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Butler, the stormy petrel, has decided to run for the United States Senate in| = Pennsylvania. He will be extra-dry, | STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION. put not Mumm. : __In thirty-four days the trout VOL, 77. BELLEFONTE, PA.,, MARCH 4, 1932. 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 pe 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- | | be . - . . ‘Given Sentence of Six to Twelve Years in Penitentiary for Killing Robert Moore at Desert Hunting Camp in Allegheny Mountains on February 7th. well, N. J, Tuesday evening. You | know there was considerable talk| “Guilty of voluntary manslaugh- about their going off on that flying |ter,” intoned the voice of A. C. Lon- trip around the world, last year, 8ee, foreman of the jury of eleven when he was only a year old. {men and one woman, at 7:30 o'clock {on Saturday evening, as their verdict —A big, husky tramp called at in the case of Warren M. (Piney) murder of an apartment house in Bellefonte, a|iyeaton tried for the : in | 3 day or so ago, in quest of a Pal’ Robert Moore, on the morning of of much needed pants. It just hap-|pepryary 6th, at the Desert hunt- pened that he found himself atthe ino camp in the Allegheny moun door of one occupied by two lone ting. ang “guilty of voluntary man- women and it is reported that he gj,,ghter” answered the jury in cho- was promptly informed that he Was | rus immediately thereafter. in the right church but the wrong! N. B. Spangler, attorney for Dew. 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; be- 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 —Congress is going to give forty- million bushels of wheat that is bulging the bins of the Federal Farm Board to feed the poor. That's interesting, but we're right here to predict that the poor will yammer because it isn’t ground into flour and baked into bread for them. And most of those who do accept it will fortwith sell it at any price, thereby taking about the last shingle off the roof of the poor farmer who pro- duced it. —The mobilization of the U. 8S. fleet for maneuvers in the Pacific is, of course, merely part of the navy’s custom of perfecting itself through mimic warfare. At least that is what the public would be- lieve were it not for the announce- ment that two hundred and two vessels are in the maneuvers. It is not usual for such a large number of our fighting ships to concentrate anywhere in times of peace. The present movement is more likely a roundabout notice to Japan that if diplomatic notes from us command no respect by her something else might. : —During the Collins trial last week a Bellefonte woman undertook to crash the gate tothe courtroom. A State policeman was on guard and tried to shoo her off like he had done hundreds of others during the day. Being a woman she want- ed to know what the big idea was and wanted the officer to know that because she is a taxpayer she owns part of the building and is going to look into it whenever she wants to. Whereupon the minion of the law said: “Lady, I'm too tired to start another argument. If all you want to do is look in come on and take a peep.” She proceeted to the glass ‘door, saw Collins on the stand and | departed happy because all she had wanted was to see him. With fifteen hundred people fighting to get into five hundred seats we imagine that officer was telling no lie when he said he was too tired to start another argument. —We owe Gen. Edward Martin, Republican State Chairman, an apol- ogy. Last week we identified him as the gentleman who had returned one of the police “courtesy cards’ recently sent out by Maj. Eugene H. Lederer, burgess of State College, candidate for Congress and political thorn in the flesh of the Hons. J. Mitch. Chase and J. Banks Kurtz Gen. Martin resents our intimation that he might be one of those fel- lows who look gift horses in the mouth, As a matter of fact it was another Mr. Martin, having the Same initials as the General, who wrote the rather uncomplimentary letter to Burgess Lederer concerning his “courtesy cards” and inasmuch as it made the front page of the State College Times we imagined its author to be an important per- Son—say the distinguished gentle- man who is just now trying to get 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 18 not and glad to make this apol- 08Y for our hasty conclusion. | viewed the crime with the leniency |it did and that he was not before (him for sentence on a first degree | verdict. He said that he sympathized [with his family and also with him |but it was his duty to impose sen- | tence not only for the crime for | which the jury adjudged him guilty, but as a lesson and deterrent to | others that they cannot take human | life without paying the penalty there- | fore. He then sentenced him to pay the costs, a dollar fine and undergo {imprisonment in the western peni- | tentiary for not less than six nor | more than fifteen years, and stand | committed until the sentence is com- plied with. | The verdict came after two days lof a hard fought trial, which, how- |ever was devoid of any intense thrills, | as it was well known that the Com- monwealth was not after a death | verdict, though a strong fight was {made for either a first degree with |life imprisonment or second degree, | which would have carried a penalty lof ten to twenty years. | While many facts were not brought {out at the trial, politics, love and (passion, inflamed with liberal po- I tions of moonshine liquor, washed | down with foaming steins of home- | made brew, were all interwined | either directly or indirectly in Heat- ‘on’s fight for life. | Drawing of the jury to sit on the | trial was made on Thursday night land resulted as follows: | A. C. Longee, merchant, State College Lott H. Neff, funeral directer, Howard | Harry Gunter, contractor, Philipsburg | J. W. Merryman, laborer, Rush Town- | | ship | James R. Askey, farmer, Burnside | township | william O. Graden, laborer, Gregg | township | 8S. B. Wasson, farmer, Harris township John W. Shuey, laborer, Port Matilda | Mrs. Edna Billet, housewife, Spring | township Joseph Peters, farmer, Benner town- | ship | | william Reese, miner, Rush township. | Mr. Reese also served on the jury | which convicted Fred Collins of | murder in the first degree for the | killing of Elizabeth Hickok. When court convened at 9:30 o'clock on Friday morning district | attorney John G. Love opened the | case for the Commonwealth in a | very brief address to the jury. The first witness called was Dr. W. R. Heaton, whose testimony was brief and confined to a description of the wound in the body of Robert Moore, which caused his death. The second witness was funeral director Von. B. Johnson, of Snow Shoe, who told about preparing the body for burial and of the finding of a paper wad in the clothing of the deceased. The wad was identi- fied and offered as exhibit No. 1. Moore's sweater was also offered in evidence as. exhibit 2. Dr. E. H. Harris told of the body having been brought to him and that death had probably occurred fifteen minutes previous. He also described the wound. The next witness called was John Moore, brother of Robert 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. (Pete Girardi.) Returned from there i | 1 Moore. | Stay long. Saw Warren Heaton i about twelve o'clock. Returning they went to Pete's place to the barber shop. Warren Heaton | was there. Played rum. Heaton was inthe game. While there some- | one came in and told of a partyat the Desert hunting camp. Took a load out in his car--a 2-door Ford sedan. There were eight of them, four on each seat. It was after 11 o'clock. Camp about three miles from Clarence. When we left the barber shop went to Pete's. Had seven quarts of beer. Andy Bogash joined the party. Had whiskey at barber shop and bought whiskey at Pete's, a pint bottle. Warren Heaton and the witness each took a drink of whiskey a half mile from the camp. Robert didn’t take any. Parked the car about ten yards from camp and all wentin. Heaton went in and said, ‘you threw my boy out of camp.” There were three girls in camp. I told him not to cause trouble or he'd have to walk home. He later came to me and kicked me under the] chin. Had been | there about fifteen minutes. The girls and four men left shortly after we got there. Robert and Paul Shank were standing near the Ford supply truck. Heaton went in- to camp. Saw Heaton in door of camp with gun in hand. Turned around and heard shot. Heard my brother say, “I'm shot in the stom- ach.” Saw Heaton running around | the camp with gun in hand. I got | Robert and we put him in car and drove to Snow Shoe. Got tocamp about 12:30 o’clock. Robert was] standing about two yards from the porch when shot. Porch about four feet wide. Saw Heaton about ten o'clock Saturday morning. Said then that if he went to camp that eve- | ning there would be trouble. On cross-examination Moore ad- 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. The next witness was Paul Shank. He testified that he was a member | of the supper party. Told of going | to Philipsburg for the girls and of | young Heaton coming to camp and 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. Had one quart of liquor but | didn't see any beer. Didn't know what Robert was doing just before the shot was fired. On redirect ex- amination, Shank identified photos of the camp. John Moore, on being recalled, stated that it was a pint bottle of liquor he had at the barber shop. Joe Shutika was called but did not respond. Clyde Goodyear was the next witness. He testified to knowing Heaton. Saw him at Desert camp about twelve o’clock. Came in and grabbed me and started to tussle. I got kicked on the jaw. Went out- side and got in the truck. Was back in the camp a few minutes after- wards. Saw Heaton standing at the stove but didn’t notice that he had anything in his hands. Went back out and got in truck. Stayed in camp after all the others had gone, and about two o'clock two fellows came after me. He also identified photos of camp. On cross-examina- A fight started. tion witness stated that he had gone along with Paul Shank to Philipsburg to get the girls. He | stayed at camp to hunt the keys for the truck which had been lost. William Harnish testified that he went out to the camp early to get the chickens ready for the dinner. Roy Heaton came there but didn’t He jumped 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.) WILLIAMS BREAKS JAIL Heaton Drew Verdict of | Voluntary Manslaughter | i : | Takes Leave Just Five Hours After| Farly in the week a persistent Being Sentenced to. the Peniten- | iand as soon as he {locked up he started a drop from the end of the BY SCALING HIGH WALL AND MAKES HIS ESCAPE. tiary For Robbery. W. G. Williams, who has spent | fourteen of his thirty four years | behind prison bars, and who, at 2:30 o'clock on Saturday afternoon, was given seven and a half to fifteen years more in the western peniten- tiary for the part he took in the robbery of the offices of the Citi- zens Building and Loan Association, | at Philipsburg, on the evening of December 7th, 1931, escaped from the Centre county jail within five hours after receiving his sentence by scaling the twenty foot wall which surrounds the jail yard. The exact hour or minute of his departure is not known definitely. Sheriff John M. Boob had opened the jail doors about four o’clock and permitted the prisoners the freedom {of the jail yard for their daily ex- ercise. Both he and deputy sheriff John Bower were in court in charge of Warren M. Heaton being tried for murder, while a trusty was in charge of the prisoners. At supper time he called them in to eat and Williams was with the others. He ate sparingly then went out again, but soon returned and drank some of his coffee. He again went out, but that time failed to return. At six o'clock, believing all the prisoners inside, the trusty locked the doors and shortly after that deputy sheriff Bower went to the jail to see that all the doors were locked. It was close to eight o’clock when the trusty went to lock the prisoners in their cells that he found Williams missing and he quickly started for the court house to no- tify the sheriff. The latter was on his way up to the jail with Heaton could get him search for Williams. An investigation showed that he 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 spout and some seven or eight feet of a wire clothes line cut from the line strung in the jail yard. Walking on the wall to the east end of the yard he managed to fas- ten the hook in a crevice on top of the wall and tying the section of clothes line to it let himself down on the outside. But he miscalculated the height of the wall and in the clothes line to the ground suffered a badly sprained ankle. He was able to make his way down to Pike alley and along the alley to the home of Mrs. Belle Mc- Kinley where he leaned against the house and remained some fifteen or twenty minutes. It was near 8 o'clock when Clyde Lingle, Mrs. Mc- Kinley's son-in-law, of Lewistown, | who was over on a visit, returned from a trip down town. Williams accosted him and offered him six dollars to take him to Philipsburg. As he was a stranger Lingle hesi- tated and finally telling him to wait a few minutes, .came back down town to see Mrs. McKinley, who works in Mrs. Martin's restaurant, in the Heverly block. She told him if he did go to take somebody along. Going out onto the street Lingle met Lyman Osman, his cousin, and ask- ed him to go along and he agreed to do so. The two men went back up the alley, helped Williams into the car, as his ankle was badly swolen by that time, and they started. When they got down onto Allegheny street Williams gave Lin- gle a ten dollar bill and Osman went into Parrish’s drug store and got | some adhesive tape and ointment for Williams to ban-dage his ankle. They also got some gas and oil, the total bill being about two dollars and Williams told them to keep the bal- ance as their pay for the trip. They took him to Philipsburg, left him out on Second street, where he hobbled from the roadway and slumped down onto a porch. The men then reurned to Bellefonte, arriving here about midnight, and it was not until Sunday morning that they learned that they had unwittingly and without their knowledge aided a prisoner in getting away. When Williams made his escape from the jail he left his hat and overcoat behind and it has not been definitely established whether he had a hat or overcoat on when Lin- i | {a young man living on one of the ROCKVIEW OFFICIALS DENY REPORT OF TWO INMATES BEING SHOT rumor was circulated about Belle- fonte that two inmates at Rock- | view penitentiary had been shot by! prison farms. Officials at the peni- tentiary not only characterize the rumor as a malicious falsehood but are endeavoring to trace its source with a view of instituting criminal | started it. proceedings against the person who | YOUNG MAN JAILED FOR WORTHLESS CHECKS Last Friday morning chief of police Harry Dukeman took from a certain boarding house in Bellefonte {a young man and woman who not only were posing as man and wife, but the man had succeeded in pass- ing several worthless checks at) | bark and SPAWLS FROM THE KEYSTONE —Seven Erie 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. —Suspengion of operations at the Sus- 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. —His clothes still afire, Louis Cohen, 50, was found burned to death mear the furnace in his home, at Wilkes-Barre Cohen’s brother, Harry, found the body when he came to the house on a visit. He aid the man’s clothing had apar- ently caught fire while he was fixing the furnace during the absence of the family from the house. —While splitting a large piece of wood from a white oak tree he had recently cut down, C. R. Seaman, of North Bend, found in the center of the wood, a horseshoe, with all the nails in place. The horseshoe had evidently been nail- ed to the tree many years ago, and the sap gradually covered it, burying it in the center of the tree. —Hundreds of fish in Sandy Lake, Mercer county, are dying, and samples of water have been sent to the State Fish Commission for analysis. The source of pollution of the lake has not been determined. A survey today shows nearly 800 fish dead or dying in the shallows. Among them are muskellungs, bass, wall-eyed pike, salmon, perch and carp. —John 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 'but a high school girl from Punx- | at Wind Gap, near Easton. Leroy Orwig, | of Moosic, who accompanied Baker, was direct | =. sent seriously burned but managed to escape taken to the sutawney. As there was no charge against her she was | from the truck. He was home to her parents. In order to | Easton hospital. protect the girl as far as possible | the authorities are withholding her | name. | —Public schools at Bloomsburg were ordered closed from Thursday until 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 being for $5.00 and one for $5.75. They were all signed with the name of Fred Moore. The checks were passed at J. D. Hunter's stationery store, A Fauble, Mingle’s shoe store, in Bellefonte, the Milesburg Store Co, and Frank L. Wetzler, Miles- burg. Truman waived a hearing and is being held a prisoner in the county jail. COLLINS MURDER TRIAL WILL COST COUNTY $1000. The horrible crime of Fred Collins, negro inmate of the he has been put to death in the electric chair. Appointed to defend the negro Johnston & Johnston will receive a fee of $200 from the coun- ty. Dr. lins’ sanity, charged a fee of $300. Commonwealth and court costs {him back after his conviction add- (ed $144.72 to the bill | Other miscellaneous costs will run | the total up to about a thousand | | dollars. | while it was out. One on the ques- [tion of the. negro’s sanity, his guilt as indicted, and one the punishment to be meted out, and there were no dissenting votes on | either ballot. | SHORT SESSION OF Of the nineteen cases scheduled for trial at = common pleas court, this week, all but three were con- tinued, and the result was that it required only one day to dispose of the three cases. The first was a case in assumpsit brought by S. R. Rishel against Theodore Davis Baol, et al. After hearing the plaintiff's testimony the court granted a vol- untary nonsuit. The second case pertained to the opening of a judgment and was brought by W. A. Fye against Myrtle Huber and Anna L. Krumrine. Ver- dict in favor of the plaintiff for the full amount of the claim. In the case of Anna Zeleznick vs. the Spring Township School board, a mnon-suit was awarded. During 1931 State police made 16,154 arrests for crime. Convic- tions ran to 829 of the total. gle and Osman took him to Philips- burg or not. The fact that he was injured in his jump from the jail wall may aid in his recapture. Prison officials at Rockview struck off one hundred of his pictures and prison record which were broadcast on Sunday, as well as news of the escape sent out over the teletype. As stated above Williams has spent fourteen years behind prison bars. He was sentenced on Saturday to seven and a half to fifteen years for his part in the rckvery and faces a duplication of his latter sen- tence for breaking and escaping. jail. : psychopathic ward at Rockview penitentiary, will | cost Centre county taxpayers in the! neighborhood of $1000 by the time | Cornelius C. Whorley, the psychiatrist who testified as to Col- ! amounted to $138.43. Bringing Col- | ilins in from Pittsburgh and taking | of expense. It might be interesting to the pub- | lic to know that the jury on the Collins case took but three ballots | one on on | COMMON PLEAS COURT | | ball games with Berwick on Friday and | Lock Haven on Saturday were post- | poned. One hundred and seventy-four f 800 students in the high school, as well as several teachers, were down with the disease. —Mr. and Mrs. Peter Sharkey, of Exe- ter borough, were saved from burning to death by their two children when fire broke out on the first floor of the family home. Their escape being cut off by smoke and flames sweeping up the 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. “ —T he Mifflinburg Body company, Mifflinburg’s largest industry, received a government order for 500 one-half ton bodies, Wednesday of last week. The bodies are for the use of the post office department. This order will be good news for many men in Mifflinburg as it will mean steady employment for some time. At present a special ambu- | lance patrol body is being built to be shipped to the Hawaiian Islands. —Unless Margaret McClure, address unknown, appears at the clerk of courts | office in West Chester within two weeks, a legacy amounting to $190 which she inherited from ‘the estate of the late Margaret Stone will be turned over to | the State. Attorney General William A. 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 from a Pennsylvania railroad track crossing Mrs. Rose Messerel, 65, of West Hick- ory, died Friday night in Warren Gen- eral hospital. The child was unhurt. Mrs. Messerel and the girl, Jean Mec- Kinley, started across the tracks un- aware of the approaching freight train. The woman pushed the child to safety but could not save herself. She sufter- ed a fractured skull and died three hours later. —Alleged drunken drivers, arrested either in Williamsport or Lycoming county, are to be examined at the ex- pense of the county, district attorney John C. Youngman announced last week, after his plan had been approved by the court. The State Highway Patrol, police chiefs in the boroughs of the county and the city police have been notified of the plan which is to be put into effect at once. Doctors called upon to examine alleged drunken drivers will be paid $5 if the call is made during ordinary business hours and $10 if the examination is made outside of regular business hours. —Miss Louise G. Thomas, former tell- er of the closed Anthracite Trust com- pany, at Scranton, for whom a warrant, charging embezzlement of $10,703.30, was issued last Thursday, surrendered. Miss Thomas appeared before Alderman Davis 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, 1930, until August 14, 1931. The | amounts ranged from $30 to $4800.
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