The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1896-03-12
A Complete Account.

Last week we gave all the reliable
information wo could get concerning
Marion Meyer. We give below the
full particulars AS given by the Ty-
rome correspondent to the Altoona
Times.
-Four white men, two colered men
and n young man who gives his name
as Marion Meyer, aged Is, residence,
Middleburg, Snyder county, were
on westbound freight train Friday
night. Meyer got on the train at
Lewistown, finding the others on
the train. Meyer when he boarded
the train had in his possession re-
volver, silver watch worth about
80, II purse containing 50 note, IA
50 gold piece, seven silver dollars
and some small change amounting
to couple of dollars. On the way
from Lewistown he traded the re-
volver to one of the white men in the
car for two rings and breastpin,
and afterwards gave tho same man
80 cents for razor. When the train
arrived Mt Huntingdon, therefore,
the boy had in his possession the
money above mentioned, less, the
SOC. razor aud the rings and breast
pin. After leaving Huntingdon the
boy aud the two colored men being
alone in the car, Meyer says his as
sociates were particularly kind to
him, and professed the greatest
friendship, doubtless for the pur-
pose of throwing him off his guard
aud gaining his confidence. One of
the colorcd men is a mulatto and
says his name is Henry Gould. The
other is black and gave his name ms
John Sanders. The boy says when
the train was about one or two miles
below Tyrone Gould grabbed him
aud threw him to the fiovr, while
Sanders went through his pockets,
taking all the money he had, the
watch, the razor and one of the
rings. The other ring in his pocket
and the pin in his necktie they did
not take. While the boy was pinned
to the floor of the car under the
heavy grip of Gould, who is n large
man. Sanders proposed in harsh,
profane and severe terms to cut the
throat of their victim, but Gould
protested and he was released.
At the watering station below
town, about II o'clock Friday night,
the two colored men left the train,
the boy remaining in the car. At
the Tyrone depot young Meyer left
the train also, and relating his ex-
perience TO the railroad people
about the station, remained in Oak
wood cabin until morning. Satur-
day morning, very early, the colored
men came to the depot and loitered
about for sometime, keeping separ-
ated from each other, and finally
boarding the Harrisburg accommo
dation train east about half-past D
o'clock. Dispatcher William Wolf
gang telegraphed to Officer West
brook, at Huntingdon, when the
train left the Tyrone depot, and
upon it's arrival at Huntingdon that
officer arrested Gould and Sanders,
handcuffed them together, brought
them here on Pacific express and
turned them over to Officer Barr,
who took them before Justice Tay-
lor, who gave them n hearing, at
which young Meyer testified, his
statement being in substance as
above given. In default of bail,
Gould and Sanders We're put in the
lookup and Saturday afternoon they
were taken to jail at Hollidaysburg
to await trial Mt the March term
of court. The purse and only about
Sll were recovered. both money and
purse having been accurately de-
scribed by the boy before being
shown him.