The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1940-07-18
DRYRUN MAN IS
HELD IN JAIL ON
MURDER CHARGE
William burst Charged With
Killing Paul Filsinger, His Step
son, On Saturday Evening
QUARREL TWO YEARS OLD

A formal charge of murder was
lodged today against William
burst, 67, of the Dry Run section,
near Meadow Mountain CCC camp,
following the death early Sunday
morning of Paul Filsinger, 33, of Hut
ton, the mans step-son, the result of a
shotgun wound in the abdomen.
Filsinger died at the Reeves Clinic
in Westernport after having been adj
mitted about 9 p, M, on Saturday. He
was shot as his mother and wife looked
On.
burst was arrested Saturday even
ing by Corporal H. F. Schultheis of the
State Police and lodged in the county
Jail here, and an investigation was
gotten under way by Neil C. Fraley,
States Attorney, and other local
authorities.
Released Under Bond
At a hearing this morning at 10
O'Clock on writ of habeas corpus be-
fore Chief Judge d. Lindley Sloan,
burst was granted release under bond
in the sum of 81 900 for his appearance
at the September term of court
Quarrel Two Years Ago
Fraley said he was told that burst
had ordered Filsinger to remain away
from his farm about two years ago
after he had entered the home at 3
o'clock one morning and had beaten up
the former. Fraley also said Filsinger
had been in jail for beating his wife
but had been released when his wife
refused to testify against him.
Saturday evening, he. related, Fill
singer, with his wife, Alta Virginia,
and her younger sisters, Bessie and
Resale Harvey, and their two children,
went to the burst home. Filsinger
had apparently been drinking, Fraley
declared.
The group was standing outside the
burst yard with Filsinger talking
with his mother, Mrs. burst, when Fill.
singer and his wife became engaged
in an argument. The quarrel climaxed
with Mrs. Filsinger running away
from her husband toward the burst
house.
Filsinger, chasing her, ran into the
yard in defiance of his step-father's
frequent warnings.
burst called out, "Don't you come
any farther, or I'll Shoot" Fraley
went on. When Filsinger continued
running toward the house the elderly
man, standing on the porch, shot him
with single shotgun, ac-
cording to the states attorney. The
buckshot charge struck Filsinger in
the abdomen.
Friends rushed the wounded man to
the Westernport hospital where he
died at 2;30 a. m. Sunday.
Fraley informed burst Monday
morning in Jail that his step-son had
died 81 just meant to hit him in the
legs" burst then told Fraley
Assisting the States Attorney in the
investigation besides Schultheis were
Sheriff J. William Owens, Corporal
Currie Of the State Police, and DR..
Irving Baumgartner, deputy state
medical examiner for Garrett county.
Filsinger was native of Deer Park,
son Of Mrs. Pearl Filsinger burst
and the late Otto Filsinger, and was
born August 81, 1907. His mother
was married to burst several years
ago, after her husbands death.
Surviving besides his mother and
wife, are two small children Paul Ed
ward and Robert Martin; two sisters,
Mrs. Kathryn McCracken, of Cumber-
land, and Mrs. Marie Wicklow, of Ter
"a Alta, W. Va; a brother, Edward
Filsinger, Cumberland; half-brother,
William c. burst, Swanton; also his
aged grandmother, Mrs. Hattie Cas-
teel of Friendsville. His wife is a
daughter of William Harvey, of this
county.
Fraley said burst apparently was a
good citizen from testimony of neigh
bors Of the Dry Run section.
Funeral services for Fisinger were
held Tuesday from the Dry Run Men
MONTE church. Rev. Roy L. Kinsinger
and Rev. Resley Tressler, Grantsville,
officiated Burial was in the Broad
water cemetery near by.