Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1903-11-12
MRS. KREBS Is
STILL LIVING
Condition Unchanged May Mean Hopes
for Recovery.

Condition Unchanged May Mean Hopes
for Recovery.
The condition of Mrs. Krebs, at the
hospital, remains unchanged and she is
making a game struggle in her battle
for life. Her condition remaining un-
changed may mean some hope for her
recovery unless serious complications
should develop when the end would be
but matter of hours or perhaps min
utes.
Hite is still in his cell at the North
cumberland county prison and claims
that he is IN no condition to be taken
TO Northumberland, to have his hear
ing before Justice of the Peace Fertig.
II the attending physicians say that
Hite is too sick to be taken TO North
umberland Justice Fertig will either
continue the hearing OF may decide to
summon the witnesses in the case and
have the hearing at the Jail. While
the physicians stated Wednesday after
noon that Hite was sick man they
would not say that they thought him
too i'll TO be taken TO Northumberland
Before the time arrives to 90 it will
then be decided whether he is able to
go through the ordeal at the Justice :
office.
Hite had a number of callers at the
Jail Wednesday, and to some he seem
ed free to talk about everything ex-
cept his crime while to others he
was somewhat indifferent. a man
claiming to be from Harrisburg called
at the Jail and when Hite was told
who wanted TO see him he said they
should tell his caller that he did not
want to see him. His wife is constant
in her devotion to him in his hour OF
distress and is untiring in her efforts
to help him in his hour Of trouble.
Several of those who visited Hite
Wednesday expressed their opinion that
although they believed Hite is sick
they think that he has entirely lost his
nerve and that he is playing for time
desiring to delay his hearing as long
rs possible
There is a different story current IN
Bloomsbury. where Hite regularly Wis
tied, from that usually accepted III re-
gard to Hite's alleged infatuation for
Mrs Krebs This as told Tuesday by
man who has been closely associated
with Hite in his business transactions
in this bounty during the last year or
more is to the effect that he had spurn-
ed Mrs. Krebs and not she him. This
man as the story goes is in position
TO know if any one is, and he stated
positively that Hite had tired of pay
ing attention to Mrs. Krebs and was
seeking to break off the attachment
that had sprung up. Hite told him
that he had told the woman that he
never wanted to see her face again.
He told him positively that he desired
to see no more of her.
learned OF the case Hite was evidently
telling his Supposed confiding friend a
falsehood.
The same gentleman remarked that
he has noticed that Hite was not him
self for the last month and the train
of events that have occurred in Blooms
burg we'll substantiate the story that
during the last few weeks his career
has been fast one.
An illustration of the manner of his
living is afforded by his action in bust
ness affairs The day after the clos
ing of the Bloomsbury fair he held a
sale at the fair grounds and as the
sale was closing, before he had receiv-
ed or arranged for the payment of sew
eral thousand dollars due him, he had
horse and carriage in waiting TO
drive him to the D. L. q w train
having but few minutes to catch the
four o o'clock train. An employe then
chided him for not looking after his
business analrS more carefully ana he
remarked the latter could effect the
settlement with the buyers, and with
out having any account OF the receipts
of the sale hastened away to meet
some person. This is but one illustra-
tion Of number OF acts of business
carelessness of which he has been
guilty. An employe of his who has
been in BloomsbIrg since the fair and
who was sent for to come to Sunbury
Monday. telephoned to Bloomsbury
Tuesday that Hite had told him that
he had not shot the woman and that
he had made no confession Of having
done 90.
1t is the belief of many that the cor
rect story of the shooting and the cir
oumstanoes and occurrences leading up
to it have not been made known many
OF the details having been suppressed
OF which the public are not aware ~
Sunbury Item.
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