The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1900-06-23

"This seventy-seven cents is all that
stands between me and hell. 1 want
the job done tonight"
These are the words alleged to have
Edwin +. Everhart, now in the county
Jail under $4,000 bail, charged with con-
spring to murder his aged and wealthy
father DR.. l. F. Everhart, of the cor
ner of Franklin avenue and Spruce
street.
Frank Lewis, of the North End, a
youth of poor means, who hangs about
the central city pool rooms, and who
has been cumming of late with young
Everhart, is the one to whom the
words were addressed, and he asserts
that the lob" referred to was the
killing of DR.. Everhart.
While young Everhart was waiting
yesterday for preliminary hearing on
the conspiracy charge, an attorney OF
his hiring was trying to wiring from
an unfortunate young girl incriminat-
ing admissions that would save Ever
hart from the penalty OF his having
broken up City Assessor Phil Rims
lands home and about the same time
q New York detective was reporting
to several OF his clients that nothing
could be done in the way OF securing
reimbursement for checks which Ever
hart had forged and passed on them.
But these and his other previous
transgressions, with which the public
is fairly well acquainted, pale into
comparative insgnificance beside this
latest crime. 1t fairly surpasses be-
lief.
According to Lewis story Everhart
week. He told Lewis that he was ION
his uppers," that his father would give
him no more money, that he had to
have money, and that with his father
out of the way he would come into all
his vast wealth.
FIVE THOUSAND THE PRICE.
For removing "the old man" Lewis
was to receive $1,000 and the princi-
pal corroboration of Lewis story is
his possession Of a $1,000 judgment note
given him by young Everhart. 1t is
Z,
and as Lewis never had $1,000 worth
of anything that he could transfer to
Everhart or any one else, the only
explanation Of his possession of the
note is the one he himself gives-that
it was the price paid him by a son to
kill a father.
Saturday night was the time first
fixed upon for the commission of the
crime. Everhart furnished Lewis with
a butcher knife and a revolver gave
him minute instructions as to the lay
of the house, with the various ways
of entrance and exit, and directed that
he go there late at night, ring the
office bell, and when the "old man"
came down despatch him with the
knife. If the knife failed to do the
work he was to use the revolver, but
under no circumstances was he to
leave till he made sure that doctor was
dead.
Lewis, in further corroboration of his
story, offers in evidence the revolver
and knife given him by Everhart, and
although he claims and very likely
truly that he never was in the Ever
hart house in his life, he was able to
describe minutely to the detectives the
arrangement of the rooms, the en-
| frances and exits and even the details
of a sort of secret entrance. an old
cellarway that was entered by lifting
up a small porch, something, however
which very seldom was done, as this
entrance was hardly ever used.
WENT TO WARN DOCTOR.
Lewis went to the Everhart house
late Saturday night, but, so he says
not to do murder. He went to warn
the doctor of his sons designs. He
rang the door bell-an electric push
button-for long period but could gel
no response. Recently the doctor cut
off the connection between the door
and the bell in his room as he does
not want to answer night calls any
more. The bell rings in the kitchen
and no one sleeps in that immediate
neighborhood.
After repeatedly trying to get a re-
sponse TO his rings, Lewis went away
The matter hung heavily on his mind
and he was unable TO sleep. Early
| Sunday morning he decided to seek ad.
vice. He remembered that DR.. Ever