The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1902-11-12

mysterious Murders-Arbitrator In
crease Wages = Double Tragedy al
Buffalo-Alaska's Gold.
Twice sentenced to Auburn state
prison, once being for life for murder
in the second degree, John v.
Bender of Utica was last week at Au.
burn made free man and will again
have the freedom of the outside life
that has been denied to him for so
long.
Bender was proprietor of house In
Deerheld, short distance from Utica.
In Utica, in 1887, Bender shot and
killed Thomas Gray. He was found
guilty of murder in the second degree
and on April 30 Of the same year he
was received in Auburn prison to serve
a life sentence.
On May IL, 1898, Governor Flower
commuted his sentence to 10 years sub
ject to the usual communication of three
years and six months on a sentence OF
that length for good behavior.
On Oct 30, 1898, after serving six
years and six months, Bender was re-
leased from the prison. He went back
to Utica, became involved in a row
there and shot a man.
He was convicted Of assault in the
second degree after a prior conviction
and the judge sentenced him to five
years and eight months in Auburn
prison, which he entered the second
time within year after his discharge.
The Communication granted by the
governor, like all of the kind, had a
clause in ii that provided that in case
he be convicted again within the time
now remaining unseryed of the term
commuted he should be deemed an es.
capped convict"
The wording of the Communication was
somewhat ambiguous and this has led
to the litigation. Bender served the
second sentence of five years and eight
months. also the three years and six
months short time lost on the com.
muted sentence and then asked for his
discharge.
The prison officials refused to grant
this. claiming that by his second sent.
ence Bender forfeited his Communication
and that the original sentence became
operative.
The case was argued before Justice
Rich on habeas corpus proceedings and
he decided in favor of Bender and held
that he was Illegally imprisoned.
Large Exports of Flour.
The mild, open fall season has been
valuable to the farmer, enabling com.
plete farming preparations and insur.
ing a satisfactory beginning to the
wheat crop, besides allowing the late
cotton to mature and facilitating out.
door work, such as building, to pro-
gress rapidly.
Good collections are the rule, few ex.
ceptions to this being noted. Prices
show great steadlness, those increasing
or remaining unchanged far outnum-
bering those declining.
largely owing to the large movement.
A most important and sustaining feat
ure is the immense demand for -four,
which has improved in sale the past
week. Export business in this direc.
tion is very heavy from both coasts.
Dairy products tend to strengthen on
seasonal changes.
Cotton goods remain quite active and
strong despite the shading in raw cot
ton. The woolen goods trade is i'm
proving, and the predicted advance of
5 per cent on some lines has been Sc.
cured without much difficulty.
Raw wool is very firm and supplies
are closely held. Fine and medium
grades are hardening.
Iron and steel show little change.
The fuel situation is conceded to have
an important bearing; coke is very
scarce and fully a score of Eastern
furnaces are banked. There is a wait.
ing tendency in the import trade and
new business is not large. Steel rail
makers are still busy. and an immense
tonnage will have to be carried over
into next year.
A new war has broken out in the |
sugar trade, the Pacific coast beet pro
duct contesting Eastern markets with
that OF cane. Raw sugar is firmly held |
on expected worlds crops being short
CT, but the refined is weaker, partly
owing to the war talk.
Shoe manufacturers the country over
are busy. Complaint that there is no
profit in the leather business still con.
tinues. Hides seem to be the key.
stone of the situation, and as they re.
main firm they give tone to the entire
market.
Boston's Mysterious Murders.
After giving out the confession Of the
young negro, G. l.. o. Perry, with ref.
erence to selling the watches taken
from the murdered women, Miss Clara
A. Morton and Miss Agnes McPhee,
the police admitted that Perry declares
that Allan G.. Mason is the man from
whom he received these articles.
This admission of the police was
made just before young Perry was TAX
en- to the Jail in East Cambridge. where
Mason, the prominent Boston man un
der arrest on the charge Of killing Miss
Morton, is confined pending a hearing
in the Cambridge court.
Here, in one of the jail corridors,
Perry positively identified Mason as
the man who had given him the two
watches.
The defense was proceeding on the
theory that II was a Negro who muir
dered Miss Morton and Miss McPhee
and who also committed the other mur.
dernns assaults. Mr.. Ware places NO |