The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1867-06-28
CRIMES AND CASUALTIES.
AN ExTRAORDINARY BUDGEV.
A Family Bound and Robbed Of $1,000
Worth OF Bonds. Etc, - =

One OF the most DARING Outrages which has
ever oeen perpetrhted In the vicinity of Newark
occurred on Tuesday evening, at West6eld,
village some twelve miles west of Newark in
Union county. About o'clock in the evening
1OWr men entered the house OF Mr.. Jacob Miller,
an Old and very respectable resident of West.
held, and demanded his money, telling him that
they would not leave the house until their de-
iIndHs mands were compiled with One of them then
which he was bound hand and foot.
Inc four afterwards secured Mrs. Miller
young lady named Clark, who was sitting
there, and laboring man named James, who
was employed upon the premises, in the same
way. Two of them then searched the upper part
OF the house, while the other two remained
Delow with the family. The searching party soon
returned with $1,000 worth OF bonds and two
gold watches, one belonging to Mr.. Miller and
zoe other to his wife, and the desperadoes then
departed, leaving the family helplessly bound.
''SAvious to leaving however, they threatened
y1l the tettered inmates and fire the house il
made an alarm. Soon after they left, Mrs.
hler succeeded in freeing herself and then
released her companions; but fear of encoun-
tering the robbers deferred them from Civ
ing an alarm until about O'Clock the next
morning: Immediate steps we're taken to
secure, II possible, the arrest of the perpetrators
OF this hlgh-handed outrage, and Newark and
New York detectives are already at work upon
the case. reward of $500 has been offered for
the arrest of the robbers and recovery of the
bonds. The following are the numbers of the
bonds and description of the watches:-Four
elizabeth City bonds of $1,000 each, Nos. ~, so,
sloA, oOAS Two hduWSy OlJy OOnQS OF SlUUU each,
Nos. SO and 81 and one Union county bond, No.
A, of $1,000. One of the gold watches stolen
had an open face. with the initials 81 NJ, N. j."
on the inside; the other was a lady's watch,
marked on the outside ~. A. M.n-NeIo York
Tribune.
Rev. q. M. Merrill Drowned.
BURLINGTON, Vt, June H.-Rev. S. M. Mer-
J1ll, the clergyman, formerly of North Adams
and more recently from Plattsburg, N. Y, and
the party whom Troy paper accused ofelopiug
with young lady in North Adams was dro wned
IN the Saranac river, at Plattsburg, yesterday.
he was Eshmg, with two of his sons and another
person, and accidentally fell overheard. His
body has not been recovered.
A Horrible Affair at OneOnta, Ny.
ALBANY, N. Y, June 27.-About noon on
Tuesday last, in the village of Oneonta, Otsego
Beach, murdered lis mother by shooting her
brst In the head and then in tie body. He next
shot himself. the ball entering bis right eye and
passing out of the ear. When neighbors reached
the house Mrs. Beach lay upon the floor, just
breathing her last, and her son near her, the
blood oozing from his skull. He soon reused
up and began TO talk, saying that he was
drunk and mad; that he meant to kill his
mother and then destroy his own life; that on
returning home he went up stairs and got
revolver belonging to his brother, Oscar Beach,
and came down stairs and found his mother
engaged in making fle in the stove; and that
as soon as he got good opportunity he fred the
shot at her head, and the other after she fell
upon the floor, and then made the attempt upon
his own lie, and was sorry he did not succeed.
DIR. Meigs Case examined the wound of the muir
derer, and does not regard il as dangerous.
Beach was taken in charge by Constable Il, w.
Bennett, and Coroner Hendrix, of 0tsego tele-
sraphed to come and hold the proper inquest.
Coroner Hendrix arrived during the afternoon
and summoned jury, who were sworn and
proceeded to examine the case, and found
that Mre. Martha B. Beach came to her death
nv shots at the hands of Victor Beach.
The prisoner was fully committed for
murder, to await the action of the Grand Jury,
which conyenes in August. He cannot be tried
until the sitting OF the Court of Oyer and Ter
miner in October. Officer Bennett was directed
to remove him to the Jail of the county as soon
as the state of his wound and his health would
permit. 1t is proper to state that Victor Beach
is a cripple, having been accidentally shot some
years ago, the ball reaching the region OF the
spine and there remaining. He has no use of
his right hand, his right arm and leg are
withered, and his whole physical and mental
organization fearfully injured. Mrs. Beach was
a most estimable woman, and did all that a
mother could Tor the poor wretch that has taken
her life. She was about 6fty-three years of age.
werrible Fall from a Church spire.
From the Indianapolis Journal, June 26.
The chapter of horrible accidents received an
addltiOn of more than usual terror Yesterday
morning, in the fall of one OF the carpenters eu-
gaged on the cupola OF Zion's Church, on Ohio
street. Mr. Peter Wilson was engaged in raising
the frame work @ Of the the steePle. aud stepping ug
his foOthold, and in falling struck upon the root
about two-thirds of the way from the
comb, to the caves, breaking through
upon the roof of the two-story frame house
lust west and thence to the ground. The dis
lance from where he fell to the roof 6rststrucK we
should Judge TO be nearly sixty feet, and the
force with which be fell may be inferred from
the breaking of quite a large hole in the stating
and board covering, Strange to say, he was not
killed outright, but is still alIve although no
hopes are entertained of his recovery. His
lower Jaw was broken In four places, his ankle
broken badly four or i've ribs wrenched from
the spine, and the scalp shaved clean from the
skull in the spot where he struck the stating.
If the skull was broken. no displacement was
discovered MIR. Wilson was carried to his
home in an insensible condition. He Is a
Welchman of about thirty years of age, and
having been a sailor, was entirely fearless ot
distance and for that reason had been engaged
in framing the spires Of the First and Second
Churches, and then at Zion's Church.
Murder OF a Boy by Playmate.
Fron1 1se Quincy (Il.) Herald, June l5.
We heard yesterday OF an exceedingly shock
ing tragedy which occurred on Sunday last II
Marion county, Missouri, about twelve miles
west of this city.l The Iumor was that boy. mint
or ten wears of age, residing In the family OF Mr.
Albert g. johnson, shot and instantly killed {
little boy about three years of age, the grandson
of Mr.. Johnson, who was on a Visit 70 MIN VIII
his parents at the time. II seems the boys II
company with other children, we're play
ing in the barn, the boy drst alluded
10 having a pistol in his nand. The llttl'
fellow started to 60 out OF the door, wheI
the other told him he should not go, ant
threatened to shoot him u he did. The child
persisting In his intention, proceeded on hi
way, when the young demon, tor we don't know
what else to cali hlni, raised his pistol and de
iiherately fred, the ball passing through th
chilnis BRAIN and killing him instantly. Th
peTpetrator, we understand, is q strange boy