% 2 %, % ) » FIRST SEC ON. Second section will be issued at the conclusion of the murder trial. Circulation Over 3800. Murder Trial Now in Progress Supreme Court Refuses a Motion for Con- tinuance, MURDER, FIRST DEGREE Dillon and Green Indicted for the Murder of Turnkey Jerry Condo—Constance and Henderson are Charged Only With Jail Breaking, and Plead Gui'ty—Constance Con- victed of Arson on Wednesday— Judge Dean's Decision on Wednesday Afternoon. | % | to show canse why WILLIAM DILLC IRA GREEN Daniel Irvin, farmer of Fergn THE INDICTMENTS sel-vled ax foreman. when the them a full oe eom jeer MOTION FOR POSTPONEMENT eighty-three and tiorney s comm ia JERRY CONDO The Murdered Turakey ir the defence . — Dale, W, Har urst The Attorney N ler.” Ellis 1 and E. R, Chambers, | H Ju i 31 Orvis ent Charles W. Tripple, Mary A. Geisinger, D. Olive Kerstetter and Ruth E. Yeager, P. Harria, trostee, va. | Eliza Valentine, administrator of Abram COURT NOTES, K. Valentine, decegaed. This action is also —— brought to recover judgment on a mortgage A Complete Report of Proceedings This | Verdict in favor of plaintiffs for twenty-six Week. | hundred and 91.100 (By 8. D. Gettig, Esq) | dollars and an attorney's commission of | one hundred and twenty-five dollar, Anditors were appointed as follows In the estate of Morgan M. Lucas Inte of case will be heard | asnignees of John snd twenty-seven August sessions of court convened Monday morning at half past nine o'clock, with His Honor, Judge Love, on the bench, | A very large portion of time wes consumed | Bogs township, deceased, N. Ib. Spangler, in hearing motions and petitions, after | In the estate of James M. Locas, late of which the grand jury was called and ' Boggs township, W, H. Walker, on | Harvey | sheriff. BELLEFONTE, PA., THURSDAY, AUGUST 25, 1904. / Re VOL. 26 At this o'clock in and petitions were again pr pint conrt the afternoon different members of the | heing a petition for a commissioners and others Horace Stiver and Elmer Flanig the reward for the ¢ ture of William Dillen Henderson George them nd Oscar Viard indicted, first sisting officer ; second count assanlt and hattery promecn t Case Is from Sout! pears th pear ’ from: J the si Mr. Tar the stor the « night of smeone was in the store ed and and M: der through the wind rietor was not hh wanded by citizens intr the store and in the morn r 11 | ant was found and brought to the | ™ fonte ia | we defendant plea i wd extend 1 gui y to the second charge in the tment and the Commonwealth a nol. Pros on the first count Com. vs, George Henders in, indicted ini] breaking and H. 8 Taylor men who hroke and escaped from for escaping, prosecutor sheriff. This one of the five ) All On the night of Jaly 20th last and one of the three captured near Flemington on Angnst second Defendant plead guilty to the charge Com. va. Dominic Constance. indicted for jail breaking, prosecutor H. 8. Taylor, Detendant plead guilty At this point, namely, two o'clock Taes- | day afternoon, A. OO Fast, who has re- cently been employed by one of the defend. ants in the case of Commonwealth against William Dillen and Ira Green indicted for murder, made application to the Court tor a continuance of this case, on the ground that defendants had not been able to pre pare their case, as counsel had just recently been retained and that they had nothing by which to enforce witnesses to attend | conrt in their behalf, and on the further ground that ore of the parties to the jail breaking had not as yet been captured, as well as on the ground that the newspapers had published hioadeast the act of the jail breaking, as well as the killing of Mr, Condo, and that public opinion was strong {same direction. F. Reeder le hy H og looked afer Harrison Walker When he & had some oil in it ridge the pext the » ve BN 1 tracks cross nad recently heed been made b the having y 80me Ot house and owards Ke ates and tl 4 ARID OID i tra bein coming in g£ ordionary ee ont w mo going Phat Mr. Right next al having nr 4 farther no apart r Cathe there the ernoon to R pair of shoes belonging Constance d fitted the shoes ftted the in the tracks and that the tracks h y that od northwest {; and hat direction shoes Dominate Con yin his p stance i we about one-his ile and fron theses that the tra LE that he « n the morning ER Were i ered tracks early John Gre ve AwWorn Live about 8 from Hothrock's place, saw bh the evening of J wk 12th, but about « had to the telephone to and kilns towards flash at Rothrox powdsr was barniog ine even Keystone | Bellef returning fr lime Rothrock 's saw a | k's house as though oil or He found that the afire and went to the house and poanded the house, kicking and | calling “fire ' 0 the oe upants, then went to the pump, got some water and put the same upon the flame, the fire being in a | couch alongside the partition wall and towards the roof. The couch was saturated with oil |; was aout thirty rods from Roth. rock's house when be saw the flash ; also | beard something running from the house and heard something crossing the wire fence ; saw tracks in the potato patch on Monday morning from and towards Hast. ings, the noise | heard was going in the Dominic Constance lives with his sister northwest of Rothrock's, They were fresh tracks when | saw them. The ground had been cultivated on Friday or Baturday before. Saw Dominic Con- i stance Monday morning at about nine | the name of Rothrock He said he was | o'clock at my place and again after dinner, | and that he was going to get even with | Rightnour arrested him at my place in the | him, that Rothrock thonght himself a afternoon, being Monday, 1 did not go | smart man bat that be would get even across (he potato patch, I found ofl ean in. | Mike Torrence sworn Live in shanty at side of the summer house abont eight feet | Buffalo Run and know Daminie Constance from stove, | put it outside, door was not { he also lives there, | beard that Roth. | locked, rock's house was afire Dominic was at Mrs. James C, Rothrock sworn Wife of | the house all night. Dominic and slept | David Roturock, was home on night of together, There are six books in the | June 12th, awakened by someone calling | 190m. Each man has his own bank. Went | “fire.'' and saw there was fire through the | 10 bed about hail past ten or eleven o'cloc! ! north window. When I got down saw | Dominic was in bed before me. Do not | John Grove, | think it was about half past femember of getting up het ween Cig gone Loe mite for a oclor on m the honse he summer house was W. HARRISON WALKER. ESO, : | Attorney for Dominic Constance i for mlinoe ng for pela rs he same time 1 went to bed Dominic in Do not did that night i Had beer at next shanty to hn Hampt nm was at the shanty they were drinking beer Torrence sworn 1falo Run ¢ also live use 1 see bed r 3. ’ 1 know what Domin 3 Vas inn bed me J the day Mike Bt noe, he was ahire, Domini might! Dominic an r, there are six bunks in rock's h at the house all togethe room, each man has his own bunk bed about hall Dominic 16 not remember of gy ting up went cleven ed before me, that night to Past ten or o'clock, was int between eleven and twelve o clock. | am no relation to Dominic, we always keep a hight burning in the room John Torrence sworn—Live in shanty up Buffalo Run, know Dominic Cone. Continued on page 4
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