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mn_a.Ifrwi’ro .firc'wiib nun liicuiun x. racy, a.vmui*d- \ er of JUif® Trkcyf and ay it was after-J waul proven, an unsuccpwdul lover ofthe murdered woman. The Msee .Reilly and Mnllin started away about nine o'clock. Shortly after they; started theyheard some one behind them apparently at following them, but paid no attention to 10 it. , As they reached the gate to Mr, MuUin’s residence the party following ihero wasirofimliateiy behind thro, and us they tamed to go in the gate he predated Ids. revolver bci***n the two.....**'* Keilly’fl face that tire powder Woe kilned; h J the woimd, und the fnloldidmurderous shot, and flod. Miss Reilly fell to the ground *fii£Eteible; and the screams of Misa Matiin booh attracted a 1 '! crowd, “ who carried • the r minder- j rt l ed girl into the houee, and in aljont!twenty minutee she breathed her laat.I- j At first the liiywtcry w to the identity '• of the murderer denied impenetrable, |ler-l-lee-fBut by putting a IneU together it j d was concluded that Andrew* Tracy was »■ j the guilty one. and parties started«ot in i !'9earcb of him* ]f win found that be)iad \ ^etl by the nearest route to hi* uiotbei’a hotise, about three. miles from the borough, and providing himself with a loaf of bread and a blanket Imd tled into the woods, : ‘ \ :lliis morning a; coronet;** jury wa* called by P.! Ford, Jlsq. A too dr oth-e : er witnesses who were called ; was e | Job n Trucy, *.av brother of -Andrew la ! who ; testified that. AndreW • came. ,ti to the house about ten oVdoclc; and a ! calling him and his mother up; told fcheha l- j that be had commit tod k terrible deed} e 1 and . wad going away never to return;j that kw affections had. been trampled e, uj»n and he bad taken revenge, with I ttiany. Other similar- expresauona. He ! asked for a loaf of bread and blanket, and with bis revolver in bis hand made \ bte:brother promise that ff. anybody j came to the house after him he would i teil them he had no* beeii there. He §•■■ then left the house.- Other evidence win• . * * tKt taken* all pointing unmistakably to Ah*} j drew Tracy as the nm^/eri The Cor-!.; oner's juiy will continue in session until .all available evidence is obtained. TheSheriff And n ' posse of men are now searching the surrounding froods* and t his capture to undoubtedly certain. ■ Heis a young man about 30. yeam of age, talented and vpell educated, a lawyer by profession, of Irish nationality, smooth *1 faced, wltii en\al\ ~mY ev lt;pdekiT-i**™inSTST^T^^e^r^Mis* Reilly ia the oMeat daughter of Mr. Andrew Reilly. S»bo was a young lady of unnwial attainments and good : J ticai She was beloved'. by nil . who : know her, and no one has ever heard a ;| whisper of detraction of her character or good nftm o. ' Her excel lence and. Worth mokes the crime seem all the more atrocious, mid )mil Andrew Tmcy captured laid evening it would have been * difficult xmitllt;*r to Imve .prevented the citizens from taking.the law 111 their own hands. .; Latkil—Sheriff King Kis just received a dispatch stating that the murderer,Andrew Tracy; has been . captured ai |1 Pijrtvillu.’ . W '■ I:]
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McKean County Miner
Smethport, Pennsylvania, US
Thu, Sep 19, 1878
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