The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1892-04-20
PRITTS STILL At LARGE.
No Reward offered for
His Arrest.
Another Illicit DlstiIlsr "Run In.r
LATEST MoossHINE DEVELOPMENTS.

s. BIZ Pritts one ofthe murderers ofJon-
aihan C Hochsteilsr, Is siill At large. Up
% this time the county commissioners have
refused to offer any reward for his arrest
and 10 orgznizsd effort Is being aade to cap
tare him.
Many people living in the vicinity Of the
'nlooashine murder believe that Pritts is
hiding in the mountain near his home and
could be easily taken into custody. Others
thiRk that be hzs lefl the State and is liber-
ally supplied with money. Ds.ec,iye Fish
eroffers 70 deliver Pitts over 10 the Sheriff
Of The county for SlO0 but one seems in
clined TO pay even 70 small 2 sum to bring
the murderer to justice. Talks cheap
a2d Fisher may be over confident, but he
says he vii give Pitts the hottest chase he
ever bad in his iifs in case Price Is put
upon his head Should Pitts escape being
captured before Nay Coart, Miller ease viii
certainly Be dsiayed, and may possibly ney-
er oe tTied until his eeconpsice has been run
to earth.
BILL PEnrs EscsPEs
The Ut Pleasant yo,ya1F says: sBiur
Prii.s, one OF the marierers osold man
Hochstetler. has been gone from tie noun
tain for ten days. While = posse which lea
Somersel last Monday nighs w.s securing
the mountain the object Of the search was
probably hundreds OF miles sway.
L viii be remembered that the murder was
eoanli-isi oa We5ae=day, March 80 Oa
tue f5il5vins Flsay J-cob Saniemsyer. who
is sou in law Of Prittz. aaI vao lives on
Eagle s-rce,, sas a. wosk IL the aorewoOd
mines Of the S3uihSes. Coai < Coke Com
p2ny, when Es received a message eailing
hi.n home Securing tcaui fr5a Lennon
Bios, the Iiyeryrnsa, lie and his wife Iefl Tor
the mountains the same afternoon. The foi-
lowing evening. shortly after DARK, sanie-
meyer brought the team back, and there is
no doahs tbas his eompaaioa was his father
iz-l4w, whom he I=fi AZ his Es.le stree. resi-
dence before he dove 70 the stable.
The window bliaas had beea draxa down
thedsy Mr.. Ssntemeyer anl his wife lef.
and hey were ..iil in that position on san
day morning although no one Of the maay
pa.sers by that day had any idsa that be-
hind them, pesping out auxiously At every
sound, vas the hunted mza whose name,
Eith those Of Tie 4llilers ala H5chssetler,
was on eyeryboiy's lip, yet such was the
case, as lie vas seen and spoken 70 6y those
who have known him for yzrs.
AZ Effort WAS made % secure barber to
cut Pritts' long hair and shave him, but
after al artist sent forwas not fJund a. home
fearz Of exciting s1spicioa seem 10 have kep;
The Messenger f'om looking for another and
nothing was done 70 Disguise the fugitive
excsp. % provide him with another suit Of
clothes. jas. about da-k SaaiIy evening
Pdtts and Sanieneysr lei tl- tonsc and
ws,ksi do9a across The field. 20 IsieSooi.
carryins vslise. They reached q shaft jus,
a. the heavy rain and hail storm came up
and stood 5snella the tipp,s until the worst
vas passed. L IS not known Ehere they
wsat. although r. IS szid Sau.emeyer borrow
ei Sf5 from his a-her. who lives at More
wood, saying that be inteaded going west.
The clo.hes which Pitts lel here have
spot 81 blood on the right coat sleeve.
s. 0EEIcEEs aBASDoN TIE HrSr.
TIE InternsI Revenue Officers, under com
mzni OF SPECIAL Agent Slnue, F. Cllbert-
son, have ahandonet the sea-ch FOR moon
sinners a. isss. for the present A second
/ rsiI rss NJ lie on the c3aairy back Of Trent
Weinssiay and Thursdly. but resulted IL a
Wild goose chase -Tas Lllrel Hill noun
tain n this connfy Is sEarming with mooa-
I sinners and li-it stills" ssid NJ. Gilbert
s5a 20 HEstLD reporter, bsf1Te starting FOR
P.ltsbu-gh, '.bu- al Of the stills have been re-
moved and concealed aad While the prssea.
state Of excitement exists up in that coln-
| ny Il j. useless 70 ~ 70 capture them
i have 10 authority 10 arrest every man Sho
I has copper ks-,le in ais house and unless
I I can each the "noolsbinersr engaged in
making distilled spirils can get no positive
/ evidence against them Ny impression :
I that the raids We have just made vii have =
/ good efect sad that il viii be number Of
years at least before the unlawful manufact
IRE Of whisky viii De resumed IN this terri
tory.
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