The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1878-04-27
Murder Will Out.

ABOUT nine years ago the little village |
of Alburtis, on the line of the East Penn
sylvania Railroad, was intensely e&cit-
ed over the disappearance of young
telegraph operator named Mckinney.
1t was known that he had considerable |
money on his person the night before he
and as he failed to carry |
away with him any of his wearing apparel
or other effects, andno cause for so sud- |
den departure appearing, it was atonce |
believed that he had been murdered, |
but the crime could not be established |
against anyone. Nor could the body |
be found. He was last seen entering
the American House, near the depot,
then kept by man named Blank. The |
house had bad reputation and there
was strong feeling against the Blanks
at the time. But proof positive was
not to be found; time wore on and Nc
Kinney was almost forgotten. He had
but one friend in the neighborhood with
whom he had been in any way intimate;
his mother lived away off in Illinois
and was too poor to put detectives to
work in the case. But the old adage
that murder will out" is proving true
in this case. There seems to have been
an eyewitness to this murder. This
witness is Lizzie Long, who was serv-
ant girl in the house at the time. She
has, after many years, given up the
secret, and her story is as follows:
Mckinney, who had lost an arm in
the rebellion, had just drawn his pen
sion, and also his monthly pay from the
railroad company, and was out on a
spree. He came to the American
House, and late at night, after all the
people had departed, was assaulted by
the proprietor of the hotel and made a
gallant defense. The one-armed man
proving too much for his antagonist a
son came to the assistance, and, though
pleading piteously for his life, McKin-
ney was brutally murdered and robbed.
The body was taken from the basement
saloon, since closed up, carried into the
barn and hid in the hay-mow. When
the smell became offensive the body
was carried some 500 yards across the
fields and thrown into an abandoned
iron mine. This mine was located on
the farm of Blanks father, and has
since been filled up, so that to-day sixty
feet of clay rest upon the body of Nc
Kinney.
This story by Lizzie Long is cor
roborated in many important particu-
lars. McKinney's hat was found in the
fields, about midway between the hotel
and the deserted shaft, three or four
days after he disappeared. Three men
have been found who give important
testimony in reference to matters about
the barn, but this, together with other
facts, the officers who are working up
this case desire suppressed for the pres
ent. The attention of the officers was
drawn to this case by a family feud,
which brought out most of the facts.
Detectives Johe, of Bethlehem, and
Chief-of-POlice Gift, of this city, are
working up the case and will probably
make an arrest in day or two, so soon
as the Commissioners give them the
proper encouragement. The woman
Long is now residing in Reading. The
Blanks claim that she will not repeat
her story. There are dozen people
at Alburtis to whom she has told the
horrible tale, and should she fail to
speak out will be arrested as an Access
sorry. There is plenty of evidence to
hold her and those she duplicates.
Should the Commissioners vote the
money search for the remains of the
murdered man will be instituted at
once.-AHentoWn (Pa.) Cor. Philadel-
phiG Times.
About fifty years ago Mr.. Isaac Blake,
brother of George Blake, Esq, now
living in Atkinson, Me-, was returning
from a trip to New Brunswick, where
he had been engaged in buying and
selling cattle and other matters, and
brought with him about 81 800, mostly
in gold. He stopped in Bangor day
or two, and then started on foot for At
kinson, stopping the first night at
tavern about nine miles north, in what
is now Glenburn, near the foot of the
Jameson Hill, so called. He was never
seen or heard from afterwards but it
was the general opinion that he was
murdered, and two persons were sus-
pected, but whether legal investiga-
ton was had it is not remembered; at
any rate, no clew was found to the per-
petrators of the crime. And so it has
remained until about the first of March,
1873, On that day man near seventy
five years old, who had lived in Milo
and about that section forty years or
more, was taken sick, and, finding that
he could live but few days longer,
called in neighbor and made a confess
sion of being concerned, with two 9TH
ers, in the murder of Mr.. Blake at
Glenburn. He mentioned also commit
ting other crimes.-Portland me. Press.