The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1900-04-19
AFTER SIX YEARS.
Identity of an Unknown Murdered Man
Has Been Established.

| Identity of an Unknown Murdered Man
Has Been Established.
| A special to the Baltimore Sun
| dated at Cumberland Tuesday says:
Two Pinkerton detectives have
been at German on the West Virginia
Central railroad in Garrett county
for the past two weeks during which
time they secured conclusive evidence
that man murdered near there in
1894, was Grin Seeley, whom they
have been trying to locate for the last
six years. Seeley's parents live at
Alexandria. Virginia, and are veal
thy.
"Some time in 1894 J. E. Halde-
man, the superintendent of the
Franklin mines, near Westernport,
was murdered and robbed early one
morning as he was alighting from the
train at Franklin mines on his way
to pay off the men. A few days later
the body of an unknown man was
found on a burning pile of brush near
German, where he had been placed
after having been murdered, with
the hope of cremating the body and
thus covering up the crime. 1t was
supposed at that time that the latter
crime was committed by the men who
murdered Haldeman, during a quar-
rel over the distribution of the money.
1.-Two arrests were made later and
Justice Andrew b. Gender, of Oak
land, went to German and conducted
the preliminary hearing, but the tes-
timony was not sufficient to hold them
and they were released. The detec-
tives now claim that they have positive
evidence that they were the men
wanted and have just left here for
town in Pennsylvania, and will try to
apprehend them. If they can be
found they will be brought back and
given another hearing"
1t would be strange if after all those
years the mysterious crime has at
last been ferreted out, and the guilty
ones brought to justice.
The strike of the miners in the
Georges Creek region has had the eff
feet of raising the price of coal to $4
per ton. AS 1t is impossible to secure
any the price may as well be raised
to double the amount. Another effect
the strike has had is to cause all the
miners employed in the region border
ing on Georges Creek to go out on
strike. The Franklin Hill mines, as
well as the Pattison and other open
ings in this county, are all idle, the
men contending for an advance to go
cents per ton for mining. The West
Virginia miners in Preston county
are also striking for higher wages.
The suit of ex-County Commits
sioner Joshua Right, of Westernport,
for a mandamus to compel the county
commissioners of Allegany county to
place on the tax books some $4,000
acres of coal lands alleged to be unas-
sessed, was dismissed Monday by the
Allegany county circuit court by
order of the plaintiff The suit was
based on alleged discoveries of Hiram
p. Tasker, who claimed to have made
an exhaustive search of titles The
coal companies filed vigorous reply,
attacking severely the accuracy of
Taskers work.
DR.. Henry, w. McComas recently
received from Baltimore four pairs of
carrier pigeons. The birds will be
used for breeding purposes only and
will be kept in a pen erected at the
Doctors home. If they should be
liberated now they would immediate
ly return to their loft in Baltimore.
The offspring will be used by DR.. Nc
Comas for carrying messages from his
patients at distance from town, his
plan being to take with him when an
important case is under his charge
one or two of the birds to the home
of his patient. They will be left
there with instructions to liberate
the birds at given hours if the pres
ence of the physician is needed.
The flight of the carrier pigeon is
the swiftest of any long distance fly
ing bird known.