Cambria Freeman, Ebensburg, Pa. Friday, July 24, 1908 Volume 42, Number 29 South Fork Lad Killed in Wreck While Riding in a Wagon Had Neck Broken While Merchant Samuel Penrod of South Fork was delivering goods to customers on Tuesday morning last with two children – William Schofield, aged three and half years and Letetia Norris, his cousin, - in the wagon, while going down an alley known as Grant Street Alley, quite a distance above Grant Street, there is a deep gutter into which the front wheels of the wagon, which are low, lurched and Mr. Penrod, in order to avoid upsetting, turned the horse to one side when the hind part of the wagon turned around and slid along the ground for some distance, striking a fence and throwing Mr. Penrod out and the Schofield lad against the side of the wagon bed or fence, dislocating his neck and death followed a few minutes later. His cousin escaped by holding on to the seat and Mr. Penrod sustained but a few scratches. Young Schofield was a son of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Schofield and a nephew of Burgess Schofield. But one more child – a baby sister - remains in the family. The Funeral of Mrs. Casper Lieb After a Solemn High Mass of Requiem Remains are Interred at Nicktown The funeral of Mrs. Casper Lieb, who died at her home in this place on Thursday morning of last week as announced in THE FREEMAN the following day, took place after a solemn high mass of requiem in the church of the Holy Name in this place on Saturday morning last, celebrated by Rev. Father Denis Severn, a nephew of the deceased, with Rev. Fathers O’Neill and O’Hara acting as deacon and sub-deacon, and an eloquent and pathetic sermon which paid a high tribute to the virtues of the deceased lady, after which the funeral cortege proceeded overland to Nicktown where interment was made in the cemetery of the church of St. Nicholas at that place. Death of Miss Loretto Pruner East Ward Young Lady Succumbs to Pulmonary Trouble after a Year’s Illness Miss Loretto Pruner, the seventeen-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Pruner of High Street, East Ward, expired at the home of her parents on Sunday morning last after a year’s illness of a pulmonary affection. Miss Pruner was born in Allegheny Township, her mother being a daughter of Squire W. A. B. Little of Loretto, but her parents having removed to Ebensburg several years ago, she has since lived here a general favorite in the community. Her last illness was borne with a Christian fortitude and resignation remarkable in one so young in years with a bright prospect in life before her. Besides her parents, the following brothers and sisters survive her: May, Hattie, Emma, William, Camille, Edward, John, Donald, Florence and Robert. The funeral on Tuesday of the deceased was one of the largest that has taken place in Ebensburg for years, and the expressions of respect and sympathy of the multitudes showed the esteem in which she was held in the community. The remains in a beautiful casket were conveyed to the hearse by the pall bearers: William Owens, Connie Lieb, Maurice Luther, Leo Kimball, Reamer Apel and Robert Davis, followed by a long line of carriages containing the mourners; and many friends from Loretto and Ebensburg were conveyed to the church of the Holy Name of which the deceased had been in life a faithful and devoted member, where after a Solemn High Mass of Requiem, by the rector, Rev. Father H. M. O’Neill with Father Vogel of Cresson as deacon and Rev. Father Weisenberger of St. Francis College as sub-deacon, and an affecting and impressive sermon by Rev. Father O’Neill, interment was made in the new cemetery of the church in the West Ward, where loving hands will deck her grave while the remembrance of her pure life will long endure in the communities in which she was known and loved. Terrible Tragedy at Nant-y-Glo Young Man, Formerly of Ebensburg, Shoots Companions on Tuesday Night About 11 o’clock on Tuesday night word reached the office of District Attorney Leech that a young man, well known in Ebensburg where he has relatives living, had shot and fatally wounded a young man named Bland, a son of Constable Bland of Nant-y-Glo and a foreigner name Padauli or Padeaux. The details of the affair as gathered from various sources is that on the evening in question, the foreigner and Gibson, who is badly crippled and uses two crutches to aid locomotion were drinking near the railroad in Nant-y-Glo when the foreigner, who was already considerably under the influence of liquor, went to a wholesale establishment to get another “eight,” but being unable to carry it on account of his inebriety, young Bland took it to the place of rendezvous and was then sent to a restaurant for some sandwiches, and when in the act of handing them over, Gibson, without provocation, whipped out a revolver and shot him in the groin, inflicting a terrible wound and then according to the foreigner, picked a quarrel with him and shot him in the left breast above the heart. Constable Bland and Stiffler arrested Gibson and County Detective Berkebile and Constable Richard Evans brought him to jail overland arriving here about 4 o’clock Wednesday morning, while the wounded men were put aboard the morning train to be taken to Johnstown to the hospital, but the foreigner died when the train was about Summerhill and Bert Bland died yesterday morning.