The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1926-12-09
HARRIS, KIIZMILLER COAL
MINER, SHOT TO DEATH
Charles CaradO, Italian, and a
Miner Also, Accused of Crime,
Who Eludes Officers and Posse

Harry Harris, aged % years,
and employed as a miner by the
Boyd Mining Company at Kitz-
miller, Garrett county, was shot
and died almost instantly early
Sunday morning by Charles Ca
RADIO, an Italian, and an employee
of the Hamill Coal Mining Com
pany, also operating at Kitzmil-
Ter, following a quarrel, said to
be over an old grudge, in a res
taurant operated by a man NAM
ed Keller at Kitzmiller.
Carado, following the shoot
ing, made his escape and has not
been apprehended, his disap-
pearance so quickly give the Off
GERS of the State grounds for the
belief that he was aided in MAX
ing his escape by a number Of
felloW-countrymen who are also
employed at Kitzmiller.
Carado, it is said, placed the re-
volyer with which he did the killing
against Harris breast and pulling the
trigger Of the fire arm shot him down
in cold blood. One of the witnesses
of the crime stated that while the
quarrel had its fatal elimination out
side the restaurant, the two men had
had words before they entered it. Ca
RADIO left the eating place for half an
hour, apparently to get the revolver
az his shanty, and upon returning he
invited Harris to the street. Reach
ing the pavement fronting the res
taurant, Carado whipped the revolver
from his pocket and as he did so Har-
ris. attempted to disarm him. The
Italian then placed the gun against
Harris breast and fired the charge.
Harris, mortally wounded, crumpled
to the snow-covered pavement.
Carried into the restaurant by Carl
Campbell, storekeeper for the Boyd
Mining Company, and William Hell
mick, another miner, Harris declared:
Il believe he got me; my God, I'm
shot" He died a few moments later.
Both men are said to have been in
toxicated, which fact is attributed to
the renewal of the quarrel over the
grudge existing between them.
AS soon as possible after the muir
der Sheriff Guy o. Yutzy was notified
OF the occurrence by telephone. The
officer, accompanied by Deputy Sheriff
VIM. L. Casteel left Immediately for
the scene and the officers with a posse
searched all day Sunday through the
snow covered mountains for the Kill
Ter, believeing he was in hiding with
those friendly to him. No trace of
him was found. At his home the Of
fcers found a homemade stiletto, the
weapon having a blade about ten or
twelve inches long and fashioned from
a file. Being unable to locate or to
find trace of Carado, the officers
were led to believe that he escaped
on freight tran that passed during
the night and before their arrival at
Kitzmiller. This theory was strength
ened Monday when it was learned
that Carado's clothing had been taken
from his quarters by another Italian
and shipped on a passenger train to
Coalition, W. Va, point on the Coal
and Coke Railway south of Elkins.
Another report is that a man cor
responding to the description given
the officers of Carado had boarded a
passenger train at Deer Park Sunday
morning and had gone west through
Oakland. Another report is that this
morning Carado stepped off a train in
Oakland which set the officers at work
with renewed vigor Neither of these
reports have been verified, certainly
not the latest one, since the man who
did alight from a train here does not
answer Carado's description in any
particular.
Harris friends at Kitzmiller We're
greatly incensed Sunday morning. and
are yet, over his murder and threats
of violence were heard on many sides.
Harris leaves wife and child. He
was the son of Mr.. and Mrs. Willis
Harris. Two brothers, Garland and
Carl and seven sisters, Elizabeth,
Margaret, Lena, Bernadine, Develyn,
Dolores and Ruth Harris, also sur
vive.
Harris was said to be of a quiet
disposition and was a member of
well known family.
Carado had worked in the mines in
and about Kitzmiller for seven years,
having gone there upon his arrival in
the United States from Italy. He is
unmarried and is described as being
about feet A inches tall and weigh
in" "h~''+ 1876 pounds. When he dis