Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-02-22

aria Taylor and George CLARK killed Nc
Causland, and that he saw them do it..
Later on he denied this story, declaring that
when George Clark was selected as the one
to fire the shot, he refused, saying that he
had not the heart to kill man who had
done him no harm. Still later on he con-
tradleted this story, and Sheriff Goodwin
says that in turn he has contradicted that
in the Jail when talking to him. At one
time Frank Clark had to be imprisoned OF.
in the Jail by himself, so fearful was he that
the other two men would harm him because OF
his evidence. Frank Clark's whole ap-
pearance seems to me to be against him. He
would not come near Taylor and /, although
he had been told who I was and that
would be glad to print his statement. He
seemed annoyed when person looked at
him very closely.
Frank Clark is the youngest of the three
prisoners. He is about 80 years old. Tay-
lor is about AZ, and George Clark is some
where in the neighborhood OF 40. George
Clark when he was boy was deckhand
on the steamboat "Wild Boy" which piled
on the Monongahela under Clint Cooper.
In this way he got to Pittsburg very often.
The others have never been in Pittsburg.
George Clark's mail is quite extensive, he
thinks. He receives about two letters a
week from his friends. The others seldom
receive letters.
THE M'CAUSLAND MURDER.
The murder for which Clark and Taylor
are to die. is familiar to Pittsburgers.
William McCausland, drover from Allie
gheny City, went up the Monongahela
river to buy cattle. He was carry
ing q large amount of money
with him. He left the steamboat at
McCann's Ferry on the morning of Septem-
Der 10, 1887. At 1880, just little while
later, his body was found on the roadside by
farmer who was riding along, and in his
arms McCausland died in few minutes
from pistol shot wound in the head. Two
pistols were found in the immediate vicin-
ity, together with McCausland's empty
pocketbook. One pistol bore the initials
". I. c." and as John 7. Clark, Georges
father, lived close at hand, the pistol
directed to him with suspicion. In few
days, therefore, he was arrested with Frank
Clark, Jr., but it was proven they did not
own the pistol, and both were released.
James Nef was also arrested, but dis
charged. The arrests of Frank Clark, Sr.,
and George Clark and Taylor occurred
later.
John Parker, q man 70 years of age,
swore that on the morning of September 10,
1887, between $50 and 10 o'clock ne was
walking down the Hatfield Ferry road and
when nearly opposite the mouth of "Cloud's
Hollow" he heard shot fired in the direc-
tion of the McCann's Ferry road. He
walked on slowly down the road to John
Huston's, getting there about 1870 o'clock.
HE SAW CLARK.
While there the noise of cattle running in
the woods across the creek and opposite the
house attracted his attention, and looking
up he saw two men pass an open space in
the timber, walking hurriedly, one of whom
he recognized as George Clark and the other
he ''took to be Zach Taylor" He only saw
them a second or two, a very short time, and
in that time identified Clark, the kind of
clothing he wore, saw that he carried gun
in his hands, etc.
James G. Fordyce swore that on Septem-
Der z, 1887, about o'clock in the evening,
he was returning from Uniontown to his
home by way of McCann's Ferry road.
When near the junction Of that road with
the Greensboro road near Frank Hart's
house, his little boy who was in the buggy
with him startled him with an e1clama-
ton. Fordyce says he looked around and
saw what he at first took to be stump in the
bushes, but on turning half round and
reaching for his pistol. man walked out of
the bushes and started down the ravine.
Having walked little distance he turned
and faced Fordyce moment or two then
turned and walked away. The man had re-
volver in his hand, and was afterward ident-
ifed as George Clark by Fordyce in the
Jail. The boy could not recognize him.
This story was fairly overthrown by the
testimony of at least halt dozen good men
who tried to prove an alibi.
L. E. SroFIEL.