The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1899-02-28


liminary hearing. at which James Foltz and
his wife, Alice. and the girl Mary MiChulski
were arranged to plead.
Chief Of Police Murphy became the prose
cutor and swore TO the following information;
STATE OF Pennsylvania 90
COUNTY OF sCHUYLKILL.
The Commonwealth Of Pennsylvania.
Before me, the subscriber, one Of the justice,
Of the Peace aforesaid. personally came
Patrick Murphy, Chief Of Police Of the
borough of Shenandoah. who, upon his
solemn oath according TO law, saith ne bath
been informed and believes the prisoners,
Miss Mary Michulski. James Foltz and Mrs.
Alice Foltz, his wife, murderously shot
and wounded unto death one James
Hopkins, Of the Borough Of Shenandoah,
in the evening Of Sunday, February 26th,
A D.. 1899, in the Borough Of Shenandoah.
aforesaid, by cutting him a cut wound In his
forehead, and also by shooting him with a
revolver shot in the forehead. That the said
James Hopkins died from the said wounds at
about lO.45 o'clock same evening thereafter
in the house of said James Foltz and wife
Alice Foltz, at No. ll3 East Lloyd street;
whereas previous and at the time Of said
murder the said May Michuski was present
and IN company with said deceased James
Hopkins. Whereas the said James Foltz en-
tered his said residence soon after the discov-
cry Of the murderous deed.
lhat IN the said premises were found two
broken chairs evidence Of struggle preced-
ing the final elimination of the crime.
The prisoners referred to in the complaint
were arranged before the Justice aud the in
formation was read to them, after which each
one was asked to plead and they responded
Not guilty" None of the accused was
represented by counsel
In pleading, each Of the accused made
statement which was substantially the same
as those published in yesterdays issue Of the
HERALD, with no new developments, how
ever, except that Mary Michulski
took occasion to say that she aud Hopkins.
before the shooting, had talked of going to
the Ashland hospital to-day to see the son of
her step sister, who was run over by a Trac-
ton car in town few days ago, of trip to
Pottsville next month, and trip to Atlantic
city next summer This statement is taken
as evidence that Hopkins did not contemplate
suicide
Jacob Perkins, John McCord and George
smith, three youths, were the first witnesses.
Ihey testified that Mary Michulski called for
them at the Becker house. near the scene of
the shooting, and begged of them to 90 for
doctor as a man had shot himself at the
toltz house Perkins said he first went to
the latter place and saw Hopkins on the floor
with the revolver on his chest.
Michael Igo, Edward Kester and Police
man Michael G. Hurley were the next wit
nesses and added nothing new to the pub
lications made in last nights issue of the
HERALD, with the exception that there was
difference of opinion as to the position in
which the revolver was lying on Hopkins
. chest when they arrived upon the scene. Igo
and Hurley agreed that the body was lying
with the head TO the east and the muzzle of
the revolver pointed towards the rear door,
or north Kester agreed as to the position Of
the body, but insisted that the muzzle pointed
+ towards the front door, or south This testi-
mOny was brought out TO show that the posi-
I tion of the revolver indicated that it was
used with the left hand if the case was one of
suicide, whereas Hopkins could not readily
use his left hand.
Edward Wtehey was called and repeated
. his statement that he left the FOltz house at
. 5:l5 Sunday evening and parted in a friendly
. spirit with Hopkins. The witness saw no
, trouble in the house. Witchey went home
4 to supper, then to church, and then to bed at
4 home.
John NJ. Shaeffer. the saddler. testified that
James Foltz was in his company from un-
. til about 9:25 p. IN. on Sunday, and could not
have been at OF near the scene of the shoot
. ing 1t is Foltz's custom to call upon Mr.
i Shaetier every night, for orders as a driver
. for Neiswenter and Shaeffer.
Mrs. FOltz asked permission to explain
+ about the two broken chairs found in her
+ house. She declared that both we're broken
+ before the night of the shooting Her hus-
: band broke one and the chair fell apart Sun
day evening when she went to sit on it.
. The nfbpr chair uog hrolva, L..
fore by Mary Mchulski and Sam Morgan.
who was a frequenter of the house with a
young man named James Botney. Morgan
and Botney, she said, left for Chicago last
4 Friday.
After the hearing and consultation with
Deputy Coroner Burke and Chief of Police
Murphy, Justice Shoemaker released all the
witnesses on $50 bail in their own recognizance
to appear at the inquest at p. m to-day.
Mr.. Foltz was released on similar conditions,
4 but Mrs. Foltz and Mary Michulski were
committed to the lookup to await the result
s of the inquest.
i Some of the authorities are severely criti.
cising Chief Burgess Tabor. They allege
. that yesterday morning he loaned his keys
. to the lookup TO friend, and the result was
that several Poles and Lithuanians got into
the lookup and coached the Michulski girl as
to the story she should tell in relation to the
1 shooting.
Under direction of Deputy Coroner Burke
4 Dr. W. n. Stein last night held a post-mortem
on the remains of the victim. The con
4 clusion reached was that on entering the
= forehead the bullet struck the frontal bone
and glanced slightly to the left, passing
through small portion of the brain, and
imbedded itself in the spherod bone. The
whole depth of the wound was an inch and
three.quarters
The victim will be buried at p. m. OF
Thursday afternoon. The services will bt
held at the family residence and the remain:
will be inferred in the Odd Fellows cemetery
Through a conversation last night it de
velOped that the Hopkins case is not the frs
shooting affair in which Mrs. Foltz hal
= figured. She was shot in the breast in al
atiTay at Shamokin about fifteen years ago
The particulars Of the affair were no
learned,
Policeman Mullahy states that he anC
Chief OF Police Murphy made the arrests il
this case, aud not Policemen Hurley anC
Butler with the chief
THE INQUEST.
The inquest on the death of James Hon
kins was fixed for two o'clock this afternoon
at the office Of Deputy Coroner Burke. OF
East Lloyd street, but the jurymen, witnesse
/ and others interested multiplied in number
o to such an extent that it was decided I
, change the place for holding the inquest t
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