The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1910-07-27
Sam Reed Hit
Siias In Head
With Hoe Dur
ing Fight That
Ensued When
SilaS and Will
lam Tried To
Stop Willard
and Sam Dig
ging Ditch Be-
tween Proper
ty at Equinunk

Stories of the interested parties
necessarily differ as to the melee of
July 12 in which Sike Lord received
his death wounds, but this much all
hands agree upon: Millard Lord and
Sam Reed were digging a ditch be-
tween the Leona Lord and Sike
Lord properties in Equinunk when
Sike and William Lord tried to stop
them and a fight ensued, in which
Sam pitched into Sike with hoe and
struck him on the side and back of
the head.
William Lord says Sam Reed hit
his father with the hoe he had in
his hand. Millard, the son OF
Leona, is equally strong in his state
ment, stuck to from the first, that
his mother had no pick in her hand
that day; that she picked up hoe
and was going to hit William with
it when Sam stepped up to the wom-
an and took the hoe away from her.
The first reports of what has turn
ed out to be a tragedy that got to
Honesdale were brought here the
night of July 13 by Floyd Lord,
Oakley Tyner, Millard Lord and Mrs.
H. j. Logan. The cousins came
here to get legal advice, and at that
time William saw o. L. Rowland and
Millard Lord saw w. H. Lee. Floyd
Lord was not at the house when the
fight took place. There were wild
reports in Honesdale that night to
the effect that Sike had as many as
25 holes in his head.
Sam Reed, as told in this paper
at the time, got away few minutes
after he had knocked Sike out with
the hoe. He sprinted to the bank
of the Delaware, where there are
generally plenty of boats to be had,
and found a fellow who was willing
to row him to the New York side
of the river. The bridge to Lords
VILE is a good stiff mile away. Sam
knew better than to take chance
at the bridge. "
III give you 10 cents to take me
over into Sullivan county" said
Sam.
The man with the boat wasn't a
1O-cent man, and he took Sam over
into York state for nothing. Sam
landed at Louisville, where he has
friends, and that night-it was a
Tuesday-he slept in the railroad
tower. Next morning he was found
in Louisville or nearby by Leona
Lord, the woman he likes, and she
told him, so the story goes, that
Sike wasn't much hurt and that it
would be safe for him to come back
to Equinunk and stay at her house.
Not knowing, in all probability, that
Sike was fatally hurt and that 1t
would be a hazardous thing for
Skies assailant to set foot on Wayne
county soil, Sam came back. He
went at once TO Leona's house, and
it was there that Constable Hartford
and his posse found the fugitive and
arrested him.
Sam had a hearing before Justice
Kordman at Bleck's hotel in Equl-
nunk that day and was committed
to Jail without bail to see whether
Sike Lord lived or died. The fol-
lowing Saturday Leona Lord and Mil
lard Lord were arrested by the same
constable and brought before the
same justice Her bail was fixed at
$500 and his at $500, and both
Mrs. Lord and her son were able to
find a bondsman.
Leona and Millard Lord have been
in Honesdale several times to see
their lawyers, W. H. Lee and Frank
p. Kimble, and Mrs. Lord has stead
lily declared she did nothing that day
save to defend her son against Will
liam when William had Millard down
in the ditch and was pounding him.
Sike Lord was very well known
in Honesdale. He was 60 years old
and in the good old days of big
rafting on the Delaware he was a
famous raftsman and a man of
unusual strength and agility. He
weighed 100 pounds when in his