Cambria Freeman, Ebensburg, Pa. Friday, August 21, 1903 ARRESTED ON MURDER CHARGES Three Miners Believed to Be Responsible for Death of Brewery Collector Somerset, Pa., Aug. 19--—William Novick, Frank Vasbinder and William P. Bowman are in the county jail charged with the murder of Ernest C. Reber at MacDonaldton on the night of Aug. 8. Reber, who was employed as collector by the Meyersdale brewing company was run over and mangled by a freight train on the MacDonaldton branch but as his body was cold it was thought that he had been murdered and his body placed on the track. The absence of almost $100 in money, which he had collected that day, pointed to robbery as the motive for the crime. Coroner S. J. N. Luther held an inquest last Friday and it was upon the testimony adduced thereat that the three men named were charged with the crime. The prisoners are all miners and were employed at the mines at MacDonaldton. They deny that they have any knowledge of the murder. Novick, who is a Russian, admits that Reber spent two or three hours at his house on the night of the murder. Vasbinder is Novick’s brother-in-law. Bowman is a young man, aged 22, a son of Samuel Bowman of Boynton. _________________________________________________________________ Get ideas on sharing photos from people like you. Find new ways to share. http://www.windowslive.com/explore/photogallery/posts?ocid=TXT_TAGLM_WL_Photo_Gallery_082008