The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1873-04-18

a WEsTA1ORELAND TRAGEDY Terrible
I0n9Rdt1on Of F0nlIy Feud-One MdH
'Hed and Another BeGte1, Nearly to Death. -
Another murder TO swell the list of crime
1t is Westmoreland county that this time
ADDS her quota TO the most heinous crime in
Ihe calendar. This murder, too, is peculiar
~ atroclous-a family feud, revived by the
demon drink, in which an old man sixty
years of age is shot by his son-in-law. The
affair occurred ut Penn Station, on the Pa
H. H., early on Sunday morning. 1t seems
from all that we could learn that coal mi
ner, named BeVeridge, who lives at Turtle
creek, repaired on Saturday evening, ac-
colnpaned by a Son-in-iaw named Gibson
and his wife, to pay a visit to another SON
ln-law named Adamson, residing at Penn
station, with the Intention of spending sun
DAY with them. AdamsCn is employed IN
The w eStmoreland Coal Company 5 mines
The party in good time arrived al his house,
where II was the intention to have a general
Jolhhcation, as on Saturday all parties had
received their monthly wages. Liquor OF
course was brought into requisitiOn and the
moving bowl was quaffed and passed from
hp to lip, till perhaps the entire party got
merry and then boisterous. At this stage of
the proceedings old family teud was re-
NlNed and the maudlin sentimcntalltIes just
passed turned into maudlin raVing and ours
inG-madness brought on by liquor and by
III nred on TO greater fervor. This quarrel
hild progressed some time when blows com
1ncnced to be exchanged. This had gone on
Dut d snort tlme when AdamSOn, II Is alleged,
drew revolver and fired at his tather-in-
law, the old man Beveridge. The shot took
effect in the shoulder, but 1t did not appear
10 much affect him physically, but rather
inspired him with brutal courage, and he re-
marked that he could stand that work all
day Adamson then again levellcd his pis-
tol, his wife throwing up his arm and ell
deaYorlng TO hold him and thus stop him
from again firing at her father, bnt in this
she was unsuccessful, for her finger was
caught under the hammer of the weapon and
she was compelled from pain 10 let 60 her
hold. Her husband, being thus released,
once more levelled his pistol at Beveridge
and fired, the ball passing directly through
the breast into his heart, killing him instant
ly. While this terrible affray was in pro-
gress the other inmates of the house, also
Ircnzied with liquor, were holding a high
carnival of crime among themselves. Glib
son, the sOn-in-law who had started ont with
Bcveridgc on this terrible expedition, was
so terribly beaten that his life is despaircG
Of He is also charged with being concerned
in the murder of Beveridge. The killing of
the old man seemed to terminate the fight
ut once, for az soon "a he dropped to the floor
the perpetrator of the terrible crime tried to
make good his escape, but in this attempt he
was fUiled. lie WAS arrested and placed in
the GreensburG jail for trial. Gibson is still
at Penn Station, where he lies in danger
GUS condition. He Is receiving medical care
hut is under arrest as an acCOmpliCe to the
murder. Bevrridgc'S remains were taken
to Turtle Greek iur interment.-PutSb;T
Gazette.