The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1916-12-29

Easton. Pa. Dec. 27--Seventee,i
years ago a gay-cyed, fun-loving Irish
lad slipped into a saloon in West
Easton and got his first drink.
On January Is. 1917, a crazed, rum
wrecked murderer. the wreck Of that
lad, will die In the electric chair, UNI
less lunacy commission steps in to
send him to an asylum for life.
Those II years of Patrick Callery's
life contain the old. tragic. life-wreck-
ing story of whiskey.
AT the beginning OF the II years,
he was happy boy, playing around
the McClusky Hotel in West Easton.
with John and Frank McClusky
among his cronies John and Frank
are the sons OF John McClusky. owner
of the hotel.
At the end OF the IT years, Patrick
Gallery sits alone in the Northamp-
ton County jail, murderer of his SIS
ter. attempted murderer of another
sister and the husbands of both, sent
enced to die by verdict wrung from
n jury by District Attorney Frank
McClusky, one OF his boy pals and son
OF the hotelkeeper in whose place
Gallery used to get his drinks,
This Is the dramatic sermon against
rum that has been developed here
since Mrs. Harry Scheffer. the sister
that Gallery almost killed when he
murdered Mrs Bessie CRUDE last
April %. started her fight to save him
from the electric chair. ssf a 80"
Mrs. Scheffer. bedridden for three
months by one OF Ca4lery's bullets. is
not fighting for the life OF a brother
She Is fighting, she says to save "a
wreck that rum left" from punish
ment meant only for sane men who
do murder. ..~ f4,
Was Good Boy.
Pat was the quiet. good natured
boy OF our large family" said Mrs
6cheffer. He was 80 good that we
used to say butter wouldn't melt In
his mouth. But look at him now. He
to him. and he tried to kill me, his
Oldest sister. who cared for him when
he was little. the sister he always
came to with hts childish troubles. -
This Is what rum has done for Pat
rick Gallery in the last IT years, ac-
cordine to Mrs scheffers story.
He did not work regularly at his
trade as machinist. Hs sGa-.t
He twice had delirium tremens.
He was pronounced insane 10 years
ago by two physicians, and saved from
the asylum only by his mothers
pleas. ru
He shot Thomas Carroll, boyhood
playmate and old friend. three year.
/ ago. =4 s.4
| Last January he drove Mr.. and
Mrs. George CRUDE his sister and heI
husband. out of their house at mid
| night.
| April % he killed Mr.. George
CRUDE. dangerously wounded Mrs
Mary Scheffer. Harry Schef1er. and
George CRUDE. and in his attempt Il
escape the police shot Lieutenant
Archie Miller in the hand.
5t. Verdict Of Guilty. 49,
! District Attorney McClusky got 4
verdict Of guilty for Gallery on thu
Incidents of April 20. 1915.
| Mrs. Harry Scheffer adds to her In.
| dictment the first drinks In tho Nc
Clusky House and the II years o,
drinking that followed, and on thi.
Indictment finds whiskey guilty Of Pat
| rick Callery's deed That she says 1,
why she is making tho last desperate
fight to keep the spark Of life in the
| wreck of a man in Northampton Jail
Efforts were made at Callery's trial
| In September acQuit him on ~.
grounds of insanity. or to reduce the
degree by showing he was drunk
when he committed the murder, but
the attempt failed.
Police officials Joined with the dts
trict attorney in trying to convince