Pn B “ %, oN he Centre Democrat, NOVEMBER COURT NOTES The Usual Grist Work. Circulation, Over 3700. Of Criminal LIST OF CASES ON TRIAL Verdicts Rendered—Sentences Imposed —Civil List Cases Either Settled, Tried or Continued—Grand Jury Discharged on Wednesday. {Reported by 8. D. Gettig, Esq) November sessions of court convened on Monday morning at half past nine and considerable time was taken up in hearing motions and petitions, The grand jury was called and sworn and | W. R Jenkins, of Bellefonte, chosen fore- man and charged as to their duty as to the indictments that may be laid before them to be passed upon, after which the constables wade their quarterly returns, and list of trayerse jurors called and ab. sentees noted. The list of civil cases for this week was then called over and the following cases disposed of : Peter Mendis vs. peal. Continued at Sarah C. Geiss vs. peal. Settled. Executors of J. late of Bellefonte, deceased, vs Rosen. thal, appeal. Continued by agreement of counsel witness, J. H Liogle vs. Lewis Rosenthal, peal. Continued by agreement of coun. cil on account of {liness of a witness, E. I, Stover vs. John A. Miller, ap- peal. Settled. Robert Kinkead vs. H. McD. Loraine, appeal. Settled. Frank McCartney and Ear! Midlam the two boys who were convicted at last L. C. Ballock, ap- costs of defendant, Luther Royer, ap- D. Shugert, Lewis on account of sickness of a ap term of court for larceny were called be. fore the bar and after a good and whole. some talk by the court sentence was sus pended. At the motions and petition were heard which the following cases were beard : Samuel T. Dixon vs. overseers of the poor of Snow Shoe township, being an appeal from decision of a justice of the peace ; the case is brought to recover for coffin and burial expenses of a davghter of a Mrs. Sarvey in the early part of afternoon session additional alter 1899 by the plaintiff, who is an un¢ taker at Snow Shoe, after beir unable to get bis pay from the part an order of aporoval, which he served £ procured on the poor department of the township, the plaintiff having received ten dollars on account Mrs, The overseers declined to pay the balance, from Sarvey alleging that there was property there, and again that the plaintiff bad waited too long. Verdict in favor tiff for twenty. five dollars {the plain- George Symmonds, indicted betrayal, prosecutrnix Carrie Mi This case is from Bellefonte. The fendant plead guilty and the usual sen. for ler de. tence in such cases was imposed. John Edward Hamptoa, indicted for betraval ; prosecutrix Lillie This case is from Spring township, and the defendant plead guilty and the usual sentence imposed Perry John Smith vs. John Q nedy and Adda Kennedy, ap action to recover an alleged balance for done plaintiff, and diff rent members of his family for the defendants Brown A. Ken peal ; an work by on their farm in Potter township in 1901 and beginning of the year of 1972 Ver. dict in favor of the plaintiff for $118 81. Edmund Blanchard was appointed Auditor in the estate of William Masden, deceased, Dominic Constance, fic ted first count assault and battery, second count aggravated assault and the third count being ignored by the grand jury ; prosecutor David Rothrock This case is from Benner township, and is the same case, where the defendant an Italian went to the house of the prose. battery, cutor on Sanday afternoon Sept. 27,1903, where he had been getting milk and other produce an, according to prose culion on the afternoon aboye named the prosecutor's family were at church excepting the prosecutor and a son, and as the prosecutor was coming towards the bouse about 3 o'clock from the pig | sty be saw the defendant at the door with his left hand on the door knob and the right band in his pocket, and when seeing the prosecutor sald something about a certain member of the family and was ordered away by the prosecn. tor, whereupon the defendant fired two shots at the prosecutor. The sheriff was summoned and arrested the defendant near the residence of the prosecutor and nearby in the grass found the revolver with every chamber filled. The defend. ant denied the shooting. Verdict, guilty on the first count and sentenced to pay costs of prosecation, fifty dollars fine and five months in the county jail, C. ¥. Wagner vs. A. J. Liodsay, ap+ peal. Settled. George Mock bert H. Moore, trading as The Philipsburg Beet Co., vs. Jacob Test, appeal, Settled. Calvin Henry, indicted, first count in. cestuous fornication, second count in. cestuous adultery ; prosecutrix Susan Henry. This case is from Miles town. ship and the prosecutrix is aged about | eighteen years and is one of seven child. | community. i { heinous charge and alleged that he al- | ways aimed to have the prosecutrix to | | lead an upright and chaste life. Verdict |on Wedoesday morning of guilty and | arrest of judgment and a new trial rea- sous to be filed within twenty days. { Joseph Schmilzko, indicted for assault | and battery, prosecutor George Bucher, This case is from Snow Shoe township, near Clarence and the parties are Slav. ish and William Kioski was sworn as interpreter, It appears that these par- ties had some trouble about the second day of November of the present year, Verdict not guilty and the costs divided equally between the prosecutor and the defendant, Charles Hartsock, indict*d for assault and battery, prosecutrix Susans Rossman Spring It ¥ ars that on Sept, 12, last, there was This case from appe 1s township some trouble between some boys at Colerville and, according to the Common. a, the defendant, the ared and 8 of k of ber boys with a tobacco poke filled with of the boys appe« rged his boy to fight one of the bo rutrix and then stru one sand or gravel, and the defendants alle. gations being that he took his boy away and in throwing this poke of sand away accidentally struck the boy of the prose. cutrix. Verdict Wednesday afternoon of not guilty and the prosecutrix to pay one third of the costs and defendant two thirds of the costs, Com William Watkins, Auostin Watkins and Joha Mills, indicted for lar. ceny, prosecutor William F l vs Pownell This case is from Boggs township and is for the taking of coal hearth. The Eagle Iron works having bad wood leaye from the prosecutor, which was being coaled by William Watkins and oo the 31st © October last the defendants took away some of the wood which had pot coaled Verdict prosecalor to noder a claim of right guilty and the Costs George Spangler, indicted a Wesley Heverly, T liquor without icense, prosecut 3 case is from Lib erty township; after heariog some of Commonwealth's defendant changed his plea from that of not guilty to guilty The Grand Jury was discharged Wed nesday noon after making a report that they had passed in of which were found evidence, twenty two bill indictment, sixteen of as true bills and eight ignored and furth er reported that they visited the public butldings and found the same to be good condition and recom- the in the sherifl's residence on the north side of the second clean and in mended that rooms floor be repapered and placed in a more presentible condition Wednes xk and ¢ Traverse jurors discharged day afternoon at three o'c art adjourned to Thursday morning at nine 0 Clock. Narrowly Escaped Cremation. Last week a party of hanters from In Allegheny mn, diana into the Moshann county, and camped along Baugher Run county went mountaing from Centre Satarday night 12 o'clock, while all were they 8 lime asleep, the cabin were in caught fire They had O spare as the flames were upon them and they on y Two of the men bad their hands badly burned while They lost together with They escaped with Just their night clothes on and were given shelter at 8. 8. Craft's camp, which was only a short distance Here the received what and in the Mr, ) escaped with their lives one man's hair was oa fire | their wearing apparel considerable money Away. unfortunate gentlemen clothing could morping fared somploously at Craft's breakfast table, men and their Joss will be severely felt, Eogioe Chases a Big Deer. Last Friday evening while the work train on the P. & E railroad was coming east between Ferney and Parrandsville Eogineer KE. J. Israel saw a big deer bounding along on the tracks in front of the locomotive. The big buck ran ahead of the engine for about 00 yards and then left the tracks. Jumping over a wire fence the deer stood for 4 few seconds looking at the train speeding by and then bounded away up the side of the mountain, be spared, Twenty. seven deer have been killed in the vicinity of Philipsburg, this season. ~Men's all 20114 working shoes every pair guaranteed, 1.50. Yeager & Davis, They are poor | A DESPERATE CRIME Telegraph Operator Killed and Robbed at Oak Grove, 'A HEROIC FIGHT FOR LIFE { ren, and the circumstances as detailed | by the prosecutrix are unfit for publica. | tion and show the depravity human pa. | ture can stoop to, and that in a civilized | The defendant denied the | Was Algne in a Railroad Tower—Shot Twice and Skull Crushed—Dying Man's Unfinished Message —Mur- derer Not Known, A dastardly murder was committed last Thursday evening, in a lonely rail i . le o | i | the defendant at once made a motion for | F034 telegraph office tower, two miles east of Youvgdale, on the New York Central railroad. The victim was Wil. liam H. Clendennen, a telegraph tor, who was on duty in the tower at the time, which is situated just west New York Central bridge, which crosses the Susquebanna river and the P. asd BE, opera- road, I AM SHOT AND DYING The first intimation of the terrible crime was contained in an ur completed | Train Harry Clay, in the office at Jerse message received by Dispatcher Shore ensatio shot Junction. The pathetic aud ows y The Dispat c lerstand them, . vd "it Cay acted pro ip message was as fo am and dying, Tr were so indistinct last letter ] that wer Clay uid not u Dispatcher ¥ : be at once ¢ employes of the rails to eed to the ower wilh aii possi 148le tO make an vestigation TRACK WALER SE} Wi 3 MURDERER Track Walker the cross-over bri to Dik the report of two shots coming from the tam Cable was on ge Grove, when he heard near the centre. on bis way and burriediy Just as he neared the tower toward the tower steps which lead up to the office a man bounded down, and ran up the track in the of McElhattan In the darkness Mr. Cable was unable to get a good look at him, except the mere out He believes, however, light mastache. direction line of bis form. that the fellow wore a AN AWFUL SCENE Mr. Cable quickly mounted the steps and entered the open door of the litle telegraph room, and the scene which met his gaze was one that streck him with horror, and which beggars lescrip rt Clendennen was lying on of blood a iar his which had BCrn KT JOO whi head, the entire back of hed in wi a powerful b Aa heavy spike maul, which was lying on the floor ¢ ered with b 1, and with particles of A Clendennen had evi hair adhering to it, mop bandle, which the brave dently used 10 defend himself 1 the ab KE 0 pieces and small splin sence of anythin better, was broken twisted int The ¢ the stick, was torn asd had been swished and ters oth, fastened to the end of aboot the litle room, all of which was evidence that a terrible struggle bad ace before Clendenoen taken p sac bed cum SEARCHING FOR THE MURDERER Track Walker Cable left the place to give the alarm and before long the near as well as the est r@iidents arrived, men who had been rent out from the Junction The men armed themselves and began a the urderer between the search for tower and ME hattan Officers in adjoining towns were early apprised of the heinous crime and kept a sharp lookout along the railroad tracks the greater portion of the night for sus. pie CORONER SHOEMAKER ON THR Ww. J Lock Haven, received notification of the com tous characters, SCENE Coroner Shoemaker, of mission of the and Dr. J. H They found the body of the young operator as They mortem examination of the body in the little tower, Thev found that the back and left side of the head bad been crushed iu by the manl, the bone? of the left arm shattered above the elbow by a 32 calibre ball, and & bullet hole ia the back on the left side of the spine. The young man's empty pocket book was fonnd on the floor ; bis watch chain was dangling from his vest, and his fine crime in company to the and with Hayes, harried scene entered the tower above described made a post [ gold watch was gone as were also a num ber of rings from his fingers. In his pocket were found $1.21 in change. The railroad officials furnished an en. gine and car, on which the men were sent to Brown's tower, after the receipt of the strange message. The company has also its entire detective force at work on the case in the hope of apprehending the real murderer, ROBARRY THE MOTIVE, From all the circumstances surround. ing the shocking tragedy, it Is believed the murderer only intended to rob youny Clendennen, who received two months’ pay on Tuesday last, and who gemer. ally carried a considerable sum of money BELLEFONTE, PA., THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 26, of the | retraced his steps | 1903. about his person, according to the state- | ment of friends. The two shots, in the | judgment of the coroner, were fired at close range, as the powder marks were (OUR HISTORICAL | | | | | | discernible on the clothing and skin | : . Another Thrilling Episode From about the wounds. Finding himself mortally wounded, the heroic young | operator is then believed to have crawled | to his ticker and was in the act of send. | ing the fateful message, when the black- { hearted murderer 1n order to make his dastardly work doubly sure, dealt the dying man a powerful blow with the | heavy maul, secured his money and | | valuables and made bis escape, { The body of the young man was taken to ghe home of his uncle, B. C Young, at | Yotmgdale, where it was prepared for | burial. The interior of the tower pre. | sented a sickening scene, and bore evi. | depce that a terrific struggle had taken place before the young man gave up his life. He was aged 31 years and was a | Young man of powerful build. He made {bis home with his grandmother, Mrs. | Sarah Clendennen, who resides about a | mile and a balf east of Youngdale, | TRACING CLEXDENNKEN'S 0 SLAYER. p to the moment the mur. derer of W. H. Clendennen the operator present at Brown's tower, on Thursday evenir KE tbe robber who bound and gagged A i, early Fiiday morning, has suc. rel Hafler, auother operator, at in escaping the army of detectives and rallroaders who have been on the f walch olf the 1 Fo 2 and og who was at th i him since the commission mes owing the action of the Phi ¥ reward for ready Railway C fi A, New York Central has © WW information that will lead to the ar. rest of the murderer of Clendennen, Oae of the detectives gave ft as opinion that the murder was committed | by Edward Troinkle, the man who sey | eral months ago mardered Mrs William Payuoe in Tioga ¢ yunty by thrasting the tines of a plichfork into her body, He {says Clendennen was acquainted with | Trolnkle, who has been at large since he killed Mrs. Payoe in Tioga county, and Thurs. wer al the detective's theory is that on lay night Trolokle entered the t Brown's, and after requesting a loan of money and being refused, demanded it atl the point of a revo ver fight ensued, be thinks, during which Troinkle is be. eved to have shot his victios as be was ending the news over the tory has for its basis the fact that ex gram which Cienden: sent at Jersey Shore read. "Sh n y 1 i 23d then the message ende giv ‘roinkle. The descrit ption en of the criminal answers that of ° TAM MITCHELTREE RELEASED Wi ‘onstable B by is Myers, at the Clenden but night by McCormick and Constable Myers, without am Micheitree, was arrested en faneral Sunday, was released from jai Monday di- rection of District Attoroey even gO ng to the trouble of having a writ of habeas corpus issued and argued, as bere was no evidence against him The the case as it was in the beginning with discharge of Mitcheitree leaves no new developments, except the arrest ted which may continue indefinitely by ama here and there of suspe tramps, ice offi in eur detectives aad city po be hope of stumbling on the $500 re. ward offered Chie! of Detectives Humprey, who is in charge of the case for the New York his sorts Central Railroad company, says force is kept busy running down all of They are make every effort to secure the mordeter rumors, determined to f Clendenaen, and for that reason are following ap everything in the hope that even the smallest and most unpromising ramor or clue might be the one to pat them eventually upon the right scent, DYNAMITE CLEARFIELD STATION Friday there was a ho/dup of the oper. ator at the Pennsylvania Railroad depot Clearficid and the dinamiting of the There were two burglars, and while one kept watch over W, BR. Pletcher, the operator in the tower, the other worked in the safe in the ticket of. (fice. The men were heavily masked | and appeared in the tower before the sale, | operator was aware of their presence, | He was jerked from his chair and taken | to one corner of the room, where one man kept him prisoner, Before the the wires were thrown open so that no word could be sent along the line, The safe was dyvamited, but the inner door refused to open. The explosion shook the buildings In the neighborhood and the burglars fled. Mr, Pletcher's home is at Howard, Pa. Mistaken for a Deer and Killed, Dr. Robert H. Milnor, of Warrensville, shot and killed Henry Anthony Plank, also of Warrensville, Tuesday morning, mistaking him for a deer. Plank was hunting alone. Dr. Milnor is a brother of the sheriff of Lycoming county, other burglar started for the ticket office | Pioneer Life, CAPTIVES BECOME SAVAGES. Life Among the Indians Produced Some Remarkable Changes—Did Not Care to Return to Relatives and Friends, (The following having its location in | territory that once was linked with our own county of Centre, we can claim for ita place in the Democrat's Historical Review it is a thri DE Companion piece in early settlers’ life, to the story of the capture of Regina Hartman printed m our issues of last week and the week previous ) It should be born iz mind that many of the sayages death and destruct! so-called who wrought m all along the fron tiers were incited by whites, During the French and Iodian war they were sub. i sh Governmen sidized by the Brit When Ge pietely su com- tribes the Western und ¢ deliver on yievious treaty all t as sacred formed al home this bushan al the family altar by the family they bore . ’ i These children were just as though their fathers were of their own race be terms of the treaty laid as down by Bouquet were inexorable and the Iadians well koew that their racial a faithfa when welfare depended on co mpi ance with the same the Indians brought to the camp their caplives some refused to of the women absolutely taken back to their kindred E fzabeth Stadebaker, a German wo 1 been captured many vears ia Bovd, myer while on its 1astened back t the Muskingum who had locate { Bedford ¢ She was captured by the daring the F b and ladian war, and hence bad been many Jamison iimils © nly a rend Vears among them. It is evident, that she was au attractive and energetic woman, and, unlike Annie Le Roy and Barbara Lein finger, she made no attempt at escape wat resigned herself to her fate She was wooed and won by a dusky brave, who seems to have been a worthy hashand, the fruits of the union was a ch Under the requirements of the Bouquet treaty her ought her the Muskingum to be sur. Restortation 3 all number of dren stern husband b and the children to the Forks of rendered kindred and out to ner and people, with the amenities comforts of civilization, was held Mary Jamison het Oa the other hand, was she Had be not been kind and Was he the father her children that clung to ber? How could him? Her mind made ap, and in a way quite creditable She disconsoiate husband, whom dearly loved not Rooq ! of she forsake was soon to her sex chose to remain with ber husband and friends and, with her children, hid herself until the army with drew, SUSAN WIREBACH 8 ¢ ASK We now come to several cases much more recent, and the details of which Are like an open book. The first of these is Susan Wirebach, the daughter of John Wirchbach. Among the first settlers on Penn's Creek, in Buffalo Valley, in now Union county, was John Wirebach and his wife Catharine. They lived some. what {solated from the settlement, and sacre by the Indians, | period of the Revolution they bad, with | many others, gone down to the Susque- hanna, beyond the danger live. After their return to the valley ther learned, when (00 late, that their supposed secu- rity was a delusion and a snare, In the autumn of 1781 their davghter Susan, a bright buxom lass, just budding into womanhood, had occasion to go some distance from home on an errand, Just at this time a band of hostiles, who had committed depredations down the valley, were moving rapidly toward the moun. tain to escape the ire of the settlers, who always gathered quickly and gave bot pursuit sgaiost invading foes. Unfort unately for Miss Wirebach she was met Continued on page 4. Ho often made narrow escapes from mas. | During the worst | Ab examination showed that be had sus VOL. 25. NO. 47. FACT, FUN AND FANCY. REVIEW Bright Sparkling Paragraphs Select > ed and Original. THE FALLEN LEAF. Well whieh It A leaf has fallen! 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ABE lady Lidslicd, slalicd and was evideully wach cwbartassed. “‘sdust alswgr b Yes, His answer uo askou Le Whack iii pO LOE CitiK;, Yom IVE A0ud YUE WCii, she cpl . | gou't think Ii VOLE, Bei, or Wu » Ddaiicss Ginaly 5 What (Be Daily 8 Laue I», BC I» & Cand Gale 100 shows LTusice, aud » vue wi Lhe picest cu | ever wt Badly injured. Friday 33 Clayton Hall, a brakcmat va the dSoow evening aval o'clock Suoe train, was on Wp ol a BUX Cal al Lhe round house Wn Belucioute, and Uylug Ww apply the Drake when Lhe TRiChel ioke and he fell oalo the railroad rack Dee tween the rails, three cars and lhe ene gine passing over him. He was coa- veyed to the Bellefonte Hospital at vuce. tained quite serious wjuiies. His night foot was crushed above the ankie and the toes on the left foot were crushed and the little toe cat off. He was also badly bruised about the head and body. The limb was not amputated, as the bone was wired and it is thought it wil heal nicely. His condition is considered fa- vorable. The unfortunate man iz about 22 years of age, married and resides at Saow Shoe. He is a son of John Hall, of Milesburg, who is flagman on the Cen- tral Ratiroad of Pennsylvania, Sheriff Shearer's family is quite large, He reports 19 prisoners in the Lock
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