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

JIM, ana Tor the keeping OF his moth
er in the penitentiary.
1t was about 9 O'Clock on Monday
morning-four hours after mother
aud son had been heard talking about
gathC ring up the money in the bank,
and selling the eggs in the shop
that James B. Carpenter began to
talk to neighbors about the disap-
pearance of his father, and from tLis
hour people in Port Royal began a
search for the missing man and be-
gan to suspect Jim.
The citizens Of hetown visited the
missing mans business places, and
soon found blood marks outside the
building in the alley. 4 light snow
of some days previous had not all
disappeared and that Providential
light snow revealed the trail made by
the removal OF the murdered man.
Here and there was a patch of snow,
and on almost everyone in a certain
direction there were drops Of blood.
Step by step, the blood on the snow
revealed the trail of the murderer.
When the trail took tbs direction OF
TCscarora creek that flows along the
south side of the town there was
hurrying Of people toward the
stream. and when a shoe Of the vie
tim was found on the trail there was
a great hurrying to get to the stream.
Up and down thay scattered till
some one shouted, here" and there
on the banks OF the placidly running
creek were the marks of something
havipg bsea showed off into the cold
and turSid water, aud . little further
down the other shoe Of the father
was found. Everyone was horrifed
over the exclamation .'ne is sunk in
tie creek"
Such a sensation.
The whole community was aroused.
Sheriff LaPp was sent for, the out
going District Attorney, J. Howard
Neely was sent for; the incom-
ing District Attorney, Wilberforce
Schweyer was sent for.
All that day the creek was search.
ed, graphing hooks scrdped the bot
tom Of the.stream away into the night,
till at two o'clock on Tuesday morn
ing when the sheriff and his search
crs retired exhausted to take rest.
1t was a well planned murder. The
premises had been cleaned, and the
business place showed no signs of
the awful tragedy that had been en-
acted there on Sunday evening.
Everything about the place looked
rs it did when they were preparing
chickens and Grating eggs for mark
ct, and if it had not been for that
snow no one would have known sny
better than that the elder Carpenter
had wandered away under some mys-
terious impulse.
But murder will out.
Shortly after daylight the sheriff
and District Attorney were again up
on the scene Of the creek, and in the
town, and in the business place where
the killing was done, and all over the
premises, gathering here and there
link OF information, and keeping up
4 force OF men probing the waters for
the missing man. Foot by foot the
bottom OF Tuscarora creek was scrap
ed and pro6ed down toward the june
tion Of its waters with the river.
Everyone was growing apprehen-
sive that perhaps the body had float
ed out into the river and then ali
would be over for without the body
murder could not be established.
Nearer and nearer toward the river
moved the searchers and stiller and
stiller grew the water for the river
was high and backed water into the
creek.
How fortunate.
Was it the Providential mind that
had raised the Juniata to back water
into Tuscarora creek to keep the body
Of the murdered man from floating
away never TO be found. II was ,
O'Clock in the afternoon.
The leading boat manned by Eli
Shotasberger of .MIffijntown and John
Will were within few feet of where
the river was rushing by, and the
spectators on the bank almost held
their breath over the thought that
The narrow margin Of few feet of
still water must give up the dead
man, or give up The search, and leave
his disappearance mystery for the
depth of eternity TO solve. But see
the men in the boat have grappled
something They pull it to the top
OF the water
It is q dead man.
The body Of the father Carpenter
His head was bruised and broken,
and his throat was cut.
Who murdered him was The ques-
ton.
Squire Geo. ". Wilson OF Patter-
SOP, was called upon to act as coron-
or, and called the following named
citizens, Jacob Groninger, Charles
Mccormick, W. c. Coxey, T. j. Owes,
W. \. McNitt as coroner's jury. The
jury heard two witnesses and al
joulped till on Wednesday morning.
James 3. Carpenter the son Of the
murdered man was sent to Jail in de-
fault of five hundred dollars bail to
appear on Wednesday morning as a
witness before the coroner's jury.
It was long after nightfall when
Sheriff Lapp lodged the young man
in Jail, which he never after left ex-
cept when in the custody of the sher-
iff.
On Wednesday the testimony of
James B. Carpenter, the prisoner, for
such lie really was, and other wit
nesses led the coroner's jurv to rend-
er the following verdict.
That James Carpenter came to his
death hroughhrS son James B. Curpen-
ter By means of blunt Instrument.
Also that Mrs. Carpenter wife of the
murdered man was implicated.