Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1920-05-13
-rppriJrTRAGEDY UP THE RIVER
A. Nm :. Rowe Victim of Demented
h,S mr,d.Ier VINO Also Kills Himself

VIZ. "s, "" VINO Also Kills Himself
..-~.-.s tragedy was enacted last
- night about half-past nine
81. NJ Snyder'S Landing, little
a1out four miles above
So. ...Vn. OIL the Maryland side
-y.r. when Mrs. Kate Rowe,
=. Nm. $ Rowe was murdered
r,~l.s II. Hetzer, who afterward
.-s Killed himself. The bloody
"a .gscd great excitement in
SS-,---~...-r and Shepherdstown ana
.S...--,rr.- this neighborhood.
~ saturday evening Mr.. Rowe
~ p, >.arpsburg to attend TO the
.1. .a..k.unl affairs, leaving his
-,,.'s-l laughter, Mabel, aged thirteen
,-. n their home on the hill over
hooking .r- canal and the. river, and
,-,, few wards from the landing,
where some fifteen or twenty boats
we're tied up awaiting the re-openlng
., navigation on the canal: ne
-srgrta- had retired and was in her
roorT on the second floor of the house
Mrs Rove had also gotten ready TO
r.,.rg in. cCiclotheS had been turn
"a down AMI she was in her night
r~g.~- when she was attacked by
pa,rer VINO haI made his way into the
hou,. through a window. What oc-
cured when She first found herself
face 20 f..- with the man will never be
known I,- was not long in carrying
or- his 7.oody design. With a 32-
.su--. revolver he fired two shots at
her or. piercing her left breast and
m. o...- crashing through her brain
inst -. the eft eve. She fell dead
al his ,e.t dropping a lamp that she
rl. held % ugr hand. The murderer
w-n.l ..- revolver upon himself and
fired bullet into his forehead and
tell a.-o,, the body Of his victim.
Wa-. Rowe. the only other occupant
of the house. told the following graphic
story OF ,r, tragedy as she saw it:
"l had gone 10 he'd and as awaken
e5 trm my sleep by the sound of
scufrg followed quickly by two or
tire, SLOTS got out of bed and pick
cd up m, light and started toward the
stairs. When at the top, thought
that para HaJ fallen over a chair or
something. forgetting about the shots.
4 Gales uut for papa and started down
4 the STEPS. saw a man bending over
4 mama He looked UP and saw me, and
+ then screamed. He ran out the front
j -o0- and the draft blew out nv light |
+ sa' down on the steps and put on m
surOerS, and ran out the back doc
4 Going 10 ''- canal boat of Mrs. Co
4 bert, told them that my mama had
r srya KILL. and that there was fire In
the hal'
SH- gave a description of the man
a Wh.,H T.! with that of Hetzer, and
4 state. mn 3Iooi was running down his
i4--. She also Identified the body Of
fs'l.r that of the man who killed
her stcr-m0thcr.
It vas found that the murderer had
'~'' l'. rouse and made his way to the
Caaa. ..- had dropped his revolver in
d N- 'oa where he climbed over a stone
4 N'.- ''- @scrndcd the steep flight OF
4 s.y.' - crossed the swinging bridge
q U4' SG~n> the canal, and then started
\ Gown me tovpath toward Shepherds
soNn' '-'''nE plain trail of blood be-
.-."- - ...''. When the trail was discov-
e'-I q number of men started TO follow
i u. '" 177Tcncnd the murderer, sCme
W. UyM coming on as far as Shep-
..,'-..'"n. They failed to observe
q wa. '., man had turned after walking
-.N" '"e -anal a considerable dis
l." ana reiraccd his steps, passing
4 ~ ',l .an1inG and going on up the
Il 80" N'.T searching for a couple of
+ c,s N .y down the towpath. the
gwen up and the crowd dis
4 L, n' morning.
ii d" 0.- meantime DR.. 6. II. Gardner
u1- ...a n the house. where an evan
,. a"e' that either of the two
n o' was sufficient to cause
h.. bullet through the brain
n Q- r. f. instantly fatal. Magistrate
81 s."- 81 @nrd, of SharpsburF, had
n c- 20 the scene and he took
II -, '-7n,r. Albert CHAMPION be-
.." or the coroner's Jury.
81 VIII. o. siock Sunday morning
Il k. '.T9urow, lo,k-kacper at
b n. r. ABOUT 2Is miles above
ts. Vent out to the lock ana
II .-. man wing on the bank un
Fl r-.-- rate beam. The man gave
II H5.. o.. .'', and Durhurow went
81 p. .'uSe and called his wife.
& '. ~.. .' got back to the place
Fl b.. dead. A bloody, Jagged
81 ls. .'rrhead evidenced the
Fl th..-.- 1" had heard nothing Of
81 h. -. N miles awav. hr; when
b int geo. w Burran, super
Il 'a .r section of the canal
F'- r.. once ccnncctcd the mar
81 ION was made, and the
Fl emitted rs lanes II