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FPURLICAN PARTY "4
67th YEAR.
HONE SD ALB, WAYNE CO., PA., WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 3, 1910.
NO 61
oV
LEONA LORD'S
SHARP FIGHT
Woman Charg
ed with Killing
Silas Lord In
Equinunk Row
Will Make Ef
fort to Get Out
off Jail Hear
ing Thursday
in Chambers
Both Well.
There are no developments of any
great consequence In the cases
against Sam Reed and Leona Lord,
In jail for killing Silas E. Lord of
Equinunk, the aged farmer Reed
attacked with a hoe on July 12.
Thursday afternoon at 2 Judge
Searle Is to hear Leona Lord's pe
tition for a writ of habeas corpus
that was presented last Thursday by
the woman's counsel, W. H. Lee and
Frank P. Klnible. This hearing,
however, will be in chambers.
District Attorney Simons does not
like to have the newspapers print
a lot of speculation and conjecture
about the affair at Equinunk and
Its outcome. He feels, undoubted
ly, that the more newspaper stor
ies the more difficulty about getting
a suitable Jury. The lawyers for
Sam and Leona, too, do not, it ap
pears, like to be questioned about
the case. They are glad that Sheriff
Braman decided soon after the ar
rival of the man and woman at the
jail not to permit any newspaper
cameras to be pointed in their di
rection. Reed, It Is 'understood, isnoOiuite
so broken down by the thought of
the tingedy as he was when, one
week ago last Sunday night, the
news of Slke Lord's death was
broken to him by the sheriff. For
days he cried and moaned agoniz
ingly. He is calmer now. Mrs.
Lord, on the other hand, Is
not quite so buoyant as on the day
when, escorted by Constable James
W. Harford and Oakley Tyner, she
passed Reed's cell door with " the
words, 'Cheer up, Sammy; I've
come to stay with you."
Both Reed and Mrs. Lord protest
that they never meant to kill Sike;
that neither of them thought the
blows he got on the morning of July
12 could result fatally.
Both are In reasonably good
health, though the close confine
ment naturally depresses them
noticeably. The grand jury meets
Oct. 10.
There is much sympathy on the
part of his friends for Millard
Lord, who has never been In trouble
before. He is devoted to his moth
er and seems to think that in pick
ing up a hoe to defend him against
William, who had him down In the
ditch and was pounding him, she
did what any good mother would
have done for her boy.
"A man who won't defend himself
when another man tackles him,"
Millard has frequently said, "Is no
citizen at all, to my thinking."
He has a wife and two children
and has been married eight years
He is an industrious fellow of about
30 and owns a home in Equinunk.
On What Chure Can They He
Tried?
The following is a disinterested
lawyer's opinion of the naturo of tho
charge against Sam and Leona:
The recent homicide at Equinunk
has naturally given rise to much
discussion respecting the degreo of
tho crime In law, and tho guilt of
the parties concerned In tho acts of
violence that led to death.
At common law, murder, as de
fined by Sir 'Edward Coko, was
"When a person of sound memory
and discretion unlawfully kllleth
any reasonable creature in being, and
under the King's peace, with malice
aforethought, either express or Im
plied." There were no degrees of mur
der; but a lower degree of homicide
was manslaughter, which is defined
by Blackstono as "tho unlawful kill
ing of another without malice, ex
press or Implied; which may bo eith
er voluntarily, upon a sudden beat,
or involuntarily, but In the commis
sion of some unlawful act." Both
murder and manslaughter were pun
ishable with death.
This was the law In Pennsylvania
until April 22, 1794, when It was en
acted by tho legislature that "All
murder which shall be perpetrated
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BERRY MEN HAPPY
AND COU DIMM1CK, UK'S PAR
TICULARLY dee-lighted nv
WEST CHESTER HRICKMAK
ER'S VICTORY SAYS THIRD
TICKET WILL WIN BY 50,000
DINNER ON RESULT.
Berry men In Honesdale wore de
lighted when the former state treas
urer got tho third ticket nomina
tion for governor In the Philadel
phia convention. The morning pa
pers were 10 minutes late Friday
and an impatient knot or men, some
of them regular Republicans, others
regular Democrats and a few in
surgents from both sides of tho po
litical fence, grabbed the first ones
they could get. Col. W. H. Dim
mick, the old Democratic warhorse
of half a century's experience, the
man that presided over tho hand
bill meeting attended by 10 men
at which M. J
Hnnlnn nnrl fnt-mnr
Judge James "irdsall were named
as delegates to Philadelphia, the
HMU auw ,
mail njiu BllIVD IU It 111UI W 11-
Ham H. Berry is a second Lincoln 1
and 1910 a second 18C0, got one of
the first papers that came out of
the bundle.
"That ticket Berry and Gib
boney will be elected," said the
Colonel. "I feel no doubt at all
about It. Berry will be the next
governor and Gibboney will be tho
next lieutenant-governor."
"What majority do you look for.
Colonel?" Interrogated a bystander
who expects to vote for John K.
Tener and to see him elected and
Inaugurated.
"About 50,000," said the Col
onel," and at that one of the third
party boosters the man, In short,
who got the handbill printed on the
strength of which "lb" hXenT three of
them preachers, went to tho third
ticket meeting butted In with his
belief that Berry and his ticket
would carry Wayne county by 1,
000. "Colonel," said another Tener
man In the party, "I'll bet you the
best dinner we four men ever ate
that Berry doesn't get 10,000." He
meant it.
"I'll take that bet," said the Col
onel. "We four will go to John
Heumann's and eat the best dinner
we ever had In our lives and "
"You'll pay for lt, Colonel,"
broke In another man In the party.
The Colonel said he'd wait and see.
Rev. George S. Wendell, the per
sonal friend and old West Chester
neighbor of Mr. Berry, was more
than tickled by the convention suc
cess of the man he likes he was
happy as a clam at high tide. He
did not, however, say ho expected
candidate Berry to bo Gov. Berry
after Jan 1.
Earl Sherwood, who sat up late
Thursday night and tried to get the
convention's doings over both tele
phones, gave It up as a bad job at
11 o'clock and went to bed. Friday
morning he said Berry waB a good
man and widely known up and
down the state. He added, though,
that Glfford Plnchot, had he been
able to show & legal residence In
Pike county, where he has a sum
mer place at Milford, would have
been far and away the strongest
candidate.
Thomas Crossley, who got home
from tho convention Friday, said
News Snapshots
Of the Week
eruer. Blaming state of financial affairs of tho Westlnghouse Electric company to management of Its founder, George Westlnghouse, directors ousted
hlin from control. Tbc'.r going public shocked on learning that Cecilia Loftus had to undergo surgical operation.
WHAT THE CITIZEN IS GOING TO DO
FOR WAYNE COUNTY
THE CITIZEN is going to spend a few t
thousand dollars in Wayne county to stimu- tf
late local trade. We are going to give our
subscribers money, that they may spend it XX
with our merchants. If you do not take the it
Citizen, get aboard the band wagon and be tt
one of those whom we are going to give
money to, with the understanding that you t
will use this money in buying goods at
home. ' Look for our
he believed an able ticket had been
put up. He told his friends in
Honesdale and Hawloy that Berry
will make a great run.
Lnrkiii Snys Toner Will Win.
"I want It distinctly understood
that there will be no compromise.
As far as I know, the Prohibition
party will light this thing out to the
end. If I am asked to step down,
I will. But if I am told to stand,
. ... . ... . . .
Hr en until tn ntiil n f tftno"
Thus lt was that Madson p. LarJ
kIn, Prohibition candidate for gov-
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HONESDALE GETS 2
HEATS WHITE MILLS TWICE,
WINNING THE SERIES SUN
DAY GAME .MARRED HY PER
FORMANCE OF HASERUNNER
WHO SPIKES MAPLE CITY
CATCHER.
In the third game of the' series
between White Mills and Honesdale
the Maple City team won by the
score ot 5 to,4. The game was de
cided in the last inning, when
Hattler knocked out a nice single,
bringing In Capt. Kupfer with the
winning tally.
For the locals, Hattler and Bra
der put up a star game. For White
Mills Gill played a pretty fielding
game. Sandercock was injured by
being hit by a foul tip In the first
and was forced to retire, Joseph
Jacobs taking his place behln'd the
bat. Joe played a good game.
HoiK-Mlnlo it, White Mills 1.
Three hundred Maple City rooters
journeyed to White Mills Sunday
and watched the Maple City boys
defeat White Mills In the fourth
game of the series by the score of
3 to 1. Tills gives Honesdnle three
games of the series of live and
White Mills one.
With one exception this game was
one of the most Interesting seen
in these parts for some time. In the
lifth inning Venders, the Millers
second baseman, who was once
given a tryout by a tri-State team,
was trying to score. The ball was
thrown to Jacobs, the Honesdale
catcher, from the outfield and Wend-
ers was caught by six feet at least.
Instead of being tagged out by the
catcher, he jumped In the air at
Jacobs with his spiked shoes thrust
forward and cut the catcher's arm
and leg so badly that it was found
necessary to dress Jacobs' wounds
before play could be resumed.
For Honesdale Murray and Brad
er played a star game. Smith pitch-
ed good ball for White Mills, as did
Gregor for Honesdale.
Marshall P. Wilder, humorist, reported dangerously 111, but denied It. Escorted by a detachment of the Canadian mounted
police, Earl Grey, governor general of Canada, starts on GOO mile tour of Inspection, traveling through unsettled portion of
tho Dominion. Tho rilgrlmsMonumcnt at Provlncetown, Mass dedicated Aug. 5. Chilean president, Pedro Montt, arrives
in New York. Ohio Republicans In convention at Columbus unanimously choose Warren G. Harding as candidate for gov-
announcement.
ON TICKET
HIS PAPERS FILED AT HARRIS
HURG HALF AN HOUR AFTER
BERRY AND ASSOCIATES OF
KEYSTONE PARTY GOT THEIR
NOMINATIONS IN PHILADEL
PHIA NEWSMAN'S QUICK
WORK.
Leopold Fuerth will run for rep
resentative on tho Keystone as well
as on the Democratic ticket. Thirty
minutes after the Keystone ticket
was nominated at Philadelphia
Thursday the Honesdale man's pa
pers were filed with the prothono
tary of Dauphin county and also
with the secretary of the common
wealth In the capitol at Harrlsburg.
Mr. Fuerth had this movement
all framed up with a Philadelphia
friend, understood to be the politi
cal reporter and legislative corres
pondent of a dally paper in Phila
delphia. The latter was to wire to
Harrlsburg to have the papers al
ready prepared filed without delay.
The Fuerth man In Philadelphia was
on the job. It didn't take more
than half an hour to fix up the
Harrlsburg end of Mr. Fuerth's de
sire to get on the Keystone ticket
the Berry-Glbboney ticket.
Before he went to bed Thursday
night Mr. Fuerth got a telegram
or two from Harrlsburg friends, 'as
suring him that he was first.
Mr. Fuerth does not talk as
though he liked Berry. He re
gards the position of Berry in re
gard to the Guffey loans as an in
dication of the Keystone candi
date's ungrateful nature.
"Guffey," said Mr. Fuerth, "let
Berry have a quarter of a million
to help him out of a hole. If you
let me have ?5 to help me out of
a hole I wouldn't turn around and
attack you."
Rev. J. B. Cody of Bethany has
filed H. C. Jackson's name for the
third ticket as candidate for repre
sentative. The papers were lodged
with the prothouotaries of Wayne
and Dauphin counties Friday. They
were prepared by George P. Ross.
The friends of Mr. Jackson say
the Fuerth nomination is not regu
lar because the blank space left for
the name of tho party on convention
day was filled In with the word
"Keystone" after Mr. Fuerth had
sworn to it.
Twelve hundred employes of
the Lackawanna woolen mills and
the Scranton button fatory, with 1,
C00 friends, on Saturday enjoyed
nt Lake Lodore tho thirteenth an-
i mini outing of these thriving lndus-
1 trial plants.
FuERTH
TRADE BOARD
GETTING BUSY
OFF TO HOSPITAL
SCRANTON TRAVELING MAN,
BADLY HUNGER UP IN HUGGY
FIGHT WITH HONESDALE
MAX, SEXT TO CARRONDALE
HY LAWYER FOR TREATMENT
WILL RETURN AND PROSE
CUTE. John F. Coyne, the Scranton scale
salesman who got badly beaten up
by a Honesdale man he had taken
to ride, left Honesdale Saturday for
the Emergency hospital In Carbon
dale, where his counsel, Charles A.
McCarty, had advised him to go.
Later on, when he feels more de
cently, Mr. McCarty intimated .Mon
day, Coyne is likely to come back
and have his assailant arrested.
Stories of the fight, if fight It was,
are all balled up, but it Is not de
nied that Coyne and his assailant
went to ride In a rig hired by
Coyne. Then, lt Is said, they had
a falling out. not at Indian Or
chard, the place for which they
started, but In the woods between
White .Mills and Hawley. One In
formant who does not care to be
quoted by name says there was a
row as to which man should hold
the ribbons and that words were fol
lowed by blows. At any rate, Coyne
got a black eye and one of his
shins was put to the bad so that
he couldn't walk without a whole
lot of pain. The man with Coyne,
according to one of the assailant's
friends, was afraid Coyne might cut
him with a knife he drew.
Coyne went to Attorney McCarty
and told his story. He admitted to
the lawyer that he had been drink
lug a bit the day of the ride that
led to a fight In the woods. Mr.
McCarty had Dr. McConvlll see
Coyne at the Commercial hotel and
the lawyer; the doctor and Landlord
Weaver all tried to keep the Scran
ton man in bed. He did stay abed
part of Friday. Then Mr McCarty
told him the hospital In Carbondale
was the best place and he went
there.
MR. MILLER IS INSTALLED.
New Lutheran Pastor Now Fairly
.Started In Honesdnle Pastorate.
With the Impressive ceremony of
the Lutheran church, Rev. Christian
C. Miller Sunday was Installed pas
tor of St. John's Evangelical Lu
theran church in the presence of a
large congregation.
The act of installation was per
formed by Rev. J. O. Schlenker,
pastor of Grace Lutheran church,
Hazelton, who preached an eloquent
sermon. Pastor Schlenker came to
Honesdale as the representative of
Rev. E. T. Horn, D. D., LL. D.,
president of the mlnisterium of
Pennsylvania and adjacent states.
Tho church was beautifully dec
orated with cut flowers and potted
plants. The choir of 20 voices ren
dered several appropriate anthems
in a pleasing manner.
Wednesday evening the societies
of the church will tender a recoption
to Mr. Miller and his family, to which
the members of the congregation,
together with their friends, are cor
dially invited.
Tho glasscutters held a very
successful picnic at Bellevuo park
Saturday.
Public Meeting
Hears Hones
dale Lawyers
Talk About Ad
vantages and
ons
of the Greater
Borough Co.
Supt. on Condi
tion of Schools
The Greater Honesdale Board of
Trade held Its first public meeting
Friday night In town hall. The
attendance of local business men
was not quite so large as the offi
cers had hoped, but Interest in the
Board is growing, In a quiet way,
and the men already members aro
sanguine that more names will go
on the roll when, fairly organized
and under way, the organization
really commences to do things.
President Charles J. Smith was
In the chair. Vice-president F. W.
Kreltner sat across the table from
him. Edwin B. Callaway, the sec
retary, was on tho other hand of the
president and took the official notes
and wrote for his paper at the same
time. Bye and bye he Is to get a
salary for the Job of secretary, but
his pay Is to be determined by the
bylaws and the bylaws committee,
of which District Attorney M. E.
Simons is at the head, didn't report
Friday night. Neither did nny other
committee save the one that Presi
dent Smith, in a moment of happy
inspiration, styled "the committee
on Greater Honesdale." By the
time this committee had been heard
from It was 9.30 and the man In
the chair, who believes long-winded
sessions do more harm than good,
put other reports over until the
next meeting. The Interest of this
meeting, however, did not flag at
any time; and only one man went
out before adjournment. He was
one of the Greater Honesdale com
mittee and, having done his talking
first, he was excused to keep a date
with a client at 9 o'clock.
After Secretary Callaway had
read the report of the first meeting
a fortnight before the meeting
that elected the officers and pitched
upon the name "Greater Honesdale
Board of Trade" as most feasible
the president said that Borough
Solicitor Charles A. McCarty would
say a word about Greater Hones
dale. The Tulk of .Mr. McCarty.
Mr. McCarty occupied 20 min
utes or thereabouts and he did not
confine himself absolutely to the
legal steps that would have to be
taken to make tho borough bigger,
though that was the staple of his
talk. He referred to the fact that
a borough is a pretty old proposi
tion, for there were boroughs In
England almost as far back as the
English language started. Iu this
state, he said, the law of 1S51 pro
vided that outlying townships might
petition tho court of quarter ses
sions to annex them to a borough,
but that law provided that no
purely farming territory should be
so annexed, for a borough Is sup
posed to be a thickly settled com
munity. By the net of 1903 the
burgess and town council were em
powered to take In a township or
part of n township and the amend
ment of 1907 provided that a ma
jority of freeholders In the town
ship must petition the borough
fathers to bo taken In, nnd after
that an ordinance can be passed
to take them In.
Coming to the advantages that
accrue to tho man liviug in a bor
ough over tho man who Is out in
tho township, Mr. McCarty said
that "a man certainly feels better
when ho lives in a borough." Peo
ple are attracted by tho Idea of liv
ing In a bigger and more modern
place. Commercially, too, the bor
ough form of government Is an as
set. Moro business must come to a
placo that offers the advantages ot
walks, lights, water, modern school
buildings and all the like ot that.
;At this point tho borough soli
citor dug Into his pocket for a long
newspaper clipping that told about
a meeting In Texas No. 4 on March
5, 1904, when that township de
bated at considerable length the
Idea of asking to bo taken into tho
borough ot Honesdale and wound
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