Cambria Freeman, Ebensburg, Pa. Friday, March 4, 1904 Volume XXXVIII, Number 10 Lilly Woman Faces Charge Wife of Gabol Gablock is Held Upon Charge of Killing Andrew Evan, a Polish Miner “My buddy do this – he do this,” where the last words of Andrew Evan, a Polish miner, who was found lying, fatally stabbed, just on the threshold of the home of this friend, Gabol Gablock at Lilly about 10 o’clock Saturday evening. Evan died at 3:10 Sunday morning as the result of his wounds, but from the evidence brought out at the inquest held by Coroner Miller Sunday afternoon, it appeared that it was Gablock’s wife, rather than Gablock himself who did the fatal cutting. The Gablocks were brought to Ebensburg Monday morning, the woman charged with murder and her husband with being an accessory, both before and after the fact. It appears that the Evan family, consisting of the murdered man, his brother, Joseph and wife, and the latter’s son, Joseph Jr., and the Gablocks who lived only 100 yards away have been on very intimate terms ever since they came here from Poland a number of years ago and according to his usual habit, Andrew Evan was spending Saturday evening with his friends. Just what were the circumstances leading up to the quarrel which ended so disastrously have not yet been determined although one story is to the effect that Evan, who appeared very tired insisted upon lying on a bed which the Gablock’s four-month-old baby was sleeping which so angered Mrs. Gablock that she attacked him with a butcher knife. All that is really known as yet is that Gabo Gablock went to the Evan house about 8:30 and said to Joseph Evan, Sr.: “You better come get Andy. He not need no priest, no God, no doctor, he soon be done for. My wife, she fix him, she stab him.” Evan and his son went immediately to the Gablock house, where Andrew Evan was found lying outside the kitchen door with two great gashes in his right shoulder, and almost dead from loss of blood. The wounded man was conveyed to his brother’s house and Dr. D. E. Fisher summoned, but medical aid proved unavailing and death occurred at 3:10. Joseph Evan went before a Justice of the Peace and made information against Mrs. Annie Gablock, charging her with murder and her husband with being an accessory before and after the fact. They were placed in the Lilly lockup awaiting transportation to Ebensburg. Coroner Miller was notified of the affair Sunday morning and went to Lilly. After completing the postmortem, Dr. Miller impaneled a jury to conduct an inquest. The jury found that “Andrew Evan came to his death about 3:10 a.m. February 28, 1904, near Lilly, from a cut in the right shoulder, severing the blood vessels and causing death from hemorrhage. The injury was caused by a knife cut, the knife being in the hands of Annie Gablock about 7 p.m. February 28, 1904, and we hold Gabol Gablock, her husband, as accessory.” The scene of the tragedy is a foreign settlement near the Lilly Coal Company’s mine about a mile and a half from Lilly proper. According to a number of citizens there have been a good many rows in that neighborhood lately and public sentiment against the delivery of beer in wagon loads into the settlers there is very strong. _________________________________________________________________ Stay organized with simple drag and drop from Windows Live Hotmail. http://windowslive.com/Explore/hotmail?ocid=TXT_TAGLM_WL_hotmail_102008