The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1866-07-30
HORRIBLE TRAGEDY Ar CHESTNUT MILL
BRUTAL MURDER BYA DRUNKEN ROUGH
TIE ASSASSIN STILL AT LARGE,

Last evening one Of the most wanton and un-
provoked deeds OF blood that has ever dis
eraced this community, was perpetrated Oh the
outskirts of the city.
Two men, Oliver Ol1son the victim, and
Jacob Hirsch, friend, we're driving up the
Wissahickon turnpike early in the evening, the
time beng little after O'Clock.
Coming TO the toll-gate at the junction of the
Reading and Wlssahckon pixies, the carriage
halted moment, and then Olli.on, for some
lnexplicable reason, exclaimed, "DrIve ont"
Tue horse started again, the gate-keeper who
is almost as deaf as a roCk endeavorng TO de
tain hun. He did not succeed in this effort and
so the party drove on about three hundred
and nifty yards, when they again halted. The
point at which this last stop was made, was but
a Jew feet this side OF the boundary line between
the city and Montgomery county.
0llisOD and Hirsch both alighted, the former
remaining to watch tue horse, while the latter
started back towards the gate, intending to pay
the toll. Before reaching the gate ne encoun-
tered three men, and inquired if one OF them
was the gate-keeper. The reply was in the
negative, and Hirsch continued walking towards
the tollgate.
Before he had gone much further he heard a
scule, and the cry that some one was bleeding
to death. HIrsch turned about at once, and
about nifty yards from the place where had left
Olllson standing with the horse he found his
dead body
The wounded man had not oeen killed on the
instant, but was able TO stagger this Tar, as was
shown by the Zigzag course OF blood with which
the ground was sprinxleG.
He fell TO the earth near the gate of a
clearinghouse, through the open doorway OF
which he saw q light. As he fell, he cried out
Hold me,n or "save me.n The gentleman
living in The house, on running to the gate,
turned the fallen man over and found MIN to be
quite dead.
The three men whom Jacob Hirsch encoun-
tered as he was proceeding back to the toll-gate
named rpSnpptI VplV phiin Stiln ThOno IA
Pagan, and Michael Teeven. The last OF the
three, at least, was in drunken condition.
In the afternoon he had taken Stle home to
supper with him, and while at the house had
shown him large dIrkknlie, the blade of which
was six inches in leneth.
Some time during the previous winter, TeeVen
had shown this same knife to Stile, and invited
him to purchase It, When Teeven lett his house
last evening he is supposed to have carried this
knife with him, intent on mischief OF some kind.
When the three men reached the spot where
ellison stood, Teeven Dire " his dirk, aud made
lunge at him, inilicting large and deep wound
behind the ear, and severing tue carotid artery.
As TeeVen struck the blow, he cried out, do
you want any more ~ or words to that effect.
He then lett for parts unknown.
The alarm was soon given and the police
attracted to the spot. They took Stile and
Pagan INTO custody and removed the bodv OF
the murdered man TO the Station House. At an
early hour this morning, Detective Lew pro-
ceeded to Chestnut Hill ana at once instituted
proceedings which 1T is believed Will soon bring
the assassin TO bay.
This Michael Teeven is an Irishman by birth,
having drst seen the light in the county Gavin,
on the 29th OF September, 1887. He is five eet
nine inches in height, OF medium build, with a
smooth, slender, dark k-compleXion tace, and
weighs about loo pounds.
Oliver OlIison, the victim of this codblooded
deed. vas stout, heavy man, of middle age.
He Was milkman by profession, and resided at
Twelfth and Myrtle streets.
At IL o'clock Coroner Taylor viewed the
body, and DR.. Shapleigh commenced the post.
mortem examination. A Jury was impanneled
and the inquest was then adjourned until to-
morrow morning.
This was rendered necessary by the mutitu
dinous engagements OF Coroner Taylor, for whom
the warm weather and bad WHISKY together
have made enough work oil late to keep halt q
dozen ordinary men busy.