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 |
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on Bunday, was free in telling
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