The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1894-09-20
vlLL.IANY.
A Horrible lntunpue to Noa ana Wu,-
der Falls Through



One of the most dtsMrdiy and
outrageous plans to rob and murd.
or, if necessary, lot o., poop,, neal
Shamokin Dam has happily been
trailed in the dust. We thought W,
lived in n community where we need
not fear apy Jesse James gang
especially since Focht, Fry and
Iechmau have met their merited re
ward for similar offence of violence
aud impetuosity. On Saturday
September Sth John Baly, a pros
porous farmer residing on Chestnut
Ridge received letter which read.
as follows:
kNoUsETowS, Juniata Co., Sep. ~
Mn. JoHN BAILY, DEAR Sir,
Thcr,
are plans laid TO rob You Of youi
money on Saturday evening next,
on the 10Th, there being picnic ON
Saturday and q festival in the even
ing. The phn is TO 60 to the plyfc,
and your whole family is eXy>cted
to be there, and in the eyeIg, the
old folks to go nome, apssSo SouhE
to stay there. The -@S'ls3loT s'ps'.ioT oi
this Is n young man .ovs "Iih bn heu i.,,,.,, Ior
YOU last summer. ,,sc S 40 7 ~ hnoWS
all about your ~ ''' 'lic''hl-
stances, ,-tlat I'm r,ii'. MI touse tC !h
locked for the,PNnE ,olhs TO get IN.
Now such r,m,pp ',ilossion 's, 'i'.' OF one
of their gos' who ran on ior them
and gavs' oae the hisJ0r He is n
unu 'n,,n.. nsa..g'ow and by ull accounts
wos Wa liked into it but changed his
,;.9 m"9 and gave them away There
)n'tt several others there Mt the Dam.
ht be <. are 4 talking about going
.',,,1o %, '1'' you. j am II stranger TO
~. 'I'.,'' ,.d 80 1' ~ to me, but | feel il my
,-#..y. or .l,sr know, 30 you. cns-,
..ul0 yo..s6d. Mo-, for gor'tor..g
sake, don't give meaway. O. .aght
b,a in danger too yet. II. would
be TX case, would tlep0 you or
lur ndfecS'l A., for t"i aa mo IN
give YOU my maine ba, Keep that to
yourself if you can.
Jo1N GELxErr.
1lo man who worgcd for John
Baily last summer was Harrison
The man who gayc
away the dinbolicai plot was George
Rusk, young Hlan who worked
for jeremiah MWnmel this Sum
mer. Young Rus, uplyas takcn into
partnership in Thu T.. %pant scheme
and was given aiiythe details. He
has since made ~ Confession to John
Baily and PosY reporter in which
he duplicates Ha) prison Grumbine as
leader of the gdng, Norman Long
and quite nun hber of others who
lre not so bad pis the leader. The time
set for the robbery was last Satur-
lay evening. when the would-be rob
bers expected that the young folks
would be at the Kratzerville picnic
and the doors would be unlocked.
THE PLAN
was for the gang to be provided
with two sets of revolvers, one set
loaded with blank cartridges to
scare the Baileys into submission
and the othrr set to compel them to
yield to their demand for the
money. Other means of torture had
been concocted, such as holding
u candle TO their feet. We pre-
sumo this was intended as a light to
their pathway to eternity. Four
places We're to be robbed on this
night, John Bailey's, Peter Bailey's,
Monroe Fishers and Milton Gross.
Peter Bailey raised Grumbine and
the neighbors generally look upon
him as bad character. Peter
Bailey had $500 in the house before
he heard of the attempted robbery
and he sent the crooks very cordial
invitation to come as he would be
prepared to give them a warm recep-
ton.
A strange coincidence in this af-
fair is the fact that George Rusk,
the young man who confessed, was
raised by Jacob Ludwig, upon whom
Focht, Fry'and Zechman made the
brutal assault near Quaker Run,
Juniata county, on the 3Oth of last
April. Rusk evidently had great
deal of manhood about him and
deserves great credit for disclosing
the villanous conspiracy to violate
the laws of the commonwealth in a
most shameful and disgraceful man
ner.