Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1886-11-24
ESCAPED THE MOOSE.

At xeager's-RObbery-At
Gross's-Reports-The
OctorOon Captured
Public Opinion.
From time out of date, ever since men
organized society, one of the great debata-
bic questions has been, (which, do women
or wine effect society most i'' To-day the
people of this mountain girt county of Ju-
niata are sal agog over the escape of two
criminals from the Miffiintown Jail, about
IL O'Clock on the morning of the 18th inst.
Theirs was not a case of vino but of wom-
en-, and their depravity has been the source
of woriment and distress to all their de-
cent friends, and expense to the taxpay ers
who pay large percentage of the cost OF
Commonwealth eases
II Octoroon Aaron Carter had been shot.
or hung to the limb Of tree, for beguilrag
or forcing . young white girl into impure
indulg ences, society would be the better
for his taking of, but society is so we'll Or
ganized in this goodly Commonwealth that
it will not permit of the serious thought of
falling back on its natural rights to measure
out summary justice TO the man who vio-
lates the rights or person of his neighbor.
If Joe NcMeen had been stricken down
in death before he began his career of i'm
proper indulgence with woe en- he would
not now be an outlaw with the mark of Cain
on his brow and hunted as relentlessly as is
the wild beast Of the forest, for having
reached the focal point in his criminal life
in the murder of his wife by dose of
strychnine last March, in Port Royal.
THE PURSUIT.
When we closed our forms last issue, the
pursuit that was Instituted by Sheriff Fowls
at O'Clock on the morning ofthe 18th inst,
by the search of Abram Moist's house, ne ar
this place was still going on, miles away
from town. Not finding or hearing of the
fugitives at Moist's, the Sheriff and officer
Lapp drove rapidly to Fsyette township, to
the house of Carter's father, not far from
Smiths mill, and reached the place before
daylight, thence to McAhsterville giving
notice everywhere along tho way of the es-
cape.
By 9 O'Clock that morning the Sheriff
was back to town and had posse summon
ed, consisting of II. Ii. Scholl. officer Lapp,
William Murray, Samuel Roilman, William
Gray, Harry Dell, and DAVID b. ieber, and
the barns of Abr4m Moist, Kurtz Kaufman
and Wellington Smith, near town were
searched. The posse came home without
a single pointer.
After noon the posse drove eastward, and
learned at Samuel Bell's in Fermanagh
township, that some time during the past
| night two loaves of bread had been stolen
from his pantry. Some thought this was a
clue. On, eastw ard, they drove. The pur.
suers divided. The Sheriff and Ii. II. Scholl
searched the county, east; as far as the
Adamsburg road over Shade mountain, and
on the return in the evening, looked through
the region of the Carter home. Rollmau,
and Others went northward By Spouhower's
woolen factory 10 the place of John Souder,
where their horses were left and thence
afoot across the rid ge by a road through
the woods in which fresh foot prints were
plainly seen with the maIk of cane or
walking sick along side of it. There Is u
vacant hcEse on the Bushy tract OF land
not far away, and thither they FASTENED for
getting the tracks in the road in the bright
anticipation that the fugitives would Ger
tainly be overtaken in the old house. Nei-
iher sign nor sound of human beings greet
ed them at the old house. They returned
| to the Souder place, and from there drove
TO Carter's fathers house aud scare he'd it,
and from there drove home, reaching town
N the evening, wearied, and needing rest
from the exciting search of
THE BoRDERLASD
of an interesting strip of country lying in
the immediate front of that part OF Shade
mountain into which The murderer Lowering
fed after killing Auker, years ago. The
sudden disappearance of a peddler in that
mountain front, the mysterious death OF
KeDawall on that mountain side, and the
Richards saw-mill war that required the
presence of Sheriff Shivery aud posse of
men TO quell, the Aaron Carter flight with
Miss Briggs into that region all consplrei
to cause the hunters of Carter and McMeen
to look up into the cold, bleak, November
| front OF Shade mountain and wonder as
they turned their backs upon it, among
which OF its numerous crags and peaks, or
pines the criminals might be hid.
ACROSS TIE MOUNTAINS.
On Monday night while Sheriff Fowls and
posse were sleeping after their hunt Of tif-
teen hours, Ex-Sheriff Shivery and Squire
Mcdonald crossed 5 shade mountain in two
horse buggy and placed watchmen on u
number OF the roads leading from the noun
tain to Mitfiin and Snyder counties.
On Tuesday, the 10th, Sheriff Fowles
went to MiffiiL county, and as far east on
the Lewistosn & Sunbury railroad as to
Mcclure in Snyder county, where he met
detective Gro, who had Leen in the search
TO Sunbury and other places.
NEWS FROM NcALrsTERviLLg.
On "Wednesday morning the lIth, DIR.
Weidman, Mr.. Ingram, Mr. Jacobs and 9TH
ers, who came to attend the veterans re-
union from NcAlIsterville, stated, that Ja-
cob Yeager, VINO lives IN Slim Valley on
the borderland Of that particular part OF
Shade mountain mentioned above, had been
to McAlisterville ON the 10th, and told 1t In
the stores that on Monday afternoon, two
men, unknown TO him, but who had been
pronounced TO be Aaron Carter and Joe
McMeen, by Mrs. Bay, who was at his house
when the inen were there. The Sheriff and
officer Lapp drove TO Bays on Wednesday