TRAGEDY AT WOODWARD ! Contined from Page I, No sound but that of a sort of groan like “Ugh !"’ left his lips, and he fell over on his left side, scarcely moving a muscle, The instant the giant had fallen a to get out the body of the dead con- stable. It was found on the stairway, and quickly carried to the outside. It was a horrible sight that met the gaze of the mob, ghastly wound where a load of buck shot had been fired through the face near the cheek bone, the charge com- ing out at the neck near the collar bone. Another load of nine buckshot entered the right breast a little below the collar bone and passed completely AS force an entrance through it, holding a lighted lamp in one hand and a re volver in the other, When he had his head through the opening, Ettlinger from the top of the stairs fired two loads of buckshot into his head. After he had fired the first shot he thought it had not killed Barner, so he shot again, Soon after my husband de- { scended the stairs and said he “would finish the son of a biteh,” and cut his throat, and came up stairs and told me that he intended to shoot me now and then shoot himself. He told me to call some of the neighbors to come for and then he would shoot I told him that none of the neigh- bors would come near to our house at that time. He then got the shackles and put them on my feet so I would not run away from him, and made me go up on the garret and take the chil- dren with me. While up on the gar- ret I walked to one of the windows me, through the body, coming out near the left hip. But the most horrible and terrible sight of all was that Barner had his throat cut from ear to ear, completely | severing the trachea, and the head al- | most cut from the body. When the | body was being carried out the head | hung down unsupported and every move and jolt caused the blood to flow from the ghastly wound. When the populace saw the work of | the flend it was with difficulty that | they could be prevented from tearing the body of Ettlinger to pieces. One | ortwo gave ita kick and otherwise tried to vent their wrath upon the | lifeless body. The crowd was finally | calmed down and both corpses carried down street about hundred feet and laid side by side on the board | walk. | The building when the body of Bar- ner was taken out was burning flerce- ly, and the upper story was all aflame. The crowd still lingered inside looking for relics, and hesitated somewhat about leaving. That the building con- | tained a lot of to | have no fear for them until a bomb ex- ploded upstairs, and there was a rush to get to a place of safety. Charge after charge of dynamite ex- ploded and the k the ground. Burning timbers and ments of the building were thrown hundred feet in the air, kept at a safe distance. explosion there would be a perfec of bolts, nuts, of chains, nails, and scrap iron, showing that Ettlinger had been fully prepared | to withstand a siege, and had factured these bombs with the tation of a raid by the officers, had carefully planned his and had bombs placed under every | window in the house, so that he could | run to the window and pick up the! bomb and throw it out upon any in-| vaders who sought to arrest him. The | amin one dynamite seemed reports shoo and every on After every t hail shoes, pieces horse maunu- ex pec He campaign, | house was well supplied with tion, and when the fire reached cartridges their explosion resembled | the discharge of a hundred guns. The | explosions kept up for some time and it | was not until the building had burned to the ground that the ventured near. Across the alley from house stood a building wl planing other LEE been | crowd ttlinger's | he mill, buildings. k 4 PCa pro- posed using as a and close by were several and one of the guards seeing me shot face a little below i “After being on the garret the greater told now | leave us, that would | mother and then himself, | dren then began to cry, He then would second floor, have to shoot The chil- and tried he and their arms about neck, and tried to shield me my from his “On Thursday night we the floor in a hall, at the head of the! us from the rifle balls that were pouring in on the My husband slept soundly the greater part of Thurs- the fir- us from outside, day night notwithstanding all ing from the guns outside. “We remained up stairs till the next | the sheriff’ his Then he told me we would go down in the cel- | lar; that they, t heritl, to the that that was there with posse, might set Ww ld be he s and retreat. I being house of . 4 i stairs had to slide | not y fo gO down able tol When I} still walk with the shackles door and I was compelled to cree A remained he of 0 i. Barner was in pi in i the | _ aN the panel over his dead body. fter we were there till flames, shooting f gh th at | 1e window Wi flames gaining headway on the the cellar the crowd outside. en we saw tl i i i ft u buil children free and shoot him and he x ’ sit he t then come back, to set and | then I should would shoot I me si- refused to do | had committed | and I would not do I could t drag him, | multaneously. this, saying, ‘I never belore, 80 now,” and that no his shioot that I would die with him ide lies would not bec this he yasu ng. | ed by the fire, but would not consent to, “I then got the children and br fjord i ouUgns $# 2 11. the cellar door, and it g for him | led me to | H: and fire fit “1 waitin mn the cellar door, 74 up toe Come me out, but he comman back, but I did not 703, g then | d i be himself wd instead. 1 firmly far and wide and had Ettlinger sur- rendered himself to the sheriff, it would have been a serious question whether he would have been able to take him away alive, as threats of lynching were freely engaged in, espe- cially after the horribly mutilated body of Barner had been rescued, The erime which Ettlinger committed and his defiant attitude against arrest is the blackest in the annals of eriminal history, Mr. Barner dustrious man, was a hard working in- quiet and peaceable, one, leaves not harming any He 0 wife and four children to mourn , his horrible death and a whole communi- ty to regret his noble sacrifice of life for their benefit. He a mar- tyr in every sense of the term. For he did not fear death in the performance | of his duty. The ages of his children are as fol- | lows: Lizzie, twelve years, Katie, en years, F., five years, and | his was SQV. Creorge Robert, four and one-half months of | age, A years, 2 He was married Vonada, thirteen years ago. Over a year ago he united with the Evangelical church at Woodward and since then has taken an active part in He was also a mem- ber of the Young People's Alliance of | His remains were in- | terred in the cemetery at Woodward | Monday fore followed by a rege concourse of Rev Shor It ver His age was 37 months | 20 days, to Re- an OO, pe 1 i pie, i f funerals e the largest held in Woodward Thus two men in the were ushered into et i fe I din- Of prime by the ernity bolical act of a man, who was not a mad man wh but bout it is th en his pas- redeeming one feature a al the one was his own, and that the community can now lives are no longer in Jeopardy from him. It reported John blood pol It Geisewile has He is is SOM. i8 not correct. 4 iit. y medical ' ih had wrted that the tiinger had been stolen b It was rej body o ai t= it Ww ‘As Faesday £1 Lae +d five Her re oodward W ‘ dollars for a was | | i jest that Mrs revealed, sifice she quantity 1 i thint i that her i a large poison in the Yetiadasi a ¢ ius and hia house, with whi he Decause g poison the water in the reservoir » ine him. If true, it is horrible to contemplete how i pe ple 5 Ale “2 an escape these good made of being poisoned. The poison for poisoning onsisted tit Pus uj through the water pipes, rer be tall ger esis, Fv "3 ie also alleg s WW : mid fired into the sehiool of Robert Wolf, upled, r hus! ‘hildren seal they o on a0- | of W abusing in there Ben ner, A Rd Frias a buggy coming in an opposite direc- tion, and stopping them, under coarse | language declared his wife must get into his buggy and go home with!him, short distance, when he stopped, tied his horse to the fence and made her follow him to the mountain, perhaps to his secret place of hiding, and after dark stealthily returned with his home, and did not allow her show herself for over a week, and Van Valin’s horse having been found tied to the fence, led to suspicion he had murdered his wife in the mountain. This was his object, to get the neigh- People searched the tion of Ettlinger at the success of the and after a week's suspense he made known his wife could be found at home, which there The woman wa persons calling | to ascertain the fact, husband declara- was forced to instructions, home all the while and !} not harmed her, it is thought, under his er This she Nome Fitlin- shreds by trees on the cut The limbs of the premises bullets, ' woods close ure into A squad was stationed in | to the rear of the | The shots fired by Ettlinger daring directed at rather was so large seemed always he had, which siege, than at that he kill some one enemy crowd, failed to fire ; ball would whizz close could not have yl most occasionally a to an enemy of the every one stand- ing near outlaw. al the house was almost 1 . mpletely was not a glass lef sharp- church ¥ windows, A squad of shooters about w hie iRnee was placed the feet dist sv thought there in ant, and these shot was a ch Ig execution, One man ired, ck pee pe behind a stab BI his hea when Ettlinger kept on the ped in Case He 1108 Were ino arn to the tect of an att to empl was a walking arsenal instant fear fired from his Friday directed shots he and a] 136 last Thursday rd o mainly at pri that had gathered it little 1066) to and hot shared their ov and larder to feed vr itd § Cia ie crowd dur varied in and hamiet, es ue from #OON ed the stores nes of ea. the u citizen } % from cellar Nei he {1 Mn night him sOdmeth had to crawl bloo . ing gr yp hier 5 ¢ dark and over the lieved that he had shot then started to get away from the | burning building, knowing that it was loaded with dynamite, To keep these from being destroyed | himself and | i Woodward had one of the largest | bucket brigades, that ever attended a | fire in Centre county. The stable aad mutilated corpse of the murdered Barner, before could cellar, and that could blood spurt and gurgle in his Hofrible constable she | reach the | hear the i | throat. Years Ettlinger built a house. It was rumored that he had | bulit several secret hiding places in it, the rumor gained Bone /gO she on | the back part of the lot, machineshop, | and dwelling were burned to the | ground. No effort was made to recov- er any of the personal property from | the dwelling, and beyond a few arti. cles nothing wassaved. None wished | to risk their lives, knowing that the house was filled from garret to cellar with explosives, Both bodies were taken charge of by the county coroner, Dr. Gi. Frank, of Millheim, and an inquest held over | them. He summoned the following named jurors on the body of Barner: Samuel Motz, W. H. Meyer, Dr. Diehl Dr. J. F. Harter, W. H. Phillips, and | C. H. Morris. Their verdict was that | “John Barner came to his death by re- | ceiving two gun shot wounds, and hav- | ing his throat cut, at the hands of some person unknown. Fo . F. P. Masser, Dr. H. C. athan Harter, M. C. Gephart, A. A. Frank and C. W. Albright, acted as jurors; it is needless to say what their verdict was, The body of the misguided Ettlinger | was placed in a rough box, and buried at the foot of the mountain to sleep in oblivion, no one to mourn his untime- | ly death, or no one to shed a tear at his departure, his friends refusing to | own him or to hold funeral obsequies poor Haines township took the body of the village a few hours after his death. our reporter a day or so after the crime related the following description and the part she played: ‘When 1 saw Mr. Barner come I took the two children and ran up stairs to my hus band, first locking the doors of the house. Upon being ordered by Mr. Barner to open the door I refused to do so. He then broke the front door in, and came to the stair door which was also He broke a panel in of the stair door, and attempted to “I think that he fired the shot to fool me, thinking that I would return to the cellar to get his body out, and then he would have shot me and then himself. I was certain that I would be shot before the tragedy was ended, and had consigned myself to my fate, thinking it inevitable, that I must Upon being asked about the dyna- mite he had placed in the house she said: ‘‘He had it so arranged that if entered the blown He had at least a dozen and half sticks up stairs all charged, and about the same amount in the cellar, Ifa raid had been made on the it might have cost many lives. Thesher- iff did a wise thing in not making a hasty attack on the house as some had urged him to do,’ as subsequent events proved. Summing it all up the only wonder is that not more lives were lost, Et- tlinger being always considered a dead i shot. Tra Gramley ia rescuing his wife was in fall view of Ettlinger, but he did shoot at him. Clark Gramley, of Rebersburg on Friday afternoon was standing at his shop window look- | ing towards the house when Ettlinger | shot, the ball whizzing past his head in very close proximity. Martin Gil- bert while on picket duty in Frank | Guisewite’s blacksmith shop, a ball passed his head nipping his ear, and making him reel. John Musser, of Woodwarn, another guard, while he | and K. H. Stover of Coburn were on picket duty Ettlinger sent a load of buckehet after them, one of them pass- ing through Mr. Stover's overcoat, | and one hitting Mr. Musser on the neck, making a slight flesh wound. Ettlinger also shot several times at Daniel Engle, one of his bondsmen, but missed him every time. He shot many times and threw out several charges of dynamite into the crowd, yet he did not wound more than one man seriously, have house Since the tragedy more ground. The property was sold | by Ettlinger five or six years ago to | another party in Woodward, A day | or two ago an examination was made of the house, and on stairway to the second floor, the third step from | the top was found loose, and turned over. Here opened a space large enough for safe hiding of a man. On the steps were fastened two straps to | fasten down the step from the inside. The trap was cunningly planned. the large : The fiend had pinned $85 in bank | bills upon the dress of the four year old daughter, just before he had directed | the hobbled mother to emit their little | ones from the burning home—there still was the spark of parental love left in the monster's breast. On his own | person were found $30. He also pos sessed a fine gold watch and chain. This he fastened on the little boy be- fore they were sent out of the cellar. One night, recently, about bed time, there was a loud rap at the door of Ni- codemus Lose, a farmer, living about | one mile west of Woodward, Mr. Lose in his stocking feet went to the door, opened it, and vefore him in the dark stood a large man, armed to the teeth, Winchester rifle on his shoulder, two revolvers dangling from his side and belt filled with cartridges and a sav- age looking kunife strapped around his body. The visitor was invited in, and Mr. Lose at once recognized him as Ettlinger, and asked him to be seated. The desperado then calmly entered in- to conversation with Mr. Lose to in- duce him to purchase his engine near by, before another party made a levy upon it, adding, “If they levy on it 'll blow the whole d— thing to h--l with dynamite.” He then left peace ably greatly to the relief of Mr. Lose, Upon another occasion, when his wife had left him on account of his abuse, he hired Mr. Van Valin's rig to drive into the country, and acciden- The affair created intense excitement tally met his wife and father-in-law in The house in which Ettlinger lived informed { in and that Ettlinger made the “1 will out of the Goodman, and we are April, move The burned house not belonging to Ettliager, will have to be paid for by but the personal property burned and belonging to Ettlinger, that of a public enemy, defying law, hence forfeiting all right to protection had he lived. The railroad company charged the county $45 for the special train to take fonte to Coburn and return, which ! was reasonable ; pay & as demanded at Coburn before the train would run back, and after some messaging over the matter, commissioners’ clerk R. F. Hunter, one of the posse, issued a A reliable citizen of Woodward re. scheme of Ettlinger's to get revenge upon some of his enemies. Having a grudge at several young fellows in Woodward, he planned upon revenge. A revival meeting being in progress at Woodward, some of these hated ones were at the mourners’ bench, and Ettlinger, under the pretense of being a penitent, also kneeled at the bench between his enemies. He worked himself into a fictitious excitement un- der the influence of the “spirit” and his powerful arms began to deal severe and rapid blows right and left about the heads of those beside him at the bench as to effectually punish them, using the'opportunity to get even with them by blows from his fists as their faces were bowed as mourners. Mrs. Ettlinger in her interviews with our representatives, both imme diately after her escape and again more Most | be- | i | now | have such an experience. The wife related that while she and | { the children lay in a hall in the centre | of the for safety, spent bullets | several times dropped down upon her | house Later the collar was taken | It is alleged that a short time before | Ettlinger had | settled | It to be regretted that this was not done, the difficulty is | OD A%e | PENNSYLVANIA | Philadelphia & Erie R. R. and Northern Central Rail R. Division | Way. 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