Daily globe., 1879-09-30
THE PENNSYLVANIA POLICY.
Hosc Ono Politician Pounded Another to
Death IN the Quaker City-An Offset to the
Yas0O Plan.

H0sc Ono Politician Pounded Another to
Death IN the Quaker City-An Offset to the
Yas0O Plan.
4 IPhiledelphia Special, Sept. AL
| Intense excitement was occasioned on the
street and in political circles to-day by the
report that George Truman, son of an old
| Quaker, DR.. William Truman, and we'll
known politician, who had been reported
suffering from the effects of q fall on the
street, was really mortally ill from the re-
suit of fight in which another we'll known
politician was the assailant. Truman had
served in the army, and was backed for the
postmastership six years ago by the strongest
recommendations ever given any man in
this city. He was soon after appointed
deputy collector of the port, and when the
| office was abolished was nominated for clerk
of the quarter session to succeed Represen-
tative Henry H. Bingham, elected to Con-
gress, the Office being worth about $1O,O 900 a
year for three years. On Thursday last the
affair occurred, but not until it was known
that he was dying was anything done. There
was game of cards, in the course of which
Truman turned over the cards of Colonel
A. A. Shissler, Northumberland coun-
ty politician, and clerk in the
naval Office for some years, and accnsed
him of cheating, at the same time calling
him our. The quarrel was made up, how
ever, and the party went to supper at Tru-
mans invitation, during which there was a
dispute over another matter, and the. old
affair was brought up, Shissler asking Tru-
man to withdraw the epithet he had used.
Peace was again restored and the party sep
arated at the door of the saloon, Truman and
Shissler going in the same direction. There
was scutfle almost at once, and Truman
fell and Shissler ran away. The friends re-
Truman said he had no complaint to make,
and did not want Shissler arrested. He was
taken home, and nothing more was made
public until to-day, when Shissler was ar
rested and held for preliminary hearing.
He told the story of the afray, and said that
Truman hitOhin first. DIR. Pancoast was
put on the stand and said that Truman was
badly hit about the head and shoulders,
and it looked as if done by blackjack.
He also had compound
dislocation of the ankle joint, the worst in
jury that he could have, the bone being SO
smashed that nothing could be done with it.
The bone protruded from the flesh and the
end was amputated, the doctor saying that
the leg ought to be cut off, but declining to
do it if it was possible to save it. To-day at
the hearing DR.. Pancoast said that the man
might possibly live until morning, but could
not survive much longer. Shissler con-
Quoted his own case, and cross s-examined the
witness. When asked if he had anything to
say, he made final effort by asking for the
arrest of Truman on the charge of assault
and battery as having struck the first blow.
OF course this was refused, and he was COM
mitted without bail. As he went out of the
dock he said: "He was my best friend, and
had been for years. God knows that no
punishment that the law can inflict will be
heavier than that suffer-" 1t was plain
that both parties were flushed with wine,
and that Shissler had no idea of the terrible
injuries that he had inflicted while striking
and kicking fallen man.