The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1904-08-04
Double Murder and Robbery on
Pennsylvania Highway
$1,000 TAKEN FROM A PAYMASTER
Great Stir Caused In Pennsylvania
Mining Town by the Act Of Rob-
bers In Firing From the Roadside
Upon Paymsster Patrick Campbell
and His Driver, Chsries Hayes,


ter. lies perhaps fatally wounded at the
Altoona Hospital. as the result of a
brutal hold-up and murder on the
| township road leading from Portage,
| this county, to the mining town OF
| Puritan, at about 1915 o'clock Satur-
day morning. The two men were in Il
| buggy. taking a satchel containing
about $4,000, with which TO pay the
coal company's employees at Puritan,
from the Adams Express Office at Por-
tage to the coal town, when, at point
about three-quarters of a mile out or
| Portage, they were Suddenly fired upon
| by three men armed with shot guns.
| Hayes fell to the bottom of the buggy
| pierced by 81 buckshot wounds in his
| neck and breast, and died about half
an hour later Campbell was hit in
the shoulder and fell from the buggy.
place Of hiding in the woods to the
right of the road, secured the satchel
of money and escaped
According 10 their usual custom near
the first of the month, Campbell and
Hayes went to Portage about o'clock
In the morning and ate breakfast at the
Portage House. at o'clock the two
went to the office OF the Adams Ex-
press Company, where they obtained
about $4,000 In gold and bills, which
they placed in small leather satchel.
Armed with 4S-callbre revolVers as a
protection against possible robbery,
they got into their buggy and drove out
the township road. This was the last
seen of them before the shooting took
place. About ten minutes after their
departure, Mr.. Helsel, farmer, who
lives four miles from Portage, started
for home in spring wagon, over the
same road which the paymaster and his
driver had taken. Three-quarters of
a mile from town, where the road is
hanked by woods, he suddenly came
upon the body Of a man apparently
writhing in the death agony, in the
middle of the road. Getting down from
his wagon, Helsel discovered the
wounded man to be Campbell. The lat
ter was drenched with blood, which
was flowing from wound in the right
shoulder. Although in dreadful
agony Campbell was still consci-
GUS and managed to whisper
to Helsel that he and his driv-
er had been fired upon by robbers; that
he, dizzy from his wound, had fallen
from the buggy, which had gone on.
Helsel staunched the mans wounds as
best he could with a handkerchief and
bit Of linen ripped from his coat,
lifted him into the wagon and started
out on the road in search of the team
and the driver. He came upon the pay
masters buggy, standing at the side
of the road, the horse, unframed, nib
bling at the long grass. Coming up OPP
rcsite the vehicle, he found the form
Of the driver, Hayes, lying motionless
and bloody across the bottom of the
buggy. Investigation showed the
mans body from the base of the abdo-
men to the neck a mass of gun-shot
wounds, showing red and CHASTITY
through great rent in the clothing,
made by the heavy shot. He seemed
to be dead. Helsel tried to lift the
PROSTATE form into his wagon with
Campbell, but could not, Hayes weigh
ing about 100 pounds. AS no help was
at hand, and there was no house near
er than Portage, Helsel turned his
team about and drove at gallop back
to this place, his now unconscious pa
tent laying in the bottom of the wag-
on. He drove directly to the Office of
DR.. J.. A. Schofield. in whose charge
Campbell was placed, secured assist
ance and went back for Hayes.
The body of the driver was taken to
Portage. where physicians discovered |
That although Hayes was unconscious !
life was not quite extinct. He was |
wounded beyond recovery, and died |
within 10 minutes after being brought |
into the office. Meanwhile Paymaster
Campbell, who was still in the office of
the doctor, had regained consciousness
and was able to give brief, whispered
account Of the hold-up to DR.. Schofield
and Landlord Yeckley, of the Portage
House, who~wa helping the physician.
he said that nothing unusual or sus-
olclous had occurred during the ride
rom Portage to the place where the
shooting took place.
300 Men in Pursuit.
portage, Pa, SpeciaI.-Pursued nv
OO men, the three men who murdered
jharles Hayes, driver, and perhaps
atally wounded Patrick F. Campbell
'aymaster for the Puritan Coal Com
amy, about mile south of this place
.aturday morning, are hiding in Cedar
swamp about seven miles from Port
ge. on the Bedford county line. One
I the fugitives is injured, but not
hough to affect his flight.
In parties of about 20. the pursuing
1en are scattered out over the entire
cundery Of Laurel Thicket Swamp.
mich is II miles long and seven wide, ;
very minute, signal shots are heard
rom different parts of the swamp. A
ystem of signals have been arranged ,
that none of the searchers will get !
st. and to enable them to surround {
ne fugltives when they are found. {
Istice of the Peace MCCARTNEY of
eaVerdale, town about six miles to {
&c south of Portage, about II O'Clock !
oticed three men running across the
'Wh toward the swamp. Mccartney
1lled upon about 20 followers to hur-
7. Ihey fred, and before reaching
4e swamp one Of the fugitives fell
rother volley of shots rang out as the {
alien man attempted to rise, and he t
.umbled again. His companions lifted +
i'm to his feet, and the three hurried !
ITO the swamp. When Justice McCar- :
ley and his posse arrived they saw >
trail of blood leading from where the :
an had fallen into the swamp. They
'llowed, but when about SO yards in. i
st the trail. The party then separated | p
ne man being detailed to Beauarda1o