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INK SLINGS.
- ———Colonel Eric Fisher Wood has
‘managed to make his brief service in
politics a profitable enterprise.
—Far from undertaking to manu-
facture an alibi for State’s defeat by
Bucknell, on Saturday, we are right
here to admit that it looked to us as
though the visitors were a better team,
had the brains to know what was best
to do and the speed to execute the
plays that did it.
—Dr. Krusen says dust and smoke
steal one-third of Philadelphia’s daily
portion of sunshine. They’ll probably
start a movement to arrest the petty
pilferers, but it wont get far—until
they arrest the ballot crooks who keep
a machine in power down there that
permits the dust and smoke.
—As sheriff, “Dep” Dunlap could be
counted on to do his duty fearlessly.
He learned a lot about that over in
France. These soldiers seem to make
great sheriffs. When has the county
ever had one who went about his duty
less offensively or more conscientious-
1y than Dick Taylor has done.
—Harry Garbrick, of Coleville, and
Orie Stover, of Eagleville, would
make fine auditors for Centre county.
‘Both are business men of ability and
both competent and fearless enough
to dig into the county’s business af-
‘fairs in such a way that the taxpayers
could feel certain that anything they
would put their “O. K.” on would be
all right.
—We want every voter in Centre
county to understand that there is
nothing personal in the attitude the
Watchman is taking in the present
contest for county offices. We are not
fighting Senator Scott, Mr. Fleming
or any of the other candidates on
their combine slate personally. We
have a very high regard for some of
them. We are fighting what they
represent. And that is machine domi-
nation of Centre county. And we plead
with the Demccrats of the county to
get out our vote so that those Repub-
lican’s who abhor the thought of see-
ing Centre become a tail to the Vare
and Leslie kite will have something
to build on. There are hundreds of
Republicans who are just as sincere
and honest in their political convic-
tions as we helieve ourselves to be.
They are just as jealous of the fair
name of their party as we are of ours
and for that reason they are looking
to us as the only means they have of
blocking attempts to rule Centre
county after the methods employed
by the Vares in Philadelphia and the
Leslies in Pittsburgh.
—The Gazette of last week con-
tributed the best bit of comedy that
has injected itself into the campaign
thus far. It undertook to scare State
College with Senator Scott. Governor
Fisher, not Senator Scott, will be the
person who will have the final word
-on what the next appropriation to our
great institution of learning will be.
And Senator Scott will go out of office
at the same time that Governor Fish-
er relinquishes his job. As to whether
he will be re-elected, that’s for the
future to reveal. Senator Scott is a
poor bogey for the Gazette to hold up
as long as John Fisher is Governor
:and anyone with the wit of an oyster
knows that. The interesting feature
- of the Gazette’s blunder is the em-
barrassment it must cause the Sena-
tor. For it clearly implies that if re-
elected he will use his office to club
State College with if it doesn’t do
‘handsomely for Mr. Fleming for
Judge next month. The Senator
wants a Judge, of course, but there
is another reason why he wants to
get Mr. Fleming on the bench. He
wants him out of his way. Ward had
ambitions to go to Congress two years
ago. He might ambish some more if
he loses out in the judicial fight and
as Clearfield county would scarcely
give Centre both the Congressional
‘and Senatorial nominations Senator
Scott is digging himself in in more
ways than the average voter thinks
of in this fight.
—Mr. Holtzworth’s eligibility to the
office of County Treasurer is clearly
questionable. The law says that no
one who has been elected a County
Commissioner is eligible to election as
County Treasurer immediately suc-
ceeding his service as Commissioner.
Mr. Holtzworth was not elected. He
was appointed to his present office;
therefor some hold that his candidacy
is not prohibited by the Act of 1841.
It is our opinion that the Act would
be interpreted by the higher courts
‘as operative against any one trying
to step from the Commissioners’ di-
rectly into the Treasurer’s office, no
matter how he became the former
officer. The word “elected” was used
inthe Act only because it expresses
“the accepted means of accession to the
office and we are sure no court would
give it such interpretation as would
permit it to mullify the real intent of
the Act itself. The purpose of the law
was to prevent the possibility of an
officer having a chance to make public
contracts in one office and then have
himself elected to the other through
which they are paid off. It was a
safe-guard, a check against the pos-
sibility of conspiracy. In this light
it seems to us that the very fact that
Mr. Holtzworth has been a County
Commssioner, no matter how he got
into the office, makes him ineligible
for Treasurer. The question is at
‘least so debatable that his election
might prove the basis for a costly test
case for the county.
STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAI UNION.
VOL. 72.
Party Leaders Think Coolidge wilt |
Run Again. !
After breakfast at the White House
as guests of President Coolidge mem-
bers of the Republican National com-
mittee have unanimously come to
the opinion that Mr. Coolidge “has
by no means closed the door upon the
possibility of his renomination,” ac-
cording to a conspicuous press cor-
respondent at Washington. The com-
mittee assembled in Washington on
Tuesday to confer upon plans for
the National convention. They were
invited to breakfast and responded in |
expectation of getting the inside
thought of the silent man on the main
question. But they were disappoint-
ed. The President was “a genial and
serene host,” according to the chron-
icler of the event, “but dumb as an
oyster on the question upon which
they were yearning for light and lead-
ing.”
Sometimes silence is more effective
than words in conveying purposes and
the members of the committee are
persuaded that Calvin is anxiously
waiting to be “drafted.” “Hardly
any of them is willing to come out
into the open and say this,” so the
story goes. “They realze that it would |
seem to impugn the President’s good
faith to do so. Yet they argue that
in the absence of a clear-cut, unquali-
fied ‘I will not run for President in
1928’ declaration, Calvin Coolidge can-
not absolutely be eliminated from the
picture.” And the party leaders who
enjoyed his hospitality on the mem-
orable occasion referred to are con-
vinced that he doesn’t want to be. It
may be added that Big Business is
equally anxious to continue him in of-
fice.
It is possible, of course, that Mr. !’
Coolidge didn’t “choose” to run for
President next year when he. issued
his surprising statement, but not
probable. Like Roosevelt he has en-
joyed the distinction and power the
office affords. But he was on record
as opposed to the third term and felt
confident that the party would nom-
inate him anyway, Zor the corporate
interests . ged him. Moreover the
widespread: and increasing impression
that Herbert Hoover will be the alter-
native is a disturbing element in the
equation. If Hughes could be nom-
inated Coolidge might remain out of
the running in 1928, hut the Hughes
proposition aroused no enthusiasm and
Big Business is afraid of Hoover. i
The suggestion that Congress
provide a means for sending mothers
of soldiers killed in France during the
world war to visit their graves is
meeting with deserved popular favor. '
Sentiment for Voting Machines In-
creasing.
The frauds and irregularities per-
petrated, and the tardiness in making |
returns or the recent primary election
in this State have vastly increased !
public sentiment in favor of voting ma- |
chines. The Wilkes-Barre Record and
a number of other influential up-State
newspapers have taken up the subject
and are earnestly urging the adoption
of the pending constitutional amend-
ment providing for the use of the ma-
chines wherever desired by the elec-
torate. Lieutenant Governor James,
addressing one of the civic organiza-
tions of the city in which he lives,
the other day, expressed the belief |
that voting machines afford the only |
hope of honest elections and implored |
his hearers te support the amendment. |
The only forceful objection that the
opponents of voting machines have
been able to invent is that the origin-
al cost will be considerable. That is
unquestionably true but not a persua-
sive fact. The annual saving in elec-
tion expenses will in a few years re-
imburse the communities for the in-
vestment. But even if that were not
true the guarantee of honest elections
and prompt return and computation
of the votes will be worth more than
the cost of the machines in creating
confidence in the government and con-
tentment among the voters. Suspi-
cion of fraud in elections not only
creates contempt of authority but in-
cites bitter animosities between pub-
lic officials and voters.
The only regret that is justifiable
in relation to the matter is that the
proposed amendment does not make
the adoption of voting machines in '
every voting district in the State com-
pulsory. The Vare-Mellon partnership i
prevented this for the obvious purpose |
of continuing the opportunities for |
fraud in the Philadelphia “neck” and |
the Pittsburgh “strip” until after the |
Senatorial election next year. They
know that neither of the great cities '
will consent to the introduction of the '
system ard feel equally certain that
while frauds may be practiced in those
cities it doesn’t matter much how
honest the vote is in other parts of
the State. Their purpose will be ful- :
filled in any event.
BELLEFONTE. PA.. OCTOBER 14
AEE ———
NO. 40.
Keep the Courts Free
from Machine Tainted Politics.
mms.
It is not necessary for a man
a good Judge.
to be a great lawyer in order to be
The history of the Judiciary of Pennsylvania will reveal
that a large majority of the Judges of the courts of the State have not
been what the profession would call great lawyers before their elevation
to the bench. In fact records can b
poor lawyers have made very good Judges.
e produced to show cases where very
Men who possess both
legal and judicial minds are not at all common in the profession, be-
cause the two are by no means alike.
We make these statements without thought of estimating the legal
ability of either Mr. Walker or Mr. Fleming or of measuring them by
comparison. We do it for the reason that no matter what their re-
spective attainments in the law might be one of them is gong to be the
next Judge of the Courts of Centre county.
rather than trial lawyers, more fro
portunity. Granted that they are
Both have been office,
m choice, no doubt, than lack of op-
nien of like ability in their profes-
sion—and we think we do neither of them injustice in such an assump-
tion—Mr. Walker has the advantage of sixteen year’s more experience in
the law than Mr. Fleming and very much more actual court practice
than he has had.
There are other qualifications,
however, that are essential to the
position and discuss them dispassionately is the purpose of this
article.
Along with a sound, working knowledge of the law a Judge should
have common sense, be honest, courteous, open-minded, human, have a
will to work and, above all, be free from business and political alliances
that might unconsciously or otherwise swerve him into the slightest
partiality in the administration of
are set up to give justice to all.
friends of the person who presides
justice. Remember, that the courts
Not specially to the favorites and
over them.
We think Mr. Walker has every one of the qualifications we have
specified above.
very extraordinary degree.
We don’t think, we know that he has two of them in
. With him work is an obsession. He is and always has been a “do
it now” lawer and. “manana”, which is Spanish for the person who. puts
things off until tomorrow, is not in his professional vocabulary. We
allude to this trait because if he
thousands of dollars to the tax pa
were on the Bench it would mean
yers of the county in reduced court
expenses brought about by his will to get through with things as speed-
ily as possible. And think of the satisfaction to litigants there would be
in having their cases speedily dispatched.
would probably be harder on his fellow lawyers than on any other class
As a Judge Mr. Walker
for he would not tolerate dilatory taetics nor needless delay.
The other outstanding qualification we believe him to have is abso-
lite freedom from any business or’ political connections that might
prove embarrassing or serve to sw
campaign ne stands exactly where
two vears ago. He is beholden to
he allied with a machine that is re:
the State to throttle them as it has
desire to be the Judge of our courts solely his own ambition to hon-:
orably serve you, just as he has done in many other ways when the op-
portunity presented.
It is a very dangerous thing to
pawn of political manipulators, yet
done right here in Centre county.
him toward partiality. In this
he stoed in his contest for the office
no political faction, no boss, nor is
ng out into the inland counties of
done our great cities. Mr. Walker's
make the exalted office of Judge the
only a month ago you saw it being
You know as well as we do, for you
“heard it on all sides, that the fight for the Republican nomination was
not nearly so much a contest between Judge Furst and Mr. Fleming as
it was a fight to the finish between Senator Scott, and his Beidleman
and Vare backing, and Secretary D
backing, as to which faction would stuff the Republican party in Cen-
orworth and his state administration
tre county into its vestpocket and deliver it to the highest bidder.
Think of such cold-blooded, selfish bandying with a position whose
occupant sits in judgment of every phase of your life—aye, even your
life itself.
. We haven't a word to say against Mr. Fleming, either personally
or professionally. We have known him since he was a child and we take
second place to nobody in admiration of the position in life which he
has achieved.
his friends will not be disloyal if
In this contest, however, he represents something that
they decline to follow him in. No
matter how honorable he may be that very sense of honor would either
boldly or sub-consciously recognize its debt to the machine that made
him Judge and, paying it, might mean injustice to others.
No, there ought to be no machine made cog in the gears that grind
out Justice in Centre county.
. 1927.
! because
4 would give assurance of .
Improved Political Conditions.
The
cumulating evidence of an
phia and Pittsburgh inspired hope for
improvement in the political morals of
Pennsylvania in the near future. In
Philadelphia an independent move-
ment has already assumed proportions
that justify confidence that the cor-
rupt Vare machine will be defeated
at the coming election and in Pitis-
burgh, for the first time in years, the
courts have expressed a purpose to
bring election crooks to just punish-
ment. Under the protection of the
Leslie-Mellon machine in Pittsburgh
and the Vare machine in Philadelphia
fraudulent ballots and false returns
have determined the political com-
plexion of the State government for
years.
It would be gratifying, indeed, if
this wholesome improvement in the
political conditions in the two great
cities of the State could be ascribed
to the intelligence, integrity and ef-
ficiency of the Democratic leaders in
control in those communities. But
unhappily no such comfort can be
drawn. The Vare machine and the
Leslie-Mellon machine might have
continued to bludgeon and rob the
Democrats of the State to the end of
time if they had not undertaken to
bludgeon and rob others of their own
political faith. Penalizing official
honesty in the district attoreny’s of-
fice in Philadelphia and the courts in
Pittsburgh aroused a storm of resent-
ment and indignation beyond any con-
trol of the bosses.
But the Democrats of Pennsylvania
have no reason to dispair because the
improvement has come from an un-
expected source. The plain fact is
that the defeat of the Vare machine
in Philadelphia and the Leslie-Mellon
machine ‘in Pittsburgh will practically
put an end to, or greatly minimize,
ballot frauds in those cities and if
‘that does not give the Democrats a
fits in public office.
ed effort.
Not That Walker.
ies Co.
friends.
serve sixteen years.
ing offices.
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ing--Holtzworth--Wilkinson
anything.
majority in the State it will at least
compel the Republicans to nominate
: : . : | fit candidates in e .
aroused public conscience in Philadel- ; This will, Em Fiat
advantage to the people who have
suffered for years from the malad-
ministration of political machine mis-
Meantime it
should hearten Democrats to increase-
Word is being passed in certain
parts of Rush township, where it is
thought that it might hurt his cand-
idacy, that W. Harrison Walker,
nominee for Judge, is a member of
the wealthy Walker family connected
with the Harbison-Walker Refractor-
Mr. Walker has no relationship,
either by blood or business, with the
other family. He was born and raised
on a farm in the lower end of Nittany
valley and has made his way in life
without the aid of pull or the persua-
sive power of wealthy relatives or
—Drawing down about seven thous-
and dollars a year Prothonotary Wilk-
inson has been paid in the eight years
he has been in office nearly as much
as any other county official, except
the Judge, would get if he were to
Give Roy four
years more and he will have reaped
the equivalent of twenty-four years
service in any of the other good pay-
—The surest way to safeguard
Centre county against the dangers of
machine domination is to vote against
the candidates the machine has set up.
—Neither John Harnish, Bill Hur- |
ley nor Charley Long owe the Flem-
combine
Two Tickets Contrasted.
From the Philadelphia Record.
When William S. Vare selects the
persons he desires to place in charge
of the various ‘branches of the gov-
ernment of the city of Philadelphia
there is very little need or opportun-
ty for preliminary discussion among
those whom he expects to attend to
the execution of his orders. He lis-
tens to the recommendations of his
lieutenants, and sometimes flatters
them by asking their advice. But
neither their recommendations nor
their advice carry any weight with
him. He receives their suggestions
i with cryptic comment, and they leave
his presence mystified. When he ad-
judges the time to be ripe for an an-
nouncement of his intentions he sends
for the ward leaders one by one and
informs them of the makeup of the
organization ticket. They then have
the privilege of swearing allegiance
—which is to say that they sign on
the dotted line.
That is literally the method pursued
in the selection of the nominees of the
Republican party in Philadelphia. It
is bad enough that they should be
chosen by one man; it is worse that
i the reasons for which the choice is
based are not considerations of the
public welfare, but of personal ad-
vantage. Some candidates are named
i (Lor services already ren-
e-Vare cause; others for
services expected. None are chosen
their pre-eminent qualifi-
cations for service to the people; for
that would imply independence of po-
litical and personal obligations, and
independence on the part of office
holders is one quality that no boss
can brook. :
We are here reviewing the methods
put before the public in order that we
may contrast them with those neces-
sarily employed by the: independent
candidates.
The independent forces led by J.
Hampton Moore realized from the out-
set that they could give no orders tg a
disciplined army and pass out no re-
wards. - Their sole hope of getting
votes for their candidates rested upon
the choice of nominees whose posi-
tion in either public or private life
tegrity and capability. They could
not name men, of whom plenty were
On the contrary, they had to select
a number who didn’t want jobs, and
| to whom the acceptance of nomination
j involved personal sacrifice.
The issues of the campaign are not
| very complex. They may be numer-
ous, but they all simmer down to
i these: One-man rule, or popular rule.
Government for the welfare of an in-
dividual, or government for the wel-
fare of the taxpayers.
ants chosen for private advantage, or
for general advantage.
of the sort of administration that out-
spends the city’s resources without
taking care of its vital necessities, or
application of ordinary business com-
mon sense to the management of our
n:unicipal corporation.
“The Record” has no doubt that a
great majority of the voters of Phila-
delphia_ prefer to have the city run
for their benefit than to have it run
trol its affairs. We are likewise sure
candidates named as running mates
for J. Hampton Moore would be more
likely to give them the kind of service
they desire
slate selected by William S. Vare.
But to effect the desired result the
citizens who favor a new deal in mun-
icipal administration must learn a les-
son from their political enemies.
_The Republican Organization, eon-
situting in fact a minorty of the po-
tential voters, maintans control by
unity and discipline. Those who ex-
pect but fail to receive its favors do
not sulk or desert; they put aside their
disappointments and work hard for
an unworthy cause. This is not the
habit of independents, so many of
that if they cannot have their own
their enthusiasm to evaporate.
This is no time for the nursing of
personal animosities. It is a time to
put little matters out of mind and
itself to every man and woman who
sincerely desires to stop municipal
waste and extravagance and secure
for the taxpayer a dollar's worth of
When independents pull together as
strongly as the despoilers of the city
pull together there will be an end of
despoiling.
——Notwithstanding the bad storm
of Wednesday evening forty-four of
the Democratic precinct committee-
men of the county met for conference
Committeemen were here from all
parts of the county, five of them hav-
ing been from. Philipsburg.
——Base ball having been shifted
out of the public mind for the present
football will hold attention for a
while. . i
——The base ball championship is
settled for this year, not to the satis-
i faction of everybody, but it’s settled.
| ing his skull.
by which an organization ticket is
Republicans in the selection of their |.
persunal. in.
available, who merely wanted jobs.
Public serv-
Continuance
for the benefit of those who now con- |
that most citizens believe that the |
than the million-dollar |
whom carry their independence so far
way about everything they permit |
work for a cause that must commend |
benefit for every dollar expended.
at the Brockerhoff house in this place.
SPAWLS FROM THE KEYTSONE.
, —Mrs. Benjamin M. Zimmerman, of
Hinkletown, Lancaster county, choked to
death on Tuesday when a piece of meat
lodged in her throat. She was preparing
a meal and cut off a small portion of a
steak to taste. Death occurred within a
few minutes after she put the meat in her
mouth. 7
—Setting what he thought was a trap
for tire thieves, B. D. Phipps, of Frank-
lin, Pa., arranged to have his father sleep
in his automobile, parked in front of his
home. When the elder Phipps woke up
the next morning it was found that all
the tires on the car had been stolen and
the gas tank drained. :
—Falling under one of his horses, Abe
Pardoe 60, a farmer living near Towanda,
was instantly killed on Tuesday afternoom
when the horse stepped on his head, crush-
Pardoe was riding on a load
of buckwheat that started to slip from the
rigging. He grabbed the ladder at the
front of the wagon and this broke, throw-
ing him to the ground.
—Arraigned for violating a parole, John
Trial, 45, of Pittsburgh, pleaded’ with
criminal court judge H. H. Rowand to
send him to jail rather than the workhouse
becouse he had a cold and was “afraid
one of those workhouse haircuts wouldn't
do it any good.” The judge considered
with Trial over his troubles but gave him
from six to 12 months in the workhouse.
—Mrs. Arthur Coleman and Mrs. E. A.
Leister, members of the Ever-Ready Bible
Class, of Grace Evangelical church, Lew-
istown, saved that edifice from destruction
by fire last Thursday. They were meeting
in the kitchen when they smelled smoke,
which proved to be from wodwork set on
fire by an electric waffle iron. Holes
driven into the walls by an ax and a fire
extinguisher stopped the blaze with only
a few dollars in damage.
—Damage estimated at $300,000 was
caused on Tuesday when fire swept
through the I. X. L. tannery, at Tunkhan-
nock. A large quantity of cured leather
stored in the leach house was destroyed,
with the bark mill, making the loss very
heavy, officials of the Elk Tanning Com-
pany, of Ridgway, the owners said. Ap-
proximately 100 men are out of work as
a result of the fire, which, it is believed,
resulted from spontaneous combustion.
—Angeline Loroche, 17-year-old Kulp-
mont girl, was acquitted by a jury inthe
Northumberland county court last week, of
the murder of "Tony Popelo, whom she
shot in Mount Carmel! on May 31, last,
after he refused to keep his promise to
make her his bride. The girl, hysterical
for . hours, sereamed out’ her happiness
when the verdict was announced. = She
kissed each of the jurors and Judge
Lloyd's hands and hugged Mrs. Charles J.
Reitz, the jail matron.
—A civil court jury at West Chester, on
Tuesday, set the value of a wife’s love and
affection for her husband at $3500. How-
apd Miller, of North Coventry, had
brought suit for $50,000 against Roy
Schaefer, declaring that the latter had won
his wife from him. Schaefer was a
boarder in the Miller home. Neither
Schaefer nor Mrs. Miller was in court
when the case was called for trial. The
jury was out only a short time before re-
turning the verdict for Miller. :
—A score of people were thrown from
their beds when a three-story brick build-
ing occupied by nonunior. miners was
“wrecked by an explosion, on Saturday, at
. Clairton, near Pittsburgh. State police
blamed mine-union sympathizers for the
blast, which was set off in a basement
garage. Frank Epetta, owner of the build-
ing his wife and nine children occupied the
| first floor and families of miners employed
; at the Pittsburgh Coal company’s Warden
mine lives in the upper apartment, but
“other than having dust blown in their eyes
they escaped injury.
—Arraigned before Judge Maxey in court
at Seranton, on Tuesday, charged with
robbery, Dominick Sesso testified that a
gambling house in the central city in
which he is alleged to have held up 40
men Saturday night and stolen $1800 from
gambling tables, takes in profits of $4000
daily. The place is located half a block
from a police station. Sesso told the Court
he saw one man drop $11,000 on one throw
of the dice and another man lose $4000.
He said he lost $10,000 himself in three
‘ months in the place. Sesso was held under
$1500 bail and his brother, Tommy, was
released.
—Sentence of one year in the workhouse
was passed on Saturday on Clifford P.
Cowen, 36, of Lewistown, Pa., for present-
ing false vouchers while an office manager
for the Emergency Fleet Corporation. He
was sentenced by Chief Justice McCoy, of
the District of Columbia Supreme court,
who denied an application to place Cowen
on probation. The indictment against
Cowen, returned in January 1926, charges
that he presented false claims for travel-
ing expenses totaling $3651. The report of
a probation officer said Cowen used part
‘ of the money to defray his expenses on his
honeymoon after he had married the
daughter of one of the owners of a hosiery
‘company.
—While the family of G. R. Davis & Co.,
'of Oaks, Montgomery county, slept the
; sleep of the just, on Friday night, directly
, beneath them on the floor a band of rob-
. bers was removing an antique sideboard
: valued at $1000 and silverware and jewelry
worth $300. The robbery was not discov-
ered until Saturday morning. Mr. Davis,
still amazed that theives could carry away
| the bulky piece of furniture without hear-
; ing them, went to Norristown and reported
. the matter to Captain of Police Sarni. He
"said the intruders entered by forcing a
! side window, then apparently opened the
back door and carried out the antique.
y Traces of an- automobile could be seen in
. his back yard, he said.
—Albert Dixon, 14 year old son of
Arthur Dixon, a mine boss at Coalport,
is in a serious condition in the PIhilips-
burg hospital as a result of a revolver
wound received from a companion on
Tuesday. Albert and his chum, Clair
Leon, 13, were in the woods playing,
Clair had a revolver and is said to have
asked 'the Dixon youth where his heart
was. When Albert pointed his finger to
the left side of his breast, saying “I think
it is here,” Clair is reported to have
placed the revolver to the lad’s breast and
fired. The boys then walked home, which
was a little over a ‘mile and a-half, and
Albert's parents rushed their son to the
Philipsburg hospital. The youth did not
: collapse until they reached the hospital.