Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-01-21
A DEAD MANS SHOES
Had Just Been Put On by Slater, Who
Was Cruelty Butchered.
A LORDS MELANCHOLY RELATIVE
And Something More About the Man Who
Almost Decapitsted Him.
BITTERNESS AND WOE FOR ONE HOME

A startling coincidence Is related in con-
nection with Saturday nights bloody Cork's
Run tragedy, reported quite fully in yester-
days DISPATCH, which will prove in
teresting to those who are superstitious. A
puddler by the name of Thomas Handy had
brother murdered in Ohio few weeks
ago. On the day that Handy met his death
he had purchased new pair of shoes, and
was wearing them when he was killed. The
shoes and a number of other articles were
shipped to Handy at Cork's Run, in Char
tiers township. He sold or gave the shoes
to Adam Slater on Saturday afternoon, and
on that same evening Slater was also mur-
dered. Whether these shoes will be worn
again, and the wearer meet violent death
remains to be seen. Under the circum-
stances there are few men who would feel
entirely at home in such an understanding,
even though decapitation doesn't come to
more than one man in a given community
in years.
A reporter yesterday visited the scene of
the homicide in CHARTERS. The boarding
house is two-story frame structure on the
side of the hill, and in full view of the town.
All evidences of the terrible tragedy had
been removed by the neighbors. The body
Of the murdered man, Adam Slater, had
been brought to the morgue in the city, by
direction of Coroner Mcdowell. The prin-
cipal witnesses were yet in Jail, and none
but the neighbors were about the house.
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A friend of Mr.. Golden came to the city
yesterday morning and obtained the release
of Mr.. and Mrs. Golden, in whose house the
murder occurred. The remains of Slater
were taken back to the house in which be
met his death, and will be buried from
there to-day. An Amalgamated Associa-
tion lodge of CHARTERS will conduct the
funeral.
The details of the homicide have already
been related. 1t may be added that Holla-
way (not HollowelD did not cut from the
back of Slater's neck, but the front, at the
throat. The weapon used was large bread
knife, with an edge as keen as razor.
Mrs. Golden was preparing lunch for the
men, and that was how she came by the
knife that was so ruthlessly grabbed from
her and used.
Squire Bryan, of CHARTERS, who Jailed
all the parties to the crime so promptly,
said that Hollaway took matters in a very
cool manner. He finally got up, sat in his
chair opposite the one in which his victim
was placed, and watched him dying without
q change in his countenance. Under arrest |
he said he was at first sorry he had cut the |
mans throat, but 'did not regret it now."
Coroner Mcdowell impaneled Jury and |
viewed the remains. The inquest will be |
continued this morning at 10 o'clock, in the
Coroner's Office.
Adam Slater, the practically decanitated
victim, was man about 45 wears of ace
He was born in Birmingham, England and
came to this country in 1862. he has been
married twice. His first wife
OBTAINED A DIVORCE,
from him and now lives in Youngstown.
He is separated from his second wife. who |
lives on Mt.sr Washington. He has a |
brother who is employed in the North Chi |
cago Rolling Mill, and who has been
notified.
Slater was of a respondent disposition
when under the Influence of drink, and this
accounts for the remark which he made
about wanting his life ended, when he was
SO suddenly and brutally accommodated.
Slater is said to have been a nephew of
Lord Ward, bankrupt member of the
Irish nobility. Robert Bell, foreman Of
the Black Diamond Steel Works, viewed
the remains at the morgue yesterday, and
was deeply affected. He said that he,
Slater and man named Arnold had come
over from England together, and had
worked together for years. Arnold was the
man who committed suicide by cutting his
throat at Glenwood Park in 1873. Mr.. Bell
said that Slater was a good-hearted fellow,
who would have done anything in his power
for friend in need.