Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1867-03-30
The Late Murder i'm SchuyllxilI
County-ParticuIar Of the Tragic
Occurrence.

We take the following account of the
murder of VIM. H. Littehales, in Schuylkill
county, on Friday, 10Th inst, from the Potts
vile Miners Journal, of Saturday last
In our last we were only able in conse
quence Of the journal being on press when
the news of the murder of Mr. William Ii
Littlehaes was received here, to give briei
account of the affair. Since then we have
obtained circumstantial account of it, as
far as the facts are known to the friends ol
the deceased and to the authorities.
The murdered man was son of Mr.. Will
liam Littlehales who resides in Coal street
This Borough. AT the time of his death he
mad been for upwards of two years, Super
ntendent of the collery of the Glen Carbon
Coal Company, located at Glen Carbon, Cass
township, this County. Mr.. Littiehales
moved with his family to Glen Carbon in
he Winter of 1866, and fixed his residence
lear the coliery. The men of the colliery
we're paid monthly, usually on Saturday
nd Mr.. Littlehacs was in the habit of com.
ng into Pottsville the day before pay was
D be made, getting the money, and taking
;out. During the last few months however,
ince the perpetration of so many highway
obberies in the County, he generally took
ioney out in the cars, not when he drove
ut. This fact it is to be presumed, was
nknown 10 his assassins, and they undoubt-
lily supposed that on the day they murder
| him, he had the monthly pay for the
,lliery with him.
of last week, about o'clock, and drove
Pottsvile in a sulky. He transacted
me business in town, during which he said
of In tala ha fol,
% out with him that day, but would come
on Saturday morning in the cars, and
Ike the money out in that way. He started
out O'Clock in the afternoon, in his sulky,
return home, having in his possession a
,olver, a silver watch, very little money,
d some articles that he had purchased in
ttsville, for the colliery and for his family.
drove through Minersville and Coal
stle, on the main road to Glen Carbon.
exact time at which he was attacked, is
known, but it is supposed to have been
nut o'clock. He had reached secluded
t of the road, about half mile from his
ldence, when he was fred upon by several
n who were concealed as is supposed, at
side of the road among the bushes which
thick at that point. One bullet thought
lave been the first which struck him, and
n the size of the wound, to have been
from a carbine entered one side of his
y, severed the aorta, and passed out at
other side. This wound must have
,ed speedy death, and he must have fall
almost Immediately from his vehicle into
road. There was another wound inflicted
smaller ball, in his hip. Both of his
were shot out. This shot it is thought
he surgeons who examined the body,
fred after DEATH and that the weapon
had been held close to the head as
,was considerable powder in the side
face.
ter Mr.. Littlehales fell on the road, his
sIan with the suky into Thomastown,
was caught there. The assassins searched
body of the murdered man, and took
it the revolver and watch of which we
spoken. The revolver is Coopers
It, and is numbered 1870. The num-
the watch is 1863, and the maker is
am Reed, Liverpool, England.
out ~ o'clock, or half an hour after the
,sed hour Of the murder, DR.. j. G. Nc
lms of New Castle,--who was on his
m horseback, TO the residence of Mr..
nales to attend Mr. Littlehales' little
evi W., who had one of bis legs ampu.
below the knee two weeks before, in
iuencs OF injuries sustained by being
fsr by railroad cars, reached the spot.