Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1884-04-04
OVER THE STATE.
rArAL rr.y,so w,rn s,Hr Auns.
N"urg wan THAT nid"t Know ~ was
Loaded -,ow uurtYrr Coyie Passes
HIS pfts1n life

\ Nourg NAN THAT nidmr Know it was
Loadod -now huriYrr Coyle Passes
Bis Piison lite.
" Look out, Mac, I'm going to shoot
your pipe" said James J. Kuox, lad of
seventeen, who stood In the Office Cf
Gustnvc Sturm's glass works, 1916 Market
street, Philadelphia, at B o'clock Thursday
afternoon. He held q breech loading
rltls belonging to the OH 10 in bis hands.
II was pointed directly at tho head ol
William Mclaughlin au euyravor in tho
works. Don't do that-don't--" began
Mclaughlin. 1t was the last word he
ever spoke.
The gun went of aud bullet crushed
into his skull through his left eye. lie
was taken to the University hospital,
where he died a fow hours later Knox,
who is an assistant book keeper in tho
office, aud Townsend q. Hime, an crraud
boy, who was the only other person pro
sent, dashed into tho street, crazy with
fright aud screaming for assistance, while
Mclaughlin lay bleeding ON the officer
nJOr. A man came in from the cigar
storo next door and supported tho dying
mau until SXtoeutA district officer ar
rived
IL didn't know the hammer was up, :"
said tho frightened porpetrator of the
homicide to tho policeman. al closed the
chamber aud thought | had let down the
hammer Mclaughlin was removed to
the cigar store next door and thence to the
hospital. kuox was taken to the Sixteenth
district station house. A visit from his
father, with whom he lives at 7l3 Self
ridge street, seemed only to increase his
excitement. Mclaughlin was tweuty-
eight years old and unmarried.
John Coyle's Ito Ia Prison.
A PHILADELPHIA Times correspondent
writes of John Coylc, tho York county
murderer, whose execution is tixod for
April %, that he objects to the solitary
COZ huemeut in which he has beou placed
since his death warrant was read, con
tending that be should be allowed gen.
Cral good time before no dies.
His COnceit Is great and ho frequently
tolls his listeners that "people talk of
HIM as John COyle, the handsome man,
aud prides himself greatly on the fact.
His sanity is entirely apparent to any one
who would listen to his talk. He began
some time ago to solicit money from those
who visited the Jail tO see him, stating as
his object the purchase Of watch, which
he now proudly wears and displays, aud
he has expressed the wish that IL should
be wound up aud hung IN his coffin. He
| Acknowledges the killing of the girl aud
asserts that he love aud still loves her, az
| one time implying that he is sorry aud
again that he feels no remOrse AZ the deed,
but that the way he WAS treated by her
was enough 10 drive any ono crazy.
He gives his theory of the brilliant red
sunsets of the winter as the Dsity's wrath
ut the wickedness and swearing on his
trials, and says this was all special dis
fn
that he would not be- surprised 10 see the
same power avenge the injustice doue him
by miraculous opening of his prison
doors. This seems TO be his only hope,
for ho autIC pates nothing from the board
of pardOns, TO whom he will not apply.
He takes pain TO inform his visitors that
he spends most of his time in reading his
Bible and derives much comfort and Con
ISOLATION from il.
Pour Mon Killed Wbi . uun,iag work.
OF party OF HunGarians who were
walking on the Delaware, L LIckawana and
Western railroad, at Dunmore, Thursday
afternoon, four were killed aud two dan
EerOusly hurt. They we're in search OF
work aud were on their way to Scranton.
They stepped from one track to another
70 avoid a coal train, and they did no:
notice that train was approaching from
behind on the other track on account OI
the noise made by tho trans, and the
euglueor was unable to appriso them OF
their DAGGER. One OF the Injured men had
an arm torn from its socket. Those who
we're killed were cut in pieces.
Brskeman killed.
Frederick Huber, aged thirty five years,
met with horrible death Thursday morn
ing at Pine Grove by being run over by a
shifting engine at the scales. 1t appears
Huber, who is brakeman. while making
a flying switch, fell on the track aud was
instantly killed. He leaves u wife aud four
children. The deputy coroner held an in
quest, and the jury exonorated tho on
giueer and other tTaiumen.