The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1889-10-03
MIDDIEBURGH SNYDER co. PA, OCTOBER g. 1889 NO

shots. They think the first shot fell
and after brief pause the other
two followed in quick succession.
Charley Hane did not come home
that night as was his custom. The
next day, Friday, passed without
any intelligence of the young man
and the family began to be alarmed,
On Friday evening the children of
Peter Long in passing through
field about mile north of town saw
n man lying in the grass about 80
yards from n path leading from a
blind lane back of HELEN Street
across the fields and close to a large
chestnut tree. They ran home and
told their parents who paid no
further attention to it until the
next morning, when in passing
through the same field on their way to
cut corn, they were attracted by the
lowing of cattle near the chestnut
tree and went there and found the
body of young man cold III death.
They called to Jacob Long who was
in an adjoining field cutting corn, to
come quickly. Unable to recognize
him, they sent the intelligence of
their CHASTITY discovery to town. 1t
spread with the wind, and fears
were at once expressed that it was
Charley Hane who had so myster-
iously disappeared thirty-six hours
before. The apprehensions were
soon turned into certainty, for it
was the young man lying in pool
of his own blood. At first il was
suspicioned that he had committed
suicide, but an investigation soon
exploded that theory and established
murder.
Mr.. Hane was at once sent for and
q CCroner's jury impanneled with
Justice Gaugler at the head. The
body, ,as stated was lying about thirty
yards from the path leading across
a field on the farm of John Bassler.
Aside of II pool of blood lay the
young mans knife and tobacco,
eight feet farther east in the direc-
tion of his home lay his lead pencils
and ten feet still farther east lay
the poor boy on his right side with
his left leg drawn up, and both
hands above his head tightly grasp
ing the earth and filed with tufts of
grass. Twenty-Five dollars, which
he was known to have had in his
pocket was gone with his pocket
book, but his gold watch and chain
remained intact. A one-dollar bill
was found in his vest-pocket buried
in the lining.
His father was overcome with
grief and grasped the boy around
the body, and, lifting him, begged
for him to speak. It was scene no
one Will ever forget. He was re-
moved i'll his fathers wagon to his
home where was met a mother whose
heart was breaking with anguish, n
sister Mrs. j. II. Rhoads) and an
only brother. The terrible blow
and sufferings of the family were
indescribable. Drs. b. Il. Wagon
seller of Selinsgrove, and Bordner of
Shamokin Dam were summoned who
announced that all hope had fed.
One bullet hole was found in the
back of the head ranging upward
and passed out Mt the mouth, an
other had entered the left eye close
to the nose and ranged downward
the ball lodging in the mouth, and a
third ball entered few inches be-
low the heart and ruptured the aorta
(the great artery or trunk of the ar
terial system). The two shots in
the head were not necessarily fatal,
but the last one which ruptured the
great artery caused hemorrhage
which must have resulted in death.
These statements were justified by
the findings of County Coroner
Weiser at the autopsy on Sunday
morning. The shot in the back of
the head was fired out of weapon
held so close to the head that the
fire singed the hair. The ball which
passed through the abdomen was
found lodged against the skin on the
back of the body. 1t was from 49,
calibre short, rim-fre cartridge.
The general belief is that the as
sassin, after performing his work of
murder, dragged the victim from
the first pool of blood to the place
where the body was found. Horri-
BILE rs is the thought, it is not only
possible but very probable that the
! poor young man revived sufficiently