The Savannah morning news., 1904-07-31
TWO LAID LOW
WITH BUCKSHOT
BRUTAL DAYLIGHT ROBBERY.
FOR $4,000 IN GOLD ONE WAS KILL
ED AND ONE IS DYING.


without Warning in Public Road
Near JohnstOwn, Pa.-Puritan Coal
COmpHny's Driver Killed and Pay
master MOrtnuy WOunded-seven
Italian Suspects Are Under Ar
rest-Pay Campbell Able to
Tell of the HoId-up.
Johnstown, Pa, July 30.-Charles
Hayes, 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 1915 o'clock this
morning.
The two were in buggy, taking a
satchel containing about $3,000 with
which to pay the coal company's en-
ployes at Puritan. from the Adams
Express office at Portage, to the coal
town, when at a point about three
quarters of a mile out of Portage they
were suddenly fired upon by three men
armed with shotguns.
RiddIed with Buckshot.
Hayes fell to the bottom of the bug
gy pierced by thirty-seven 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. The high
waymen came out from their place Of
hiding in the woods to the right of the
road. secured the satchel of money
and escaped.
According to their usual custom on
the Saturday nearest the first of the
month. Campbell and Hayes went to
Portage about 8 o'clock this morning
and ate breakfast at the Portage
House.
At O'Clock the two went to the
Office of the Adams Express Company
where they obtained about $4,000 in
gold and bills, which they placed in
a small leather satchel.
Had Armed Themselves.
Armed with 4S-caliber 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
NOOh PidRGs
About ten minutes after their depar-
ture William Helsel, a farmer who lives
four miles from Portage. started for
home In a spring wagon over the same
road, which the paymas aster and his
driver had taken. Three-quarters Of
a mile from town. where the road is
fianked by woods, he suddenly came
upon the body of a man apparently
writhlng in death agony in 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
flowing from q wound in the right
shoulder
whisper story of Crime.
Although in dreadful agony Campbell
was still conscious and managed to
whisper to Helsel that he and his
driver had ben 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 a 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 pay
masters buggy standing at the side Of
the road, the horse, unframed nib
bling at the long grass.
Coming up opposite the vehicle, he
found the drivers form motionless and
bloody across the bottom of the buggy.
Investigation showed the mans body
form the base of the abdomen to the
neck a mass of gunshot wounds, show
ing red and CHASTITY through a great
rent in the clothing, made by the
heavy shot. He seemed to be dead.
Couldn't Lift Dying Man.
Helsel tried to lift the PROSTATE form
into his wagon with Campbell. but
could not, Hayes weighing about 100
pounds. AS no help was at hand and
there was no house nearer than Port
age, Helsel turned his team about and
drove at a gallop back to this place,
his now unconscious patient lying n
the bottom of the wagon. He drove di-
rectly to the Office OF DIR. J. A. Scho-
field, in whose charge Campbell was
placed, secured assistance 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 however,
and died within ten minutes after be-
ing brought into the office.
Meanwhile. Paymaster Campbell.
who was still in the office of the doc
tor had regained consciousness, and
was able to give a brief whispered ac-
count of the hold up to DR.. Seho-
field and Landlord Yeckley Of the Port
age House, who was helping the ply
sician. He said that nothing unusual
or suspicious had occurred during the
ride from Portage to the place where
the shooting took place.
Had Hand ON Revolver.
He and Hayes had the money
satchei in the seat between them.
Hayes was driving with both hands,
while Campbell had one hand on the
satchel and the other in his left coat
pocket where he kept his revolver.
This, IL is said, was their usual mode
of procedure on trips of this kind.
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 a sharp pain IN his
right shoulder. and becoming sudden
iy dizzy, found himself falling from
his seat out over the left side. He
struck the ground just in front of the
rear wheel. which passed over him.
Robbers Were Italians.
Even though only semi-conscious at
the time. he said he remembered see
ing three men run out of the woods,
approach the buggy and then scurry