Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1893-12-20
FOUL MURDER.

Ibe awful butchery Of James Car
penter, the industrious and prosper
GUS dealer III butter and eggs and
chickens and so forth in his place of
business in Port Royal on Sunday
evening, December 10th, 1893, with
the finding of the body in Tuscarora
creek, where 1t itempties it's waters in
to the Junista river, has Mortified the
community beyond anything that has
ever taken place within the limits of
Juniats county.
1t was butchery that could only
find germ in the mind and heart of
one Of Sltan's own, to go into the
busines place Of Carpenter, on that
quiet Christian Sabbath evening. in
town noted for its large churches
and large congregations and there
strike down blind man with a club
and then thrust knife through bis
throat, again and again twisting the
knife around till the wound was al
most large enough to admit of the
entrance of hand into the cavity,
and then when the deed was done,
patiently wait till near the small
hours Of the night, to take the dead
man away, was the work of fiend in
human form.
The murderer knew that his victim
was safe from the gaze of the out
side world that SUNDAY evening.
The murdered man was in the con.
fuement of his own business place
where it could lie in safety under lock
and key till the next day when the
business place should put on its every
week day habits, then the awful
secret of the place must be given up.
Had stranger to the placs commit
ted thu dead he would not have locked
the place and then gone back into
the yard and dropped the murdered
mans keys into the watercloset.
What an awful scene that must
have been after the town had settled
down to the quiet of midnight, for the
fend who committed the deed, to go
to the Rannels property, and there
take boys sled, aud stealthily glide
back to the shop, stand, look, and
listen, and then unlock the door drag
out the body, place it on the BOYS
sled and start with it for Tuscarora
creek, to drop it into that watery
resting place, believing that the
stream would never givJ up its awful
secret. The nervous strain of such
a job would crush any man but a
fsnd, and the man who could pass
through the work of hauling his
murdered victim through street and
alley OF the town almost a quarter OF
mile to cover the crime by throw.
ing the body into the creek will face
any'accusation that is brought against
him, and the tiend who hauled Car
peuter's dead body to the creek that
Sunday night, could stand and look
on unmoved when the graphing
hooks of Shotsberger and Will
brought the secret of the disappear
snce OF Carpenter to the light of day
and showed to the world how he had
been murdered.
Who committed the murder!
The victim Of this foul murder
came to Port Royal, some five or si1
years ago and began business as (
dealer in eggs, chickens and so forth
Some of the citizens, said, thai
man is blind, he can't support him
self and wife and son, he'll becom,
a borough charge and the well to do
people of the place, who do taxi
care of themselves will have to ia,
themselves to keep he and his, anc
they brought an action to have hin
moved from the borough. Csrpente
made defense and proved that wa
sbundantly able to make living fol