Cambria Freeman, Ebensburg, Pa. Friday, September 4, 1908 Volume 42, Number 34 Lilly Woman Fatally Burned Miss Lara Behe, aged about 35 years, is lying at the point of death at the home of Mr. and Mrs. James Bradley, near Lilly, as the result of burns received in a fire which entirely destroyed the home of her parents near Lilly. She was caught under a falling roof and is badly burned about the body. Dr. W. C. Raymond is attending her. Death of Mrs. Patrick Dillon Wilmore Lady Dies Suddenly of Heart Failure Mary, wife of Patrick Dillon, died suddenly at her home in Wilmore Friday afternoon, August 28th, aged about thirty-eight years. The deceased was a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Bernard Conley of Wilmore, and a sister of William Conley and Mrs. William Moore of Wilmore; Miss Lizzie Conley of Cresson; Thomas Conley of Pittsburg; and Rev. Father Bernard Conley, assistant priest of St. Columbia’s Parish, Johnstown. In October, 1901, she was married to Patrick Dillon, a boss for the Kerbaugh Construction Company, then straightening the PRR from Wilmore to Summerhill, since which time the family has resided in Wilmore; one child, Mary Dillon, aged five years, with her father and the relatives already mentioned, surviving. Some time last spring the deceased was afflicted with whooping cough which debilitated her system and a couple of weeks ago she became ill with a complication of diseases resulting from this attack, but her death was not expected when on Friday shortly after noon hour, she became suddenly ill and expired in the arms of her husband, who, with her mother, was at her bedside at the time. The death of Mrs. Dillon cast a gloom over the community where she was ever loved as one of the most virtuous of people. The funeral was set for Monday morning, but owing to the fact that on account of her sudden death and the condition of the body for a long time afterwards, her friends did not see fit to have the remains embalmed, lest the case might be one of suspended animation; but it was found necessary to inter the remains on Sunday afternoon and on Monday morning a solemn high mass of requiem was celebrated by a brother of the deceased, Rev. Father Bernard Conley, with Rev. Father Henry McHugh as Deacon and Father Peter Fox, of Conemaugh, as Master of Ceremonies. There were thirteen priests in attendance and many persons who had come to attend the funeral assisted at the mass for her whom all had loved and esteemed. Well Known Traveling Man Expires at the Mountain House While sitting at a dining table in the dining room of the Mountain House here Tuesday night, A. M. Brannon, of Pittsburg, was seized with an attack of apoplexy and died within an hour afterwards. He had been carried to the parlor of the hotel where a physician was summoned but death came before the physician could give him any relief. Mr. Brannon, who is quite well known here among the business men of the town, arrived in the town this evening. He was accompanied in the dining room by H. C. Imler, a personal friend, to whom he remarked as he sat down to the table, “I am going to eat a good hearty meal this evening to get my money’s worth.” The deceased was about 50 years old. He had been employed by the W. Bingham Hardware Company of Cleveland as a traveling salesman. He is survived by his second wife and several children. Bullet Ends Career of Black Hander South Fork Man Called to Door by Man who Demanded Money Mafia Agent Made Threats Prospective Victim Shoots First and Bullet Stops the Blackmailer Acquittal Probable Dead Man Packed Two Large Guns An Italian fruit man who, it is alleged, had demanded a certain sum of money from Nick Cavalato of South Fork – the failure to produce which would result disastrously, he declared – was shot and killed at South Fork last Saturday by Cavalato. The dead man is Taesris Tizito, Cavalato is being held pending an investigation. When the body of the dead man was searched immediately after the shooting, two pistols of high caliber were found. One was an eight shooter, a Colts automatic. Cavalota, who is a barber, has his shop in one end of the John J. Kinney’s wholesale liquor store on Lake Street. Saturday afternoon about 1:40 o’clock Kinney saw Tizito call at the shop of Cavalato and heard him say, “Me want to talk to you.” The two then left the barber shop and went down Lake Street three or four rods and up an alley. A few minutes afterward, Mr. Kinney heard a pistol shot and looking out, saw Tizito running down the alley with Cavalato after him, shooting at him – firing two shots from a revolver while in the alley, and two while Tizito was running up Lake Street. Tizito dropped to the ground and Cavalato ran away, but being called upon to stop, came back. He was placed under arrest by Burgess Schofield whose office is nearby. Before being taken to the lockup Cavalato requested to be taken to the post office to get a letter of which he claimed Tizito had informed him, before shooting began, the explanation of which he gave about as follows: Tizito, he said, asked him if he had been to the post office that day and on Cavalato answering in the negative, Tizito informed him that there was a letter there for him demanding $200 on pain of death. Cavalato replied that he had not $200 and would not give it whereupon Tizito said, “Me kill you now,” and reached for a revolver which Cavalato snatched from him and opened fire on the would-be blackmailer with the result stated. Tizito died in a few minutes. Two revolvers were found on his person. At the post office three letters were found, one of them in Italian – evidently a Black Hand letter – in which appears “$200” and at the bottom a death’s head and cross bones. Deputy Coroner Mainhart and Dr. Emlyn Jones went to South Fork shortly after the shooting and an inquest was held with W. S. Burkett, Charles A. Hutzell, John S. Dalton, John Lang, Jeremiah Thurston and H. E. Crissey as the jurors. The two revolvers taken from the body of Tizito were produced in evidence and Burgess Schofield is also in possession of a letter written in Italian which is alleged to read to the effect that if Cavalato did not deposit $200 under a bridge going over the old Portage road above South Fork by 6 o’clock Sunday evening, the Black Hand would take care of him and his family. The jury rendered a verdict to the effect that Tizito had come to his death by being shot with a revolver in the hands of Cavalato and the latter was brought to this place Saturday evening by C. T. Smith, a member of the State Constabulary, stationed at Gallitzin, accompanied by Constable J. P. McClarren and P. J. Monoghan, both of South Fork. Death of Mrs. Mattie Kerr Died at Irwin, Pa., on Saturday, August 29 at 6:30 a.m., Mrs. Mattie Kerr, wife of William V. Kerr, aged 43 years, 7 months. The deceased was a daughter of the late Thomas and Jane Reese of Cambria Township and was well known in our community. Besides her husband, she leaves three children: Edna, aged 19; Clark, aged 17; and Harry, aged 16. Also the following brothers and sisters: David A. of Iowa City, Iowa; Richard E. of Omaha, Neb.; Mrs. Annie Kerr of Chicago; George of Cambria Township; John of Windber and Sarah, wife of William W. Jones, of Ebensburg. The remains were buried at Irwin after services in the First M. E. Church at 2 o’clock Monday afternoon.