The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1876-11-17

"A POLITICAL MURDER Rr.r, Cow
If.--Shortly before nine o'clock ON SnnJa,
'oi ni'g 'ast a terriDle tragedy resultino ~
~ .ne ~oeatn OF Mr.. Hugh Haney, brother of onr
of faI,neu.lady friend, Mrs. Thomas Garland.
vi Altoona, occurred at Alleahenv Eurn.ca'
on the line of the Holiidaysburp Rranch
ar i,' oto ana near the southern limits of the
hrst nained city. The difficulty which cnI
minated in this shocking murder grew ont
W Polticai discussion between the unf,r
.''a.e Victltu and a man named Isaac Lantz
the former being Democrat and the latte,
a, ,'ePuoLcan The scene of bloodshed was
me casting house of the furnace wb;,.h
Lah'z entered about The time Indicated AMI
o"iV nancy ana another Democrat named
NePpery, beside a number of other Dersons
already there, TO whom lie commenced read
ing an article from the Philadelpbia Press
winch he held in his hand i'm regard to GER
tam alleged Democratic frauds in the South
ern States, (said article also cla;nino th.
election of Hayes and remarked at its cIose
'nat men who would engage in transactions
vi that KIND were SIS of b-s" Haney
,nereupon produced a copy of the Pittsburgh
Eo""'ercadt containing speech recently de-
i'ereu by Gov. Hayes, in which that gen.
tieman deprecated the sending abroad of
kilograms calculated to deceive the people
rnu also virtually conceded the election of
Iliden This speech Haney asked Lautz to
Ieao, ont the latter paying no attention to
The request, Haney made some remark which
angered Lantz. who thereupou called Hanev
u-d llar. The latter retorted in about
me same language, when his antagonist dealt
him blow with his fist, whereupon Ken
perry 1nterfered on behalf of Haney and
struck Lanfz on the shoulder with a niece of
clnder. Meantime Haney stepped back n
snort distance, and picking up an iron bar
about four feet long, threw 1t at tanty. but
failed TO strike him. A hand to hand en-
counter promised to he the next thing i'm or
der, but by the interpositon of those present
this was prevented. Haney then turned to
leave, but had not taken more than a dozen
steps when LanfZ picked up a heavy wooden
mallet or sledge and Fastening after him
struck him on the head with the murderous
weapon Telling him to the earth, AMI, as was
subsequently ascertained, crushing in his
Skull. As soon as the terrible deed was ac-
complished Lanfzy, dropped the mall.t ahd
hastilyideparted. Haney meantime was car
rlet TO the eugine house, where he soon after
revived sufficiently to walk to his home
two hundred yards distant, but had not been
long there before his condition became much
worse, and withsianding the efforts of
Drs Christy and Walker, who were sum
moned as speedily as possible. he became
unconscious and continued to sink until
ahout six o'clock the same evening, when
death released his immortal spirit from its
earthly tenement. Meantime.the murderer
took refuge in his own house from which
however, lie attempted to escape when tn @
officers O: the law got on his track but after
Two or three commands to halt, the last of
which was accompanied by n threat to shoot
he wisely concluded to surrender and it il
we'll perhaps for his own sake that he did
for threats of lyn"hing were very freely ex-
pressed, and had il not been for the vigilance
of the officers who had him in charge, and
who lodged him in irou-ciad cell in the
Altoona lookup and eventually succeeded
III quietly removing him To safer quarters in
the H"llidayshurg Jail, his life might have
paid the forfeit even after his arrest became
SIet. he der m
who was emplCyedas engineer at the furnace,
was aged abont thrty-five years, and leaves
n wife but no children. Laniz is a carpenter
by trade ana is also n married man without
family. His age is little if any less than
that of his unfortunate victim