———————————————————————— Demonic alc EE —————————— INK SLINGS, BY GEORGE R. MEEK. —So far as this neck-'o-the woods is concerned March came in like a very gentle lamb. —Gen. Smedley D. Butler, the stormy petrel, has decided to run (1 | IR ua, ec —————————— SPAWLS FROM THE KEYSTONE —Seven Erfe county men were fined $550 each Saturday for illegal fishing in Erie Bay. The men were accused of fishing with nets and without state li- censes, ~The Shindel Mill of Hughesville has opened after being idle for one year. The mill, with a force of 100 operatives, reopened under the management of the receivers of the corporation which re- cently went into bankruptcy. —Suspension of operations at the Sus- for the United States Senate in Pennsylvania. He will be extra-dry, | but not Mumm. —In thirty-four days the trout fishing season will open. We are not looking forward to the great event with our usual impatience. ‘There are so many idle men in the country that we fear our flies will ‘be tangled on fishermen all the time we will have to devote to our favor- ite recreation. ——We are glad that both Col. | and Mrs. Lindbergh were at home when their little boy was stolen from their country house near Hope- | well, N. J., Tuesday evening. You | know there was considerable talk | that fl ! Sout Ly i et ving gee foreman of the jury of eleven | men and one woman, at 7:30 o'clock when he was only a year old. lon Saturday evening, as their verdict —A big, husky tramp called at ;; tne case of Warren M. (Piney) an apartment house in Bellefonte, & geaton, tried for the murder of day or so ago, in quest of a pair | Robert Moore, on the morning of much needed pants. It just hap-| Febiuary 6th, at the Desert hunt- pened that he found himself atthe no camp in the Allegheny moun door of one occupied by two lone | tains. and “guilty of voluntary man- women and it is reported that he |g, ghter” answered the jury in cho- was promptly informed that he was |, immediately thereafter. in the right church but the wrong | N. B. Spangler, attorney for bi Heaton, made no remarks to the —Adams county sportsmen have court upon the verdict and when petitioned the Game Commission to asked if he had anything to say be- close that county to deer hunting. fore sentence be pronounced Heaton They say they can satisfy their urge replied: “Your Honor, Judge; for the thrill of the chase by hunt- fore you, my God and my family, ing in the northern counties of the I promise never again to take a drink ‘State. That's sportsmanship for you. | of liquor, never to play cards or Other counties where deer are to gamble during the rest of my life.” ‘be found ought to petition the Com- | In pronouncing sentence Judge mission to permit them to refuse Fleming told Heaton that he ought licenses to the Adams county bunch. to be very thankful that the jury Cc Ly Congress is going to give torty- | 1ioqed the crime with the leniency i did and that he was not before on bushels of wheat that 18 | im for sentence on a first degree bulging the Bu of [88 Federal | verdict. He said that he sympathized Farm Board to feed the poor. ThatS | yin nis family and also with him tulatedting, Wit we're vigH © put it was his duty to impose sen- predist ‘that the poor yaminet | tence not only for the crime for because it isn't ground into flour! ‘and baked into bread for them. And Wiiich the jury Sede] Him guilty. most of those who do accept it win | Dut as a lesson terrent fortwith sell it at any price, thereby taking about the last shingle off the VOI. 77. “Guilty of voluntary manslaugh- ter,” intoned the voice of A. C. Lon- - BELLEFONTE, PA. Heaton Drew Verdict of Voluntary Manslaughter ‘Given Sentence of Six to Twelve Years in Penitentiary others that they cannot take human life without paying the penalty there- AND FEDERAL UNION. MARCH 4, STATE RIGHTS WILLIAMS BREAKS JAIL BY SCALING HIGH WALL | Takes Leave Just Five Hours After Being Sentenced to. the Peniten- tiary For Robbery. for Killing Robert Moore at Desert Hunting Campin w. ¢ winiams, who has spent Allegheny Mountains on February 7th. | fourteen of his thirty four years | behind prison bars, and who, at 2:30 ‘o'clock on Saturday afternoon, was to the barber shop. Warren Heaton given seven and a half to fifteen | was there. Played rum. Heaton years more in the western peniten- | was in the game. While there some- | tiary for the part he took in the one came in and told of a partyat robbery of the offices of the Citi- 'the Desert hunting camp. Took 8 zens Building and Loan Association, load out in his car--a 2-door Ford at Philipsburg, on the evening of sedan. There were eight of them, December 7th, 1831, escaped from of | four on each seat. It was after 11 the Centre county jail within five o'clock. Camp about three miles hours after receiving his sentence | from Clarence. When we left the phy scaling the twenty foot wall barber shop went to Pete's. Had which surrounds the jail yard. | seven quarts of beer. Andy Bogash| The exact hour or minute of his | joined the party. Had whiskey at departure is not known definitely. ‘barber shop and bought whiskey gheriff John M. Boob had opened at Pete's, a pint bottle. Warren ty, jail doors about four o'clock and Heaton and the witness each took permitted the prisoners the freedom a drink of whiskey a half mile|or tne jail yard for their daily ex- from the camp. Robert didn't take gpoige. Both he and deputy sheriff any. Parked the car about tem jon, Bower were in court in charge ‘yards from camp and all wentin. of warren M. Heaton being tried Heaton went in and said, "you gor murder, while a trusty was in threw my boy outof camp.” There charge of the prisoners. At supper were three girls in camp. I told {ime he called them in to eat and him not to cause trouble or he'd wijjams was with the others. He have to walk home. He later came gto sparingly then went out again, to me and kicked me under the | pu soon returned and drank some ‘chin. A fight started. Had been'of pig coffee. He again went out, there about fifteen midites The | but that time failed to return. Be a en mer any | LA. six oclock, Believing ul i Paul Shank were standing near the Dro ger inside, The iy Totked Ford supply truck. Heaton went in. | the t 8 ang hos Y ar 2 the tw camp. Saw Heaton in door of | JEDULY ST NAL ai (he doors. were camp with gun in hand. Turned), .4 1t was close to eight o'clock around and heard shot. Heard my | Aridi io oF 33y, "Tm in the stom- | "hen the trusty went to lock the Lots Re LW shot prisoners in their cells that he found ach. w running around co... oe missing and he quickly 1932. quehanna silk mill at Lock Haven, Sat- urday night leaves more than 600 work- ‘ers out of work as the plant has been | closed for two weeks because of the | garment workers strike at New York | city. NO. w ™ His clothes still afi Louis Cohen, | —His c¢ si re, 8 DENY REPORT OF 0 50, was found burned to death near the INMATES BEING SHOT | tyrnace in his home, at Wilkes-Barre i * | Cohen's brother, Harry, found the body | Early in the week a persistent | _, he came to the house on a visit. ‘rumor was circulated about Belle |g said the man's clothing had apar- fonte that two inmates at RoCK- ently caught fire while he was fixing view penitentiary Lad been shot by the furnace during the absence of the a young man living on one of the family from the house. | prison farms. Officials at the peni-| —While splitting a large piece of wood tentiary not only characterize the |from a white oak tree he had recently rumor as a malicious falsehood but cut down, C. R. Seaman, of North Bend, | are endeavoring to trace its source found in the center of the wood, a iminal horseshoe, with all the nails in place. [ath 8 Tw. gy lsuLE ey who | The horseshoe had evidently been nail- proceedings pe 'ed to the tree many years ago, and the started it. it, ——————————— | burying it in the center of the tree. YOUNG MAN JAILED —Hundreds of fish in Sandy Lake, FOR WORTHLESS CHECKS Mercer county, are dying, and samples | of water have been sent to the State Last Friday morning chief of | Fish Commission for analysis. The police Harry Dukeman took from a | source of pollution of the lake has not i : | certain ho in Bellefonte | been determined. A survey today shows . boarding house nearly 800 fish dead or dying in the a young man and woman who mot jo. "Anon them are muskellungs |only were posing as man and wife, | oq, wall-eyed pike, salmon, perch and (but the man had succeeded in pass- upp |ing several worthless checks at _jonn Baker, of Scranton, was burn- | different places in town. He gave his ed to death Monday morning when he name as Fred Truman, of Irvona, was pinned under a truck load of sugar, | Clearfield county, and it later devel- of which he was the driver, when the ‘oped that the girl was not his wife truck left the road, upset and burned i but a high school girl from Punx- 3 Wind Gap, near Euston. Leroy Orwig. of Moosic, who accompanied Baker, waa 'sutawney. As there was no direct seriously burned but managed to escape | charge against her she was sent ,.... 1, truck. He was taken to the ‘home to her parents. In order tO guston hospital, protect the girl as far as possible | _puniic schools at Bloomsb: | the authorities are withholding her | grdered closed eto ——— rh | | Monday because of an outbreak of grip | All told five checks were passed among the pupils. High school basket | by the young man, four of them | ball games with Berwick on Friday and being for $5.00 and one for $5.75. Lock Haven on Saturday were post They were all signed with the name poned. One hundred and seventy-four of Moore. The checks were of 800 students in the high school, as Fred . | well as several teachers, were down passed at J. D. Hunter's stationery ' _. ... disease. store, A Fauble, Mingle's shoe store, —Mr. and Mrs. Peter Sharkey, of Exe- in Bellefonte, the Milesburg Store |... porough, were saved from burning Co, and Frank L. Wetzler, Miles-|; death by their two children when burg. Truman waived a hearing and | fire broke out on the first floor of the is being held a prisoner in the family home. Their escape being cut off county jail. by smoke and flames sweeping up the 10. bark and sap gradually covered . roof of the poor farmer who pro- fore. He then sentenced him to pay ~duced it. —The mobilization of the U. S.| fleet for maneuvers in the Pacific is, of course, merely part of the of perfecting itself feast tentiary for not less than more than fifteen years, and stand committed until the sentence is com- The verdict came of a hard fought trial, which, how- i i lieve were it not for the announce- ever was devoid of any intense thrills, | ment that two hundred and two, ji ag well known that the Com- vessels are in the maneuvers. It 1s | monwealth was not after a death not usual for such a large number | verdict, though a strong fight was -of our fighting ships to concentrate made for either a first degree with anywhere in times of peace. The imprisonment or second degree, present movement is more likely a _.... would have carried a penalty roundabout notice to Japan that if of ten to twenty years. diplomatic notes from us command While many facts were not brought HO. Yespest by Wer someting else out at the trial, politics, love and might: passion, inflamed with liberal po- —During the Collins trial last tions of moonshine liquor, washed week a Bellefonte woman undertook down with foaming steins of home- ‘to crash the gate tothe courtroom. made brew, were all interwined A State policeman was on guard either directly or indirectly in Heat- and tried to shoo her off like he on's fight for life. had done hundreds of others during Drawing of the jury to sit on the the day. Being a woman she want- trial was made on Thursday night ed to know what the big idea was and resulted as follows: and wanted the officer to know that A. C. Longer, merchant, State College because she is a taxpayer she owns 6 Lott H. Neff, funeral director, Howard part of the building and is going Harry Gunter, contractor, Philipsburg to look into it whenever she wants to. | J. W. Merryman, laborer, Rush Town- | ship Whereupon the minion of the law da ‘said: “Lady, I'm too tired to start, ea R. Askey, farmer, Burnside another argument. If all you want jum O. Graden, laborer, Gregg ‘to do is look in come on and take i,wnship a peep.” She proceeted to the glass s B. Wasson, farmer, Harris township ‘door, saw Collins on the stand and John W. Shuey, laborer, Port Matilda departed happy because all she had Mrs. Edna Billett, housewife, Spring wanted was to see him. With fifteen township hundred people fighting to get into! Joseph Peters, farmer, five hundred seats we imagine that MP officer was telling no lie when he William Reese, miner, Rush township. said he was too tired ite Mr. Reese also served on the jury another argument. Benner town- murder in the first degree for the —We owe .Gen. Edward Martin, | killing of Elizabeth Hickok. Republican State Chairman, an apol- When court convened at 9:30 ogy. Last week we identified him | gclock on Friday morning district as the gentleman who had returned attorney John G. Love opened the ‘one of the police “courtesy cards” .gge for the Commonwealth in a the camp with gun in hand. I got Robert and we put him in carand drove to Snow Shoe. Got to camp 12:30 o'clock. Robert was | started for the court house to no- |tity the sheriff. The latter was on 'his way up to the jail with Heaion ‘and as soon as he could get him COLLINS MURDER TRIAL | WILL COST COUNTY $1000. | stairway, Anna, 14 and Peter Jr, | climbed out on the porch roof, dropped | to the ground, secured a ladder and led | their parents to safety. —The after two days standing about two yards from the | porch when shot. Porch about four feet wide, Saw Heaton about ten | Williaa Sm o'clock Saturday morning. Said then that if he went to camp that eve-' | ning there would be trouble. i On cross-examination Moore ad- i mitted that he was blamed for | being drunk. At Pete's they drank | seven quart bottles of beer. Had only |one drink on way to camp. had climbed onto a porch roof ex- tending from the laundry into the |jail yard, and with a board which he had torn from an old boardwalk and stood on end on the porch roof was able to climb up to the top of the twenty foot wall. He had taken | with him a hook torn from a water The next witness was Paul Shank. | oot and some geven oF aight feet He testified that he was a member | © a wire clothes line cut from the of the supper party. Told of going t2. Philipsburg for the. givis.apdcf|ive Strung i the jal yard. . young Heaton coming to camp and) Walking on the wall to the eas locked up he started a search for Mifflinburg Body company, Mifflinburg's largest industry, received ward at Rockview penitentiary, will Dalits, Wednesday of week. The cost Centre county taxpayers in the bodies for the use A ia Pout mes neighborhood of $1000 by the time department. This order will be good he has been put to death in the news for many men in Mifflinburg as electric chair. Appointed to defend ' It will mean steady employriant for | some time. At present a special ambu- the hegte gy & oon will | ce patrol body is being built to be ga a 3% Sgn Te shipped to the Hawaiian Islands. - . y ’ | =—Unless Margaret McClure, address psychiatrist who testified as to Col- known, appears at the clerk of courts ling’ sanity, charged a fee of $300. office in West Chester within two weeks, Commonwealth and court costs a legacy amounting to $190 which she | amounted to $138.43. Bringing Col- inherited from the estate of the late | lins in from Pittsburgh and taking The: horrible: Grime of Fred Collins, | also of the larger party coming later. Heaton was pretty drunk; He was trying toget the “pickup” truck started. Warren was in and out of camp. Saw John Moore throw Heaton down. Didn't know where Robert was at that time. After the scrap between Heaton and Moore, Heaton went into camp. Saw him in there with a gun in his hand. Did not see shot fired, as he was standing with his back to camp. Helped pick the body up and put it in the car. © On cross-examination Shank said he went to camp for a chicken din- ner. didn't see any beer. what Robert was doing just before the shot was fired. On redirect ex- amination Shank identified photos of the camp. Had one quart of liquor but! Didn't know Margaret Stone will be turned over to end of the yard he managed tofas- him back after his conviction add- the State. Attorney General Willlam A. ten the hook in a crevice on top of led $144.72 to the bill of expense. the wall and tying the section of Other miscellaneous costs will run clothes line to it let himself down the total up to about a thousand on the outside. But he miscalculated ' dollars: the height of the wall and in the It might be interesting to the pub- drop from the end of the clothes lic to know that the jury on the line to the ground suffered a badly Collins case took but three ballots | sprained ankle. while it was out. One on the ques- | He was able to make his way tion of the negro's sanity, one on ‘his guilt as indicted, and one on down to Pike alley and along the ‘alley to the home of Mrs. Belle Mc- the punishment to be meted out, and Kinley where he leaned against the there were no dissenting votes on ‘house and remained some fifteen either ballot. ‘or twenty minutes. It was near 8 o'clock when Clyde Lingle, Mrs. Mc- SHORT SESSION OF Kinley’s son-in-law, of Lewistown, COMMON PLEAS COURT who was over on a visit, returned from a trip down town. Williams Of the nineteen cases scheduled trial at common pleas court, r——— A ———— i accosted him and offered him six for dollars to take him to Philipsburg. | | As he was a stranger Lingle hesi- tinued, and the result was that it this week, all but three were con-| Schnader petitioned the Chester county court to have the money deposited with the State Treasurer. The $190 has been awaiting the missing neir for seven years, ~—A year old sheep, inoculated last | week with dangerous and contagious | disease germs, was stolen from the ex- perimental laboratory at Charleroi-Mon- essen hospital, on Monday. Hospital attaches and police are making frantic efforts to recover the animal, which is laden with potential illness and death for persons with whom it comes in con- tact. Fear is expressed that needy per- | sons may have taken the sheep for use ‘as food. —~—Struck by a train as she pushed | her five-year-old granddaughter froma | Pennsylvania railroad track crossing | Mrs. Rose Messerel, 65, of West Hick- | ory, died Friday night in Warren Gen- | eral hospital. The child was unhurt. | | ‘which convicted Fred Collins of | John Moore, on being recalled, tated and finally telling him to wait stated that it was a pint bottle of |a few minutes, came back down liquor he had at the barber shop. town to see Mrs. McKinley, who Joe Shutika was called but did works in Mrs. Martin's restaurant, not respond. |in the Heverly block. She told him Clyde Goodyear was the next if he did go to take somebody along. Heaton. Saw him at Desert camp | Lyman Osman, his cousin, and ask- about twelve o'clock. Came inand ed him to go along and he agreed | grabbed me and started to tussle. to do so. The two men went back I got kicked on the jaw. Wentout- up the alley, helped Williams into side and gotinthe truck. Was back the car, as his ankle was badly in the camp a few minutes after- swolen by that time, and they wards. Saw Heaton standing at the | started. When they got down onto | stove but didn’t notice that he had Allegheny street Williams gave Lin- | anything in his hands. Went back gle a ten dollar bill and Osman went (out and got in truck. Stayed in| into Parrish’'s drug store and got | camp after all theothers had gone, some adhesive tape and ointment for and about two o'clock two fellows Williams to ban-dage his ankle. They came after me. He also identified also got some gas and oil, the total photos of camp. On cross-examina- bill being about two dollars and tion witness stated that he had Williams told them to keep the bal- gone along with Paul Shank to ance as their pay for the trip. Philipsburg to get the girls. He They took him to Philipsburg, left stayed at camp to hunt the keys him out on Second street, where he for the truck which had been lost. hobbled from the roadway and William Harnish testified thathe glumped down onto a porch. The men i i ! witness. He testified to knowing Going out onto the street Lingle met | ‘required only one day to dispose | Mrs. Messerel and the girl, Jean Mc- |of the three cases. The first was a Kinley, started across the tracks un- | case in assumpsit brought by S. R.| aware of the approaching freight train. | Baol The woman pushed the child to safety Bishvat 3gaing ok og Life's but could not save herself. She suffer- . plain led a fractured skull and died three | testimony the court granted a vol- , ... 1.er untary nonsuit. | —Alleged drunken drivers, arrested The second case pertained to the . | either in Williamsport or Lycoming opening of a judgment and Was... ure to be examined at the ex- | brought by W. A. Fye against Myrtle pense of the county, district attorney Huber and Anna L. Krumrine. Ver-| john C. Youngman announced last week, dict in favor of the plaintiff for | after his plan had been approved by the fuil amount of the claim. the court. The State Highway Patrol, In the case of Anna Zeleznick!' police chiefs in the boroughs of the vs. the Spring Township School county and the city police have been | board, a non-suit was awarded. | notified of the plan which is to be put i into effect at once. Doctors called upon | soish Pusieg 193) State police made to examine alleged drunken drivers will : be paid $6 If the call is made during | tions ran to 82% of the: total. ordinary business hours and $10 if the examination is made outside of regular business hours. | T—— — | gle and Osman took him to Philips- ! burg or not. —Miss Louise G. Thomas, former tell- i The fact that he was injured in'er of the closed Anthracite Trust com- | pany, at Scranton, for whom a warrant, [nis Jump 3 1 y charging embezzlement of $10,708.30, was : 0! A a, aid in his recapture. Prison officials a | at Rockview struck off one hundred of his pictures and pri oy Thomas appeared before Alderman Davis recently sent out by Maj. Bugene ery brief address to the jury. H. Lederer, burgess of State College, The first witness called was Dr. candidate for Congress and political yw R, Heaton, whose testimony was thorn in the flesh of the Hons. J. pref and confined to a description Hus A i Burs fot the: wound iusile ly 3 Re eet : | Moore, which cau death. that ho might bs one of these (el |" Th’ second witness was tuners mouth. As a matter of fact it was |g op oR. Baan 9 th another Mr. Martin, having the ce, who told about preparing the ‘body for burial and of the finding same initials as the General, who | wad in the dl of wrote the rather uncomplimentary | SE Hapet 3 e clothing letter to Burgess Lederer concerning | oo" apd . The wad was ident!- his “courtesy cards” and inasmuch . offered as exhibit No. 1. as it made the front page of the Moore's sweater was also offered State College Times we imagined | I* evidence as exhibit 2. ae boi its author to be an important per-| = TC Hat ris told of the y son—say the distinguished gentle- | ng | rought to him an " man who is just now trying to get | that death had probably occurred the Japs in Philadelphia and the Chinks in Pittsburgh into a peace parley so that we Democrats don’t run away with his State next fall We wrote the paragraph with some misgiving, because we could scarce- ly believe Gen. Martin to be the kind of a man we were picturing. We are glad to have discovered he is not and giad to make this apol- ogy for our hasty conclusion. | fifteen minutes previous. He also ‘described the wound. | The next witness called was John | Moore, brother of He stated that on Saturday evening, | February 6, he had made a trip to Snow Shoe and when he returned |got his brother Robert and Joe | Shutika and took a short drive. | Returning they went to Pete's place | (Pete Girardi.) Returned from there 5 Robert Moore. went out to the camp early toget the chickens ready for the dinner. Roy Heaton came there but didn't stay long. Saw Warren Heaton about twelve o'clock. He on the table and grabbed me by the neck. Several fellows caught him and I went out and got in the | car with the girls, who had left the (camp. The gun was kept at the | (Continued on page 4, Col. 5.) then reurned to Bellefonte, arriving which were broadcast on Sunday, as here about midnight, and it was not well as news of the escape sent out until Sunday morning that they over the teletype. learned that they had unwittingly As stated above Williams has jumped | and without their knowledge aided | spent fourteen years behind prison bars. He was sentenced on Saturday | a prisoner in getting away. from the jail he left his hat and for his part in the robbery and overcoat behind and it has not been |faces a duplication of his latter sen- definitely established whether he tence for breaking and escaping. had a hat or overcoat on when Lin-| jail. When Williams made his escape |to seven and a half to fifteen years I and entered bail in the sum of $3000. | George W. Morrow, her counsel, said | that the authorities were hasty in hav- ing a warrant issued for her as a fugi- tive. He said Miss Thomas had been out of the city for an extended period, and until she heard of the warrant being issued had no idea that she was tobe so seriously accused. Miss Thomas is accused of appropriating the bank's money during a period extending from June 4, 1980, until August 14, 1931. The amounts ranged from $30 to $4800.
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