The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1880-10-08

MARY u>RrLEls ; REMARKABLE STORY.

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The regular term of the Snyder county
court was held last week and the county
scat underwent a high state of excite
mcut occasioncd by the trial Of the par
! ties accused of the the murder Of John
! kiuillcr and his wife ON the night of
| the Sth Of December. 1877. near Trox.
| ,illc. that county. In the summer of
1873 Emanuel Ettingor. Jonathan Moy-
or, riah Meyer and Israel Erb were ar
IL >tcd and imprisoned upon the sworn
statement of Mary Hartley, as having
| been implicated in the foul deed. On
the 10th Of December of the same year
! they were arraigucd in court and plead
eel not guilty. and demanded separate
| trials. Whervupon the commonwealth
elected to place on trial Israel Erb for
| the killing of John Kiutzler, the com
monwealth dccming it ircXpcdient TO
/ place the prisoner on trial for the murder
If both This plan was carried ont SO
! that in case there should bc an acquittal
hc could be held for the other. and after
Il weeks thorough trial the jury after be-
iug out few hours. rendered n verdict
OF .'Not guilty. The court held that
Mary llar.lcy upon whom the common
wealth relied chiefly. was an accomplice,
aud her testimony was not corrohorated
in "a material point. The District Attor
ncy rIrn entered nollr proSrquis in the
other eases.
DETECTIVES WORK.
The matter rested in this way until the
winter Of 1879, when the commissioners
Of the county employed Mr.. Lyons, de
tcctirc from Reading to ferret out the
guilty parties He first made his appear
aucc ut Adam,burg, and to throw the
people off their guard and to ascertain
all the facts possible in the case he went
under the glllSc of an ore spcculator. in
tending TO erect furnaces and the like,
| and in this way gained much informa-
| ton rclatin"to the murder, which ena-
hlcd him to fin the crime upon those sup
posed to hr implicated
Emanuel Ettirgcr, the chief of the
gaug-now upon tlial-in company with
Mary Hartley, was traced by the detect
i've from that county into the mountains
near Bcllctonte, from there into Ohio
and thence into Michigan, where they
were captured on the 25th of May of
this year. Whilst he was bringing the
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