The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1908-08-26
SHOT HIS WIFE FROM AMBUSH.
f. Il. Kightlinger Held For Attempting
to Kill His Wiie.-WOman is Able
TO Appear Against Him.

As result ofa family quarrel man
named Friend Burvel Kightlinger Ian
guishes in the county jail awaiting trial
on the charge of shooting his wife. The
accused man is aged about 80 years and
about year ago was married to Cora
May Brown. The couple had come re-
Gently to the home of George w. Strain,
who resides on what is known as the old
Wiles farm, on the road leading from Fa-
gundus to Neilltown, and not far from
what is known as "Poverty HILL" the
man being employed by Strain as a farm
hand and woodsman, while his wife as
sisted with the household work. Kight-
linger, it seems, was unreasonably jeal-
Gus of his wife, and quarreled almost con-
tinuously, which had become so annoy
ing to Strain and his family that on FRI
day evening ne had determined upon the
discharge of both Kightlinger and his
wife the next day. That night Kightling-
er disappeared, and it seems had gone to
Tidioute, near where he was reared and
had made his home almost continuously,
and procured double-b barreled shotgun.
Returning some time in the night he had
secreted himself in patch OF woods in
the rear of the Strain house, and when
his wife appeared in the back yard, some
time after o'clock In the morning, she
was twice fired upon from the woods with
a shot gun, the contents of the first shot
striking her in the face near the left eye,
and the second striking her on the right
shoulder while she turned to run away.
Some of the pellets also struck her on the
right hand and wrist as she involuntarily
threw up her arm TO ward off the charge
from the first shot. She says she saw her
husband as he rose to fire at her, but he
did not speak. She thought he must have
been about 20 feet away, but the distance
was evidently greater than that, judging
from the way the shot scattered.
Without stopping to see the effect of the
shooting Kightlinger started in the direc-
tion of West Hickory, reaching there
shortly after 10 o'clock, and leaving the
gun with the station agent with directions
to send it to Tidioute. By this time
George Strain and William Proctor ar
rived, having pursued the man from their
home, and told him they intended to take
him to Tionesta. Kightlinger offered no
resistance and before the train started
Sheriff Stroup was advised by telephone
and met the party at the station here and
took the prisoner in charge.
Information charging Kightlinger with
aggravated assault and assault with intent
to kill, was made by G, W. Strain and the
prisoner was brought before Justice d.
W. Clark, where he pleaded mot guilty."
and was remsnded to Jail under $1,000 bail
for further hearing, or until his wife
should be able to appear against him.
This she was able to do on Monday at one
o'clock, when she told her story of the
affair, which was substantially as above
related, and the man was bound over to
court, bail being fixed at $1,000.
AT the hearing when asked if he had
committed the deed Kightlinger made no
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traitor to him,
Mrs. Kightllnger is aged 27 years, of
slight stature aud rather delicate in ap-
pearance. She states that her husband
has been very abusive to her since their
marriage, often beating and i'll treating
her. The woman's wounds are not kelly
to prove serious, though it was very
close call for her, one pellet striking close
to her left eye, grazing the temple and
npping the top of the ear.
Kightlinger is short of stature but stout
and rugged. He does not seem much
disturbed over the affair, his greatest C IN
Germ being his aversion to being locked
up.