Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1899-09-28
VONAN'S HAND IN TRAGEDY
Who Was Decoyed by
Men to be Shot, Speaks.
.'oH, THAT LETTER. He MOANS
Guilty of Intimacy With AM
other Mans Wife.
WINS TauEted by HIS Torturers: Ono Of tho
BAND Of armed Regulators Blnndly Asked
Him How u Load of Buokshot Felt Inside
of Bim-severaI Cleues.

Of Him-Severai Cieues'
-
e a, MI. ..,,
Dover, sept. -. -lHe nluaen nand
o. woman, eieiler eenuino Of cleVeriy
simulated, mas peeh uncovered as pro
senting possipIe eAtianssion li: OF tno
Welra tTaseuy Wnereih sl3 .neIl way "
ald ana iuolsaiiy aLa nisg Muuneieu S 1eolgI ".
lMVefs Vi tiie pIaliiolu 2taee iele.
phone 70, oi Doser oh the hisht OF
Ihursday last' -,
IL apTears 'nae Ira'ers, tiie aylng
vc'im oi the hvenseIs' Mho h.u oliy
recently peoIi reieaseu from 5ail ~
Media peiaWare County, ra., hai re-
celVea letler purper9lng 70 come iroIh
Mrs george hasn OF pelaWare county.
he hau serveu NJ. sunSenoe ,s u nine
months AZ Meata, UPON q charge OF
intimacy WIN 1eorge has1 9 m vile,
hash ahu ms ~, soh hasing Iau tfaVeIs .sl1
arreste@ ~ Snester on DecetnDer zu'
iSSo, aug haylng given t1e tesCimony
CD nv Whicii no was aeh.eliceo.
lhe iotteT ~ ques.ion uh1Iounteuiy ~
. decoy caicuiateu 70 iure lravefs 70
Dis ueath- unrayei the one ehlei
weo o. mystery III WhIcn INC WORK OF
Ile slS M mnraerous men mas mus iar
eetn Nelieu. Ira'ers. upoh MS release
rom PRISON, nau eviuentiy peen puf-
SUING ms ioriiier opIect,onaple tactics.
in1eeu' tne ohiy WORDS Jne woundee'
man mas utlereu 10 MS semi-consc,ous
moments lnat mignt throW lieht upon
.hs Tasic eseht caine ironi 1llh III two
pnei rational intervals today' as fol-
lows;
KNOW pne man VINO snot me.
W, u " haun peen ior that letter Y
f[esSea 20 explain iurtner, iravers
youIu ei,nef lapse mo centrum, or
el'e e,5 mumple WORDS 70 the ellect tnat ne
oousu noe .h uisc'ose anyen,ng Iursner ~
present. tiiat ne Wouiu atteno 10 ~
himself when No got ABOUT, as ne fully
sSl,eteu 10 I'D rev Gays, tnough IT:
y ~ Johns stateu tonignt that ne mad
lew' u any hopes OF lraVers' recovery,
auu liial no Woulo naroiy survive
u1se Gays
iraNefs, ~ seems, lad peen Id and
auo9t town Ior tnree months, engageu
~ wy Worh OF constructing tne metal
~ ~ ollrulS lor tne Lover ielepnone
W. Whlch IS 10 connect al the towns
lower Delaware; superintendent
pahet OF the telephone company had
Bvue uoWh 10 Georgetown 10 personally
superintehd tne work OF the metallic
TI, SrcuiI, anu was associated closely with
itavefs iast week.
I'M Un oeptemper i4th, Trayers received
ssers run Eiaorado, Whlon PASSED
sanrougn Mr. bakers hands, as the
SlscHician mad gone dewn- the road that
aay' ana ne brought IT to Dover, carry
,ng "g.;l y IN ms pocket for5 several Gays,
unIll M ne next saw Iravers.
Mr' BAKER ls conhdent that 1T was
"u;l "uiah > handwriting, or clever dis
IVY VI . man writing. he ls conn :
lsaI a. mat the man was decoyed by this
VSet m 70 70 70 MS death.
oIngrs peileVe that the letter referred
u lraVers semi-consclous intervals
Sas one Wlicn IraVers mad written TO
,a1 ~ woman at Eldoradoo, with whom he
a'a gee.i lntimate, ana VINO manifested
aTes're 70 leave her husband.
significant development in the
neseuy, ana one that may serve to
u,lns me deliberate plotters to justice,
was was given today, voluntarily. when
rarmcr Lindsay of near Eldorado drove
- "
Wounded mans condition. He said,
"aen pressed Tor lnforamtion:
r.., ! was driving along. behind this
=. u'n N, carriage, bound for Eldorado,
ua;d w. thursday night, when ! heard loud
"mes aneaa heard cry to halt, and
saw ,.,I !ne Hash OF gun.
d,oli iiesltating only for moment, l
ho'e UP ana found Trayers lying by
ao ,S'.t roadside, with six men walking
'oeat ..m MS prostrate form.
phe called to him, asking how a
O'I ,.rI 1i buckshot felt inside OF him.
y ~, n,s carriage. which had gone but a
ro,;s aeet away, and said that they had
s'nea nun that he must clear out in
~. ..M. MINUTES or take another load.
Mneh | started to assist the man
Ua, ",y threatened me, but l managed to
~ nm INTO his carriage and started
y, y, eealord before was overcome with
'eaI " aud tho danger was in. -
M. haorado is town of 100 inhabi.
S"ns: Ssu's' situated on the branch of the
pal.'coke porE E,, River known as Northwest
nsoMi. %mi hldorauo is made up of working
f'p'e' saw mill and cannery people.
s,.s
sin"a @raiord, Sept. p. For the first time
Ii"pe Inoe, uerose W. Travers, the telephone
buv'lan, .bot ~ received big load of bird.
paos ao. ID II, ms right side on u lonely road
SOra. Oas h.'dorado, Just over the Maryland
ssn' SWp' last Thursday night, he con-
ss" ru'eu 70 speak today. While there
|" aS H. whole s, lot of gossip that appeared
so,sa. "a. " pretty closely concerning the
asipl aSipn VINO shot from ambush with the
r;o,;a. Hefate Intent of killing Travers, the
ins o',,i nn himself had refraiped from CIV
tOS.s nj any details of the shooting until
IE, IsE.,,
.eadv ad .ae iirst place Travers isn't yet