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Bellefonte, Pa., May 22, 1908.
ARTIST FARM HAND’S STORY
Frank Zastera Tells How He Killed
Mrs. Sheppard, Then Her Husband
and Girl Last—Spoke to Her and
She Screamed.
Matawan, N. J, May 19.—After
more than fifteen hours of questioning
by the police, Frank Zastera, the
young Bohemian farm hand employed
on the poultry farm of William B.
Sheppard, at Wickatunk, confessed
‘that he killed Sheppard, his wife and
Jennie Bendy, the maid.
Assistant Prosecutor Stokes made
this announcement. Zastera described
the shooting, and admitted he had
committed the triple murder for the
purpose of robbery. The farm hand
has lied, however, in regard to what
he did with the money he took from
the house. He told the police two
tales regarding its hiding place, but
both proved to be false.
This was Zastera's story of the
killing: “I just felt like it all of a sud-
den. It just came to me to do it, and
after killing one I couldn't stop.
“Mr. and Mrs. Sheppard and Jennie
and myself were up pretty late, play-
ing the phonograph in the dining
room. When I got to bed I couldn't
sleep. About 4 o'clock I thought 1
heard a noise in the yard. I got up
and put on my clothes. On my way
to the yard I saw the repeating gun
in the corner.
“I picked it up and aimed it at dif-
ferent things. Then 1 heard a step,
and I hid in the parlor, near the door.
Mrs. Sheppard had to pass it as she
came down stairs. She was in her
nightgown, getting milk for the baby.
“] waited till she came back from
the kitchen, then I spoke to her. When
she screamed 1 fired, just as she got
to the first step. She went down, but
I sent two more shots into her.
“Mr. Sheppard kind of leaned over
the railings and looked down. I fired
at him and hit him. He slid down
the stairs. Before he reached the bot
tom I gave him another shot, and he
fell across his wife.
“Then | saw Jennie, the servant
running away from me. 1 fired only
once at her, but she fell through the
door and didn’t move.”
Zastera is far from the typical farm
laborer. He is an artist, a violinist, a
worker in pyrography on leather. His
home is at 347 East Seventy-second
street, New York city, where, in
winter, he lived with his respectable,
comfortably situated family. He earn
ed a good living by designing and dec
orating expensive purses. At night he
attended art schools, having been a
pupil at the Cooper Union and the Na
tional Academy of Design among
others.
SPENDS OVER A BILLION
Appropriations Authorized By Con
gress Amount to $1,026,000,000.
Washington, May 19.—The sixtieth
congress will have earned the title ol
a “billion-dollar congress” at its first
gession before adjournment is taken
at the end of this week.
It is estimated that the total appro
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largest amount ever appropriated at a
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The various items contributing to |
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are: Sundry civil, $120,000,000; legis
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$221,765,000; pensions, $163,000.600;
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manent annual appropriations, $154,
000,000.
Members of the appropriation com:
mittee, however, think they will run
somewhere between $850,000,000 and
$900,000,000. This would mean a de
ficit of between $125,000,000 and $175.
000,000.
Girls Left Bound In Woods.
Uniontown, Pa., May 19.—Members
of the Pennsylvania state police
county detectives and a large num
ber of citizens are searching this vi
einity for the unknown assailants of
Mary Kolesca, eleven years of age
and Helen Swink, thirteen years old,
who have been seriously assaulted
Threats of lynching are made. The
two young girls were found in a woods
in a critical condition. Their clothes
were torn and their hands bound.
Murder In a Soldiers’ Home.
Dayton, O., May 19.—Bitter enmity
between two old soldiers culminated
in a murder at the Soldiers’ home, fol
lowing a quarrel, when John Samuel,
aged sixty-seven, deliberately threw
from a second-story window of the
barracks James Bo. llr, aged seventy
three. Bowlin fell head foremost on
the cement pavement below. His
skull was fractured and he soon died.
Wouldn't Pay For Teeth That Whistle.
Kansas City, Mo. May 19.—Four
new false teeth caused her to whistle
when she talked, declared Miss Emma
Virginia Ice, of this place, and she re
fused to pay the dentist his $46. When
he sued and the case was explained,
Justice Shoemaker decided in favor
of Miss Ice.
PASSENGER TRAINS CRASH
Injured In Collision on the
Reading Railway.
Lewisburg, Pa., May 19.—Through 3
misunderstanding of orders, twa
Reading passenger trains collided at
a curve just north of here. Both en
gines were badly wrecked, and a num-
ber of passengers and the crew of the
southbound train were injured. A
freight was standing on the north:
bound track, and orders had been is
sued to the southbound passenger
train to lay at a cut-off a mile above
town to allow the northbound train,
known as the “cannon ball” express,
to go up the southbound tracks around
the freight. In response to a signal
from the flagman of the freight crew
and in disobedience of orders, the
southbound passenger came beyond
the cut-off and collided with the “can
non ball” express.
The injured are: George Haupt,
firoman, Shamokin, ribs broken; O.
G. Neudoerffer, express messenger.
Reading, arm and ribs injured; Harry
Anthony, baggagemaster, Port Clin:
ton, hip and leg injured; Charles
Smith, conductor, Shamokin, back
wrenched; G. O. Roper, Williamsport,
head cut; Walter F. Beishline, Wil
liamsport, internally injured, head
badly cut; G. Sommer, Williamsport,
head and knee injured; Mrs. Roger
Williams and fifteen-months-old baby
Williamsport, body bruises; Mrs. Wil
liam Waterhouse, Sunbury, knee, hip
and arm injured, nose broken; Mrs.
Johnson Baugh, Millhall, leg and back
injured; Mrs. E. C. Yeagel, Milton
face bruised; C. K. Sober, Lewisburg,
head cut; Miss Edna D. Schoch, Lew:
isburg, face cut.
Many
SLEW WIFE AFTER REVIVAL
West Virginia Minister Chased Woman
Around Garden and Cut Her Throat.
Fairmont, W. Va., May 19.—Tem:
porarily insane, according to his own
statement, Rev. S. A. Coffman, aged
fifty years, a prominent Methodist
Episcopal clergyman, cut his wife's
throat. A moment after the crime, he
says, he regained his senses and real
ized what he had dome. He surren
dered himself.
Mr. Coffman lived at Rosstown,
about three miles from here, and was
in charge of two or three local
churches.
During the last week or two he has
been conducting revival services and
has been adding to the membership
of his churches. Sunday he finished
his revival and appeared to be wel
pleased with the result.
After midnight he and his wife were
discussing the services, when he sud
denly sc.ized a poker and began strik
ing her on the head. Mrs. Coffman
succeeded in escaping from the house
to a garden, but was followed closely
by her husband. When he caught ug
with her another fight for her life took
place, in which she was overpowered
Coffman had a knife, and when he had
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| nis wife powerless in his grasp he
cut her throat, causing her instant
death.
According to his statement, when
he looked on her lifeless body his
sanity was immediately restored and
he realized what he had done.
GIRL'S BODY FOUND
Remains of Miss Vanderbilt Discov
ered In Raritan Canal.
Princeton, N. J., May 19.—The body
of Miss Bertha Vanderbilt, assistant
fn the library of Princeton university,
who disappeared last week, was found
floating in the Raritan canal a short
distance from here.
The body was found by William
Balke and J. Millwood Salte, two boy
campers, while they were rowing up
the canal. When they had reached a
point about half a mile from the Car
negie lake aqueduct, into which it was
believed Miss Vanderbilt fell, they
found the body close to the shore.
Although parts of the girl's clothing
are missing, there appeared to be nc
signs of foul play. A few slight scars
which may have been received during
the five days the body was rolled along
the bed of the stream, were on the
face and forehead.
Miss Vanderbilt was last seen at the
aqueduct, and it is supposed that she
was drowned in an attempt to ford the
stream, which flows under the canal.
Woman Among Mrs. Guinness’ Victims
La Port, Ind., May 19.—Autopsies ol
the seven unidentified bodies exhumed
from Mrs. Belle Guinness’ private
burial ground, revealed the fact, ac
cording to the reports of Dr. F. T. Wil
cox and George R. Osborne, that onc
of the seven was a female. This reve
lation aroused new interest in the
story that a man and a woman came
to the house one night in 1904 to take
Jennie Olsen to a Los Angeles col
lege, as Mrs. Guinness told those
about the place. The next morning
Jennie and the man and woman were
gone. Mrs. Guinness said that the)
had left on an early train for Call
fornia. The body now declared to be
that of a woman was taken from the
same hole as was that of Jennie Ol
sen. In that hole also were the bod
jes of Ole Budsberg, of Iola, Wis., anc
that of another man. The theory now
advanced is that Mrs. Guinness ma)
have, on the same night, murderec
Jennie Olsen and the man and woma
who had come to take her to Califor
nia, and buried all three bodies, dis
membered, in the same pit. The body
of Budsberg, who was murdered later
than this night, was found nearer the
surface than the other three.
Mr. Cleveland Much Improved.
takewood, N. J, May 19.—Mrs.
Grover Cleveland declared the healtt
of the former president has improved
to such an extent that Dr. Bryant and
his assistant will not visit Lakewood
except at intervals, then only to as
sure themselves that the improvement
continues.
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