Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1905-06-29
Held FOR COURT
ON MURDER CHARGE

| Feace Oglesby Monday afternoon
charged with the crime of murder His
victim, according to the allegation.
was his twelve-day- old infant and the
! testimony adduced was the ante NOR
| tenn statement of his young nineteen
year-old wife now on her dying bed.
All the circumstances attending the
| case are pathetic in the extreme. The
| defendant is only some twenty. three
years OF age and present at the hear
ing was his father as we'll as the par
ents Of his wife. Mr.. and Mrs Dallas
Sechler of Limestone township at
whose home the young wife is now ly-
ing.
! The information was made before
Justice Oglesby by Dallas Sechler
Saturday afternoon Constable w. K.
Young accompanied by Chief Mince-
moyer drove out to Limestone town
ship and made the arrest Sees was
committed to Jail pending a hearing,
which took place at 3 O'Clock yester-
day afternoon.
On being arraigued the defendant
entered a plea of not guilty.
The first witness examined was DR..
o. l.. Muffly of Turbotville, who rem
dered surgical assistance in the family
in the autumn of 1903. when the child
was born whose death the young hus-
band is held accountable for 1t was
a male child, healthy and we'll de-
veloped, the physician testified, and
was thriving finely until the tenth or
eleventh day. when after his visits had
practically discontinued he was in
formed that convuIsions had set in
He was positive that there was moth
ing connected with the birth of the
child that could result in its Sudden
death
DR.. G. X. ROthrock of Milton, who
has been attending the wife in her
present illness. was the next witness.
He is "A well-known physician of
twenty years practice He has been
attending Mrs. Sees off and on for sew
eral years. The family were poor, he
said, but he had given them the same
attention that he would have given
millionaires. OF the young wife he
. spoke in terms of highest praise aud
said that she was as bright and sweet
a woman as lives in the township.
On May 2G he was called and found
her in an exceedingly bad condition as
] result of a criminal operation, which
happens to have nothing 10 do with
this case He did for her what was
/ possible, but the case was beset with
unfavoTable conditions and she grsdu-
ally grew worse. Today she is still
living, but there are no hopes for her
recovery aud she is near her end
Last week he informed her of the
gravity of her case. Learning that she
had to die she told her physician that
there was something that worried her
very much she then proceeded to tell
her little baby boy, born in 1903,
accusing her husband of causing ITS
death.
The child, she said, was strong and
well nourished. On October 81, 1903.
when the baby was nine days old. her
husband compelled her TO take some
salt 80 neighbor's house, which had
been borrowed When she left the
child was we'll and when she returned
it was vomiting long strings of saliva.
Her mother was called and they work
ed with the child two hours, when it
seemed to improve.
She said her husband was rough an d
he did not want the baby to get we'll
and once threatened to kill it with a
poker. On the night of the day of it's
mysterious illness he would not per
NIT the mother to have the child in
bed with her. Monday his cruel treat
ment continued On that day he pick
ed up the baby and threw it several
feet onto a lounge, causing it to lose
its breath When the mother flew to
its rescue he forbid her TO pick it up.
Later he took the mother and child
and forced them into a room where
there was no fire nor light and com
pelled them to remain there an hour.
knees and with his hands pressed on
its SKULL. The next day the baby died
and after death the finger marks were
visible on the back of the child's head.
DR.. Rothrock stated that the woman
when she made the statement was per-
fectly rational. He saw her again yes
terday when although very low she
was still rational
John NJ Reber of Milton. an attor-
ney, who was called to take the ante
moGtem statement on Saturday last,
was the next witness. He stated that
lie fully explained to the woman the
awful import of the statement she was
about to make and apprised her fully
of the effect it would have upon her
husband. Notwithstanding she vol
UNFAIRLY made the statement and in
full cons CiOusness that she has but q
few days to live.
In her statement, which was read
before the Justice, the woman says
that her name is Eva May Sees and
that she Is nineteen years old All the
facts narrated coincide with the YER
bal statement made to DR.. Rothrock.
Mr. Reber testified that the woman
when she made the statement was per
fectly rational.
W Il. Galbraith of Milton, itness
to the ante mortem statement oOrrobo-
rated Mr.. Reher as to MIS-. Sees sound
mental condition.
Mrs Colder of Limestone township
was sworn 1t was she who laid the
little child out after death. Blood
OOZed out of its mouth, she said. and
the back OF its head was soft and dis
coIored The mother, she said, told
her the story of the defendant abuse
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