CED
YEGG MAN SUPPLANTS THE
Travels in Bands, Sends Out Scouts and “Locaters” Locate—
Will Kill Rather Than Be Captured—Retreats to Mount-
ains to Avoid Detection—Story of How it is Done by the
“Umbrella Menders,”
garded his location as a strategic point.
As 800n ss there is the slightest in-
untry trusion or indication that the citizens
battle the
every direction
with the explosions of nitro-
glycerine or dynamite,
Aas
\iigust of 1900
are preparing to give them
burglars open tire in
Fhis,
used in com-
mitting the burglary, usually intimi-
dates the people of the entire village
from attempting their capture or pre-
ventiog attack.
Escape from the scene of attack is
is the
like entrance,
departing in a
each burglar usually
separate direction and
agreeing
Lo mieel tn some large nearby
uninhabited
RO6 house or
%, Or al some unfrequented camp
for the
improvements, Heven
mountains instance
in the
Faust property
HOCross Lhe same
or the
moun-~
wo
ds miles distant, so that
identification js
ture or
it~
Fi
iii
u
IBES NAMED AFTER LEADERS
are in bauds sad tribes named
r leader and known such
Black
Canada
by
ex ay Deaf Tom's followers,
Niater's gang,
co Slim's gang or
of these
to the
attack a
eX plosives in
nan can tesch a
ef-
operations
bes
lars can
attributed
required to
witl Aas
10Urs ane
yer!
now fo 1] w explosives
CESSARY
the yegpmaa before he
if
“Kill to avoid arrest and Bp-
is erie is murder Ne es.
was BAry.
nepsion ” is his motto
* Dost make of
Weapon,
I= of ammunition
Be at undantly
CRplured in
veral
fire arms
Breen
sufficient Xpio-
JRE
HALL, PA.,
HOW ABOUY THE LETTER?
Inte
the Jall? Was the Epistle
What Did it Contain ?
roep
ed 7
| Numerous stories are nfloat t
| effect that Jacob From, who is in
cerated in the county jail charged
having murdered Josiah OC. Dale
| Nittany Mountain, on the evening
November 12, wrote one or more
ters
county bastile,
confinement |
and that
since his
the same h
been intercepted by officials,
Upon official
heartedly denied that
inquires
letters, if
{ ten, had beep intercepted
an effort by writing to
with outsiders, and that
Comin:
these lette
were intercepted, and sre now in
hands of officials,
The contents or rather the
ogy of these letters are no
to the officers, yet ¢
substance has leaked «
not
ut
that the very communieati
by the prisoner to aid
conviction will be a very,
card for the prosecution at
the trail. In fact,
as having said, in
| *
Ri: OF}
the unfortunate uf
| point of the def
three lines would
any other evident
| It ia also intima
written toa high «
the contents of whi
ty
Will save Court § Xpeiines
iv the provisi
has been
def
guilty
formality of appearing bs
Bpi ro
nasnts ino
snd be se
jury. The law will
reducing the ex
BiOns courts
Court ex penres od
lessened | y wide
of
cases need be returns
magistrates
a vocation
ns beiog made to se.
¥ w hich
bank
Inws would
« pennlly of the vurgiar sat
of
tweuty-five nor more than forty
&MUch
isoument fora term not less
A law has been passed in
that it will
the yegg problem io Pennsyl-
rviauaq I
i= though
hin
five
where the
much a law would a! least have
Mitchell )
from the
office safe, because
dezvous af Tom"
£500
nted ie
SCOOPINY Bltoost
Hall
ad just emerged from the peniten-
re post
he
tiary after haviog served a term of ten
Such a sen-
only whetted
the ' goody"
years for sale cracking.
to have
Pom’s appetite for
within the steel] shell
tenes pees
Bdt—
Trial List for May Court.
be
tried at the May term of eourt, which
Monday, May 20, and continues
two weeks ;
Following is a list of the cases to
opens
i
I'he
FIRST WEEK.
demonstrates
Mifflie Co,
Bailey.
(Geo, R. Mock wa,
et,
ht enough to observe burg Buggy va, David
naiderable distance
IIE ATTACK J. E. Hedding,
ths
DIVUILGED.,
nl
mn agreed
¢ ni
fq
place
establish ment J. F. Guyer va. Beaver Run Coal Co,
E. F, Gardner ve, Paul Swartz.
John Williamson Edward
Hughes,
John Pritchard vs. J. W. Dunwiddie
Anna Frantzer ve. Henderson Bros.
Joseph Brothers & Co. va, W, (,
Heinle,
tiie loewLion «
ced is divulged by the lead.
5 va,
, known
8 ‘soup’! or
tse
GE * nmi ers,’ the xX.
ves on the vault or snfe, while the
other two or three, outs
siders
Known as
" or “strong arm men," remain
ou the outside to any inier-
ference b The distance from
the seene of ACLIVILY the “strong arm
men” are located depends on eireom
stances, When the last robbery was
committed of class whe
crouched by the side of the editor's |
house where he was within hun
dred feet of his pails. He could ob |
tain a good view, the location afford.
Ing etsy retreat, Another * outsider” | A. W. Gardner va. Burdine Batler,
was stationed st the Penns Valley| Citizens Building & Loan _Associa-
bauk, where they re.lized there waa a | Hon of Osceola Mills ve. Estate of
watchman inside ; also u telephone ex. Justin J. Pile.
> vie i A AM PANT
Stange. the opetatot 0 ite h abt, Because a man has a handle to his
necessary to keep tsb on both these Dame Is no reason why you should
persons, consequently the outsider re- pump him,
frustrate
SECOND WEEK.
Louisa Bush ve, John . Dubbs,
James Kreps use of va. J. 1, Heaton
William Witmer ve. Edward Sellers
Jan. B. Archey va. W. F, Martin,
E. C. Humes estate, et. al, va. Mi.
chuel Hemmes, ot. al,
Frank Bamuel va,
nace Co,
citizens
1
one this
Of
Bellefonte Fur
A new lit
all kinds and at
views are t}
anle
Birthday, Sto
Cards, ete, eto
dred kinds
Sh
Transfer of Heal Estate
D. B. Bitner, et. u
Aley, March 23, 190
$1,000
I'hos, Foster, et
nell, April 9, 1
$300.
A. O. Hosterman, et
M. Haines, March 1
Haines twp,
T. V. Btevens to
April 13, 1907;
$2100.
J. J. Thompson, et. ux., to |
Williams, April 12, 1907; 1044
Worth twp. $1000
Wm. H. Thomas, et, ux.,
Weston, Dec. 18, 1584:
Taylor twp. $1650,
Elijah Weston, et. ux, Samuel
Hoover, March 20, 15809: 140 acres in
Faylor twp. $1650
Geo, W. Kessler, et, ux., to
B. Beyer, Feb. 23, 1907; 265 acres in
Ferguson twp. $100,
Mary SBimler, et. Jar, to Esther
Hind, April 10, 1907; premises in Phils
ipsburg. $1900
Chas, KE. Hassinger, et. ux., to R. A.
Beck, April 10, 1907; lot in Spring
twp. $1156.
Samuel H. Wasson to W. O. Dough-
erty, April 8, 1907; lot in Lemont.
$1,360,
Martha Moshbarger, et. baron., to
W. D. Zerby, April'll, 1907; premises
in Bellefonte, $3000,
Henry Gilbert, et. ux., to W. D.
Breon, April 1, 1899; 21 seres 88 perch.
es, in Miles twp. $225,
Johnathan Bheats, et, ux., to John
Mining, Oct, 4, 1906; land in Miles
twp. $210
Luther Guisewite, exr., to Samuel
B. Weaver, April 11, 1907; 70 acres in
Miles twp.
Xs
#7:
$325.
Floyd
150 acres in
o KEtijsh
140 BClen
tO
Samuel
:
i
APRIL
HES
[URSDAY.
As to the
the Hefuse
Op nions Sary
Burning with Frofit
i of the
whic
il Lu
nda
A. P
pastor of a
gregational church, and occasionally
lips
URLON,
vas inf ~ the
f Lituse,
Rev. Beckley is the
{ ile
inaken rougn Lhe ection,
Penne
iustitu-
Friday and Saturday he was at
syivania State & sv hich
tion he thiuke un gra of One,
Mr Mrs, John H
Centre Hall, went )
and We r, of
Philadelphia
Mr. Weber,
I, underwent one
Or more very serious operations on ae.
of ulcers of the bowels, and
while be has been gradually growing
better, the
anxious to keep informed
WW
last week,
Thursday of
it will be remember
count
operating Urges unre
a8 to the
actual conditi ns at the various stages,
Atthe time the operation waa per.
formed on Mr, Weber, in February of
1906, at the University. of Pennsylva.
nin Hospital, few people had an idea
of the seriousness of the case, For ale
most a year Mr. Weber Lins been able
to give most of his time to business,
although sullering greatly at times.
His many friends in Penns Valley sre
hoping that the present treatment he
is taking will better enable him to give
bis extensive milling business per
sonal attention,
> poe
LE
190
At)
FTER FROM KANSAR
{ Farmer Strunk Complaing of One
Fine March and bad April Whesther
ident of
Kan
f
date of
HOW & Tes
county,
Kas
under
Kar
baled
hay
for
which
|
BOI
secure sa
~'NO. 1,
TOWN AND COUNTY NEWS,
HAPPENINGS OF LOCAL INTE REST
FROM ALL PARTS.
President
Wii
Jamesto
Roosevelt
machinery at the
position, tomorrow
employed
Cer
Herman Royer, who is
at
the Burnham works fre
, wag in
Hall the latter part of )
Mrs. E.M. H iyelt and daughter
Misses Leila and
Inst week spent a di
asl week
sllefonte has
ris
1r3¢1
unaer
off ti
Since moving
i f
Bradford has
De
John
of Bellefont
ul 4, Where then
Peller,
RILIUE &
of
ned
TEVOIVETD 8
his
cliiiGgren Lhe
sRlchel, OOK [iw
eid Lhe
was discharged,
piayiaily | weapon up when it
Fhe bullet } fire in
& bureau, aod luckily missed hu-
man mark, The mother was attracts
ed, and found the child h iding the
revolver quite composed, and the one
made the escape of its
life completely frightened,
Rk Plaid: oo. a Jr ’
HSurveying State Lands
the
that narrowly
The
having i
State Forestry Department is
holdings on Nittany Moun-
tain, north of Centre Hall, surveyed,
Among the tracts owned by the state
is the Gordon tract, which less than
two years ago was burned over, the
fire origineting from burning a small
bunch of leavers and brush by Jacob
From. The surveyors engaged in the
work are Charles Wetzel, Beavertown;
C. KE. Kline, Granville: 8. J. Binga-
man, James Freed, Charles Felker, P.
J. Herbaler, Beavertowu.
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Fix dnches Snow Fall,
Friday, April 19th, six inches of
snow fell, At night it froze up. Sat.
urday evening much of the snow could
ght
be seen (0 places hidden from the sun,
LL, Where Lh
nveyed them t«
other
evenis
loss is estimated at
wered by insurs:
News of sports of
in extremely
in the Philadelphia
and Bunday. The basebal
now opened and the detailed st
and minor leagues will be
given as completely us ever. If you
order the Press served to your home
seven daye in the week you are sure to
get the best there is, both ss to news
and other features,
FIO. 4
national
Monday Miss Anna Shoop, who for
the past two months had been at
Beaverdale, will accompany B. D.
Brisbin to Chicago, where she will be
wet by Mrs. Fred Wideman and go
with her to Lagrange, I. .inols. Miss
Shoop may remain at the ialter place,
which is near Chicago, for an indefl-
nite period. Mrs. Wideman, nee Miss
Belle Pennington, is formerly from
Potters Mills. She and her husband
are engaged in the restaurant business.
J. H. Fishburn and wife, of near
Bellefonte, are on an extended visit
through the west and expect to be
absent for several months, during
which time they will visit their child-
ren anfl other relatives and friends in
Illinois, Kavens, Bissouri and other
states. Mr. and Mrs. Fishburn have
koown little else than hard work sil
their lives, and this trip will be much
enjoyed by them as well as by those
whom they visit. Me. Fishburn js
elghty-two years of age,