The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1892-09-07
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About O'Clock Saturday night. at Elton.
seven miles east Of JohnstoSn, Jacob W.
Rose, whose hcme is several miles beyond
Elton, was hit on the head with stone
thrown BY Oliver Roberts. OF Johnsiown,
from which dessh 7ssgiied il few hcurs.
TIE story OF the affair IS told By Harry
Thomas. also Of Johrs;own. who has been
arrested as an acccmplice. His statements
Is follows:
About seven O'Clock Saturday evening
Roberts and started FOR ride in a dog cart
We stopped at Geistoxn and drank some.
From there We drove to Elton and tied our
horse in front Of Icsss' hotel. There was
Fight in progress IN the barn yard Of the
hotel and abou: twenty-five persons were
standing around looking at It. We stood
in front Of the hotel for about fifteen min
ufes-
"A man named Jacob Rose came from
among the people gathered al the fight and,
told rs TO unite our horse and 90 home, that
they did not need any Juhnsiown people to
settle their Affairs I then got on the cart
and Roberts said to Rose I don't know.
He then unhi,ched tie horse and got into
the cart and we drove to where they were
fighting and stopped.
Here Roberts got OF the cart and said
either that be wanted 70 brush OEthe horses
name OF that he wanted 10 rein the horse
up. lie worked about the horses head for
few minutes. then went around to the 9TH
er side Of the horse and picked up three
stones, one OF nlidaling size. and the other
two small ones. lie then got into the cart,
holding ore stone in his hand ard laying
the Others in the cart.
Rose lad followed Us up, and Roberts
said 'Mr. Rose, come here; ! want to see
you Rose thea took OF his coat and came
close 10 the cart. He stood at the right-hand
side By this time the fight il the barnyard
was over, and The crowd grthered about the
cart, some o. them leaning on the shafts and
horse. Roberts tod them to step back, not
10 lean on the horse, tha, il vas tired. They
stepped back, and, Is they did so, Roberts
arose in The cart, having the lines in his
right hand and The s,onein lie left. Atthe
same instant he threw the stone at Rose and
exclaimed: There. you s-n Of b-h,
you've got it.
Il did not see the stone bit Ross, but IL
hit something, for heard it crack, and Rose
sssggard back. We then dnove of. We got
home about ore O'Clock Sunday morning.
net Roberts sunday m1rni1g aud We went
70 De7idsgille, returning from there Al nine
O'Clock tha; night. left Roberts shortly
Afterwards and went home. was arrested
while in bed an hour later. After We return
Cd to town from Elton saturday night l
beard Roberts tell some one that be had
'lAii Rose cut.
L appears thst after Rose had been struck
by the stone thrown BY Roberts. the people
near him kep; him from falling, and be
soon rallied from the effects ofihe blow.
Shortly thereafter he started in company
with George Helsel and Philip Helbig, fo-
his home, about three miles beyond Elton.
Helsel lef, the party al Eehenseher's,
halfmiis from Elton. Rose and Helbig
continued on perhaps a halfmiie further,
laid down in a fence corner. Helbig think
ing Rose was drunk, left him lie and went
on 10 his home. Rose, however, was suffer
Ing from tie effects OF the blow struck BY
Roberts, and he evidently sank rapidly and
died soon after Heibig left him, for, when
his body was found the next day sbout
noonit was stiF and cold. The body was
found by Kip Bennett, who summoned tie
neighbors. 4 messenger Was :ent TO Scalp
Level for Dr.. Luther. The Doctor Is JUS
iioe Of the Peace, bat lives OTer the line in
Somerset county. He could not, therefore,
hold al inquest, bat he called twelve men a.
witnesses 10 view the body, after which il
was taken to the family residence.
Monday morning Justice Sta;ler, Of Cam
bria county, held an inquest on the body Of
the deceased. DIS. LGther and Livingston
held a posimor;em examination. They
found e confused wound on the right side OF
head and that the skull had been fractured.
These facts were testified to before the jury
and two other witnesses were examined,
after which a verdict vas returned that the
deceased lad come 10 his death from
wound indicted by sbluntins.rumentin the
hands Of Oliver Roberts.
Monday evening George ". Miller, a
bTother-i1-law ofthe murdered man, went
before a Justice Of the Peace and made IL
formations charging murder agsins; both
Roberts and Thomas.
The officers were unable to fnd Roberts.
He IS said 70 Be loose character, although
Of respectable parentsge.
Jacob ". Rose was about thirty five years
Of age. Heleavss wife and several chil-
dren. His wife wzs daughter Of the late
Noah seese, Who died a couple of years ago
in C0nemaugh. Rose was = farmer He
was regarded by his neighbors as good citi-
zen. he vas son ofJacob Rose, who was
murdered on April l6. 1876, al his own saw
mil, near Scalp Levi, by John J. seese,
who struck him over the head with s piece
Of fscaniling or lath. He was not killed in
s;antly, bat started for his home and died
soon aflsr reaching there, having stopped on
the way al a 'Squire's Office and made
statement Of his injury.
The remains OF the deceased were inferred
in the Beskey cemetery in Psiot township,
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