Crawfordsville Review, Crawfordsville, Montgomery County, 1 January 1898 — Page 6

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UaviiiBf purchased the Zeigler & Reiman lleptaurant. 1 desire to inform the public that I am on hand to serve them again. 1

Business men, farmers ami others will be furnished an excellent

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fresh lOvsters on hand at all times." Oakes and Creams tor weddings, parties and' festivals furnished on short notice.

Charles jEeimati.

East Hain St., west Robbins House.

Some Plain Facts.

Grave errors, injustice, wrongs of greater or less degree, arise from lack of knowledge of the truth, and more frequently from deception.

The most infamous case 6n record of deception and injustice is the attempt to demonetize silver as a money

of final redemption in the United States. There is no learned judge, skilled lawyer, or court of justice that is capable of reconciling the effort with the constitutional laws that govern the issue of money in this country.

The people have been deceived, officials in power, chosen to administer justice under the laws, have ignored their sworn duty, and given aid to the scheme that has paralyzed industry, reduced property values one-half, and beggared millions.

There is no authority of law, either specific or by inference, by which gold alone is made the only money with which to discharge debts, either public or private. The effort to make it so is unconstitutional and a national calamity.

Plain and ample information, facts, and truth, concerning this almost successful scheme to corner the wealth of the people, is now being printed in the Cincinnati Enquirer, a newspaper which the combined power of money has failed to muzzle or buy.

The Weekly Enquirer is only 75c. a ye-ir. The address is Enquirer Company. Cincinnati. O.

If You Wish Things Especially Nice

To eat let me supply the eatibles. I handle only what'B freshest an 1 most toothsome. Besides I have a number of dainties and substantial that you can't get everywhere at the low price I ask:

W.B. BERRY

The Grocer.

Corner of Washington and Pike Sts.

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THIEVES RIFLE THE POOR BOX AND KILL THE SEXTON

CRIME OF HOI.Y TRINITY CHUKCH IN NKW YORK CUV.

The Police Say That the Sexton Knew the Thieves and Tliey Killed Illin to Conceal the Crime—A lUoody Handprint.

E unanswered question in and around Shepherd, Mich., is "Who murdered Elmer E. Struble, cashier of a 8 bank?" The unsolved enigma in New York city is, "Who killed George Stelz, the assistant

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sexton of a liamsburg?" George Stelz, assistant sexton of HO' ly Trinity church, Montrode and Graham avenues, Williamsburg, New York city, was murdered Sunday night by persons who knew the church, who knew the people in the neighborhood of the church, and who knew the murdered man and his habits. In fact, as the investigation continues, it is shown that he was not murdered for the money in the poor box, but for the purpose of concealing the tracks of the men who were caught robbing these boxes. That they were desperate in concealing their tracks is borne out by the fact that after beating Stelz into insensibility they fell upon him and choked him so that the bones of his neck were broken and his- windpipe was punctured

That they knew the church is evident by their finding their way to the poor boxes in the vault under the vestibule To get to these boxes without passing through the big iron gates, which are kept constantly locked, one has to pass through winding passages that are known to only a few of the parishioners.

Blood spots on the stairways, in the vestibule and on the walls of the vestibule show plainly how and where the murder was committed. It was Stelz's cuBtom to sound the Angelus at 7 o'clock in the evening. He went to the belfry as usual on Sunday evening, leaving the center doors of the church unlocked and carrying the bunch of keys, which were afterward found lying by the side of the dead body, in his hand. The bells wefe heard tolling for flye minutes or more, then the sexton descended into the vestibule.

No more of his movements can be traced, except for the blood spots. It is supposed that he had descended to the vestibule and was preparing to lock up the church for the night, when he heard a noise in the cellar and went to investigate. Then he saw the two thieves breaking open the lower end of the poor box, which ran through from the church door.

The first spot of blood was found on the cellar floor, showing that he had been struck there. Then there were blood spots leading all the way up the stairs to the vestibule. Here there were signs of a struggle. At the height of a man's head blood was smeared on the walls. There were blood prints of a man's hand on the floor, as if the murdered man's head had struck there.

On the stairway leading to the second floor there was a pool of clotted blood, extending to the third step, and on the fourth step there were prints of two bloody hands. It was here that stelz fell unconscious. It was here that he was choked to death.

Undoubtedly there were two men concerned In the murder of the sexton. The appearance of the dead man's head shows that more than two hands dealt the blows which felled him into insensibility. Both a sharp and a blunt instrument were

There was one wound between the eyes and one at the back of the head just at the base of the skull. The wound in

STAIRWAY WHERE SEXTON WAS FOUND. front of the head was made by a sharp Instrument, while that in the back was made by a blunt instrument. If it be that the murder was done by a single person then the weapon was both blunt and sharp.

Then there were four other wounds In the back and top of the head which were not made with the same instrument. The finger marks on the man's throat would indicate that different sized fingers had crushed the bones.

Of the six money boxes in the church only one had been tampered with. This stood in the cellar directly between two big iron doors, and over the statue of an angel which guards the tomb of Father John May and Father :John Raffeiner. Within ten feet of61 this statue stands the statue of anothD" an-

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gel, and between the two flgur^, is a prayer bench. One "f these angels and the bench had used by the

thieves as a means by which they could a A V]?T| TfROM TW, A TTT climb to the box and break it open. The ®A HUM ULi A1-EL. bench was placed across the head of

the angel. Then one of the men, standing upon it, broke open the box with a chisel and took out the money that was intended for the poor. It is the opinion of the police that Stelz, after discovering the thieves in the church, started to run toward the front door, with a view of locking them in. Before he could gain the stairway one of the men dealt him a blow on the head and then as he ran up the steps he was dealt repeated blows. When he reached the vestibule he attempted to protect himself, and here he was beaten into insensibility, falling on the stairway as before described. "No murderer could be tempted to commit such a crime for so small a sum as is usually found in the poor boxes of the church," said one of the detectives. "There is never more than .560 in the six boxes all told. That murder was not committed for lust or gain it was committed to conceal a crime."

MURDER ASA TRADE.

Kangas lias Rival for the Bender Family. Not since the horrible crimes of the

GEORGE STAFFLEBACK.

without knowing what his wife had revealed, made a similar confession. They said that Galbreath, who had been murdered and robbed by the Staffleback boys and their mother, was not the only person they had murdered, but that an Italian peddler, whose name they did not know, had been killed and robbed about two years ago, and his body thrown in an old abandoned mining shaft about forty yards from the Staffleback house. At that time Mrs. Charles Wilson, mother of the Staffleback boys, kept a questionable resort in the four-room log cabin where these crimes were committed. Two girls whose names George Staffleback could not give, were living there at the time, and saw the peddler murdered.

They were threatened with dire vengeance if they should ever reveal what they saw. A few nights later one of the women quarreled with Mike Staffleback and threatened to leave the house. Fearing she would betray him he seized her by the throat and choked her to death in the presence of Ed Staffleback and the other woman. The latter attempted to save the girl from Mike's murderous clutches, when Ed crushed her skull with a six-shooter. The dead bodies were then wrapped in a sheet and put under the bed until late at night, when they were thrown into the same shaft where the peddler's body had been dumped. Then a lot of

used in the assault, ]oose earth and rocks were thrown into

the shaft to keep them from coming to the surface, as Galbreath's body had done. Cora Staffleback was taken to Galena and pointed out the shaft where the bodies were thrown. A steam pump was put to work and the water pumped out of the shafts near the Staffleback house. From one of the shafts a pair of men's drawers with particles of rotting human flesh adhering to them were fished, and a piece of a woman's waist was also found there.

Married in Hin Shirtsleeves. Henry J. Colson, of Middleboro, was married at Richmond, Ky., recently by 'Squire Armer under rather romantic circumstances, to Miss Lizzie Foster, daughter of Robert Foster, of Jolly Ridge. For some time the couple have been sweethearts, but the girl's parents were opposed to Colson's suit. Misa Foster slipped away from home, joined her lover, who was at work in a field near the railroad, and, without waiting for him to get his coat, they flagged the noon train with a handkerchief and went to Richmond, where they were made one shortly after noon. The groom, who was married in shirt sleeves and patched pants, owns a 200acre blue grass farm, and is one of the most substantial young farmers in the County.

Shouldn't Take Baths.

BY THE READY WIT OF HIS COMMON LAW WIFE.

THE STRANGE ACT OF EVELYN GRANVILLE WEBSTER.

A Conspiracy Unveiled—Evelyn Webster Tells a Most Extraordinary Story— Electric Chair Was Ready—Saved a Murderer.

VELYN Granville Webster, whose husband was the central figure of one of the most sensational murder trials of modern times Tn New York, has made a startling confession. It Is to the effect that she, aided by Webster's

friends and attorneys, concocted a conspiracy which resulted in the murderer's escaping the electric chair and his

being sentenced to nineteen years in the penitentiary, where he now is. Evelyn Granville sprang suddenly into

Bender family were revealed has south- fame about eight years ago as the most eastern Kansas been so excited and so 1 handsome woman on the Rialto. Of bent upon vengeance until the bloody butcheries committed by the Staffleback family at Galena were brought to light by the recent confession of Cora Staffleback and George Staffleback on the witness stand at Columbus. When upon trial for the murder of Frank Galbreath, whose body was found floating in an old abandoned mining shaft near the Staffleback home last July, Cora Staffleback weakened and told all she knew about the murder of Galbreath and others whom the family had killed. George Staffleback, Cora's husband,

her antecedents little was known and few questions were asked. She was the reigning beauty in her circle when in 1891 she met Burton Webster, who was then a well-known bookmaker. They took up life together, and in this chapter of her existence the woman in her confession says little of importance save that she was not in love with Webster, who had the most diabolical temper of any person she ever met. Of the day of the murder she says: "I had been ill all day and was lying

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gown when Burt came in, and at a glance I saw that he had been drinking heavily. Fanny Romaine, my nurse and companion, was with me. She knew his symptoms as well as I, and so when he poured out a glass of champagne and whisky and insisted that she drink it she did so. Had she refused Burt would probably have been electrocuted. "The woman had hardly swallowed the glass of liquid before she toppled over, dead drunk. Burt laughed, and, sitting down beside me, began to jest about the weakness of women's heads. After a while he went out. When he returned I was startled by his face. "What on earth is the trouble, Burt?" I demanded. 'I've shot that man Goodwin,' he said. 'I am going to get out of the way. Keep your mouth shut.' "I forgot my indisposition and ran as rapidly as I could to Goodwin's apart ments. I found him lying on the broken'cuspidor that afterward figured so prominently in the trial as having been thrown by Goodwin at Webster before the fatal shot was fired. As a matter of fact, it was never thrown. Goodwin broke it by falling on it. "I stooped over the wounded man and asked, 'What did he shoot you for?'

He seemed to half faint away, but still looking at me he murmured faintly, 'I meant no harm, no harm.' He couldn't say anything more and I ran out. was tremendously excited, but seemed to think with perfect clearness. I realized instinctively that Goodwin was going to die, and that I must act quick to make out a defense for Burt. Be fore. I got back to my own room I had mapped out a plan. "I fairly flew at Fanny Romalne who was still stupid from drink, shook her and beat her and Wirew water in her face and applied smelling salts to her nostrils. By means of this vigorous treatment I succeeded i» rousing her from her stupor. Then still keeping up my vigorous treatment I told her the story I afterward told on the witness stand. 'Fanny,' 1 said, 'wake up, wake up! Something terrible has happened I went out in the hall just now in my wrapper. As I passed Mr. Goodwin's

EVELYN GRANVILLE WEBSTER. (?oor he came out in his pajamas and insulted me, asking me to come into his room and blocking the way. I escaped from him and came in here and told Burt. He went out to see Goodwin, they quarreled, and Goodwin threw a cuspidor at him. Then Burt shot him. You saw it all, didn't you?' 'Fanny nodded, but still was too drunk to comprehend clearly what I had told her. I kept at her, however, and by the time the police came she had heard the story so often that she was firmly convinced that she herself had been a witness to the whole trouble. 'Oh, Fanny, Fanny,' I said, 'this is terrible. You don't know the worst, has come at the worst

A lady at Secane, Pa., being about to take a bath, removed her four diamond rings, worth $1,800, wrapped them in a piece of tissue paper and left them on the wash stand. The maid threw the .Fanny this wad into the drain. Plumbers have possible time. now been searching three days for it before because I had still hoped to them, and after they have torn out all get out of it, Fanny. I am to be a the pipes in the house they will pursue mother.' the rings into the sewer.-

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pathetic Fanny, 'that Is terrible now.* Burt had found a secure hiding place, but I and some of his friends knew where to communicate with him. Howe & Hummel were engaged to look after his interests, and soon arrangements were made for his surrender, as it was thought that the story Fanny Romalne and I told would clear him. I knew that there would be no difficulty about the baby. That could be had at any time for .money, and of money there was no lack. The only thing necessary was to put off Burt's trial long enough to have me pass through the nccassary period that must elapse before the baby could be born. This, too, was arranged, Burt's lawyers succeeded in delaying the trial seven months. When the case was finally called I was prepared. I came into the court room with a baby three weeks! old. "Where I procured the baby no one need know. I paid $100 for it, that is all, except that I learned to love it before it was taken from me. It had the hoped-for effect, I think. Burt was saved. I carried it every day into the court room, and the little thing was so good that it must have touched any-

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heart.

Since the trial I have not been able to go to communion, as I was resting under a false oath. The priest to whom confessed told me I would first have to make a public confession to right the wrong done by me. Now I have done so, and I feel as if that alone had lifted a ton off my heart." "E. GRANVILLE WEIBSTEiR."

TIrort or Mr. Crank.

William H. Crank, a lawyer of Houston, Tex., has obtained permission from Justice Beekman in the supreme court to call himself William Henry Woodruff after Sept.25. Mr. Crank is 27 years old and intends to apply for admission

LAWYER CRANK.

to the New York bar In a short time. In his petition he says that the name of Crank is exceedingly suggestive,and that its mention in business or social affairs brings him into ridicule and derision, and often requires embarrassing and humiliating explanations as to its origin and significance. He says that the name has interfered with his success, preventing people from giving serious considerations to propositions made by him, or to the recommendations of others concerning him. Mr. Crank declares that the name he now staggers under will be a serious bar to his success In the city, and says that the name is calculated to inspire contempt rather than respect or confidence.

An UnlnckT Heimel.

A curious circumstance was connected with Younghusband'B death. After the battle of Cawnpore he had purchased at auction a very smart helmet, which had been the property of Lieut. Salmond of the Gwallor cavalry, who had been killed at Cawnpore. This helmet a good deal excited my envy and admiration, and as I had not possessed a decent headdress since the mutiny began, I had asked a friend to buy it for me at the auction of Salmond's effects. But poor Younghusband outbid me. At his sale I was again outbid, and the helmet fell to the nod of Lieut. Havelock, a nephew of the general. He, too ,was killed wearing it, and rumor subsequently said a fourth officer had bought it and had been killed. It was a strange coincidence, and as these deaths occurred quickly, one after the other, I ceased to wish I had been its possessor.—"Old Memories," by Gen. Sir Hugh Gough.

Whittled Himself Crazy.

John Brown, aged 15, who was sent to the asylum at St. Joseph, Mo., the other day, whistles all the time he is awake. When the inquiry was made as to his sanity he whistled all the time and could not be stopped. When asked a question that could be answered by a shake of the head he would answer it, but otherwise he made no answer at all. The mother of the boy said he fell from her arms when he was 3 years old and his head struck the floor. That caused him to become insane, she thinks. Soon afterward he began to whistle, and has kept It up ever since. He whistles any tune he has ever heard and when his stock becomes exhausted he makes new ones. Most of those he whistles are made of a melody of music he has heard at one time or another in his life, and he appears to have remembered every one he ever heard.

Put* Up a Great Front.

R. A. Bailey, a merchant of Sherman, Texas, while riding a bicycle, collided at full tilt with a loaded two-horse wagon. The tongue of the wagon struck him squa/ely on the breast bone Mr. Bailey himself is little the worse for the encounter save for a slight soreness, but the wagon tongue was broken squarely in two. Mr. Bailey is probably the first bicycle rider on record to break a wagon tongue with his breast bone.

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but extremely good for the sufferer from that harassing disease is Dr. Ayer's Cherry Pectoral. No medicine can compare with this great remedy in the prompt and permanent aid it gives in all bronchial affections. It stops the cough, soothes the irritated throat, and induces refreshing sleep. "I had a bronchial trouble of

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sistent and stubborn character that the doctor pronounced it incurable with ordinary remedies, but recommended me to try Ayer's Cherry Pectoral. One bottle cured me."

J.C. WOODSON, P.M., Forest Hill, W. Va.

"A short time ago I was taken with a severe attack of bronchitis, and neither physicians nor ordinary remedies gave me relief. In despair of finding anything to cure me, I bought a bottle of Ayer's Cherry Pectoral. Less than one bottle entirely cured me."

GEO.<p></p>Ayer's

B. HUNTER, Altoona, Pa. .•

Cherry Pectoral

now put up in half-size bottles at half price—60 cents.

Mothers, Save the Babies.

Summer complaint, dysentery and diarrhoea carry many babies to the grave. Mothers, take warning and use in time Dr. John W. Hull's Baby Syrup to regulate the bowels anil allay inflammation. "We have used Dr. Bull's Baby Syrup for thirteen years with the best result. We would as soon be without flour or sugar in the house as this remedy. A. N. Burgess, Grove, Ohio." Ask your dealer for Dr. John W. Bull's Baby Syrup. Price 25 cts.,

SOLD BY NYE A liOOE.

It requires half a day to sing the national hymn of China.

Everybody Says So.

Cascarets Candy Cathartic, tho most wonderful medical discovery of tlio ape, pleasant and refreshing to tho tasie, act. pcntly and positively on kidneys, liver mid bowels,. cleansing the entire system, disnel rolds, cure headache, fever, liuliittial 1 obstipation and biliousness. Please buy ami try a, box of C. C. C. to-dny 10, 25. f0 cenis. iSoldand guaranteed to cure by all druggists.

It is impossible to obtain milk free from bacteria.

." Those who Endure

The pairs of rheumatism should be reminded that a cure for this disease, may be found in Hood's Sarsaparilla.r The experience of those who have taken Hood's Sarsaparilla for rheumatism, and have been completely and permanently cured, prove the power of this medicine to rout and conquer this disease. Hood's Sarsapar.lla is the one true blood purifier and it neutralizes the acid which causes the aches and pains ol! rhumatism. This is why it absolute, ly cures when liniments and other outward applications fail to give permanent relief. Be sure to get Hood's.

If you feel weak, dull and discouraged you will And a bottle of Hood's Sarsa-. parillall will do you wonderful good.

A gull can lly at the rate of 100 miles an hour.

Don't Tobacco Spit and Smoke 'lour l.lfc Away. To quit tobacco easily and forever, be magnetic. full of life, nerve and vigor, take No-Tc Bac, the wonder-worker, that makes weak men strong. All druggists, 50c or Si. Cure guaranteed. Booklet and sample free. Address Sterling Remedy Co., Chicago or New York

The CornerJewelry Store has the rep** illation of doing none but the best work Mr. Rest, just last week, overhauled the time-locks at both of the Ludoga banks Take your time piece there foi repairs if you want accurate time. tf

What do the Children Drink? Don't give them tea or coffee. Have you tried the new food drink called Grain-oY It is delicious and nourishing and takes the place ofcoll'ee. The more Grain you give the children the more health you distribute through their systems. Grain-o is made of Dure grains, ai:d when properly preparod taste like tho choice grades of coffee but costs about as much All grocers sell it lbc. and 2"jc. 11 27 4-w

The first portable clock w.is made in 1530.

Don't forget that C. L. Rost, the Co ner Jeweler, is selling silver knives, forks and spoons away below all competition and what is nicer for a Christ, mas present.

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