The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1888-10-10

Golden Circle. The Captain had
samples of counterfeit gold and silver
coin with him which he said was made
by Newell Cobb, employed IN the
United States mint. Buck refused to
join the Circle, and then Captain Snow.
den wished to test his ability as a
marksman. The Captain placed Louise
Phoebe, who was then years old, on
a stump, and with a rifle her father
split potato which she held up be.
tween her thumb and fingers. In do.
ing this one Of her fingers was slightly
wounded, and she exhibited a wound.
Boss Buck put chew of tobacco on
the wound and tied it up. Captain
Snowden represented that there we're
million members of the Order, but
Buck would not join. This incensed
the Captain, and from that time on
Buck was a marked man, aud the
Knights of the Golden Circle were his
prosecutors aud finally encompassed
his ruin. The sent counterfeit money
and stolen horses into his neighbor.
hood, and threw the suspicion upon
him. Ga February IA, 1858, the Order
had him arrested as counterfeiter.
They ransacked the premises for spur
ious money, but found none. They
tied pair of suspenders around the
throat Of Louise Phoebe, TO compel
her to divulge the place where her
father kept his money. She told them
it was in the clock, and the money
found there was all good except a
% cent piece that had been through
the Continental army, and which her
father had kept as curiosity. Buck
was taken TO Clarion, and Jacob Black,
now deceased, went his bail. Judge
Heating, also deceased, offered to go
on the bond. The trial resulted in bis
acquittal. In the fall of 1858, a
young man giving his name as Lee
Addleburger, Of Rimersburg, came to
Bucks house with horse to sell. He
said james Boyd had sent him. Buck
bought the horse and after keeping
him some months sold the animal to
Jacob Black. Then the horse was
claimed by Wheeling man who said
it had been stolen from him and run
into Clarion county. The man took
the horse and went back home without
making any trouble, as he was satisfied
of Bucks innocence in the transaction.
Louise Phoebe claims that the thief
had been sent there with the horse by
the Knights of the Golden Circle.
t The strange narrative goes on to
5 say that in 1859 Johu Brown went
,, to Harper's Ferry to free the slaves
and raised an excitement all over the
country that the Democrats did NOT
like. The following Spring Detect.
; ives Price and John Morgan came to
, Bucks house and wanted to make him
l Chief Detective over ell the State Of
, Pennsylvania. Price had the names
of 1000 Republicans on his book and
q these were to be murdered by men
: under Buck and their houses robbed
Jacob Black was the first man picked
,, /, out for the slaughter. Dick Shipper
, and Price were to keep Buck out o
l all danger. Buck declined again
and the Circle increased its vigilance
. against him. AS part of the scheme
3 to ruin him the Democratic papers
= we're full of the infamies of Boss
Buck. A man by the name of Lewis
was shot in Clarion county by direc
tion of the Order and the crime lait
: to Buck. When Louise Phoebe wen
l to hunt the COWS she saw so armed
= men who were looking for her father
Y whom they wanted to shoot. She raj
: home and told her father who sat dowI
y and wrote letter, which he pinned OF
. the inside of her dress, as follows:
}, "You must sleep in the woods to
, night, and if you find your father anc
: mother murdered in the morning, yol
:. take that letter and hand it to thu
n Judge of the Clarion Court. Give i
e to nobody else, aud hand to him your
n self"
e The Golden Circle men did not xii
9 him, and soon after two men were ar
s rested and convicted for the murder o
Lewis. Mrs. Buck was taken to Clar
ion as witness. She said the prison
ers were mere boys, who bad been lee
astray by Price and Morgan. They
had their trial, and were sent to tht
peuiteutiary for 20 years. The paper
said that Ona Of them hattarad hi