The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1906-04-05


the operating room. He was still con
scious, and while he realized that he
was in serious condition, retained his
nerve to the last and made no request
of friend or religious advisers.
With his wife standing close to the
operating table and J. F. Gifen, a
friend who accompanied him from
hriendsville, the operation was per-
formed on Frantz. As soon as the
body was opened the doctors saw that
internal hemorrhage was fast doing its
fatal work. The incision was closed
and Frantz began rapidly to sink. His
faithful wife took him in her arms and
repeated showered kisses upon him, but
IN short time he was unable to recog-
nize her and died upon the operating
table, his face even bearing a last smile
in death to the woman who thought
more of him than any living person and
who throughout all his failings of the
last three years always loved him.
Immediately following his death Drs.
Shupe and White thought it proper that
they should conduct post mortem ex-
animation of the remains and did so.
They found that the bullet had entered
the sixth open space between the ribs
one and half inches to the right of the
naval line. 1t pierced the liver, passed
drought one kidney and lodged in the
muscles of the back. Death was due
to internal hemorrhages and shock. DR..
White said that the hole in the liver
was large enough to place three fingers
in it and that it was his opinion that the
bullet had struck a rib and turned side
wise, making the terrible hole in the
liver.
The remains were removed from the
hospital to j. Edward Sims underta k
ing rooms, where a large crowd had
gathered to view the body. Every man,
woman and child in the crowd either
knew Frantz personally or had heard of
him. So often had he been in cutting
and shooting affrays that they could not
possibly realize that his career had clos
ed forever.
Deputy Coroner Sims empannaled the
following jury, which viewed the body:
W. c. Bishop, r. L. Hannah, John E.
Jones, William Scott, Chas. e. Bishop
and Sidney Moser. The ywere sworn in
last night and will be called together by
Coroner A. S. Hagan, who arrived from
Fairchance this morning, as soon as the
witnesses can be summoned from
Fr1endsville, The law provides that
the inquest over a body shall be held at
the place where the person dies.
There are many stories of the shoot
ing, according to how much sympathy
there is for Frantz, who was known as
clever, polite fellow when he was not
drinking, and who with all his treachery
and badness had big heart. IF.
Griffin, who accompanied Frantz to the
hospital, could give no clear account of
the shooting further than that Frantz
went into Collier Hotel bar at Friends
vile and that Constable Charles Liston,
who was behind the bar, shot him.
Liston was given a hearing before
Squire Hardy of Friendsville and was
released short time after the shooting
on bail bond of $780, A telephone
message from Confluence says that
Frantz was in that place on Monday
afternoon. He went to Friendsville in
the evening and later to Golfers place.
He had had previous trouble with Con-
stable Liston. Upon going into the sa-
loon he asked for him. Mr. Collier told
Frantz that Liston was not in as also
did man named Friend. Frantz, how
ever saw him in back room andEstart-
ed back, when ListOn shot aim. Another
version of the shooting is that Frantz
walked up to the bar behind which was
Liston and that he made a motion as if
to draw pistol from his hip pocket
when the officer shot him. Frantz, it
is known, blamed the officer for some
trouble he had gotten into at Addison a
short time ago.
Mrs. Frantz, who is rather TALL deli
cate but pretty woman of about %
years of age, was interviewed and
stated all she knew about the affair.
She prefaced her remarks with the |
statement that no man had ever been |
kinder to woman than her dead hus-
oand. Never during their married life
IF about three years, she said, had he
nistreated her. For some time, she |
said, Lupton had been drinking and |
vas lapsing into his old ways. He had
recently gotten into some trouble at
short distance from Friends
vile, and he blamed Constable Liston
'or prosecuting him. What the trouble
vas she did not know, but one of his
lncle's had telephoned to her that she
lad better get Lupton out of Addison
and go to some other place. He had
)een away for some days before the
shooting, but on Monday evening re-
.urned from Confluence with a Mr..
Crow, who was to purchase his barber
shop. She had prepared supper for her
husband and his COMPANION and expect