The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1901-02-21
DETECTIVES REPORT ON THE Nc
HENRY CASE.
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leading to the barn, and one sack of
-four in the wagon under a shed. The
door leading to the gtanary on the
second floor had been discovered
broken open, an indentation in the
wood indicating that an instrument
with tapering blunt point had been
utilized to force the staple.
Footprints in the snow led away |
from the barn to the road, and were |
measured by resident of Rohrsburg. |
These prints we're made by a square
toe boot or shoe eleven inches long
by three and quarter inches wide.
The Inquirer reporter and myself
searched the entire barn in an en-
deavor to find The implement with
which the murderer pred open the
door or find any trace OF gun, but
after straw and other material was
turned over nothing could be found.
Securing a piece of the coat lining
used as gun wadding, then began to
investigate the movements of Jacob
Evans, the discharged farm hand, on
the night OF the murder. Evans is
employed by farmer named Wesley
Bowman, about four miles from the
scene of the murder. Mr.. Bowman
I bears an excellent reputation. Satur-
day night, February q, Mr.. Bowman
states (and his story is corroborated
by his wife), Jacob Evans retired at
about 8 o'clock. Mrs. Bowman was
suffering from neuralgia that night
and slept barely an hour. Evans
could not have left the house without
her hearing him. There is no possl-
biity of him getting out ofthe window
without jumping about twenty feet to
the ground. His clothing was care
fully examined, and none of this con-
tanned lining to correspond with that
used as wading by the man who shot
Thomas McHenry. searched, with
his permission, his room. His shoes
and boots are too large for the size of
the boot or shoe that made the tracks
in the snow near the McHenry barn.
A gun in the Bowman house is an
old-fashioned muzzle-loadlng rifle.
Around the trigger is tied piece of
white cord, placed there by Mr..
Bowman tefore Thanksgiving Day.
This gun has not been fired tor sew
eral months. Evans has not spoken to
Mrs. McHenry since his discharge.
Mrs. McHenrys story Of the shoot
ing is as follows: 81 was awakened
by the baby crying, and then heard
the latch of the back door down stairs
drop. l called to my husband and
asked him where he was going, and
he replied that he had heard the horse
paving, and stepped out on the back
porch, when the noise ceased. He
came back and evidently got into bed.
He was sleeping down stairs and l
was sleeping up with the children, so
/ cannot say whether he went back 10
bed, but shortly the noise was heard
again, and he was dressed and came
up stairs for the lantern, giving me
the lamp he carried. He had scarcely
passed out of the house when | heard
the report of gun, and Thomas cried
out: 'Alice I'm shotn Harold came
running from his room after me. AS
| reached the steps Thomas came
running towards the front of the house
and to the front gate and dropped on
his face. | asked him why he did not
run into the house, and he replied
that he was afraid he would be fol
| lowed into the house. The neighbors
began to arrive as picked him up,
and l remember little after that"
Harold's story substan,iates that Of
his mother.
| / learned that Mcclellan, who beavs
an excellent reputation, had left
Hazleton Saturday evening and arrived
in Bloomsburg at 6:43 p. m, and wa:
driven as far as the road leading tc
Lightstreet. From there he walked
some distance and secured ride
with the Columbia Laundry team te
Lightstreet. At the hotel in thi'
village Mcclellan alighted and con
: tinued his walk. He carried grip
and passed through Orangeville, owe
the iron bridge, reaching his home a
about 1925 o'clock. He sat uT
talking with his father, mother an'
sister Rose until II o'clock, when thu
father and mother retired. He thel
sat up with Rose, talking until 1859
a. m, when they went up stairs ant
!, continued in conversation until 1850
when they both retired
The shooting took place at abou
:. 1905 a. m. Harold, who only wore
e shirt and one shoe, ran lmmedlatel
and summoned his Uncle Mcclellan
d The boy is 8 years old, but by far tn
n brightest person l met who could tie
about the shooting. He saw no on
W near the barn when he ran out int