Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1883-03-21
An Other Confession.


Moyer, one of the executed murder.
ers OF old Mr.. and 1frs. Kintzler, IN
Snyder county was published. Since
then the confession of Jonathan
Meyer, one of the numbering gang,
has been made public. Jonathan
Meyer was hung months ago, but
because Of his request his confession
was kept from the public by Rev. D.
E. Reed, to whom he gave it with
the understanding that il should not
be published till after the death of
his brother Uriah Meyer. The hang
ing of Uriah. caused the minister to
give the confession of Jonathan Nov
er for publication. It reads as fol
lows: "About thres weeks before
the Kintzler murder was committed,
Emanuel Ettinger came to my house,
and asked me whether l would not
go with him to get the Kintzler's
money? That he would kill them, or
(wollt sic urnbrigun) I said no.
''On Thursday previous, when the
murder was committed, my brother
Urlah came TO me In the woods.
where l was splitting wood, and ask
ed me whether l would go along to
get hintZlers money He said
there was ono, or some one, who
would Kill them, IN talking the mat
ter over l said unconcernedly, may
be 1t won't matter much, as it might
bs there would not be much fuss
made about it But after he had
gone away short distance, but too
far to hear NE. 1 thought over it,
and got alarmed, I turned to call to
him and tell him that he should not
go with Emanuel Ettinger, but he
was too far gone, 1 could not call
him back. From that time on, II
thought very little about il, until Oh
Saturday, when 1 vert down 10
Uriehs fcc vslll, and tso see If
they we're d9ns bEtchering. Eman-
uel Ettingsr said 10 me when we
we're slons Z will tell you some
thing, if you won't tell on me or
Won't eny any thing Then he said. !
VIII you so along TO make haulr
l asked what hari He said, WIZ, !
The KiatzIers are dead be showed !
me some watch glasses TO convince /
me OF the trGth of his story. lie
then told ne how it happened, and |
and said, 4 want you TO go along
for the money, that won't hErt you,
1t Is just as good for Us SO for any
body else. If ws doa't go and get it !
somebody else vii, and If you go
along, you certainly shall have your
share, Just as though you had been
along from the frat l then asked
him If the old man screamed? Hs
said, not much, I thsn said: I em
surprised that you told me this, he
said: yes told you too much, some
time SEQ. We thsn went to my
house, and when We left we told the
wonen-folks that we we're going for
rabbits, but they did not go with US.
l wss not at the killing, there were
but two, but l wss at the burning,
there we're three, That was on Satur-
day evening. Uriah can tell you the
particulars about the killing, he Was
along, so they told me. It seems TO
me that in 2 conversation with Uriah
once before the killing, ! said: I won
der il Ve could not sneak about the
premises and shoot old Kintzler and
get the money without being found
out : I want to confess all. The
burning was on Saturday night, the
Old man was carried into tbs house,
we hunted through the house but
only found about $500, which we
divided in Uriah's cellar. After we
got all the money the house was fred |
and we went home. L have now told |
all, and it is the Gods truth.