Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1892-04-21

The Sentinel of Monday evening con-
tained the following accounts of how Eas-
ter Sunday was observed by the people
residing near that "city:"
One man was killed yesterday at Stock
ton in brawl. Another was stabbed.
The house of Steve Takatah at No. 4
Stockton is run on the Hungarian plan.
1t has been estimated by observers that
one carload of beer went to No. 4 patch
on Saturday, and there was dance and
a scrap in every boarding house.
On Saturday Steve "settled" with the
grocery man and the latter sent his COM
pliments in the shape of keg of beer
Other dealers sent more beer and whis-
key and, all told, there were seven kegs
of beer and twenty-eight bottles of
"w White" whiskey or 'cheap rats"
At o'clock the harmony that prevail
ed was broken, for row broke out
among the drunken boarders and the
end of it all was that John Takatah had
butcher knife run into his lungs and
drunken assailants picked up an axe and
with the blunt end battered out what
little life remained.
Andrew Varya was stabbed in two
places with another butcher knife and
lost three wash buckets of blood and
may die. He was badly battered around
the head and legs by club.
Takatah's dead body was a horrible
sight to the reporter, even though that
individual has looked upon many man.
gled body. The head was crushed into
a soft mass. The man who had been
stabbed was lying on dirty bed tick
soaked through and through with his
life blood. He could barely talk and it
was learned, with much difficulty, how
ever, that the men responsible for
the murder were four Hungarians known
as Joseph Midlow, Joseph Gusie, John
Rapshaw and Joseph Gidash.
The Coal and Iron Police were notified
and Chief Hampton, accompanied by Of
ficers Cook and Wersinger, went down
to Stockton, but the men had escaped
1t was impossible to find any trace of
them, but the search will be continued
vigorously by Chief Hampton.
Another murder over at Honey Brook,
This was great Easter for the coroner
and the returns are not all in yet.
At half-past seven o'clock last night,
| lgnacius Nicgoarta, an Italian, was shot
and instantly killed by Genardo Percar-
do, another Italian, at Honey Brook.
Ignacuis was attempting to take Gen
ardo home. Genardo was drunk, drunk
as lord is popularity supposed to be,
and when lgnacuis handled him rather
roughly as one must when you have a
drunken man to handle, Genardo drew
a revolver, big 23-calibre bull dog, and
fired four shots at him.
Ignacuis dropped dead. Each shot
had been deadly one. Each lung was
pierced by bullet, The remaining two
bullets entered the mouth and passed
through the back Of the neck.
The dead body of the murdered man
lay out on the road bed all night.
Nobody would touch it. This morning
it was taken up and slowed away in a
coal shanty. Life is cheap. Its dollar
a day and board yourself while you live
and not much fuss when you're killed.
Genardo didn't escape. He didn't
try to do so. He was too drunk. Con
stable Philips arrested him and took him
before Squire O'Donnell over at Lofty
and the Squire commanded Mr. Philips
to take him to Pottsville Jail.
Two murders on an Easter Sunday
isn't the best kind of record, but il
keeps up Hazeton in the press dis
patches.