The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1881-01-06

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ing Judge Lynch" made his first ap-
pearance Ia Pennsylvania in one of the
most peaceful. law abiding cOmmunltIe,
within its borders. Joseph Snyder, aged
about - years, near Sautees Mills,
went to board with a family named
Gogle. They had three children, the
eldest a handsome girl about ID, who
looked much older, and Snyder made
| violent love TO her, But he was a
drinking man, aud the girl and her pa
rents did not like him.
Several times recently Snyder tried to
enter the girls bed chamber, and the
Gogles would have driven him of. but
he owed two months board, and they
we're very poor. They censured hun
for his conduct, however, and often had
sharp words with hin about It. Yes
terday they had a bitter quarrel, and he
was told hat he must pay his board
aud leave when he got his money at the
end OF the month. Two girls came to
visit the GJgles yesterday and stayed
all night. Snyder came IN after they
had retired, and in the night he crept
TO the room Of Mr. Gogle with an axe
aud smashed anu battered the heads OF
the man and his wife as they slept.
The wife's mead was nearly severed
from her body by a terrible blow on the
throat. The bloody axe was found
wrapped in the bed clothes.
The murderer was Attn ed In his shirt
alone, and with that and his hands
dripping with the blood of his victims
he crept to the girls room. She had d
companion sleeping with her, and as
soon as be touched the bed they awoke
and ran, screaming, from the room.
Snyder followed and drove them and
the other children into an upper room
and locked the door. Through a stove
pipe hole the girls saw him burn his
shirt in a room below. Then he dress
ed and let them out and took them to the
room where their murdered parents lay,
saying that burglars, had done this, and
he was going to alarm the nelghbors.
While the neighbors were gathering
Snyder disappeared.
BY I o'clock officers had arrived, and
under the direction Of Detective Yohe
the country was secured to find Snyder.
Every footprint was followed, and at
last fohe, searching through the straw
in Captain Ritter's barn, caught Sny
der by the leg. The latter made no re-
~Sistance, but the officer had to cling to
him to keep him from the excited crowd
of neighbors. The murderer was taken
to the house of Gogle and guarded 10y
the detective IN the room where the
dead bodies lay. There Rev Mr.. Bren
die, Of Bethlehem. asked Snyder: Did
you do this dreadful thing ?" He an
swered: Yes, | did" When asked
why, he said, lightly: All, that is the
question-why p
The Coroner then left the room with
the jury to go TO a up stairs, and
as soou as he was gone the crowd of
neighbors entered and the detective was
hustled out of the way; a rope was
thrown over Snyder's neck, and he was
dragged and pushed to the door. The
clergyman implored the lynchers to
pause, and said to Snyder: They will
make short work with you. De you
want to say a prayer ?' He replied:
No; | want to be hung. | never said
but one prayer, and that is enough"
Snyder fell down the front steps as he
was led from the house, aud they drag
ged him on his back to a tree. Detec-
tive Yohe here fought his way to his
side and said: Il can't save you. Sny-
der" He replied, coolly: "Oh, that's
all right" A double clothes line was
put around his neck in a moose and the
end over a chestnut tree. Then they
swung him up. The rope slipped down
the limb, and he fell to the ground.
Men then mounted the tree and passed
the rope over, and they swung him
again. He showed no fear, and never
asked for mercy. The rope was made
fast to a fence on the other side of the
road, and he was allowed to hang for
half an hour, When the Coroner came
down from holding the inquest the man
was hanging to the tree. When Dis
trict Attorney Anstett arrived the body
lay at the foot of the tree. No intor-
nation could be obtained as to the iden-
tlty of the lynchers, and DO arrests have
been made.
The evidence of snyder guilt is con-
elusive. Marks Of his bloody hands
were on the counterpart of the girls
bed, on her night clothes and on her
person. The girls saw him burn his
bloody shirt, and he not only confessed
to Rev. Mr.. Brendle, but also to a re-
porter, to whom he said: Il don't
want to get away. Let them take me
out and shoot or hang me- The peo-
pie did not make much noise when the
hanging was done. 1t was a matter of
quiet determination. They said: Law
yers shall not get this devil off, as they
did Laros, on the ground of insanity"