The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1901-07-25
FREEDOM TILL COURT.
Jacob Evans Released on Surety in the Sum
Of $4,000


The first intimaton made last week
that counsel for Jacob Evans had
made application to Hon. r. r. Little
for habeas corpus hearing brought
with It llvely y anticipation of an inter
esting time, and when the Court House
bell sounded at half past nine Satur-
day, announcing that the hour for
the hearing was at hand, people
Hooked into the spacious interior un-
til the room was nearly filled. Mum.
bered among those who attended
were people from different sections of
the county and anxious to hear from
the lips of one who swears that she
knows the story of the awful crime.
The evidence of Mrs. McHenry on
Saturday was in the main corrobora-
tlor of that reclted by her before the
Justice of the Peace, several days
before. She reiterated how Evans
had called at her home, threatened
the life of her husband and how he
proposed to do it. Her husband had
arrived home from Jamison City
about dusk on the night preceding
the tragedy. They talked over the
matter pertaining to the family and
home until about nine thirty when
they retired. She and the children
occupied room upstairs, while MI.
McHenry slept on the first floor.
About one o'clock in the morning
her husband called to her asking If
she heard noise at the barn. Mel
ther knew the cause of it. The noise
continued and Mr.. McHenry acting
on the impulse that their horses were
in distress he secured the lantern and
started for the barn. Shorty there
after she heard the report of a gun
and going down stairs and out into
the yard she met her husband at the
gate. Blood was flowing from a gun
shoot wound over the heart. AS he
sank to the ground she fastened to
administer to him and while she held
his head in her lap, he said "Evans
the dirty william shot me, and he will
do'you injury if he fails to accomplish
his purpose.
When asked IN crosse examination,
which was conducted by Hon. H. M.
Hinckley, of Danville, why she did
not warn her husband of Evans
threat, she said she did not think that
he (Evans) meant it. She did not
demonstrate with him, but simply told
him that she did not want anything
like that to occur around her house.
After the commission of the murder
she was in mortal fear of Evans, and
for that reason did not expose what
she knew of the case. The first she
opened her mouth was on the fourth
of July, when she told the story to
Horace Eveland, a boarder at her
house. She had borne it as long as
she could and desired to unburden her
conscience, no matter what the result
might be. When asked the cause of
the unfriendly feeling between her
husband and Evans, and which,
in her opinion, might furnish
motive for the crime, the witness said
there were different things. One, she
said, was a settlement, which they had
after Evans had been discharged by
Mr.. McHenry, and another reason
was that her husband believed Evans
was too intimate with her. The wit
ness was then asked if there were any
grounds for that belief, but her coun-
sci objected to the question, which
was sustained by the Judge, and she
did not answer.
Judge Hinckley conducted the
examination in the high, reson-
ant voice of man determined to
abide by every word uttered. He ac-
companied his questions with ener-
getlc gestures and with an intonation
that brought out every point he wished
to make, and he made many, as the
incessant murmurs Of approval from