Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1861-01-05

Sf(istellanrous.
THE mouRsy,LLs MURDER.



Death bed Confession Of one If the Murder.
ers. and arrest of his Accompiice.
We bad o startling report from Po,tsville /
yesterdsy, that David llunbert had died iu |
Schuylkill county on Thursday, oDd on his /
death. bed confessed that be aud samuel He'll. ,
ner, OF the came county. were the murderers !
Of Adslne Ba'or, near Mubrstlc in this !
comfy, on the Ith Of Octuber, 1857, the par. |
ticplurs Of which bloody deed are still fresh
in the recollection Of our readers According
to Humberts confession, be held The youug
end innocent victim, while hpilner inflicted
the awtnl wounds from which she died. He'll !
ner was on the faith OF this testimony, arrrs
ted, yesterday morning, and lodged in Jail at
Fottsville, to await requisiton from the
authorities Of Berks county
IL will be remembered that Heilner has
been twice before arrested on suspicion OF
being connected in some way with the murder
of Miss Bavor. The first arrest was mude
on the 18th of November, Z, on oath msde
before Alderman Mengel, by Peter Fisher,
snd he was brought here COR examination
FISHER, i, appears, mode complaint, because
Heilper in part answered to the d, scripiiun
OF the man who was seen following the eirl Oh
the DAY the murder was committed. Hpllnpr
bad told Fisher that he hnd been in ,hl.
county for nine days, during which time the
Fair was held. Mr.. kantnpr Of Windsor
Castle, had seen Heiluer early one morning
at pump aud was requested by iielIner not
to say that be was there. All the witnesses
said be was not the man who bad followed
Adslne, but it was also proved that he wore
light clothes about the time Of the murder.
The evidence against him was entirely crcum.
stautia, and although some suspicious cir.
cumstsnces appeared, they were not consider
ed sufficient to warrant his detention He
was accordingly discharged November 2lst.
On March 29th, 1853 some boys pursuing
rabbit, found in hollow tree where the
murder was committed. q white linen shirt
and coarse Gotten undershirt, cut aud par.
tinliy saturated with blood One Of the gar.
ments was traced to the person who made
it, and finally TO Samuel Heilner, who had
been arrested examined aud discharged four
months before. Another warrant was issued
and on April l4th, he was re arrested. Da.
vid Humbert the man who has just died. was
subsequently arrested aud detained as O
witness, and man was also lodged 10 Jail,
under the impression that he was q person
named Tom Williams, who was also suspec.
ted. 1t appears that about two weeks before
the murder. Heilner, Humber and Williams,
in company. stopped at Stutzmaus house
near Hamburg. A week after, Hener and
HumbeIt left for Philadelphia, the latter
leaving the shir. at the house to be washed.
a day or two after Williams left taking with
him the shirt. The Stutznan family attempt.
ed to identify tho shirt By the buttons, and by
nole ourned by segar in the bosom
subsequently however, Ohm Rspp. 90 elderly
man, swore positively that the shirts we're his
snd that the blood run from a place in bis
arm where be had been bled. lie did not
wish to send the articles to the wash. and had
placed them in the tree where they we're
i
positively and identified the masliu shirt BY
the gussets and by the sewinS, the latter
being partly done by person who sews With
the right hand and partly by one who sews
with the left. nj RS. DR.. Winters, who assis-
ted in the bleeding, identified the undershirt
as belonging to Rapp. In the face OF this
testimony, there was no ground for holding
the suspected parties. and, on the Goth Of
April, they were discharged
Ii the report we now have from Pottsville
be true. the old adogs that murder will out"
"a about to be verified in remarkable man.
ner.
G. The above. from the Reading Gazette,
is since pronounced untrue.
A MOTHER WANTEp.-Some unknown per.
son LETT Baby on the step of the Industrial
School 1t bad cried until it was horse before
IT was heard by one the boys inmate of the
Home) 1t was taken in-warmed, fed and
clothed and DOW waits for some hind hearted
lady to take it to her fostering care. None
need apply unless they belong to some ortho.
dox church aud have means to supply its
future wants.
The above advertisement appears 10 the
columns OF Cleveland paper. The idea that
it would be improper for the Industrial
School to place au urcbin that needs food,
raiment aud shelter, in the care Of any perron
unless they belong to an ortodoX church."
does not seem we'll calculated to foster q
catholic spirit which would gladly welcome
the aid OF oil, irrespective of theological dog.
mas, who would unite 10 doing the Fathers
work We suppose that liberal" provender
IS as healthy for babies as orthodox" food
one digests perhaps as well as the other. If
we were 10 that youngsters place, we wouldn't
care whether we got Unitarian or Trinitarian
potatoes, whether our bread aud milk was
Calvanstc or Parkeristic, whether our shoes
were made with liberal or evangelical pegs
only so the Potatoes were sound, the bread
and milk palatabls, and tha shoes o eomforta,
bic "6t."
How 1T wAs MASAGED-We bear that on
Christmas day Major Anderson dned for.
Dally with the secession authorities chiefs |
in Charleston, and was duly carried back !
TO Fort Moultre by early moonlight, appa-
rentiy very much overcome by the good
things driCkabls set before hin. Those 10 |
charge Of the steamer posted in the channel |
to watch his movements in the fort. therefore /
thongbt it would be safe for them to relax /
their vigilance and themselves take Chris /
mas night frolc, and in the midst OF which !
Anderson and his force spiked Mouptrie's /
gons and landed safely in Fort Sumter. The |
apparent intoxication Of A uderson was but
'elnt to have the very effect it did have.
sB- special dispatch from Washington .
10 the New York EreniHg Post, dated on
Monday last. states that Sir. Lincoln has .
offered Places in his Cabinet to Alexander II. /
btephens, OF Georgia and Rohert f. Scott