The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-08-02
Paymaster and Driver
Shot From Ambush.
THE DRIVER IS DEAD
And the Paymaster May be DYING
The Hishwaymen Secured the
SatcheI of Money Carried by
Paymaster ard Made
Their Escape.
(By the Associated Press.)

(By the Associated Press.)
Johnstown, Pa, July 30.-Charles
Hayes, a driver employed by the
Puritan Coal Company, is dead and
Patrick Campbell, the company's pay
master, lies fatally wounded at the
Altoona Hospital as the result OF a
hold-up and murder which occurred
on the township road leading from
Portage to Puritan, about 1915
o'clock today
According to their usual custom
on the Saturday nearest the first of
the month Campbell and Hayes went
TO Portage about O'Clock TINS
morning and ate breakfast at the
Portage house. At nine o'clock the
two went to the office of the Adams
Express Company, where they OBJ
tanned about $4,000 III gold and bills
which they placed in a small leather
satchel. Armed with As calibre re-
volvers as a protection against posi-
BILE robbery they got into their buggy
and drove ont the township road.
This was the last seen of them before
the shooting took place.
Writhing i'm His Blood.
About ten minutes after their de-
parture, William Helsel, a farmer
who lives four miles from Portage,
started for home In a spring wagon
over the same road which the pay
master and his driver had taken.
Three-quarters of a mile from town
where the road is flanked by woods
he suddenly came upon the body of
2 man apparently writing i'm death
agony i'm the middle of the road.
Getting down from his wagon Helsel
discovered the wounded man to be
Mr.. Campbell. The latter was
drenched with blood which was flow
er.s
Although in dreadful agony Camp
bell was still conscious and managed
to whisper to Helsel that he and his
driver had been fired upon by rob-
bers, that he, dizzy from his wound
had fallen from the buggy, which had
gone on.
The Good Samaritan.
Helsel staunched the mans wounds
as best he could with q handkerchief
and q 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 had not gone fifty yards when
he came upon the paymasters buggy
standing at the side Of the road, the
horse, unframed, nibbling at the long
grass.
Coming up opposite the vehicle, he
found the form of the G~jver, Hayes
lying motionless and bloody across
the bottom of the buggy. Investiga-
ton showed the mans body from the
base of the abdomen to the neck Il
mass of gunshot wounds, showing red
and CHASTITY through q 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 weighing about
190 pounds.
AS no help was at hand and there was
no house nearer than Portage, HalSel
turned his team about and drove at a
gallop back to this place, his now I'M
conscious patient lying in the bottom
of the wagon. He drove directly to
whose charge Campbell was placed,
secured assistance and went back for
Hayes.
Death Of the Driver.
The body of the driver was taken to
Portage, where physicians discovered
that although unconscious life was
not quite extinct He was beyond re-
covery, however, and died within ten
minutes after being brought into the
office
Meanwhile Paymaster Cappell who
was still in the office of the doctor
had regained consciousness and was
able to give a brief account of the
hold-up to DR.. Schofield and Leonard
Teckley, of the Portage house, who
was helping the physician. He said
that nothing unusual or suspicious
had occurred during the ride from
Portage to the place where the shoot
ing took place. He and Hayes had
the money satchel in the seat between
them. Hayes was driving with both
hands, while Campell had one hand on
the satchel and the other in his left coat
pocket, Whers he kept his revolver.
This it is said, was their usual mode
of procedure on trips of this kind.
Binding Flash From Woods.
About the hold-up itself he could
tell but little. There was a sudden
binding flash from the woods to the
right of the road. He felt sharp
pain in his right shoulder and becom-
ing suddenly dizzy found himself fall
ing from his seal ouS oVoS the lett SIDE
OF the buggy. He struck the ground
just in front of the rear Wheel which
passed over him.
Even though only semi-conscious at
the time he said he remembered seeing
three men run out of the woods, APP
proach the buggy and then scurry
away again. He could give no de-
scription of the men except to say he
thought they were Italians. After his
wounds had been temporarily dressed
Campbell was conveyed by train to AL
toona, where he was admitted to the
city hospital.
Campbell is 81 years old and mar
ried. His condition is critical.
Search Begun, Arrests Made.
Hayes was 40 years old and unmar-
ried. Both We're old and trusted en-
ployes of the coal company and lived