The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1880-07-22


RUNNER, where the deed took place,
and amid q hail of shot and bullets
reached the cover of friendly wood
at a distance of perhaps q little more
than one hundred rods from the house.
He found on taking an inventory of
the situation that he had received
seven wounds: on the right leg, one
in the great toe, one through the calf
of his leg in diagonal direction,
buckshot in the cap of the knee, and
one through the inside of the thigh
bone, making four hits on the
right leg, On the left leg at place
Just opposite the thigh wound in the
right leg, was also a wound, another
on the left knee, and u buckshot in
his thumb making up The seven. The
buckshot in his right knee he dug out
with a jacl1knife, the other shots all
made clean holes. The shot in the
right knee causing him the most
trouble. While the right thigh shot
made his leg rather stiff by reason of
the cord of the leg growing fast to the
wound.
Ali day Saturday and Sunday, and
until the afternoon of Monday he laid
in the woods in full view of the hotel
and house where the fracas took place.
He saw Sheriff Oyster drive past with
his black ponies on Monday afternoon
being at the time about 80 rods away,
back of Mr.. Bateman's house He
also saw Constable Horton, Geo.
Woodward, and the Rhines' boys
firing from the porch of the hotel
into an old log IN the stream opposite.
Digging 4 hole in the ground he caught
water to put on his wounds, cutting
up his shirt for bandages with his
ackknife, he stayed in about the same
spot all the time. At this place he
left his knife which he sorely missed
in his later wanderings, needing it
lAany times to cut sticks for his fire
and for many other uses for which
a knife is needed Monday afternoon,
crippled and suffering as he was, he
made his way in nOrtherly direction
along the st. Mary's road into Benzin-
ger township, not knowing where
he was until he stumbled on the Ben
Finger mines near the Borough of
st. Mary's, walking along until he
came to the round house Just east OF
st. Mary's, he overheard men in con
versation in relation to himself.
These men were discussing his proba-
bic whereabouts and wondering wheth-
er he would ever be taken alive or not
not needing that the man passing
them was the very persol of whom
they spoke. Along the railroad track
he made his way to II bakery near the
depot where he bought half dozen
loaves of rye bread and two or three
yards of bologna sausage. His gun he
hid in the woods below st. Mary's,
and after laying in his stoc'; OF pro-
nlace where his run was hid without
beng recognized by any one although
thp rack .WolI;ar pyeI him yarv 81
made his way 9lOnr the railro9d tracl,
am, thron miles on Of thn town end
nprhnns thiotv rods distant from
ihc fr6cl, Innrorisinr n Lnt of brnsh
nnchnrpj arDinst friendiv lo, close
hv y r,nnin" stream hn n1aia his
Mace hi. abode for Gour or Ave dnvs
His liunhs wore n,uch svnIled hv tIis
time. and very stiff; il bcinm with ex-
trene ditiiculJv hn could n9ovn at ,li
He ripned onen his nants and tinG
them With s,ri,ios ia niInw for tha
GREAT swelling which had to,.en nInne
0winr to his Iaviny taken cnlI frnrn
eynosnre 4 rnin lad SET in ON Man
dav afternoon after which the weoIhnr
turned Old. Every nj Inf dnrjnT his
STAY at thi. place he bnilt a ire Reinu
well supplied with matches. He had
no appetite to speak of and
might as well have been without
provisions for all the benefit he de
rived from having them. Travelinw
day and night as fast as his wounds
would preulit he arrived at Emporium
after tVo or three DAYS, going through
the streets OF tnat sleepv town one
afternoon in broad dayliGht with his
gun siung carelessIv acroS, his shoul-
der. Up Portage creek, three miles
above Shippen, he made a shnntv
OF brush and passed about a
week in the woods at that point,
bathing his wounds with cold
water almost constantly.
Crossing Heating Summit he came
to the other Portage creek which em-
ties into the Allegheny river, where he
made halt of II week or ten days
Meeting an old friend in whom he re-
posed confidence, and being withal
SO completely worn ont he placed him
self under this friend care The
friend begging Him at the time of his
departure to stay longer, and that he
would lug provisions to him all sum
mer. On leaving he gave the Win
chester rifle into the hands of this
friend with directions to forward it tc
a. j. RUNNER Caledonia. Mvking
his way cautiously under cover of the
shades OF night he jourueyed on
slowly in the direction OF Olean, rest
ing the first day below Eldred, and
the next between Weston's anc
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