The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1907-05-30
LOCAL THAw CASE.
Dr.. Samuel S. Hoop, of Andover, This
County, Shot Down and Instantly
Killed By Emanuel Sipes.
HE AND SlPEs' WIFE TOO INTIMATE

vile IN Licking Creek township,
this county, was shot and instant
" killed about ten o'clock last
Saturday morning by Emanuel
Slpcs, a farmer residing near
Forest Dale school house, IN the
same township.
DR.. Hoop was, at the time of
his death, aged AZ years, 2 months
and IL days, end was native of
Licking Creek township. About
ii years ago he went South and
obtained a position as Railway
mail clerk on a train running out
Of Nashville, Tenn. Being faith
full as an employe and saving Ct
his income, he accumulated suf
ficient means to take course in
the study of medicine, and grad
uated from the University at
Nashville, Tenn, about eight
years ago. With his wife, for he
had married in the meantime, he
returned to the old homestead
where he was born, and began
the practice of his profession
among his old friends aud neis sh-
bors, who gave hlm the glad hand
Of welcome, for the Doctor be
longed to one of the oldest and
most highly respected families in
the township.
DR.. Wlshart who had occupied
that field foi many years, retired
from active practice, came to Nc
Connellsburg and thus left DR.
Hoop IN possession of very de.
sirable territory. AS practi-
toner he was successful, and the
way was open for life of useful
ness.
Emanuel Slpes, the slayer Of
DR.. Hoop, is young man of %
years with wife and one child.
lie is son of George w. Sipes
aud a grandson of Amos Slpes,
deceased, and lives on part of the
old home farm a little south of
Forest Dale school house, and
about three miles south of Salu.
via. Like the Hoops, the Slpes
family is one of the oldest and
best families in the township,a and
it is all the more shocking that
the names of either of these fam
lies should be associated with a
tragedy like this.
While the alr is full of reports,
the facts as nearly as our repre-
sentative has been able to gather
them are as follows
For more than year 1T has
been a matter of current gossip
in the neighborhood that the Doc.
tor and Sipes wife were unduly
intimate. Owing to the fondness
he had for his pretty young wife,
he was slow to accept any hints
from his friends that she was un-
faithful, and when at last his sus-
picions were aroused he went to
the Doctor and warned him of
the consequences that would fol-
low continuance of the intima-
cy.
Last Saturday morning Sipes
was informed that the Doctor
was seen with Slpes' wife, where.
upon Slpes traced the pair to the
barn of G. Wash Mellott on the
Ridge about quarter of mile
from the Slpes home. This is a
bank barn, and as Sipes opened
the door and stepped 10 upon the
floor he saw in an adjoining hay
NOW, which contained but small
quantity Of hay, his wife and the
Doctor busy breaking the Sew
enth G o m m an d 10 emit. Sipes
CLAIMS that the Doctor, when the
latter saw him, left the woman
and came toward Sipes threaten
ingly, whereupon Slpes leveled 3
shotgun which he had in his hand
and fired, the charge taking Of
feet in the Doctors neck, sever
ing the jugular vein and cutting
away the large muscle on ths
side of the neck. The Doctor fel
to the hoor and expired almos'
instantly.
Slpes turned away, went to the
home Of his father, told HIM tina
he had shot Hoop, and the two
men hitched up team and came
TO McConnellsburg, stopping OF