The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-07-30
MYSTERY OF CUBALAKE
DASTARDLY NIGHT CRIME ny
WHICH A YOUNG MAN LOST
HIS LIFE
OUTCOME OF BoYIsH PRANK

Some Strange Features of the
Murder for Which Young Gabriel
Bishop Has Been Held, Charged
With Homicide Neighborhood
Jealousy at the Bottom of It
Finding of the Jury.
! CUBA, N. Y, July 27.-Allegany coun-
ty, of which this little town is an i'm
portant center, has been thrilled and
| startled as never before since the hor-
rors Of last century's Indian massacres
by the dynamite crime on the shore of
| Cuba lake, two miles north of here, early
on the morning Of July s.
1t does not seem that any element
which could add a sensation to the
| crime is absent. A coroners jury has
held Gabriel Bishop, the seventeen-year-
| old hero of a score of stories of foreign
| adventures, to await the elaboration of
the grand jury, on suspicion, and people
throughout the western part of the state
are breathlessly listening to the tales of
the fortunate 500 who were able to at
tend the coroner's inquest and learn the
story there developed.
are a number of summer cottages where
many Of the inhabitants Of this town
and Belmont go for their hot weather
outing, living in camp-life manner. In
two of these cottages this year were
parties from Belmont who are concerned
more particularly with this tragedy. In
one were Mr.. and Mrs James Anderson,
of Belmont having for their guests Miss
Pettibone and Miss Furman, of that
town, and in the other were five young
men from the same place, one of them
being Everett Austin, twenty-three years
Of age, who was a visitor for few days
on his way to join his father in the new
oil fields in Pennsylvania
On the evening of July I Gabriel Bish-
op and a companion, only a year his
senior, Paul Morgan, bank clerk and son
Of a banker of this town, rode on their
wheels over to the lake camp to call on
the young ladies at the Anderson cot
tage.
During the evening the Cuba lads took
the young women Of Belmont out on the
lake rowing, and while they were away
from the camp some Belmont boys took
apart the wheels of the Cuba boys.
This prank was tEEezDUtcome of town
jealousy; the youths 'ofezCuba and Bel
mont being in traditi9nal antagonism
and infiicting on each hther, as oppor-
tunity offers, such punishment and ven
geance as are common in village
warfare, and which usually lead to no
more result than healthful fist fights,
but never in the history of this country,
to mortal reprisal.
WRANGLE OVER WHEELS.
When the Cuba youths returned to
the camp and had escorted the young
women to their cottage, there were some
hot words between the rival villagers,
the more so as twas discovered that
the sF'rench wheel with English tires
which Bishop rode could not be put into
running form with Morgans repair kit, 4
and that this necessitated a long dark
tramp home, with rain threatening.
This was at midnight, and the camp
soon settled down to quiet and sleep;
the most owlish being driven to the pro-
lection of the cottages by a drizzIing
rain which soon began to fall.
At 8 o'clock in the morning the drizzre
had turned into a downpour, and the
lakeside was sullenly dark and still,
when not only the campers, but all the
country side for a mile was startled by
a heavy. explosion, The campers heard,
also, sagonized cries and sounds of fright
and confusion from the cottage where
Austin and his four companions were
sleeping. Mr.. Anderson was one of the
first to hurry with a light to the cottage
and was Mortified to find Austin lying
by a shattered door, his thigh filled with
splinters, his spine crushed, and a gap
ing wound in his abdomen.
A glance showed that the damage had
been done with dynamite, for not only
the door, but section of the cottage
floor on which Austin slept had been
shattered and torn as only dynamite
could have wrecked them.
BISHOPS FOREIGN LIFE.
The injured young man died on the fol-
lowing midnight, and not until then, so