The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1912-07-31

GUEST KILLS MAN At KEENS POND
ON SUNDAY; CLAIMS SELF. Defence

aforesaid, where the body was found,
between the hours of two and three !
a. m, on the said 2Sth day of July, /
1912, By revolver shots in the hand /.
of and fired by one self-confessed |
Marsden A. Hubbard; in witness
thereof we have placed our hand
and seal this 2Sth day of July,
1912.
Signed.
Detective n. B. Spencer Arrives.
County Detective n. B. Spencer,
who was in Lake Ariel at the time,
was notified and arrived at the Dol
phin place about IL o'clock. He i'm
mediately questioned each of the
family as to the exact occurrence
there the previous evening and in
spected the premises to see if any
other clues could be found to give
a different light to the affair. The
neighbors were all questioned but
just the result of his Investigations
is not known.
The house in which the Dolphin
family live is an eight-room frame
structure, having three rooms up
stairs and five rooms down stairs.
The kitchen, dining room and front
room adjoin and the bedroom in
which the shooting took place leads
off from the front room. The house
is situated back about one hundred
feet from the d. & H. tracks and
about quarter of mile from Hub
bard's stock farm, between Way
mart and Prompton.
a complete examination of the
premises was made. In the bedroom
no bullet holes could be found on
| the ceiling where they would natur-
| ally have lodged If Hubbard had
pointed his gun upward and fired to
| frighten Dalphin away. Only bullet
hole was found in the door which
was open and stood against the
right hand wall of the room about
| five feet from the floor. One bullet
was found on the floor of the room.
! Arrested Before.
| Thomas Dolphin was arrested
! three years ago and spent some time
in the county Jail for cruel and bar
barous treatment to his family. He
was about 33 years of age and had
| been married about six years. He
is survived by his wife, who Is 20
years old and two children, Vero-
MICA, four years, and Helen, who is
a year old and his wife's mother,
Mrs. Lora Leonard. Mr.. Dolphin
was native of Dickson City, Pa,
and has two sisters living there
They are, Elizabeth, a school teach
er, and Sarah, a dressmaker. He
also has one sister living in New
York. He also has one brother liv-
ing in Dickson City.
Shooting Took Place in Bed Room.
The room in which the shooting
occurred was a small one and was
occupied on one side by the bed on
which Hubbard slept. The bed took
up most of the room and the re-
naming space was occupied by two
small chairs and a dresser. In this
small space of about four feet square
the three people had struggled while
the two small children clung to the
mother for protection. Hubbard
fought with the thought of freeing
Mrs. Dolphin from her husband.
Dolphin had Hubbard by the throat
and was pushing the man back on
the bed. The raised fork in the
semi-darkness may have looked tC
the woman and man like a shining
knife or a revolver. They did not
know what it was. Dolphin was
pressing the man on the bed harC
Wnen the latter nred the remaining
shots into Dolphin's body. With
the last shot the man staggered ant
pressed his hands over his breas
and rushed out of the room.
Family Go to Jayne's.
Immediately after the shootinl
Hubbard called to the wife AM
mother and the children to get ou
of the house. They all went to vii
liam Jayne's place up the road
short distance, where they told thei
uncle of the shooting. They did no
go back to the house to see if tn
4 man was dead or not and as the
: said they did not know the man wa
l wounded.
NeighbOrs Tell Different Story.
z Many of the neighbors were ques
e toned concerning the Dolphin fam
: lily but none of them could be in