The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-02-04
A--Where the blows were struck.

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quart of whisky on the table and after
finishing that sent out for two quarts
more of whisky He drank during the
evening two or three glasses of whisky.
He asked his mother about o'clock to
get him some supper. She gave him
nothing but cold meat and he COM
planned, saying she had better attend
to her work and stop her drinking. The
father scolded him for talking that way
to his mother and threatened to get a
constable and have him arrested.
Reminiski later went for more beer
and as the night progressed the dis
turbance increased. Witness cautioned
his father about the noise and told him
he had ought to know better than dis
turb the neighbors. Later the father
and Remnisky had a quarrel about
some money and witness again inter-
fered and told his father that he had
better wait till the next day when he
would be sober and then settle with
Reminisky about the money.
This threw the old man into a rage.
He was standing just at the threshold
of his bed room door and as the son
finished speaking the elder Gouse
grabbed him by the throat and dragg-
ing him into the bed room threw him
down in a corner and kicked and beat
him. Then the son reached for the
iron last-holder and hit his father
twice, once on the shoulder and the
| second tine on the head.
DIDN'T MEAN TO KILL.
When the witness had finished de-
| scribing how the struggle had occurred
he turned to the jury and said: Gen
tlemen l hit de fodder, but 1 didn't
mean to kill him."
Witness then told that he went out
| by the fence and cried. He didn't sleep
| in the house that night because Remin-
| isky told him his father would kill him
if he went back. Witness and Reminis-
| ky went to saloon together. Reminis-
ky told him to wait there for few mo-
ments. He waited for nearly a quarter
of an hour and when Reminisky did
| not return he went back to his home.
After Remnisky again cautioned him
against his fathers anger he went to
the house of Thomas Weiss. Reminisky
| followed him there and tried to induce
| him to flee from the town Offering even
| to loan him his shoes and telling him
| that his father had the constables after
| him. Mrs Gouse also came to Weiss
| house and asked the son who stabbed
! the cid man. Witness knew then for
| the first time that his father had been
| stabbed.
Witness then told that he went to
Forest City to Joe Germaldas house,
where he remained until o'clock Mon
day afternoon. He was in Germaida' S
house upstairs when County Detective
Shea called there looking for him. At
! ter the detective had gone he went to
| Carbondale and thence to Wilkes Barre.
Three weeks later he returned to Arch
| bald and visited Thomas Weiss, with
the intention of returning home If he
discovered that his father had relented.
| Then for the first time he discovered
that his father was dead and on the
advice of Weiss, who said that Remin-
isky had been arrested and was blaming
the crime on him, he decided TO flee.
WORKED IN THE MINES.
He went to Centralia where he work
ed in the mines for eight months. He
returned to Carbondale TO visit his
mother and remained for two days, fly
ing again when the police got after him
He went to Mahanoy City and secured
work in the store where he met William
SiVitslli. He denied that he asked Sly-
itski never to mention the murder OF
that he ever confessed to him that he
had killed his father. He never admit
ted to anyone that he killed his father
and never denied but that he struck
him,
Mr.. Balentine exhibited a diagram OF
the Gouse home. made by County Sur
veyor Edmund A. Bartl and had Gouse
show the position of Scrappa and oil
himself and his father during the strug-
gle, with a view OF proving that it was
impossible for Scrappa to see the en-
counter from the bed room in which he
slept.