Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1900-10-10

his abdomen and his left leg wss
crossed over his right limb That
was the peaceful scene when the
devil looked in the window and
| sighted his gun. He was a tall man.
A man of middle stature could
not have stood outside that win
dow and leveled q gun without
standing on something to raise him
to level the weapon to shoot Good
ling in the face. Horror of hOr-
rors! There was a roar that start
led even the hard hearing OF the
wife and caused the two sons up
stairs to spring from their beds
and rush down stairs The room
was full of smoke. What was it!
What! what! Where is pap!
There through the smoke they see
him. They rush to his eide. He
sat in his chair as if nothing had
happened. He had been shot 80
dead that he did not move mus
Gle as far as could be seen His
right arm rested quietly on the arm
of the chair, his left arm lay across
his abdomen, his left leg lay across
his right leg just as it was when
he went to sleep. But oh! there
in his face was the tell-tale of the
work of the murderer, who had
fed out through the gate in the
picket fence and was then running
from the scene OF his slaughter.
Blood was coming out of SO little
holes in the victims face where
that many heavy shot had entered.
His left eye was shot out. Blood
gushed out his mouth where the
center of the load had entered and
one of the cut wads from the shot
gun load clung to the outside of his
throat. The back of the rocking
chair that projected from the side
of his body was perforated with
shot and glass jar standing on
the table against which Mr.. Good
ling had his rocking chair backed,
had a hole shot in it aud the par
tition back of the table was perfOr-
ated with shot showing that the
load from the gun was heavy
one. When the frightened family
collected themselves from the shock
of the awful tragedy they hastened
to the house of neighbOr and
there gave the alarm and that
neighbOr aroused other neighbors
and so the dreadful news was
spread from house to house all
night long. On Wednesday Squire
Levi Light of Susquehanna town
ship summoned a jury of citizens:
E. G. Sheaffer, foreman, H. r.
Beale, Thaddeus S. Light, William
H. Kerstetter, jeremiah Brown,
Lewis Wilt and after hearing test
mony found s'that Adam GOodliEg
came to his death by gun-shot
wound caused by an unknown per-
son to the jury" Wednesday and
Thursday hundreds of people Wis
tied the place of the murder and
talked it over and over. They
came from far and near and deep
was the sympathy expressed for
the strickenfamily and deeper still
was the feeling OflOathing express
ed for the murderer. The funer-
al took place on Friday. The at
tendance was large. Rev. Gilbert
of Snyder county conducted the re
ligious services of the family. In
terment in Arbogast church ceme-
terry, Snyder county. District At
tOrney Hover has turned the ,ju-
diciar search light upon the case
and revelations may be looked for.
Everyone in the vicinity of Orient
al near which the tragedy was en-
acted is on the tip toe of expect
ancy. Who was the deadly enc
my that GOodling spoke of only a
few hours before he was murdered.
Why did ne not tell moref If he
named someone the name has not !
found its way into the office of the !
Juniata Sentinel and Republican.
But there are rumOrs that there
was jealousy of a woman in and at |
the bottom of the murder. Not !
one person has yet come forward |
to say that the murdered man was
having by-way meetings and
with a younger mans wife !
But there is hint that some years ,
ago in coming or going from his !
work neighbours wife with her
small daughter passed Goodling
going in opposite directien and talk
ed as it is proper to do, but that a
neighbor came thai way and found
hem talking and he reported the
ak to the wOman's husband and
hat turned her husband into the
1eadliest foe. That report may be
untrue, but it shows the cOmmun
ty is feeling for some motive for
such murderous work. At this
Friday, arrests are talked
about.
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