The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1903-05-21
HELD FOR COURT.
AmanduS Levan Sits Stolldly
Through Hearing While
Witnesses Convict Him
With the Murder.
MINEAR and BOYD CONFESS.


Boyd that they were guilty of high
way robbery, and that Levan had
proposed and planned the crime,
made before justice of the peace
Iacoby in his Office Monday after
noon, was the sensational climax
of Levan's hearing in the Court
House on the charge of murder.
Now if Levan does escape the MUIR
der charge he will at least have a
term in the penitentiary staring him
in the face. The hearing attracted
a goodly number of Centraliaites
to town. They paid close attention
to the proceedings and manifested
a marked interest in the testimony
of the various witnesses.
The COLUMBIAN reporter sat
where he could hear the various
opinions ofthe Centralia contingent
From their remarks it is evident
that L.evan bears A very unsavory
reputation. Now and then they
would speak good word for Minear
and Boyd, but with Levan it was
different and there seems to be a
unanimous feeling that he is guilty.
1t was about two o'clock when Jus-
tice Jacoby took his place in the
court room. Before him slightly
to the right sat Minear and Boyd.
Notwithstanding the admission that
they are guilty ofhighway robbery,
it must be said that they didn't look
like criminals, particularly Minear.
He is only boy not yet twenty
years of age, and his general appear
auce ill-beftted one guilty of so
gross an infraction of law and
humanity. Boyd was decidedly the
rougher looking of the two, but
even he would not be taken for
person in whom the sense of honor
is entirely dead.
Clyde c. Yetter, counsel for
Minear aid Boyd waived a formal
hearing after which the case against
Levan was taken up. The prisoner
was not present at the time, and
the proceedings rested until Sheriff
Knorr brought him from the Jail.
The first witness called was Pat
rick Mckinley the murdered mans
brother i'll law. He testified that
he had worked with McAndrews
all night previous to the murder,
and that he had given him his pay
envelope containing something over
thirty dollars. He was with him
about half an hour after they quit
work Monday morning. He next
saw him at his house and assisted
in removing lin to the hospital
and was present when the physi-
clans treated him.
DR.. Gwinner of Centralia testif-
ed. He was driving from Cen
tralia to Mid Valley when he found
McAndrews behind a clump of
bushes. His head and face were
swollen, and blood was flowing
from his nose and mouth. He ap-
peared conscious and made an effort
to talk but he couldn't articulate.
Il did not think at the time" said
DR.. Gwinner, that he was so
seriously injured. At the post NOR
tenn examination. in which assist
ed found that the temporal bones
were both crushed; there was a
fracture extending down to the base
OF The brain, and the brain was
clotted with blood" The body
had been moved from where it was
first found by two other men to
where it was found by DR.. Gwinner.
He inspected the place where it
previously laid, in pile of rocks,
and there he found pool of blood.
A few feet distant lay club, a
fresh cut sappllng foot and a half
long and about an inch thick and it
was with this he believes the mortal
blows were struck. His first inn
preston was that McAndrews had
fallen and hit his head against the
stones, but in redirect examination
he said 81 changed my opinion at
the post mortem examination. l
cannot conceive how it could be
possible for the wounds to have
been self inflicted" The testimony
of Edward Honabach had consider
able bearing on the case inasmuch
as it showed that Levan was with
McAndrews before the murder, and
that he knew of the money on Nc
Andrews person. Mr.. Honabach
is a hotel keeper at Aristes. He
testified that about ten o'clock in
the morning of March goth Nc
Andrews appeared at his hotel He