The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1886-10-07

called, aud certain pors1us who had
heretofore escaped all suspicion
were placed under surveillance
Tho last assault bad created a reign
Of terror among tho women, not one
of Whom dared stop her foot outside
the house after dark unless accom-
panied by nm escort.
While the detective was still in
tho town, and number Of leading
ci liens were acting az spies aud
patrols, the fourth outrage occurred.
The wife Of citizen named Warner
drove to the cemetery in the after
noon, accompanied by bei son, q boy
of sixteen, to decorate one of ber
chi!deu's graves. IN transplanting
the flowers it became necessary to
use considerable water, and tho boy
went TO q creek about twenty rods
away with pail. The cemetery was
thick with trees, and ho lost sight of
his mother for five or six minutes.
When he returned be found her ly~
ing on the ground unconscious, with
finger marks plainly visible on her
throat./ Her shoes aud stockings
had been removed, her hair cut OF,
aud the rings torn out Of her ears
aud lung down. The only explaua-
,ion she could mako was that hu-
mnu baud bad suddouly graspod her
throat She had heard no footsteps,
uor had she caught glimpse OF
anybody. The detective at once
visited the cemetery, and in a bri,i
time the enclosure was thoroughly
earchod, bot nothing came of it
Que sido of it was bordered by nu
extensive field not nuder cultivation
aud on the far side of this field was
a forest. One could easily have es-
caped in that direction long enough
before search was instituted
AS may be supposed, public in
diguation was now at the boiling
point. The detective aud every
body else was helpless, when II wo-
mau made suggestion. 1t was
that the detective dross himself in
female attire aud LAY low for the
Mysterious william The idea was
Ieaffiad oU. that very night, bat It
was II week before the climax came.
Quo night about 3 o'clock tbs dis
guised officer left house where be
had seemingly been visiting and h
halted at the gate to say good night
ard to have the people of the house
hope that he would reach home all
right. 1t was on on retired street,
thick with shade, aud unlighted, and
the officer WAS as alert us fox. He
had not gone 500 feet when figure
ste ped from behind tree aud
grasped his throat. The assaiIAnt
was shaken of and grasped in turn,
and then terrible struggle took
place. Not n word was uttered by
either. The one sought to get away,
the other to handcutf his man.
This feat the officer finally accom-
plished, and when he conducted his
prisoner to the village lookup the
mystery was at once solved. He
rroved to be half witted fellow
named Orson Taylor, living with his
father on farm a couple of miles
from the village. Orson was unmar
ried, about thirty years old aud
known around the country as half
fool. He had never been known to
commit an offence against the law,
and for this reason was not suspect
ed of any of tue outrages above de-
tailed. He preserved a sullen sic
lence when questioned, and when a
commission Of doctors had reported
on his case he was sent to an insane
asylum instead of being arraigned
in court. He soon became raying
maniac, and died in about year.
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