Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1904-08-03
A BRUTAL HOLD.UP
Double Murder and Robbery on a
Pennsylvania Highway
$4,000 TAKEN FROM A PAYMASTER

Great Stir Caused in Pennsylvania
Mining Town by the Act OF Rob.
bers in Firing From the Roadside
Upon Paymaster Patrick Campbell
and His Driver, Charles Hayes.
Johnstown, Pa, special.-Charles
{ Hayes, a driver employed by the Puri-
tan. Coal Company, is dead, and Pat
rick Campbell, the company's paymas-
ter, lies perhaps fatally wounded at the
Altoona Hospital, as the result OF
! brutal hold-up and murder on the
township road leading from Portage,
this county, to the mining town OF
{ Puritan, at about 1918 o'clock Satur-
day morning. The two men were In
buggy, taking a satchel containing
4 about $4,000, with which to pay the
coal company's employees at Puritan
s from the Adams Express Office at Por-
tage to the coal town, when, at a point
]. about three quarters of@a mile out OF
Portage, they were suddenly fred upon
by three men armed with shot guns.
Hayes fell to the bottom of the buggy
pierced by 81 buckshot wounds IN MS
s neck and breast, and died about hall
IAN hour later. Campbell was hit IN
D the shoulder and fell from the buggy.
s The highwaymen came out from their
place of hiding in the. woods to the
right Of the road, secured the satchel
y OF money and escaped.
According to their usual custom near
y 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 9 o'clock the two
swent to the Office OF the Adams EX-
;press Company, where they obtained
about $4,000 in gold and bills, which
they placed in a small leather satchel.
Armed with 4S-calibre revolVers as a
protection against possible robbery,
(: they got into their buggy and drove out
5sthe 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
s for home in a spring wagon, over the
same road which the paymaster and his
driver had taken. Three-quarters OF
mile from town, where the road is
Ii Ranked By woods, he suddenly came
upon tie Sbod sof 8 man apparently
aegth agu.y in si g the gs:
ssR51 ths e
9onnasd man 81 o-ssssssssssss ias az is icb
s:s srWas drenche with blooa.sn,s4 q .;.s
y =. D, Az ouinl from q wound "a the rign, !,
MaS, ssa:aSss Although IN dreadful 9anla,
ssony Campbell <wa e to whisper
- MS aSs and manage1and his driy-
TO tas Helsel that JRSn RI by r robbers; That
s er had been ,fre6is wound, had fsllen
he, dizzy fI[ggy, which had goDe on.
iron the 4ched the mans wounds as
~, Helsel. .sould with a handkerchief and
bestIBf linen ripped from his coat,
n him into the wagon and started
II ON the road in search Of the team
.iIand the driver. He came upon the pay
masters buggy, standing at the side
of the road, the horse, unharmed, nib
s bling at the long grass. Coming up op-
<1o Eo
3 of the driver, Hayes, lying motionless
|. and bloody across the bottom Of the
buggy. Investigation showed the
z mans body from the base of the abdo-
men to the neck mass OF gun-shot
wounds, showing red an6 CHASTITY
AZ through a great rent in the clothing,
made by the heavy shot. He seemed
q 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
I at hand. and there was no house near
z er than Portage, Helsel turned his
team about and drove at gallop back
TO this place, his now unconscious pa
Z tient, laying in the bottom Of the wag-
on He drove directly to the Office of
81: DR.. j. "A. Schofeld, 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
IS within 10 minutes after being brought
into the Office. Meanwhile Paymaster
Campbell, who was still in the Office OF
ssthe 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 was helping the physician.
s He said that nothing unusual Or sus-
picious had occurred during the ride
from Portage to the place where the
3 shooting took place..
800 Men in Pursuit.
Portage, Pa, Special.-Pursued by.
4 loo men, the three men who murdered
i Charles Hayes, driver, and perhaps
! fatally wounded Patrick F. Campbell,
Z paymaster for the Puritan Coal Com
psuy, about mile south of this place
q Saturday morning, are hiding in Cedar
y Swamp about seven miles from Port
age, on the Bedford county line. one
q of, tie fugitiyes is injured, but not
enough; to affect his fight.
In parties Of about 20, the pursuing
linen are scattered out over the entire
sboundery Of Laurel Thicket Swamp,
(which is IL miles long and seven wide.
Every minute, signal shots are heard
from different parts of the swamp. A
( system of signals have been arranged
s SO that none Of the searchers will get
lost, and to enable them to surround
i the sugitives when they are found.
:ssJustice of the Peace Mccartney, OF
BeaVerdaIe, a town about six miles to
the south of Portage, about IL o'clock
noticed three men running across the
town toward the swamp. Mccartney
caIled upon about 20 followers to hur-
ry. They fired, and before reaching
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