Demacealic fata Friday Morning, April If, 1890. To CorrrspoNpeENTs. — No ¢ommunications published unless accompanied by the real name of the writer. Mr. M. H. Guisg, of Penn Hall, is the duly authorized agent of the Warcaman for Gregg township. THINGS ABOUT TOWN & COUNTY The Harvard Quartette will sing in the Court House this evening. ——The work on the foundation of the Garman opera house is being vig- orously pushed. ——There are rumors of the appear- ance of Forepaugh’s circus in this place on the 24th of May. Rev. O. Herstreet has declined to accept the call to the Presbyterian church at Philipsburg. Mrs. Shannon, mother of Wm. Shannon, of Houtzdale, is cutting nine new teeth in her 86th year. You will miss a great treat if you fail to hear the Harvard quartette at the Court House this Friday evening. ——John G. Love, esq., of this place, has been engaged to deliver the address on Memorial Day in Lock Haven. ———Mrs. Calderwood, widow of the late Samuel Calderwood, died in Mill Hall last Friday at the age of 90 years: —— Rev. Mr. Rearick,the Lutheran minister at Rebersburg, brought home a wife last week whom he married in Sny- der county. ——The public schools of William- sport have adopted thesavings banks sys- tem and on the first day, Thursday of last week, the scholars deposited $1395,- 21. ——A strong delegation went from Philipsburg to Osceola last Friday to as- sist in the ceremony of raising American flags on the school houses 1n the latter place. ——The Graysdale mining company will pump water from Buffalo Run for mining purposes, until a new well can be bored, the old one having proved a failure. ——The stones in the old furnace at Farrandsville have been given to the Episcopalians of Lock Haven to be used in building a new chapel at the latter place. ——The large planing mill of Edgar Munson & Co., employing 200 hands, is to be moved from Williamsport to Tow- anda, a movement which the Williams- porters don’t like. Engineer Christline,of the Tyrone division, one of Superintendent Blair’s most trusted employees, spent Good Fri- day here, taking in and enjoying the sights about Bellefonte. ——The newly elected officers of Bellefonte Castle of the Knights of the Golden Eagle were installed on Tues- day evening by Deputy Chief Grenoble. The Castle has about 60 members. ——The Supreme Court of Pennsyl- vania decided last week that farmers and gardeners who sell from door to door produce of their own raising do not come under the provisions of the law re- lating to peddlers and hucksters. ——Burg’ars are operating in Philips- burg. Some nights ago an unsuccessful empt was made to rob the store of James E. Johuson, and on Monday nigh the store of Alfred Parapenzer was en- tered and some of its contents wers stolen. —— What is the matter with the Lock Haven Daily Democrat that it reaches this office so irregularly ? We scarcely get it three times a week, and it often misses two or three days in succession. ‘Whose ever faultit may be, we would like to have it corrected. ——PFor census enumerators G. W. Wythes has been appointed for the sec- ond and third wards of Philipsburg; R.H Duncan for the first ward of thatborough and the south precinct of Rush town- ship, and James Dubbs for the north precinct of Rush township. ——Ex-Governor Pollock was quite ill at the residence of his son-in-law, ©. T. Harvey, esq., at Lock Haven, last week, but his condition has since im- proved. His residence is in Philadel- phia, and he had come up to Lock Ha- ven for the benefit of his health, which recently had not been good. —— Master James Pope and a fellow companion, each about thirteen years of age, were very lucky in finding several checks and other articles of value which werestolen from T. B. Buddinger at Snow Shoe a few weeks ago. On presenting them to Mr. B. each of the lucky boys was presented with a nex suit of clothes. Our esteemed townsman, Wm. P. Duncan, Esq., says the Philipsburg Journal, who, with his family, has been spending the wiater in Florida, writes us that the weather there 1s getting quite warm, the thermometer registering 90 degrees at the time of writing (April 1.) Ile further states that it has been very dry all winter, having had very little rain since last October. A New Business PLACE ADDED To BELLEFoNTE.—Bellefonte is getting a new clothing stere which will greatl® beneiit the town and surroundings. the parties interested in it are manufac- turing their own goods, and have a good many stores all through the coun- ty, they sell goods at wholesale prices, The store will be located in the Brocker- hoff house block, in the room formerly occupied by Mingle’s shoe store. They will open about the 16th of this month. A a AS Norep WEATHER Proraer DEAD. — Lock Haven’s noted weather prophet, Jules A Phillips, died last Monday, aged 81 years. Phillips was an excen- tric character and was known to every person in Lock Haven. He was =n Frenchman by birth and was a veteran of the Mexican war. For a number of vears he had been making a living by fishing, and was considered one of the luckiest fishermen in that section of the country. Heleaves a wife and eighteen children. A SEVERE SUFFERER.—Henry Ellen- berger, of Cold Stream, aboat three weeks ago, suffering from a very severe toothache, went to the dentist to have the tooth extracted. It was so thor- oughly rootec that it could not be pulled. A preparation was given him to put in the tooth for killing the nerve. Mr. Ellenberger unfortunately kept us- ing an over-quantity of the liquid, like- ly swallowing a portion of it, and as a re- sult his system has become poisoned and he is suffering very much indeed. For about eighteen nights in succession he has not taken his bed.—Philipsburg Journal. Was He INsaxe.—We take thg following from the Philipsburg Journal of last Friday. In a letter received to-day from one who was brought up in Ponsanooth where the murderer Andrews was born, the writer says : “If he were sane he must have had some motive for committing such a dastardly and felonious deed. You know it is a law amongst mental scien- tists that men never act without a mo- tive. I am impressed with the thought that he was insane. Do you think a sane man would have acted inthe way he did and would say what he did? I have grounds for my opinions at least quite sufficient upon which to base a theory of insanity. I never knew the boy, but know his father very well. His grandfather, uncles and other rela- tives were all subject to periodical at- tacks of insanity. I don’t know whether you knew his father or not, but he should have been in an asylum years ago, for he was more like a madman. This I know from my own observation and experience. It is impossible for such a father to have a son who will not be damaged in his mental faculties.’ Borouea CoUNCIL.—At a meeting of council on Monday evening an appro- priation of $50 was voted to fix up the room of the Logan Hose house. Re- quests and petitions for the following ob- jects were received and referred to the. appropriate committees: Geo. W. Mil- ler for exoneration of $4 water tax for 1889; citizens of the extreme end of Howard street for water extension; Dr. Hafer for a side walk on Reynold’s ave- nue; for the opening of an alley in the rear of Smith street. Street committee reported the bad condition of a good many pavements and sidewalks. The contract for supplying coal to the water works was awarded to the Bellefonte Fuel Supply Company at $1.69 per ton. A complaint was made that Hoover & Miller had stored at lot of empty coal oil barrels in the old Snow Shoe depot and are also storing oil within the bor- ough, and as there is an ordinance against such doings the proper committee was instructed to have it enforced. The purchase of more hose was again refer- red to the fire and police committee with directions to act. The report of the borough treasurer showed an indebt- ness of $4,792.56 to that officer. Other business of minor importance was trans- acted. ——TRecently the Clinton County Com missioners advertised that they wanted to borrow $25,000 for county purposes, for which they proposed to issue bonds in any amount that the takers might wish, said bonds to run for ten years and to bear interest at the rate of four per cent. per annum. These bonds have al- ready been gobbled up in sums of trom $100 to $3,000, says the Lock Haven, Democrat, “which fact shows that tl e financial standing of the county is excel- lent and its credit unimpeachable. All these bonds were taken inside of the county, too, with scarcely an effort. This makes our people feel proud and they consider themselves in good hands under the guidance of the Board of Commissioners, the majority of which is Democratic.” -—Ten thousand young trout from the State hatching house at Corry, were sent out over the Bald Eagle Valley Railroad Saturday morning to Gillan- town, where they were placed in small mountain streams. thousand were sent to Altoona for dis- tribution. ANDREWS HUNG. iis Last Days Spent Religious Devotion, With the Expectation of Going Straight to ‘Heaven. WSR, LAUNCHED OFF THE SCAFFOLD WITHOUY UNSEEMLY ACCIDENT. The Murderer of Clara Price Dying the color of falsehood. over 22 years of age when his life was terminated on the gallows. He was born in Cornwall, England, and came to this country about five years ago, he having committed numerous offences, according to his own admission, before he left his native land. His father is still living, from whom he received let- ters after his conviction for the offence that brought him to the gallows. In one of these letters the father claimed that he had done his duty to his son, but if he did it seemed to have had but little effect in keeping him from evil ways He also received lette:s from a Mrs. Prisk with whom he appears to have lived for awhile in England, and who took an interest in him. She sent some money to his counsel to assist in his defence which they returned to her, as it was not needed. The following is the letter written by Mrs. Prisk to An- drews’ counsel : In chronicling the execution of Alfred Andrews, the second criminal upon whom has been inflicted the extreme Poxsxoorn, CorNwALL, ENGLAND. Mareb 9, 1890, E. R, Chambers, Esq. and Col. Spangler: suffer. just across the river from Centre. nocert life was the consequence. in, the confession penalty of the law in this county within the last two months, it will not be out of place to recall the incidents of the offense for which he has been so justly made to The scene of his crime, the most revolting that was ever committed in this part of the state, was on the western borders ot the county near where the Susquehanna river separates it from Clearfield county. The victim of his lustful and murderous propensities, Miss Clara Price, a young lady of undoubted innocence and purity, was a resident of .Karthaus, a village of Clearfield county She had been temporarily living with a fam- ily in the latter county, and was going to visit her friends at Karthaus on the morning of the 27th of last November, when, traveling the road alone on foot, fate placed her in the way of a human brute in the shape of Alfred Andrews, and the forfeiture of her young and in- The details of the foul murder have already been given in the testimony elicited in the trial and heretofore pub- lished. They have also been revealed of the murderer, although he attempted to distort them by falsehood. There can be no doubt that lust prompted his advances toward the poor girl on that lonely road, and that murder followed as an intended means of covering up his original offense. It was by a slender thread that the —Dear Sirs : It is with deep regret that I find poor wretched Alfred Andrews is guilty of such an awful crime. I loved the poor mother- less boy truly. His disposition seemed reck- less, but I could not believe he could be guilty of a crime so revolting. He was always kind in his manner toward me and I could have made any sacrifice for him. Sir, I know you have done your uttermost to save his life, and 1 feel now, as I shall ever feel, that everyone who has had anything to doin the matter have done their best, and it is justice that he should suffer for his guilty actions; but God knows how hard I feel it, poor feliow ! I am exceedingly grateful to you for your kind let- ter to hand to-day. It does comfort me to hear that my poor unfortunate boy should ask par- don of our merciful God. I can give him up if I can be sure of his salvation—that is the one great thing. I cannot expect to survive him very long. If I have the hope that he is gone to heaven Ishall try not to grieve more than I can help. I never knew what real sorrow was until now. I must again thank you for your great kindness, and if I were not very poor I would not think of the sum I borrowed being sent home again. Judging from your past kindness and nobleness, I know I may depend on you as a very true friend in this try- ing case. The only request that I have to make is that you will see that some servant of Christ may be allowed to speak to my poor Alfred. I consider it aprivilege for Alfred to be allowed time to seek Christ. Pray, sirs, urge him to repent—that is all I have to say. With referenee to his poor body I can do nothing. I must therefore leave it to the custom ot that country—or to his wife ; I can do nothing. Your kind sympathy did me good, and I had every possible confidence *;in your ability to save Alfred if he were innocent, as [ believed him to have been. Oh, the hor- ror of being deceived in one in whom one has placed confidence and love! I long to hear that be has found pardon for his guilty soul; then I feel that I can follow after justice was enabled to effect its end. crime was traced to the criminal and The fact that Andrews was seen on the road where the murdered girl was last seen alive, and that his appearance there was followed by the finding of her dead body,led to the theory of his guilt and his subsequent arrest. It would indeed have been an unreliable index of his crime if it had not been for- tified by his subsequent suspi- cious movements, by the tell-tale foot- p iit: testifying against him for his foul offense, and by corroborating circum- stances that forged the chain of evidence against him. The commonwealth tracked the bloody villain with rare sagacity, following with unerring scent the trail of the offender which to unpro- fessional eyes appeared indistinct and inconclusive. The pursuit was as unre- lenting as it was sagacious, and ended in bringing to bay one of the most fero- cious beasts that ever roamed this region and rendered human life unsafe. So conclusively was the crime fastened up- on the prisoner that the jury had hardly rendered their verdict against him until he admitted its correctness by a confes- sion in which he acknowledged the mur- der of his innocent victim, but endeav- ored to mitigate its most heinous feature by denying that he was prompted by a lustful motive. There can be but little trust placed in the correctness of the details of Andrews’ confession beyond the fact that it settled the question of his guilt. He was a nat- ural liar and by his statement under oath during the trial, in which he claim- ed to be innocent of the murder, he add- ed perjury to his other offense. Accord- ing to his confession he started out on the expedition, which culminated in the sacrifice of innocent Clara Price, armed with a revolver and for the purpose of committing crime. An indefiniteinten- tion of murdering some one occupied his mind, and he says that on the fatal morning he met several persons whom he was inclined to kill. Unfortunately he met Clara Price while he was under the influence of this murderous propen- sity. She was going along the road while the fiend was close on her track, on her way to friends in Karthaus, with a basket on her arm and softly humming & tune. According to An- drews statement, upon overtaking her he asked her what her nume was, which Friday forty-five and shot her down in the road, inflicting she gave him. Then he allowed her to go on unmolested,tut again pursued her three mortal wounds. This is his version of the murderous occurrence, but it bears | ‘ in peace, if notin happiness. your grateful but deeply afflicted, J. Prisk. I remain, sirs, P. S- I thank you for thanking the Rev. Dr, Laurie for his kindness, and I should ever feel comforted, if he will continue to visit the dear boy, guilty though he be. know Mr. Laurie will urge him to repent. I do not know anything that I could do about his poor body. Ilove him still. I J. During his last days Andrews had the advantage of spiritual adviee and attention, which he gave some indica- tion of appreciating. Members of the Y. M. C. A. were attentive in their ministrations, and visits from Revs, Hauck, Sarvis and Laurie were frequent. Fridays were usually the time for relig- ious demonstrations in his cell. Easter Sunday, while representatives of the Y. M. C. A. were holding services in his cell, he became spiritually “hap- py,” and got to shouting in regular re- vival style. that the day of execution would be the happiest of his life. Forge church were particularly atten- tive and zealous in their ministrations to the condemned man. On ‘While in this state he said Members of the If the reports which came from the jail on Tuesday night were correct, the scenes and doings there were more out of place and disgusting than were those that made the Hopkins hanging so no- torious and gave to Sheriff Cooke the unenviable reputation he bears for mak- ing a public circus of what the law con- templated should be a private execution. Although the poor wretch who was just- ly sent into eternity on Wednesday last bad not been allowed quite as many visit ors,and particularly female visitors,as was Hopkins, yet there was scarcely a time during his incarceration that his spirit- ual advisers were not interfered with by the presence of a crowd of curiosity seekers, and it is currently reported that when jail,on Tuesday night last, to render the last religious service he could to the con- demned, at the time or even get an opportunity to pray with him, in consequence of the crowd that was present occupying the cell and surroundings. Most of the time that kept occupied in writing letters intend- ed to give Sheriff Cooke some kind of a character, might have been turned over to the prayers of the minister and thoughts of the future, but the creature who time and again has disgraced the people who intrusted him with the high office of sheriff, thought he could make some per- words to you that you will take warn- sonel popularity with those whose curiosi- ing ty overcomes their repugnance for crime commit the bad deed for which I am | Rev. Mr. Hauk visited the he was unable to see him Andrews was in jail he was The last night of his life he The motive for | and kept open his show even to the last the offence can not be account for by | hour of the condemned man’s life. { any other theory than that he attempted { to be hoped that this is the last opportu- to outrage her and upon being resisted | nity Sheriff Cooke will have to disgrace he killed her to shield himself against the county and outrage all ideas of de- the consequences of his brutish attempt. | cency It is and propriety, as the chief | manager of an execution. Andrews was a month and three days | After Andrews was left alone on | Tuesday night he asked to see the coffin which had been brought to the jail, and he was taken down through the corridor to look at it. He expressed himself as being well pleased with it and appear: ed gratefu. to the commissioners, for get- ting him such a good one. He then ex- pressed a desire to see the rope, which hé examinel closely, and, fitting the noose around his neck, remarked that it he hung and struggled at the end of it for an hour it would not be sufficient punishment for the great crime he had committed. He went to bed about one o'clock and slept until almostsix o'clock, and shortly after that hour he was fur- nished with a breakfast of eggs, toast, potatoes and coffee. After breakfast he had his fellow prisoners arranged around the door of his cell and read to them a chapter from the Bible and made a pray- er. He then made an address enjoining upon them to turn from the evil of their ways. In themidst of this demonstra- tion his spiritual advisers, Revs. Hauck, Sarvis and Prof. Meyer, appeared upon the scene, when religious services com- menced, consisting of singing and pray- rant was read to him by Deputy Sheriff Wilson, which, without being visibly af- fected, he listened to while he rested his arm on the Deputy’s shoulder, remarking when it was finished, “Thank God, that is the last time I shall ever hear that.” teligious services were then resumed, members of the Y.M. C. A. taking part, they singing “How Firm a Foundation” as the procession moved to the place of ex- ecution, and followed it up with “Jesus Lover of my Soul.” Contrary to expectation the doomed man faced the terrible ordeal of hanging with unflincing coolness. At 10.43, a. m., he was prepared to start for the gallows, and at that hour the procession left his cell and proceeded to the scene of execution in the following order: Sheriff’s Leahy and Cooke; the priso- ner, supported on either side by Revs. Houck and Sarvis ; deputy Sheriff Wil- son and Lowell Meyer, and then the jury selected to witness the exe- cution. : On arriving at the gallows the prison- er mounted the steps with firmness, being accompanied by the two sheriffs, his spiritual advisers and several others. After calling for a glass of water he fac- ed the crowd and with a remarkably. firm voice said : “Well, gentlemen, I am here to pay the penalty of my erime, which I pray and wish to do with great respect, and I pray and trust that when I leave this world I will have eternal life through our Lord Jesus. I hope, my friends, that after I am gone from this world I may meet you allin Heaven above, but if I had to depend upon this world for mercy I would never get it, for I know there are some people in this town who would throw me into a lake of fire with- out mercy. “But to prove to you the mercies of the other world I will read from the Bible and I hope you will listen to what I read. I will read the 14th chapter of Romaps.” After reading this portion of scripture he continued in the following strain: “You may wonder what makes me stand here in front of you and read this chapter, but He who has forgiven me makes me stand here to read this chap- ter in this book. May God have mercy on me is my prayer. Oh, my friends, just pay attention to these few words, as I do,as I stand before the judgment seat of Christ, as I stand here to be executed before you, and, my friends, I hope you may never come to experience this terri- ble conditioz. My brethren, I have read to you this chapter, I call you brethren because we are all brethren in the spirit of the Lord. I come here to pay the penalty of the bad deed I have committed. I am sorry for the life [ have taken, and I trust I may meet the girl in Heaven, as I trust I may meet you all there. I trust I may meet my parents there. Oh, my friends, I know I have done wrong, and I willing- ly pay the penalty of the law for the crime I have committed. But I must say to you that I have never known a father’s love or a mother’s love, a brother’s-love or a sister’s, but I hope I may meet them in the world above. My father never showed me a father’s love, but may God bless him, and may God grant him everlasting pardon. I must give many thanks to the Commis- sioners of this county, for they have been very kind to me. I must now give thanks to the Sheriff and his fami- “ly; I pray that. the Lord may bless “and protect them. “IfI never had the love of God in my heart I could neverstand betore you and say these words to you, and I hope and trust that when I say these that you may never be led to er,which continued until the death war-| about to suffer the penalty of death. I hope that T will be the last man execut- ed in the county. I have not had much experience in the love of Christ but I desire that you all unite in prayer with me and I hope you will all listen to jt.’ Then came the prayer which was de- livered firmly and earnestly, and after it he said : “I trust I may meet the blessed girl whose life I have stolen from the world. May T meet her in Heaven and clasp her hands and say, “I know you.” I am willing to suffer the penalty of the offense I have committed, and since I have committed it I am ready to say that I desire to suffer the punishment that awai‘s me, and I hope that the friends I see around me here to-day may meet with me around the throne of Heaven. Now we will repeat the Lord's prayer.’ After his address, when Mr. Cann, of Philipsburg, went up to him and asked what he should say to his family, Andrews replied: “Tell them I am in heaven.” After this he bid good by to all presant and shook hands with all on the scaffold. Rev. Hauck, of the Methodist church, delivered an impressive prayer, and before the black cap was drawn over his head and his limbs were pinioned, he kissed Sheriff Cooke and thanked him and Deputy Wilson for thier kind treatment. At 11.08 the trap was sprung and the eulprit was dangling at the end of the rope. There was not much convulsion of the limbs or body, and after hanging for 25 minutes prison physician Dor- worth, with Dr. Harris, Tobin and Fisher, pronounced him dead. ' The body was then cut down and given in charge of undertaker Confer, of Miles- burg, who took it away for interment. The following persons composed the Jury selected by the Sheriff to witness the execution: S. R. Pringle, of Port Matilda; O. E. Miles, of Milesburg;: A. L. Katherman, of Center Hall; Isaac Smith, of Gregg township; M. Miner, of Howard ; G. G. Mattern, of Matternville; Abraham Trimble, of Philipsburg ; H. M. Walker, of Roland ; Christ Decker, of Zion; C. M. Bower, of Bellfonte; Geo. Hastings, of Belle- fonte, and Geo. R. Boak, of Pine Glen. Miss Mollie Smyder will return from New York the 12th of April with a New York trimmer and New York styles; largest and finest line of millinery ever brought to Bellefonte or Centre County. Opening of French pattern goods Thursday April 24th. All are invited to call and examire goods. 2t ——Cabinet pictures $1.50 per dozen. Life size $1.00 each. Tin-types four for 25 cts. Work guaranteed to be satis- factory. Corner Bishop and Penn st. Bellefonte. Come and see me. 2t. WiLniam FISHER. ——Murs. Gilmore has returned from New York and Philadelphia with a large and complete stock of millinery goods, and has also brought with her from New York a first-class milliner. She will have her opening next week, to which her customers and the public gen- erally are invite. She is agent for tke Centemeri kid gloves and keeps a stock of them on hand. ——Steady employment on salary is offered in another eolumn by KE. C. Pierson & Co., Waterloo, N. Y. Married . ALEXANDER—RICHARDS.— In Bellewood, Pa., on Wednesday, April 9th, 1890, by Rev. G. B. Ague, Mr. Mills: Alexander and Miss Josie Richards, both of Julian, Centre coun- ty, Pa. Bellefonte Grain Market. Corrected weekly by Geo. W. 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