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

OF Almost Two J0OuSauu uOliaTs.
Was the murderer after that mon
ey?
He and his wife-who claims to
have been a Miss Hettie Barton
were married some twenty years ago
but of that time, it is said, they were
separated thirteen years, drifting
hlther and thither, it does not ap-
pear Just where, and their life work
previous to coming to Port Royal is
not revealed. Philadelphia, Lancss
ter, Cincinnati, and other places are
mentioned as former homes of theirs
and the young man James, who is
in Jail, on the charge of having mur
dered the elder Carpenter, is re
reported to have led a wild and
wandering life number of years.
Rumor has it, that he is not the
son, of either the murdered man, OF
the Mrs. Carpenter who is in jail a;
an accessory to the murder now un
der investigation 1t is reported
that Mrs. Carpenter, previous to hel
arrest, and before the body of hel
husband had been found in the creek
spoke of people vino disappeared,
having been murdered and concealed
in streams of water and in connec
ton with such conversation spoke OF
the long lost Charley Ross. and said
Charlie Ross was not drowned, anG
that her Jimmi. is just the age o
Charlie Ross. From such remarks
the rumor has arisen, that perhaps
the woman and the young man il
Jail are not mother and son, but thai
the young man, for all that any othel
person but Mrs. Carpenter knows
may be the long lost and mucl
searched for Charlie Ross.
Years ago when the Charlie Ro s.
theft was still thought of a woman
with boy appeared in Patterson
and was about the town a day and
a night and people who then knew O.
her presence there talked about the
Charlie Ross mystery, but before
they took action in the matter, she
disep ppered as mysteriously as he had
come. 1t is hardly probable that
that woman, and the Mrs. Carpenter
in Jail. are one and the same woman
who was then looking for q quiet
place to sojourn while, and from
that flying visit cams to sec'ect Port
Royal as their home.
AIRS. Carpenter knows, whether
Jimmie Carpenter, now in jail on a
charge of having murdered he hus,
band, is her own son.
When the SENTINEL AND REPUBLIcAS
closed it's forms on the morning OF
the 18th, the body Of the murdered
man was in charge of Coroner, Squire
G. w Wilson. and his jury consist
ing of Jacob Groninger, Charles
Mccormick, W. G. CoIey, 7. j. Owes,
". II. McNitt, and Elliott Grooming
en- in the Office OF Squire J S. Slim
nell, in Port Royal. Charles Will,
Eli Shotzberger, Geo. Boyer, and n.
X. johnson were examined as to the
finding of the body i'll the creek.
DR.. A. w. Shelly, testified as to an
examination of the body Of the muir
dered man.
He said the throat OF Mr. Carpen.
ter was cut from ear to ear, the wind
pipe aud all the arteries were cut off,
the ligaments of the spinal column
was partly severed. Only a small
portion of skin about Adams Apple
in the neck was unsevered, there was
a cut on the back part OF his head
about 8 inches long, another cash
about 3 inches long Was formed on
the skull, about inches above the
right ear, another cut or cash over
the left eye 8 inches long, the left
ear was cut through and cash back
of the ear about one and . halt
inches long, the outer corner of the
left eye was cut .hrse fourths of an
inch long and one half inch deep,
cuts and bruises over the head and
left side of the face, having b-er
made with a dull instrument. The
throat was cut with a sharp inssru
ment.
Other witnesses were sum
moned, but the inquest adjourned to
meet at $50, a. m, on Wednesday
morning and committed James Car
penter Jr., to Jail IN default of $500
to appear as a witness at that hour
Sheriff Lapp, had charge of the
prisoner in Jail till the hour dssis
mated, when the inquest resonvsnsd
James B. Carpenter was sworn
He t, stified that he was engaged in
business with his father, he was to
get the net proceeds Of all the poul.
try, his fsther was to get the pro
ceeds Of all the eggs, he hsd woi ked
all the past week IN the shop. That
arrangement existed since last Sep
tember. They picked poultry oncs
week. He fed the poultry on Sun
morning, but did not know who fed
it on Monday.
He helped his father in the shop
to get kindling and coal for the stove
about 6 o'clock on Sunday evening.
Marshall Andrews WAS there to feed
the horse, he told Andrews that he
would feed the horse, he got oats
and went to Donohue's able and
fed the horse. he brought the half
bushel that he carried the oats in
back to the shop. 1t was dark then.
His father WAS still in the shop. He
told his father he had better lock up
and come to the house, he said III
be in in little while. Witness went
from shop to Mr.. Majors, did not
stay long because his mother was
sick and he wanted to give her med
icine. Mother asked where il father
He said he supposed father had gone
10 Donohue's. Mother said she wa,
not able to stay alone, and asked me to
stay there that night. He promised
to do SO, but went over to Majors ,
while to see his wife, remained al
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