The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1884-12-19
by a fisherman.

by fisherman.
After being secured he became more
calm, and promised that il they would
take him to his father-in laws house he
would willingly accompany his cap.
tors. He was accordingly taken to Mr..
Bogart's, where he spent the night
quietly and appropriately with the
family, hiH previous frepzy hav.
ing temporarily subsided. Early in
the morning arrangements were renew
ed for bringing him TO Wilkes Barre,
in pursuance of a commitment made
out by Justice Anderson the evening
before, when he Immediately relapsed
into his former condition of violence,
ard vigorously resisted any effort to
force him from the house. lie was
finally overpowered by three or four
persons who happened to be within
calling distance, who securely bound
him with cords, and tied him up in a
blanket, after stripping nearly all the
clothing from his body in their effort
to secure him, in which condition they
delivered him over to the prison war.
den for safe keeping. The young man
has never before been known to exhib.
it any pronounced symptoms of insan.
ity, though his family is not free from.
the taint, his mother having been of
unsound mind. He is about twenty
five years of age and has latterly borne
a fair record, though he was once sent
to the Eastern Penitentiary from Wy
oming county under a conviction for
larceny.
"A representative was shown TO the
"crazy cell" in which the new groom
was confined He was in state of
nudity, and in trout of his cell door
lay the remains of what had been a
straw bed. The tick was torn into
shreds, and the straw lay scattered on
the stone floor. There was nothing in
the cell by way of furniture. The pris-
oner was clapping his hands excitedly.
and continually crying "I'm Lord OF
Lords, and King of Kings. I'm in the
gall of bitterness and the bond of in
iquity." He then seized hold of the
iron door saying that he was a second
Sampson, endeavored to wrench it from
its fastenings, at the same time pour.
ing forth torrent of blasphemy inter
spersed with occasional scripture quo.
tations. While in his cell he managed
to seize an attendant by the hair, nor
would he let 90 till his hands were
pounded with the keys until they bled
AT the sight of the sanguinary drops
he cried out, "Behold the Lamb of
God which taketh away the Gins of the
world y He has persistently reius-
ed food since his arrival at the county
prison, and when his meals were brought
tc him he spitefully threw the food at
the door keeper through the opening
in the door.
Philip Calender was a prominent
resident of Ross township, who had a
store at Madisonvle a few miles from
Hunlock'S Creek. On the 10Th of Jan
uary, 1878, he was in Plymouth attend
ing law suit before Justice. The
case was decided in his favor and &C
companied by his son he started for
home in his conveyance taking the old
Union road. About dark when they
had reached point half mile from
Hunlock's Creek, two shots were fired
from behind them, one striking
Mr.. Calender in the head and
killing him instantly, the other passing
through his sons hat. The latter saw
two men disappear in the thicket. Mr..
Calender was prominent citizen in
the community where he lived, and
was not known to have an enemy.
The tragedy caused great excitement
and the perpetrators would have been
promptly lynched had they not sue
ceeded in making good their escape.
Soon after the murder two men, one
of whom was Thomas Conyard, We're
arrested and placed on trial for the
crime. The evidence against them
was insufficient and they were acquit-
ted