Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-03-14

LOCAL INTELLIGENCE.
THE SUDDEN DEATHS,
IN TIE EAST END FTHE COUNTY.
Conclusions of the COroners Juries.
Our Salisbury correspondent sends us
further particulars Of tho two sudden
deaths in Eastern Lancaster county, one
Oh either side Of tho Welsh mountain. of
which note was made in tho lNTELILGEN-
GER on Saturday.
1t seems that on Friday night "Gentle-
man. David Kurtz (whose dead body was
found by the roadside), accompanied by
his brother and some Of his working men
had gone to Mr.. Weilcr's store, at White
Horse, (Pequea p. o., to spend the even
ing where they remained up to about half
past eight Or nine O'Clock. When they
started for home Mr.. Elias Kurtz and the
| rest Of the party took a near way across
the fields, but David went by way Of the
road. When he reached Mr.. Mason's
hotel, he stopped few minutes to listen
|
Lancaster was playing the accordion for
tho entertainment of those present.
Mr.. kurtz appeared to bs in per-
feet health and good spirits and
as he was always of q jovial DISPOSE
ton he conversed and laughed freely with
his neighbOrs who were present. After
spending about half an hour ut the hotel
he started for home, having few small
boxes or packages under his arm. This
was tho last seen of him until he WIS
found by his brother, who had reached
home and waited up several hours Tor
David. Not putting in an appear
ancc, Elias thought there must be some-
thing wrong, and with tic assist
ance of Alex. Lynch, tho hired mar,
went in search of David, whom they found
about midway between his home and the
White Horse.
When found he had fallen. His fore
head and face were resting on the ground,
as also were his knees. The packages
which he was carrying were lying under
him, showing that he had died without a
struggle. After finding the body Elias
kept watch: and Lynch proceeded
assistance. He called Mr.. John Mason,
George G. Worst, Abram Kurtz, B. S.
Weller and several Others from their beds,
and they went for the assistance of the
physician and Deputy Coroner Henderson.
The body was conveyed to the home of
Mr.. Kurtz, and the verdict of the coroner s
jury was that apoplexy was the cause of
death. Mr.. kurtz will DO buried on
Thursday, March II, from his late resi-
dence.
Mr.. Kurtz was highly esteemed in his
\ sp1,v L.:
and Obliging neighbor. He will be greatly
missed by his many friends and neighbors
and his bounteous hand will no more
help the many who were accustomed to
receive aid in the time of need. Mr.. Kurtz
was seventy years of age, but observers
would not have taken him to have
been more than tfty-tiyc or sixty.
He was one Of our best formed
and best preserved old men. One of his
most earnest hobbies was politics, being
an indefatigable worker in the Demo-
cratic party, ever ready to lend a hand or
give his money for thefurtl,ersance of Dem
Ocratic interests, and very few county con-
ventions took place without Mr.. Kurtz be-
ing delegate from Salisbury. AS one Of
his friends, personally and politically, we
hope that he has gone to receive higher
reward than he could have reaped had he
been spared to earth.
Tho Other Post Iortem.
The body of the wife OF William Wat
son, colOred, serving a term in the county
Jail for chicken stealing, was found on
Thursday, by Eli Dunlap, in an old cedar
field on the Welsh Mountain. 1t was al
most totally covered with water. Deputy
Coroner Weaver, of East Earl, held an in
quest. The verdict was ''death from expos
ure." Mrs. Watson has been more or less
| derangedever since. her husband and..his son
! were convicted for chicken stealing and
| sentenced to terms Of Imprisonment in the
| Lancaster Jail. She was very much re-
! spected as a cOlored woman by her neigh
bors, and it was thought by the people of
| this neighbOrhoOd that she did all she
could to prevent her husband and son
from leading the life they did.
But since their conviction she has
led harmless life wandering about
among her people and the last seen Of her
was just one week before she was found
dead. There had been no search made
as it was supposed that she was with some.
of her friends The suppositicn is that
she wandered about the hill, lost her
reckoning, and as night came on and a
binding snow storm was raging, she lay
down in this hollow to shelter herself from
the storm and perished from the exposure.
She will be buried at the county's ex-
pense.
Serious ACCIDENT.
Mr.. George Gundaker, one Of Lancls-
ter's oldest residents and we'll known rs a
tipstaff Of our courts for many years, met
with an accident on Saturday afternoon
at the residence Of his son iIl-law. Mr..
John Kepncr, North Water street. While
in the act Of setting down on a large
rOckinO chair no mi sSpd tho chair and fell