Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1881-12-21

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The death of the wife of one oi
the Jurors caused the case to be post
poned till this Wednesday.
STATE ITEMS.
Uriah Meyer was put upon trial
last week at Middleburg, Snyder
county, as one of the Kintzler mur-
derers. A witness named Jacob
Mover was sworn, and said: I was
born in what is now Adams township,
Snyder county, Pa, and am thirty
three years of age, and by occupa-
ton am a currier, tanner and farmer.
l have been acquainted with Uriah
Meyer for upwards of twenty years.
1 was working with him in my father
corn field, hushing corn, on or about
the 20th day of October, 1877, in
Adams township, together with Aaron
Boney, Leah Meyer (my wife), Chas.
Meyer and James Meyer 1.-TWO OF
Uriahs sons), and while at work
Uriah Meyer approached me and told
me that his father had given a note
at the Mifflinburg Bank, endorsed by
Isaac Krebs, which note was given to
raise money to pay for the furniture
which Michael Meyer had bought in
at the sheriff's sale of the personal
effects of Uriah Meyer, and further
told me that he must have money to
pay this note, and it may come from
where it will. Then he added: Il
know where there is money" and he
asked me if I woald go along with
him to rob and help to kill the old
Kintzlers. I told him no; chat /
would not go along to do sach a
thing as that for the whole State.
then asked him how he could do such
a thing, and he answered that it was
no more for him to go and shoot
Kintzler than it was to go into the
woods and shoot deer, and I an
swered: '.Well, I could not" Then
be said if 1 would not go along he
wouldn't either, but there is q party
ready to do it if we don't, and the
money is just as good for us as for
them, and that l would find out be-
fore long that they would be killed
anyhow. On the same day he sug-
gested to me that he knew other
places where money WAS. I then
asked him where. He said at Polly
Garhart's tina. she had two pots of
silver and gold, and 1 think he indi-
Gated with his hand how large they
were. / then asked him how he knew
it. He then told me that Che hired
girl there said It, and in that way he
found it out. At the December term
of court in 1878 + YVES snbpen#ed as
a witness for the Commonwealth ard
while 1 was coming out of the entry
of the court house 1 was approached
by Uriah's brothers. Joseph Mover
and Henry Meyer, and they request
ed me to twist UP my evidence in such
away shat it would appear as if the
whole statement that Uriah made was
all only in fun. / then said: swell
Joe, will just say what Uriah said
to me, and 1 would not swear false,
even for my brother" 4 shot time
before the murder of the Kintzlers
occurred Uriah Meyer passed by my
house. either going to Israel Erb's or
returning. He called me out and
asked me whether I was ready to go
with him to rob Kintzler told him
no; that I would have nothing to do
with it. He then said: Il won't
either" The reason 1 did not testify
to this before is because the court
would not allow me.
Last Friday night the jury, after
being out 81 hours, returned a YER
dict of murder in the first degree,
and thus the last of the four muir
derers of old Mr.. and Mrs. Kintzler
on tine night of December s, 1877,
has been brought to justice. The
other three had been previously tried,
convicted and sentenced to be hung
on Friday, shs 18th inst, the very
day on which the fourth murderer
was convicted. The three former
ones convicted are Jonathan Meyer,
Israel Erb and Emanuel Ettinger.
Ettinger, to escape hanging, COM
mitted suicide by taking poison. The
other two should hare been hanged
last Friday, as stated above, but their
sentence has been respited, and their
case will be presented to the Board
of Pardons, which will meet Decem-
ber Goth inst
William III. Cairns. ef Stahlstown, |
Westmoreland county, and May Bell, |
of Greensburg, in the same county, |
were clandestinely married at Johns
town on Dec. Sth. They started
for the home of the husband the same
changing cars at Latrobe,
where the young wife was run. over
by train and cut to pieces during
the temporary absence of her hus-
band. The latter has become a raw
ing maniac.
There were two hundred cases of
in Pittsburg On Wednes-
day.
Ephraan Myers, an engineero on the
Philadelphia and Erie railroad. shot
deer from his engine while taking
water
Edward Sanders, for killing Mrs.
Mary Seymour in October, was con-
Victed of murder IN the second degree
q Lancaster on Saturday. !