Virginia gazette. [volume] (Williamsburg, Va.) 1893-192?, 1904-08-06
Double Murder and Robbery on a
Pennsylvania Highway
$1,000 TAKEN FROM A PAYMASIER
Great Stir Caused in Pennsylvania
Mining Town by the Act OF ROD
bers in Firing From the HoSos'oe
Upon Paymsster Patrick Campbell"
and His Driver, Charles Hayes.

HAYES. r driver employ "a - N'N III
tan Coal Company. is dead, and Pat II
rick Campbell. the company's paymas-
ter lies perhaps fatally wounded AT TO-
Altoona Hospital. a. the result OF i
brutal hold-up and murder on tns
township road leading from Portage e
this county. 10 the mining town OF
Puritan. at about 1918 o'clock Satur-
s,v morning The two men were in a
buggy. taking a satchel containing
about s. 600. with which 10 pay the
coal company's employees at puritan
from the Adams Express Office at POT
I tase 10 the coal town. when. at point
about three-Quarters OF a mile out OF
4 Portage. they were suddenly fired upon
BY three men armed with shot guns.
/ HAYES fell 10 the bottom Of the buggy
MERGED bv 81 buckshot wounds in his
neck and breast. and died about nan
an hour later. Campbell was hit IN I
the shoulder and fen from the buggy. /
Tho hirhwavmen came out from ther +
place OF hiding in the woods to the /
richt OF the road. secured the sa'0"e'
OF money and escaped.
According TO their usual custom near
, the first OF the month. Campbell and
HAYES went 20 Portage about O'Clock
fin the morning and ate breakfast az the
Portage House At o'clock the TWO
= went n the Office OF the Adams EN-
nress Company. where they obtained
, about 5000 In gold and bills. which
!. thev nlaced in a small leather satchel
p. Armed with 4S-caiibre reyolvers as
. protection against possible robbery.
. they got into their buggy and drove out
a. the township road. This was the last
seen OF them before the shooting took
Mace About ten minutes after their
a departure. Mr. Helsel. farmer VINO
o. lives four miles from Portage. started
40 for home in a spring wagon. over the
~, same road which the paymaster and MS
~ driver had taken. Three-Quarters or
"A a mile from town. where the road Is
.is aanked by woods. he suddenly came
upon the body OF man apparently
IA writing In the death agony, in 'he
a middle OF the road. Getting down = ON
his wagon Helsel discovered the
4e wounded man 10 be Campbell The lat
vn Ter was drenched with blood. which
q" was lowing from wound in the right
IA shoulder. Although in dreadful
agony Campbell was still consci
I'VE Gus and managed 90 Whlspe
I'VE 10 Helsel that he and his orlN
he or mad been fired upon boy robbers. ma
DOT ne dizzy from his wound. haa laii'
a from the buggy. which had gone OF
the Hclsel staunched the man wounds G
we'd best he could with handNercnlel an
lvv a bit ~ linen ripped from his Goa
ace lifted him into the wagon and starte
eek out on the road In search OK the tear
ing and the driver. he came upon me pa.
,iv masters buggy. standing al the $40
ana OF the road the horse. unframed. NJ
bling al the long grass. Coming up OF
fad rosite the vehicle. he found the 10Y
had az the driver. Hayes. lying mouonle.
Ties and bloody across the bottom OF I,
80 buggy Investigation showed Il
the mans body from the base OF the anu
wed men 10 the neck a mass OF gun-sh
the wounds showing red and ghast
,ru- through a great rent In the clotmn
eets made hv the heavy shot. tie seem
IAN 10 be dead Helsel tried 10 lit I
re- PROSTATE form into his wagon vi
sta Campbell. but could not, Hayes wels
owd ing about 100 pouncs. AS no heip "
,usv al hand. and there was no house ne'
- or than Portage. Helsel turned
me- me- team about and drove at gallop ha
y teu ia this place his now unconscious
u "a fient LAYING ia the. bottom OF the ";
INC" on. he drove directly TO the Office
Dr. J. A. Schoheld. in whose chal
own / Campbel was placed. secured asst
ssas- ance and went back for Hayes.
atlc The body OF the driver was taken
wing Portage. where physicians discoVe
cars that although Hayes was unconsci
eaVy life was not quite extinct he
ways wounded beyond recovery, and
'ossi- within 10 minutes after being brou
80 into the Office Meanwhile Payma!
nf Campbell. who was stih in the OHIO
owl / the doctor had regained consclousI
and / and was able 10 give brief, whisp'
oued account Of the hold-up 10 Dr. Schoi
oe5oD and Landlord Yeckley. OF the Por'
.,.ted House who was helping the physic
He said that nothing unusual or
.he picious had occurred during the
81 from Portage 20 the place where
,nnds shooting took place
loped 800 Men in Pursuit
IS Of Portage. Pa. Speciai.-Pursued
100 men. the three men who murd
s also Charles Hayes driver. end perl
Ound- fatally wounded Patrick r. Camp
irving paymaster for the Puritan Coal I
flying pany. about a mile south OF this ]
vas saturday morning. are hiding In 7
Swamp about seven miles from
srs on the Bedford county Inc.
}. az the fugitives Is injured, but
enough TO affect his fight
OF Ia In nartses OF about 20, the purs