Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1892-11-30
4 Great Sensation.

Franklin county Is III the thrOes,
of a great sensa ton caused
by h g confession of EN- an e |
Baker, who is servinga term of IL
years in the eastern penitentiary on
a conviction and sentence for nur-
der-in the second degree-of F. H.
Blake in August 1888.
jacob Manning and Pierce Sny der
were tried by the same term of
court. separately, as accessories with
Baker in the murder but they were
both acquitted. Baker had made
some kind of confession that loos-
ened the grip of the law on Manning
Blakes wife was living with Man
ming and the murder grew out of
that fact.
Baker, recently made a confession
and sent it to the District Attorney
of Franklin county. The confession
appeared in the Chambarsburg Re
pcsitory of last week, and reads:
EASTERN PRNTTENTIARY AT PHLADEL-
PHIA. NOVEMBER 14TH, 1892.
to the Districkt attorney of franklin
Count Dear Sir want to put my
Case in your hands Now want to
informe you By the few Lines that
i am Now prisnar in the Eastern
peniteniiary at philadelphia in AGENT
anne hear for another mans Crime
throue pergery. am poor ignaa-
ant man or would Not Be hear to
Day. Now will stat you the Case
and all about it and about the wit
ness and my wife and all and want
you to have the Right man arrested
at once an put to prison and all the
Rest too,-and persan Snyder and
-. to the Best of my knolige Harvey
Blake was shot on Sunday Night
augest 18th 1888 Between 8 and 10
o clock in Little Cove in warren
township on the old widow Smith
place hear will Now Commence
my Statement. Jacob manning mar
ried Harvey Blakes wife and she was
Not Devorsied from Harvey Bake so
he Harvey Blake Came to see his
wife and 2 Children and Harvey
Blake was there with manning his
wife and his owne 2 Children 4 ore
5 Days Before manning Shot him to
the Best ny knowledge and the quar-
rel Came this way: Harvey Blake
wanted his wife and Children and
sed he had right to them and Mr..
Manning was going to shoot him 2
ore 3 Nights Before he Did. he had
got Mr.. pierson snyder to come to
his place 4 Nights Before to help
him do the murder and come and
got me and my wife to Come to his
house 2 or 3 Nights Before he shot
Blake. he told me and my wife that
he was afraid of Blake that he would
Do something to hurt him and man
ing had hole in partishan of the
house and Gore 3 Nights Before and
Every Night till he shot Blake he
had table Set against the portian
and stood on it with his gun at this
hole to shoot Blake if he Came
Down in the Night. and the night
he shot Blake was there and my
wife Elisebeth Baker and persan
Snyder and about 8 manning told
him to go up to Bead and sed he
would Not go to Bead that Night he
woule Lie Down on the floor that he
wanted to get up Erly the Next
morning and go to Hagerstown.
then about half past 9 ore so he
started up to Bead and asked piersan
Snyder to sleep with with him that
Night and when they got up stairs
manning told me to tell Snyder to
Come Down and sleep Behind him
in Bead and then Blake he sed il
Snyder could Not sleep there he
would Not that there was something
Rong. Blake Came Down stairs
again and put on his Coat and Came
to the Roome Door and sed he had
Right there that the Court had
given him him Right there and By
that mr.. manning ordered him out
of the house and when Blake started
to go to the kitchen Door to go out
Doors manning and pierson SNYDER
Rushed on to him and Blake sed to
them ''men Don't kill NE Nor hurt
me and will Leave you're house and
Never Com Back again" and as he
got outside of the gate then Jacob
manning and pierson Snyder fired
and shot him and as they shot Har.
vey Blake hollered go my godp
stood on the porch then an manning
and Snder turned Round and Sed