The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1904-08-02

JohnstOwn. Pa, July 30.-Charles
Hayes. driver employed by the Puri-
tan Coal Company, is dead and Patrick
Campbell. the cOmpany's paymaster,
lies fatally wounded at the Altoona
hospital as the result of hoId-up anc
murder, which occurred in the town.
ship road leading from Portage to Pu-
ritan, about 1915 o'clock today.
According to their usual custom on
month"; Campbell and Hayes went to
Portage about s o'clock and ate break
fast at the Portage House. AT o'clock
the two went to the office of the Adams
Express Company where they obtained
about 50, 900 n gold and bills which they
placed in a small leather satchel. Arm>
ed with As calibre revolvers as pro-
lection against possible robbery. they
got into their buggy and drove out the
township road. This was the last seen
of them Eefore the shooting took place.
Ten minutes after their departure,
William Helsel, a farmer who lives
four miles from Portage, started for
home in d spring wagon over the same
road which the paymaster and his driv-
er had taken. Three quarters of a
mile from town, where the road is
thanked by woods he suddenly came
upon the body of a man apparently
Writhing in death agony in the middle
of the road. Getting down from his
wagon. he discovered the wounded man
p hA NJ
drenched with blood which was flowing
from wound in the right shoulder.
Although in dreadful agony Campbell
was still conscious and managed to
whisper 20 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 wound
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 had not gone fifty
yards when he came upon the paymas-
ter's buggy standing at the side of the
road, the horse embarrassed, nibbling
at the Ions grass. Coming up opposite
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 abdomen to the
neck, 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. Helsel
tried TO lift the prostrate 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 Portage.
HalSal furr1a1 n nd
at a gallOp back to that place, his now
unconscious patient lying in the bottom
of the wagon. He drove directly to the
office of DR.. ]. A. Schofeld, 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 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. He said
that nothing unusual or suspicious had
occurred during the ride from Porta ge
to the place where the shooting took
place. 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. it 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 blind
ing flash from the woods to the righ.
of the road. He-feft a sharp pain in
his shoulder and becoming suddenly
dizzy found himself falling from his
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