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P. FIVE. MOUNT CARMEL TUESDAY, DECEMBER 2, 1913. Story of Fred Nye's Crime and that Kveritt had been with him on tbe morning following the murder. Following- four days of hard fighting on the part of the attorneys for both sides the jury retired and returned after many 'hours of deliberation with a verdict of voluntary manslaughter.

The verdict was declared by the residents throughout the entire county to have been a gross miscarriage of justice, in view of the fact that Everitt, by his own confession, had admitted that he had assisted in the robbery, was in the room when Miller was shot, and was therefore a party to the crim was sentenced to twelve years at hard labor and solitary con v.ontlnueJ trm First Page. was deemed of great importance by tho authorities. inuuiries revealed, that on the Mon dav following the murder, Everitt had FAIN finement in the Eastern penitentiary and is now serving his term in the left for parts unknown, presumably in the direction of Hazleton. where his In-other was known to live. The authorities of llafcleton were notified inn! liis" arrest was effected.

While lwiiiir taken from Hazleton to Sun burv bv County Detective Forbes and 1EPROBUCE IN FULL COLOM 'Constable Conboer of Shamokin, Ever it', made a confession, in which he ad milled beinn a party to the robbery ami murder, but placed the, blame for tho Hrimrif the fatal Bliot on Nye, his coniiKininn. This confession was lat i.riwliinRil Hi Everitt's trial by the urnseoution and was turned to clove advantage by the youth's counsel, At tnrnovH and Welsh and Stoph en Oribhnns of Shaniokin, in saving penal institution. The jury which returned the verdict was composed as follows: John Holler, laborer, Shamokin. J. R.

Deitrick, farmer, Delaware. Elmer Johnson, laborer, Milton. C. F. Herb, merchant, Ralpho.

Adam Rentier, laborer, Northumberland. E. P. Hatdorf, saddler, Lower Mali-anoy. James Ixmg, engineer, Shamokin.

15. S. Radle, retired, Iower Mahanoy J5dward SchreTHcr, teacher, bower Mahanoy. Jacob r. Cnlp, miner, Unioiitown.

A. M. Hessler, teacher, Upper Mahanoy. W. J.

Thomas, printer, Shaniokin. Nye Placed on Trial On May 21, 1912, Nye was put on trial for his life, with Judge Cum-mings as the trial judge. There were three former judges assisting in the case, Voris Auten and C. it. Savidge for the prisoner and former Judge L.

S. Walter of Mount Carmel, who was selected to aid the district attorney in the prosecution of the case. The web of evidence that was wov his neck. Confession in Writing a rt or lrperiit hail exiiressed a will lngness to make the confession writing, lie was taken to the ollice District Attorney Frank Strouss Mount Carmel. In the presence the district attorney, former Judge S.

Walter. County Detective Forbe fine plate paper and include them as Supplements to the Sunday issue. On Sunday, December 14th, the first of these Supplements will be issued, which will include six of the fifteen pictures. The remaining nine pictures will be issued as Supplements with the seven successive issues of the Sunday PUBLIC Constable Coirbeer, and the district nlim-nev's stenographer, he then made the following statement: "15a riv on Saturday evening preced insi the robbery and murder, Nye and 1 visited a number of the picture shows at Shamokin. Then Nye su en about uy the commonwealth attorneys was much the same as in nested that we go to Sunbury and the case of Everitt, only that it was took the Heading train to I hat LEDGER.

The price of the LEDGER containing stronger. Like Everitt, Nye went on the stand in his own defense. He ad Sunday PUBLIC these, supplements place, Nye paying the lares. After we arrived at Sunbury, mitted all the facts of the crime ex went to the home of Nye's mother on will be, as usual, 5 cents. cept the actual planning and commission of the robbery and murder.

Seventh street and remained there un til twenty minutes after twelve, when He declared that when his compan left, tntendinc to catch the On the walls of the Pennsylvania State Capitol at Harrisburg are fifteen wonderful allegorical paintings by Violet Oakley, de- picting the rise and final triumph of the idea of liberty of conscience in the founding by William Penn of the "Holy Experiment of Pennsylvania." These pictures are now for the first time reproduced in color, this being made possible by recent inventions and improvements in color plate making processes, which enable the four color separations to be made direct from the walls at one exposure of the camera, while perfect full color copy obtained by the Lumiere color photography process was taken into the engraving room as a guide in making the printing plates so as to reproduce even the most delicate shades of the artist's original. The only reproductions hitherto obtainable were carbon photographs which have sold in art stores for $7.50 for each picture. At a great expense, greater than was ever before undertaken by anv newspaper, the PUBLIC LEDGER has arranged to reproduce these paintings in full coior on ion Everitt entered the pool room to Heading train back to Shamokin. purchase a cigar, he continued on As we were going along Seventh down the street, and when a block and a half away, tarried about ten street Nye said to me, 'There's a place down here I'd like to and as we minutes until Kveritt again joined reached the front of the Masonic Teinnle on Market street, he said A limited edition of 125,000 copies has been ordered, and no more can be had when this supply is exhausted. To make sure that your news agent will be able to supply you, place your order with him now.

Or, eight weeks, by mail, postpaid, 40 cents, with the order. Address PUBLIC LEDGER, Independence Square, him. He further declared that Kveritt first told him of the robbery while on the train, and offered to divide 'here is the place Dave, (lo in and get a I told him that I had the spoils if lie would keen quiet, lo money and Nye then gave me a quart which Nye acquiesced. er and told me Mo go in and get Nye's story however, did not have cigar and look the place I went in and was buying a cigar when Nye the same effect upon the second jury, as his companion's did on the first, and il returned with a verdict of first degree murder. came down the steps into the poo! room and asked of Miller, the proprie- tor, 'how much money have you got The jury who returned the verdict for Miller replied, 'I've gol were none for you, quit your 'I'm August Hebuck, teamster, Unioii not fooling' retorted Nye as he pulled town.

out a gun and pointed it toward Mill er. "I'm not afraid, go ahead and A pent for Mt. Carmel, Pa. JOSEPH M. DERBEY replied Miller, lie starlet iiround the counter after Nye.

'You're II. T. Lewis, drayman, Shaniokin. Paul M. Smith, telegrapher, Milton.

James T. Fox, jeweler, Milton. Absolom Zeigler, mason, llerdou. John W. Paul, Ralpho.

Jesse Kline, caterer, Coal Township. Edward Hood, laborer. Coal town d- right I'll said Nye and the next minute he fired. The' bullet struck Millerit the neck, and 'lie feil to the lloor, rose again as though to ship. gasp for breath, then tell back dead.

"Alter Nye had shot Miller we I. nvis Hanson, pndiller, Milton. Frank Rhoades, laborer, Mount Car nine frightened and ran out of tin mel. place. We went to the Ponnsylvani William S.

laud lord, Mahanoy. station, but later returned, and finding no one around, re-entered the pool Lester Wolvertoti, farmer, Shanio room. Nye went through Millet kin Township. pockets, took out. a roll of bills and then emptied tho contents of the cash Verdict Quickly Returned Immediately after the jury relumed i verdict of guilty, counsel lor the de register into two bags, which he baud Supplements ed to me.

We then went. 'down Second street lo the Heading railroad, and fendant made a motion for an arrest of judgment, and asked for time to out to the river, where we un til the train whistled and then went tile reasons why a new trial should be granted. to DGEE to the depot, soeured tickets and went The court directed the tesliinonv to home on it. When we got to Shaiuo be written out. by Court Stenographer kin, we went to Nye's boarding house William fairies, and gave tbe del'otisi where we divided tho money.

twonty days from the time the tesli I spent the remainder of the night PUB mony was filed in court in which lo wKli Nye and the next morning went tile a motion for a new trial. home. On Monday morning I left un tins testimony was word at Nye's hoarding house that filed in Dip nllicp of I'rotlionotat' whs f'iig out of town and! went to Frederick J. Myrod, at Sunbury 1 Julv Hazleton, where I was arrested." On February 27, 1912, Nye and Ev 1912, the time for tiling reasons for a new trial was extended until erni were luouglit. Irom the county August 10 of the same year.

jsii at Sunbury to Shamokin, where Nye Sentenced they were formally charged with niur dor before Justice of the Peace .1. I Alc( 'orinick. Itoasons were liled on August in ind on September 9 Nye's attorneys As mother. Mrs. Anna Nve, irgued in favor of a new trial.

of Sunbury, was without funds to em Judge Cununings on J. Miliary ploy lawyers to defend her son. refused a new trial and Nye Herbert W. ummings. appointed for was called tor sentence.

mer Judges C. H. Savidge, of Sunbury Frederick Nye," said Judge Cum and Voris Aiiten, of Mount Carmel mings, nave you auytning to sav as as counsel for the youth, while Attor to why sentence of death shall not he neys .1. 1. and J.

A. Welsh and S. pronounced?" Nye quickly replied: Nye's side today, now safe in the Fast- (. notions ol Shamokin were named to except wnat my lawyers em Penitentiary, made an alleged stales in the. Union and in Nevada and several other western stales, the condemned prisoner has the choice of hanging or being shot.

avail, the. board refusing to Interfere with the carrying out of the death sentence and all hope of saving the prisoner's life vanished. defend Kveritt. In each case the ap have lo say." FOR SALE EVERYWHERE Pauacea Cough Remedy. Us th purest on the market.

No dope. For sale at drug stores aud by all grocers. Adv point mollis were made in conformity I hen Judge iiminings pronounced with a State law. which directs that sentence. He said: confession, in which lie told the same story that Nye told on the witness stand, which was lo tin; effect that he, Everitt, hud fired the fatal shol and not Nye.

the detejidanls in murder cases, who There is no question in mv mind are il bout funds, must have two NEED OVER A BILLION but that you are guilty of the crime County Will Have you are convicted ol, and I mean to lawyers appointed by the court to defend I hem, the. fee of each lo be $200. (Lfr Congees Is Asked to Supply Need Commutation Refused On June IS the State Hoard of Par F()r F.st.a Yea. 1914. ilie eases ot the two youths were say very little about it.

The sentence of the court is that you be taken back to the Northumberland coiintv prixm THREE MAY DIE OF BURNS Two Children and Mother Near Death Taken From Blazing Home. Shamokin. Dec. 2. Mrs.

Irvin Perk and her sons, Harry, three years old, and Howard, live months old. were probably fatally burned when their home at. Sharptowu, a suburb, was destroyed by fire. The origin of the (ire has not been learned. Robert Derk and seeral others rushed the burning home and brought out Mrs.

Derk and her children. The victims' clothes had been burned from their bodies. scheduled for trial at the May term dons continued the Nye case until1 Sep Timely Sale from whence you came, and from tember 17. and at the latter meeting it. Washington, Dec.

2. It. will take to run the government in the liscal year that will he begun of court and when the term opened on Monday. May 20, 1912, the district there to the place of execution and announced that it had refused to com mute (lie death sentence to life im Willi the execution of Nye this morning, the era of hangings in North-1 iHiiberlaiul county was closed. In thei future all persons convicted of iniir-j dor In the first degree will be taken ou July 1, 19H, according to the an JEWfltD.

23 that, you be hanged by the neck Jint.ll you are dead, and may Cod have mercy on your soul." prisonment. On Thursday, September attorney decided to try each scper-ately. Kveritt was the first to be put on trial. When asked by Fred .1. Myrod.

clerk 1913. Governor Timer fixed Iho date of Nye's execution for October Smiles at Sentence The prisoner turned awav with a Wallace W. llarr, warden al the oi inc '-ourts, as to what hts plea was. Everitt's face paled slightly, hut he me Mate pentllenllary, now in course of construction near- Hellefonte, Center county, and will pay the death penalty in the eleclrlc chair. This is jail, on Sunday evening, October r.

smile, and a few minutes later, while boldly replied," "Not fiuilty." After unearthed a wholesale attempt at. jail being taken back lo prison bv Deputy delivery, when he found numerous mandatory, by the provisions of law the prisoner had entered his plea, the tiresome task of securing a jury was Sheriff William II. Deppen, he sneer passed by the legislature, follow ed and said: "It's the easlern nen for sawgnsecreted about, differct.ii cells in the corridor, where was imprisi. lied. These were nuiekly confiscated mine next year." A record of conviction and the To Rename Pindell.

Washington, Dec. '1. President Wilson will renominate Henry M. Pindell, the Peoria publisher, for ambassador to Russia. Mr.

Pindell failed of confirmation in the extra session of con gress. The president will also renominate all other appointees who failed of confirmation. and the prisoners placed in solitary confinement. lug several years-of protest against hanging. All executions In the penitent iary will -lie under the supervision of the warden of the State prison, and they will be carried out in a room specially provided for the purpose.

sentencing of Nye was certified to the governor on January 13, bv Pro- John Brennan and Walter Woland thonolary Frederick .1. Bvrod. of Shaniokin, on October were ar- rested and confessed to having form- i Only the officials of the prison and the An Appeal Taken Former Judge C. H. Savidge, of ed a puct.

with Nye to effect his together with a few representu-cape from the Northumberland conn- i lives of the press, will be allowed lo nual estimates submitted to congress by the secretary of the treasury. The Democratic secretary of the treasury was not any more in cuttiug down this year's estimates than his Republican predecessor of a year ago. The estimates of the needs of the government for the new fiscal year are in excess of the amount made available for the current fiscal year. The precise amount' of this year's estimates is as against appropriated for this year. Two battleships and eight torpedo boat destroyers iuaJe up in part tbe naval building program embraced 'n the book of estimates.

The sum of Is asked as a beginning for battleship construction already authorized. An increased appropriation is sought to continue work on the I'aiiatna canal. It will cost $1,500,000 to administer the new income tax. For rivers aud harbors improvements the secretary of war estimates that $11,000,000 will be required, a reductiou in this item of about counsel for Nye, at. once announced that he had appealed to the Supreme Court.

Argument was heard by the ty prison. They witness the executlotis win tie tried on cou-at this week's term spiracy charges board sitting in Philadelphia, on of court. Bryan Brings Home, the Oysttra. Washington, Dec. 2.

Secretary of State Bryan showed that.be was just a regulur house-broken husband when he went on an errand to a downtown lunch room and bought half a pint of raw ebruary 1. On March 19. 1913, the Petitions, asking that Nye's death started. This required more than two days, several hundred jury men were heard before a panel was finally secured. Alter the court had admitted the confession as evidence and a strong case had been built up against him by the Commonwealth, the prisoner vent on Mm stand in his own behalf.

He recited the details of the crime and the incidents that led up to it. from beginning to end, and graphically described the scene in the pool room when Nye lilted his revolver and lired at Miller. His story varied in inlv one particular from his confession, which was that he had knocked 'ye's arm up when he fired at Miller, it was. not quite quick enough to ive the man. Us claimed Unit Nye pointed the weapon at Miller's art and that when he (Kveritt) Nye's arm up.

the bullet enter-d the pool room proprietor's throat. Mrs. Albert llolsbue of Shamokin, with whom Nye boarded, testified that the had loand iz rcoxa sentence be commuted to onnient, were circulated about the appeal was refused, and on April the record of the Supreme court's decision was returned to the lower Court at Sunbury. On the same day a rehearing was asked, but on May fi. 'ounty and more than l.snn signers Complete with 20 year guaranteed gold hunting case Watch Our Window Display J.

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This causes almost Instant death and is considered far more humane than hanging. With the objection against public executions once removed. It is believed that ninny more murderers were secured. These were presented to the State Board of Pardons on Oc 19 13, it was refused. The ease was then taken before the tober tr, and rehearing was granted, November 19 being fixed as the date for same.

GENERAL MARKETS PHILADELPHIA VLOVR quiet; winter clear. 3.90; city mills, fancy, 3.10. RYK FLOUR firm, at IXSoa State Hoard of Pardons at liarrisburg and was continued until May IS. When the rehearing was granted overnor Tener gave Nye a reprieve until today, December 2. In the mean Everitt's Second Confession June 1.

David Eieritt, who can per barrel WHEAT steady: No. 2 red, new, Mill my tbe death penalty, than Is at present the esse. I The use of eiectrieiiv in executions time Nye's lawyers went before the thank all of the horse Elioes in the pardon board aud made a strong plea (JOHN -J tail 2 MllCf. crld that he as sot standing by or ccEinutatlcn, but it was lthctt has -bu adopted la all but four.