VOL. LXXxV. CENTRE COUNTY IN THE CIVIL WAR. 148th Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteers. tomed as we have been for & generation, to the figures—Ninety- hundred and eighty-six thousand kill- ed by exposure and disease ; twenty- five thousand dead from other causes, a grand toal of three hundred and four thousand, or about one in nine of every man who wore the uniform.” tiy 1. P. Meyer, Sergeant Co. A., 148th Regiment, P. V. {To be Continued | CHAPTER VII. DILLEN AND GREEN [ Reporte od by W. verdict in the case before them. U, 1, 1904, elke; I went into my cell because I was frightened ; I heard them «ay at | one time, “kill the —— ——"" _ I heard {them say that when they were in their steel cells, both said it, Jerry was {sitting on the floor sand blood all | around him in puddles, | MeCullough cross examined : { Ihave not talked about this CAE ; GUILTY OF MURDER Il. Walker, Fg. | nobody told me to say anything; I { knew what 10 say on the stand with- NO. 34. HAPPENINGS OF LOCAL INTEREST FROM ALL PARTS, Ex-Governor Pattison’s estate, ac. cording to a report filed, was valued at $5000, Hon, Leonard Rhone had a Com- The court was infornied Bundey morning that the jury had agreed, and as | mercial telephone placed in his resi Train, and the burning of a Captured Wagon -r The Capture of a Confederate Artillery Train April 7, 1865. They were greatly plessed with the Sn MEMORIAM. treatment they received and said they | THY MASTER had not expected so great kindness One of their Chaplains ex- ¢ kindly ings uld continue between the boys in blue and from us. pressed the hope that (i feel : 00 was called We ith of Aug manifested here always the boys that wore the gray, and that the old sectional feeling might die out. (lad have Frequently we heard them say : the thing ir. We long been tired of the vaio struggle At sunrise Wed April 12th, 1865, the Confederate +3 nat the ns —— iB Ove ¢ on nesday morning, arte y and for- Appo- all £4 wax paraded for time, mally surrendered, right by th mattox Court House, a dozen « Ivy meat Va, low fifty PETRODS, a village of } houses, © unpretentious of Appomattox county, with a population, probably be ore, sight thousand Confederates he of Union troops, st ’' arms, to front of a cul rehed sullenly to dine at Yor. receive them, Nota ‘vr was given by the eonquerors « word was spoken on either side : 6 ep «ilence prevailed as the Confedes. ‘vs stocked arms, hung their accout- rements and cartridge boxes on the up- tLurped bayonets : guidons aud . bat #, builet torn, ragged and bleached, the t flonted over them in Lie were leaned against yu Tuan) BLACKS | then ke ranks for ever, and stiu Mir i Win we “ it for their homes, in all diree- number had away siuce ~unday the 9th effort rem Ysueaking’ preferred that way surrendered Probably doubie the honorably surrendered, caked” The Union army made n 3] (0 prevent any of then : look for away, if they of i. where there These were becomes i IDR. ein “abse::tis” rolls. by a or as ‘missing’, | TOC 0 than the m 8. ¢ sunset ’ han those clouds, and bh of day ;: but flering, the calmness ¢ brought Bat Gr the Mie Us {i surrendered Confederates told many of their officers had br ken their swords, aad tore flags in- to «iireds, 80 they might not be surren- dered to the vietorious Yankees, ital wr forms mywiery inctly the There was no parade made of this surrender ; nothing done to humiliate ya that d or aggravate our erstwhile inveterate and He oppruents. A remarkably small part of the Union Army saw the “‘surren- der.” Ac the time of the actual and formal surrender, at sunrise, on the morning of April 12th (1864) the main prition of the Union Army was al- ready miles away, on the homeward niareh. sRppGintiime Appi nit and sepa CRRATT made them 1 appoints is purifying niains within it a serious t discerned through iis down the power the reluctant their it grows light 1a the That we hereby ex. ¢ our sincere and wreavement, ine consolation and * to them our ready and tend to Bister Weaver Fons ended the greniest and most sanguinary war that | world had ever known, The pages of history can show no grander heroism, no more an- fl neliiog courage and devotion than was displayed by the mighty armies during the four years of terrible war, that swept a deluge of blood over genres of hard fought battle flelds, and surely, not fess can be said of the brave men who wore the gray, thao of them ti.st wore thie blue, More than three hun dred battles had been fought. Counting all ecoofliets, | great and small, they number over three thousand. More ihian three buodred thousand men had been kill ed, or died of wounds, or other casual. ties and disease, Gen. Francis Goeen, io commenting uit the loss of life in the Civil War, heartfelt sympatl Pa That this our memorial to the mem- ory of our deceased brother, Col. James ¥. Wea- ver, be recorded on a special page, set apart in the Journal of the County Gmnge, and an en ® rove] copy be sent to the family Respectinlly submitted, LEONARD RHONE, GEO. L. GOODHART, A. L. TYBON, MRA. RELLA NEIDIGH, MES, CAROLINE DALE. Resolved SAA A ———— From Millheim Journal, James M. Gephart, Esq., of Seattle, has received the endorsement of the democracy of King county, Washing. ton, for the nomination of superior judge. Mr. Gephart was a former | Millbelm boy and went to the far | west a number of years ago, He is a soye: “How paliry seem the five brother of A. J. Gephart, of this place, thousand killed and wounded in the | 4. young lawyer with a bright War of 1812, or the war of Mexico, or | future. tiv war with Spain, compared with | db —————— the fourteen thousand at Shiloh ; fif- | Register Belore September Teh, teen thousand at the Chickahominy | gu., yout portant matter for Dems thirteen thousand at Antietam; the acratic voters to attend 10 now is to see ®t bumber at Fredericksburg, Va. ; | 44 oooh and every man who will vote properly regis- sixteed thousand at Chanecellorsville, | for Parker and Davis is Vj twenty-three thousand at Get | tered. The registration closes on Wed- tysonrg, Pa; sixteen thousand at esday, Meptember 7, nnd the voter Chickamauga, Tenn, ; thirtyaeven |). ,0ni0 is not upon the lst always thousand In the “Wilderness' of Va ; | Ln pie casting his ballot, This is nud twenty-six thousand al Spotlayl-| 0000 that should be attended 10 at vanin, Va, to which we might add the | gave time nud trouble on elec fiity thousand around Petersburg, Vo. | jon day by seelug that your name is The grand aggregate of destruction | upon the registry now we discharged. It was not generally known thst th Neither Dillen showed words of “guilty in the Mr nor tireen i first degree’ Satds is generally believed that he will do bis The foul deed of the The trina’ of Dillen and Green for the murder of Thursday morni Jerry Londo was begut ug. The fact that the Supreme court refused t interfere with the ruli heralded over i ng of the lower court was the entire county with- in an hour after the dispatch to that This the case would be heard Thursday, and se- of effect waa received in Bellefonte. information made it certain that numbers flocked bouse early on that day cordingly large people from all to the court seclions The court room proper was filled to the walls by men and women, thie boy element being ejected, At 10 the © the sherift, H. 8. Taylor, to bring into cour! Ira Green and Win o'clock mirt instructed Dillen, who are charged «ith murder in the first degree, A few were bir Taylor, Deputy Sh (se0rge minutes later the prisoners ay ¢ mw irarift NG oO wT RE rifl Eberhart ight urt by and hey and jury room Jackson Guardsiuan were (aken into the gi where a copsullation was held between ir atte them snd thel A. OO Furst « Quigg irneys, | Jui Da . ley, and Cleme Esqs, Al ten Green, twenty o'clock Mr and Mrs f parents of Ira Green, together BO. CAL hie sobbed with a dsughter sod sinail into court and took vi not Lar They were much Al foes continually. wWisoners with their satis took seats at the counsel table, The re taken up by der of the forenoon ti if nisi i Was ie atioruevs for the de. fendauts who resorted every means to have the cas wiponed Attorney of t the jury, and io each instavce his ques- Furst questioned every phase of the legality of the drawing of tioning was answered by positive evi- dence by the officials covcerned that step of law had been complied with and that the jurors had been properly and drawn The | court was therefore obliged to overrule every legally the objections, and permitied the case to be heard, Prothonotary Gardoer then directed Dillen and Green to stand up, after which he read the indictment. He then said to them “How do you plead, guilty or not guiity.” They both answered, "Not guilty.” “How shall you be tried 77’ They answered, “By God and my country.” Bo shail you be tried, Court adjourned. p——— The Jury Selected. The task of empaneling a jury was begun Thursday afternoon. Before twelve acceptable men could be se. cured the entire jury list was exhaust. ed, and the last two persons selected were from the talesmen, Coroner Huff calling the names. The jury selected is an follows ; THE JURY. William Van Tries, farmer, Ferguson, Bilis Williama, mechanic, Worth, J. H. Sands, gentieman, Bellefonte L L. Burwell, carpenter, Ferguson, W. Bhimmel, carpenter, Fhilipaburg. Daniel Eisenhuth, lumberman, Haines, John Shontz, surveyor, Philipsburg. J. H. Griffen, merchant, Half Moon, George Garbrick, gentleman, Bellefonte, C. L. Gramley, County Superintendent, Miles, Jacob D. Wagner, miller, Bellefonte, eB a —— THE PROSECUTION Operas Friday Mornlog—Usse Presented by Mr. Orvis, At about 7:30 many interested peo- ple began filling the steps leading to the court room, but the doors were ht opened until 8:40 ; the jury came io at 8:30 in charge of Thomas MeCaflerty assisted by James Mullen and Vincent Beckwith. When the doors were opened it took about one and a half minutes to fill every seat available in the court room. Noone was admitted by way of the rear entrance except the officers of the court, county officials, members of the bar, witnesses and verdict received and the jury | ¢ jury had sgreed, as the information jury was polled in the hearing of the filled the fell from the spokesman of the jury, ny visible sgit«tion when solemn formual motion for a new trial. and it | itmost to secure the sate, i in the minds of fresh in the Re- | At a few minutes past | counsel table i thelr ee and ue prisoners were brought into court | the o WIE, i Win. Dillen take the trial as a serious matter, while | places at th Minese]l table, $ ay fh was pale and seemed to Green was the Opposite, paying no at tention whatever to the proceedings. | Ellis L. Orvis, Eeq., one of the eoun- | sel for commonwealth, opened the case | before the ju He spoke of the trial and the ry. golem. | lity of rder fl a au trial o the prisoners at the bar, discussiog th facts iu a clear and logical! manner. He | fl«0 stated that no one iuterssted in the trial of the case, whether judge, | i i Jury or attorneys was responsible for | 3 ) i : what would f e laws | of ollow as it was th the ¢ were being | fultilied, mmoswealth that mana that the parties trying in ut the ABE Were situply p in their pres. £ § to enforce the | laws of Dmmonweaith, Mr, Orvis described fulls ’ i at nfined, would prove by dis lessees Lhal (ree Bi threats against Jerry Condo that would kill 4 H. Weigel fi rut in, ele, He OA liefopte, surveyor, | led ou behalf of | iraft of inter. iit wiltieas nweaith, made PX pIRine fully to] fhe Jury At this time Ira Green's wife enter | ed the court rooin aod proceeded to her husband's side, weeping as though her | The . i aud she began kissing | heart would break crowd gave vay for her, him and calling him endearing names | The inecide: little effect with the jury 1 is seemed to have some | i the audience, but : on not Green himself was affected and for the first time since his | imprisonment he broke down and wept atime ss——— COMMONWEALTH WITNESSES Conclusive Evidence that tent to Kil there was Is The substance of the evidence pro- duced by the commonwealth is sum- med up briefly thas : Deputy Bheriff Jackson : Before the jail delivery 1 last saw Jerry Condo between four and five o'clock. He bad charge of the prisoners, The first in- timation I had thataoythiog had hap- pened was about nine o'clock. When I saw Condo he said, “I want to go to bed.” The bath room door has never been locked until just recently. The irons with which the beating was done were found on the outside of the pris on wall the next morning by Edward MeCullough and were handed by him to the sheriff. The one iron was brok- en from the bed in the steel cell and the other from a folding bed down stairs. The stocking surrounding one of the irons was an ordinary cheap stocking. tdward B. MecCullough—I am twenty-seven years old ; my home at Clearfield county ; have been in Jail Over a year ; was iu jail the night of July 20th last ; George Kline was my cell mate ; was working out at the sta- eight o'clock ; Jerry Condo went in close behind me ; saw two men come out of the bath room-—they were Dil top of the stairs ; the big one (Dillen) hit him first and Green hit him next $ he hit him with a chunk of iron ; Dil len bad the leg of the bed; Green Jumped above him and struck him on the bead with the other piece. After they hit him thay set him down on the floor where the iron plate is on the floor ; heard ove of them say ‘‘won't burt you" that was Green said that, the “little shott fellow ;” I was so frightened that I went into my cell ; never saw noythiog like it in my life ; after they struck him he was sitti on the floor with bis hands stretohed out; Dilien or Green said to me, “keep prisoners, : At 8 o'clock court opened with Hon. John G, Love on the bench and the ate torneys quiet ;” that is all they sald to me, don’t know how long I was in my cell ; when I came out of my cell saw nothing for the commonwealth at the out being told ; it was quite light in the jail ; I was on the upper step when the defendatits struck Condo, I had him first ; Green maid he wouldn't after they set him down he jail ; after they y I went down stairs and raised the alarm ; I did once hear them #ay they They complained the time because they didn’t get enough to eat And that is the reason they made those statements. I was in the hall; things to all they sald Lhese George H. Kline : Live at Oak Hall know Ira Green and William Dillen. Was in jail, put in for ten days and | is near the head of the stairway, and on the same side as the steel cells are. Green and Dillen got out of thelr cell sometime that evening. Did pot It was about 8.30 or 5.45 p. m., when Condo was struck, | n the corridor during the day, in my when it took place. Heard either Green or Dillen say Lo us Was cell or we would I was eleep- in my cell, did not see the striking. It happened minute, Coustance gel the same medicine!’ in less than a dence, William Dillett moved from Reeds. ville to bis own new near Burnham. home Rev. A. Z. Myers, of Philipsburg, has accepted a call from the First iap- tist church at Hazleton, A reunion of the Yearick family will be held at the old homestead. near Madisonburg, Beptember 15th. The Lewistown and Reedaville Eles- tric Railway Company has opened its extension from Lewistown to town Junction. Mr. and Mrs. Robert Zerbe and chile dren, of Lock Haven, are guests of John Bpicher, in this piace, he being the father of Mrs. Zerbe, Lewis. Miss Margaret C. Evans, secretary of the Young Woman's Christian As- sociation, of Williamsport, is the guest of Miss Gertrude Bpangler, iu this place. Mr. and Mrs, Edward Stine and the Istter's father, John Coulter, of Ty- rone, were in town Thursday and Friday, and were the guests of Mr. and Mrs. H. W. Dinges Howard Zeigler, west of Centre Hill, is a good potato grower. Last spring he planted seven tubers of a particular variety which yielded three bushels of sad Livingston left. sinnce tout of cell number 7 , Af ‘ . i saw Mr, Condo lying on the floor near | the iron plate. I went and set him up. | * aboul a piot or a pint Ga half. He had blood all over his! Mr. McKee went to the telephone snd told the exchange to body and hands y Lake him out, back to the jail. There is still blood There is ua distinet hasd mark i I do not kvow which be prisoners said to Mr i i there on tu "nr one «ft Condo they would "give the old bald-beaded all that was coming’ him. Prisoners in the corridor were McKee, myself and Liv- ingeslon and MeCuallough that night. 3 io prisoners at night, sud broaght then their food assisied by some of the prisoners, Geos fo locked up the ge Henderson : I am an inmate inty jail ; was in cell No. 7, with Cotistance . in Co koew Dillen and Green : occupiet cell No. 8. Five prisoners es. , 1904. I was one of the five, Livingston unlocked my door, we both got out. I saw Green and Dillen in corridor about 8 o'clock, one halt hour before Condo came in, saw them go dawn stairs, don’t know who Was the first mao out of jail. I was the last man out of jail, Dr. Feidt was next called and gave teslimony as 10 the character of the wounds on Mr, Condo. He found seven or eight distinet wounds. The skin of the scalp was lacerated at sev- en or eight diflerent places, said the doctor, The testimony of Dr. Beibert snd Dr. Hayes corroborated that of Dr. Feidt, Sherifl Taylor, George W. Barnhart and F. 8. Naginey were also sworn and gave evidence of minor impor. tance, With this testimony the prosecution rested its case, ed a caped July A ——— A TESTIMONY OF DEVENSE, Dillen aud Green Testify They IDNA Not Intend to Kill, William Dilien, defendant: I am nineteen years of age, was born in An souville, Clearfield county ; my parents are both dead, father having died when I was small ; went to live with my brother at Hastings when 1 was seven years old, and stayed until I was fif teen ; worked in brick yards, coal mines and railroading; have never beet: in a Court House before; knew Jerry Condo; he furnished us with victuals, had charge of the prisoners, and locked us up between § and 9 p. m. ; Green and I were in the same cell ; we got knives and made saws out of them ; we sawed off the top hinge of the cell door the first day we were in ; we got out of the cell and went to the bath room before Condo came ; we saw he and McCullough come in ; I went out of bath room and hit him with my right fist and bad iron in the left ; we knew he oarried keys ; I only hit him onoe ; didn’t hit him with fron ; Green then hit him on the head with iron in choice potatoes. Mrs. J. W. McCormick, of Colum- bis, Boutti Carolina, afier s visit of several weeks to her parents, Mr. and Mre. D. J. Meyer, in this place, re- turned to her home Friday, Prof. A. Merill Allison, formerly of Bpring Mills, but who for two yeas bus beeu in Iowa teaching school, has sccepled a position in the High School in Park City, Utah. He will teach physics and mathematics. Milton Sweeney, Kuavsas City, Kuausas, is east oun visit to Lis pa feuls, Mr. and Mre. George sweeney, uear this place. Mr. Sweeney went West some twenty years sgo, and this is his first return to the east. Ihe Spicher farm, above Old Fort, was reroofed last week, Sutue of the shingles, which were spilt aud baud shaved and twenty-eight iuches iu lengli, were in very good coudition, aitbough they had been in service for seveuty years. of Louse ou Lhe J. R. Lawyers, soul of town, vue of the many subscribers to tue Keporter Who uever periuits his label w show AlTealages, was a caller Saturday. Mr. Lawyers spent sixty days at the St. louis fair, and contends that the Pennsylvania building aod some of the exhibits are not what they should be, Messrs. W. H. Noll, of Pieasaut Gap, aud J. Thomas Harrison, of Philadel plia, were in town Thursday of last week, and made a brief call at this of- fice. Mr. Harrison, during the latter part of the seventies, attended the select school in this place, together with a number of other young men from Pleasant Gap, which at that time was his home. Mr. Hurrison is engaged with Messrs. Hillery & Me- Aleer, 5th and Girard Avenue, Phila. delphia, and with his wife and family are on their annual vacation. The Watchman has been informed that several well-to-do gentlemen of Bellefonte have secured options on the land east of Pleasant Gap, now the property of the Noll brothers, on which the big limestone ledge is loca- ted and have interested a number of Pittsburg capitalists with a view of purchasing the entire ledge of rock and opening up one of the largest lime and limestone plants in the State. A number of the Pittsburg people were in Bellefonte several days ago and were taken out to look over the ground. They appeared very favorable to the project. The stone in the Nittany ledge is of the best quality and, wanu- factured, would make 4 superior qual ity of lime. jE merch: tailors in Bellefonte, ad- a full new line of clothing of the best makes, and eall attention to their specialty-—school suits for chil dren. Ready made clothing, like all other goods, varies according to the standard of the manufacturer,’ Montgomery & Co. hollo and we won't hurt you;" we n't leave jail because we killed him ; never made any threats against Kill him" in it, but we . never said we ‘ Sana ei in Bellefonte and
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