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

IL. mr. Nicely SAID, is tnat n1r, CAr-
penter's watchf she said, indeed,
really cannot tell, and turned to Jim.
mie aud said, is that your fathers
watcha he said it was, his fathers
watch but they had exchanged week
ago, Rev. J. X. Lloyd, d. q. Alter,
and myself had q conversation with
Jimmie. Mr.. Lloyd told him the
people were clamoring for bis arrest,
that they blamed him for numbering
his father, Jimmie said he did not
bis father, had nothing to do
with it. then asked him whether it
was true then he said that if they
could find the man who had his faith
er's watch that he was the man who
had murdered him He said he did
not say it. Some one asked him what
kind o. a watch Ae had given his father,
and he said gold watch, 1 said, jim
mie, they say you have silver watch.
He then said he put that watch in
pawn in Philadelphia and got gold
one for it. He further said he
bought this silver watch and chain
from Mr.. Petit in Port Royal
When the Coroner's jury closed its
work on Wednesday it had mass
of testimony upon which it rendered
this verdict:
"That James Carpenter eame 10 his
death through hus son James Carpenter
by means Of a blunt Instrument. .atso
that Mrs. Carpenter ,rJe of the murder
ed man was implicated"
The accused son was brought to
town by Sheriff Lapp, and deputy A.
B. Evans, and lodged in Jail on We'd
nesday evening to ans yer the charge
There is blood on his clothes and on
his new shoes which he says is chicken
and turkey blood. He denies having
killed his father.
No blunt instrument up to We'd
ncsday evening had been found.
On Thursday afternoon a search
warrant was gotten out to search
the Carpenter premises, which re-
suited in finding a club two feet long,
and about one and half inches
thick, with the bark on, except where
hands grasp it. 1t is an ugly looking
bladgeon when thought of in con
nection with the murder in which it
was made to play part, it is almost
as heavy as club of that size Of
lignumvite wood, it was found under
a manger in the shop. The end Of
the club that had felled the old, in
dustrious, well to do Mr.. Carpenter,
and gashed and bruised his head and
broke his face was stained with blood,
and 30 fierce had been the blows de-
livered on the old mans head that
fragments of bark were broken off
and dotted in places the head of the
murdered man. Hair adhered to the
club, and there are feathers here and
there on it that were fastened there
by the drying Of the blood when it
lay under the mangcr. The check
punch that the murdered blind man
used to punch his bank checks 30 that
he could irdentify them by feeling
the punch holes, and thereby recog-
Mise the checks to be genuine was
found far under the floor of the shop
away from crack or hole through
which it could have dropped. Thus
giving its own mute testimony that
it had been thrown under the floor
by the hands that had first used the
club, and afterwards used the knife
TO cut the throat of his victim. The
peculiarly of the cutting of the
throat of the unfortunate man, is
that it was done IN about the man
ner that the throats of chickens and
calves are cut when they are killed
for market, by thristing the knife
through without cutting out the
'front.' or back of the neck.
The sled on which the victim WAS
hauled from the shop to the creek on
that quiet Sabbath evening, belong
ing to Oscar Rannels and was taken
from the Rannels property near the
railroad, and after its bloody mission
was left standing, snsared with blood
and human hair, near the Presbyter-
ian church.
While the search was going on, on
the premises the funeral took place.
The services we're conducted by Rev.
Mr. Campbell of the Presbyterian
of Port Royal.
The body was placed il its last
earthly resting placs in Church Hill
cemetrey, and while many shuddered
at the awful end that had overtaken
Mr.. Carpenter, they reflected that
his end was thousand times pre-
ferable, to life stained and eternally
damed with his murder.
John Leidy, constable, with Wm.
Bender, and John Glace were placed
in the house of the murdered man to
guard Mrs. Carpenter on Thursday
night.
On Friday at 10 a. IN. Mrs. Car
penter was brought to this town and
logged in the Jail, to answer in accord
ance with the verdict of the Corners
jury. When she was put in her cell
she knelt and prayed. Meanwhile
search on the property was resumed.
The house was searched twice before,
and this the third time pocket book
was found in q trunk that had been
searched previously. 1t was the dead
mans pocket book and how it got
into the trunk between the first and
third search has not been explained.
The watercloset between the dive ling
house and shop was searched and gave
up its important testimony in the form
of keys to the shop that the murdered
man carried on his person. Some
blood stained rags were gotten out
of the same place.
On Satnrday the search WAS arain