The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1901-07-04

| her house while over on n fishing trim
he staggered out of the house and
went reeling down the roadway toward
Staples hotel. During the time he
was in the house on this second visit,
| Huh. Mrs. Getz said, acted more fool
ishly than before. He wore n pair OF
goggles which he didn't have with him
on his earlier visit and he made ludic-
rous attempts to have them hold 10
his nose. He also showed her a few
dollar bills and few dimes and
nickels and threw forty cents towards
her to recompense her for her trouble.
On his prior visit he appeared to have
no money.
WAS IN ILL-HUMOR.
Leaving Getzs house, Hull went TO
Staples hotel, his second visit there.
This was about 3 o'clock. an hour or so
after leaving there in the company OF
Schoonover. He was in i'll humor
when he staggered into the barroom.
There were a half dozen men in the
place and they were given good
sized scare by Hull, who pulled his big
hunting knife from his pocket and
opening IL hurled II into corner of the
room, meanwhile dancing round about
in Indian fashion. He asked Barten-
der Primer for a drink and was given
| some cider. He demanded another
| drink, but was denied It. He then
went out on the hotel porch. where he
began to doze. Employees from Emery
Lees livery at Carbondale happened
| along. This livery was a place where
he used to frequent. The men recog-
nized him and appreciating his condi-
tion urged him to accompany them
home. Hun was in a cranky mood,
but finally he yielded to them and was
helped aloft the hay rigging they were
driving.
The men at the hotel observed the
blood stains on Hull's shirt, but he
Nouchsafed no explanation, and his
manner did not invite any conversation.
| AS stated in yesterdays Tribune,
Huh reached home early Thursday
morning, but said nothing about where
| he had been. The watch, supposedly
Schoonover's, he had with him. but he
was as silent about how it came into
his possession as he was about his
movements the preceding day.
lie left home early in the morning on
| Thursday. and when asked by his
mother where he was going, he an.
swered rudely: ITO HI, | guess"
WHERE BODY WAS FOUND.
The spot where Schoonover's dcccn-
posed body was found Is about five
hundred feet south of the Lake I.odore
station, about fifty feet beyond the
railroad switch that runs past the sta
ton. 1t is a wild spot, in the midst Of
a Clump of trees. Where SchoonoN er
lay is not many more than fifty feet
from the railroad, but the underbrush
Is so thick that one has to push his
| way over the small, almost impercept-
| ible path that crosses the spot where
tho dead man lay prone on his back
, His limbs were stretched to their full
eSt length. one arm is almost wound
about the small trees, or bushes, along
the path and it is hard to explain, or
even conceive, how one, if he would
| fall limp, could get into such a posi-
tion. The body, as it lay, would inGi-
cate that 1t was dragged there, rather
| than having fallen.
The sight of the body was revolving.
The processes of decomposition caused
1t to swell until the clothes We're almost
| bursting at the seams. The flesh had
turned black, and insects and worms
swarmed all over the remains. The
| features could not be traced; in fact,
there was no face. the nose, cheeks and
chin having sloughed away.
| The body was found by George Wal
| roth, of Waymart, and a young man
named Gardner, from Scranton. For
| several days there has been an unbcar-
able stencil in the vicinity of the body,
and this, coupled with the fact that
Schoonover's friends came to Waymart
on Monday and reported him missing,
led to the search thar ended in locating
SchoOnover's remains.
POCKETS TURNED OUT.
The pockets of Schoo lovers trousers
| were turned out, and his shoes and
stockings were missing. A few feet
away his spectacles were found. One
| frame was twisted, not bent or crushed
as If it was trampled on, but rather as
II 1t was grasped as in al struggle. in
the other direction, as If thrown over
Schoonover's head, werc the case for
his spectacles, an odd Fellows lodge
| manual, a haf-used box Of cough
drops, a package of tobacco. and Two
empty half-pint whiskey bottles. These
were presumably the G Ontents of
SchoonoHer's pockets. His gray Fedora
nat, with blood stains on the rim and
| band, lay a few feet from his head,
The Odd Fellows manual contained
Schoonover's certificate OF membership
or his card Of admittance to Red
Jacket lodge, of Factoryvillc. There
was also the unused coupon of a re-
turn ticket from the steel works to
Lake Lodore and receipt for seven
dollars, paid to DIR. +. l.. McGraw for
| IL ant nl rn,sly o. l,t
Squire DimoCk, of Waymart, en-
panelcd a jury. after notifying Coro-
ner Powell, of Honesdale and at 4.3O
yesterday afternoon, the coroner and
the jurymen viewed the body and ad-
journed until today, when the coroner
will conduct post mortem. The jury
is as follows: Frank Corson, Joline
Stephenson, j.. f. Ames, IIubbel
Case.
SPOKE OF A FIGHT.
on his way over to Carbondalc with
William Box and young man named
Mccarthy, Hull said something about
having had a fight with some man
who picked "A quarrel with his (Huls)
| cousin. HUI also mumbcd something
about having knocked the other fell
low out. Hun continued in his angry
mood during the ride and taking Of
| fense at some word that was passed
he whipped out his hunting knife and
brandishcd 1t threateningly Box sue
| ceeded. however, in wrestling the knife
from Hun.
Huh has been considered of un-
sound mind OF late, or he has been
committing acts that would indicate
| he ha ha ha