The Bedford gazette. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1805-current, 1856-08-01
To the Rev. DR.. -, Massachusetts,.
Another Murder in Hollidaysburg.

Our community was thrown into painful ex-
ctement on Sunday morning. By an occurrence
of the night previous, the like of which never
took place in our town before. The particu-
lars, which have CLEANED fIom several eye
witnesses, are as follows On Saturday night,
between the hours Of 0 and / O'Clock, McGee,
late merchant of this place, Dr. Mckee, and
Daniel J. Nef, Attorney at law, went into
Dannals' Restaurant, and seated themselves at
the table, portion Of which was afterwards
occupied bv Daniel x. Ramey Biai. Geo. Ray
mond, David Hewitt and others. Several others
Joined Nph's party, and after eating, McGee'S
party went to The bar room. AT the door Nc
Gee met Hewitt and demanded Of him bill of
eighty seven and half cents. The demand
was not made abruptly enough TO insult Mr..
Hewitt, and he Immediately drew his wallet and
rendered McGee, a $500 bill, whereupon the
latter went out TO the bar to get change. In
his absence, some conversation took place or the
propriety Of dunning a man in public restau
rant, when Hewitt started ont after his change.
He was followed by Major Raymond and sew
eral others, and some wranoling enSued, when
Maj. Leet, torthe purpose OF paCIfYing the par
ties, handed Mr.. Hewitt the change, which he
took from his own pocket. MIR. Hewitt then
returned toward the dining roam, and il was
thought the difficulty was settled. II appears,
however. that when Hewitt reached the room
door, RAYMOND declared that it was an insult to
dun man tor money in company. Hewitt re-
marked in iockular manner that it was "rather
rough" but should be overlooked. Raymond
declared that it should not be overlooked-that
hlcGee had nsulted him (Raymond) by presen-
ting bill, but that when he had made out his
sill, he had brought McGee ont $500 in debt,
and he meant to have the money. He contin-
ued asserting that it was id insult and
should be resented. This reused Hewitt and
both started TO where Niece, Netf and others
were standing, when RAYMOND rolled up his
sleeves, and said he was ''in for two chances"
When he came near McGee, Neif warded his
approach off with his arm, when Raymond star
ted for the door. In the meantime Hewitt
caught McGee by the coat collar and shook him.
NeiI interftred and told himto let Niece alone
as he was weakly man. Hewitt then re
leased his hold on McGee, and struck Nef
when the latter drew from his pocket a clasp
dirk knife, and warned Hewitt not to come at
him again. Hewitt advanced toward him a
second time, while Daniel X. Reamy endeav-
ored to hold him back, and when near enough,
Netf advanced a step and stabbed Hewitt in the
left side. Immediately afterwards Nef walked
to the front door, and Hewitt went into the d.
ming room, where he discovered that he was
stabbed. From thence he went TO the office Of
DR.. lands, who attempted 10 probe the wound,
but falling TO do so, he dressed it, and Hewitt
went home. Towards morning internal hem
orrhage ensued, and he vomited great quanti-
ties OF blood. During all day on Sunday he
kept sinking until 10 O'Clock at night when he
died.
A post moriem examination was held by Drs
Landis, Irwin and Conrad on Monday morning
1t was found tha, the knife penetrated between
the fifth and sixth ribs, midway between the
spine and sternum, and passed through the low
erfeft Lobe of the lungs into tie transverse
colon Nothing bot MIR. Hewlt's powerful con-
sthution prevented immediate death.
Coroner James Funk summoned the follow
ing jury, viz John Cox, J. II. Bell, Henry
Leamer, William Mcfarland, iona Derno, s.
w Rhodes, Joseph Smith, Hugh McNeal, j.
Berry, B. NJ. Johnston and Daniel Bolinger,