Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1894-06-13
HUNG.

James B. Carpenter aged % years,
was hung by Sheriff Samuel Lapp in
th. Jail yardiin .Hltiiintown on Thurs
,oy, June Il, 1894, for having muc-
dcred his father in his place Of bus
mess in Port Royal on Sunday even
ing, December 10. 1898.
The county OF JunIata is not old,
having been organized il 1881, but
within ,he time that iGtcrysned h2
tween 1881 and 1894, the annals of
..e county record eight murders.
OF the eight principals in the eight
cases OF violence and death there
were three accomplices and one ac-
cessory which ruBs up tho number of
persons to twelve, charged upon the
books Of the county with murder,
which is not an enviable record for q
county TO make within thirty three
years.
But Of the eight cases four We're
tie result Of quarrels and fshts, and
cannot be clGsscd with the crime of
deliberate murder.
Another was infanticide.
Three We're deliberate murders.
Barney Logue is the first man on
the rC ord charged with the killing Of
II man named Henderson.
!Ju and Henderson had a quarrel
i'll Seiger's hotel IN Mifflintown. The
evening Of that day Henderson start
ed TO drive to Lewistown. TIE next
morning his dead body was found by
the roadside in The Long Narrows
with his horse and cart standing close
b.. His quarrel with Logue and
the fact that Logue was seen going
% his home in Milford township,
about daylight on tine morning that
the body of Henderson was found
led to a suspicion which resulted in
the arrest and trial Of Logue, but he
was acquitted.
All the other principals charged
with murder escaped with q greater
or less term Of imprisonment, ex-
cepting the three eases of deIiber-
ately planned murder, and one Of the
three, Joseph McMeen, upon whom
sentence Of death was pronounced,
f. murdering his wife in Port Royal
by sending her dose of s:rychnine
for quiHine, was cheated out of his
@uss on the scafiold by the State
pardon board changing the death
sentence to sentence Of life i'm
prisonmeEt in the western peniten-
tiIy.
Two only have been hung.
John +. lowering and James b.
Carpenter, are the only persons hung
within the limits OF the county. Nei
tn, u the two mrderers were ma
tlNes or long residents Of Juniata.
Lowering murdered Henry Aucker
Of Fayette township for money about
ci-ht o'clock on the evening of March
/, 1851, and was hung by Sheriff
James Hamilton in the Mitfiintown
ia ard, January 3, 1862. He had
tToaccompices, n man named How'd
er, his brOther-in-law, and man nam
ed Zimmerman who was the schem
er in tho murder plot. Howder was
with Lowering when the deed was
done. The accomPlises served each
term in prison.
Lowering in his confession tells
how he killed Aucker as follows.
"Sefore we entered the house we
',. past and looked in at the south
-naow. We stood at the west gable
end for some time. Towards the last
we made the effort to 60 into the
house, but the dog seemed to sur
mise our errand, and was not willing
to let US affect al entrance. How'd,
er. however took the lead, and knock
e =, the door which was fastened.
1t was opened by Miss Anna McEl-
roy, grand daughter of Mr.. Aucker,
and l bolted in followed by Howder.
l went after the little girl through
the kitchen, into a sitting room and
cat down on wood chest behind the
stove a. the door of the bedroom
where Mr.. Aucker was resting him