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K £ t * W^^g* ,_!, '.- i... Facts & Fallacies Vol. 1 No. 28 BRUSHTON, N. Y., THURSDAY, December 17,19*3 PRieE: %*^ CBffTS Facts not Fallacies By Nett Brush!, , The <flx*t murder committed' th Franklin County, according to &*W yer'a Htatary was perpetrated in Fo*i Covington Fe&ruary % 182&.r T*w vic- tim was Fanny Mosalv, who had for-' merly lived ut Howkesbury, Onto •where are Had been married three or tour years \previously to a worthless achoolmastar, and\ had come to Port Covington for a trip. There her huft- 'band stole 'all ilie money, two hun- dred dollars fitat'her father had giv- FORT COVINGTON: ' Last week Tuesday a Are destroyed 3l\head of cattle in the kouis Marlowe barns along\ with 60 odd tons of hay and farm marihinery/ * CANTOiN: John K&ene, North Country Hospital Administrator said last week that ^patients in the Ed- , - , i ward John Nobel ^ Hospital (one of «a henw* manage . portion, and the best designed^ equipped' and staf also a sleigh and a pair of horses da ' Looking Around The North Country ^flj^ rived from tha samo source, deser >\fc*' her. and was ueVer after heard fr< ft* #t ted front'. tjjk Tims ibapdanied and left destitute ,'iJ- ^ Ta .Mtoj*aTy beeaane a tailor ess won v getteral-respect an. f accumulated 'pro* . pertv. v In 1824 she went to^ the Vi- dtoea, two of trree miles routh A froim the, Village, to make her home' and became engaged t> f Stephen Videtoe, with, the' arrangement for the mar- riage to occur a few days subsequent «?A to the date of the murder. At the ', time the >orim6 was committed Vid- etoe ami MTT. Mqsley w#re alone in , ihe house, except for Videtoa's par- ents who Were sleeping in the kit- chen* , Videtoe had- pretended for some .days previously that he had\ «een Indians about the promises and stimulated fear that they meant to massacre the members of the house- hold. Accordingly- he procured jk gun and ammunition and after dar- kening the window with a blanket shot Mr*. Mosely, and, death hot being in^tantaWus, gave her witt0^ whioh contained arsenic, She died after tw* or three hoTuns, ignorant *u* har affianced was her ' itrtrdor- «i*. Videtoe gave out the report that indianm had come to the house, bro- ken the (window near the victims bed* ami shot through the aperture. At ftas't his account of the* affair was accepted generally as fcruthtul. and apre^in^gw^th, amafcing rapidity soon (brought armed \and grimly deter- mined mentoliunt down the- *assas- sin* and give them summary justice. But no \tracks were to be found' in the snow leading to or froan the house, and, -it/becoming\ 'manifest that, the window had been, broken from within instead of from without and it .ajppearing also that the bullet could not pofaslibly ' ihave 'taken 'the coutwe it did If flred as Videtoe had represented*,* the theory of Indian - (perpetration was quickly abandoned and Videtoe /Was arrested. > The trial In the follbwng July continued' for five days and though the evidence .was almost wholly cijr- •cumstantial it was deemed so o6h* vincing that the jury required only a few minmtes to iflnd a verdict of guilty. Some ^eatur^s, of the^, trial «eem purloins today. The (Sessions of the eourt b^gan at seven p'clock in ihe morn'ing and were continued un- til lateievery jeye^ing—the.^nal, ses- sion not being concluded until Ave O'clock t in the .mprntrng, Jfusl; pre- eediiiy or jusi following the judye's .charge, $> (BTiayet wah offered.b} iR«y Jfr. Cblver. The execution was ugijast %6, 18215, and was public. It currtd' on a lot on lower Elm St. alone,'-luit ea»t'of ,the, Qilperp liome, id vnlch was long known after- ards as \Gallows llollow ** Crowds of -people\ coming from 1 (parts of the county were present .fitness the gruesome affair. Vt> toe /protested his innocence to the t, and went to the gallows with a Itten denial of his guilt in his nd, and even after the trap' was ng changed the .paper from one nd to the other and waved ft at and » fed hospitals in ihie United States) had over % doctor*, surgeons spciaiists to call on for care. ;CHATEAlJ)GAiY: Most Worthy Florence C.-'Potter, Grand Matron oil th.e Order of the Eastern Star of 3ST, Yj. S. was. present at the regular, seated meeting of Frontier Chapter 203 r in the Mafionlc Temple, Chat- e«,ugay on December; 4th. t t u. ' 4 Brwshton Post Office To Be Open This, Sunday. • Tie Brusihttm Post Of-llce will be open this, Sunday, Dec, % , according t0 a- statement made by Albert Moses Acting Postmaster. fncomiflg | (a»jd outgoing mail wilL be handled the «ame as on Week days, The win- dows will be closed but the lobby will be open for. the, convenience of those who xceive their mail thru P. O. box- I i TJiere will be no rural deliveries smi- there 'will be no mail whatsoever on' Christmas Day and the lobby will be cldsed. JJorth Bangor •4. t 4 1 * Man Arrested IT Earl Kenneth^ BradyTof North iBah- gor, was'ai/rested la«(t Saturday af- terftoon by tre Malone Village iPolfce following an adcldent on Wbster &t. He was charged with dangerous speeding. The accident occurred when Brady luttouptenct' to pass a car driven, by Lucian Panbert. A car coming from tjie o%©osite,dlrBctioii caused Brady Uo pull back BtrfJkiAg the roarM the PAubert car. Angeles, Fa«tb$rt, 48, wljo was' \riding ifHth letwiah suffered att.injury of the leftjeg'. ttXf Destroys ftptif Saw Fallacies. - JUat timrfaf aftwnoon *t %&$ Are < J ompte^ 4e.tmy,d tb* lar.e bW* 0.H th^ m#*$ Bt Omi» fam 1 M mXto* ea«t «t< atWHJ^ft,, Jfy* tma o«0^W ir «r, Otirtfc 74, and Mn ^n #6** t%,' isalso the borne of ffcfcv ^^iMNf.'Wd^r^^jr, Like thousands of Aft^t^nt^rf|»«g« who *re ttftkiiw water* skiing a popular sport, Bruce Parker and Kvie Wolford find It's fun' to scobt\ along behind an o.utliijairtl-poweredboat at 25 miles an houti* » This pair holds many water skiing titles, and Evie was recently f named v, Miss Evinrude\ irt recognition of Iter achievements while using the Evinrude outboai»d motor to win'regional and national titles jg Amirica'sjeja^ding jvomaj^wafer skier. u $25,000 Fire In 4 Trout River. La^t Sunday evening fire believed caused by faulty wiri&g completely destroyed, a* large bartt ori the Henry Hughes farm in Trout Elver. Lotst were 24 head of cattle and about 100 tons of hay, a tractor and one horse. The Malone Callmen\ and Constable firemen arrived In time to ^ave the house and other small buildings. * ? Flying Tlie Jet Streams. ( . - Will You Smile Foul Wether Warnfrvgs •\Hiram exclaimed Mrs. Corntoa sel, .\that canddate you don't like ty\ contrng pp the road. What'll I say If he wants' to Mass the children. . <\pon& ^&ay 'an^tMiig/ Jlust call 'm back to the kitchen and give 'im plenty of bread and ibntter and mol- as^ei^.' , ' the crowd. ^ The motive for the crime was never positively known, but was conjectured' to bave been Jealiusy, or .possibly a desire to avoid the marriage. Videtoe was about twentylfive years of age. For (the second, ainceessive winter, Pan American World Airways \has announced it would take advantage of the Pacific jet stream. This jet streapa' ^as disicioveired by American. bomibess over Japan in World War JJ, and blows at' a velocity of „ be- tween eighty and a hundred miles an hottf. t - - he PaelAc jet stream varied in alti- tude from 15,000 to 2£,000 feet and' blows from the wast regularly only m the winter' months. iBy riding s in this stream, aircraft which normally average 280 miles an riour pus&h their average ground .speed up to about 350 miles an hour. -By using the stream, the airline* eliminate the usual stop at , Wake Island and fly nonstop from Tokfo to Honolulu. The jet stream* are not peculiar to the Pacific Ocean and occur* in various parts of the world. No doubt in future years other airlines will take advantaig of their presence determine cottsialtenit jcounses, and arrange schedules to take advantage of the etreamis accordingly, ' The «peeded-up schedule means that passengers may now leave Tok- yo at ill i\ M. a$, niglht and arrive in Los Angeles at about dawn the next morning, stopping; only at Honoilttlti. *- ^ seas °n» ni'st ice storm! tmght me a lesson—one Yd like! to pass on Jo yon, ^Witi* thafi ,**?^ old TV iast came W ,««fwedI of. But now we knowi 4«eftt«r than to be satisfied **m * v% any antenna—W Shopped arouttd before buying m new one. - | / Did yod kn<m that there are half & dozen dift ierent kihd$ oi TV masts availl able ^ that thejj all look alike when nfewS 1 Bw^ after a fe*f «• ». .* months; on your; Jwof-to^ the differences show mi \1<a* we discovered;. - „v™ LS** *%,*?**** M** ^olm«ton, ffi %. jt ? a L a ^ell-enffineewcj mast-has to be strong and rijridl ftoffr to withstand wind, S£} sion proof because a rusty mast M weakened, and njst will »taiij , .the uoof or sidmg of your house, j ' f Beeattse 1 we re^ly completely eW Mr, Johnston's dependable jtidg-1 1 type of mast to btty. He*ji putting , t^ll3gJ»t, l%-i„ dial O^ner of \WWt'i Frtnttof flef. Vlce w and publialwr of \Facte ft J^il- laclee.\ The bourn and printing sHop loca^d, in a «mall building between the houae and barn were aaved through the joint efforta of the Brush- ton and Moira '^lr# Departmenta and the Malone Callmah A Mr. Chase was coming down tha m& Ut his ffilMc truck and MW amoke coming from the eaat end of tha barn. He stopped and U*WUx*. Q* &er In the bona tfcat tre barn wa» o& flm, then he ran for the cor .table. Mr. Ourtia and a neighbor George Wintera were upetalrs in. the east «hd of the barn r*movfag * section of hay traek when th#y ^ a*^ ^ capping nam. Ur, Oiirtla looked around «*t mm amoka behind them. He and Mr, Winter ran for the •tfttta but the amok* jgft Umm got there, fljat BO tb*y t*rto#4 ^^ £J M to to i Art 2TS; £££* to scaoe the flainm A J** ^^^W^^S^S^ISat* le where ne-and aiia\aV)iato|ia> toHtt turned the cowa tote-the pas- ture ^ *^ The Brfiahton Fire Dapt. awlved ahortly aftar the alarm vw turned in W Walter Ziaer and the Moir* Fir* Dept. about ten minute* Ufa The Bfuantan Flrtmen imroediately be- gun pumping water on |ha prtetlng Jhop and houaa, Tfce* ware joined by the Motr* flremen and the Malone Oallmen _when they arrived. * The 80x36 foot J>am wa» a com- nlftW Ios* along with * hay loader *Ide delivery rake, dump tak*, wheel harrow*, grain drill, riding cuWira- tor, moving maohdne, -mJlk cotter 5 milk can*, water heater, water pump, milking machine motor and pump, about 70 tout of liar 1* *om outboard motor and many other mis- cellaneous farm toola. The Moira F*r4 Dept, and Malone Callmen returned home at about 7 p. m. but the Bruehton flremen irtay- ed until about, 11:80 *J nt acrw, Curtis was in Malone at th* time of the fire. , fef if H P ge (1/ie \ thick )- rihis, Mr. Johnston explained, is .steel t*at is twice as $troh« as igrades commonly used, ? /we wn't have to worry about Bad shopped around. After all, i n these idajw of high prices, none of u5 SSflf ^EhL? *ay>*erfc* merch4 lS£SL t * lfc nee l s instant- re^ a?»»«p*T.—«g»waiv — - - n 3 Cows, 2 Horses Lost In EHenbnrg Center Vhe< Jvaet -Sunday evening another lire destroyed 3 cows, 2 howea and 41 hei- fern when the ba*n on ttue Floyd Moore farm at BUepiburg Center waa ftnrned. /• Tlie Chateaugay^ BUeftburig Center and Ellenburg Depot Fire Depart- ments were summoned to the scene and saved th# houhe which was near the bam. The Moore's were not at home at the time of the Are. Si4
