The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1888-09-14
A Mystery.


on Thursday of last week a tragedy oc-
CURED in Rtade township that startled that
community aud has been the theme for cou-
lecture ever since. Perry Troxell. we'll
known citizen, resides between the village
Of Flnton on the Cresson & CosipoIt rail-
road and the village OF Glasgow on the
Rells Gap railroad about a mile and half
from the latter place. ae is a prosperous
and well-Jo-do farmer, past middle life,
with his family all grown up and having
homes OF their own. Ada Flynn, about
twenty years or age. q granddaughter, re-
sided with him, having been raised by Mr..
Troxell since her infancy. She was a
bright and handsome young lady whom Mr..
[ Troxell and his wife treated as a daughter
and who was a comfort to their declining
/ years. On that morning. Mr.. TroxeII and
/ his wife went to picnic at AlIemansvilIe
! and left Ada to keep house along With lit
I tie Niece, daughter Of Jacob TroxeIl, who
resides on an adjoining farm. During the
! forenoon the two girls closed up the house
I and went TO gather berries In the fields close
/ by. Near noon the girls returned and when
/ passing the residence of a neiahbor woman
Ada Informed the woman that she felt afraid
]
having been seen In the neIghborhood and
borrowed a revolver from the lady. On
reaching the house Ada told the little girl
that there were robbers IN the house and to
go to her fathers for help The little girl at
first demurred, but finally went to her
fathers, Jacob Troxell's and Informed him
that there were robbers over at her uncIes.
he started over and on reaching the shouse
found Ada lying on the porch with bullet
, hole In her breast and In the agonies OF
death. An examination Of the premises
showed a bullet Sole on the inside facing of
the door frame, one in the wood house fac
ing the porch another In the right breast of
the victim and the revolver she had borrow
. ed lying on the porch with three chambers
empty. The conclusion that she had been
murdered was at once decided upon and In
short time quite a number OF people gt5er-
ed to the scene and two men who had been
seen by boy passing along a road In the
neighooIhOod were suspected of doing the
dastardly deed. A messenger was sent to
Coalport, who telegraphed TO Pnnxsutaw-
ney and two men who left Coalport on the
train were arrested at Mahaffey and brought
back, but they at once established their in-
nOcence by proving by Mr.. Michael Quartz.
a conductor on the CIesson & CoaIport rail-
road, that at the time OF the murder they
were on his train. The theory that she was
murdered was the only theory thought OF at
FIST and 1t would have been bad had any
suspicious characters been found in the
neighborhood, as the people were fesrfuIiy
aroused and it would have required put lit
tie TO have induced them to take the law In
theiT own hands.
Since then, the theory OF suicide has been
suggested and It seems to be the more prob
able, although there seems to be no known
motive. Ada had been TO the village of
Glasgow few days before, and while in a
store there had been examining and pricing
a revolver and had been making INQUIRIES
as to where was the most fatal place to be
shot. She went away without purchasing
the revolver, bat It seems to be an indica-
tion that her mind was somewhat bent to-
wards shooting. At the house nothing was
taken away, and her trunk which was
found open had q small amount OF money
gold watch and some iewelry lying in full
view, and had robbery been the object OF
the parties doing the deed, would certainly
[ have been taken.
Some people are inclined to the belief
that she was murdered. That on 90 ing Il
the house she net the parties in the act OF
robbery, that she knew them and that Iu
= order TO seal her lips. having been caught a
robbery they did not hesitate to murder
The case is mystery and unless some
thing more turns up will likely remain so.
Since the above was in type we learn tba
the Coroner's inquest has, after viewiu,
the body and the surrounding circumstances
rendered q verdict that Ada Flynn wa.
murdered by an unknown person or persons
: 1t Is also said that the relatives OF tn,
) murdered girl have offered rewsrd o.
5000 for the apprehension OF her murder.
/ ers