The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1892-04-06

alarmed fDe men they were AunlnS- MI
Ter and Pritts we're seen starting away fron
the barn. An investigation Of the nov. "a IS
claimed. revealed the Impressions the
forms Of the txo men made on the bay.
HorHsTErLER's xfsrsKE
one day last January Jonathan Hochsiet-
Ter and enc Of bis nepheEs. billy Gsbe'
nochsts,ler. s.roiled into the oai,s Of Dis
tEiet Attorney Coloorn. The fafher asked
whether there were any E,ore District AttoE-
neys in Somerset
NO. sir, answered Mr.. Colborn, = am
the only district attorney in the county
wei, continued Mr.. Hochststler, has
the deputy revenue collector, Mr.. John. been
here to inquire after me -
Being assured that Mr.. John had not been
there that morning, Hochstetlsr drew a
card from his pocket. aud after srruiinizing
it fora moment, ssked # Mr. Schlosser, a
special officer from the Internal Revenue
Department. had been there and inquired
for him
NO person hss inquired for you to-day,
responded the District Attorney.
"Well, they'll be here after me before
long. ard wish you would tell them that
III meet them here at I O'Clock"
With that HOchsietlsr and his neph eT
withdrew. Promptly at 1 O'Clock they re
turned, and in 4 few minutes 'atsr two rev
euue officers dropped in They asked per
mission 10 occupy the lawyers back Office,
and the four men retired into il. Their con
sultation lasted for several hours, and when
Hochsts:ler Withdrew Mr. Colborn was oe-
cuP.ed with client from the moonshine
district.
A HOcbs;eller passed through the ofits
the client glanced up Al him aud when he
had passed out Of the door he asked the at
torney If tiat was not '.Yonny" Hochsieilsr
Fifteen minutes sferWard HOchstetier $
nephew walked out through the front Office
and he was shortly followed by the officers.
what were those fellows doing back
there" Mr. Colborn's client demanded.
Il really don't know, replied the lawyer,
'but believe they were arranging lumber
desl" p
"Wsll, believe there IS something up,
said his visitor, jumping to his feet He
Immediately left the Office without eOmplet-
ing the business on which he bad called
Three or four days following the above
conversation the revenue officers made a
raid upon the moonshiners in the Laurel
Hill Mountain. The raid resulted in the
capture of two illicit stills in Fayette coun-
", but the gang over which the Two Bills, p
Miller and Pritts. ruled. had fed and car
RED their Illicit stills with them. Secret
Service Officer Fisher, who had spent several
months in the mountain making the ac-
quaintance Of the mooushiners and trying
to worm their secrets from them, Nas
dumbfounded at their sudden disappearance
and left the county in disgust
He had no sooner Withdrawn from the
mountain than the moonshiners appeared
ard renewed operations without further fear
ofdetection But from the hour that Hoch-
stetler and bis nephew were seen in consul
tation with the revenue oficers they were
doomed men.
CAUSE OF TIE HoOSsHISEEs ALARM.
There is not particle OF doubt that the
visit Of lawyers John Z Scott and Wm. II.
Rappel, accompanied by DR.. II. S. Moore,
Of New Lexington, and several Philadsl-
phia capitalists. 10 Trent alarmsd the
moonshiners and were mistake for a posse
Of L s detectives by them Messrs. Scott
and Ruppel were conducting the Philadel-
phia capitalists through the mountains
above Trent Wednesday, for the purpose Of
exhibiting to them the magnificent timber
that decks the mountain sides. The party
occupied three buggiss, and young Bob
Miller says they were seen passing up and
down the roads by his father and Pritts. Il
was for the purpoee OF catching sight Of the
supposed detectives that induced Bob to 90
with bis fsthe. and Pritts to the point on
Crab run where the murder was committed
When the lawyers and their party drove in
sight Boo's father said to him. There,
now. you can see the detectives yourself
and can know after this that when Pritts
and me tell you anything. it IS eorreet-"
A few minutes after the three buggies had
passed, Hochstetler was ssen coming Up
the road.