The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1910-07-20
SIkE LORD Is
LIKELY TO GO
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MY mother and Silas Lord" he
said, "own and live on properties
that adjoin each other. The prop
erty my mother owns was formerly
that of Mrs. I. l.. Burcher, who was
formerly Mrs. Abner HILL There is
an unsettled dispute as to the bound
airy line between these properties
which has been handed down for
many years, Silas claiming the line
as surveyed encroaches on his prop
erty. A. V. Tyler made a survey
and staked the line over 10 years
ago.
This survey of Tyler did not sat
! isfy Silas. 1t came within seven
feet of my mothers house, which
was then owned by Mrs. Hill, now
Mrs. Burcher. Lewis Collins, the
county surveyor, was then engaged
to run the lines, and his survey, it
seems, brought the line within FIVE
feet of my mothers property. This
evidently was not satisfactory, for
Engineer Sandercock was next en-
ployed to make a survey, and this
confirmed the one made by Mr..
Tyler. Later, however, he found he
had made a mistake, so he resur-
veyed and in so doing brought the
line further over onto mother's s
property and within three feet of
her house.
"On the day of the fight, July 12,
Sam Reed and | started to lay a
tile drain from my mothers house
to the highway. We commenced to
dig a ditch which, we claim, would
come within the three-foot limit
Silas and William had gone to work
= for Mr.. Tyner, but they got a tele'
phone call that Sam and | were dig,
ging the ditch. They hurried home
, and as soon as they came a war OF
= words started.
Il was in the ditch, which was
about Is inches deep. William
came up with a hoe that had an un
usually thick handle. He hit me
, and | tried with my arm to ware
3 off the blow. The hoe handle
S crashed down on my head, cutting
my hat. / got a skull wound, too
l was momentarily stunned and a
that moment William jumped dowr
on me and commenced to rain blow:
e on my face. He gave me a blacl
eye, too.
. "Well, at this point mother hearC
e the fracas and ran out of the house
t She tried, of course, to protect m,
: from Williams onslaught. Sila
came up then and hit her on tn,
q back and head. Mother claimed sh,
g was on her own property at the tim
and was simply trying to protect me
- Just then Reed came up with
o hoe and began to attack Silas.
a was in the trench, partly, with vii
liam on top of me. | finally sue
ceeded in turning William over an
getting on top myself, and at tha
he agreed to stop.
Mother did not see Reed an
Silas fighting, for her time and al
tention were taken up with my figh
with William. She did not strik
| anybody, at any time or in any way
4 but she says that while William an
| were fighting she picked up no,
intending to hit William, but ReeC
after he finished his fight with Silai
came up and took the hoe away froI
her. 1t was then that she saw Sila
Lord had been struck and hurt, fC
he was bleeding, but it all happene
while her back was turned and Will
she was engrossed in the scrap in til
ditch between Millard and myself
- THE whole affair did not occup
" more than three or four minutes an
= everybody in it was too busy wit
n his own part to see anything outsid
RS the range of his own trouble, IL
there were two fights in progress
le the same time-one between Wi
liam and l and one between Rec
IN and Silas. The fight between WI
n liam and l very naturally took I
" all my mothers attention"
I'll
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al At Madisonville Mr.. and Mrs.
In II. Ives are entertaining her mothe