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VOLUME XXI.
WAYNESBORO, PA.. THURSDAY. SEPTEMBER 1<5. 1897.
NUMBi'Ji-: 4H
Charged With Conspiracy to Blacken John Wanamaker's Name.
STILL ANOTHER BIG SENSATION
Reeder and TMkln Forced Out of Hastings* Cabinet—David Martin Appointed Secretary—Reeder, Representative Welas and Others Arrested
and Held In Ball—A Startling Story.
(From Our Own Correspondent)
Harrisburg, Sept. 14.—The predicted
overturning; at Harrisburg has come.
General Frank Reeder, secretary of the
commonwealth, has been forced to resign by the governor since my last letter appeared. The governor asked tor
his resignation. Deputy Attorney General Elkin, Republican state chairman,
has also resigned under pressure. In
both instances were these gentlemen
compelled to get out of office because of
their connection with the notorious
$20,000 indemnity bond.
Ur. David Martin, of Philadelphia,
the widely known political leader of
that city, and the man who Senator
Quay bates and dreads most, was on
Saturday last appointed secretary of
the commonwealth, while Colonel Wilbur F. Reeder, the governor's law partner In Bellefonte, was appointed deputy attorney general ln place of State
Chairman 'Elkin. There will be a number of other changes as a result of this
upheaval. Deputy Secretary of the
Commonwealth Colonel J. F. Barnett
wffl also walk the plank. A number
at minor officials will be compelled 'to
|. retire. It la possible that Banking
Commissioner Gilkeson may be retired.
The governor Is determined, apparently, to get rid of everybody who has in
any way been Identified with any of the
crookedness which Is alleged to have
been going on ln Harrisburg;
ATTACKING DAVID MARTIN.
AU of the Quay newspapers throughout the state, as a result of his appointment, have commenced a systematic and virulent attack on Secretary
Martin. He has been painted tn the
blackest colors by these partisans,
but thia is to be expected. It is a part
of the general policy of the machine.
David Martin is today one of the most
experienced men in public life. He has
been a leader ever since he became a
voter. He has filled high offices of honor and trust with integrity and fidelity.
He has been sergeant-at-arms of the
house of representatives of Pennsylvania, sergeant-at-arms of the house
of representatives at "Washington, col-
leetor of the port of Philadelphia and
the recognized leader of the Republican
party tn Philadelphia for years. His
knowledge of men is co-extensive with
the state. He Is a close and skilled student of human nature and a business
man In the highest sense of the term.
He neither drinks nor gambles, and his
private Ufe Is absolutely stainless. This
is the chat after of the man who has
been chosen to succeed Mr. Reeder.
GENERAL REEDER ARRESTED.
Political sensations have been crowding thick and fast since my last let-
was written. A sensation which is not
second to the exposure of the notorious
$20,000 Indemnifying bond was created
on Saturday last when General Frank
Reeder, ex-secretary of the commonwealth, was arrested charged with conspiracy, together with Webster C.
Weiss, member of the legislature from
Northampton county, and Maurice C.
Luckenbaeh. The three men were
charged with conspiracy "to bribe" and
"to defame and blacken the reputation
of John Wanamaker." Later ln the day
J. N. Tffliard, a detective, was also arrested as a party to the alleged conspiracy. The complete story of this alleged conspiracy is one of the most notorious ever revealed In the politics of
Pennsylvania. It is .the outgrowth of
the Penrose-Wanamaker senatorial
contest this year. The story of the conspiracy, as told ln the Philadelphia
Press, involves Senator Quay's name,
according to an alleged statement of
the star witness ln the case. The publication tn The Press Is as follows:
STORY OF THE CONSPIRACY.
The story of the conspiracy and offer
to bribe, as alleged In the informations,
dates back to the latter part of November, 1896, the clew to the whole
matter having been discovered through
a oircumstance startling in Itself, but
not at first supposed to have any connection with political affairs.
The people of Northampton county
particularly, and those of the entire
slate region as well, wUl readily reca'l
the sensation that was caused at the
time above referred to hy the sudden
disappearance of one of the best known
and most highly respected slate operators in that section. This man, whose
name need not now be mentioned, since
he has made affidavit to the facts in
the case and will appear as a witness
In due time, was the manager and controlling spirit of two large slate companies in Northampton county, and
was looked upon as one of the foremost
slate men ln the United States.
At the time of his disappearance he
was about to dispose of a vast extent
of slate territory to an English syndicate, and the whole slate fraternity
were anxiously awaiting the development of his scheme, aa it promised
great prosperity to that section of the
country, .when suddenly he disappeared, leaving no trace of his whereabouts,
nor communicating his Intentions to
any of his particular friends.
No possible reason could be assigned
for this action on his part, and although his disappearance brought to
light many of his business affairs that
had not heretofore been generally understood, and certain liabilities of the
two companies came to the surface, yet
the moat rigid examination on the part
of the officials of the companies showed
that the manager was in no wise
criminally Involved. Any number of
capitalists would have stood ready to
back him ln any of his enterprises, so
thoroughly did he enjoy their confidence, and the only reason that could
be assigned for his disappearance was
that he was temporarily deranged.
A STRANGE COINCIDENCE.
About this time, also, E. Al Van Valkenburg was arrested at Harrisbutg,
taken from the scene of the senatorial
contest and given a hearing at Pottsville, on the charge of conspiring with
£test{ve by the name of Tilliard to
bribe "webfft^r C. Weiss to vote for
John WanamaRsL (or the office of United States senator. ItVs^alleged, even
then, that Tilliard had bee-Q employed
by the Quay people to undertake te
trap Van Valkenburg, and, tn connection with the disappearance of the slate ,
operator referred to, it began to be
Whispered about h. Northampton coun-.
tr that this same Tilliard had been seen
up here, in consultation with the man
who had sines disappeared.
This coincidence, whether real or Imaginary, recalled to the mind of a win
known banker of Pen Argyl a conversation whioh he had witb the missing
slate operator shortly before his disappearance, which, ln the absence of
later feats, had really made him think
Um abate man's mt-4 wm wanOaatac,
but, in the light of later Information,
seemed to indicate that politics might
have played no smalt part.in the dis-'
appearance of his former friend and
fellow citizen.
QUAY AND REEDER.
The story told by this banker, who Is
also to be a witness in this connection,
was that the slate operator had Invited
him to a private conference, and that
in this conference he used the following
language: "I have a dirty Uttle political Job on hand which Quay and Reeder f
have asked me to do." The banker
said he then showed him a letter, pur-.
porting to have been written by Mr.
Quay to General Reeder, outlining a
plot to manufacture certain evidence
against Mr. Wanamaker, using Representative Weiss as a tool In that connection.
The banker also said that the slate
man displayed letters and telegrams
from General Reeder inviting him to a
conference and asking him to assist in
a plot ln which he should pose aB a
Wanamaker man, as his doing so
would arouse no suspicion, he said, because he had been postmaster at Ban-
•gor under Mr. Wanamaker's administration, and had assisted Frank Willing Leach when he was Mr. Quay's
lieutenant several times in the county.
DETAILS OF THE PLOT.
Further details of the plot, as the
slate man is said to have related them
to his banker friend, were that in response to a telegram from General
Reeder, he had visited Easton, where
after considerable sparring an arrangement was perfected between General
Reeder, Morris Luckenbaeh of Bethlehem, Webster C. Weiss and himself,
whereby he, the slate man, was to go
to the Wanamaker people and represent that for a consideration Mr. Weiss
would vote for Mr. Wanamaker. A
written agreement to that effect was to
be executed by Mr. Weiss and delivered
to Senator Quay, who, with the document in his possession, would persen-
ally de nd of Mr. Wanamaker that
he withdraw from the contest.
The banker also said that he was told
that while the money had not been secured from Uie Wanamaker people,
that that in no degree interfered with
the scheme, for the money had been
supplied by others, and that there was
at that time a man in Bangor with
$2,000 to carry out the proposition; that
lhe, the slate man, had been ordered to
deposit this money in a Bethlehem
bank; but, if the Pen Argyl banker desired the deposit, he could have it. This*
offer was respectfUUy but firmly refused.
When the above story came to the
ears of the friends of Wanamaker's
candidacy they were naturally particularly anxious to confirm it. Presently they discovered that the missing
slate man had told the same story to a
member of the borough councU of Bangor, and also his own brother-in-law,
who was then and is now a justice of
fhe peace in the same town. This man
claims that the slate operator had communicated to him every move he made
In the alleged plot.
MADE COPIES OF LETTERS.
The brother-in-law, after the slate
operator had disappeared, knowing of
the telegrams and letters which had
passed between him and General Reeder, and judging them to be of a character as would ruin the future political
aspirations of the sender- were they divulged, Is said to have gathered them
all up, placed them in a sealed envelCMC
and personally returned them to General Reeder. but, being a shrewd po 1-
tician, and knowing that with those
letters in his possession, he had the
leader of the Republican party at his
mercy, before returning the letters, In
the presence of two witnesses, he maCe
copies of the same, and carefully retained them.
Further confirmation of the brother-
in-law's statements concerning the
slate operator's correspondence was secured from his former chief clerk aid
stenographer, and then It was decided
that a further search should be made
for the missing man himself. It was
thought by the friends of Mr. Wanamaker that the man had disappeared
through fear of arrest for his connection with the alleged plot, but they determined to find him if possible and
get htm to tell his story in court.
Being a slate man, and having been
engaged in that business all his life,
and all his hopes and ambitions being
In that direction, those who were looking for him naturally supposed that he
would go Into a slate country. This
theory was corroborated by the fact
that the information was received that
he had bought a ticket for Denver. The
clew was followed out, and every
means known to modern detective
agencies were employed to locate the
missing man. Carson City was visited
at the time of the prize fight; the slate
operations of the west, and California
and Utah, were also visited, but to no
avail.
Finally, however. It was proved that
the search had been prosecuted In the
right direction. The missing man was
located a short time ago in San Francisco, living and working under an assumed name. It was the work of a
clever man to open the eyes of the fugitive to the fact that It was for no harm
that he was wanted back east, but the
clever man's work met with the desired
result. The prominent slate operator
who ~o mysteriously disappeared In
November last has now come back
from the Paclfie to the Atlantic coast;
his statement has been officially taken
down and sworn to. It Is claimed that
it not only confirms the stories told by
the Pen Argyl banker, the Bangor borough councilman and the brother-in-
law justice of the peace, but that it
contains many additional damaging details.
On this nian's affidavit and on the
corroborative statements of nearly a
dozen witnesses, then, the above informations are based, the warrants
lave been issued and the arrests made.
Borne ef the matter thus secured wfll
be reproduced In the testimony of the
witnesses at the trial of Mr. Van Val-
kenberg at Pottsville next week. The
returned alate operator will be one of
these witnesses, and then when the
trial of Messrs. Reeder, Luckenbaeh
and Weiss comes up, the same man
and the corroborators of his story are
said to be determined to come into
court again fully prepared to tell all
they know concerning the alleged conspiracy to injure Mr. Wanamaker and
his friends.
It transpired gere tonight that the
slate operator above referred to as having personal knowledge of the alleged
conspiracy Is William A. Winsboro,
who disappeared last winter. He was
formerly one of General'Reeder's trusted followers, and he it Is who is expected to be the star witness both in
the Vain Valkenberg trial at Pottsville
next week and at the Reeder-Welss-
Luckenbach trial when it comes up.
This is the story in part as it will
be told at the trial. Witnesses, letters
and other evidence wiU be produced to
fix this political crime where it belongs.
Senator Quay and all the high Officers
ef tbe state will be subpoenaed to teU
what they know abont it. John Wanamaker, __, A. Van Valkenbfent and
ethers have been the innocent victims
of a great conspiracy. The people be-
bind this conspiracy are the machine
leaders ef the state. What do tke
people think of thamt
practical Test.
Doth Pedro, the lest emperor of Brazil, was a man tof a practical turn of
mind, as the following story told of
him by a Spanish newspaper well illustrates:
1*8 ence gave, an .audience to a youi:g
cugiuetr who came to show him a new
appliance for stopping railway engines.
The emperor was pleased with the idea,
but wished to put it to a practical test.
"Day after tomorrow," said be,
"have your engine ready. We will have
it < oupled to my saloon carriage and
start. When going at full speed, I will
give the signal to stop, and then we
f'uv.ll see how your invention works."
At the appointed time all waa in
readiness". "She emperor entered his carriage, the" young inventor mounted hia
engine, and on they sped for several
miles as fast as they could ga There
came no signal, and the engineer began
to fear that the emperor had fallen
asleep. Suddenly the engine came to a
sharp curve around the edge of a cliff,
when, to hia horror, on the track directly ahead of them the engineer saw a
huge bowlder.
He had just sufficient presence of
mind to tarn the crank of bis brake and
; uil the engine up witbin a couple of
yarda of the fatal block.
Here the emperor put hia head out of
his car window and demanded to know
the cause of the sudden stoppage. The
engineer pointed to the rock, and, much
to bis surprise, Dom Pedro began to
laugh.
"Push it to on side and go on," be
said calmly.
lhe engineer obeyed, and, kicking
the stoi.t, was still farther astonished
to ete it crumble into dust before him.
• It was nothing more or less than a
block of starch which the emperor had
had made and placed on the rails the
night before.—Harper's Round Table.
A Sweet Revenge.
It is claimed that this story originated
in Cleveland, a claim whieb may very
well be true, because Cleveland, and
•specially the east end, has more precocious children to the acre than Boston could boast of in her palmiest days.
This particular precocious infant lives
on a pretty cross street in that favored
locality. Not long ago she was troubled
witb an annoying and persistent toothache. Finally her mamma took her to a
dentist, and the dentist interviewed tbe
troublesome tooth.
After examining it he told her that
the best thing to do under the circumstances was to have tbe tooth extracted,
aa it contained a very large cavity, and
this was the seat of the trouble.
Bracing herself firmly in the chair,
she bade him go ahead and remove the
acber. After the operation was over sbe
carefully wrapped the tooth in paper
and declared she would take it home.
Next day her mamma noticed that
she was an unusually gocd girl, and,
upon looking around, located ber in a
window reat industriousl;- poking sugar
into the cavity of the extracted tooth.
Her mother demanded the cause of this
strange proceeding.
"Why," she said, "I'm poking sugar
in the old thing just to see it ache."—
Cleveland Plain Dealer.
The Clever Landlady.
"You've got a very nice looking landlady," said Bilkins to bis friend Jil-
kins, who lived in diggings, "but sbe
looks a sharper,'' he added in awhisper.
"Yes, you are right," replied Bilkins, with the smile of a man who had
long ago discovered tbe fact "It wants
some one enter than me to get over that
woman."
'' You den't say so."
" Yes, wben I first came here a strong
suspicion grew ou me that tbe landlady
helped herself rat be r freely to the victuals wbich I brought in for my own
consumption. I would stop her little
game, I thought. So accordingly one
day I brought home a chop and a pound
of new potatoes. Having counted them
and finding tbat tbere were ten in all,
I handed them over to be cooked. When
the meal was ready and tbe covers had
been removed, I strained my neck to
see the result of my little ruse, when"—
"You found nearly half of them
gone, I suppose?"
"No, nothing of the sort. They were
mashed."—Pearson's Weekly.
ON THE RIGHT TRACK.
Watchman M. J. Bear, of the P.
& B. R. R. In Harrisbiug-
Has a Novel Experience.
Long before Watchman M. J. Bear accepted his present position at the railroad
crossing at the corner of Tenth and Hemlock streets, Harrisburg, Pa., he had finished his apprenticeship as a railroad
man, for he began at eleven years of age
to carry water for the railroad, and has
since served in the capacity of flagman,
brakeman, fireman, engineer, conductor
and yardmaster. In his present occupation, often as he walked up and down
the net-work of trucks in the yard, often
as he watched the brakeman turn over
a switch and some engine which threatened to telescope a train glided gracefully
out of the way of danger, he often wished he could get as easily on tho right
track himself to cure his aching back.
Perhaps the reader may have just aa
anxiously longed for this valuable'information. Read how Mr. Bear proceeded
and the same results Will follow. "White;
sitting in the cab of my engine some years
ago in the depot in Beading, 1 was stricken with paralysis in the left side. I got
over it in time, but could not stand the
jarring and jolting of the engine, aud
accepted another position; but kidney complaint, which sometimes annoyed me before the trouble mentioned, became a very
common thing. Accompanying it tbere
was a urinary weakness particularly annoying at night. I spent a great deal of
money trying to cure myself, but was
unsuccessful In my effort . Doan's Kidney Pills were brought to my notice, and
I procured a box from Forney & Kuouse's
drug store, on Market street, I continued the treatment until I obtained results which I never expected. I ean sleep
without being disturbed a number of times
during the night I never have the lameness hi the morning, though formerly ii
was impossible to get out of bed, and 1
have not had a touch ef the pain in my
back since I took this preparation. I
have more confidence in Doan's Kidney
Pills than in any remedy I know of, and I
speak from experience?
Doan's Kidney PUIs, for sale by all
dealers. Price^ 60 cents. Mailed by
. oster-Milburn Oo.i Buffalo, N. Y., sole
agents for the D. 8. Remember the name
—Doan's—and take no substitute.
8TANDARD TIME.
A Wonderful Operation.
"I suppose I performed the greatest
surgical operation of the age," remarked
the youngest doctor in tbe crowd that
had been swapping experiences. "I was
taking a run through British Columbia
on my bicycle wben I was asked to attend a young Indian whose stomach
had been pierced by a rival's knife. I
had no surgical appliances, bnt I fixed
up the cut so that tbe fellow was
around the next day and is strong and
healthy now."
"How did you do itf" asked all in a
breath.
"Well, the Indians had slaughtered a
beef that day. I picked out a nice, thin
piece of tripe, tied a string to it, covered it with tire cement, shoved it
through the wound and pulled it into
place jnst as if I were mending a puncture in my tire. It was the greatest"—
But the crowd had melted away.—
San Francisco Post
rhe Four Sections Into Which the Conn-
try b Divided.
Primarily, for the convenience of the
railroads, a standard of time was established by mutual agreement in 1883, by
which trains are run and local time regulated. According to this system, the
United States, extending from 65 to 125
degrees west longitude, is divided into
four time sections, each of 16 degrees of
longitude, exactly equivalent to one
hour. Tbe first (pastern) section includes all territory between the Atlantic
coast and an irregular line drawn from
Detroit to Charleston, the latter being its most southern point The second (central) section includes all the
territory between the last named line
and an irregular line from Bismarck to
the mouth of the Rio Grande.
Tbe third (mountain) section includes
all territory between the last named
liue and nearly the western borders if
Idaho, Utah and Arizona. The fourth
(Pacific) section covers the rest of the
country to tbe Pacific coast Standard
time is uniform inside each of these sections, and tbe time of each section differs from tbat next to it by exactly one
hour. Thus at 12 noon in New York
city (eastern time) the time at Chicago
(central time) ia II a. m.; at Denver
(mountain time), 10 a. m., and at San
Francisco (Pacific time), 9 o'clock a. m.
Standard time ia 16 minntes slower
at Boston than true local time, 4 minutes slower at New York, 8 minutes
faster at Washington, 19 minutes faster
at Charleston, 28 minutes slower at Detroit, 18 minutes faster at Kansas City,
10 minutes slower at Chicago, 1 minute
faster at St. Louis, 28 minutes faster at
Salt Lake City and 10 minutes faster at
San Francisco.—Atlanta Constitution.
JONES' STRATEGY.
What Made Him Mad.
"Hamlet, my bonny Prince," said
Garrick, encountering tbe melancholy
Dane on tbe staircase of the Stygian
Academy of Music, "tell me, were you
mad or were you not?"
"Not until I saw you play me,
David," replied Hamlet "I waa crazy
over it for several days. But I have for-'
given yon."—Harper's Bazar.
Before and After Death.
We usually believe in- immortality so
far as to avoid preparation far death
and in mortality so far as to avoid preparation for anything after death. —Buskin.
Fashionable young  ladies in Japan
when they desire to look very attractive
-1 their ling.
Much in Little
Is especially true of Hood's Fills, for no medicine ever contained so great curative power m
so small space.  They are a whole medicine
Hood's
Pills
chest, always ready, always efficient, always satisfactory; prevent a cold
er fever, cure all liver Ola,
sick headache, jaundice, constipation, ete.
filiate take with Bead's
use.
He Got   Hia New Snit at Half Price by •
Gre: t Scheme.
Jones' new suit fits beautifully, but
he was §10 sh'y on the price. He deeded
the suit badly, but his tailor was decidedly disinclined to part witb it till
it was paid for. After lying awake all
night revolving in his mind various
schemes old and new to get possession
of the coveted attho Jones evolved a
brilliant idea. He put on a high collar
two sizes too large for him, went to his
tailcr and tried on the coat again. Of
course it did not fit around the collar
and would have to be let out The next
day be put on a collar a half size too
small and tried it on again. The collar
of the coat bulged out in the back as if
it had been constructed for tbe neok of
a pugilist.
"I can't wear that thing," declared
Jones.  "It does not fit at all."
"No, it does not seem to," admitted
tbe tailor.
"You've tinkered with it now till
you have nearly ruined it I guess I
don't want it"
"Well, 1*11 tell you wbat I'll do,"
proposed the tailor, who did not want
a misfit left on bis banda "I'll knock
off $5 on the price."
"Don't want a suit that don't fit,"
declared Jones.
"Well, I'll make it $10."
"Make it $12.60 and I'll take it"
"All right but I lose money on it at
that"
Jones paid another tailor $1 to have
the collar altered, paid for hia snit and
had $1.60 with wbioh to "wet it "—San
Francisco Post
Servants In Japan.
Servants are very cheap and very good
in Japan. The foreign housewife has
nothing to do, and she lives like a queen.
The Japanese cooks are far better than
most American cooks, and $20 a month
will pay the board and salaries of the
help of an eight room house. A certain
foreign resident in Tokyo who lives as
well as a millionaire Would in the
United States pays his cook $5 a month.
His butler gets $2.60, and bis gardener
and second girl get about the same.
These servants all board themselves, and
the cook does the marketing. Tbe house
rent costs less than $20 a month, and a
coachman could be had at $5 a month
more. There is no trouble in getting
good servants, and they watch after
tbeir employer's interests and see tbat
be is cheated by none other than themselves.—Exchange.
JUDGE AND JURY.
Tbe balance mt the Criminal   rimes —
Tbe Civil ■"roeeeH In it*.
The jury found tbat William J. Ci aracn
was guilty of intent to commit r.ipe on
his daughter and with assault and battery.
By request of counsel* for the defense Use
jury waa polled.
After the jury io the Cramer case 1 ad
retired tbe case of Com. vs. "Len." t'.ili
mer and Simon Monn, burning a ham,
oath of Samnel Rock, was called. 1 tie
defendants were cllarge 1 with burning the
barn of Daniel Snowberger near this
pliicc Aug. 31,1890.
Alir. Bari.e-i testifirdlli.it (aim rhid
met him the afternoon preceding lhe ti.*—
btruciion of tbe bam aud ask him (Barni--)
if hu would not help him barn dowu Dun.
Snowberger's barn. Barnes iefn wl and
Ca!liner replied tliil he had frcq l.iuliy
threatened to barn the baru aud il bad
to be done that night; be would get Solly
Monn if Barnes would not help. In May
following he met Caiimer who said:
"Snowberger did right in blaming Caiimer
and Monn for setting the barn on lir<;"
that they had obtained the matches trom
Woodrlng. Barns said tint he knew
nothing of the tire until next day. Some
tiate af erwnrd, he could uot te.l when,
he informed Constable Kock wbat Caiimer had told hie..
The defense epileavorCd to show thai
Barnes told Bock of Ibe conversation
with Caiimer after Cadmer's brother
Thomas hud sued Barnes aud his uncle
for fighting ard !hat he gave this information out of revenge.
Constable Bock lestili. d that he- arrested Caiimer, who said: "it; dun is just as
deep in this as I am."
B. F. Weyant corroborated Rock in his
testimony, Weyant having accompanied
Rock and Caiimer to Waynesboro.
George Woodring said Caiimer aud
Monn came to his house the night cf the
fire, a little after eight o'clock and aski d
for matches. He threw them sjine
matches aud they started toward Uie
public road.
condition of the grain hauled Into the THE   WONDERS   OF SCIENCE'
barn.   Ju«'ge Stewart  would not  admit 	
hia evidence unless the defense   would I>nug Troubles  and  Consumption  Oan
prove as a scientific fact that  wet grain be Cured.
, would cause comhu. lion in a barn.   The
defense was not ready to piove tbis fact
, at the time.
Sbockey said Abr. Barnes charged Caiimer with "urging on" a suit brought
against him by William Caiimer amd that
Barnes threatened to "g«'i even' with
"Len."
Jonas Woodring said be heard the alarm
of lire ahi in. 8:30 o'clock, lie w»a at
| Harry Browu's.and left tbe house before
Brown. He saw two men pass the gate.
Brown was not at the gate wben Ihty
passed. Only lhe two men passed. He
could nol recognize the men. lie denied
I h.-il he told ('unstable Rock he believed
tiiey were ealimer and Monn Under
croas-i'x.uniiiat on Woodring developed a
fnuliy memory and said he did not know
how niatiy men pas ed t te gale.
Au effort was made hy the defense to
show that Abr. Barne.-.' aud James Barnes'
reputation for truthfulness was bad. Constable Jobn Rodgers said Abr. Barnes'
reputation was bad. C. W. Shockey, Jobn
Shockey and S. H* Brown said the reputation of both the Barnes was had. John
Patterson said some people sai 1 Abr.
Barnes' reputation was bad Be knew
nothing as to James.
Samuel Brown beiug recalled s.iid he
saw ibe fire at 8:50 o'clock, wheu he was
at Blue Rock Chapel, 2| miles away.
Constable Samuel Kock, recalled, said
.Iona< Woodriug told him tbe n.en be saw
passing Brown's gate were the same men
••e saw before and after Ibe tire and these
parties he recognized as Caiimer and
Monn.
D. Y. Snowberger sa d his farm bell
was tbe first to ring, ah mt 9 o'clock.
After lengthy end eloquent addresses to
the jury by counsel and a comprehensive
review of tbe evidence by Judge Stewart
tbe jury retired at 11 o'clock Thursday
morning. Iu three quarters of an hour
tbe jury returned a verdict that Caiimer
and Monn were guilty of firing Snow-
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James Barnes saw Caiimer run past bis   '
house accompanied   by   another  man
few moments before he saw the fire
Harry Brown testified that two men be
identified as Caiimer and Monn passed
his place about 8:30 o'clock the night of
the fire. They were running away from
the fire. He identified them by their hais
and general appearance.
Mrs. Elizabeth Brown testified that she
lived a half mile from SnowbergeiV she
saw Caiimer and Mocn pass through her
yard after dark the nigbl ofthe fire. Thev
were going toward George Woodring's.
They were intoxicated.
Jobn Patterson said be saw Caiimer
and Monn the night of the fire 276 steps
from Snowberger's after the baru was on
fire.   They were going from lhe fire.
Mrs. Maggie Snowberger affirmed She
said she beard Caiimer swear, in a crowd,
he would "burn him up—D*n. Snowberger."   She was sitting on   her  porch  as
The case of Com. vs. H. Clay Wolfe,
murder and manslaughter, oath of H. B.
Garlinger, was then called. David Filkill
was shot while tiying to escape from
Officer Wolfe in Mercersburg May 29,
last, and died May 30.
The defendant  was arraigned, lhe in
diet ment read to him by Clei k Minick,
Ids plea of not guilty entered, and tbe
lengthy work of impaneling a jury was
began.
After consuming much time in selecting
the jury the) at last succeeded in getting
the twelve, aad after being sworn the case
was o ened for the commonwealth by Mr.
Bender, wbo said a verdict of murder in
the first degree would not be asked for.
Mr. Bender outlined the evidence to be
produced. The nigbt of May 29 last,
David Filkill, a colored man, was with
some otber men in an alley in Mercersburg, sober and quiet.   One man struck
Calmer with a crowd  passed  along   the j anoluet *lth a wblP and ib* m«-<> laughed
roacl. oyer the occurence.   Constable Wolfe ar-
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Miss Maggie Caiimer swore she heard
Caiimer and Moun, about 8.30 o'clock the
the night of the fire, talki g. The men
were close to ber home and she was in
her bedroom. She heard Calmer say he
saw Dan Snowberger "go in to feed and
saw his old gray head catch fire."
D. Y. Snowberger saw Caiimer and
Monn come to the fixe near IS o'clock.
Tbe defense in opening its side  of ' the
case said it would prove that the men au
cused were not in  the  neighborhood of
tbe fire when it was started.
Solomon Monn swore he was at Mrs.
Lavinu Kurtz's the earl} part of tbe evening. Caiimer had previously joined . im
and they weut to Monn's father's house,
where Monn ate his supper and then the
two went to George Woodring's, where
tbey got matches. Then they went lo
the spring for whiskey. They got the
matches to make a light by which thei
could see to fill a pint bottle from the jug
tbey bad at lhe spring. T.ieu they went
to Mrs. Kurtz's about 8:30, aud remained
there unUl after 9 o'clock. Tbey went
then to the spring to meet some girls.
They started for the fire later, reaching
there about 11 o'clock. He was not at
Snowberger's early in the eveniug and
did not set fire to the barn nor did Caiimer.
"Len" Caiimer swore to bis where
abouts the eyening of the fire, telling the
same story as Monn. He was not at
Snowberger's house until about 11 o'clock
he said, and did not set fire to the barn.
He was not tn that vicinity that evening
He was not with Abr. Barnes that day and
did not ask him to go with him to burn
the barn; nor did he tell Barnes in May
that he and Monn had fired the barn. He
had heard several weeks before he was
arrested that a warrant was out for him
and Monn. Barnes told him six or eight
times that he had better get away as there
was a warrant out for him. He did not
go away as he had done nothing wrong.
Barnes became angry at him in June wheu
his brother had Barnes arrested. He contradicted Mrs. Snowberger's statement
that he threatened to burn the barn. He
never bore spite against Snowberger.
Calimer's memory proved very defective
under severe cross-examination as to his
actions on other days than that of the
fire.
Mrs. Lavina Kurtz said Caiimer aud
Monn had been at her house at 7:30;
left, then returned at 8:30 and left soon
after 9:80, Abont 9:45 she heard tbe
Snowberger bell ring the fire alarm and
saw tbe flames at the barn. She also developed a defective memcry when questioned as to other days. She enjoyed
talking and was only stopped with difficulty from telling a great part of her family history. Sbe is a sister to Caiimer.
Laura Krntz, a daughter of Lavina,
told substantially the same story as her
mother. She heard the fire bell shortly
before ten o'clock.
Susie Krutz was sick In bed the night of
the fire but told the same story as ber
mother and sister.
Jacob and Ida Monn, father and sister
of Solomon, said Caiimer and Monn were
at their borne from candle light nntil from
five to fifteen minutes after eight.
John Shockey, who helped Mr. Snowberger harvest, was interrogated as to the
! rested Filkill although he had not used the
whip, and started to take him to the lockup. Filkill wanted a hearing. He was
joined by his brother James in front of
'Squire Slick's c fflce and tbe three
walked a quarter of a square beyond
Slick's oflice. There they stopped and
James wanted to take David home. Fil
kill still insisted on a hearing. Wolfe
called to James to let go David's arm and
pulleel a revolver. James stepped between tke men aud David started to run.
Wolfe tired several shots at Oavid, one of
which bit him in the small of the back.
David died next evening.
The first witness called in the Mercers
burg homicide case Thursday afternoon
was Dr R V. Varden. 1. e attended Fil-
kill. The bullet struck Filkill in tbe left
Dart of the small of the back and passed
nearly through lhe body, just missing tbe
kidneys and passing through the abdomen,
stomach and liver. Filkill was stooping
when shot. Wolfe was at least five feet
from Filkill when he shot st him.
Coroner L. F. Suesserott described the
autopsy. He gave testimony similar
to that of Dr. Varden. He said Filkill
must have been some distance from Wolfe
as, if he had been close, the ball from tbe
revolver would bave gone entirely through
his body.
James FilkilI, brother of the dead man
testified substantially as follows: The
nigbt of May 29, near 12 o'clock, he saw
II. C. Wolfe and his brother in Steiger's
alley, between Boyd Bros' hardware store
and the postoffice. Seyeral men were
there beside the officer and Filkill. He
saw the officer have hold of David's right
arm with his left hand. As he stepped up
Clay sttuck D.ivicl oa the head with hia
mace. David pushed Clay away and tried
to shield his face with his arm. Clay then
struck him twice over the knuckles.
"I told him to stop hitting him, seeing
he was excited. He said, 'Ton stand
back.' I walked out of the alley and
Wolfe came out of the alley having hold
of David's right arm. They walked toward the diamond and went to 'Squire
Slick's office. A crowd went along. I
was one of them. The crowd wu the
length of the court room from David. I
caught up to hist at Squire Slick's office.
David pulled back and asked the officer if
he was not going to give him a hearing.
Wolfe said, 'Jnst yon come on.' David
asked eeveral times for a hearing. We
went an eighth of a square further. David
stopped there and said, 'Clay, don't lock
me up; I haven't done anything 1" Clay
said, 'Just you come on 1" I was standing on the other side of David. I had
hold of David's left arm.   I told Wolfe he
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had no right to lock bim up. Clay said,
You let go T twice. I did not do so
Clay then stepped back and drew his
pistol. I let go David's arm and stepped
between the men. City said, 'Standback!'
several times, called 'help' twice and stepped forward, raised his revolver and
pointed it close past my breast toward
David's breast. I raised my hand under
bis revover arm. I was not scared, because I knew be was nol shooting at me—
he was shooting a! my brother. He then
fired and I felt the heat of the shot.
David was standing there at tbat time.
Wolfe shot quickly again.
"Then David stepped into the gutter
and fell forward. He was in a leaning position until he reached the middle of the
street and turned aud ran towards tbe dia
mond. He was not quite straightened up
yet when Clay left me standing on the
pavement and stepped into the gutter,
maybe ten feet from him. One or two
more shots were fired by Wolfe toward
David. Wben the last shot was fired Da
vid was 20 yarda from Wolfe. I next saw
David on Fayette street. He fell toward
me. I laid him down, opened his clothing
and saw the wound. Some one brought a
blanket and we carried him to my house.
He. died at 6.45 p- m. next day. David's
conduct May 29 was good. I did not tell
Kuhn or Hummelbaugh to smell David's
breath and they would know the cause of
i his Whiskey did it aH.' I did not Bay
he was shot in Stelget's alley; they were
tussling and I tried to separate them.
Robert Stoner testified that be saw David Filkill acd other men in Steiger's alley
tbe night of May 29. "Clay, Wolfe, David
Filkill and Edward Butler were ia the
alley wheu I first went in. Butler had a
whip and was bitting David witb it. David laughed and said, 'Please don't hit me
with that whip!'Wolfe grabbed hold of
David and told him to come with him.
David said he wasn't fighting and grabbed
bold of Clay on the chest. Wolfe said,
'Letgo of me!' Dayid did not listen.
Wolfe still bad hold of -David and struck
bim over the head and knuckles with his
mace.
His testimony aa to after events corroborated James Filkill, except as to the position of tbe parties during the shooting.
James was standing with his back to the
Brownson house, Wolfe near the gutter
and David was between them. Wolfe
■-hot the first shot toward James, who
threw up Wolfe's arm. Then Wolfe fired
three shots in quick succession. No one
attempted to do anything to Wolfe. When
I he last sbot was fired David was run-
niug across the street cat-a-cornercd aud
as nearer the curb on the opposite side
ot the street Clay was facing David when
be fired the shot. Clay said the witness
next day that the Filkills did not hit him.
Witness was only four feet from Wolfe
when he shot.
Samuel Burhanon and Adam Stoner
were on the witness stand Thursday evening. Both told stories similar in nearly
every respect to those of the two preceding witness. Stoner described the shooting thw: When they stopped at Brown
son's coruei and after Wolfe had told
James to stand back and had pulled out
his revolyer James had his back to the
Brownson house, Wolfe was nearest lhe
gutter and Dayid was between the two.
When Wolfe was about to shoot James
ran between the men After several shots
had been fired David ran around James
and Wolfe aad started across the street.
Wolfe stepped in the gutter and fired a
third shot at David who was leaning over
and about ten feet from Wolfe. Tben
David ran down the street and Wolfe
fired two more shots, the last when David
was about twenty yards away.
Simon Bailey was the fifth witness
called* His testimony was like all the
rest.
George Grove, the first white witness
called, lives on the corner opposite the
Brownson house. He was awakened by
leud talking. He recognized tbe voices
of Wolfe and David. He heard shots.
He conld not see who the men were or
tell which one fired the shots. After a
second shot was fired he saw M man run-
iug across tbe street and one standing in
the gutter. The third shot was then fired.
Five shots were fired in all. The next
morning he saw Wolfe. Wolfe said the
Filkills had not laid hands on him. Tbey
had caught hold of his mace and might
as well have hit him.
William Waidlich heard Wolfe say,
May 30, that neither of the Filkills had
struck bim, but had held his mace, be
(Wolfe) was attracted by a noise in the
Steiger alley and saw a man down and
another standing over him with a whip;
he brought the man out of the alley, not
with the intention of arresting him but
tbe man used bad language and refused
to go and then he determined to arrest
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him. Waidlich farther said that Stoner
hud said if Jim Filkill had not interfered
he didn't believe there would haye been
further trouble.
William Eyerbart said be saw Wolfe at
his (Everhart's) home in Dry Run, Md.,
about a month ago. He asked Everhart
if he knew the man who had the razor in
the crowd that night. Everhart said
there was no razor in tbe crowd. Wolfe
asked if he was coming to Chambersburg
Witness did not know.
Tbe defense was opened by Mr. Suesserott at 10:35 a. m. Friday. Wolfe, he
said, went into the Steiger alley to quell
a disturbance which awakened the
neighbors. He got David Filkill, the
perpetrator at the disorder, told him he
was under arrest, aud taking him to tbe
lockup when James Filkill interfered; he
told the prisoner it was too late for the
hearing asked for; at the Brownson corner they stopped and continued the argument, bad It not been for James' interference there, there would have been no
tragedy.
The contention of the defense was, he
said, tbat David met bis death as the result of tne shot aud that that sbot wet
tired during a scuffle on the pavement;
that it would have been impossible for
David to bave been hit la the left aide if
he ran away in the direction the witness
said he did; that David was not more than
six or eight ieet from Wolfe; the men
were resisting him and to scare them
away Wolfe called for help and shoots
south between the men; James threw
himself upon Wolfe's right shoulder, trying to disarm the officer, while David wee
tryiug to get the officer's mace; Wolfe's
self acting revolver was discharged in the
scuffle and David was kit and afterward
ran into the street
James Weiler was the first witness. He
was employed by a merry-go round company to keep jjrdeT'nt the horses. He
saw David Filkill at the flying horses the
night of May 29 and thought he wee under
the influence of liquor.
Oliver C. Sharar sawFilkill at tte flying
horses and at the opera house, between
11:30 and 12 o'clock at tbe latter place.
Filkill pulled a whip from a buggy on
Main street and went up the street to
Steiger's alley, witness accompanying him.
There was a fuss in the alley and David
went in. Wolfe brought him trom the
alley, haying bold of hia coat and Filkill
having hold ot the lapel of Wolfe's coat.
James Filkill was behind them. Wolfe
said, "Stay back, man!" Witness heard
the shots wben he was on the public
square. Ran up and saw some man,
followed by Robert Stoner, run down
Shatzer's alley. Stoner, belli up his hand
and said "Ob!" to witness as be entered
the alley.
Jno. W. Kuhn, surveyor, explained a
map of the place of the occurrences, wbich
he had surveyed.
Adam Steiger, who lives on the corner
of Steiger alley, said a crowd entered the
alley about 12 o clock and made a terrible
coise by loud talking. Six or eight persons were in the crowd. The noise continued ten minutes. It seemed ae If they
were getting ready to fight. He could
not have slept with that noise there.
Mrs. Rosanna Steiger coirborated the
testimony of her husband, the preceding
witneaa.
Samuel Boyd.who residea in the Steiger
building on Steiger alley, heard quite a
disturbance in the alley—men swearing,
drinking from bottles and fighting. This
lasted about fifteen minutes. He heard
some oue tell the men to leave the place
and to let go of his mace. Afterward
Officer Wolfe say: "Dave, Tut going to
arrest youi" There was then a rush as If
the crowd was hurrying from the alley.
Charles H. Fallon saw Darid Filkill
between 11 and 11:30 p. m. May 30. He
was intoxicated.
M. J. Slick, justice of the peace, waa
called to Fayette street at 11:40 a. m. May
30, to see David Filkill. James suggested
that witness smell Dayid'a breath; that he
was drunk. David made a sworn statement which was reduced to writing. He
did'not think Filkill in condition to make
an ante mortem statement. Ml. Slick
said: "Who sbot you?" He replied:
"Henry Clay Wolfe, the policeman-" In
reply to a question he said he was arrested
for drunken and disorderly conduct and
was sbot while he was trying to escape to
go home.
Edward Shafer, a young barber, was on
the porch at his home a sbort distance
south of California street about midnight.
He heard Wolfe call for "help" several
times and go away "twice." Witness did
not know whether Wolfe shot before calling for help. He heard two shots ia
quick succession and about three seconds
afterward heard two or three more. Witness said it was so dark that he could not
see persons more than three feet away.
David Humelbaugh said he heard James
Filkill say: "Come up and smell his
breath and you can tell the cause of this,"
when David had been remoyed to the
house.
Charles Kuhn saw David Filkill lying
on the ground on Fayette street. James
was with him and said: "Whiskey was tbe
cause of all this trouble."
H. Clay Wolfe, being sworn, testified,
in substance, as follows:  "I heard  contusion, a rowdy noise, when standing on
the corner of Main and Seminary streets.
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