Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1892-07-22

Marks nuriePers Captured.
The two men nho are accused oil
tic murder of peddler Jacob Marks
who WIGS killed on Dutch Mountain
on March Is, 1892, were arrested in
Montreal, Canada, last week and
will be brought to either Sullivan OF
Wyoming county and tried for the
crime most likely at Dee. Term.
1t will be recalled that these two
men Harris and "Charley" after
shooting Marks i'll the head carried
his body in sleigh some distance
and disposed of it by hiding it in an
cid barn on the John McMuilan
farm in Colley twp. Sullivan county.
Tie absence of Marks occasioned
no alarm until after the Jewish pass
over, April II. Then search was
made and the body found. The two
peddlers suspected were traced by
Constable Guy Hollon and Lewis
Marks, brother Of the murdered
man. 1t was found that they
had travelled in their sleigh on this
side OF the river from Lopez to Ran
som in Luzerne county. There they
left their horses at farm house and
ferried across and took the train at
Ransom for N. Y. City, where all
trace vas lost. The case was then
put into the hands of Inspector
Byrnes of New ork, who detailed
Detectives Slawson and Reap on
the case. They found draylnan who
remem bered carrying the bundles,
ETC., of the two men to house on
Canal street. There they found Il
man living named Rosenshire. He
dealt IN cheap jewelry and the kind
of goods peddlers sometimes carry.
Nothing could be got of him re-
garding the whereabouts OF the two
men. The detectives got him intox-
icated but he still held on to his
secret until he was told that Harris" :"
was wanted in Elnira for seducing
Il Jewish girl, and that the girls
father would give Rosenshire $500
tn Int In In L.,
Of "llarris." That "Charlcy' was
not wanted. Then Rosenshire
told the detectives that the men had
gone TO Milwaukee. Slawson went
there at once and it was found that
there were three letters waiting the
peddIers at the Milwaukee post of
flee. The office was shadowed for
several weeks but no one asked for
the letters. Then new search dis
covered the men had bought Il horse
and wagon and gone to Canada
where :;ll trace was lost. For some
weeks no further news was had, but
on Monday the llth ofJuly Rosen-
shire informed Supt. Byrnes that he
had shipped an express package to
those two men at Montreal, Canada.
Detective Reap at once started for
that city. He got there in time to
stop the delivering Of the goods at
the express office, and in asccrtaining
that the men were there, he at once
telegraphed for JOS Maltz, n brother
inlaw OF the murdered man, Jacob
Marks. to come and identify them.
Before this could be done, Harris"
and Charley" demanded their goods
and Reap was obliged to rut them
under arrest and in jail TO await the
arrival of MIR. Marks. An officer
was sent to Harrisburg and Wash
ington for reqmsiton papers.
This case will probably be tried in
wyoming county, as the murder was
committed few rods across the Sui
livan county line, this fact will be
proven by Messrs. Daddow and Mil.
helm who reside in the vicinity OF |
where the murder was committed |
and it is alleged that they heard the
shots. The expense of this fine /
piece of detective work, was borne /.
by tie friends and relatives of Jacob /.
Marks. Sullivan County Commits
sioners offered reward of $3.50, |
which will probably go to the n. Y. |
detectives.
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