Ref: Town and Country Newspaper Pennsburg, Montgomery County, PA Saturday - March 18, 1905 MAY BE LIBERATED Upon authority of the Supreme Court, supplemented on Wednesday, by the Pardon Board's extension, the next step in the EDWARDS-GREASON murder case will be a motion at Reading on the part of Samuel GREASON's attorneys for a new trial. Should the motion be allowed the case cannot be tried before the third week in June. There is a possibility that GREASON may be liberated without a trial. Should Judge ERMENTROUT, before whom he was tried, grant a new trial, District Attorney KUTZ may conclude that the evidence of the Commonwealth is insufficient against him to put the county to the expense and move for a nolle pros. GREASON says he is confident he will be out in time to eat his Fourth of July dinner with his family in Carlisle, in celebration of the fourth anniversary of his arrest. Mrs. EDWARDS will scarcely be hanged, if at all, before next winter, and she may escape with life imprisonment. Both GREASON and Mrs. EDWARDS have listened to the reading of the death warrant 10 times, and both have been under the eyes of the death watch for two years. HORSE SHIES AND UPSETS WAGON Farmer Lewis JOHNSON and wife, of near Perkiomenville, on Saturday night met with a mishap at the Green Lane railroad crossing, which might have been very disastrous. They were driving and on their way to Pennsburg but when they came to the railway crossing, half of it was occupied by a freight engine taking water at the plug. Mr. JOHNSON stopped in front of the Keystone House to wait until the engineer would withdraw the engine and clear the way for public travel. Instead of doing so a railroad employe told him to cross the track. He did so as ordered and when in front of the engine the horse was scared by escaping steam and ran around, throwing Mrs. JOHNSON out of the wagon on her head. She was slightly bruised but luckily escaped serious injury. The wagon was demolished. SHOOTING MATCH FOR LARGE STEER A flying board shooting match will be held at the Red Hill Hotel, on Saturday, March 25, for the largest steer in the world. The steer is owned by Charles F. MOTZ and is a wonder. The shoot will begin in the forenoon at ten o'clock. This will be one of the largest shoots ever held in this vicinity. Some crack shots from a distance have expressed themselves as being present and take part. AN INVITATION TO "COUGH UP" A man in Texas who swallowed a five-cent piece 20 years ago has just coughed it up. We will give a reward to learn the process by which he was induced to cough up the coin. We have a few subscribers on whom we would like to try it. - Allentown Democrat. PERKIOMEN BRAKEMAN IS INSTANTLY KILLED Falling between the front car and the engine tank of a special freight train on the Perkiomen Railroad at noon on Thursday when just outside of Port Richmond, Marcus H. TRAUGER, a young brakeman, residing at 636 Greenleaf St., Allentown, had his face entirely severed from the rest of his head. Both arms were cut off and the body otherwise horribly multilated. The accident occurred just after reaching Port Richmond where the train stopped to pick up a number of cars. TRAUGER gave the engineer the signal to move after they had been picked up and repeated the signal and started to walk over the cars to the head of the train. No one on the train saw him tumble from the cars but a grade crossing keeper noticing a crowd which had begun to collect in great excitement up the track after the train had passed signaled the crew which soon realized that TRAUGER was missing. The remains were removed to Philadelphia from where the train had started at 11 o'clock on Thursday morning and the body was taken to his home at Allentown yesterday. TRAUGER is 29 years old and is survived by a wife and two children. He had been working on this branch of the road only two months but had previously been located at Hellertown. HAD TO UNHITCH TEAM TO PASS ANOTHER Harry D. RENNINGER the merchant, at Sassamansville, on Tuesday had quite an experience while returning to his home after making a trip by team to the Farmers National Bank, at Pennsburg, on business for Bank Director Jonathan SCHANELY who could not make the trip that day. When near the home of Wm. I. SMITH, at Hillegass, he met a heavy double team and on account of the high drifts of snow on both sides the two teams could not pass each other. After exchanging greetings for a while the drivers of the teams concluded the only way to get out of the dilemna was to unhitch the horse in Mr. RENNINGER's buggy, which they did and place the buggy on top of the snow drift. The horse was also crowded into the snow far enough to allow the heavy team to pass. After the loss of considerable time and temper the two men continued their journeys. FOUND HIDDEN GOLD IN GARRET Ex-Register of Wills Harvey D. FELLMAN, of Richland township, Bucks county, while cleaning up a garret on one of his farms found a neat little bunch of $5 and $10 gold pieces snugly hidden and knotted in a fine handkerchief, which was partly rotted and decayed, the coins dropping out as bright and fresh as from the mint. He has deposited the money in bank, and notified the legal heirs of the estate of the find, since he believes that the farm is cheap enough without the gold. MUTE MUST HAVE HAD "CAN PATCH" BLOOD George KNEEDLER, tenant on Dr. M.J. BACKENSTOE's farm, near Emaus, took one of his mules to HABERSTRUMPF's blacksmith shop in Emaus, last Friday to have it shod. The animal refused to stand to have the work done, and between them it was concluded that it would be the best mule if it was dead, so they killed it and the carcass is now being reduced to fertilizing material. MADE A LONG TRIP TO BE MARRIED William B. WEISER and Miss Hattie A. FRETZ both, of Earlville, Berks County on Saturday drove from that place to the parsonage in Pennsburg, of Rev. W.U. KISTLER, where they were married. After the ceremony the couple drove to the home of George AUGSTADT, near the St. John's Lutheran Church, at Spinnerstown, who is an uncle of the bride where they spent Sunday.