, to go Ath me; Whe there,. I.


t&., ON July

Roe BNEDSSION, SANWORG CBLOE, tudemncd 13
ee idiey* ' ndextcutege ton Satuiday the 81h 6 of Fubys

ig . .}801, for the: murder of Lx tta’ ‘and: AMary-Carcth-

_ersp taken: fr om: here owt fy: -in the gait: of Car-

| lise, Dy toe Reve Games: Siirds- in the. presence of

2 sibe Sollarviigs} Lees eli Del aneYs ee ae
1 Smite. vat 7 Ffks

' SWAS, born’ a ive, to. mr Willian” Kelsoi aie aia

S when" T was young): cand willed;ine to his daughter. Itc-

becca, fin ‘whidse service. “T lived:four years and an, Aalf,, at

‘the, expiration of which time L,vas sold to mr. Pollock,:

“with! ‘yhon: *Tilived: about four years, who solid me to my
slate. mastery: mt.! Andrew. Carathers, with whom I. lived
‘untill: committed that greatest of crimes, for which ‘Tam
cmost justlytcondemsied todje a shameful death.
iD nev ere ‘reckived an education; no pains were taken by
Gay" “of: my! owner's ,to! ‘instruct me in any dirty, I owed to
;God,’ gave, while. J lived with nire Pollocky:I was taught
“my, “prayers, and: other’ duties, by his youngest daighters
‘Dat, to my gr ief, I seldom: said: shem, and: “when’ ‘] “aid it
“was ina verysiidifferent aud. ‘cold manner. “At the same
‘time I was amuclr addicted t toy Vice, ‘though neyer. guilty af
“stealing or iyingy: Vwi icc’: ‘many of | ‘those of my: color are
per to conymit, ¢ onl account of: their necessities) but my
rticular crime*; Way 2 that of : ‘profane si sived ring, a. grime
Avbiek fs: though it: may go usipunished in. “the “present, hie,
-yeteit: canoe fail to. met ‘the just: judgn nents ‘of God in:
“that: ‘which i hy to, comes" ‘for. “he hath, said): os a hou shall not
“take the naihe: of the: Lord thy’! God jay ¥airt: “for the Lard
will: Tt ‘Hohl ‘hin guiltless, that taketh nis name, in vain.”
"h his, fogetber, Wi ith high Passions | were my: gr atest. cri Nes}
“the “latter, Sof,!iv ‘hich, Oty an othr, wordsy; 2 desire, ‘ot ré-
vehge; ‘ plainged. nic into that g eveatest of ‘all cr imes,. name-

why’ if killed. rhyeni was, noe, bee ANSE. Thad any, spite or ma-
lice Jagainstathemy Gn the ‘cuatiary, 1 loved them both.

ae

“My motive; “in 3 ‘the; (insesplaces., avas: this, ‘1 knew that the

severely correctéd,’ ‘far beyond the. demeris of | the’ fault.
To cutoff this me ans, of » nformation w as the first end I
ipr romised nyself; ‘but, my second and greatest motive w. as
‘to bring all the. misery’ L possibly could upon ‘the TATU,
wand: particularly’ upon wy, mistress. To me. ils, OnE

the temptation tha te ‘car tried’ fire twice ‘to. the hog house,

.

“which was’ near to. the barn, aid at wy utmost to bien

it, but! could: not cffed my, purpos Sts aN second teniptation .

Fooie Lif

SAQEVTE
Savdanim, GA

ly; y itlte: murder: of “Wo ihnogeait? *ehifdren.”: “Fhe 'reason 3

chi} dren were compelled by. my inistress to give informa.
von “respectinig” some parts, of, ‘my: conduct, for,which I was.

“avy my master and mistress, being from “home ‘J zfe ta
) }; .
“strong, pre vopensity | to burn the barny aid so Tar. yielded to .

whe Nu! gg

1801,

Sept 3, 180! (3:2)

‘ Eaniife Usscurettu oe _
were very short on “gas” and when

-Ithey arrived in Carlisle they spent
# \ nearly all of the $580 for gasoline.

ative
was ught
funeral held
Bain with in-
emetery. .

efisburg for-
died on * Sun-
tion, He left
age Feneral
tnterment in
‘He es 8
hoedée Jacobs,
ughter Pearl,

betery. : He
Pe A 6 Beet

iy

‘llins’ and Reinecker,

Collins said that as soon as they
urchased the gasoline, they went to
Hattiseare and drove up the River
road, arriving about 2 o'clock Thurs-
day morning, searching for a con-
venient place to hide the body of
their victim.. About a quarter of a
mile north of the old Country Club
lane at Lucknow they stopped their
car, and according to both Collins
and Reinecker they wrapped an au-
tomobile robe about Bushman’s body
and carried it down to the river
bank and deposited it in the bushes.
Reinecker, on being questioned
what he had done with the revolver
which he had used tq-kill Bushman
with, answered that he threw. it in
the river when they. were crossing
the bridge over the S@squehanna on

‘Itheir way to Harrisburg. a

Directly after hiding the body in
the bushes, Collins said that they
drove the car up the River road a
mile before they turned around and
drove back. According to both Col-
they then con-
cluded to drive to: Philadelphia. They
Said that;they again crosted™ the

Sv Tbridge and drove to York, but stop-

= g

ped there’ but a few minutes and
went on their way to Philadelphia.
Collins in his confession _ said:
“When we got to Philadelphia, I
agreed to sell the cas. I went alone
to Gorson’s salesroom and garage on
Broad street, and made arrangements
to have them self the car for us.
When they asked af name, I gave
them the name of George J. Sher-
man and my address as 22 Carlisle
street, Gettysburg. The man _ to
whom I turned the car over, told me
to return the following day but I lost
my nerve.” ‘ ‘
Solactker said that he returned to
Gettysburg late Thursday night and

diCollins said that he went back to

Gettysburg Friday. A day or two
after his return, Reinecker said that
he went back to work in Reichle’s
butcher shop, where he was working
>. Jo .(Continued on page 5.)

on ‘
* f ~ ? tie

pent

1 Frynn, tatter Yorwterty Wiss [boys be artaigned and tried for mur-

the voters of the Umited States Rad/jie Kice, Gaugutcl Oloatre oie
chosen to s t their President by Waypbright Rice, of Biglerville, were
pao oe, the Congress,a majority) married at home of the bride by Dr.
controlled by those whd are aot injA B. Statton, of Hagerstown, and. .
fact in sympathy with the ‘attitude|Rey. Paul O, Shettel, the newly ap-
and action of the Administration. pointed pastor at Biglerville. The:
“| need wot tell you, my ‘fellow|bride has been teaching in the coan~
countrymen, that I am asking youtity end is a graduate of Shippensburg
support not for my own sake or for|Norman School. After a_ wedding
the sake of a political wot but for}trip to Niagara Falls and New York
the sake of.the Nation itself, in order|City they will go to Camp Zachary,
that its iaward’utity of purpose may] Taylor, Louisville. Ky.,, where Rev.
be evident to aff the world. In ordi-|Ernst entered the training school
nary times 1 weuld not feel at lib-| for chaplains.
cry tovmake Gack oe apnea! to 708) vee owen
wl: scot, Bl pyre counsels} | $wope — Hoffheins.—On Sunday
can be enduréd without permanent Morgan D. Swope, of the U. S. Navy-_.
cogatry. But these arc|.iy Miss Lydia L. Hoffheins were *”
married by Rev. Dechant in Hangwar,
Mr. Swope is a native of this county, ~
a son of W. A. Swope, of Gettysburg.
Affer a wedding trip the bride wii
efurn to her home and to her duties:
9a school teacher, while the bride-
g¥pom will return to the O. S.. S.

ere ship. » e
we i BNO ee:
na oo ;

—Mrs. J. L. Butt and daughter, “Piallontth—F ronemoyer-— Miss Ee
: bra atherine Frommeyer, daughter.
coke atreets spent Setureay i of Mr. and MrszF.N. Frommeyer, of
E la AER os ambersburg street, and- Wilbug, Je
—Dr. and Mrs. Luther Kuhlman pStallsmith, son of Mr, and Mrs. E
have returned to their home in York [Stallsmith,- of East Middle’. street, ;
after spending a few days with Dr.[ were tharried Wednesday at the rece 3
and Mrs. A. R. Wentz, .Seminary.ftory of St. Francis Xavier Churclt by
Ridge. “Rev. W. F.:Boyte. The bride wore

Mrs! Katherine Wassem has re-|jtendants were Miss . Estelle: From:
turned to Baltimore after spending|meyer and State Police Sergeant G.-
several months with Mrs. Anna Mc-|H, Rhodes. The honeymoon is .
Sherry, West Middle street. ing spent at Aslantic City. ;

—— nn <> I their return’ they will. make ;

—Mr. and Mrs. B. F. Myers, York {home with the bride’s parents. : The“
street, have gone to Orlando, Fla,|bride is a graduate nurse of Provik,
where they will spend the winter. -fdence Hospital, Washington, D.- Cy’ 2

—Mrs. Roy V. Derr has returned t@]224 groom is a aduate of: Gettyse
her home at Burnham, Pa,, after a burg High School and has been re¢

visit with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. cently in the insurance business.
iegler, York street. ; Pye PiidSie ysis! Fees
Cc Wm. Ziegler, York street ; * Huntzberger—Schlosser. — Chartes:

War Savings Stamps are a direct Arthur Huntzberger, of Bowmans
loan from ygn‘to Uncle Sam. Noth-jdale, and Miss ila. Schlosser, o€;

oe

iwaye at par. wears a

ing can lessen their value. They're al-| Arendtsville, were married Wedness 33
jis “day evening by Rev. T. CG, Hessoq, on

re . 2 * es a
ee ; :
¥ % pee

<* fan Oxford gray..coat suit. The ate ¢23

oT

b childres,

his

Mt. Carmel aged 4 years.

-Merris Edward Hamme, son of
Mr. and Mrs. Irwin Hamme, of near

aged 5 weeks.

ey E. Clapper, daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. John W. Clapper, of Hunt-

Raffensperger,jington township, died in her 20d

a’ sis

year. c.vsipirs. biG

amsemnvermerts 7

Mabelle Miller, colored, daughter
of Charles Miller, of Gettysburg,
died last week aged 16 years.
QUESTION OF JURISDICTION.
(Continued from page 1).

when arrested at 2 o'clock Friday af-
ternoon. ‘ Y mig

{and went to Waynesboro Monday

Works, where he was apprehended
> 4 Thursday afternoon at 4 otlock.

Ig was common talk after the crime
was committed tbat Collins had

and had suggested the kill-
ing of Bushman to another bey. Col-
lins was arrested Thursday evening
UAWhite came for him on Friday and
4shortly before train time that after-
noon Reinecker was arrested while

and the two boys met in office of

The only difference in the story was

.-|that Collins did not confess to own-

ership of pistol and that he gave it

got the pistol from Collins.
The mystery of the tragedy now

namely, in what county will the two

en ee ee eg Pe ee ee
Sel Mell Beedle Beell Boe Bod Be Boe Be Bl

Rebeirend
Marie Stock, of Gettysburg, died at)

.;Abbottstown, died on Wednesday:

‘Collins said that he was “broke” Hf

IG
4 Preatenod to hit Bushman with’ ajf
_jand placed in jail here. Detective -!

“Tat work at the Reichle buteher shop} SF

L. Williams, attorney for the Bush-|y
man estate. It was there they broke{®
down and told all about the tragedy. | Uc

der. In Adams county where the
killing was planned and where the
journey started, in Dauphin county
where the body was found or in
Cumberland county where the actual
shooting scems to have been placed.
It is proposed that the authorities
take the ys over the trip and lo-
cate the exact point of the killin
and when that hasbeen done an
any corroboration obtained it will

be determined in which county the

trial will be held. ca

aie)

, ae Bea ‘S,

The fitst and final account of the ;
York Trust Company, guatdian of
Aaron Lichty Spangler, a son of
Alice Lichty Spangler, {
Berlin, Adams county, Pa. dacessed,
has been filed in my office and will,
be presented to an Orphans’:
of Adams County for~confirmation
absolute on December 2, 1918.

\W. D. SHEELY, -

“GOODYEAR ..

‘e

and got a job at the Landis Tool) 5@

PAbe $*

we

tured. It will give perfect

to Reinecker, while latter claimed he} [i

being solved there is one feature of
(the case remaining to be cleared up,; —™

id Liquid Roofing Cement

This is one of the best Roofing Cements manufac-

tot

Pt eS He 43

oS mapa ; Gee PRETN ¥

say Sanked at 4 wf
a *

, et

%

satisfaction when appliéd

atm 3

pee ee eee ee ee 8 EB edt etait ee >

=,

ate of East -~

veland as an-electrician on a con= )

ae Ge
er “a,
TAL te


r died. in Balti-
She cag 0 Pee
oving te Baltimore
“She ‘was aged 50

her husband and
ter.

on of Mrs. Edward
, died in Hartford.
erment in Abbotts-
*He leaves his
her, four brothers

n by the “Flu.” i
Mebring, daughter ;
John Mehring, 9f}
last. Saturday aged,

band 29 days.

i
ot
. Weaver, son oF |
a Weaver, of Brush-}
day aged 2 years,

N fer ee

Shetter, son of Mr.
Shetter, of Gard-
day aged 2 years

i

‘

Thomas, daughter f.

Wenjamin F. Thomas
nship, died on last
iy€grs, 9 months and

ie Eline, aged 14 years.
P » aged 6 years.
we. and Mrs. Felix J.
tied on Oct. 20 and
‘mother and six chil-
the: “flu.” . Mr.- and

rly lived in McSher-

esday,
sof the arteries, aged
ths and 20 days. He
rk county, came to
dn a boy. living first
hip, He was a vet-
ar, a member of
a. Vol. The funeral
flay.
He leaves four sons,
| of McKnightstown;
(Waynesboro; Walter
‘Union Bridge; and
f Silver Rock, Md.
Jane Dugan, wife of
bf Biglerville, died on
» extended illness, in
The. funeral was held
interment in Bigler-
She leaves besides
following children:
utler township; John
anicsburg; Mrs. Ed-
of Biglerville; Mrs.
Gettysburg; Samuel
b Meade; pend Du-
ican © Expeditionary
Morris and Vergie
ne. =~ She leaves a
Noel, <'of  Menallen
sister, Mrs. William
ork Springs.

hawe tied Oct. 19 at
brother, Wm. Bring-
ae Btinah apoplexy,
et i: agham was a
. -Stiaban wowaship.
st year.*>:He leaves

nd sisterg: Wm.
Gettysbe ; John
gle Butte, ‘South Da-
ly-Spidle, of Abilene,
in Ihammer, of

it, a life-long resi-

ille, died Oct. 21
fon of diseases aged
hs and 9g days. He
wo daughters and a
Hartman, of Frank-
ark D. Arendt and
endt, at home; and
others and sisters:
»f Texas; Mrs. Sher-
I. Keller Arendt, of
Harry J. Arendt, of

died in Reading
turday from paraly-
eral days ago aged
rife. aged about 78

f om page 5s.)

4

‘(the clothing and this

4)

Uw dave N io ta. Your it atavtols
that robbery was the motive, that as
late as two days before the crime, on
Monday.of last week, Bushman was

crop of wheat in the county was 930,-
230-bushels and in 1918 1,004,872. . In}.«<
Soy in 1917 121,845, and in 1918 121,153.
n 0: 7
known to have on “his person $2700. | 473.6202 sett! nase grok 8
The body when found had but $25 in| In the State of Pennsylvania there
: 4s said WaSiare but six counties ‘raising over al.
either overlooked or left\as a blind. ‘million bushels of wheat and Adams|]
The motive Gf robbery is further county is one of the six.
evidenced by the missing watch of | : ;
the man, and the car,
George J. Bushman owned
Son’ Super-six seven
the State license numh
and engine number was 573), and this ity
car has disappeared as though it had jacti
never existed and no trace of it. has
yet been found. 1Cool, Liberty township,
Tt is said that George J. Bushman; wound in leg; Clair Bond, of near
met the man, woman and child at the | Brushtown, genshot wound in arm
Wednesday evening train and that he | Willis D. Lauver, of Arendtsvil
did not take them a great distance. wounded, degree undetermined. Clair
That he returned to Gettysburg and} Richwine, of Gardners, Missing ih],
was in the Square at or about 8.30; action. ; a See
P. M. the same evening and one or; Word has been received of the safe-
more men got into his car in the ‘arrival overseas of C. Guyon Miller,
uare. ison of Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Miller:
he’ next fact known is that the /\Vater street: Lieut. Henry Smith!
body was placed in the bushes alongison of H. L. Smith, of New Oxford;
the river bank above Harrisburg! Chester Fohl. son of Mr. and Mrs C
about midnight. Steven Gruben, liv-: J. Fohl, of Digtcrville; and Wm. Hol-

|

Hucl-
Msetnges coe] ‘Over Here and Over There.
er being 120315! The following men from this local-
have been reported wounded in|
on during the past week: Chas.
; Cool, son of Mrs and Mrs. Henry!

shrapnel |

i, if

the State.

treet

-—Lisut

jed to her home oon
alter: 2
j Mrs. W. WK. Fleck at Lititz.
accumpanied home by Mrs. Fleck amd
son Murray

Ades slats
Ka West
Visit: with

\E

Vi

aurtce B,

sciurn-
Middle
Rey. and
She wag

Bender. who

peut this week at his home on Care.

a

Mrs.

—NMiss

—Rebr.

isle street, has roue to
;'enment at Camp Dix, No J

wt

bof

his new as-"

Mrs. David Rurnite and

ese
as

daughter have returned to their home
at Danville,
andl
Hlisle street.
Olivia

a.. after a visit with Dr.
5. Breideubaugh, Car-

McClean, East
Mirdle street, spent the week end
with, her. sister, Mrs. Stock, at ger
home at fron Ridce.

ream, West Confeder-

te avenue, has returned from a busis
ess trip throuch the central part of

—-Edgar and Fred Faber, of Wil-

—Mrs. J. W. Tudor, of Harrisbur

visited friends in town for sever
days this week.

Mington, snent the week end at the -_
home of their parents on Chambers-
burg street.

—Mrs. Roy Funkhouser, Baltimore “s

;{that dead: men tell no sec

His wife died}

ing near the point where body was:}
ound, says he was awakened by the|
noise of automobiles and when he!
got up and looked out of his window
he saw two machines standing along-
side the road but did not see any.
one move about. If the murder was:
the work of more than one man and
secret is known to occupants of,
two machines, the mystery should
leak out. iimees
The placing of the body at the
‘point at which it was found makes
it possible for the murder to have;
been committed near Gettysburg and!
boly conveyed there, and gives an
Opportunity for the finding of wit-
Nesses at any point along the State
road to criminating circumstances. |

The murderer evidently made sure|
rets, for
Bushman was not only shot in the!
back of the head but he had been shot ,
through the feft breast and all thei
evidence was that the shots had been
fired at close quarters, the overcoat
being burned at point where the shot ;
entered breast. '

Not a trace can he found of the!
money Bushman had, it was not put!
in bank or in any other place for safe
keeping. With money, watch andj
car gone clues may develop to lead |
up to the criminal.

'

'
f

County Detective!
Wilson, of this place,’and Harry C.
White, of the Mute Detective Agency}
of Harrisburg, are conducting inves-|
tigations and arrests are awaited by;
the friends of the murdered man. |

H. B. Bender, undertaker, brought
the body of Bushman from Harris- |
burg to his home and funeral ‘was.
held on Monday and interment made
in the Evergren. Cemetery.

The first development in the Bush-
Man case was the arrest of Clarence
Collins. He was taken in charge by
County Detective Wilson on Thurs-
day afternoon, having been found at
the Landis Tool Co. Works in
Waynesboro, and was charged with
the theft of the Bushman Hudson car.

The car has been located in a Phila-
delphia garage and will be brought |
back to Gettysburg in a-day or two.
Other developments are expected to
quickly develop that will unravel the
mystery of the murder of Geo. Bush-
man. County Detective Wilson and
J. L. Williams, Esq., brought Clarence
Collins to town Thursday evening
and turned him over to Sheriff Hart-
man. On Friday noon he was taken
to Harrisburg by-a detective from
that city.

> Bessie Toddes Serving Sentence.

The appeal taken by the defendant
in the case of Com. vs. Bessie Toddes
was not pressed in the Superior
Court and when called in that court
on a recent Monday was nol prossed
The appeal being so determined it
was up to the defendant to surrender
herself to the Sheriff to undergo her
sentence of one year in jail and fine
of $1000 on charge of which she was
found guilty, keeping a bawdy house.
The sentence of one year started,
about a week or ten days ago.

FOR RENT.—Two front. office
rooms on the second floor of Warner
Building opposite Court House, In-

NAmerican Library Association, War

Salvation Arm

quire of Wm. Arch. McClean.

labangh, of near Biglerville. *

Rev. Luther S. Black, pastor of
College Hill Presbyterian Church. at
Easton, has enlisted as a Y. M. CJA.
Secretary for overseas service. Rev.
Mr. Black is well known here.

Joseph Codori, who is an instructor
in’ mechanics at Camp Lafayette,
Easton, has deen promoted to the,
rank of sergeant. ’

Prof. Paul S. Miller, son-in-law of
Mr. and Mrs. C. H. Wilson, East Mid-;
dle street, who-has been serving as a
Y. M,C. A. secretary at Camp Colt, |
this summer, spent sevcral days Ris;
week in’ Washington, taking. exami-!
nations preparatory to overseas ser-!
vice as interpreter in the Intelligence
Division, U. S. A. .

The first Gettysburg College man
to make the supreme sacrifice is Lt.
Chas. S. 3 ontgomery, of Roselle, N.
J., who died on Oct. tst of wounds re-
ceived in action. Lt. Montgomery
was a member of the 1918 class and
was prominent in athletics.:.He was
a man of unusual physique and was
6 feet 4 inches tall. ;

Martin Luther Hahn, of near Em-
mitsburg, has given his life on the
battlefield of France. ~~ A telegram
has been received stating that Pri-
vate Hahn was killed in action on
Sept. 17.

Clyde L. Bream, son of Mr. and
Mrs. F. Mark Bream, Carlisle street,
has received a commission as Second
Lieutenant while in active service in
France according to a cable received
by his parents this week. Lieut.
Bream erffiSted in the Infantry in
1917 and was made regimental supply
sergeant . of thes8th Infantry. in
which capacity he sailed with his
regiment early this summer. © Lieut.
Bream also sent his father -a relic
from. the battlefield, a curious Ger-
man prayer book, which he found on
a dead Hun. ‘ tee sc rs

David Yohe, of this_place, who en-
listed in the Fourth Infantry. here
last summer, has received a commis-
sion as lieutenant while ‘in’ active
service at the front. Pitt Marre a

New Great Drive. =) | -

The next thing is the election and
be sure to vote to win the war iby
supporting the men who will support
Wilson, then soon follows the next
great drive. Just draw the belt a
notch tighter and go to it. °

The next great nation-wide drive
is to be in the interest of seven great
organizations which look after the
recreational life of the soldier. It is
to-be Nov. 10-17, President Wilson
has suggested that instead of havin
different drives in the interest o
these separate organizations there
e but one “consolidated drive.
He ordered that this was to be car-
ried out after the Fourth Liberty
Loan, The’ effort is to raise $170,-
500,000. This amount is to be divided
among the Y. M. CUA,
C Board

9 .

of C,-Jewish Welfare

Camp Community Service and the
The share of Adame county to be

raised is $18,000. Nearly that sum
was faised for the Red Cross. $0

Thome must be atta am
age and the Red Cross wil] furnish so0%

Street, bas returned from a short
visit with relatives in Hagerstowm ——
—Miss Eljzabeth Martin has rem
turned to her home on Baltimore

street after attending the funeral of <2=:

her niece, Mrs. Keyron Ramer, im
Harrisburg. «2.0 a 6 3
—Prof. i. Louis Sowers, Baltimore ©
street, was a visitor i
this week, *
—-Mrs. Frazer, of Springfield, Ohia,
who has
Mrs. J. B. Baker, has gone td”

caster to spend some time.

been the guest of Rev: amd ie

n Harrisbarg oN

—Mrs. Lane Schofield has deiurned is

t
ing the funeral of Mrs: Schofield’s
mother at Potstown, Pa.
—Calvin R. Criswell, of B
was a business visitor in Ge
on Friday, © “ Be
—Bluine Trimmer, of Nid ener :
formerly of © Gettysburg, . vis
friends in town this week. !
—Dr..L. L. Sieber has returned
his home in Baltimore after a vwisit
at the home of his dau

.

the influenza but is now convalese= .
ing. ‘ : “
—Mrs. W. C. Sheely, of Springs
avenue, has announced the engage-
ment of her dau
B_-S
York. Miss Sheely is a graduate of
Gettysburg College, 1913, and for sev
eral years has been a teacher of a
lish in the York High School. e245
Morse is superintendent of the |
Steacy-Schmidt Manufacturing Com.
pany. He is a member of the York —

ae ee
ermudiam, © «
ttysburg x a“

to |

"

&

Country Club and the Lafayette Climb,”

“More About Xmas Parcels. —~
In‘our last issue minute directions

Were given as to the preparing and a7

mailing of overseas Xmas boxes
the boys at the front and these should
be preserved. Uncle Sam will only
be able to handle one parcel for
soldier, This will. compel ‘familles
and friends to get together in the
making up of the one parcel..The
label given each soldier to be sent
ched to the

the cartoon in which all articles:
must be packed. There will be need
for fe operation between ~ families
nd the Red Cross so that every man
x remembered. The Red Cross’ will
ve to keep in touch with the home
people and friends to whom fabel
sent and all this must be attended to.
before Noy. 20, for all packages must
be sent before that day. CEST Pale
In view of the large number of Ade

ete
4%

ams county men abroad it has beea %

decided to have seven shipping cene
ters besides Gettysburg, namely,.
bottstown, Fairfield, Biglerville, New
Oxford, © Littlestown, _..McSher
town. and York Springs.
chairmen of the Red Cross branches
in these towns have been requested
to appoint committees

ras,

now altogether, lets go to it.

pervise the mailing of packages. —

=

who shafl au is

o her. home near town after attend- ..”

ghter, Mrs. E. ies
Bits.
ye

ghter, Miss Frances” ‘ x
heely, and Otis B. Morse, of: 2) =


*ORRRE igh OS

(SATURDAY, NOVEMBER :

pres ree NO. 12.

QUESTION OF HF aGRISDIGTION A.

WILL DECIDE - WHERE BUSH.
MAN pocbedaetr bye TRIAL wit.. aa

i>

: roommate
Vaaned in Adams Co.—Bedy Pinna

im Dauphin Co. bet Killing May
‘Have Been in Cumberland Co.

Clarenee J. Collins and Charles C.
Reineckeat. both 18 yeats old, have
. }been arrested for the murder of Geo.
J. Bushman and have confessed to
their crime.

According to the statements and
confessions of both -youthful, mur-
derers, whieh agreed in almost every
particular,” Reinecker: fir¢d both of
the shots mto Bushman'y body. .:

According to their confessions, ‘it
was about 8 o’clock in the evening of
Wednesday; October 16, when Bush-
“gman was in the act of running his
= Tear into his garage for the night that
Collins “and Remeécker approached
and asked him what he would charge
to take them to Carlisle. Bushman
“jagreed to make the trip for $12 and
th@ithe -hoys paid $5, they say, before

er aud they got into the car, promising to
RRCe si8< _ the balance before they left Car-

i fe on the return trip back to Get-

tftysburg. The arrangement of pay-
ment seemed to suit Bushman for he
drove them to Carlisle and parked
Oe the car in front of the Y. M, C. A. of
eet seo athat town.
af Hunterstown,{ Shortly after 11 o’clock they told
a Oct. 2§ in bis] Bushman that they were ready to
al_was an'Sun-ldrive back to Gettysburg. Bushman
"Hunterstown. faited to remind them of their prom-
4 late: Mr. andlise to pay the $7 balance before they
¥ leaves a. wife, | started an their way back to Gettys-
7o +sistets, Mere. burg.’
and Mrs. Peter! Collins said that he sat beside
begs Bushman in the front seat and Rein-
FR ecker sat in the tonneau.
wife of After they had passed Mt. Holly,
erville, died om |}Reinecker said that be drew his re-

her ‘26th year.) volver, a 38-caliber, and shot Bush-
Tuesday, inter-|man in the back of the head. Bush-
emetery.~. She}man, who had been driving very
ean ee slowly, dropped forward over the
Mrvan steering wheel, when Collins jammed

ville, {out on the brakes and stopped the car.

© * {The two boys. then lifted Bushman's
d e..4, jbOdy from the front seat and de-
: ~. Stahl, posited his inert form in the fon.

Stall and eld-) peau. ss
late*D. A, and Bearing in mrad that dead men “tell
iat delphialno tales, Reinecker said that he
t 68 yea In-! wanted to make doubly sure, so he

ims Mvergreen | shot Bushman again, this time in the
tent on .andiright breast. The shot was fired at

& gates such close range that: the victim’s
ehler,sa fake, overcoat was burned around the hole
Enchter 0 where the bullet entered. . 4

.Premeditated . robbery apparently
g the motive . that prompted
‘tthese {wo youthful murderers, from
their confession, Reinecker. said that
directly after he fired the fast bullet
into Bushman’s body, he searched
years-}the victim’s clothing carefully for
metery/money, but succeeded in finding only
ef: "0. sisters the $5 they had given Bushman be-
z ne < fore leaving Gettysburg and about
eighty cents in small change. Rein-
7ety,28 at lecker and Collins both said that they
a"saged 465 could not understand- how they hap-
and ‘twolpnened to overlook the $25 that was
v6: giao Lueds in Bushman’s pocket when his
mes and Don-| dead body was found, where they
"er n W. had hidden it in the bushes on the

rrett, | civer bank at Lucknow.
eely,! After searching Bushman and ex-
preety, tracting the $5.80 from his pockets,
x74 Reinecker said that he got in the
<= R h, front: seat with Collins and Collins
Oc ot started the car and drove toward
¥ on« tom 22;/Gettysburg, but within about two
war 8 Ormer! miles of Idaville, he turned the car
around and they went back to Car-
liste. Collins discovered that they
were very short on “gas” and when
‘|Ithey arrived in Carlisle they spent
nearly all of the $580 for gasoline.
Collins said that as soon as they

ftnder control of instrumentalities of

ar

WHAT. HE ASKS FOR. at

PRE —— ve

Nation and Show Germany that

* the Country is Beck of Him.

President “Wilson has addressed
the following appeal to the nation:

“My Fellow Countrymen:

“The Congressional elections are at’
hand. They accur in the most criti<|
cal period of our country has ever
faced or is likely to face in our time.
If you have approved of my leader~
ship and wish me to continue to be
your unembarrassed- spokesman in
affairs at home and. abroad, I ‘earn-
estly beg that you. will express un-}
mistakably to that:effect by return-
ing a Democratic majority to both’
the Senate and the House of Repre<
sentatives.

“I am your servant and will accept,
your judgment without cavil, but my
power to administer the great trusf
assigned me by the Constitution
would be seriously impaired should
your judgmeny be adverse and I must
frankly tell yOu so because so many
critical issues depend upon your ver-
dict. No scruple of taste mast in
grim times like these be allowed to
stand \in the way of speaking the
plain truth,

“I have no thought of suggesting
that any political party is paramount
in matters of partiotism. I feel too
keenly the sacrifices which have been
made in this war. by all our citizens
irrespective of party affiliations, to
harbor such an idea. I mean only
that the ditficulties and delicacies of
our present task are of a sort’ that
make -it imperatively necessary. that
the Nation should give its un ivided
support. to the Government: under\a
untied leadership and that_a Repub-
lican . Congress would divide the
leadership. *

“The leaders o the minority in the
present Congress have unquestion-
ably been: pro-war but they have
been anti-Administration. At al-
most every turn Since we entered the
war they have sought to take the
choice of policy*and the conduct of
the war out of my hands and put it

their own choosing. This is no time
for “divided counsel or for ‘divided
leadership. Unity of command is as
necessary now in civil actions as it is
upon the field of battle. If the con-
trol of the House and Senate should
be taken away from the party now.
in power, an opposing majority could
assume control of. legislation and
oblige all action to be taken amid
contest and obstruction.

“The ceturn of a Republican ma-
jority to, either House of Congress,
would, however, certainly be inter-
preted on the other side of the water
as a repudiation. of -my leadership.
Spokesmen of the Republican party
are urging yot,to elect a. Republican

Congress in ordét to’ pack up and
support. the ‘Pr¢ idént,; but sree ed
they should io y impose

some eredulons water on Shis Fis cides af] ot
the water; they @ho on no

one on the ¢t side, nae Pag

“It is well- cet there & well
as here that. tha Republican leaders
desire fot 30° touch’ te @upport the
President as. to.cositral him.» The

whom we are associated against Ger-
many are quite familiar with the sig-
nificance of elections. They would
find it very: difficul€'to Believe that
the voters of the United ‘States had{j
chosen fe 8 their President by
eleeti ot eLongr'ss a majority
contro fea bythose- who are not in

Wasa native! +,

purchased the gasoline, they went to}f

A mangle ‘CoNeRESP

Get Back of “the ae iy pe she

Theen spending several weeks wth

peoples of the Allied countries with]:

PERSONAL POINTS OF VIEW

OUT OF THE TOWN.

‘end Other Individual Happew
ur: See and Other Lecal soate
mee Os 5 , at interest, _

ee
‘STient, Clyde Bream, tha has re-
tently received his commission while
im action in France, has been assigns
ped as one of the line offiecrs of the
2th WU. S. Infantry. a
~rLieut. Edgar A. Byler, 313th Inty Jp
whas been wounded in action. Licut. ~
Eyler is well known here where he
attended College and _SPent. several:
yéars at Seminary, «= ts Ny,

Arnold Raffensperger, 316th Inf,
son of Mr. and Mrs. HLS. Raffens-
perger, Arendtsville, was recently.
wounded in action: ‘Mr. ‘“Raffens-.
perger was employed at the Gettys-
“atch Fada office last, summer; ae

Forrest Page, Miss Olive .%
Hoke, High street, and Miss: Nancy ER :
McGlaughlin, of Baltimore, spent cnt?)
Sunday as the guests of. Mr. and px:
Mrs. Charles Musselman at their, $
home in McKnightstown. “8

—Mrs. Luther McDonnell, Balti-
more Street, spent this week with her
sister, Mrs. George Hughes, at her 25
home in Hagerstown.

—Mrs. Jennie Hospelhorn . and two"
children have returned to their home ie}
in Waynesboro after a visit of sev- ~
eral weeks with Mrs. LeGrand Hos-
pelhorn, East Middle street. They
were \accompanied home by Mrs.
Hospethorn and sons who spént Sun- ee
day in Waynesbora. si

—Mrs. H. M. Clabaugh, Mrs. Amos |
Musselman and Mrs. Alden Chase
visited — friends in Gettysburg “on —
Thursday while on their way to |
Washington where they will spend.
the winter. a3
Lieut. John Butt and Let Bush
6f Camp. Meade, s seco! the week en
at the home of Mr, and Mrs. J L.
‘Butt, Carlisle street, — % ‘ah
. —Lieut: Maurice Griest spént ‘Sen~"
day at, his “home, ‘Guernsey, on’ his
way ta Fort Benjamin Harrison. axe
»—Robert’ Mishler, of the | Marine.
Fiying Corps.\is spending a’ten days”
furlough, with bis’ parcnts, ‘Mr. and
Mrs_ Sor Mishter, Shembersbutg
pre a + ‘ .

Lieut, ‘and Mrs Lloyd ‘Van Dore
and son‘ have returned to Baltimore
after, spending several days with My
and, Mra. J. Edward: -McCammo, °
Baltimore ‘érees, :

—Lieut. and Mrs, Veq. Tuther: who:
have been spending. the sunimes at:
the hore of-Mr. and Mrs: H, B* 3
ron, Baltimore “$tréet,. Re
New York -City. feat.
editor in thief of “Treat "Em Ro
‘Tank#tmagazine, and. with,
staff has been-detailed- to New: York:
where. offces will be opened’ and’ the: =
publication: continued to assist
vin ae for, that branch of the #

vice. 35
maMebaid Mrs. YosepN Cone ive x
Hg @:46 their-home at Parks
repending part of their
ite frip at the home of Samuel
ok Baltimore street... (>) ©
wahlcs. E. A. Underwood, he: has

-

Miss M. McClean, East» Middle
street, left. on qhuredey for Loss
ge ee Cal <3

Se WEDDINGS,

‘Ernst—Rice—Rey. ankey
Ernst, pastor of the Unie Brethren :
é

oe! ¢ at Biglerville, and Miss Nely

ite,’ ‘daughter of mars a oun
Wi bright Rice, of Biglerville, e*
sar tied at home of the bride by Dr.
A. B. ‘Statton,.of Hagerstown,

act in ‘sympathy with the attitude

R D. i x —

Bde as ee ght ee oy Uc pecg hh ee WBE Baa oe oc tela seep en a ne ort Rea URSA Aa 2 i) SO eR a a

af

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5

Wok, 20 0 Yon.’ GETEYSBURG, PA., SATURDAY, .

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cope

Kamm de

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ARGE OF MURDER: OF

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fy SEE

te 4, z4
ete + TOR *

ES elem Me VRE
= Kaepe thal of Clarence R, Collins be-
2S pe. fowp ag 3 afternoon immedi-
ot Inti the Foreman of the Grand

fy, Prank Blocher, had returned

AD F Court the indictment charging

Se with the marder of George J,
Sf Besbman. It was Wednesday alter-
before the jury of poet

y

e€ men

i selected. The. pane) of
-eigut jurors was exhausted by
¥y noon and Sheriff Hartman
pew pane! of twenty ready for
teraoon and another panel of
“for Wednesday morning and
these jurymen were examined,
ope had to face the prisoner
‘mith the admonition, “Prisoner look
py the Net juror Jook upon the
ner, Challenge or no challenge.”

; en each juror called was aworn ta

OO tren

pared |

; :
Nteping the thus of Goce hake
as -
man back to Gettysburg.
Fhe teatimony had so far proceed-
ed with practically no cross-exami-
nation by the counsel of defendant,
when however, J. F. Walter, county
detective of Dauphin county, was
called tq the witness stand it was a
ent that a most vital point had
m reached for the defendant, and
an offer was demanded of what it
was proposed to prove by the wit-
ness.
Aa offer was made of a confession
made voluntarily and without any
threats or offers and aiter objections
from every angle the witness was al-
lowed by the Court to tell his story
of the confession. >
This confession was made on. Oct.
25th in the jail at Harrisburg, after
Detective White had taken Collins
and ‘Reinecker from Gettysburg to
Harrisburg. County Detective Wal-
tet said he warned the boys that any
Statement made by them should be
voluntary, that anything they would
gay would be ased against them on
the trial and notwithstanding this
warning they expressed a desire to
make a statement. A stenographer
was obtained from the District At-
torney’s office at Harrisburg and the
statement was first taken in short
band and then transcribed. It was
then read to Collins and signed by

P-iJohn L. Beoker, af Conewage Town-

WELL KNOWN CITIZENS GONE
. OVER THE DIVIDE.

a3
eee

ship, Reaben Sipe, af Reeding
Township, ond Others. .

=r
zy 7
Set aed

John L. Becker, of Midway, Cone-
wago township, this county, died last
Friday in Baltimore, at the Johns

months and 25 days. He had been
sick for the past month and last
Thursday was removed to the hospi-
tal for treatment. Mr. Becker was
foreman of the blacksmithing depart-
ment of the Hopkins Manufacturing
Company of Hanover for many years.
He was a member of St. Joseph’s
Beneficial Society, Hanover, and of
Holy Trinity Beneficial Society, Mc-
Sherrystown. He leaves a widow,
Mrs. Alice Becker; three sons, Leon-
ard, Robert and Richard Becker, and
one daughter, Miss Muriel Becker,
all at home; his parents, Mr. and
Mrs. Adam Becker, of Midway; six
brothers, George, Charles, James and
Frank Becker, all of Midway; E an-
ius

THB DEATH LiSt OF A WEEK

Hopkins Hospital, aged 45 years, 7|P.

THE JANI

business ae ay
om of a
Ore!
fo weretne
* “at
t
id

ate Judge
Milier

is, Hii

from State. road
chil
ary

awarder for latter:
In Mt. Pleasant
guard rails wege:t:
pair and a .dastard
ed born, giothcr: (
reputed fathers. Pan
awarded for latter.
In the Third “Wa

uel Becker, of McSberrystown;
Becker, of Hanover; and three sis-
ters, Mrs. Curvin Cromer, of Mid-
way; Mrs. James Lingg and Mrs. Na-
than Houser, of Middletown. —The

a ‘bastard child ~
Elizabeth Lott mo
father Sterley Ho
awarded for latter.
In Tyroré towns

him. The confession so. made by
Collins was read to the jury.

Confession.
Jail, Harrisburg, Pa.,

i) a and father to be at home. Oct. a5, 1918. funeral services were on Tyesday,|was reported, mot
{ew Of the number had conscien-| By James T. Walters, County De-|frum St. Vincent's church by Rev. cast, reputed fathe
bes. seroples against capital pun-|tective of Dauphin County: Boys,} William .A. Howard, burial in St. In "Fomindabas

you understand just what we want,
the statement you made to Mr. White
and those gentlemen in Gettysburg.
You understand we ask you to make

pt and a han ee had read
to¢ miprer an such fixe: opin-
“ying they declared they could
“Sy into the jury box and try the

rails were. do

wri;
i 4

Richardgo

Joseph’s Cemetery, Hanover.
Spm, crossing the

Reuben K. Sipe diced at his. home in bastard child
Hampton on Tuesday morning from] Hazel

2

Edetendant wpom the evidence produc- | this voluntarily, we are not xerting | tuberculosis, aged 74 years, 3 months} ksiph Mus elpaa
e4 im eontt slone, Al) these were any force. You will find it Will ease land 18 days. for a number of years | for wh ae 4:
ly - ber ease and excused. oyr minds and you-will feel better{he conducted the Hampton Hotel, In the First Wa
hen the Commonwealth and the de- ; tor it. ENS PRS ae: ‘i ogefithen went to farming, and had served Jtown @ bastard wa
dant bad the right to twenty pe- To Collins). SEA as supervisor for several years. He/Hiida ~Stonésif
. challenges withoyt a Ad _Q-Tell us how this happened, Col- lis survived by his wife and three chil- Augt. Sayder./
Tesgon and the larger portion A lins? You and the boy figures foldren: Mrs. Augustus. Thomas, and /jatter. mets
eh thellenges were exhausted be-/get Gia man out and do this? A.|]Samuel Sipe, of Hampton, and Mrs.| The Grand Jur:
Ah jury was finally selected. | Yes Sir. : ’ F. Zartman, of Hanover; also one land sworn, Frank
> dhe twelve men finally chosen aad} Q. “Where did you meet him and|brother, Robert Sipe, of Harrisburg, pointed foreman.
rOrR to render a truco verdict in the! what time? A. It was about. 8land one sister, Mrs. Louisa Stone-| The .
t of the Commonwealth vs, Cigr- /o’clork. tiga sifer, of McSherrystown. The fu- | duties end inetrye’
R: Coltins are the p Q,- When? A. Last’ Wednesday /neral was held on Friday with servi- Ay
EE Ziche eve ! ii 4 ces in Hampton Lutheran Charch Ad pats
ie towns @. Go ahead? A.” We hired! Rev, Stauffer, of New Chester wit :
2k Bashman to go to Carlisle. ©. interment in Hampton Cemetery. The G
ma: *Q.7 Tell us what happened on the — , bills of indie?

Jacob Begner diad at his home in
Lancaster test Sunday from heart

way*: down? e

i d stayed over
thery’ at Carlisle awh

ile and came

bills and was.

tie. Ks i bach-and going back we killed him. |troable. He would have been 72/°°F at |
PR he te Pye bee Where was this? A. Between | years gid on February 6th. Mr. c |
ame ey, atinet, of Cara thepe, It was on the ‘other side of |Breaner was a son of Anthony and B |

fors Se bs okey» =| Mt. Bolly. ms Catherine Brenner, deceased, and |

remy J. Guise, ‘larmer of Bujler |, QO Im Cumberland County was it? |was bora in Berwick township. He |
townthin: reo fete TA, don’t know, We wete close to formerly resided ip Hanover bat to- |
zc B- Zimmerman, farmer, of My. | Sgville. ite hwo Sosy leated im Lancaster when a young |
Papeigait : township. You wold know the spot? A. man Surviving are the follgwing |

ei ae

Baughman, {. . of Ox- datagt fia ao.
’ km rs gia at On: Toh Now worn yon got where what
ton hy era, farmer, of Hunting- MW A. We killed him there.

.

sisterg..and brothers: Mrs
Myers, Miss Katie Brenazer,
Brenmer and Frank Brenner, of

ohn
ohn
an-

3 : «Who ¢ him? A, He did. lover, snd Mrs. H. W. Hoeffner, of coun
4 a § ‘tetived (armen, of Ox- | :, You tatked a it before? A.|Ortando, Fla., formerly of York. The | Terminer Cou ad
fis : o'er. Him and J rougher. did 84 funeral was Wednesday ‘morning jder charges woul
cht, farmer, of Mt. Pleas- sit. a ee {from Bacred Heart Church, .Lancas- trial of these (ca
wnship.4 - : 9. “And yow robbeg Wim? A. “Yes iter, and interment in the church cem- number ‘of A 5
vd Hall, farmer, of Prank- isirs- 9 ee SENS eter aera}. .. Sea on the crinfgat
aship.. reotne [4:2- Mow much @i@ you get + —_ ‘Itinued, exsent on
srAWhen twelye jurors had been se-'from him? A. $38a--MWe took him! Mre. Martha Montgomery Robbins, |.) of, being Gotu
cured strict. Attorney Topper |then to Harrisburg and put Jeim along / widow of Hon. W. M. Robbins, for cr, charged with
Md the case for the Common- | the river. Opry yrs “iy some years a member of the Gettys-|verting moneys
Wh with a statement of the fact, "OQ. Did you get his watch? A. Nolburg National Park Commission, joath of Chaa™
‘0 be proved going to establish mur- there neve: was a watch on him. © fdied some months ago at Statesville,! settled by “pay
der in the first degree. ‘Q. There was a ring ip bis vesi?'N C. Mrs. Robbins will be well re-land costs were p
sXlarence R. Collins, the prisoner, is jA. We did not see any, © ©: 'membered by many local people. She | The Court i
esented by Hon. Geo. J. Benner’ Q After you shot him did you|married Major Robbins during the

@ associated with him ire ‘the at- /tarn around right there? A. No sir|Gwil War while he was serving in

torneys representin Charles €,'we rode about a mile. ¢ the Confederate Army and their mar-
~Reinecker, William Hersh and John,’ Q. Then what happened? A We jried life extended over 43 years.
BD. Keith, Kegs. District Attorney {turned aroynd and, came to Harris- j "3
vis assisted by J. Donald; burg. A Siam che + Sin
wom, Esq. 8h 8s { Do you know what time it was
AS; prisqner does not show con-!when ‘you got here? A. <l judge it
aver his trial. He arose and{ was about 2 o'clock in the morning.
: = rr Poe Re When you ¢roesed the bridge

_—

‘Mre. Susan Bolliager, wife of Sam-
nel Bollinger, died at ber home along
the Carlisle pike, near Hampton last jsy
Saturday from infirmities and other
complications. ayed 817% years, 9

le.

road at lends


rary

A qiite young, ani LOL WU ablinhee al aes

dea veryfavorable impre The
ollege Glee Club entertained the audi-
nce with a number of their songs, well-

endered of course.

eee ER

} ggrThe County Commiss

ssion,

joners have 4
1 bad

Awarded the contract fur the bridge vver | aes
| Christian example

llarrisburg road, Strate |
Stouffer,

Rock Creek, on the
ban township, to Samuel
ork, for $809, and the contract for th
bridge over Marsh Creek at Heretes 's
Fill in Highland township, to J. M. Pit
enturff, of Jleidlersburg, for gu24, Both |
Mare to be covered wooden bridges.
fF

of

a]

SrtLL THEY Comeé.—The Coinpiler |
nnounces five more candidates:
Emniasioner, Elias Kellenberger.
is fewnship; Sheriff, Henry H.
ih Hamilton, and Jacob Pottortf, straban; |
| lerk of Courts, I. M. Timmins, present
incumbent, and J. W. Thoman, Abbotts-
own. Twenty-two candidates for vari-
pus positions are Now in the fie
nore to come.

|
|
{
\

his

asec hie eens
PrrsonaL.—Secretary Folger has ap-
Mpyointed Mr. Paul Hersh on the committee
to count and examina the dies, rolls, |
plates, &e., at the bureau of engraving
nd printing, with a view to the destruc-
on of all those found defective and of
all those no longer required for the use 0
the government. This appointment is
not only honorablé and important, bit
n excellent one.

r] anni
}. PAnTRIDGFS.—
swintered eight parti idges
to ex Shernff Hersh, act the Batts
taken care of fourteen, h
of twenty-two on Meadow Vailey
which he hopes will be allowed to ‘in-
crease and multiply’ sufficiently te spread |
over the whole neighborhood. He means |
“to protest them by the notice to hunters
P which the law preseribes.— Compiler.

F
'
f
t
f
|

Mr. Simon J, Diller

r having

Farm,

“Within the past
of the |

®

ST
7 7 Fo TT

ed
CaruisLz Herald:
few years Carlisle has become one

i amounting to some 2,000. Almost week-
y ly there is a large sale of horses at some
a one of our hotels. The same can be sai
. of cattle. They command high prices ani
are in ready demand. There are some
F half-dozen parties extensively engaged in
. the horse basiness, and about the samo
' number in the cattle trade.’’

—_—--->-
2

$

2 ghe farm of Jacob Bowers, Tyrone town-
f ship, containing 94 acres, for $2,500.

J. K. Lerew bas purchased from Daniel }

Plank a lot in York Springs for $125.

© Miss Emily Moorhead has purchased from
J. K. Lerew the Dencil property in same
place for #110.

H.W. Trostle has purchased from
father, Abram :Trastle, the store property
in Arendtaville for $3 ,000.

et

PRE PRP aE a PTC TTT EY

es

re

a your Sprivg Suit of JR.
Bom;  Phoy haven elegant line o
tered, “Worsteds.and Shiltons in diagon-

2B

gird

on

degree ot mental excite
to dementia and that, therefore, ho should

nut be held responsible.

; John Coyle,

1 careful parental overs
i dutely will
constantly surrounde
sociations.
“| necting except with boon companions
who went only to witness scenes 0
revival or to cause
was an jmmor

Com. | ly reckless,
Oxford | fanity,
Hoover, ' Along wit
love for strong drink he had an ungovern-
able temper that caused

them. The horrible ertme of murder was

ld, with j buta natural culminat
wickedness.
prisonment at York that he turned his
attention to religious matters.
began to read the Bible
months, professed conversion.

After his re
f | burg,
Prof. P. M. Bikle,
lege,
literature.

most important horse and cattle iaelaea
é in the Btate, the annual sales of horses cel] shows that he
to the Psalms and the
Ile became quite
and while his answers to questions on the
a plan of salv |
and ciearness
catechism, they were generally correct, at
Jeast on the essentials.
abiding fuith in
me willing
BaLEs.—Wm. H. Peters has purchased | found peace in believing.
book
he found the Apostles’ Cree
once transcribed and spoke of it as ex-
pressing bis faith satisfactorily with the

secution,

wae

the

sment a8 wo amount

COYLE’S KARLY LIFE.

Jr., grew to manhood under
}le not only had no
in his parents nor
ight, but was abso-
rout any religious training and
d by the worst as-
He never attended a religious

mo

i ces. '
influence Co

on

fa noisy
disturbance. His life
al and degrading one, utter-
characterized by gross pro-
sensuality drunkenness.
hy his vices of sensual lust and

and

great distress to | 4),

parents and made him a terror bo
m

ion to this life of |p,

It was only after bis im-

lle there

and, after some
RELIGIOUS EXPERIENCE,

moval to the jail in Gettys-

he was occasionally visited by Rev.

. . |

of Pennsylvania Col- |

who supplied him with religious |

w

lp

his spiritual adviser in
K. Demarest, of

d

We understand that since | ¢

I
quite re-

The copy of the Bible in his
paid special attention
New Testament.
apt in quoting Scripture,

i

ation had not the exactness
of the language of the

He professed an
Christ as an able and
and claimed to have,
In one of the }
itual adviser
1, which he at

Saviour,

s given him by his spir

tiele, which, it was |
When

votions.

to him, however, in h
to meet his God, that he cou
StixE & | forgive his enemics.
of the idea that he was an object of per- |

is efforts to prepare |
ld not freely |
Unable to get rid |

he found some com fort in the im-

trict Attorney Swope,
nouncement:

Warrant issued to the Sheriff by the

now proceed to execnte
for

cisely 11.29 the
ushered into cternity.
broken and death niust
instantaneous,
for several minutes, when some muscular
contraction became ev ident, :

was in attendance; also Drs. KE. W.B
ley of York, A. Zz.
and Charles Swartz of Emmittsburg.

pulse beat 150 per

| beat, and at 11:55
| down and placed in a coffin which had
| been prepared by Mr. Culp, undertaker,

by order of Coyle’s friends. i

parents, both of whom were in town, apd

When the death-warrant tol- and agreeable, which accounts for the
lowed on the refusal of the Supreme Court | remarkable sale of the great national

to reverse the yerdict in the second trial,
and gave them | Coyle sent for Prof. Bikle, who has since |
been acting as
gs now a stock | connection with Rev. J.
the Presbyterian chureh of this place—
the latter being culled in at the suggestion
of Prof, Bikle.
his incarceration here Coyle continued to!
yead the Scriptures and has showed an |
apprehension of their meaning
markable in one whose early years were
so neglected and whose education was So

remedy,

and colds.
spring,

Speads a two-story brick dwelling on East

brick front to his dwe
burg street; J.C
ble and carriage
cently purchased from the Executor of es-
tate of R. G. McCreary,
Camimon,

Carlisle street;
burg street, and Jobn Cunningham, Bal-

timore street. repainting of dwellings.

a tract of 88 acres recently
from the Wm. Wert estate, on
Chambersburg read,
ship.

, eee ae

n retired fro

John's Lutvern church t
people's Mite Society, @ great
to pastor and members.

The pews af St. Paul’s Luthe:
were rented last Monday afteri
the suin realized was 3968. TL®
has since been increased to alm
Adding to this sum the amount
ted by non-pew-holding men *
vecessary finances of the chure
only assured for the current ye:
rendered easy. Tbe pastor's
inereased from 8350 to $1000 ot
of April.

Littlestown has a 99ct. store
is said, is doing a fine business
Mr. Jos, Ocker shipped thre
or fat cattle to Philadelphia |
and one car load to Baltimore.
Mr. C. G, Sauerhammer i
story to his shop to meet the ¢
his growing business—cigar T°

m the scaffold, except Dis
who made the an-
“In the name of the Com-
nwealth, and in obedience to the Death

the Sheriff will
John Coyle, jt,
the murder of Emily Myers committed
the 30th day of May 1881.” At pre-
drop fell aud Coyle was

llis neck was
have been nearly

vernor of this state,

There was no struggling

Dr. IL, L. Diehl, physician to the jail,
rick-
Buchen of Hanover,
In
ree minutes after the drop fell Coyle’s
minute, with slight
uscular contraction—at the end of 7
inutes pulse 65—at end of 10 minutes
Ati1:45 the heart ceased to
‘the body was taken

ing.

nn ne

Mipp.etown IteMs.—An
pleasant week has passed—ge
for the farmers.

Mr. Geo, Deardorff, of near
lost a valuable horse by break
A pack of hounds on Frida;
running a fox. We have
whether they caught it.
Communion services wer
Sunday at St. Paul's church !
McSherry, and an excellent
preached.
Among the visitors to tow
Jno. Livre of Philadelphia, *
ing a week or two here; Mis:
ly of Gettysburg; H. G. Beet
Lansinger of Cartisle.

The farmers are busy gett!
plant corn.

rise 35,

pu

The remains were handed over to Coyle’s

ill be taken to York to-day.

—————

Norntine is ever lost by being pleasant

Dr. Bull’s Cough Syrup, a safe,
leasant, and successful cure for coughs
Price ouly 25 cents & bottle.

IMPROVEMENTS.— With the opening of

improvements are the order of the
Among those in Gettysburg.we no-
Peter A.

ny.
ice the following in progress.
——

Deats or Writus HH
William Heaffer, a widely k
of Abbottatown, died at his
that place, ou Wednesday 0
an illness of some weeks, of
of the heart, from which i
suffering for some time. E
70 years of age. He starta
out means, but by industry
ment and devotion to basi:
lated large wealth. At his
ed much valuable real estat
Adams Counties and in Ma
thousands of dollars invest:
tate security. His wealth i
from $300,000 to 400,000.

2 ahaa eeepc

ta" Maj. H.S. Benner’s
of cars carried to and ft
during the last year, 1224}

Jacobs a three-story
ling on Chambers-
. Neely, Esq., a new sta-
house on the property re-

ligh street; Joseph

dee'd; Mrs. Me-
a new mansard roof and other
her dwelling louse on

mprovements on
M. Tate, Chambers-

John

a new house and barn on
purchased
the old
in Straban town-

John Lower,

Henry Lower, a two story double frame
house at Table Rock.

Jobn Bupp, a bank
township; in the same
Miller, a new house
Diehl, at Green Ridge,
new house.

Col. J. H. MeClellau is making exten-
sive improvements in and around his
hotel property, the McClellan House. an average of nearly 104 &

C. B. Hanes is having the Washington | He carried to Baltimore 2,
House, on Carlisle street, fixed up for the | pjoverseed and 597 dree
better accommodation of his guests.

brought from Baltimore

William Chritzman has been improving
Baltimore street. putting | SUgar and 216 barrels of 5
ad ee

barn in Hamilton
township, George
and barn; Joseph
same township, &

PasroraL R
Sangree, recently ca
charge, with his family reac
ville on Wednesday evening. He is repre-
sented to be a kind and amiable gentleman,

precatory Psalms, as some oe the well: |“ \G will doubtless win the confidence and
ainly show. | Jove of his people. On Saturday afternoon | ing to th
a large number of them called at the par- ;
sonage with baskets well loaded with
articles suitable for A sumpt-

als of all figures and to all colors—black,
blue, brows, green aud mixed, They | thumbed pages of his Bible p!
. ttiake the best fits, do the best work and | pig bitterness, however, became less and |

nell the cheapest. April 22-2t Jess as his end approached, and yet he

- of | died feeling that he was harshly dealt

with because, as he claimed, he commit-
ted the crime while ina condition of mind
that made Lim irresponsible, and that his
death was in answer to the demands of
the ‘prejudiced and hard-learted’’ oom-
he lived,

en nd
Notice.

SP RDN

G. W, Sraxctzs ba

elphia with » fall

will open of

Notice.
Anr?—Two car loads
1 car load of Perry
1 car load of Hench
1 car load of
loads of

- Hears We
_, Western Wagons,
=. Spring-tecth Harrows,
& Dromgold Corn Plows,

Deering Binders, and two car

Adrianee Mowers and Reapers— for
‘ gale ad the ware-house of Jonn A.
« Lrvere, Gottysburg, Pa. Apr. 8-tf

—_—

TES 5 RT ae

pies,
ceries, vegetables,-
afternoon spent in
all repaired to their homes,
heart of the pastor filled with
for the kindness shown.
a aiiieagiininarmem
Toe New K \1.ROAD.— Regular passen-
on the Gettysburg

gains, To

muuity in which
Bargains we offer.

THE SCAFFOLD.

The scaffold was erected tmmediately
of the corridor of the jail, It
high and six feet square.
from the beam to the
platform is eight feet, from that to the
| round six feet, giving a drop of at least
story brick | three fect and ahalf. "The mode of spring-
street. En. | ing the trap was very ingeniously contriv-
tf ed, being so arranged that by the pulling

-———
Fanuens should s9
Co's Standard Fertihse
Corn and Vegetables. 7
sale Pure Digsalved
Chemicals. - a oN:

Josue oi fe
at cost. ste A 3a

‘

H, B. Dawnxr, having been appointed

aker and Brewn, 4

in the rea
is fourteen feet

The upper part

tf
of passengers, and ]
pers, The Press’ and: Times were

ph
| promptly delivered at this office, with the
compli

quire of C.F. BreuLen, ments of Mr. Lehman.

ae Se eted Rea hs, Sas i eRe a a

@ )

°

fs ieee bancitt Like. ety lhe Ae te no
Lav! Au Pherey mere the hf THD Cism eleept oe ae ep

Coe cates Aneel etn crtecarotasael Ay Aa Missedacof
ducting Hoe Lamon L93/ J Raglewte: piace. tons Mew ake .

Fete Cosenty Netoceelbeccely

SOF N Wane At

 Conbecepee FE, ILI


= Harry, white, 23, elec. Pa. Potter on November 17, TS

S (he beh 3 0 /2 O- Vee loo. rs becowt off ened ther
ee eae Le IE Hin Nee ie

S Crore ont Jl era ‘ie iho Digigdaen fon pie. bon.

hare con te a force crn’ the pt:

, PRS begat aren tlo ne plone:

Come neae bela Te eink bee

- we ee: eee we Ld, hf th gl
oi Te Sho eflirton ae wee

» facto Dee an Aang inclement Achat thetherst df

ee ps HAE tht, fleas i-ghior rf the macht, .
cs EY Lee RT fled be per torfeeseel hy Coon

Wake cs aera Ae are tg Toba orb bal ob
sa for ndguilty rf acctlence cel-1 lage fle Tho lidme the
S le Be M00 ea

a Cae

J Nev-/7 raw iandpanonnee.

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aed

“COYIE, John, white, 29 , hanged Gettysburg,

Pae 3 -21-188),

e ee
ee ‘nesany Evening. Aprtt 22, 1884:

re

morning inside the jail walls.

SS

~ hepetd for as: regular rates.

mS Ma,maonth or year.

ITrMS. a
iiss Movelty ‘Weck
we car load of chettcs over

oD 5 Winren--Severs] cords of good
¢ oak wood will be taken on account at

se Cenere: nanan
Friday Mr. Walter, of Fairfield,
, eXppid three car loads (63 head) of fut
5 ea ierates a over the Gettys-.
; bare Hoerlabarg railroad.

I
‘Wastrep.--Popila in “charcoal object
anne” Por terms, &o., apply to
““Asons BR. McCreanr, Baltimore street,
Seti, Pa, April 22~2t¢

SS eee

UH George Deardorif, Butler township,
“‘Joat @ walgable horse last week by being
Kkisked Syanother horse in the stable,

ng 2 bac

‘ cis

here eae

ee

 “gagrOn Thuradsy James Culp, of this
: Si and ‘masbed the index finger of his left
“; Intad, while working ov the H. J., H. &

er

44s
OM
ax Se

8, Gitt, Eaq., is surveying
1a tha new borough of McSherrystown, to
4 Council to establish grades of
af payentents,

Seg ne

ri Btephe us & Beetem, of the
 egarte Gory House,” take advantage
“ofthe opening of the now Railroad to
ie one aembannual greeting to the
epi Adarrs.county. See adv.

ER AE Ol EMA
fei ape want everybody to know it. Think
| yourself, and when you have done
tal, tall:your neighbors that we are head.
~ dewAgpera’ for everything in the Clothing
* ine.” Peoples’ Popular Clothing House,
aaa opposite Court House. 22-2¢

ee
gprtoha F. Adelsperger, Eramittsbarg,
; alte ‘broke Kis right arm whilst at

= crates de NRE
5

coltbinged pt! work before
tn ry when Dr. Eich-
ERE reed the fracture. -
me
Par Mis, Loaten L. Bargolt fell while
& down the oollar atairs, at her home
et and suffered a fracture of
bok of her loft fore-arm, near the
alegw: Tek -ncciden$ was caused by
Spampobeet ‘oan left on the steps
of the children.

re
@mhployes ofthe H, J., H. & G,
Potten on the extension of the
orm’? at Hoopy’s cut, have killed
within the last ten days—black,
gad eoppethead. One of them was
Jong; @pother 4 feet, and the othera

entertainment in MoUlel.
Pa Thdiaday night. Miss Cole
aged for Shasnatgar reader
rorabls Impression, The.
Qhwh entertained the audi.

r ar @rr08.——All business locals, announce
rota or poncerts, festiva-s and similar en
rprtisés, got apto make money, whether for

“‘hurohes, asacciations or individuals, must

xe oharge for Local Notices ts 10 cents &
nefotvachinesrtion, Liberal reduction in
“Sc gyorét regnier Advertisers contracting by

‘Pbitmary Notices exceeding five lines,
tat rate of tive cents egret
valine: wee

ee

We

|THE, CRIME.

Young Coyle was lascivious and
wes somewhat impared.
faorning of May 30, 1881,
4 marriage, shot her dead,

him and this set him, ‘‘crasy,”’
shot her. and then trig to kill

Judge Wickes at October Term

guilty. His counsel took a writ

By reason of the alleged feeling

1883.
fence on both trials was based on
insanity of Coyle at the time of th
May 11 Judge McClean overruled

tion fora new trial,
prisoner to be hung at sach time

firmed the Court below. -
GOV. PATTISON REFUSES TO INTE

on Tuesday, April 23, 1884, and

don or commutation of sentence,

that the Governor déclined to in

morning. ,

tion at the
those who have had secess: t6-toim,

versation.

but thtosghout there has been nu

on both taialg, ab thp tim
senior be mhyretort hy su

to domenti# and tha therefore, he

not be hold assponsibla.

Coyle was indicted for murder in York
County June 10. 1881,, and tried before

to the Supreme Court, resulting in a re-
versal of Judge Witkes, on a fine point
involving an alleged material distinction
between the words “fairly” and “clearly.”

county against the prisoner the case, on
motion of Coyle’s counsel, was transferred
to Adams county and come on for trial
before Judge McClean at April Term,
The prisoner was again convicted
of murder in the first degree. The de-.

ang sentenced the

Governor should designate. Another
writ of error was taken to the Supreme
Court, but after holding the case under
advisement for six months the Court dia.-
missed the assignments of error and af-

Gov. Pattison issued a death-warrant
for execution of the sentence of the Court

Plavk proceeded to make the ne
arrangements. The scaffold was built by
Charlea H, Comfort of this place,
‘week application for a respite was made
to Gov; Pattison, to grant a commission
in lupacy-and prepare the way for ® par-

Thuraday, Secretary Stenger telegraphed

This sealed Coyle’s fate, dissipated all
hope of edcaping the terrible penalty and
nothing was left the sheriff sod prisoner
but to prepare for the ‘exeoution this

Sar te THEORY’ OF ‘TRE CHIME.
ter may have been Coyle’s men-
time’ of the murder

his imprisonment, were Sexpreasad with
the intelligence and rationality of his goay
With alternations of hopeful.
peas and despondenoy, under tha yarying
prospects of escape from thedeath pasaity,
he manifested levity or seriousness, as
was natoral with a person of his training,

tions éf insanity. Ho has cling tenscious-
ly, however, to the theory of his counsel

degree Ot ment exettement 9s to necreat

~ EXECUTION OF JORN COYLE, JR.

John Coyle,. In. convicted of the mur- | b
der of Emily Myers, was executed this |

Our readers are famiigc with tho cir-
cumstances.of tha orima for which. Coyle
has-paid the penalty, ot bi fife, us devel.”
oped in the trial st laxpAuurll Term, Miss
Myers, 4 young ‘girt of preposseasing ap-

, was a domestic in. the: employ
rof Coyle’s father, who resides at Ovyle’s
Ferry on the Susquehanna river, York
county, immediately opposite Marietta.
sensual,
indulged in a secret vice and general
‘dissipation, whereby possibly his intellect
Early on the

Misa Myers
went td the barn to milk some cows,
Coyle followed, and either because she
refused to yield to attempts on her chas-
tity or because she declined his offer of
Mis own ver-
sion of the matter was that he wasin love
with Emily, that: she refused to marry

and he
himself,

of the

same year, the jury rendering a verdict of

of error

in York

alleged
e crime,
the mo-

as the

RFERK.

Sheriff
cessary

Last

but on

tarfere.

dniing

indica-

of the
such a

yesnene

lor a rope the work was done, no oue
‘ knowing who did it. The plan was drawn
| by Franklin Keagy, architect, Chambers. :
urg.
When Coyle reccived notice on Friday
afternoon that Gov. Pattison had refused
to interfere he was visibly affected. Tis
spirits were evidently broken and he did
not go to sleep or lie down until four
o’olock the next morning. The next day
he seemed calmer and slept from 10 Satur-
day night until 5 o'clock Sunday morning.
During Sunday he was again more calm,
hig spiritual advisers having been with
him most of the day; but he spent a very
restless and sleepless night, not going to
bed until four o'clock in the morning and
rising again at 5. He paced his cell and
beeen to himself, gaying ho had never

one athe

and wrong; and mgt tf, the same strain.
LAST EFFORT £08 A REPRIEVE.
Another effort Wis nisde yesterday to
obtain a reprieve for Coyle. Drs, Good-
win and Mills. tnedical experts from
Philadelphia, reached town at 10 A. M.,
and with Dr. T. T. ‘Pate of this place
went to the jail, where they had a pro-
tracted interview with the prisoner. What
judgment they formed as to Coyle’s men-
tal condition did not transpire, but it was
rumored that they would recommend a
reprieve, on the ground of mental imbe-
cility. At4P. M., they took the train
for Harrisburg, accompanied by Coyle’s
counsel, and had an interview with the
Governor, The latter, however, again
refused to interfere, and at a late hour
last night, after Sheriff Plark had retired,
a telegram to that effect was received.
This morning, it became evident that
there would bea large crowd in town de
sirous of witnessing the execution, a num-
ber of them from York county. There
-was@ great pressure on the Sheriff for
tlekets of admission. He had appointed
a number of persons ‘‘deputies,” and in
that way many got access tothe jail yard.
As the hour for execution drew nigh,s
large crowd gathered in the vicinity of
the jail, drawn thither by a morbid our-
losity. At.10.a. m. a special train over
the H: J., H. & G. road brobght to town
a number of persons from York county.
Ooyle’s hopes were revived yesterday
by the renewed efforts for a reprieve, and
he became bright and cheerful, He went
to bed at 11 o’clock and slept until 6 this
morning, and woke up -is good spirits.
The failure of the last application was
not communicated to him until after he
waked up, the sheriff not — 6 dis-
turb his sleep.
THE EXECUTION,
- Coyle’s spiritual advisers, Prof. Bikle
and Rev. Demarest, called on him early
this morning, aud continued with him to
to the last. About 11 o’slock the proces-
sion moved from the prisoner’s cell to. the
scaffold, led by District Attorney Swope,
followed by Prof.. Bikle, Bheriff Plank
and Coyle, and Mr; Demarest. Coyle ap-
peared calm and prepared for the worst,
giving no special indication. of nervous-
On the scaffold, Rev. Mr. Demarest led
in w brief prayer, followed by Prof. Bikle
fn another brief prayer, the latter pro-
nouncing the Benedictivo. Bheriff Plank
staked Coyle if he desired to say anything.
in an under tone the prisoner communi-
¢ated with District Attorney Swope, who
announced that Coyle desired him to say
that he forgave all his enemies and had
no ill-will against any one, and to thank
the Sheriff and all who had befriended
him for their kindness.
Sheriff Plank then strepped the prison-
er’s legs, tied his hands behind his back,
adjusted the rope around his neck, and
ago the binek cap over hia head... All
then retired from the scaffold, exoept Dis.

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CAREY, Olliw M. ("Buddy"), electrocuted Pa. State Prison (Montgomery) on 5-18-1953.

"Abington, July lh, 19)9-Ollie M. ("Buddy") Carey, 9, held in connection with the sleying
of a policeman, attempted suicide in his prison cell Police Sgt. Minor Newcombe said doday.
Carey asked police last night for a pencil and paper and began writtng a memorandum. New-
combe said two hours later he was found lying on the cot, his arm dangling in a washbasin
and a bloody knife on the floor. Police Chief Patrick MeKee quoted Carey as saying he
strapped the knife to his thigh before he was captured in Virginia last week. Carey was
treated at the Abington Memoriel Hospital and returned to the police. NcKee said he be-
lieves Carey’ s suicide attempt was to get in the hospital where he might have more oppor-
tunity to escape. The prisoner is charged with homicide in the June 28 shooting of Pa-
trolman Thomas J. Mathews, killed as he chased a fleeing man. Later in the day, Carey

was held without bail for the grand jury on charges of burglarizing two Rydel homes on

the night of the slaying." MERCURY, Pottstown, Pa., July 15, 19,9 (12/7.)

Appeal report states date of crime was 6-28-19))9 and date of capture 78-199. Find noth-
ing in MERCURY on capture. Will order film for date of crime.

Find nothing on date oc rime, before or after.


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Officer Thomas Mathews, in the uniform he wore as a paratrooper, and his wife Mary, before a bullet fired by a burglar separated them forever

A Cop for a

Truckload of Loot

A Burglar Turned Cop-Killer Was Fleeing Through the Woods
Near This Fashionable Philadelphia Suburb. Could the -200-
Man Posse Cut Off His Escape in Time? And If It Couldn't—

man Thomas J. Mathews said.
“I don’t like it.”

His partner, Patrolman Clark Cutting,
agreed. ‘Those lights aren’t on for
nothing and those dogs aren’t barking
at the moon.”

The two officers had stopped in front
of the Walter C. Koenig home at Bar-
rowdale Road and Dixon Lane in the
exclusive, estate-filled section of Rydal,
a Philadelphia suburb. It was about
1:15 a. m., Wednesday, June 29, 1949,
and through the thick cluster of trees
they could see that almost every light
was on in the Koenig residence. And

at l: SOUNDS like trouble,” Patrol-

the dogs were yowling and yapping like,

mad.

The two officers, flashlights on,
slipped from their car and walked up
the lane to the house while the dogs
growled and yelped in increasing fury.

Mathews rapped on the door.

“Who is it?” a voice asked cautiously.

“We're officers,” Mathews answered.
“We're just checking to see if any-
thing’s wrong.”

By Stan Warren

Special Investigator for
OFFICIAL DETECTIVE STORIES —

The door opened hesitantly and a
face peered out. The face, worried at
first, showed quick relief at the sight
of the uniforms. It was Koenig him-
self, and he told the officers that he and
his family had been awakened by the
dogs.

“There must be someone prowling
around,” he said, “because those dogs
don’t usually act up like that.”

“We'll take a look,” Mathews told
him. “Don’t worry about a thing.”

The officers walked back to the lane,
shooting their flashlight beams in all
directions. These grounds were spa-
cious and a prowler easily could be

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hidden behind the many bushes and
trees. ’

Suddenly a motor roared out on the
road somewhere.

Mathews and Cutting ran down the
lane to the road. They could see head-
lights at the intersection, about 100
yards away, and then a truck leaped
forward like a frightened animal and
sped down the winding, hilly road, its
body swaying back and forth.

Mathews and Cutting raced to their
car. . Within seconds they were speeding
after the truck. Gradually the police
car crept closer to the hoarse-throated
truck, drew abreast of it. Mathews

shouted a warning to the driver through
the window.

But the driver ignored his shouts and
the police car slashed in front of the
truck and the truck slithered to the side
of the road with a screaming of brakes.

Mathews and Cutting jumped out of
their car. The chase had led them a
quarter mile to the rear drive of the
John F, O’Neill home, on Dixon Lane
and Leopard Road, next to the Caleb
Fox estate. The driver of the truck
got out of the cab slowly. He was a slim
man, about 32. He wore loafer shoes
and a light-blue, checkered shirt. He
had a thin mustache and he wore
glasses.

“Where the devil do you think you're
going?” Mathews demanded.

The man shrugged. He seemed ner-
vous.

“What’re you doing around here at
this hour?” Cutting asked.

“I’m lost,” the stranger said. “I’m
lost good.” He was, he said, driving
from Philadelphia to Willow Grove, a
town not far from Rydal.

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“Let’s see your license,” Mathews
ordered.

While the driver fumbled with cards
in his wallet, Cutting searched the
truck. In the back his flashlight beam
picked out a case of whisky. He turned,
frowning, to where the driver and
Mathews were standing.

Mathews, holding a card under his
flashlight, said, “Hey, this is a nine-
teen forty-five license!”

Before either officer could move the
driver tore the license from Mathews’
hand and dashed into the bushes.

The patrolmen spurted after him,
across a broad expanse of lawn, to-
ward a woods.

Mathews, his gun out, fired two shots,
neither of them hitting the fleeing man.

“Go back and get help!” Mathews
shouted at his partner. ‘“I’ll keep after
him!” Cutting stopped as his partner
plunged into the woods after the man.

Back at the car, Patrolman Cutting
put through a radio call to the Abing-
ton Township station. Lieutenant Al-
wyn G, Streeper took the call and im-
mediately he ordered every available
man to the scene. Then, before hurry-
ing out there himself, he telephoned
police of Cheltenham and Jenkintown,
small towns in the vicinity, and enlisted
their aid. The Lieutenant was thinking
of the dense woodlands in Rydal, the
swamps, the almost impassable thick-
ets. He knew that every officer who
could be spared would be needed to
find the mysterious truck driver.

UTTING, ordered to stay by the car,

waited impatiently for the reen-
forcements to arrive. He was anxious
to be off. He’d heard several more
shots out there in the darkness and
then silence.

The reenforcements arrived finally
and the officers plunged into the woods.
But they could not find a trace of either
Mathews or the fugitive. For a half
hour the officers, led by Lieutenant

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Streeper, tramped the dense woodland
and flushed only owls, squirrels and
insects. Where were the men? What
had happened to Mathews?

And then—

“Hey!” Cutting said. “Look at that!”

He and Streeper and several of the
other officers were standing near a fence
that separated the estate of Henry
Hauptfuhrer, Junior, from that of Law-
rence H. Gipson. Cutting’s flashlight
had picked out a white handkerchief
dangling from the fence.

“That's probably Mathews’!’’ Streep-
er shouted. ‘“‘He must have left it there
to show us the way!”

The officers climbed the fence and
picked their way cautiously through a
black cluster of bushes. They could
make out a dim, broken, foot-pressed
trail. Mathews undoubtedly had come
this way. They walked on for about
150 yards more.

There they found Mathews.

He was lying on the ground, face up.
Blood trickled from his cheeks and onto
the collar of his uniform. His left hand
held a pair of handcuffs, his right a
service revolver, its bullets fired. His
flashlight was gone and his hat lay a
few feet away.

The officers were stunned. For a mo-
ment none of them could say anything.

Mathews! Tom Mathews! Why, he
couldn’t be hurt! Not Tom! Every man
there knew Mathews. He had been a
member of the Abington Police Force
for two years. He was married and
lived with his wife and two-year-old
son on Meeting House Road in Rydal.
He was an ex-paratrooper, a cheerful,
friendly fellow.

“I—I can’t believe it,” Cutting said.
“Tom! Tom! Are you all right, boy?”

Lieutenant Streeper knelt over the
body. He saw a bullet hole under
Mathews’ left eye and another in his
abdomen. The third finger of his left
hand was shattered. Powder burns
seared his face.

i Okita,

Looking for a killer's picture; from the
left, Officer Cutting, Detective Sergeants
Jackson and McDermott, and Detective Britt

er,” Cutting said. “‘He wasn’t the type.”
“It’s probably stuff he = stole,”
Streeper answered. “I wouldn't be sur-
prised if a few of the homes around here
were looted. You and Mathews must
have heard him just after he finished a
job and was trying to get away.”
Streeper and Cutting waited near the
body of their fellow officer until the
coroner arrived. Then they returned
‘to the truck. At least 30 more officers
had gathered there, newly arrived reen-
forcements brought out by the alarm.
Orders were issued for road blocks at
various points. Other officers were sent
scurrying directly into the woods,
armed with sub-machineguns, rifles.

Two Abington Township policemen inspect the truck that was first
borrowed, then stolen, then used in a crime that became homicide

Tom Mathews was not all right. He
was dead.

HE Lieutenant stood up slowly. He
thought he had the picture of what

had happened out here in the woods.

“The killer fooled him,” he said
grimly. “Probably he stopped and
raised his hands. That’s why Tom was
holding the handcuffs at the time he
was shot. The powder burns definitely
show that the gun was fired at pretty
close range.”

“I should have stayed with him,”
Cutting said bitterly. “I shouldn’t have
left him alone.”

Streeper told him, “You did what was
right, calling for help. And Mathews
was right in asking you to go back.
This is no one’s fault but the killer's.
And we'll take care of him!”

But could they take care of the kill-
er? Where was he? How find him?

The Lieutenant ordered one of his
men to go back to the radio car and
send out the alarm, including a descrip-
tion of the killer, which Cutting furn-
ished. The others were to continue the
hunt for the slayer in the woods.

When the men had gone, Streeper
and Cutting examined the area around
the body. On the ground near by they
found a cigarette case and a bottle of
perfume.

“These sure don’t belong to the kill-

shotguns, service pistols. A fire truck
had been summoned and its giant
floodlight bathed the area in a ghostly
glare.

Lieutenant Streeper supervised the
searching of the killer’s truck.

“There's a lot of valuable stuff in
here,” he said, aiming his flashlight
around the interior. “Jewelry, bottles of
cordial, silverware, whisky. That guy
sure made a haul. We’ll have to try all
the houses around here and see which
ones were robbed.”

The Lieutenant then examined the
cab of the truck. The glove compart-
ment was open. He rustled through the
papers, hoping to find there some
identification of the truck owner. As
he did so, a colored card fell to the rub-
ber mat at his feet. He picked it up
quickly, afraid even to hope what it
was.

An owner’s card!

Streeper whistled softly.

The name on the card was Ear! Ben-
son, the address a number in Philadel-
phia.

HAT morning Detective Sergeant
Thomas McDermott and Detective
Joseph Britt were on duty in Philadel-
phia’s Seventh Detective Division. They
drew the assignment of looking up Earl
nson. The call from the Abington
‘ownship Police had come into Phila-

‘

Members of the gigantic posse follow the
directions of a spotter in the airplane i
in their attempt to botHe up the killer he ts :

delphia Headquarters at City Hall, to
the office of Inspector of Detectives
Richard Doyle, and it had been relayed
to the Seventh Division, which covered
the area in which Benson lived.

It was about 3:30 a. m. and the Ben-
son house was dark when McDermott
and Britt pulled up in front of it. They
rang the bell once and then waited. No
answer. ey rang again. They had to
ring twice more before the house lights
went on and someone peered through
the curtains of the living-room win-
dow.

It was a man and he seemed fright-
ened. Although the detectives couldn’t
hear what he was saying, his lips
seemed to form the words, ‘“‘What do you
want?”

McDermott jerked his thumb in the
direction of the door, motioning for him
to open it.

The man opened the window a crack,
bent down and called out, “Who are
you?”

“We're the police,” Britt answered.

The man banged the window shut.
Within a minute the door opened.

“What happened?” the man asked.
“What's wrong?”

The man was partly dressed, in his
undershirt but wearing pants, shoes
and stockings. Why at half-past three
in the morning? .

“Was there an accident?” the man
asked. “Ella—”

From what he said, the officers
gathered that his wife was away, that
he was home alone.

“Is your name Benson?” McDermott
asked.

The man nodded. He seemed too up-
set to answer.

McDermott asked him then if he

owned a truck, and described the one:

in which the Abington authorities were
interested.

“T own a truck like that,” Benson ad-
mitted readily. “What about it?”

Britt said, “First of all, tell us why
you're dressed so early in the morning?”

The man looked at his pants. “To tell
you the truth, I didn’t go up to bed
until a little while ago. I fell asleep on
the sofa. I was just getting undressed

Lieutenant Al Streeper: He
found an answer in a sewer

Little Michael Mathews: For
him, father-less Christmases

when I heard the doorbell ring.”

“We didn’t see any lights from out-
side.”

“I was in the middle room. You can’t
see those lights from outside. What’s
this all about?”

“You didn’t just happen to come in
from Rydal, did you?” .

“Rydal?” The man frowned. “Me?
heck, no. Why?”

Sergeant McDermott explained pa-

tiently, studying the man. “A cop was
killed out in Rydal about half-past one.
The killer was driving your truck. We
found the owner’s card inside and that’s
how we traced it to you.”

“A cop? Killed?” Benson couldn’t
believe what he heard. “And by some-
one in my truck?” He shook his head.
“There must be a mistake somewhere.
He wouldn’t do anything like that.”

“Who?” McDermott asked tensely.
“Who wouldn’t do ariything like that?”

“andy.”

Andy was Andrew White, Benson ex-
plained. He’d known Andy for some
time and a few days before, Andy: had
offered to buy Benson’s truck.

“He wanted to make sure it was in
good condition,” Benson said, “and I
loaned it to him for awhile to drive
around in. He has it now. But, gosh—”

Benson knew White's address. Driv-
ing there, the officers tried to add up
Benson’s story. He had sounded sincere
and apparently he was telling a true
story. But they would know for sure
when they questioned White. And
what about this White? Why had he
borrowed Benson’s truck?

jt WAS now about four in the morning

and White’s house was as dark and -

silent as all the others on the block.
After almost five minutes of pounding
and ringing, the door opened. White
himself answered the door. His hair
was uncombed and he wore a robe over
his pajamas but, strangely enough,
there seemed to be no sleep in his eyes.

White did not hesitate in his answer
when the officers asked him if he had
borrowed Benson’s truck.

“Sure,” he said. “Why do you ask?”

Instead of answering, Britt said.
“What did you need the truck for?”

“My business, of course,” White an-
swered, puzzled. “I’m a huckster.”

“Were you at home all night?” Mc-
Dermott asked.

White frowned. He said s'owly, “Of
course I was. Why?”

cCDERMOTT said, “A man who ap-
parently was driving the truck you
borrowed shot an officer to death in
Rydal tonight. That’s why.”
“You must have made a mistake. My
truck’s right here. At the curb—” He

_ looked out the doorway and pointed.

At nothing. Nocar was parked at that
curb.

“It’s gone!” he said. “Someone stole
it!”

McDermott and Britt stood there on
the front steps, saying nothing.

“You don’t believe me, do you?”
White asked.

“Can you prove you were home all
night?” McDermott demanded.

“Wait here,” the man said. In a few
minutes he was back with his wife.
Sleepy-eyed, she seemed to have diffi-
culty understanding what her husband
wanted her to confirm. But finally she
snapped wide awake. Of course he was
home all night, she insisted. Why, he
went to sleep before she did. And he
wouldn’t sneak out while she slept. He
never did that. She was sure. She
stopped suddenly, the smile gone from
her lips, as her husband flashed her an
angry look. The blood crept into her
cheeks.

“You always leave the truck outside?”
McDermott asked the man.

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VICTIM

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McAndrew a Carbondale policesman, shot to death at Dickson City in April, 1913, Trap sprung by
man situated behind stone walls of prison so witnesses would not know identity. sSneriff standing —
gn scaffold to give a signal, SCRANTON TIMRS 12-2-191), The following from TIMES of. 12-3-191)
—t Photograph of-thimietewski-on paye-one, }—*'Not—tosine -a_particte-of the nervethat—he-hes showtt—
since the day of his arrest, betraying not the least emotion as he. walked up the 10 steps of the
—seaffold, Chimielewski, aged21, was hanged inthe yard of the county prisonfor the murder committed
on 1-16-1913, Drop pulled by Morris Thomas, a saloonkeeper of Warrior Run, Luzerne County, at 10:1
—and he was pronounced dead five mins, later. Body cut down at 10:19 and as it lay on a rough
looking bench in the engine roome corridor, it was noticed that there were movements of the heart,
The- yphsycians explained that there are nerves by themselves in the heart and they had to spend
what energy was remaining after death had come, Neck was broken and there was only slightest
quiver after trap was sprung, the forearms, strapped to boddy, stretching out slightly, His last
words were: "Let the young men Know of my death, let them keep away from drink, and they will
never go wrong, Let them take example of my fate, My advise is that, the read the Bible and become
=thrtstians<. ‘asa Methodist by-religion-and-was—accompanied to-vallows—by—one Methodist—and+twe
Presbyteran Priests. Approximately 100 witnessed execution, among them the brother of victim and
i ing Li oA a life at_victim!'s home, remarked as the —
death procession came into view: "I would like to pull the trap; he killed one of the best men
—that_wver lived,"" The trap was operated by a movement of a rope leading from the tran throush a
hole in the wall to a room in the basement corridor, Sevgral witnesses cut pieces of the rope for
souveniers, Chanced religion to Presbyterian just before execution, When told he could have
anything he wanted for breakfast, replied: "Just a glass of warm milk will be enough this morning,”
McAndrew, while dying in Delaware and Hudson Station in Dickson City, had scribbled will which
read: "Fverything to my mother." By a coincidence, Chimielewski, wrote same brief will on AM of
execution, His father Bwisited him that morning end Chimielewski said: "Father, if you did not
drink so-much I-would not—have to-dte tomorrow, * His thather raised-his right-hamd-above-his
head and said:"John, I will never take another drink," and turned and left (this was night before

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APPEALS

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EXECUTION


Chronology from SCRANTON TIMES, Scranton, Pennsylvania, 12-3-191h.
John
Jan, 16, 1913-KigH Chimielewski shot Patrolman “illiam McAndrew of Carbondale, et Diekson City,
Jan. 18, 1913- Patrolman McAndrew died at the State hospital, Scranton,
Jane 18, 1913- Chimielewski escaped from Dickson: City, going to Tong Island.
April 19, 1913-Chimielewski arrested at his uncle's farm, Long Island, by Lt. of Police Palmer
and Letective Connery, Scranton,
April 28, 1913-Attorneys F, C, Foley and Clarence Balentine assigned to defend hingon his petition
to court that he was without funds.
end 20, 1913-Chimielewski placed on trial,
May 2), 1913-Convicted for lst degree mrder,
June 12, 1913-Chimielewski sentenced to death on scaffold, court refusing ‘a new trial,
July 9, 191lh< set by Governor as date for H&K execution,
October, 1913-Supreme Court refused new trial,
June 22, 191\-Chiméelewski granted a respite by the governor from July 9 to Sept. 22. Ins Septem-
ber the Board of Pardons refused to commute sentence,
Septe 20, 191l-Chimielewski granted second respite hy Governor until Dec. 3.
Octe, 19lh-Board of. Pardons refused to commute sentence.
Dec, 1, 191l-Governor refuses another respite.
Dece 35° 191h-Chimielewski hanged at county. prison: yard,

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fecount of crime from TIMES, 12=3-191l: "...Armed with warrants for the arrest of John and Stanley
Davitt, suspected of being members of burglary gang that had been operating in the midvalley and
upper valley for several weeks, “atrolman McAndrew, who frequently did considerable work for Car-
bondale aldermen; Constable T, J, Malligan of Carbondale; Constable James Oakley of Dickson City
and State Trooper Fred Henkle of Peckville, went to the Davitt home in Dickson City that night.
Cakley and Mulligan went into the house, leaving the state trooper on guard inthe rear and Mc-
Andrew at the front, The latter was never in the hanit of carrying a revolver even when on duty

in Carbondale and he had no weapon, :The Davitt brothers and Chimielewski were in kitchen when
constables entered, They were placed under arrest- and Chimielewski volunteered to go to a room

on thesecond floor for coats, He was not under suspiciin but that he feared arrest. was proved by
actions after he had gone upstairs, Instead of getting the clothes, he lowered himself. from a wine
dow to the front yard. Was close to McAndrew before patrolman saw him. Told Chimielewsi to halt
and Chimielewski shot twice in abdomen, The trooper following, arrested another man who had a pis-
tol and was traveling in same direction in which Chimielewski fled, The other man released two
days later but Chimielewski had escaped, - Went to Long Island where his uncle owned a farm and

vi a under name of Frank Lipinski there. A man recognized and notified Scranton police. Arrested
on 1-19-1913.


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= YEAR Wev.neste. | GETTYSBURG, PA., SATURDAY,

1S GUILTY |time when the case was given to the | FORMER TOWN GIRL A STAR. RESTING
; jury. They had supper before ar- ie pa | at we
BR foe ean es avai riving at their verdict and a few , ERE | Se
ieee ees ’ are minutes after 8 o'clock the Court had|Mise Lillian Ring im Musical Com-|.
"<=" op MURDER IN MANNER AND reconvened to receive the verdict.) 9 5 (ody jsnapse spans | MOTHER
“at. 2% 5° FORM AS INDICTED. The court room was packed to its i ° Ses) eae | Ze GONE
1 oe ee ; : : capacity, and when prisoner was Prominent among the members of] (#9 #r

en ee eee é brought in and jury were in their }an especially selected cast that ap-} 9 9

Ls why . 9 - |ceats, the verdict. was taken of “mur- peared in Comstock, Elliott & Gest’s
3 The pee seagate Soe Lonel reer ™lder in the first degree,” and the poll- big musical comedy hit, “Leave It To
vv 3@@ Verdict of Murder in the jing of the jury being demanded every Jane,” at the Orpheum Theatre, York,
f ry $i /-{juryman_ unhesitatingly pronounced jon Thursday, Feb. 13, appeared the
the verdict they had arrived at. name of Lillian N. Ring, a girl who
ee es eC eomr games he - The prisoner from beginning to has been proclaimed a “find” by Vic- ine?
“33 3*as Compiler went to press last end showed little concern in the trial] tor Herbert. Mr. Herbert chanced] Mrs. L
te neek the testimony of J. F. Walters, [20d was unmoved at the result. Most |to hear her voice while she was play-| David Kh
“3S county detective of Dauphin ‘county, of the time his head was slightly bent|ing tn a tabloid operetta in vaude-|Huntingtc
24<\-seqg being concluded, proof having | With eyes on the floor but did not|ville. He promptly engaged Miss from “car
SS Neen made of. the signed confession, exhibit any signs of nervousness, but | Ring for a prominent part In Her| months 3
ivi Miss Miller, the stenographer of without the air of cocksure uncon-| Regiment,” in which Donald Brian | husband
oy Miss er, enograp abt : : r
“the Dauphin Co. District Attorney, cern that Collins _ manifested from|and Caroline White were starred. It}L. Hikes
&-yext testified having taken down the start te finish, 7 >was while. with that organization | Hikes, of
‘confession in short hand and hav- A motion ror new trial was made. {that F. Ray Comstock heard of the] one sist
<img transcribed the same on type- Civil Cases Tried. _. \*unknown,” who was __ practically /York _ co

"bei stentifed th 1a a A ee Noe : walking away with the show. and im-| danghter
Writer and identified the same On Monday the Court took up the] iediately made her an offer to play poy iol

Firat Degree.

SiMrs. Woutersz, of Gettysburg, tes-|Trial List of Civil Casés. The first

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ES aiGed to a conversation had with|case tried was that of L. V. Strale leading roles in one of Comstock, |was a mi
3 =f gy Reinecker in the jail in which hejys. E. M. Necly. The taking of tes- eae Lia Serer ark State Church \
Le ay @aid he had no grudge against Col- timony, argument and charge cover- ‘ 4 >| was’ held

her father being manager of the/felter «v
Brooks Hotel; York, and for a num-|Springs (
ber of years was proprietor of the | 3s

Hotel Gettysburg, who remodeled Mrs.
this hotel and put it in its present]S Thoms
modern condition. Her early educa-}tast Sat
tion was received at Carlisle and|iong per
Gettysburg. Previous to her profes-lyears olc

eleven months and paying the rental] .;
old of warning Reinecker that any- neriod. acti sional appearance she was soprano |tive men
4 ¥-}for that period,- action was brought soloist. at the First Presbyterian land was

ing he said would be used against |for damages for the want of the re-|Church in York. She frequently |ties and
. ies and

‘him. S pairs defendant had not’ made. The : ae pee
2. The story of the taking of car toidefendant denied promising to make sang in public here delighting hes husband

ee ae aiving him the pistol to com-jed Monday and until Tuesday after-
“8: “cs mit the deed with. noon, - The plaintiff had rented a

~~ &Charles H. Wilson detailed the ar-|store rvom and building from defend-
ies test of Reinecker while at work atjant and alleged that defendant had
‘the meat market of George F. Reich-|agreed to make certain repairs that
-*: fe and taking him to the office of J.|had never been made. After occu-

+L. Williams, Esq., where Collins had pying the property. five years and

oe ‘fhe Goodman garage was again given|the repairs as alleged. There were audiences. pu daughter
a Ry Joseph Goodman, Frank Hodge,|questions of !aw about what the phinames of ees people went to York; M
“itt vadetective, told of Goodman turning jagreement proved and promises out- ork to hear her and her many) ington,

Cover the car to him after callimg up|side of the agreement by reasen of friends here were glad to, hear of Thomas,

i: authorities and telling ie had which the lease was made .and ‘also her successful career in light opera. Hens h
“some into his possession. The ‘car jas to the effect of payment of r | and jo
_wwas-next given to Chas. H. Wilson Se alaintiff seat he hata debe Engagement Announced By Cable. {sister, }
Sore ‘who brought it back to Gettysburg | damages for breach of contract. All| The engagement of Lieut. John 1 New Ox
“and George Eberhart identified thejthe questions were finally submitted |Kuhn, formerly a law partner in the H. Hers
ete geet 3S belonging to George Bush-|to the jury, J. L. Williams, Esq., rep-|firm of Dykman, Oeland & Kuhn, of services
SKS e. Oe bie . «lresenting the plaintiff and Wm.|Brooklyn, and now attached to the |by Rev.
Soi ays S The story of the bringing ‘of Col-}Hersh, Esq. the defendant, and late|Judge Advocate ivision of the Rev. Ro
23 odins and Reinecker from Harrisburg/Tuesday afternoon the jury gave the!Aimerican Expeditionary Forces in {body we
powwes next presented How defendant ! plaintiff a verdict of $50 and interest,| France, and Miss Pauline H. Lange, tery for
“> Ywas warned about his rights. Bur- ja total of $55 and odd cents. "lof Manhattan, who is in the Red |
gess James W. Eicholtz was in. the| \The case of Elizabeth Lease and|Cross. service and attached to the Mn.
car with Chas. H. Wilson, two pris-|Herman Leas vs. Cumberland WVallley |staff of the hospital for shell-shock of her
oners and Joseph M. Bushman.| Telephone Company of Pennsylva-|convalescents at Neuilly, France, was |'C% | Of
‘When the point was reached where hegan on Tuesday alierneon and was ]announced by cable from France last aged 74
- the murder took place .amti Collins jconcluded before adjournment time;jweek. Miss Lange went to France survavec
, had identified the place. Mr. Eich-lon Wednesday. The plaintiff's case|to drive an ambulance in the early |H. Eyst
’ Ae sig ‘oltz asked Reinecker whether this was bascd on an accident om the days of the war. Later being an ex- home; °
UeeRe yg 3S the place, and received the answer |Lincoln Highway. near ‘Gulden’s Sta-jpert linguist she was elected to do ler, of
_#) > “About the place. joseph .M. Bushe4tion on Saturday, Nov. 4, 1916. They | special work teaching soldiers whose Sponsel
it5.¢mnan corroborated by telling of hav-|were traveling toward York and|power of speech has been impaired ters, M
wey oe the question and seeing Rein-!passed a car containing Dr. £. H.|by shell-shock to speak again their tlestow
neck ft bis geen eiy with a nod, net hearing ceeologd and 5S. ean & tein and |native tongue. Lieut. Kuhn is a son bpd
‘ 4 oe ile  #\about the same ‘time t ord trucklof John R. Kuha, Esq. of Brooklyn, | ~ Cone:
/ eee ~S. Miley Miller again described/of the Telephone Company passed AD is a native of Esai Berlin, this George
Be Ys the road and bouadary line pete between the cars and plaintiffs testi-|county, and he spends his summers Rev. H

y bn at 9. tS acter . - 2 .

Maine an aged a uy rngeei mean tics in fied that it struck their car ‘an& sent|at Bender I.ane farm near that place. sow in
that point where murder was said to |it from the pike tewards a tree where peicaaccums 1 CSET Ys,
os have taken place was 644 feet from |it was ‘wrecked and Mrs. Leas was iui ees | oes

Bs ae peed line, owas bbls pes so Severely: injured, suffering for five Schoo! 'Direcitors’ Convention. — s ager
“yard zone provided by Act ‘ot 1000. Imonths afterwards, first having to . . , OR Loe
Ai Phooehet & Ye athe Kiem fe a enlint en The School Directors’ Convenor Sherry:

4aQ wear

~ cgdence relying entircly ou the ques-
ta of jurisdiction. The counsel for
fendant further stated they did

pot desire to go to the jury on the
cidects, and were willing to have the
Fs t instruct the jury as to the
“game.
+: J. Donald Swope, Esq., assisting
£District Attorney Topper, made a
. gbort address to the jury. He did not
*¥eview the evidence, confining him-
“self to the duty of a jury, however
“disagreeable, to find according to the
evidence. That the case was a most
‘Serious one, the highest known to
law, and that if the evidence satisfied

_ them beyond a reasonable doubt of
the. guilt of the defendant there was

ovly one duty facing them—a verdict ;
of guilty in manner and form aw he}

= stood indicted. ats Nee bolt
. ¥ Judge McPherson charged the jury

a upon murder in the first de- |

is as premeditated and with malice
- sforethought, and the distinction of

i. gmgrder in the secand degree with-

{ premeditation. He called atten-

to the essentials the jury must

first that there was a killing of

Jj. Bushman by human means

then who did the killing and
“-*™ehether it was premeditated and
., | “with malice. The burden was on the
Commonwealth to prove beyond a
*P. sgasonable doubt every essential of
erme. The jury retired at 10.48

“i... It was about noon when the jury
a. jreturned with their verdict and the
f "“jury was ordered polled and each

44. member of the jury being asked in

oe s8 Ean township.

H aaix Charles
: ee ‘spany township.

Bog
SA. te District

oS" the case of the Commonwealth vs.
“-Clarence Collins how he found,
“whether defendant was guilty in
manner as he stood indicted gr not
:° guilty, each juror solemly pronounc-
ed their finding of guilty of murder

in the first degree.
Hon. Geo. J. Benner, Esq., counsel
“for defendant, immediately made a
motion for a new trial and defend-

ant was placed in the custody of the,

Sheriff.
Reinecker Case.

The court convened on > Munday
morning with the panel of jurors em
panneled for the January court and
out of the jurors obtained one jury-
man for the case. On Tuesday morn-
“ing Sheriff Hartman had a panel of
forty talismen in court from which
during that day four jurors were ob-
tained.
were present and five more jurors

were obtained and on Thursday 24 of ©

the 40 talismen were called and ex-
~. amined before the remaining two
jurors were obtained. One hundred
and thirty-seven were called and ex-
amined to get the twelve to try the
case. A few of the 125 not chosen
> kad scruples against capital punish-
ment. Over thirty were challenged
without cause and the rest had opin-
‘ions formed by what they had read
: or heard of the case.
The following compose the jury to
try Charles C. Reinecker for the mur-
-der of George J. Bushman:
te George A. Kane, farmer, Franklin
*,, township.
"<< Curtis Rebert, farmer, Union town-

£

ship. :
Oliver Mickley, farmer, Hamilton-

William Hemler, drayman, Gettys-
\«y burg borongh.
Wolf, cigarmaker, Ger-
Charles Mchring, carriage painter,
Littlestown borough. :
H. W. Lightner, farmer, Hamilton-,
ban township. E
Harrison Sayder: farmer, Mt. Joy
township.
‘2 t.-Clement
we <township. : ‘
*= David Sell. farmer, Union township.
«. John Delp, farmer, Latimore town4
ship.
z Irvin B. Black, farmer, Mt. Joy
ist. township. ‘

Lingg. farmer, Oxford

Attorney Topper _ briefly,
‘outlined to the jury the case of the
“S=* Commonwealth and the hearing of
“witnesses began shortly after 2

© o'clock Thursday afternoon.
Harvey Bollinger was first witness
saying he heard George Bushman,
~. about 8 o’clock the night of the mur-
der, say he would go get his over-

eg: Coat.

“** George H. Eisenhower, the ems,

| ES ployee of the Highway Department,

fi Ye, testified to finding the body of Geo.

On Wednesday 25: talismen :

pike, several days after the killing,
that Reinecker went to sleep on a
bunk in the tent and was mumbling
in his sleep and finally. Carter spoke
to Reinecker and the latter turned
toward him and his eyes were open
and Ben said:

“What did you do?”

Reinecker answered, “We've shot
him.”

“Who did you sbaot?” was Ben’s
next question. ha tie

“Bushman,” was the reply.

Carter then exclaimed, “Oh hell,
what did you do that for?”

“If it would not have been for Col-
lins it would’nt have been done,” was
the reply. Then Reinecker said:

“You won't give me away?”

“No,” Carter replied, and follow-
with the question, “What did you do
with the gun?”

Reinecker replied, “Threw it into
the creck.”

There was no’ cross-examination.
The tight had been over whether
Reinecker was awake and knew what
he was saying.

J. F. Walters, county detective of
Dauphin county, was recalled and
testifed about the two prisoners be-
ing brought to the Dauphin county
jail and how after Detective White
told him the boys came across, he
had asked them whether they want-
ed to make a statement and that it
must be voluntary and with the
knowledge that it would be used
against them upon the trial. Every
obiection that was possible to make
‘against iutroducing this confession
‘was made by the counsel for the de-
ifendant. Ii was sought to exclude
fit on the theory that the prior con-
fesston was a sweating and if second
‘contession was based on same it was
iuot admisstble. The confession pro-
:duced by the witness and ‘from. his
‘testimony appearing to be voluntary.
it was admitted and read to the yory

Confession.
Daupiun County path
Oty 25--1gs8
charles © Remeckes ;

By Detective: Wallerse

() Now vow tell vader stery. asd
she willewrire it offoond Tetovenr pead
it And See Th ih as chy corneas

A We Started fom Gettysburg, |
guess ttowas abort 8 o'clock and we
got inte Carlie and wentito the V
M CLA

QQ. UY en mee
Vest Sit

QO. o¥Yon hired Buchman to: bring
yous to Vartishle? oA. Ves sand owe
stopped at the Yo Me CLA. - We leit
(Gettysburg abeaur & o'clock. We-caiie
fever to Carlisle and weut to the Y
*M. C.-A. and went around in Carlisle
‘until about £2 o’cloch, then we start
ed home and I gness it is Mt, Holly
on the other side of Mt: Hollyt shor
him. 1 shot him both times and we
went up the road about a mile and
turned around, came back and came
to Harrisburg. crossed the | bridge
and went along the river k

Q. Yon two carried the body ont
and laid it along the bank? A, Yes.
We crossed the bridge ani turned on”
this side of the bridge and came back
and stopped there and put the hody
out and came back and came to the
Hunterstown road and went on then
to’ York and to Philadelphia.

Q. What did you do with the re-
volver? A.) Throwed at away in the
river. ; ‘

Q. As you crossed the river? A.
Yes sir. aif
, 2. How much twoncy did- you get?
A. $5.80. ‘
°Q. Who took the money? A. He
(Collins) drove the car ind L took it
ont. ;

.Q. Yow both sat behind him when
¥pu shot him? A. No sir. Collins
was sitting in front and I was behind.

Q. Where was. this money in his
pocket? A. Hip: ¥ * ii
£Q. In a pocketbook? “Al Yes sir,
I throwed that in the river as I ceoss-
ed the bridge: ight tise ai es

Q. Did you divide the money. A.
Spent it for gasoline. 4. ¥:

Q. When did you. boss first frame
this up to get this man’s money?
{Will you tell us-when you first fram-
jed up to rob this man. [ don't sup-
pose you intended to kil] when you
first spoke of it? “A. J believe it was
;on a Monday. 3
And you were planning every

(Continued om page 4)

vu oak Collins 2 NX

away over [62 soldier boys, great,
strong men struck down and in a
few hours time had passed out.

Mr. and Mrs. Warner, who had
often thought of the gift of a hospi-
tal, were so impressed with the need
of a hospital after the experience of
last year, that they determined to
go ahead with their fine and great
plans for the old home town. Both
have it in their minds and hearts to
push their plans through to early
completion.

Mr. Warner has always taken
great pleasure in making building
plans and sketches and he has been
planning for weeks. With the help
of suggestions from physicians and
others he completed sketches of such
a building as he desired to erect.
These sketches have been turned
over to an architect to draft. Just
what the finished plans will be have
not yet been determined as they must
be submitted to a state board. The
building will go on the 20 acre tract
in the south-western part of the
town. Just as soon as the plans
have been completed and approved
they will be made known by Mr. and
Mrs. Warner.

GREAT OFFICIAL WAR MOVIE.

“America’s Answer,” 2nd Official U. S.
Film Will be Seen Here.

The Division of Films, Committee
on Public Information, George Creel,
Chairman, will present “America’s
Answer,” the second United States
Official War Picture, at the’ Lincoln
Vay Theatre. next Tuesday evening,
Feb. cr. ;
“America’s Answer” was made by
U. S. Signal Corps photographers by
direction of Generali John J. Persh-
ing and tells in a most interesting
way what the United States has ac-
complished in. France: during Amer-
ica’s first year of participation in the
World War The public js apt tol
} bink of the war simply as a conflict
of fightmg men. “Ainerica’s Answer”
not only shows this phase -of the war
aud shows it in a way that occasions
both thrills and admiration, but it
jalso depicts the “Battle Behind. the
Fighting Line,” the tremendous task
of supplying the men at the- front
twith the thing. required to keep
them “ft’ and the ammunition and
vther supplies that the most costly
war in all history demands The
great three-mile dock built by Ameri-
can engineers, the American rail-
roads, the great refrigerating plants
and other activities are shown, while
the cane given to the American boys
in Khaki “Over There” is pictorializ-
cd in a most absorbingly interesting
way ;
Incidentally, one sees how the hun-
tireds of thousands of soldiers have
becn/- successfully transported to
France ™ convoys and, having arriv-
ed, how they are landed and started
on their way. to the last training
camps before being sent to the actual
front. }

“America’s Answer” is declared to
Be patriotic propaganda of the mos
exhilarating character. vie

Wearing ef Uniform by Discharged

Present Jaw authorizes a discharg-
ed officer or soldier to wear his uni-
form from the place of discharge to
his home within three months of the
date of his discharge from the sér-
vice... Thereafter the officer may
wear his uniform only upon occasions
of cercmony.

The enlisted man must return his
uniform within four months of date
of discharge, bunt can wear it only as
stated above.

An act is now. hefore Congress,
whith if passed, will’ authorize en-
listed-men to keep the uniform which
they are permitted to wear home, and
to wear that particular uniform, only,
provided some. distinctive mark or
insignia, to be issued by the War
Department, shall be worn.

It will thus be already seen that
neither under existing or proposed
law will a discharged soldier be per-
mitted to wear uniforms made by ci-
vilian or other tailors, They may le-
gaily wear only the particular uni-
form which they have been permit-
ted to retain. S

By order of the Secretary of War.

PEYTON C. MARCH. @ it

General, Chief of Staff.

JUsc as NCas
had cigarettes, .
lates and chewi:.
the Commissary a:
af that extra Chr
sent for cigarettes
pleasure te the b«
their thanks. -As
now tor ice crean
for other: things t
and give a dellar o
arc “broke.*» So n
paid tor months a
without moaey. +
lust installment \
Handkerchiefs, un:
sweaters E-can ¢
Cross warebouse,-
got in §0 dozen to.
of socks, a1 doze
brushes and paste
soap, so the neces:
on hand andthe
extras, smokes 2
can get it and a |!
Will. you. tell
“special: Kmas gif
the last imstalime:
her Xmas was a
after boys cante
Xmas box for a
not expect™& thi
toons of smokes
bar chocolate fell
was a gtand rus
they came - fron
seventy-five boys
ing Xmas im box
and gave three ct
lady back home.”
Everyone i hc
and the joy vf t!
start is boundless
Thanks awimily
best regards tt 2!

MAY S007

ig Secretary Tei:
Soldier on

Mrs. J. A. Smii
lowing letter this

Lo merely want
pleasant meeting
boy Horace yest
sat by me im the
ing out to the |
and we became

When he me:
immediately I t
friend,  cJassmat
whom | had at
Seminary years a
Horace Lincoln
erend DD. im 4]
vamia Conferenc:
would have kno)
in Gettysburg ar
the First =M
Church "of that p

I enjoyed talkn
is a fine looking
manly in his bea

He is anxious,
get home._ The:
seem long to hi
day he was ha
which had just c
fit to Brest--w
were a “step ho:
near the Point ;«
really we ¢anno'
boys can come h:
eral _—— et
spared fr er:

I hope ‘twill
and that it ma,

this side, as he
Brest, 2
<JULIUS-S
© Religio:
New Hener fer
Gettysberg C:
these days. Wh
was -first establi
tysburg €
formed. and. th
which her sons
gave the college
none in the Janc
The S. A.T.
went right to th:
best drilled anit
Now. Gettysbe
honor of Sates,
to be fully seta
Pennsylvania.
ari gro
right to prot
ready accomplis!


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Seah Re o-, ee nao ages dae - GETTYSSURL COMPILER, “SATURI
== ee ea ee 5 Se ee
eee) * ' 3 “It seems to be not only the need!
sehen PRESIDEN fe WILSON § BAKS of France, but the need of mankind. |
; BPAY ers RO Gee And France sees the sacrifices which
ae | ii phy amen ii : are necessary for the establishment
*-* {IN THE FRENCH (CHAMBER OF * the Society of Nations are not to
rea vee Brak acer “2G. ah DA! : e compared with the constant dread
PNM Samah DEPUTIES. IN PARIS - > ~ Jof-another catastrophe falling on the

Sic reine bs equrmeme oe and areas ef Raspes.
oe aah tate ee ee “There was no more beautiful coun-
Giving His Vision of the Peace of try. There was no more prosperous

Crttysburg Eomyiler

“ea

nu. ADE. MOCLEAN,. ...0000 0. Mditor

ceotaee aii

—

SATURDAY. FE 81919 ¢

“OOLLINS FOUND GUILTY.“
.&: (Continued from page 1.)
f opporttinity? A
“Metter.” 52 emieetts =
<3. Qy How much did you pay him to
brig you to Cat lisle? As $12.00,
“Qe ¥ou paid him before you left?
SAA. No > “We gave him $5 coming
F2sovér.and when we got over here we
Sha; Wid not pay him for going back. We
i ‘told him we wauld fay‘him when we

*-

Ba

o-ween sedi" y Maa Te
* dday waiting on

wot back to Gettysburg: * 2p é
© 'Q.. Afl besittéa. the §3 you gave him
-. that vou fount on’ htm was -8o cents?
at. isyall we found, that is true.
‘ou did nottsct anything of a
me. A. “No sir. saree Ge °
mk. xon make this statement vol-
.-koewing and realizing it
‘used.-aAgainst you when you
rie this crime... A, Yes sir.:
Ee “Charles. Reinecker. ©
 BNaval Academy Nominations.
2: Never in the history of this con-
 ‘Sgressional district have there been
-so*thany appointments to fill to the
‘Naval Aeademy at Annapolis as'there
_/  mare-at the present time. They -con-

~ sist of four principals and three al-

ates to cach princes:
‘i sman rodbeck. has for-

[his nominations to the Sec;
Led ‘the Navy. Mental exami-
oad Wil be held February 19 and

* Apieif 16,.2¢ Harrisbocg and Lancas-

tes. Adtiission of the successful can-

digates to\the academy will be in

oe Be ‘nominations ‘are: Principal,
 Kegmeth™:.P. «Hartman, Gettysburg,
'who is now ‘taking a

*, book

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ashingtorm

Mayers, a.sevioc at the York High
Sehool; second altcrnate, Faber A.
‘Hollinger, of | McShérrystown,’ a
gAvate <of tHe Hanover High
qol; third alternate, Harry Edwin,

ip, 3 senior int the West York
Pees satin ee Westen
second principal is William L

eins, of Hanover, a son of Pro+

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reparatory)

Justice Sought to be Established
Throughout the World.

Presideut Wilson on Monday even+
ing delivered the following address
in the Chamber of Deputies, having
in the audience President Poincare,

‘the presidents of the Chamber and
the Senate and many members of

both Houses of Parliament and the
personnel of the French Cabinet.
President Wilson is the great lead-
er at the Peace Conference and he is
leaving nothing undone tuo give to
the world his vision of a Peace of
Justice. He spoke as follows:
“I am keenly aware of the unusua
and distinguished honor you are pay-
ing me by permitting me to meet you
in this place and to address you from
this historic platform. :
“Indeed, Sir, as day has followed
day, and week has followed weck, in
this hospitable land of France, I have
felt the sense of comradeship ever be-
come more and more intimate, and it
has seemed to me that the making of
history was becoming | singularly
clear.

“We knew before this war began
that Fratice and America were united
in affection. We knew the occasions
which drew the two nations together
in those years, which now scem so far
away, when the world was first be-
ginning to thrill with the impulse of
human liberty, when the soldiers of
France came to help the struggling
little Republic of America to get on
its feet and proclaim one of the first
vistories of freedom.

‘WVe had never forgotten that, but
we did not sce the full meaning of ‘it.
A hundred years and more went by,
and the spindles were slowly weaving
the web of history. We did not see
it to be complete, the whole of the
design to be made plain. 5

“Now look what has happened. - in
that far-off day, when France came to
the assistance of America, America
was fighting Great Britain. And naw
she is linked as closely to Great Brit-
ain as she js to France. We see now
how these apparently diverging lines

array against. one another, dre now
thoulder to: shoulder, fighting an
common enemy. eit eae

“It was a long. time before we saw
that, and in the last four years some-
thing has happened that ts unprece-
dented in the history of mankind.
It is nothing fess than this—that
bodies of men on both sides of the
sca and in all parts of the world
have come to realize their comrade-
ship in freedom.

Get-

= mbasc

France “at the Frontier of Freedom.”

of history are coming together. The.
nations which once stood in battle:

country. There was no more free-
spirited people. All the world had
admired France, and none. of the
world grudged France her greatness
and her prosperity, except those who
grudged her liberty and her prosper-
ity. And it has profited us,’ terrible
as the cost has been, to witness what
has happened, to see with the physi-
cal eye what has happened because

injustice was wrought. OE eke ea
“The President of the Chamber

pictured, as I cannot picture, the: ap-
palling sufferings, the terrible trage-
dy of France, but it is a tra
which could not be repeated. As the
pattern of history has disclosed itself
it has disclosed the hearts of men
drawing toward one another.

radeships have become vivid. | The
purpose of association has become
evident. eR ae SAAS

“The nations of the world are about
to consummate a brotherhood which
will make it unnecessary in the fa-
ture to maintain those crushing arm-
aments which make the peoples suf.
fer almost as much in peace as the)
suffered in war. CoE TP NE

“When the soldiers ‘of Americe
crossed the ocean: they did not bring
with them merely their arms. The)
brought with them a very vivid coa
ception of France. They anded upor
the soil of France with quicken:
pulses. They knew that they ha
come to do a thing which the hear
of Amcrica had long wished to do
When General Pershing stood at th:
tomb of Lafayette and said: ‘Lafay
ette, we are here!’ it was as if he ha
said: ‘Lafayette, here is the comple
tion of the great story whose firs
chapter you assisted to write.’ « —»

Safety of France Assured,  ~
“The world has seen the great plo
worked out, and now the people o
France may rest assured that thei
prosperity is secure, because thei
homes are secure, and men every
where not only wish her safety an
rosperity,: but.‘are ready to assur
her that with-all the force and wealt
at their command they will guaran
tee her security and safety. +° 9:
“So, as we sit from day to day 2
the Quai d’Orsay I think to myse!
we night. #f we could gain an aud:
the free peoples of the worl:

adopt the langua

ence’o

of General Perst
ing and say, ‘Frierids;: men, dumb!
women, little

4

children, we are here
we are here as your friends, as: you
champions,:as--your representafive
We have come to work out for you
world whick.ds ft to live in and 3
which all countries can enjoy th
heritage of liberty for which Franc
and Anicrica and. England and Ita!
have paid so dear.” ty eeggaige

Cacve Om National Defense.”


Le have taken piace was 644 feet from
=>) boundary fine, well ‘within the 500

tee 2} Neceding
“¢ s-yerossing the two litth bridges at
+ UHanters
‘2 tracks in the raad that a car coming
«>from: the direction of
‘. Springs toward Gettysburg had turn-
<*ed"in and backed around in a road

 @4hen proceeded toward :Carlisle. This,

~ athe had passed on the road because
>the tracks where it had turned were

*) dicle. 3

=, 2 Harvey Landis, Ambrose Heller,
“‘gnd John Myers, the men who ‘live
i *im the houses closest to where Com

a‘ + der took place, all testified that on

othe. night of the affair they were

sleeping with their windows up, that

/ 4 .they heard no shots, and that no
".. dogs were aroused. oor

ss April 4 1019.

ments to the jury on Saturday morn-

\<- exposition of what constituted mur-

<.) * degree, how they must tind the e

; a ‘first degree.

had identified the place. Mr. Eich-}on Wednesday. The plaintiffs case|jto drive an ambulance tm the carly
iwas based on an accident on the

oltz asked Reinecker whether this
is the place. and received the answer
“About the place.” Joseph -M. Bush-
man corroborated by telling of hav-
ing the question and seeing Rein-
: er assent with a nod, not hearing
. his words. Rings
_-§. Miley Milles .again described
the road and bouadary line between
~ Cumberland and Adams counties and
that point where murder was said to

yard zone provided by Act of 1860.
"The case of the Commonwealth
“closed with the testimony of J: L.
Williams as to the ‘confession made
‘by Reinecker in Jhis office .and the
“case of the Commonwealth was de-
clared closed Hie
J. D. Keith, Esq., opened the case
for the defendant .and then ‘four wit- |

pose of contradicting in a negative
way that the crime was committed

|

_». The first of these was W.IK. Peffer, |
storekeeper at Goodyear. He testi-!

-.. fied that on the night of the murder |
he was goteg from .Mount
. ©). “Springs to Goodyear :about nidnight. |

3). Sand that just before he reached the:
4 sepening in frant_of Hunters Run he |

Holly {

vywas passed by a large black touring !
‘scar going in the direction of Carlisle. !

> t52Two people were in the front seat.!
“*>\ The curtains were all down.

Mr. Peffer testified that afte: pro-
toward Gettysburg = and

Run, he observed from

Mt.. Holly

“feading into Hunters Run station and

x 4ite was contended, was the large var

mot..crossed over by any other ve-

gponwealth witnesses said the mur-

Lincoln Highway near Galden’s Sta-
tion on Saturday, Nov. 4, 1916. They
were traveling toward York and
passed a cat containing Dr. E. H.
Markley and S. Miley Miller and
about the same time the Ford truck
of the Telephone- Company passed
between the cars and plaintiffs testi-
fied that it struck their car and sent
it from the pike towards a tree where
it was wrecked :and Mrs. Leas was
severely injured, suffering for five
months ‘afterwards, first having to
have her tight Ixnb in a splint so
that the »evered tendon over knee
could renmnite, then on crutches for
two weeks and for a number of more
weeks Trad to have help. -An actual
wutlay wt Soup was testified to caused
by the injury. Or. E. H

right mear «wheel -and fender «struck

the crash of the wollision. S. Miley
Miller corroborated Dr. Markley in
all details except the. actual seeing
of the collision. ~ SN yee

The defense of the defendant was
they never touched the Leas car and
C. R. Anthony and M. E. Rebert tes-
tiled ERTS Ms

At the conclusion of the testimony
Wm. Arch. McClean, Esq., opened
argument to jury for plaintitf’s, fol-

Htowed by J. Donald Swope and C 5S.
Duncan, Esqs., for the defendant, and ;

McClean Stork,. Ese, of York, con-
cluding for the plaintiff. Judge Mec-
Phersom ‘then charged the jury.

{n the evening a verdict was re-
turned for the plaint&ts for Elizabetn
Leas S250 and fur J. Herman Leas
$275, a total..of $525. A motion for
new trial was made ‘by defendant.
-& jury was selected on Wednes-
day to try the case of George Slus-
ser—vs.° Henry Straley, an appeal
from Justice V. H. Lilly, and before
trial conid begin on Thursdey the
case had been settled. J. ‘L. Wil-
liams, Esq., for plaintiff, and Wm.
Hersh, Esq. for defendant.

Other cases settled were Barbara

E. Seltzer vs. D. O. Alday, action of
trespass. re et ie Ak §
E. M-; Hoffman +s. E. W. Shrover,

action of asstimpsit
With nineteen cases on the trial
Jist, two tried and three settled, there

There was submitted evidence as|remained -fourtcen eases continued

to the age of Reinecker, being first
~ testified to that he was but 16 at the
“time the crime was committed, but
"on Saturday morning this was cor-

“} rected by exhibition of a record
showing that he was 17 years old
-+ and would be 58 years of age on

© The attorneys began their argu-.
ing and entire day was consumed in
speeches and charge of the (Court.
District Attorney Topper opened
with first argument. He was iol-
lowed by John D. Keith and William
Hersh, Esjs., for the defendant, and
J. Donald Swope, Esq., assisting the,

a

by consent of parties and their coun-
sel, as follows:

Baublitz & Kopp
Rebert.

Banblitz & Kopp vs. Curtis C. Reb-
ert. :

"Beacon Falls Rubber Shoe Co. vs.
Harris Brothers.

vs. Alexander

J. H. Stover vs. J. Herman Bream.
Milton Wolf vs. Lawrenee Emiet.
‘George Kindig vs. Jacob Bringman.
Oyre & Son vs, Harris Brothers.
Fagle Metalic Copper Co. vs Ad-
vance Industrial Supply Co.

Three cases, C. M. Wolf, George

Commonwealth made the coneluding
specch. A
“Judge Donald P. McPherson charg}
ped the jury with a forceful and clear |

der in the first degree and second}

ment of the intention to kill to en-}
the !

{

‘ able them to find a verdict in

fessions was presente

jury could tind the facts as to the"
Tt. was abont adjournment |

same.

| William Harner.

lead

The law as to the con-;
d so that the:returned to hjs home

Punkhouser and all others interest-
ed in Gettysburg Baseball Club.

J. E. C. Miller & W. D. Himes vs.
ys, East Berlin Rail-

John N. Hersh
road Company.

—Lieut. Steel, U. S. Artillery, has
in Baltimore
after spending several days with

friends in town.

days of the war. Later being an ex-
pert linguist she was clected to do
special work teachxng soldiers whose
power of speech has been impaired
by ‘shelk-shock to speak again their
native tongue. Lseut. Kuhn is a son
of John R. Kuhn, Esq., of Brooklyn,
who is .a native of East Berlin, this
county, and he spends his. summers
at Bender Lane farm near that place.

School Diwedtors’ Convention.
The School Directors’ Convention:
of Adams County met at the Court

House on Taursday morning m ther
twenty-eighth :annual two-day scs-

ident of the association, preswled and
M greeted the directors with a wel-
ecihcd: that he ah aharklcy | come. Addresses were made by Miss
{1 red ‘that ne saw the tru Uti Ress McAlister on “Home Econom-
nesses were presented for the pur-'in ahead wf ‘Leas car .and with the ,je, Extenssan Work.” H. #L. Baish

OND
the left front wheel and fender of |} ¢ ” - >

. et _ iFund,” and €. D. Koch, Deputy Su-
Ete ast ee Collins showed ithe Leas car. He testified he heard} ,erintendent of Public Instruction,

“noon session was devoted to a busi-

ibegan this week and is in line with

Cyrus Wolf vs. Washington Wolf.'of the road in Cumberland county,

-'of a modern permanent road, likely

i The portions built will be the first
i ‘year building in the three counties
Bushman and Charles Plank, and F.!but as Adams county has 16 miles of,
C. Cremer vs. H. J. Hartman, Roy P.\the way, as much as both other coun-

, building of

jing the approva

sion. Hon. C. Arthur Griest, presi-

“State Teachers’  Retzrement

on “Duties ef Directors.”
The first part of Thersday after-

ness meeting, hearing af reports -of
delegates to the State Convention at
Harrisburg, and treasurer’s report.
The latter part of sesston was made
up ‘of addresses by Dr. Koch -on
“Physical Education,” and by Dr. Lee
L. Driver. ef Winchester, -bad., -on
“Better Rural Schools.” mie

Thursday evening Congressman
Clyde Kelly, of Pittsborgh, .address-
ed the mectmg. It wes a forceful,;
brilliant address by a man with ia,
vision, who ‘believes in the building.
of the mation and the duture :school’
houses, farmers .and athe trucks will
have in the ‘building. ; 4

Friday morning sessiax began with
an address ‘by H. F. Hershey, the en-
thusiastie and capable County Agent
of the Farm Bureau. Prof. W
‘Denison, Wigh School Inspector
spoke on “Selective and Retention o
Teachers” and Dr. Driver on “Better
Rural Schools” > Oat Pe

Friday afterneon Prof Dennison
spoke on “The Aanerica High School”
and Dr. Driver on “The Consolidssed
School, the ideal Commamity .Gen-
ter. a

Road Building Starts. |

Highway Commissioner Sadler has
‘started the repairing of what ts prob-
ably as bad a stretch of highway as
any in the center part of the State,
the way through Camp Hill. Work

the announced plan of the Highway
Commissioner to build the State road
to Gettysburg in 1919. The portion

York county.and the larger part in
Adams county is scheduled for build-
ing in 1919 and will be the best type

cement with a coating of asphalt.

‘ties, the only part not to be com-
‘pleted this year is a portion in Ad-
ams county from Heidlersburg to
York county line which will be built:
in 1920. As this road will dikely be
used more than any other-road in

tee ae
heme; ty
ler, of LC
Sponselle
tets, Mr:
thestown,
White |}
Wednesc
George ‘
Rev. H.
town, an

Jetery, Li

Mrs. A

}day ath

Sherryst
46 years,
was a dz
and Ag
her hust
Francis,
Bunty;
rence, 7
Lawrenc
was an
lic ~Chr
Union
Thursda
in St: M
Reudter,
Cemeter
vie ul
David
homeo
Raffensr
early*S
stroke
until S:
brated |
had bee
in his sl
county :
Baltimo
leaves |
ter, Mr:
was on
B,.. Bak:
pgreen C

Mrs /
Friday :
‘Mf. Imhc
9 mont!
widow
died fift
fifteen )
1839 she
later. in
Hanove:
Survivir
Lonise

a (Mrs. Jc

only so:
she miac
Sunday
and tnt
tery.

Mrs: ¥
in New
years, 1
her hus
ing chik
E., and
brother:
Corner;
tine, of
on Wec
terment
New Ch

Jessia
known
of Carr
brief il!
Run Th
vanced
man ha
and wa:

the county to give the people of the

He was

State access to Gettysburg and the
Lincoln Highway, the choice of the
this road by State Com-
adler isthe one deserv-

trouble
death f

‘missioner S
1 of all our people.

wife pre
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| pes GETTYSBURG STAR AND SENTINEL, April 8, 1884
i ;

Ma chill; Mrs. Kate CHase, formerly Mrs.) sweeping small out-houses and fences man would lave donc,

<= ~~ weptiganidehaets «nn demcandie qheete <2 ~eae OE _- +
———--f-— men an es -

eh | Sprague, has taken a house iv Paris, and from its path. until Homestead, Pa., was |
gouth : proposes to live there for a time. reached, when it seemed to gather new particularly violent as

GLADSTONE made a great speech in the  foree. A frame house, owned by Evan | hounds. as he eds

bs
a.

th House of Commons yesterday and arlics Tones, was blown down and ix Ten swe awd Wis Hife on Tne trial, and he
athen- s yes ay: : g' i . es ; , nan
f intends ed a decisive victory in the defeat of. Working on the }uilding were more ur less | tooks to Providence Lo avenge hin wrongs. |
‘i amendments to the new franchise bill. ; injured, A carpenter shop and alive shop) He sis iis theary of the briliiant red
Prince Bismarck has given official uo. | adjoining: were crushed by falling timbers, j sunsets of the winter asthe Deity’s wrath
NC smare 3 give fea - ; : '
. H ‘ . | and two cobblers were hurt slightly. Ip atthe wickedness and Mdse swearing ou
tice of the termination of the truce with: ; g
another part of the town a frame house, strmls, and sive tlds

: . : is Was all a special |
the Ultramantanists. No turther eonces- | i pee

» owned by Joln Randolph, was Jifted from dispensation for tis own private beuetit

sions will be made to the clerical party. : a
‘ | its foundations and earricd some distance, and that he would nor be surprised to see

|
j
y ESTE : ‘ning Di. Louis W. : . ;
YESTERDAY morning Vir. aa opi, | but, miraculous as it seems, the family, the same powes avenge the mjustice done
4 vate . ‘sician oO Fr . ‘age , . . por , : ees
Beach, & homeopathic physician . " 4 | eseaped uninjured. The dwelling of Mrs, j him: by a miraculous opening of his prison
7 is wife's rO% hi j eo 7 rns
toona cut his wife's thrawt while m, | Feeles was next struck hy the gale and doors, “This seems te be his only hepe,
_ . “head with y . +s .
and then chopped off her head with @) yadiy damaged and the storm passed up for he anticipates nothin

vg from the Board
clever. the valley.

of Pardons. to whom le will uot apply.
Anotner Ocean Disaster,—On Fri. | =

@ay the steamer Daniel Steinman, of the’) Tennessee. South Carolina and Ala-
White Cross Line from Antwerp to Boss | Dama Storm-Swept Many Lives

* . ; L.ont

the storm off the j he se : :

ton, yo tape mo “ ‘ ap | Carat asooc. \prit 2. A evelone one: recitals of the shocking murder, his

’ a, W aloss of over ; G ‘ ig . .
ak 28 eat t of: pa f thirty hundred vards wide passed below the city seeHing lack of remorse, his hatred of
; ye crew ¢ “ty: ) H , ae ‘ ;
ome hundred lives, Ont of acrew oe ? last night, woiog ina northeasterly direc: his enemiesand his utter hardiness to his

ine : i assenvers nine were j = p

nine and ninety p eaiat ak but nt 4 tion, Two members of Colonel Tatum’s end. professes to be a converted and de-
_ apts ive ¢ e crew and ! Wek at .

saved—the captain, five of th Ntamily were kdled and tive other deaths  vout ( hristian and reiterates that that

three passengers. "

jare reported, but the name- have not | constitutes the strength that upholds
A xEcro named Frank Elliott, charged | ylon learned *

with criminal assault on the daughter of} were torn np by the roots. Several trees | siveness, but that heaven would bardly

a gentleman in York county, 8... 5) were bliwn across the track of the Ala complete without him; that he is go-
seized by a mob and hung to a tree on Dame Great Southern Raiiway and) the oe there to filla mansion long prepared
Tuesday. The night before a masked | ;
r mob surrounded the jail at Dallas, Geor-
pployee of gia, overpowered the jailor and took out
was in-|a negro named Erwin McCullough .car-
ne Grove. | ried him tu a tree half a mile distant and
eey ‘sl- [hanged bim. One week ayo MeCullough ) tive cyclone passed through the southeast seeing them: in torment. In this way he
shot and instantly killed Thomas Wilson, ; .

y-eighth | a prominent young man of Gaston.

WHAT UPHOLDS HIM,
wr course this criminal, like many
‘others, notwithstanding all his boastiul

Trees on the mountain ; ot. He believes not that he needs for-
. *, a 1
William
tir-pistol gh é .
sth 1 cg night express Was thrown from the ritls for him: that the coming launch into
ens. gs

by the obstruction. Fireman Ed Brown! eternity will be but the sailing into a port

was killed and Engineer Mike Frowley of a lappier and heavenly home, from

was injured, which eminence he will look duwn on bis

HienrsvinLe, Ala, Aprill.—A destruc. chemies and enjoy his sweet revenge of

{ portion of this county last might, greatly sabbies on for hours. His description of
fi | damaging timber and fencing. The lieuse lew he begins his days are: “Lyet ap in
>, 000 rind PetEn De Corcky, aged ts, turned Out

ofa family named White was completely tae morning, epen my window and whis-
F introduc-

by his descendants, Was forced to take | blown away. Mrs. White and ter moth. ¢!

oe then take asmoke, after whieh,” this
Pout only 75 | yefuge iu a poor house in Minnesota. [lis | erin law were killed. AC baby

was ear. deemphasizes,  P sing some psalms and
only friend was a grand-son, Who was, | ried several miles and deposited: sr thie | Say my prayers? And again, the way
Mictiins of | however, too poor to support him. ‘The } woods, wirere it

was found, alive. this they end, hesayss thn saving my pray-
inva, Pa., | old man was a soldier in the war of E812, | morning

Acman named Glover hgud Moth oor and going te ded." Tle takes pains
ather and | and recently recerved a land warrant for) shoulders broken and other persons sus- tyinforin his visitors tat he spends most |
ted to re- | 160 acres of land and £0,200 back pension. | tained injuries mors or less serio, of his tine in reading his Bible and de. |

{

Ilis family tlocked around him, putitwas! Conran, S. Ca April 2.— A) fearful rives much comfort and consolation from
saker Car. his turn to put them aside. Lis grandson | jurrieane has prevacted here since O ASM. 6 it.
re colebra. | Who proved faithtul to him has been te | Trees were nprovted, imiies uf fencing! Rev. Professer P.M. Bikle, of the

Mecklen warded with the land warrant and half | leveled, gardens destroyed, windows de- Peansylyania College, is his spiritual ad-
of the money. molished and

out-houses blown down. viser, dle has been especially kind to the

mdence, at : os ‘ A
i SSS ae throughout the city, The irou. roof of the | prisoner and won bis admiration and re-

May 20. ‘ - OVECARE
os is C THE DEADLY CYCLONE, State House, that cost $5,000, has been | spect and was chosen by him to adiminis-
wis C,

he at blow: of The Palmetto Monument is | ter to his religious welfare.
eattempt| Great Destruction in the West] o.octis damaged. It is reported that aj eae 7

¢ Lincoln, and South. Faruens should use DD, Brocnen &
wo others

Villave in Lexington county has been t,o 4 a :
i ' Co's Standard Fertilizer on their Oats,

completely destroyed and several persons 1 or . 4 :

‘ An Indiana Town Wiped Out. initred * Corn and \ egetables, They also have for

‘the large J . V sale Pure Dissolved Bone Potash and

R
Bower, two Mcnete, Ind., April 2.—A destructive meat = > Chemicals. tf iNscbereeree
ether with | Wind storm struck this county at o‘p. m. | A Murderer’s Last Days. cman So i. 3 vent 0
attle. The yesterday, completely destroying Oak- wane . ; _— ioe a3 WED!! — Thr
ville, seven miles south of here on the How John Coyle, jr.. Passes His Time, KEEFER (ROCERY STORE opens out at
» Fort Wayne, Cincinnati and Louisville oe —— the old stand of DANaER & ZIKGLEN, on
LH. Linter, ; a aid’ eae fCorrespondent or The Times. BautiMone Street, with a fullsupply of
punty, was Raltroad. A heavy black cloud came Getryspete, April 2. fresh GROCERIES, PROVISIONS, QUEENS-
driving from the west and another from pik tiv cca Untnie GUGE atides : ;:
. It origi- Nearly thice years agu the community | Wark, &e.
the vorth. The two met above tho house | i) and ground York was thrown into ex-
of Tevis Cochrane, two miles west of | citement hy the cruel marder of Emma
Oakville, lifted it from its foundations Myers by John Coyle, Ir., who, impelled
and scattered it over two and a half miles } 1,\ joye and frenzied by his rejection, shot
of country. A moment later the storm “ :
reached Oakville, carrying death and de-
struction in its track. Of thirty houses
: in the place all but three were torn down.
s killed last | Four persons were killed. James San-
xplosion at | ders, two miles west of Oakville, was also
esan estate | killed. 1 ifty persons are reported wound-
yy the man-|ed, A large warehouse and sawmill ad-
explosives. | joining are in ruins. ‘The path of the
{ Delegates | storm was about a quarter of a mile wide,
cendment by | and everything in its track was destroyed.
thirds vote In the path of the storm for five miles |
eople. The | east and west « f the village the damage
it by a vote | is equally great. Fvery farm that the
cyclone passed wver was made a perfeet

he loss is Thankful for the good custom we had

at the corner, we hope to prove ourselves

equally worthy of patronage at the new

location . tt
the woman and then attempted suicide, an aia

which only amounted to aw sear on his ERurtions, SORES, PLEA seria
head and a slight wound on his body, | TH are but indicators of impure blood. THE STi
Ile was given e trial in York county and Acker’s Blood Elixir is the remedy. Sold R :
found guilty. This decision was reversed by J. M. Heer, druggist. ,
‘by the Supreme Court and a new trial a ees Feb. Apr.J BES |
ordered. On account of the prevalent New Spring Tats at R. M. Extcorr’s
feeling against the prisoner in his own ——- —<—-— --
county a change of venue was granted Snors ofal! kindsand at all prices,a PRI @
and the whole matter transferred to | EcKERT’s tf
Adams county, where the new trial took ;
“ ys . : To Reram Damaces.—Dear lady, Send for ou
place, Coyle’s defense was insanity, A " : . .
anne ; there is probably no use telling you that
sceond conviction was the result. Again | ax eee a
‘heim eat = bil tgs Bee} fashionable life in a great city is a rough
1¢ Supreme Court was apeale » DUE) one on your beauty. Late hours, loss of Sheriff JESSE V

this time the decision of the court below ; JAMES FUT
. . sleep and mental excitement will leave T
was sustained and execution ordered, J. A. ST-

which the death warrant of the Governor Oey teak Vy shark ve “Wise neaiabste wet
. ‘ 5 ae tresses which drew lovers around you in H
fixed for the 22d of this month,

No one could be more regardless of his
end than Coyle. When his death-warrant
was read to him it seemed to tire him to
| listen to itand he remarked when through
“that it was about ax long asthe Declara-
tion of Independence.” He is hardened

- — - -
- ae » Beene’ f® ee wid
and depraved, though professing conver- Hert WE Ane—Two ear lon ba of
— . : ? Nit nctn ina AE ‘ € peas 38 ® iba

ty cents a
It is said
lready have
er ie sure of

—-—

—or write to

ssoners have | Wreck, barns, houses, orchards and for-
ps shall be ests being blown down and fences leveled
id, to instill | to the ground, Everything presents a
they will be | scene ot desola;ion, On the farm of James
their jncar- | Sanders, four niles east of Middletown,
: the dwelling and barn were completely
ae te held destroyed. Sanders, who was & merchant

mper report- .
ay difficulty place at the time and had taken refuge im

asinstanty killed. At the
oolice .seom the barn, was instal \ illed
aes at town of Moress a fam f eight peonls

others years. Artificial substitutes can
never pass for those rich and glossy locks.
Barker’s [lair Balsam will stop your hair
from falling out, restore its natural color R.
ta Maukerctown, but why was veut ob the and softness, and prove cleansing and

beneficial to the scalp. Apr. i-m


lestroyerl oy sw yas a merchant |). Reese
re fights continue to be held | {stroyed. Saunders; who was a merehant | icon tg itand heremarked when through

ork, The newspaper report. | ‘iddlstowa, bu mt ou the
ea aN | place at the time and had taken refuge in
{ out without any ditheulty | : :
a } the baru, was instantly killed. At) the |
ur, but the police i : sae at
afamily of eight people! . “elic} pan ep aeiteee Se eae
nw oof them until they are i anit | stun to religion, and to every Inquiry as
16 papers the next norning.

’
er ae “that ot was about as lony asthe Deciara-

He is hardened
and depraved, though professing couver-

tion of Independence. ”
seem
town of Marr.
Vhad their house blown
Williaua
The others cseaped uninjured,

to splinters

. 'to his end seems utterly ind:flerent,
killed |

| claiming for himself the hardiness ta meet
i his fate awl te help to inake the duties of
] farm, | I

s farm, | * sae an .
deere _ the Sheriff as light as possible,

'*Lexperience no horror at the thought of ¢

the father, dunes, was
RANT has written a letter te
Mm regretting his inability
meeting to be held in New fone miles west of Oakville, was instantly
th instant, having for its ae
ding of a home for disabled |
soldiers. Theex-President
ee
veived from various points
' convey the intelligence
rized agents of the Turkish
re attempting to cluse the
ools in that country which
by missionaries from the

poutriglt,
WF. Painter, while

ea He says: |
Hed by the storm,
; THE STORM IN GIO,
paar 2 rank: county, eine ‘he adds, ‘I wish it was over,” he express.
town of about 300 inhabitants, the Chris. !es the only apparent tear, y
tian Church was unroofed. Several barns i
and outhouses were removed from their |
foundations and some were carried a! Until recently he has occupied himself
great distance. The house of Philip Wolf, | in knitting mats and. tidies and ham-
three miles east, was completely demol.: Mocks and has acquired some skill in

aig * |
! hanging; but [don’t think of it or worry |
i myself about it. Its ne ase.’ Bat when |

EMPLOYMENT IN ‘THE JALL,

ished. Tho family were caught in the , their manufacture during his imprison-
ruins, but were afterward rescued, with | ment. These he offered to his visitors for
slight injuries. A considerable amount , Sale, to supply himself with the necessary
of stock was killed by falling barns, but | fands for some delicacies, Bat since his
no estimate of the damage can be made, | (eath-warrant has been received he has
as distant parts of the country have not! been denied such things and has been de-
yet, been heard from, | prived of his possessions and is kept in
f | hary' wantin mM ¥ ‘
The direction of the storm was from the | Selitary continement. This annoys him
north-east and the range extensive, Near | Md he contends that he should be al-
iy vay ene H A
Jaysville twelve barns were  destroved, ; 12 da general good time before he dies.

P . . ,j Coyle is quite “a young man, having
horses 2 and three pers vy t : & ’ 8
fee ee es ed three persons | passed his 29th birthday on the 15th of

were badly burt, At Mechanicsburg, ; By OUT A

Ohio, many trees were blown down and! March. He is well built, inclined to be
several buildings were unroofed and up-! robust, of good form, pleasant face, which
turned, The cyclone came from the} he generally keeps cleanly shaved with
north-west. From Urbana, Ohio, it is | tte exception of a moustache. Me is what
reported that the storm did the yreatest may bu said to be a handsome man, His
damage inthe vicinity of Mutual andj Coneeitis great and he frequently tells
Bowlersville, the track being a third ofa
The destruction of timber
Large trees were torn from |

-attended meeting of the
County Medical Society
ht a proposed amendment
tion, permitting the admis-
physicians to membership,
y a vote of 79 yeas and 448
ring a two-thirds vote for
the amendment,

pf the leaders of the Demo-
to be held in Baltimore the
he present month to discuss
aining to the coming presi-
, and to tryand unite the
riff question. ‘ Tilden, Ran-
nd other prominent Demo-
ted to be present. his listeners that ‘people talk of him as
John Coyle, the handsome man,” and
Vis

all

police report at Vienna,
ig that the assassins, Kam-
macher, acted under orders
central committee of the
‘ew York, of which Herr
d. The prisoners are sus-
by attempted the murder of
Strasburg and «a money
Ltgart.
eek, Warren County, N.

afternoon, Mrs. Edson} interrupted. NearGreenyille the storm was
las alone in her house, was | also very severe: houses, barns and trees
rge entering back of the | “ere blown duwn, No lives are reported

' ‘ yo (MS trial, as he says. Another is a black
ing off the top of her head. | to have been lost, At Reynoldsbure. two | ee cet * i age c
miles east of Columbus, ina dey Which once Jumped into his boat as

lie Still another
jis a pieture of himself, with this under-
greater number unrooted Theath: “dohn Coyle, the murderer of the
: j : et ae iasses vad’? Thi: stituted hi
fruit trees were laid waste and five miles | MOkisses” bread, i 4 Gavdituted his
poles along the National: meals before the Couuty Commissioners
so far learned | Ueebled to order for him the best the jail
; . j Ile is ve “ase - ;
no person was Xcrivusly injured, though le is ae eH now with
» on Tpit alee ey} ie > has reg i
soina stack wax iciiled, lhe | his change of diet. e has read many of

aK E “the things said abor im i é piupers
the cyclone was not felt in Columbus, ex. , He things said about him in the papers

mile wide.
was heavy.
the ground by the roots.
reported lost.
PROPERTY LAID WASTF.,

Reports from Eastern) Indiana : i a
Vestern Ohio say that the storm in that; eng these are his own original attempts
wren Nga scrashiaan The wind blew | at depicting certain comic events of his
a hurricang, prostrating fenees and tele- | Iie and trials. By trarle he was a ferry-
jaman. and one of his pictures: is a boat-
flat-boat, with
seription, ‘doln Coyle’s last row to hell”?

prides himself greatly on the fact,

No lives are | Sense of humor or braggadocio: is at

times great,
| fay pictures, cheap chromos, advertise.

|
and | ment vards and valentines: but chief

graph lines and communication is badly

| ' he
jmaniuia leaky this in-

a phiase used by one of the witnesses on

southeaster.

Full and brains were thrown
teen feet square. The} ly direction, several honses and barns and
four miles west of this blown still
ded, The murderer is

Was crossing: the river,

bridges were down and a

Fences and
of telegraph

'o-Polanders, looking for
road were torn down,

king on the Delaware,
d Western Railroad track |
‘noon three miles from
vere struck by a backing
were killed, one was fatal-
lost an arm and one escap-

bodies of the killed were
ed, and the dismembered

were scattered over the
ods around.

as
altordect.
effects of
and says ‘'with all these publications he

cept in a heavy hailand rain-storn, rib
viygest man in- the

AT PITTSBURG,
Pirtsnerd, April 2.--By a eyclone ; Ste. : ‘a
which passed over the Mouougahela Val. ! COYLE S ECCENTRICITLES,
ley this morning property was damaged
to the amount of several thousand dollars
and twenty-one persons were injured, four
| probably fatally. The sun was siining-| wildly and eatinvaynubly,
i brightly at half-past nine, but ape pocutia,

minutes later the sky became overcast,
pe burnt, with the exten- | j,i] commouced falling and there were
s. An immense stock of | vivid flashes of lightning and loud peals
‘al implements and twelve | of thunder. A_ terrible gale followed
stock were consumed by | which leveled fences, wrenched
p loss is very large. New! trom their fastenings and demolished sev-
the farm that day and it | eral houses; on Twenty-cighth street some

the carelessness of some | frame houses were completely demolish.
the contlagration. | ed and on Wylie avenue the roof of the

yuessed he is the

Hits sanity is entirely apparent to any
listen to his talk. Tle
| converses pleasantly: at) times, however,
Some of his

He began

!
oue whe? would

ening the large barn on
h, near Marietta, Lancas-
aging to the estate of Col.

a few | eceentricities
i some time age to soleit money from those
H who visited the jail to see him, stating as
se ola watel, which
} he now prondly wears and displays, and
j he has expressed the wish that it should |
be wound up aud hung in his coffin, His
} hatred of and vituperation against his |
| enemies isat all times violent. He ace |
knowledges the killing of the girl and |
asserts that he loved and still loves her,

j his object the purehi

Sins

AND A FAaItTaALess Lov. | residence of William) Rosenbury was ,
ay night March 29, Miss j blown offand the brick partition was; and at onetime impiyieg oat ca ig sorry
, the daughter of wealthy | overthrown, burying Mrs. Rosenbury, | tnd again that he feels 38 ee os
at Baldwins, L. 1., elop- ! Fanny Skoulkin anda baby injuring them deed, but that the 7 18 Was asasgie by
and named George Ben-| 8v severely thatit is doubUul whether | her was enough to ¢ ae ay hws a.
y G. M. Southard. The | they will recover, He had been encouraged, a a 3
ried the next day in} Amony the houses simashed was that | was always Bowie here aun — ny
, and went to New York | of Jolin Suilivan, in which were fumeself, there with hey,’’ gnd warms of eit ker.
Mrs. Bennett returned | his wife and six children, the youngest | chiefs when he rowed awey on ” i
nut, after waiking about | child bejuy a bube two weeks old. | Most und kissing of hands to nee : / te
sald that she had been | miyacniousiy, none af the faruily were | him mad, he says, whet Riathities . Ju
newly married spouse, | injured fn the feast. The babe was found | his wife and he core ney the a ft s
but uns) fit of temporary insamity, and he cven

It lin bed, covered with @ebris, '
| produces what he considers au unanswer.

out a cent of mouey.
lat previous to his elope. | seathed. } eet tl ahi
i sen] pe , eet that he ther

stolen 870 from The storm continued in its course along | ablo argument to that eect th cn

his ’ . a, H
‘shot himself. which he thinks noo sane |

the south side of the Monongahela river,

His cell is y variety show of |

trom tailing oul, restore its natural cote:
ind vl

‘ 434° $3
eC bt taie & stele

and softness, prove Jeansipg “?

betc Ap mm
Were Wk Ane’—Two ear loads of
Western Wagons, 1 ear load of Perry

io pring-teeth Harrows. 1 car load of Heneh

& Dromgold Corn Plows, 1 ear load of!
Deoring Binders, and two ear loads of

Adviance Mowers Reapers— — for

at) the of Joun A.

Livens, Gettysburg, P; Apr. 8-tf

and

sale ware-lhouse

BarCall and sce LATEST sTYLES of.
Goods for Gents’ and Boys’ Wear, at W °
T. Kina's. Forstyte, his suits (both a!
oGoopsand MAKE)rival ANYto behad

inthe county. tf

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Sold by J. M. Iepen, druggist.

(Dec. Feb. Apr. }

Specials.

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An old physictan, retired from practice
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this recipe, in German, French or English,
With fullaireetions for preparing and using.
Sent by mall by niddressing with stamp,
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luke orders for Nursery

stock, Steady and Desi.
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