The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1886-04-10
Metz Sentenced.

recently found guilty of numbering
his cousin and companion, Rocco
Cossidenti, was refused a new trial,
and last Thursday Judge Inghram,
of Uniontown, pronounced the death
sentence upon him. The date of his
execution has not yet been fixed.
Concerning this case the Connells-
vile Courier says:
Fayette will at last have hang
ing-Mike Metz fate has been seal
ed by the death sentence and the
dastardly deed committed by him
at the dead hour of midnight in the
quiet of Springhill township, when
he took his cousin Cossidenti's life
for gold, will be avenged by the law
The seven weeks siege of court closed
yesterday morning. More than us
ual interest attached to the closing.
1t WAS understood that the motion
for new trial in Metz case would
be refused and the sentence of death
pronounced. The room was filed
with a curious crowd when the pri-
soner was brought in and seated by
his counsel. He fully understood
that he was about to have the death
sentence pronounced on him, but he
displayed no more emotion than a
Chinese idol. Metz either has won
derful control of his feelings or else
he hasn't any feelings. He said he
had nothing to say. An interpreter
was sworn, and through him Judge
Inghram proceeded to address the
prisoner as to the enormity of
his crime and his impending fate
He admonished him to prepare for
death and then rose to pronounce SEN
tence. The deep hush gave emphasis
to the concluding,awful words: THAT
you be taken thence to the place
of execution and there be hanged by
the neck until you are deadr A
slight pallor overspread the impas-
sive features, but they soon assumed
their accustomed muddy hue. He
was removed to his cell, there to
await the Governors death warrant
A Frie htful Accident at jefferson Medical
College.
Last Friday night section of the
dummy floor covering the pool on
the lower floor of Natatorium Hall,
Philadelphia, gave way while the
two hundred graduatessof Jefferson
Medical College were waiting for the
signal to go up stairs to the banquet
rendered them by the faculty.
Among the graduates were Drs.
James H. Lawhead and David II.
Courtney, of Morgantown, but for
tunately neither of them was in the
disaster. Friends here were consid-
erably alarmed, and telegraphed to
Philadelphia to be sure that they
were not among the injured.
Twenty-Five of the graduates are
known to have been hurt. None of
them were fatally injured, but sew
eral of them will be confined to their
beds, suffering from sprained ankles,
broken legs and internal injuries, for
some time to come About two
thirds of those injured were cut and
bruised about the head and face.
Eight of the most seriously injured
were taken to their lodgings in car
riages and two were conveyed to the
Jefferson Hospital. The calamity
happened at quarter of nine clock.
If the pool, which was covered by
the rotten floor, had been deeper the
accident would in all probability
have resulted in great loss of life
Men took off their coats and twist
ed them into ropes and held them
over the hole for those in the pit to
grab. Others were hauled out by
their legs and the work of extricat-
ing them was done so quickly and
so coolly that the men at the bottom
were not sutfocated or seriously hurt
by those who were piled on top of
them.